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Last TouchDesigner Ireland Meetup in 2025

Join us for the third in our series of monthly meetups for anyone interested in TouchDesigner, from complete beginners to experienced creators. Whether you’d like to learn the basics, share your projects, or connect with others using the software, this meetup offers a welcoming and supportive space to do so.

Each session runs for around two hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available at Tóg Hackerspace, we can host beginner and advanced activities simultaneously, ensuring everyone gets the most out of the evening.

Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. You’re welcome to bring a laptop to follow along, showcase your work, or simply join the discussion. The event is a great opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to continue building the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.

Join us on our Discord to share ideas for future sessions or to express interest in presenting your work: https://discord.gg/6s3WMdH2

https://www.tog.ie

The meetups are hosted each month by a group of artists and creative technologists:

Ciaran Eaton
Ciaran Eaton is a Creative Technologist and Educator based in Dublin. With a background in audio and visual arts production, Ciaran integrates visual programming environments such as TouchDesigner with open-source software and aims to foster an active community around creative workflows.
Website

Serdar Buhan
Serdar is a software engineer based in Dublin with a curiosity for creative technology and building interactive experiences. In his spare time, he explores tools such as TouchDesigner, Processing, Blender, AR, photogrammetry, pen plotters, and generative AI.
Instagram

Cailean Finn
Cailean Finn is an Irish media artist, researcher, and creative technologist from Waterford, Ireland. His practice investigates the idiosyncratic nature of human–machine relationships, drawing from computational histories and engaging with technologies and practices such as creative coding, artificial intelligence/life, game development, and physical computing.
Website

Pauric Freeman
Pauric Freeman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, working across audiovisual performance, sound, and installation. His practice explores translation, using data collected from live instruments as the basis for real-time audiovisual compositions.
Website
Instagram

Louise Nolan
Louise Nolan is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working in glass, print and digital media. Her work is transmedia integrating digital techniques with physical installations to create an interactive multi-sensory experience for the viewer. She is a visiting lecturer at NCAD and TU Dublin in physical computing, creative coding and emerging media practice.
LinkedIn
Instagram

Gwen Stevenson
Gwen Stevenson is a multidisciplinary artist exploring memory, loss, and resilience through interactive installation, experimental film, and durational performance. She uses digital technologies, motion capture, and generative systems to create immersive experiences reflecting ecological fragility and transformation. Collaboration with communities, artists, and organisations is central to her practice. Gwen is preparing for artist residencies in 2026 at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, School of Experimental Arts, Beijing, and Art Arcadia, Derry.
Instagram
Website

Let us know if you can make it on our Meetup page here:
https://www.meetup.com/tog-dublin-hackerspace/events/312369261/?slug=tog-dublin-hackerspace&eventId=312369261

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New TouchDesigner Dublin MeetUp starting on Wednesday October 22nd

We are delighted to be hosting TouchDesigner MeetUp Dublin in our space. It’s new monthly meetup for anyone curious about TouchDesigner software, from complete beginners to experienced creators. Whether you want to learn the basics to build interactive 3D and 2D audio-visual applications, share your projects, or connect with others using the software, the meetup provides a welcoming space to do so. The event is free to attend and you can indicate your interest in joining the session here on meetup.com

Each session will run for about two hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting. With multiple rooms available in the space we can run beginner and advanced activities side by side if needed, so everyone gets the most from the evening.

Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. You can bring a laptop to follow along, show your work, or simply join the conversation. The event is an opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to further develop the growing TouchDesigner community in Ireland.

Meet the TouchDesigner Dublin team :-

Ciaran Eaton

Ciaran Eaton is a Creative Technologist and Educator based in Dublin. With a background in audio and visual arts production, Ciaran integrates visual programming environments such as TouchDesigner with open-source software and aims to foster an active community around creative workflows.

Website

Serdar Buhan

Serdar is a software engineer based in Dublin with a curiosity for creative technology and building interactive experiences. In his spare time, he explores tools such as TouchDesigner, Processing, Blender, AR, photogrammetry, pen plotters, and generative AI.

Instagram

Cailean Finn

Cailean Finn is an Irish media artist, researcher, and creative technologist from Waterford, Ireland. His practice investigates the idiosyncratic nature of human–machine relationships, drawing from computational histories and engaging with technologies and practices such as creative coding, artificial intelligence/life, game development, and physical computing.

Website

Pauric Freeman

Pauric Freeman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, working across audiovisual performance, sound, and installation. His practice explores translation, using data collected from live instruments as the basis for real-time audiovisual compositions.

Website

Instagram

Louise Nolan

Louise Nolan is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working in glass, print and digital media. Her work is transmedia integrating digital techniques with physical installations to create an interactive multi-sensory experience for the viewer. She is a visiting lecturer at NCAD and TU Dublin in physical computing, creative coding and emerging media practice. Louise is also a host for Maker night at TOG.

LinkedIn

Instagram

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Another Repair Café Fix

We’re no stranger to Repair Cafés  here at TOG, having just run our biggest one ever in January. Repair Cafés are events where volunteers try to fix stuff to keep it in-service and out of landfill. We had about 90 fixes attempted on the day with much success, thanks to a fantastic pool of fixers. You can read about it in the Irish Times.

This particular fix was a simple one, but we also decided to upgrade the power socket to USB-C. A rechargeable work light from ALDI had become intermittent in charging. The charging socket (micro USB) seemed sensitive to touch. Some of the tiny surface mount pins on the charging socket circuit board had failed. These proved quite difficult to re-solder, even with our best hot air kit.

Checking the usual Chinese websites, there are many kinds of USB-C plugs and sockets available. We bought 3 types…. some chassis mounting ones, some on a small PCB similar to the original one, and some plain vanilla ones with just 2 flying leads. We decided to use the plain one. With a bit of enlarging of the hole to make it fit, and some 2-part epoxy, the new USB-C socket is now in place and connected up. These have just a red and a black wire so it’s just 5V, but that’s fine for this application.

Talking afterwards, most of the gadgets and gizmos that we’ve made at TOG have traditionally used some kind of barrel plug for 5V or 12V. Since USB-C is now the in-thing, it’s easy to use it for new projects. Drop in to our regular Monday night Electronics or Tuesday night Open House to see this and much more.

If you need something repaired come along to our upcoming repair cafes.

Fingal Makerspace, Blanchardstown Library 29th March 2025

Tog Hackerspace, 19th April 2025

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Joining The Irish Men’s Sheds Association

We have joined the Irish Men’s Sheds Association. Their mission is to support the development of the burgeoning men’s sheds movement in Ireland. A grassroots organisation, they believe strongly in the autonomy of each individual shed, as they strive for a future in which all men have the opportunity to maintain and improve their well-being on their own terms and within their own communities.

We hope being a part of this association will help us reach a wider community and learn from the many other sheds.

https://menssheds.ie/sheds/tog-mens-shed/