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Calling all crafters/hackers/makers/designers! There is an important conversation happening this Thursday, from 6pm in the Science Gallery.

Currently many people work in their specific areas, becoming experts and producing wonderful creations. But there is a convergence occuring. Disparate fields, like traditional crafts and electronics, are coming together and creating new wonderous hybrids. These objects often break our conception of what, say a fabric, is and can do, of what electronics can look and feel like, and are opening up a bright new future on how we interact with our tools, with objects, and how we live our lives.

As part of @DesignWeek_ie, the Crafts Council of Ireland, FabLab Dublin, National College of Art&Design, MAKESHOP, Science Gallery, Dublin Mini Makerfaire, and TOG, will be discussing anything and everything to do with the ‘Future of Making’. There will be short presentations, some demo projects to look at, and all of us there to talk with. If you’re looking for someone to talk to about an idea you have for an inter-disciplinary project, this is a great opportunity. Come, join the conversation.

Future of Making: Join the Conversation is an evening of curated talks. It is an opportunity for discussion between makers, designers and crafters. The talks will come from a wide range of groups Crafts Council of Ireland, FabLab Dublin, National College of Art & Design, Makeshop, Science Gallery, Tog  and Dublin Mini Makerfaire.

Details of the Event:
Time: Thursday 8th November @ 6pm – 8pm
Venue: Science Gallery, Dublin 2
Sign up required.

For more information download: Future of Making – Join the Conversation

Saturday night is our quiz night. The great thing about our quiz is we encourage all the hackerspaces around Ireland to take part. We set up a conference call and our dedicated quiz master dishes out the questions across various topics. We will kick start to meet up at 7:30pm, and all going well (ha) we will start at 8pm. Members of the public are of course invited to take part in the quiz so please come along.

Details for connecting to the call are here

This Wedensday as part of Irish Hackerspaces Week to are having a Gastro Night.

We have lined up 3 interesting topics to be presented on the night:

Tríona from scienceisdelicious.com will discuss some of the science behind food, examining how heat changes our food and what exactly it is that the proteins in our food do. Whether or not you’re an expert in the kitchen, understanding some basic science can make cooking an even more satisfying experience.

Espresso? Latte? Kenco? No machines or electricity are required to spruce up your daily cup of ‘joe. Rob Gallagher will attempt to demonstrate some of the lost arts of brewing coffee.

The process of beer brewing will be discussed by Dan, our resident brewer.

Click through for schedule
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As part of Irish Hackerspaces Week we are running a Night of Short Talks in TOG on Thursday 20th Septempter 2012 kicking off at 7:30pm. This is an event we should do more often as we always get a great varity of topics from some great speakers. Here is a list of talks in no particular order (order decided closer to the time) :

Colm will discuss Ditch Medicine
Treating genuine life or death injuries without fancy pants show off shiny toys, like bandages.

Chebe will give us An Introduction to ZigBee, XBees, and their Security.
ZigBee is a wireless radio frequency protocol developed to suit the need for large mesh networks of sensors or actuators. XBees are affordable ZigBee devices made by Digi that are often used with Arduinos. We’ll take a look at why you’d want them, how they work, and what security features are available as a hobbyist.

Namit will talk about a topic that always lights up everyones eyes, Fire.
Everyone loves to play with fire. Come along to this talk and you might even get to play with some.
We will go through the top 10 things you can do with simple household materials and a few projects we have been working on in TOG.
We will teach you things things you never knew about fire with a very interactive and entertaining discussion.
You might even have some fun.

Claudio Pisa will discuss Wireless Community Networks built by end users.
Claudio is a ph.d student in telecommunications engineering and a member of ninux.org, a wireless community network in Rome, Italy. Wireless community networks are built by end users to interconnect among themselves, without any intermediary and with no central ownership or management. Let’s take a look at the situation in Europe.

Jules will discuss Garden Hacking.

Rose will reveal the dark and terrible secrets of ducks.

Dan will discuss RFID, how they have become more of an every day thing, as well as some of his recent trials of some of the latest hacks.

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A lot of work is going on preparing a series of events for Hackerspace Week
A sneak speak of the current schedule is here:
All events have been added to our normal calander but sometimes it’s nice to see it all in one place.

We also have two great soldering workshops going on. Links on the schedule. Book early!

In Nov 2011 we left a pinhole camera taped to the drain pipe in TOG’s yard looking south. So its been up for 4 months. It’s just a beer can with a 1mm hole and a piece of b+w photo paper inside. We took it down today and scanned it in. The raw image is upside down and back to front. The “colours” are also inverted. You can see the track of the sun and how it gets higher in the sky, as the days get longer.  The gaps are days where there was no sun. After a bit of trickery in GIMP, its right way around and inverted. We have lots of photo paper in TOG if you want to come in and make one. You can leave it in place from days to months and still get a good image. Click on the images for a closer view.