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Late October in Tog

We have a busy two weeks coming up at Tog, in the lead up to Hallowe’en – come work on your costume at Crafts Night Monday 16th!

Monday October 16th – Coding Group Night and Lockpicking from 19:00 as usual. Cancelled due to Hurricane Ophelia.
Wednesday October 18th – Crafts Night, Sewing and Art, and Cyber Security night from 19:00 sharp. All welcome!
Thursday October 19th – Students from Tallaght Community School will get to speak directly to an Astronaut on board the ISS which will be live streamed on our YouTube page. Find out more details in our blog post.
Saturday October 21st – OpenStreetMap Ireland will be forming an official chapter from 10:00, and invite you to get involved. Find out more on their Facebook or website. Our Open Social is on from 19:00.
Monday October 23rd – Electronics/Microcontroller night is on from 19:00
Wednesday October 25th – our Wikipedia Editing Event is on from 19:00
Thursday October 26th – Phreakshow takes the stage again at Tog from 19:00 to 21:00

See you at some of our events.

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Phreakshow: Mobile Phone Filmmaking sessions in TOG!

 

Phones!

A hackers delight since the 60s, and a ‘disruptive’ element of most topics today.

So we’re happy to start another regular night in Tog: Mobile Phone Filmmaking.

 

Mobile Filmmaking and Mobile Journalism (shortened to MOJO) refers to: filming, editing and publishing stories from your phone.

Thats what we plan to learn and practice with this nite at Tog.

 

 

The main thing you’ll need for it is a camera phone; tho of course you can bring and use other devices too.

We will teach some techniques (the night will be open to everyone, from total beginners to experienced filmmakers) and practice others … and team up for demonstrations and competitions as we go along too!

 

The main editing app we will use is called Kinemaster which allows you to edit your clips together; its free and works on iphone & android.

 

Some of the online communities we’ll take inspiration from are those that sprung up around vine, snapchat and other platforms… there’s some compilations out there to get an idea of what they are about.

 

There are Irish groups such as the Dublin Filmmakers Collective and MOJOCon which might be of interest.

 

What are some of the techniques we’ll learn?
A simple one is the 5-shot sequence for capturing actions:

 

There are plenty of MOJO tutorials you can find online, here’s one example.

 

Being able to make and tell stories that you film from your phone has lots of applications: hackers & makers might want to show off their latest invention, or do an interview with an interesting visitor … filmmakers, journalists, comedians, actors, activists and really anyone who wants to get media-literate and tell stories/phobile-moans will also be interested.

 

This night will run 7-9pm every 2nd Thursday from Oct 12th until the end of the year (and we’ll take stock then).

We’ll try to develop an online community in parallel with doing so in the meetspace.

 

Hopefully it will be a fun, engaging and useful process for all involved.

See you on the 12th!

 

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Next two weeks at Tog

Check out Tog on the nights below to meet some members – we’ll be open over the next two weeks at the times below!

Monday October 2nd – Coding Group Night and Lockpicking from 19:00
Wednesday October 4th – Crafts Night, Sewing and Art, and Cyber Security night from 19:00 sharp.
Monday October 9th – Electronics/Microcontroller night is on from 19:00

See you soon.

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Next two weeks at Tog

Hello and welcome to another two weeks of exciting events at Tog. Join us on Friday 22nd for Culture Night!

Monday September 18th – Coding Group Night and Lockpicking from 19:00
Wednesday September 20th – Crafts Night, Sewing and Art, and Cyber Security night from 19:00 sharp.
Friday September 22nd – Tog is open for Culture Night Dublin.
Monday September 25th – Electronics/Microcontroller night is on from 19:00, with an Electronic Breadboard Workshop that night
Wednesday September 27th – A Wikipedia Editing Event will be hosted in Tog from 19:00

See you soon!

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TOG Open Brew Day (Saturday 16th September 10am)

TOG members and Capital Brewers return to TOG HQ on Saturday 16th September to host a brewday open to members of the public also. Hearty brews are on the menu, in both brewing with guidance and instructions from the experts, and tasting craft beer made at previous brew days! This is your chance to see all of the brewing equipment in TOG and get a tour of the space to see what else is happening in and around the space.

A very rough time-line of a brew day is as follows:

  • 10:00am – 11pm: Heating water, water treatment and mashing grain
  • 11pm – 1pm: Boiling & beer tasting from previous brews and visitors beers
  • 1pm – 3pm: Cooling and clean up

Every brew day is slightly different with a mix of brewers, recipes and techniques.  The long term goal would be to get a full set of brewing equipment that TOG members can use themselves in the space and make your own beer, cider or wine whenever you like! All you need are the ingredients. We are already well on our way to achieving that goal with several sets of equipment for members to choose from.

Brewing Equipment in TOG

Its always a fun and engaging day, the cost is free (donations are welcome) so come along, ask questions and even help with the brewing!