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Touchdesigner Dublin Meetup – June Event

image created in touchdesigner software depicting a statue of Oscar Wilde in Dublin's Merrion Square
Touchdesigner Dublin Meetup -June event

We are hosting an open TouchDesigner meetup with demos, hands-on learning, and space to share work with others using the software.

The meetup is part of a series of monthly events in collaboration with @noid_lab typically on the last Wednesday each month in the space, so this month it’s 1st July 7-10pm.

This will be our last meetup for the summer! We are taking a small break for the holiday season, and hope to resume in the Autumn.

Workshop

This month’s event will focus on MIDI integration in TouchDesigner, exploring how MIDI data can be used to control visuals, trigger events, manipulate parameters, and connect external hardware to interactive and audiovisual systems. Through demonstrations, we’ll look at practical workflows for working with MIDI devices.

Format

The session will run for around three hours in a relaxed, hands-on setting.

The event will focus on learning, with a combination of scheduled short and long presentations/demonstrations. The last hour will take a more flattened and open approach, allowing the space for people to chat, share, learn, and explore TouchDesigner.

Expect an informal, community-driven environment where the format adapts to participants. So if you would like to bring your laptop and learn the basics, share your projects, or connect with other using the software, this meetup offers a welcoming and supportive space to do so.

The event is also a great opportunity to meet other creative technologists and artists, and to continue building the growing the digital art community in Ireland.

Contact us at noidlab.collective@gmail.com to share ideas for future sessions or to express interest in presenting your work.

@noid_lab offer thanks to @toghackerspace for use of the space for these events, and Derivative for supporting the project. The meetups are hosted each month by a group of artists and creative technologists.

https://www.tog.ie

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Pride Over the Waves: Amateur Radio Night

Tog Hackerspace is teaming up with Queer Shed Dublin Central for a special evening of amateur radio, Morse code, hands-on demos, and community connection.

Pride Over the Waves: Amateur Radio Night will take place in Tog Hackerspace on Monday, 22 June 2026, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

The event is free, but places are limited, so please book a ticket on Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/pride-over-the-waves-amateur-radio-night-tickets-1991936225873

Queer Shed Dublin Central is a grassroots queer skill-sharing community connecting through DIY, repair, and regeneration. We are delighted to welcome them to Tog for this joint event.

The night is linked to Pride Over the Waves, a grassroots amateur radio initiative created by LGBTQI+ amateur radio operators and allies to help make LGBTQI+, queer, and diverse radio amateurs more visible in the wider amateur radio community.

For the evening, we will be activating the special event callsign EI0LGBT.

What will happen on the night?

From 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, we will have an informal introduction to amateur radio, with live demos and hands-on activities. There will be a chance to see radio equipment in action, learn what callsigns are, hear how radio contacts are made, and try out some Morse code.

The Morse code part will be very beginner-friendly. You do not need to know anything before coming along. It is just a chance to have a go, send a few letters, and discover why this old form of communication is still loved by radio amateurs today.

From 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm, we will call into the South Dublin Radio Club net using the EI0LGBT callsign. A radio net is a regular on-air gathering where radio operators check in, say hello, and share updates.

There may be a chance for visitors to say hello over the radio with support from licensed operators, subject to the usual radio rules on the night.

Who is it for?

This event is open to everyone.

You do not need a radio licence to attend. You do not need to be technical. You do not need to know Morse code. You just need to be curious.

Whether you are part of Queer Shed Dublin Central, a Tog member, a radio amateur, a maker, a friend, an ally, or someone who has never touched a radio before, you are very welcome.

Event details

Date: Monday, 22 June 2026
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Venue: Tog Hackerspace
Tickets: Free via Eventbrite
Special event callsign: EI0LGBT

Book your free ticket here:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/pride-over-the-waves-amateur-radio-night-tickets-1991936225873

You can find Queer Shed Dublin Central on Instagram at:
https://www.instagram.com/queersheddublincentral/

Come along, tune in, and help us put EI0LGBT on the air.

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Monthly Makerfur Meet

Tog hackerspace is kicking off with a new monthly event that welcomes all furries into the space.

The event will kick off on the 4th of July and run on the first Saturday of every month from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

Are you a beginner fursuit maker who wants to learn the craft? Are you into electronics and want to figure out how to make your LED strips emit custom patterns? Or maybe you want to talk on the radio with your fluffy friends? No matter how big or small, fluffy or simple the project is, bring it in to us for a social, fluffy event for all cats, dogs, wolves, foxes, and even protogens or any other species known.

All you need to take part is an idea that you want to bring to life.

The furry maker night will run every first week of the month.

This is not a taught class, more like an informal working group of self-directed makers.

While you can bring your fursuit in, either to work on it as a project or for repairs, it is heavily discouraged to wear them inside the space. Accessories such as tails are also discouraged for safety reasons.

We are looking forward to seeing every fur in our space.

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Tog Hackerspace at Cork Carnival of Science 2026

Tog Hackerspace is heading south this weekend for the Cork Carnival of Science in Fitzgerald Park.

On Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th of June, the park will be packed with family-friendly experiments, interactive activities, garden games, street food, live demonstrations, big top science shows, hands-on workshops and plenty more.

We will be there both days from 11.00am to 5.00pm on Discovery Drive with a range of interactive games and projects made by our members. Expect hands-on fun, blinking lights, clever builds and a chance to see what can be created in a community makerspace.

Tog is a volunteer-run hackerspace based in Dublin, where people come together to make, learn, repair, build and share skills. Events like Cork Carnival of Science are a great chance for us to get out of the space, meet new people and hopefully spark a bit of curiosity.

Cork Carnival of Science is supported by Cork City Council and Research Ireland.

If you are in Cork this weekend, come say hello. Bring your curiosity, we’ll bring the projects.

More info on the festival:
https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-carnival-of-science/

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Heading to Belfast: Tog Visits Farset Labs and Reuse & Repair Week

We’re packing up and heading north on May 30th for the next part of our All Island Maker Mobility project.

This time, a big group from Tog will be travelling to Farset Labs in Belfast for a full day of making, sharing, and community connection. We’re really looking forward to the visit and to spending more time with our friends in Farset as this project gets underway.

Our hosts will be giving us a tour of the space, along with an overview of how they run Farset Labs and how their community works day to day. It will be a great chance to learn from each other, swap ideas, and see how another makerspace tackles the joys and challenges of running a shared creative space. We’ll also be sitting down together for a community dinner, which should be a lovely way to keep the conversations going.

To round out the visit, there’ll also be a Clay Printing Workshop, adding a hands-on creative element to the day. Between the tour, the chat, the workshop, and the food, it promises to be a packed and enjoyable visit.

To make the most of our trip to Belfast, we’ll also be taking part in Reuse & Repair Week. As part of that, some of us will be rolling up our sleeves and helping out at a Pop Up Repair Cafe in Belfast Grand Central Station. The event is a chance for people to bring along broken items and get help fixing them, while also meeting local repairers and learning a bit more about repair culture in action.

We’re really looking forward to meeting the Belfast repair community, lending a hand, and being part of such a positive public event. Repair Cafés are always a great way to connect with people, share practical skills, and keep useful items in use for longer, so it feels like a very natural fit for Tog.

If you’re curious about the Repair Café side of the trip, you can find out more about the Pop Up Repair Cafe Belfast Grand Central Station here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pop-up-repair-cafe-belfast-grand-central-station-tickets-1988476991209?aff=oddtdtcreator

You can also read more about Reuse & Repair Week here:
https://crni.ie/news/reuse-and-repair-week-saturday-30-may-to-saturday-6-june-2026/

This visit is part of our All Island Maker Mobility project, which is helping build stronger links between maker communities across the island through shared visits, workshops, and public activities.

This project is made possible with support from the Shared Island Civic Society Fund through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. We’re very grateful for that support, which is helping Tog Hackerspace and Farset Labs build stronger links through making, shared learning, repair, and community collaboration across the island.

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Tog Hackerspace at Security BSides Dublin 2026

We’re delighted to say that Tog Hackerspace is once again a Community Sponsor of Security BSides Dublin, taking place on Saturday, 23rd May 2026, in Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin.

Security BSides Dublin is a community-driven information security conference, bringing together security professionals, researchers, students, hobbyists, and the generally curious for a day of talks, demos, workshops, and great conversations.

It is very much our kind of event: people sharing knowledge, learning by doing, and occasionally asking, “I wonder how that works?”

As part of this year’s event, TOG will be bringing along a lockpicking challenge and a selection of projects from the hackerspace. Drop by our table, have a go, and chat with TOG members about what we get up to.

Lockpicking is a fun hands-on way to explore physical security. It gives a better understanding of how locks work, why good security needs layers, and why curiosity is often the best starting point for learning something new.

We’ll also be showing off some projects from Tog Hackerspace and chatting about the many things that happen in the space, from electronics, radio, 3D printing and laser cutting, to repair cafés, coding, workshops, and all sorts of hardware hacking.

A big thank you to the BSides Dublin team for inviting us back and for putting together another great community event.

Come say hello on the day. We’d love to meet you.

For more information, visit:
https://www.bsidesdub.ie/