The Dublin Hackerspace
Hey there eager programmers!
Interested in learning a new programming language or in freshening up your rusty skills? Here is your chance! A whole weekend of PHP and MySQL fun is awaiting you.
When is all the coding happening, you ask?
Friday, 14th of Feb – 7.30pm till 10pm
Saturday, 15th of Feb – 1.30pm till 7pm
Sunday, 16th of Feb – 1.30pm till 7pm
3 days, 10 hours (excl. breaks)
This is the second part of the LilyPad workshops. This one focuses on mastering more involed actuators, and learning to get data from the many sensor components. Basically, you’ll be able to get your project to respond to the world around it. Imho, this is what makes e-textiles and wearables so exciting.
Content;
This second workshop is for people who have used the LilyPad or Arduino before. At least to blink an LED or two. Focusing on input we’ll look at using light sensor, temperature sensor, and accelerometer. And if we’ve time on output using the vibration motor and buzzer board.
We’ll also take a quick look at multiplexing, both input and output, and making your own interfaces to connect regular electrical components to your LilyPad circuit.
The only thing you’ll need to bring with you is a laptop with USB port, everything else is provided. (If you want to bring your own LilyPad components that’s great, just let us know when you’re booking and we’ll make sure you have everything you’ll need.)
Important: please bring your own laptop with USB port. Closer to the event you will receive instructions on how to install the programming environment.
Optional materials; Any LilyPad board (preferably the Protosnap), with sensors (e.g. light, temperature, accelerometer) and actuators (e.g. vibration motor, buzzer board).
If you want to play with the LilyPad before buying, Protosnap boards can be provided for the duration of the workshop, but you’ll probably have to work in groups of at least two people.
When: Thursday, February 13th. From 7pm until 10pm.
Where: TOG.
Cost: €10 for non-members, €5 for members. (All proceeds go to support TOG.)
Please register for this workshop through the contact form below the cut.
If you’ve missed your chance to sign up for the workshop, please keep an eye out for a rerun in the next few months.
Once more into the workshops dear friends! This first workshop will focus on getting used to the LilyPad microcontroller, and getting started programming some LEDs.
(The second workshop will focus on reading data in from sensors. A third workshop will be added if requested. Book your place on them as the posts go up.)
Content;
The first workshop is for complete beginners; an introduction to the LilyPad system, from what the different parts of the board do, to some basic coding, and turning on/off some lights. The only thing you’ll need to bring with you is a laptop with USB port, everything else is provided. (If you want to bring your own LilyPad components that’s great, just let us know when you’re booking and we’ll make sure you have everything you’ll need.)
Important: please bring your own laptop with USB port. Closer to the event you will receive instructions on how to install the programming environment.
Optional materials; Any LilyPad board (preferably the Protosnap), with a handful LEDs, including an RGB LED, and a switch or two.
If you want to play with the LilyPad before buying, Protosnap boards can be provided for the duration of the workshop, but you’ll probably have to work in groups of at least two people.
When: Thursday, January 30th. From 7pm until 10pm.
Where: TOG.
Cost: €10 for non-members, €5 for members. (All proceeds go to support TOG.)
Please register for this workshop through the contact form below the cut.
Fully booked. Please check back for a rerun of the course in a few weeks.
TOG’s tornado tour continues, this time into Exchange Dublin, a multipurpose culture space in Temple Bar.
The week long exhibition in Exchange brings hacker culture to the people of Dublin, with a variety of crazy contraptions made by the mad members of TOG.
There will be adhoc hack/changes made throughout the week, culminating in a big data visualisation event 8pm on Friday 24th – wrapping up in time for Tog’s 5th birthday party on Saturday 25th.
So take a stroll through Temple Bar this week and serve yourself a little slice of hacker heaven!
Date: 19th – 25th January
Where: Exchange Dublin
Tickets: No booking required, free entry.
Had a go at making a hot wire cutter to cut plastic and polystyrene. Experimented with 2 types of wire. Tried a thinner wire which worked at about 8 amps, but used a thicker wire in the end, as the thinner one broke. It draws about 16 Amps. Managed to cut the tops from some bottles with it. Will experiment a bit more and fine tune it. Want to try some expanded polystyrene. More pics here….
Linux is a free open-source operating system invented by Linux Torvalds and developed by a community of developers worldwide. Linux is based on UNIX and has been ported to every platform in use today including PC, Mac, Sparc and ARM and is the base operating system behind Arduino and Android. It is released under the GNU public license and can be copied and reused freely.
TOG will be offering a six week introductory course to the Linux Command Line on Monday nights starting in January. This course assumes no previous programming experience.
This course will teach you how to administer your Linux system from the command line. It will not cover installing Linux nor will it cover Gnome or KDE functionality. Instead, we will be using VirtualBox and each student will download a virtual hard drive with the latest Debian preinstalled and configured for the course.
| When: | Mondays Jan 6th – Feb 10th 2014. |
| Time: | 7:00 – 10:00pm (with 30 min break) |
| Sessions: | 6. |
| Where: | Tog Classroom. |
| Price: | 100 euros. |
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