October Repair Café

Do you have broken items at-home – clothes, small appliances, toys, electronics?

No need to throw them away!
Save your things from the landﬁll and your wallet from having to replace them.

Bring them to our repair café and learn how to ﬁx them together with our volunteers. We have tools, materials, space to work on your item, and repair experts who will help you with your repair.

TOG members will be on hand to show you around the space – come and enjoy a tea or coﬀee and a tour while you wait!

What objects can you bring in?

Clothes and accessories
Toys
Small electrical appliances and electronics
Small furniture
… and many other things!
Safety (PAT) testng for electrical devices will be available.

Where? – TOG, Unit 1B Motor City
Kylemore Road, Dublin 12
When? – Sunday October 2nd, 11 am – 4 pm
Admission free – all are welcome!

If you would like to be a fixer, drop us an email.

Check out the types of things we fixed at our last event.

This event is part of Ireland’s National Reuse Month. This October is all about reuse. Its valuing our stuff, by using and reusing it for as long and as often as possible. This avoids the need to extract raw materials, manufacture and distribute new stuff, and avoids waste thereby cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions.

For more events visit https://www.mywaste.ie/reuse-month/

01/09/202221/04/2023

Building a TinyGS Station Workshop

Space is fun. Receiving data from space is even better.

TinyGS is an open community-run network of Ground Stations distributed around the world to receive and operate LoRa satellites, weather probes and other flying objects, using cheap and versatile modules. https://tinygs.com/

This hands-on workshop will cover building, programming and setting up your own TinyGS station.

Participants will build their very own quarter-wave ground plane antenna, and base station to take home. All they have to do is plug the box into a USB charger.

This workshop is perfect if you want to get started building your first antenna and get started in the world of radio.

No amateur radio license is required to operate the station, only if you wish to send data to space.

Event Date: Saturday 17th September 16:00 – 18:00

Event Cost: €65 plus Eventbrite fees

Max Eight Participants

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/building-a-tinygs-station-tickets-410608209207

Participants are required to bring a WiFi device like a phone or laptop to configure and a Telegram account.

This workshop is facilitated by our own Jeffrey Roe and with help from Gary.

You can read more about the building a TinyGS project on our blog https://www.tog.ie/2022/02/building-a-tinygs-station/

All visitors are welcome to stay at the event of the workshop for Tog’s Open social night https://www.meetup.com/tog-dublin-hackerspace/events/286494552/

29/08/202230/08/2022

The Liberties Festival: How to Build Your Own Air Quality Sensor

Event posters. All information is covered in the text below.

Our own Jeffrey Roe will be hosting an Air Quality Sensor workshop as part of the Liberties Festival on Sunday 4th of September. We will be providing our soldering requirement to help out at this local community festival. Event details and booking information are below.

https://thelibertiesfestival.com/environment-1

Join us for a workshop with Jeffrey Roe of Tog Hackerspace and learn how to build your own sensor to monitor air quality in your local area.
Air pollution affects many people’s daily lives, not just close to industrial centres. Most governmental monitoring is only done with a very limited number of sensors across the whole of Ireland. Oftentimes we are relying on modelling to make the best guess at current levels. This can miss out on local/seasonal pollution sources like coal fires during the winter and event-based pollution.
The workshop brings local people together to learn about the issues and gain hands-on experience. It opens up the world of smart/IoT devices to the general public but also contributes the data to a wider citizen science project, the Sensor Community. This network has over 13,000 sensors around the world with 10 million data entries.
Jeffrey Roe is a software/hardware engineer working building public transport systems from bike-share schemes, to parking and port traffic access management systems. In his spare time, he likes to make crazy projects like bubble machines, bone conduction, IoT projects and anything with LEDs in it. A big fan of getting people making, he co-runs ‘Dublin Maker’ an annual maker showcase festival and Dublin’s Hackerspace Tog. He is also a member of Engineers Ireland, he currently serves as the chairperson of the Electronic and Computing division.
Requirements: None- all relevant equipment provided

17/08/202216/09/2022

Buildroot Developers Meeting

We are happy to host the Buildroot developer days on September 17th ~~& 18th~~.

Buildroot is a simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.

The Buildroot Developers meeting is a ~~2-day event~~ for Buildroot developers and contributors. It allows Buildroot developers and contributors to discuss the hot topics in the Buildroot development, work on patches, and generally meet each other, facilitating further online discussions. Attending the event is free, after registration.

Visit https://elinux.org/Buildroot:DeveloperDaysELCE2022 to put down your registration.

Who can attend ?

This meeting is opened to all Buildroot users and developers. The event is free. However, we make it clear that it is not a training event about Buildroot aimed at newcomers. It is a meeting for Buildroot developers to make progress about various topics in Buildroot. It is recommended to already be a Buildroot contributor to participate to the event.

14/08/202217/08/2022

Hardware and Software Jam

We are having an informal electronics, hardware and software session on Saturday 20th August from 15:00 in the space. Nothing too serious or complicated. Just a few of us working on a selection of random projects and things that we want to finish. An excuse to come in and do something at a slow and leisurely pace.

You are welcome to drop in and join us. If you are working on something, bring it in. Or you can just drop in, hang out, get a tour of the space and see what we’re up to. There’ll be lots of tea, coffee and biscuits.

It’s the same day as our regular monthly Open Social which is from 7pm till late. So it will blend into that event from 7 pm and we’ll be hanging around for the whole evening.

01/08/202201/08/2022

Tog At Dublin Comic Con Summer 2022

Dublin Comic Con returns to the Convention Centre Dublin on August 6th and 7th. We will be there for the summer edition. This is Ireland’s leading pop culture event. An event for the whole family. Covering everything from movies/tv shows to comics, cosplay and gaming!

We will have a fan table on both days. We are excited to showcase some cosplays that were built by our members. New sample projects to give everyone an idea of what can be built in our space. Please drop by and say hello.

You can find out more about the event via the following link.

https://www.dublincomiccon.com/ticket-information

We had lots of fun back at the spring edition you can check out some snaps in our gallery.