Ubuntu Rocks

Thanks to our local loco Ubuntu-ie we now have lots of new Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal cds. Desktop Kubuntu and even Server.  So if you around town drop in and pick one up.   Also this weekend (Saturday 21st) members of Ubuntu-ie will be meeting in TOG to work on there team re-approval during the …

Engineers Week 2011

We’re participating in Engineers Week again this year (14th-20th February) with our regular activities and some special events. Monday, 14th of February, 19:00- 22:00 – Electronics and Micro controller Group Night – 555 Timer Intro Tuesday, 15th of February, 19:30- 21:30 – Arduino 101 – Learn to Blink Wednesday, 16th of February, 19:00- 22:00 – …

Dublin 27C3 Peace Mission

We’ll be hosting a Dublin 27C3 Peace Mission for those unable to make it to the 27C3 conference in Berlin during the 27th to 30th of December. The space will be open to visitors from 11.30 am until mindnight as per the conference schedule: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/ We will be streaming video from the conference in Berlin …

A new toy

Following on from my recent post and post on building a CNC router. We just received a new toy today. Many thanks to Anthony for giving TOG this old Contour Minor CNC Milling Machine. The mill is in good working order, though it does rely on some old MS-DOS based software (I’ve already checked that …