We are very proud to be supporting this year’s Dublin Maker. Taking place on the 26th of July in TCD, its set to be a showcase of makers from Ireland and beyond . They have just opened their open call for makers. Find the out call here.
Sandymount Repair Cafe Recap
Some of our members helped out the first Sandymount Repair Cafe. A fun day helping people repair lots of different items and parting knowledge along the way. Culture File from RTE Lyric FM captured the feeling on the day with a lovely podcast.
Give it a listen here and check out some of our photos from the day in our gallery.
Open Street Map Hack Day
TOG is hosting an OpenStreetMap hack day/meet up/barcamp! OSM members will meet up in Dublin and do open street mappy stuff on laptops in TOG. Like an indoor mapping party / hack day / social meet up / barcamp.
What is OpenStreetMap?
OpenStreetMap is a world wide, open content map. It’s Wikipedia meets Google Maps.
If you’d like to learn more about OpenStreetMap, come along! Want to start mapping your local area, and want help? Come along! Want to find out how to use the low level OpenStreetMap data? Come along! This event is open to all, TOG members, non-TOG-members, general public, hardcore OSM mappers, and OSM newbies.
If you’re an OSM mapper and would like come, but not sure what to do, don’t worry we have loads of townlands to map. 🙂
Details
The event is scheduled to run from 12noon until about 6pm on Saturday 8th March 2014. However there is not a fixed schedule so feel free to drop in or out whenever you want.
There is no charge. The event is open to TOG members and memebers of the general public. Rory is the point of contact for the event. We’ll probably go for some beers or something that evening. You aren’t required to bring anything, but that will limit what you can do. I’d suggest bringing a laptop or something. TOG has free wifi.
TOG & OpenStreetMap
TOG has hosted a mapping party and held talks about OSM. TOG itself has been mapped on OSM for years, and when we moved to new premesis, the location was updated. 🙂
Engineer’s Week: Bridge Building Competition Winner
We had a fantastic day at the Science Gallery with over 50 people taking part in our competition. We had a great talk from Anthony McGuinness about Dublin City Council‘s Bridges of Dublin project. Next up was Robert Dowdall and Colin Keogh from IMechE explaining the engineering concepts behind bridge design. Their talk certainly made an impact . We had all sorts of different shapes , sizes and designs of bridges. Check out our gallery for photos from the event. -> photos
Design Winner
This team of beavers and cubs from Donabate scout group won the Best Design Prize.
Weight Winner
This winning team created a bridge that held 41kg with no sign of breaking. The team took the bridge home with a plan to see what the maximum weight it could take.
The second place bridge held a weight of 40kg. The third place bridge Frack’n’bridge held a weight of 28kg.
This event was only made possible with the time given by our volunteers and support from the following organisation TOG, Science Gallery, Engineers Ireland, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Young Engineers Society and Dublin City Council.
Engineers Week: An evening of inspiring ideas
Join us for another Evening of Inspiring Ideas as part of Engineers Week. From 7pm in TOG, we will have six speakers doing their best to inspire you about engineering with short talks. The event is free for anyone to come along, no need to book.
Date: Wednesday 12th February
Time: 19.00
Cost: Free
Sign Up: None. Just turn up.
Details on the talks below.
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PHP + MySQL intensive weekend-class
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)