Our Rob working hard in the kitchen befire tonights party.
See some of you at 9pm BYOB!
January Brewday
All are welcome to come along to this first free brewday of 2013, on Sun 27 Jan from 10am till 4pm. We will demonstrate extract and all grain brewing, and welcome any questions and discussions on the day. This is also a nice social day out for the more experienced brewers. Please sign up so that we have an idea of numbers!
See you there!
http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1357132614
Dublin Mini Makerfaire: Call for Makers
The Dublin Mini Makerfaire is back this year in the grounds of TCD on the July 27th. They have just open their call for makers. We plan on submitting again this year. For those who don’t remember last year we have some great projects from the diverse groups within TOG. Check out the sideshow after the break for some cool photos of the TOG stand.
29c3 Lightning Talks & Recap
Over the Christmas break 8 TOG members took Road trip to 29c3 where we meet several other Hackerspaces. We had the pleasure of doing two Lightning talks one on Hotel Door locks and Fire Projects.
Our members also ran two workshops on Wearables and Hotel locks. We where able to attend lots of workshops across the 3 days and bring back lots more ideas for future projects in TOG.
We also got to visiting local hacker space Attraktor http://blog.attraktor.org/ we got the grand tour of space and got look at all the toys (8 CNC machines, leaths and milling machines well worth the visit very nice people and inviting to the space.
Testwall Equipment Donation
Last week we collected some used electronics test equipment which was donated to TOG by Testwall. Testwall have an office and laboratory in Sandyford Industrial Estate in Dublin, where they sell and rent new and used test equipment, and provide repair and calibration services.
From the photo you can see the large selection of test equipment we received. It will take us some time to figure out the functionality and capabilities of such a wide range of devices.
Our initial research into identifying the test equipment has given us the following list:
- Tektronix 11402 1GHz Digitizing Oscilloscope with Two 11A71 Amplifier plugins
- Hewlett Packard 83480A Digital Communications Analyzer with Two 83485A plugins
- Tektronix 2465B 400MHz Four Channel Oscilloscope
- Tektronix 492P Spectrum Analyzer (50kHz to 21GHz)
- Tektronix TDS 2014 Four Channel DSO 100MHz, 1GSa/s
- Hewlett Packard 54610B Oscilloscope Two Channel DSO 500MHz, 1MSa/s
- Two Keithley Model 7001 Switch Systems
- Two Wandel Goltermann PA-41 Frame/Signalling Analyzers
- Two Hewlett Packard 3488A Switch Control Units
- Sage 930A Communications Test Set
- Mettler Toledo PB8001 Precision Balance
- Tektronix TM501 Power Module with AM503 Current Amplifier
- Wandel Goltermann PF-30 Bit Error Analyzer
- Seaward PAT 2000i Portable Appliance Tester
Our previous list of test equipment which was provided by members includes:
- Tektronix 2445 400MHz Four Channel Oscilloscope
- Tektronix 2710 Spectrum Analyzer (10kHz to 1.8GHz)
- Hitachi V-212 Oscilloscope 20MHz
- Hitachi VC-6041 DSO
- Other smaller test devices and GSM test equipment
Other photos of the equipment is available in the gallery.
All this test equipment is available for use by members in the space anytime and free to visitors during our regular Electronics and Micro controller Group Night and the many other public events we run.
If you have interesting equipment, machinery, tools or materials that needs a new home, please use the contact page to let us know about it.
And thanks again to Testwall for there generous donation.
TOG Birthday Party
TOG is pleased to announce that it will be 4 years young this year on the 21st of January. To celebrate this we have decided to have our yearly birthday bash on the 26th of January. This will be a BYOB event and the cake will (maybe) not be a lie!
Our specific plans for the night are as always late to be finalized but as usual we will be open from 9pm, and always stay till late. Typically we play music, have some food and drinks.
Please take this opportunity to join us in celebrating the fact that 4 years ago, most of the members of TOG were strangers, and we now form tight knit community that encourages others to share knowledge and skills.
Hope to see you there 🙂