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More screen printing

Started today with more screen printing making up stencils on acetate. Process involved was a follows.

  1. Make up design in photoshop, gimp or any of your preferred design program.
  2. Print off on black and white acetate as dark as possible your design (no to much detail, you get away with some)
  3. Take prepared screen with light sensitive emulsion and put over light box, apply weight on top of screen.
  4. We are using two 15Watt UV blacklight 6 inces away from screen and design for 5 1/2 minutes may vary.
  5. Baking them into with UV lights for 5 1/2 minutes
  6. Then washing off under tap got to try power hose because I had to scrub quite hard to get non sensitized part to come off.
  7. Screen print away using your design

Check out what we did in gallery.

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Open Social NEXT Weekend 5th November

Next Saturday 5th November, we’re holding our regular open social from
about 7pm till late. All welcome. If you haven’t been in to see the
space, this is a great opportunity to visit, meet the TOG gang and other
visitors. We’ll have music and the rubens tube going, and maybe the bbq
too. Plus whatever other gadgets we can rustle up.

BYOB, food, gadgets! See you from around 7pm.

PS: We also have our electronics build-it workshop from 3pm on Sat 5th
November with places still available.

If your want to come along just leave a message in comment second down below!

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Arduino for Coders

Do you want to make things blink? Build interactive art? Construct robots to take over the world? The Arduino is for you. It’s intended for  designers and hobbyists. It is an easy to use device made for real people. The Arduino will open the worldof physical computing to you.

This course starts at the beginning but will move at a fast pace and is designed for programmers. We will cover in detail the electronics  required to get started with Arduino and explore how to read the Arduino code base.

 

This course will cover :

  • Basic electronics  (Ohm Law, Breadboarding skills )
  • Digital Inputs / Output
  • Analog Inputs / Outputs
  • Microcontroller Communication

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Christmas Origami Workshops

As Christmas approaches, why not be original and create your own decorations? Join this workshop and learn to make Christmas decorations using origami, and get introduced to modular origami techniques. Beginners are welcome, but they should (re-)familiarise themselves first with the waterbomb base.

This workshop will run twice, choose the date that suits you best:

On Wednesday, November 23rd, from 7pm to 9pm…
…or Saturday, November 26rd, from 2pm to 4pm.

Please use the form below the cut to sign-up! Don’t forget to specify which day you want to attend. The cost is €5 for non-members, free for members.

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Electro-Sewing Workshop; update

Hello again! The Electro-Sewing Workshop was last night in tog, and again, I think we all had a good time! Personally I had a great evening and was delighted at how quickly everyone picked it up. Even with having to listening to me waffle aimlessly to a slide-deck for a while, by the end of the night we had amassed quite a beautiful bouquet of LED flowers!

Attendees at the electro-sewing workshop sitting around a table

A bouquet of electro-flowers made at the workshop

As yet there aren’t any more workshops planned, but as interest was high I’ll be seeing if there is a more complex electro-sewing project to move on to, or maybe even a Lilypad Arduino class. Ooh, I am looking forward to see what my lovely students go on to create!