2011-05-05 Electronics Bootcamp

We’re running our first electronics bootcamp. This event will take place over
5 weeks on Thursday evenings at TOG, from 19:00 to 21:30. First session
on Thursday 5th May.

This is a practical / hands-on introduction to electronics. Its suitable for
beginners, as no previous knowledge is required. If you’re curious about
electronics and don’t know where to start…. this is for you. No
soldering required, as we do everything on prototyping breadboards.
We’ll be building and testing circuits right from the first night. We’ll
be covering DC, AC, analog and digital electronics.

Over the 5 weeks, you’ll have a chance to play with multimeters,
oscilloscopes, signal generators and other electronic test equipment.
There’ll be lots of circuits to build and test along the way.

Cost is 50 euro for non-members. That’s just 10 euro per night. We have
a special rate of 40 euro for the unwaged.

If you’re interested, you can sign up below and you can pay on the first
night. There are 6 places available.

Course is now full, we will run it again in the future.

One more TOG sign

Finsihed off Tog 2.0 sign made from straigth steel and bending around form in picture below, then branded onto block of wood.

Tog sign

Bending form, we found doing very small bends was best way of doing this.


MindField

MindField – International Festival of Ideas
Merrion Square, Dublin – April 29th to May 1st

TOG and the other Irish hackerspaces 091 Labs, Hackerspace Belfast, Hackerspace Cork and miLK Labs have been invited to run our own Hackerspace Tent during MindField.

The Hackerspace Tent will be manned throughout the weekend by hackers and makers showing off projects, providing opportunities to learn new skills and be creative.

We’re still working on the schedule of events and activities so we’ll be adding more information to this post.

The large predefined events are now on the MindField Hackerspace Event page. And we are coordinating activities between the spaces on the follow wiki page.

Saturday April 2nd

We’ve got some activities tomorrow Saturday April 2nd in TOG that you might like to attend.

The first is the Ubuntu Global Jam from 10am to 6pm.

Ubuntu Global Jam is a great event for many reasons. It is both social
and fun with many face to face meetups around the globe where people
work and play on an extraordinarily wide variety of ubuntu related
topics. People will work on bugs (both reporting and fixing), testing
the latest Natty release, documentation, advocacy material and many
other things lots of which probably haven’t even been considered as of
yet.

The second is our regular Saturday Open Social Night from 7pm to late. Come and hangout with Dublin’s hackers and makers for a chat or to show off your latest project. Our tuck shop has been restocked, we’re now stocking Club-Mate original the ultimate hacker drink.