The Dublin Hackerspace
We are off to Newcastle. \o/ . We are excited at being accepted to Maker Faire UK. This will be our 5th year showing casing at the event. Our April would just not be the same without it.
This year the plan is to showcase a constellation umbrella made by Robert along with other members projects. If you are in Newcastle be sure to stop by on the 1st or 2nd for a duck and hackerspace stamp.
The latest Fab Foundation Ireland network meeting took place in Fab Lab Limerick last weekend. The meeting is a chance for all the current fablabs and emerging labs to learn from each other by exchanging their experiences and learning. While there, we had a nice look around all the great equipment on offer in Limerick.
A new makerspace is on the scene in Dublin, Lovelace Space. The space is named after Ada Lovelace, the mathematician, writer and world’s first computer programmer. The space is still in the planing stage but that is not stopping them from hosting their first event this weekend in the Black Sheep pub. You can read about their cross stitch workshop on their website.
This new space joins a vibrant community of spaces and fablabs across this island. You can read about some of them in the links below.
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Ireland
Our very own Will Knott has made it into the national finals of Famelab Ireland after giving a very entertaining talk at the Cork heats. Famelab is a global science communication competition that brings people from all backgrounds to just 3 minutes to convey a scientific concept of their choice.
Check out Will’s talk below about “how he destroyed a planet”.
See Will and all the other finalists on the Thursday 13 April, 6.30pm, in the Science Gallery Dublin.
Back in our Chancery Lane days we made a very successful pizza oven. It became a regular feature of our monthly Open Socials. In late 2015 we moved to our fantastic new space in Blackpitts. One thing we don’t have in Blackpitts is our own dedicated outside yard. We can do things outside, but it is a shared car park so we can’t leave things out there. This means that we’ve had to build our oven every time and take it down again, for special occasions like our annual birthday party or summer post-Dublin Maker BBQ.
So its been on the to-do list for some time, to make a portable version that we can wheel in and out as required. We started the process yesterday to build a molded dome from lightweight concrete. There are lots of plans on line for this using a gym ball as a former. We’ll be working on it over the next few weeks. Drop in and have a look.
Schedule is as follows:
1. Presentation:
• Basic theory
• Select tools
• Select game (old classic), identify variables and control them
• Automate
2. Challenge:
• Identify different variable and control it.
What will you need:
• laptop
• VM with Win OS guest (XP and above)
Free tickets @ Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/changing-the-state-of-the-game-literally-tickets-32203226718