This week is Irish Hackerspaces Week (the link is for the Dublin events). On Thursday we will have the first ever Lightning Talks night in the space and I hope it will be successful -- I think it would be awesome to have a few short talks every month where members …
read moreGTUG July meet-up: Google APIs & panel on hackerspaces and formal education
Yesterday evening Google kindly hosted the GTUG meet-up, which I don't usually attend but considering some of my fellow hackerspace members were speaking on the panel I had to go and *cough*heckle*cough* support.
Google Storage and Predictions API
The first part of the evening was a talk by …
Successful origami workshop
Squishy Circuits Workshop: A success!
The Squishy Circuits workshop organised in Tog yesterday was a success! Many thanks to awesome teacher Triona for showing us how to make a mess, I mean, have a lot of fun with conductive dough and learn a few basics of electricity and electronics :) Triona also shared tips on teaching …
read moreSquishy Circuits workshop! | Having fun learning about electronics by playing with conductive dough
On July 2nd, I will be facilitating a workshop on Squishy circuits, kindly hosted by Tog and taught by Tríona O’Connell.
Squishy circuits are a great way to demonstrate electrical circuits to kids (and adults!). It consists of a conductive dough and an insulating dough that are used in …
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