Category: Blog
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The Diyode Rocket Program Received The Activating Community Micro-Grant!🚀
We’re thrilled to share some great news with our community! Diyode Community Workshop has been awarded $500 through the Activating Community Micro-Grant to help support and grow our Diyode Rocket Program in the community! This grant was provided by the City of Guelph and reviewed and awarded in collaboration the Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition, whose…
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Skill Forge Welding Workshop
At our recent Skill Forge Welding Workshop, we took the chance to slow down and appreciate the beauty of welding. A huge thank you to @modern.jemz, @w.inkley and @evanhardie65 for leading each section of the workshop and sharing their expertise, and enthusiasm. Your leadership lit the way (literally and figuratively). Thank you to @kitchener_cwbassociation for…
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Skill Forge Welding Workshop
Another successful night of makers laying their first beads at the Skill Forge Welding Workshop! Massive thanks to our instructors @modern.jemz, @w.inkley and @evanhardie65 for sharing their knowledge and everyone who participated!
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Electronics and Soldering Workshop
About a year and a half ago, I came to Diyode for three things. I wanted access to a 3D printer. I wanted a place where I could learn to solder. And because I was new to the country, I wanted friends. One of those items was solved because my dad got a nice new…
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2024 Wooden Poppy Drive
For the third year, Diyode has made a contribution to the poppy fund at Guelph’s local Canadian Royal Legion. This year that contribution reached $1250, a modest increase from the previous year’s amount of $1100, but a sizable increase from the first year’s $150. This is thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of…
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Leatherworking Workshop
For context, when I think of leather, I’m thinking “the heaviest armor you’re allowed to wear as a rogue.” Leather is flexible and in contrast to something like platemail (yes we’re still in DnD land) isn’t something you forge. If it’s not something you forge, it’s more like cloth, so it’s got to be something…
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2nd Welding Workshop of Skill Forge Series III
Our second Welding Workshop of Skill Forge Series III! Creativity sparked and skills took shape! ⚡️🧑🏭 A huge thank you to all the participants who joined us, to @modern.jemz and @w.inkley for leading the session and sharing their knowledge, and to the CWB Kitchener chapter – @kitchener_cwbassociation – for their generous sponsorship. We’re thrilled to…
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Welding Workshop
Welding Workshop Recap! 🎇 In our latest Skill Forge session, participants got hands-on with welding and grinding techniques, transforming scrap metal into their very own custom creations! A huge thank you to our amazing instructors, @modern.jemz and @w.inkley for bringing their expertise and creativity to the metalshop table. 🙌 Special shout-out to our sponsor, the…
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Project Highlight: Super Van
I have always wanted to live on a spaceship. While science fiction has granted us plenty of excellent star fighter designs like Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing from Star Wars, or Starbuck’s Viper from Battlestar Galactica, the best spaceships are the ones that double as houses. From Star Wars we have the Millennium Falcon, or the Razor…
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Guitar Setup Workshop
Did you know that guitars typically have a metal rod that runs through the length of the neck? Because I didn’t and I’ve been playing guitar for over fifteen years. This was just one of a few things that I picked up while observing Grace Da Maren’s workshop on guitar setup. Who’s Grace? Why should…