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These will be at  Diyode Community Workshop, at 71 Wyndham St. S,  conducted by Life Gears Academy in May and June this year.  If you are interested, the link to their site is here:  https://www.lifegears.org/adult-classes Adult Classes We are now offering courses for adults to allow them to develop various skills mainly in the field of…

Makerspace Assistant (Part-Time, 12 Month Contract) Idea Exchange, Old Post Office Are you constantly tinkering to discover how things work? Do you have a passion for mechanics and get excited about new technology? Do you enjoy sharing your knowledge and findings with people who share your passion? Idea Exchange is seeking a talented and creative…

One of our former members, Joel Dube did this fine work. This is a custom stratocaster build. The top wood is zircote and the back and pickguard are black limba. The sound knobs are made from Indian Rosewood. The neck, electronics and hardware were taken from a Squier affinity series stratocaster.      

One of our members, Cristian Golu, has offered to give a course at Diyode for our members and anyone else that’s interested. If you are interested, please contact Cristian directly at cristian@3dlinux.com About Cristian: He is a mechanical engineer (Welding) with a passion for electronics. He has 20 years of experience Canada. Training course: Introduction to…

Diyode Community Workshop has served the community of Guelph since 2010.  We provide tools, space and community for people interested in woodworking, metalworking, electronics, prototyping and all sorts of other making. We knew that this time would come, but it is finally here. Diyode needs some help, and we’re hoping you folks out in internetland might…

  This past Monday, we celebrated our new membership with Community CarShare  and the launch of the new Toyota Tacoma pickup truck in its own parking area at our location.   Diyode and the community at large will benefit from the use of the truck, as well as the rest of the fleet of vehicles managed…

See Also: Haiti: Lessons Learned in Plastics I recently had the opportunity to head to Haiti, part of an effort to build a small scale recycling operation in the town of Jacmel. I’ll deal with the success or failure of the machines in another post, but here I wanted to get down some of my…

See also : Haiti: Ruminations I started this project with a simple goal in mind. Build the 4 machines outlined on Dave Hakken’s Precious Plastic website, then build them again in Haiti. It is said that no plan survives first contact with the enemy, and this story is no different. When I left Haiti last…