Category: Blog

Hacking the learning process Over the break, I had the opportunity the spend some time developing and testing the first full lesson plan for the codeshield. The result is intended to be used by hackerspaces and school teachers to teach Intro to Arduino. Following the basic philosophy behind the board, I skipped over almost all…

Working to get the presents done.   Wood chips are flying around the clock!!   Theo Elf checking if it’s roasted enough.    Simon Elf making sure it’s all covered.   Jolly Shawn Elf  working hard and being his usual cheerful self. Peter Elf cleaning and buffing so he can paint it before it’s under…

Waverly Neighbourhood Fun Night An area covering from about Woolwich Street to Victoria Road, and from about Woodlawn Road to Eramosa Road hosts the Waverly Neighbourhood Group. Community minded residents of this area are supporting educational, recreational and social programs for young and old, such as gardening, toy washing, and neighbourhood Fun Nights. DIYode was…

NEWS The DIYode Community Workshop has received funding for several innovative and capable prototyping tools, thanks to a $15,000 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF)  http://www.otf.ca/ .  MPP for Guelph, Ms. Liz Sandals will be joining OTF representatives in congratulating us at a ceremony on November 2nd at 11am. The event will take place…

Christoph Kesting of DIYode spoke about art creating vision and vision helping us and those around us. He will be creating a comfortable, beautiful home out of an ordinary shipping container at the rear of the DIYode parking lot. Follow him on his container-house-ontario blog.  He will be facilitating workshops to show anyone how to…

We at DIYode are a happy bunch of makers. There are so many projects that have been completed, are in the process of being completed, or are in the gears of our heads, waiting to materialize. This is the spot where we will feature who is working on what. Please come back often to see us!…

Thanks to the the tireless efforts of the laser acquisition committee, and all those members who donated to the fund, our G Weike LG900 laser cutter is on its way. We should have it in our possession sometime around April 30th. Look for a laser party soon after that!

Like many other hackerspaces, Diyode has been running arduino workshops as part of our community outreach. Typically, we’ve started with an intro to the concept, built a simple button/led circuit on a breadboard, then coded it up. People with a natural aptitude for this kind of stuff do okay with that, but we’ve seen a…

We showed off the rocket launcher at Tytler school the other day. We brought the kids plenty of candy – but to get it they had to make an armor piercing rocket 😉 They got pretty clever pretty fast… Rocket Launch Video