Category: Blog

  • Here comes the lasers!

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    Simon Clark
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    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!

  • The Diyode CodeShield

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    Simon Clark
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    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…

  • Tytler School Demo

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    James McKeown
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    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

  • Simple Kid’s Drawing Table

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    Simon Clark
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    Bashed this table together quickly over the weekend for our youngest daughter. There’s nothing terribly groundbreaking here.  A simple plywood top, rounded and routered to make nice edges.  My wife, older daughter and I painted after the young one’s bedtime over the weekend, then some simple legs and a lot of varnish. The legs are…

  • It’s alive!

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    Verdi
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    Just a small snippit of what goes on in the shop.

  • Shop plan development 71b Wyhdam Street

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    Ed Jackson
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    Hello fellow DIYodes I am drawing up a floor plan for the hackers space to facilitate the locating of tools, benches and work spaces at 71b Wyndham Street.  Included below is 2D floor plans drawing and a 3D renderings of the work shop and meeting room. These images will be updated as the plan progresses. Development…

  • Tools of the Zombie Apocalypse

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    Simon Clark
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    Sitting around over beers a while back, we were talking about ways that we can be evangelizing DIY, what we can do to highlight the importance of not letting these skills fade away in our society. Someone made the offhanded comment that if we don’t succeed, then when the Zombie Apocolypse comes, we’ll all be…

  • Rocket Piñata

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    Simon Clark
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    For the last year or so, we’ve been using rocket launchers, based loosely on the Make Magazine design, as a community outreach tool, taking them around to various community events and letting kids build and fire their rockets. Recently though, I wanted to up the ante a bit, and give the kids a reason to…

  • Impromptu Fixit

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    Alex Storey
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    Someone recently brought in a lamp that was in need of repair and Simon, James and Ken  took on the challenge. Here’s a few pix of the process.

  • Musagetes and 1 Mile Squared

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    Simon Clark
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    Over the last week, Mary Mattingly, a New York based artist has been in Guelph for the Musagetes Sponsored 1Mile2 event. She and a number of volunteers have been inhabiting the Diyode workshop over the week, secretly toiling away on a ‘wearable architecture’ project. We don’t know yet what their final piece will look like,…