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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…

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…

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.

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,…

We’ve hosted a number of soldering workshops, where attendees worked on basic project kits from Adafruit. These include MiniPOV kits, TV-B-Gones, Drawdios and Game of Life kits.

John Baichtal of Make Magazine challenged us recently to put together a Hackerspace wish list.  We’ll continue to update this as things occur to us. Stuff we have that we love… Good stock of Arduino kits from Adafruit Dissecting scope. WW2 Era metal lathe Mig Welder Big tools (table saw, radial arm saw, lathe, drill…