Category: Blog
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DIYode Trillium Grant Ceremony
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…
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The Speakers from SoOnCon 2012
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…
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To the DIYode Blog – Hurrah!
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!…
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Here comes the lasers!
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!
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The Diyode CodeShield
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…
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Tytler School Demo
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
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Simple Kid’s Drawing Table
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…
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Tools of the Zombie Apocalypse
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…
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Rocket Piñata
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…