Events
Hacklab Talk at Toronto Reference Library
by mrericboyd on Sep.11, 2013, under 3D Printing, Announcements, Events
Hacklab.TO will be giving a talk at the Toronto Reference Library tonight, Wednesday September 11th, at 6:30 till 8pm. We’ll be demoing our 3D printers and talking about the Maker Movement. The title of the talk is Technology and Creative Community Spaces: HackLab.TO, and it’ll be Eric Boyd, Rob Gilson & Alice Thorne speaking. The Toronto Reference Library is at 789 Yonge Street (just north of Bloor), the talk will be in the Atrium on the ground floor, just inside the security gates, you can’t miss it.
Mini Maker Faire Toronto
by mrericboyd on Aug.28, 2013, under Announcements, Events
Hacklab is going to be at the Mini Maker Faire Toronto! We’ll have our usual booth of awesomeness, showing off members projects (flipdot game of snake, Train Overlord, electronic jewelry, our 3D printers, circuit stitching, etc) and inspiring people to get their DIY on. Come see us there, Sept 21st & 22nd, at Wychwood Barns, near St. Claire West Station. Get your tickets here, with 20% discount for friends of hacklab!
Photo of the week; Happy 5th Birthday HackLab
by Adam Evenden on Jul.30, 2013, under Events
Hacklab; One step closer to self replication.
by Adam Evenden on Jun.23, 2013, under 3D Printing, Announcements, Events, Unpatched Tuesdays
As of late Tuesday night, HackLab is now the proud owner of a Series 1 3D printer, by Type A Machines. Leading to 5 members to tackle the construction, calibrations, initial tuning and testing of the printer. I expect throughout the following week the printer will be fine tuned and will settle in amongst the other printers we have in the lab. I am sure we will be printing some add-ons for the Series 1 soon as well once the tuning is done, such as a tool rest and holder. We may even be adding LED lights to it to better see how the print job is adhering to the surface and see when problems are occurring in during the print job. I care to thank Type A Machines for the donation of the new printer, and care to extend an invitation to please stop by the lab during our Open House to see what we are creating with this amazing printer.
At the rate we are building, working with, and utilizing 3D printers we may have to designate part of HackLab the Print Lab. I hope soon we can add the second Ultimaker we have been slowly repairing to our library of tools allowing more members to print at the same time and gain experience working with these tools. Thank you again Type A Machines for aiding to our creative, and educational tool library.
For 11 more photos from the build. and a photo of the first item printed please click upon the (continue reading) text below for more.
Toronto Mini-Maker Fair
by Adam Evenden on Jun.08, 2013, under Events, Projects, Unpatched Tuesdays
Several weeks ago now the Toronto Mini Maker Faire Launch party happened.
You can find more images on the following photo streams; Photo booth shots and more, Photos by Adam Evenden
Upon entering the launch party and registering attendees where faced with an arts and crafts table, full of hot glue, blank masks, LED’s, Coin battery’s, pipe cleaners, markers, tape, Glitter, and more.
Click more to see some of the creations.
Happy Belated April 1st.
by Adam Evenden on Apr.09, 2013, under Events, Workshops
Rob Bishop’s Raspberry Pi Hackerspace Tour Visits Toronto
by Scott Sullivan on Nov.22, 2012, under Announcements, Events
Hacklab.to in partnership with Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology Presents:
Rob Bishop – Raspberry Pi: Past, Present, and Future
Rob Bishop, one of the earliest engineers involved with the development of the Raspberry Pi, will be delivering a talk on the educational mission and history behind the Raspberry Pi Foundation as well as technical overview of the Raspberry Pi. He’ll cover the motivation behind the creation of the Raspberry Pi and how they want to help deliver better computing education to the classroom through creation of cheap, open computing devices.
What: A presentation by Rob Bishop of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Demo Room of projects.
When: December 3rd, 7:00 PM
Where: SEQ Building, Seneca@York, 70 The Pond Road, Toronto – Room: 1206
Details: CDOT: Raspberry_Pi_Hackspace_Tour_Toronto
If you have a Raspberry Pi project and would like to be included in the Demo Room, please contact scott@ss.org
Noms, created at last weeks open house.
by Adam Evenden on Sep.09, 2012, under Events, Projects
Comments Off on Noms, created at last weeks open house. :Creativity, Events, Food, Food hacking., Open House, party, Photos, Tuesday more...This weeks Hacklab Photo Round up in: 10 photos – Week of (July 8-14).
by Adam Evenden on Jul.14, 2012, under Events, Projects, Uncategorized
Every week for as many as I can I hope to post a collection of Images that depict what the space is all about. It may not be 10 photos each week it maybe more it may be less, but each photo is part of hack labs story.
Here is HackLab as I have glimpsed it this week.
Toronto RepRap Users Meetup #3 = Great Success!
by Christopher Olah on Mar.01, 2012, under Events
The third meetup of the Toronto RepRap User Group was a massive success!
We had about 20 people show up, with about 5 RepRaps. Socrates from the Singularity Weblog (who previously did a post on Hacklab) kindly filmed our talks and took pictures!
We had a few short talks by Lance, Adam, Chris, Matt, and Andre which you can watch online (part 1, part 2, part 3). The speakers and topics were:
- Lance: Using and sourcing glass build platforms for your RepRap
- Adam: Building a giant RepRap, his new extruder design, coatings for the build platform.
- Chris: Follow up on producing lenses with 3D printers.
- Matt: Questions for the community.
- Andre: Printing his parents house (watch it print! And another one!).
- Chris: A new programmatic CAD tool, ImplicitCAD (including some never before publicly seen features!)
Thanks again to hacklab for hosting us! Our next meetup will be on March 26th, again the last Monday of the month (can we make this a consistent thing? Maybe!). Since things were starting to get a bit cramped at hacklab, between all of us and the printers, Site 3 will generously be hosting the next meetup.
Finally, I wanted to remind everyone that you too can be a speaker at the next meeting of the Toronto RepRap User Group! It’s nothing formal: just get up and talk for five-ish minutes. No need to contact me in advance, just turn up and tell me before we start the talks! I will be very grateful for more speakers!
(Also, there is now a mailing list for organizing our meetings and discussing Toronto-RepRaping issues.)