Tag: Events
Crosstalk; Repair Cafe.
by Adam Evenden on Feb.22, 2015, under Events
On Saturday the Repair Cafe had a successful repair clinic at Hacklab Toronto.
Many came through the lab for a tour while waiting for their spot in line to start
work on their personal treasures to be repaired, and to learn a little about
repair themselves. Like those articles and photo narratives, in the past
crosstalk has featured other spaces, how others engage with the wider community.
This successful Repair Cafe was hosted by Hacklab Toronto, and allowed the lab
to give back to a community that does great work.
- This little sucker is getting diagnosed. Soon the vacuums problem will be known.
- Diagnosing the problem is a Blend of skill and knowledge.
- Large turn out for the Repair Cafe.
- Trapped VHS getting some hands on rewinding.
- This Chicken clock keeps on Clucking thanks to the Repair Cafe.
- Success! Another repair complete.
- Another Successful repair at the repair cafe. As the sign in the background says, lets hope for more successful events such as this one.
Toronto Mini Maker Faire
by Adam Evenden on Sep.23, 2013, under Events, Projects
This years Mini Maker Faire in Toronto is over, but it was a grand success in my eyes.
People from all walks of life and age came out to explore, create, share ideas, and hack.
I believe the community just became a little bit bigger from this weekend, and a lot closer for those already in the community creating new connections and friendships.
I am hard at work combing through the photos, trying to decide what to do with them all.
I hope everyone had a blast this weekend and made memorys.
Here are a few moments I captured that I care to share.
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.
Photo of the week;
by Adam Evenden on Feb.20, 2013, under Unpatched Tuesdays
Comments Off on Photo of the week; :Creativity, Events, Open House, Tuesday Night Open House more...Free Vegan Dinners
by Christopher Olah on Feb.14, 2013, under Uncategorized
For the last few months, I’ve prepared free vegan food for Hacklab on Tuesdays: Eggplant bhartas, spring rolls, tofu in spicy peanut sauce, boc choy in garlic sauce, curries…
Noms, created at last weeks open house.
by Adam Evenden on Sep.09, 2012, under Events, Projects
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.)
Toronto Haskell Users Meetup
by Christopher Olah on Feb.23, 2012, under Events
There’s going to be a Toronto Haskell Users Meetup at hacklab on March 7th starting at 7pm. Come by and meet your fellow Haskellers!
This will be the first one. I’m really looking forward to meeting other Haskellers in person!
Haskell Users of Toronto, unite!
You may optionally sign up for this meetup on eventbrite.
Toronto RepRap User Group #3
by Christopher Olah on Feb.03, 2012, under Events
Mark your calendars: Monday the 27th will be Toronto’s third RepRap User Group Meetup! We’ll be meeting at hacklab (location info) at 7pm! Bring your RepRap/Makerbot/3D printing awesomeness!
Meet your fellow RepRap enthusiasts! Share knowledge, learn about the awesome things people are doing, and have a great time!
Everyone interested in 3D Printing is welcome. People who are being driven insane by their obsession with the awesomeness of 3D printing are strongly encouraged so that they can benefit from contact with the similarly afflicted.
I’m super excited to have this happen and am really looking forward to seeing you there!
You can read a post about the second TRUG meetup on digital crusader. You can optionally sign up at eventbrite (this will make it easier for people to get in touch with you after the event).
Introduction to Programming (Python)
by Christopher Olah on Jan.20, 2012, under Workshops
On Saturday Feb 11th, I’ll be teaching an Introduction to Python workshop. It will go from 10am to 4pm, with a break for lunch.
Python is a popular programming language, known for its simplicity, ease of use, and elegance. An excellent language to start programming in.
We’ll cover some basic programming concepts. What that will include will depend on how fast we go :)
Please RSVP — we have limited space!