We were pleased to attend the Fifth Shared Island Forum opened by Taoiseach Micheál Martin. Our All-Island Maker Mobility project with Farset Labs supports exchanges between makerspaces. It gives members opportunities to share skills, learn from one another www.tog.ie/2026/03/all-... #SharedIsland

That’s a wrap for the IRTS team at Europe’s largest ham radio exhibition in Friedrichshafen 🥳🍻 #hamradio #amateurradio #amateurfunk @togdublin.bsky.social

Hamfest 2026 returns to Mullingar Showgrounds on 8th and 9th August, everyone's invited & free admission for all! #hamradio #amateurradio Throw back to hamfest 2025 pictures...

Our next Repair Club is all about buttons, patches and simple clothing repairs. We will practise sewing on buttons, adding patches, and talk about visible versus invisible mending. Wednesday 22 July, www.tog.ie/2026/06/repa... #Repair

Retro Computing & Gaming Day returns on Saturday 11 July, Expect old computers, classic consoles, games, demos, controllers and plenty of glorious CRTs. There will also be a random game tournament, followed by pizza and a Quake III Arena or Unreal Tournament ’99 LAN party www.tog.ie/2026/06/back...

Tonight! 📡 Join Tog Hackerspace and Queer Shed Dublin Central for Pride Over the Waves. Try Morse code, see radios in action, and hear EI0LGBT on the South Dublin Radio Club net. 7–9pm. tickets www.eventbrite.ie/e/pride-over... #PrideOverTheWaves #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #MorseCode @irts.bsky.social

Our TouchDesigner Dublin meetup returns This month’s meetup explores MIDI integration in TouchDesigner, from controlling visuals and triggering events to working with external hardware. Expect demos, hands-on learning and a friendly space to share projects. www.tog.ie/2026/06/touc...

🍕 TOG Open Social is on Saturday from 7pm! Come along for projects, chats, gadgets, a tour of the hackerspace and, weather permitting, wood-fired pizza. Bring a project, a strange thing you are working on, or just yourself. New faces very welcome. 🔗 www.meetup.com/tog-dublin-h...

🐾 We are starting a Monthly Makerfur Meet. First one: Saturday 4 July, 1pm–5pm. Bring along a fursuit project, costume repair, LED experiment, wearable tech, radio project, prop, or just an idea you want to turn into something real. www.tog.ie/2026/06/mont...

📡 Join Queer Shed Dublin Central and Tog Hackerspace for a free, beginner-friendly amateur radio night. Try Morse code, see radios in action, and hear us call into the SDRC net using the EI0LGBT event callsign. Mon 22 June, 7–9 pm 🎟 www.eventbrite.ie/e/pride-over... #amateurradio @irts.bsky.social

POTA adventure on the high seas! Tog & South Dublin Radio Club are teaming up for another Parks on the Air activation, this time from Ireland’s Eye. We’ll be heading over by ferry on Sunday 21st June to activate radio from the island. www.tog.ie/2026/06/pota... #AmateurRadio @irts.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who braved the rain on the last day of Cork Carnival of Science to come and see us. It was great to chat with so many visitors and show off some projects in Fitzgerald Park.

It's all go here in Fitzgerald's Park in #Cork for the #CorkCarnivalOfScience Blustery but that's not stopping folks dropping into our tent on Discovery Drive #hackerspace #hackerspaceOnTheRoad

We’re heading to Cork this weekend. Tog Hackerspace will be at Cork Carnival of Science in Fitzgerald Park on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June, 11am to 5pm each day. Find us on Discovery Drive with hands-on projects, games, blinking lights and maker fun. www.tog.ie/2026/06/tog-...

Get reading 📚 This month’s Tog Science Fiction Book Club book is Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera. Come along for sci-fi, discussion, and good company. New people are always welcome, whether you’ve finished the book or not. www.meetup.com/tog-dublin-h... #ScienceFiction #BookClub

Huge congratulations to our member, @slipwolff.net EI2KSB, on getting their own amateur radio callsign. 🎉📻 Here they are calling into the @irts.bsky.social News from the club station. A great milestone and a lovely moment to capture. Looking forward to hearing EI2KSB on the air! #AmateurRadio

We had great fun at BSides Dublin on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who stopped by the table for a chat, a look at our projects, or a go at the lockpicking challenge. Always lovely to meet people & talk making, hacking, security, radio, repair, and community. www.tog.ie/2026/05/tog-... #BSidesDublin

That was an action packed weekend promoting the ham radio hobby! North Dublin radio club setup a demo station at Ardgillan castle and South Dublin radio club hosted a fox hunt exercise 📡 #hamradio #amateurradio

We’re heading to Belfast on May 30th for the next part of our All Island Maker Mobility project with Farset Labs. A tour of the space, dinner together, a Clay Printing Workshop, and helping out at the Pop Up Repair Cafe for Reuse & Repair Week. www.tog.ie/2026/05/head... #SharedIsland

We’re teaming up with South Dublin Radio Club for Amateur Radio & Connected Tech: Making the Invisible Visible as part of #DublinTechWeek2026. Join us at Ballyroan Library on Saturday, 23rd May. Free drop-in event with radio demos. www.tog.ie/2026/05/amat... #AmateurRadio @irts.bsky.social

Thanks to everyone who came along to our first Repair Club: Lamps Edition at TOG this week It was part class, part discussion, part skill-sharing, and part standing around a lamp, figuring out what had gone wrong. We covered common lamp faults, rewiring, testing, plugs, switches, holders #Repair

IRTS president Jeffrey visited the Chemnitz-Süd ham radio club yesterday, big thanks to Jens DB5JH, Mario DM5AHA, Carsten DG0JCG, Jürgen DL4JWU, Wolfgang DL5WSC, and Veiko DM9TT for their warm welcome and hospitality! #hamradio #amateurradio @togdublin.bsky.social

One of our TOG members, now living in Vermont, has started a YouTube channel all about growing food, garden beds and practical projects. Very much in the maker spirit 🌱🔧 Check out Part Fusion Life: www.youtube.com/@PartFusionL... @[email protected]

IRTS president Jeffrey EI7IRB just visited the ham radio club DL0DM at the Deutsches Museum in Munich! Had a brilliant time meeting everyone, massive thanks to Luise DL4LA, Severin DL9SW, Martin DL5MAC for the warm welcome and hospitality! #hamradio #amateurradio @togdublin.bsky.social

A green glow from the Eastern Bloc 💚 Eduard brought a Mera CM 7209 retro CRT terminal into Tog, and with help from Ambrose, Garry and Roman, the screen came back to life. Bonus: some chips inside were marked “Made in Ireland”. www.tog.ie/2026/04/a-gr... #RetroComputing #Repair #Hackerspace

A small repair, but a satisfying one. We cracked open an electric shaver at TOG, swapped out the tired batteries, and got it back up and running. www.tog.ie/2026/04/fixi... #TOG #Hackerspace #Repair #Electronics #RightToRepair #Dublin

A cracked Flymo, a plastic welder, and a Tuesday night at TOG. Our member Ambrose repaired this mower casing from the inside using embedded metal staples, giving it the strength it needed without spoiling the outside finish. www.tog.ie/2026/04/brin... #Repair #CircularEconomy

Thanks to the Limerick and Clare Amateur Radio Club for a brilliant weekend in Shannon for the @irts.bsky.social 93rd AGM weekend. We had a great time meeting people, chatting radio, showing off some of what we get up to in TOG. www.tog.ie/gallery/ngga... #AmateurRadio

We mixed cycling, puzzles & making 👀 🚴🧩 Bike Treasure Hunt 📅 Fri 15 May, 19:00 📍 5km loop, 4 checkpoints 🎟️ Free tickets Part of Bike Week with Dublin City Council 👉 www.tog.ie/2026/04/%f0%...

That’s a wrap for the 2026 IRTS AGM, congratulations to Jeffrey our newly elected society president! 🍾🎉 #hamradio #amateurradio

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our April Repair Café We had 68 items in for repair across the day, and it was lovely to have the group from Farset Labs visiting from Belfast with us as part of our #SharedIsland project. www.tog.ie/gallery/ngga... Our next TOG Café will be on 20 Jun, 2-6pm

Today we activated POTA site IE-0228 from the National Botanic Gardens. A lovely Sunday outing with Daniel EI8ICB and Jeffrey EI7IRB, and what we believe was the first POTA activation from the site. Thanks to South Dublin Radio Club for their net. #POTA #HamRadio #TOGHackerspace @irts.bsky.social

We’re looking forward to welcoming Farset Labs to Tog tomorrow for the first event in our All Island Maker Mobility project. They’ll be joining us for our Repair Café and Open Social Night as we kick off this new cross-border partnership between Dublin and Belfast. www.tog.ie/2026/03/all-...

We are heading to Shannon on 18 & 19 April for the IRTS AGM Weekend. We’ll have a table at the Sunday rally showing off some projects from the hackerspace, and a few of us are hoping to try our first Bunkers on the Air activation on Fri evening at B/EI-0151 and B/EI-0152. www.tog.ie/2026/04/tog-...

Dublin Maker would be nothing without our fantastic makers - some of whom come to the festival year after year, and some of whom have just joined us.

TOG Hackerspace has a new 3D printer, and it would have been rude not to print a duck first. Our new Prusa Core One L was kindly donated by anonymous supporters, and we’re delighted to have it up and running. Want to try it? Join us at Maker Night every second Monday at 7. www.tog.ie/2026/04/weve...

Our next Repair Café is on this Saturday at TOG Hackerspace, 12–4pm. Got a broken toy, kettle, lamp, bit of jewellery, or some other household item needing a second look? Bring it along and we’ll see what can be done. Free tickets: www.tog.ie/2026/04/apri... #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #DublinMaker

Join us this Saturday at Tog Hackerspace for our next Repair Café. Bring along your broken bits and bobs and learn how to fix them with our brilliant volunteer makers. A lovely way to save money, cut waste, and meet the community. 🛠️ Free tickets: www.eventbrite.ie/e/repair-caf...

Get reading — this month’s Tog Science Fiction Book Club choice is Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch. Join us in person on Tue 28 April at 7:30pm at Tog Hackerspace. Details here: www.meetup.com/tog-dublin-h... #SciFi #BookClub #TogHackerspace

Today I did a POTA activation with @togdublin.bsky.social on the 40m and 20m bands in Ticknock Forest. Jeffrey (EI7IRB) led the activation using the club callsign EI0TOG. We have also taken part in the IRTS 70cm and 2m County Contests. #POTA #HamRadio @irts.bsky.social

Yesterday we were out in Ticknock Forest, IE-0116 for our Easter Monday POTA activation. Great to get EI0TOG on the air, make plenty of contacts, and enjoy a good day out in the Mountains. Thanks to Declan EI9HQ, Paraic EI2LH, Tomasz EI3106 & Jeffrey EI7IRB for taking part. #POTA @irts.bsky.social

Our next Repair Café is on Saturday 11 April, 12 noon to 4pm at TOG Hackerspace. Use the bank holiday weekend to find everything broken in the house, then book your ticket and bring it along. Free tickets: www.tog.ie/2026/04/apri... #RepairCafe #RightToRepair #DublinMaker

TOG Hackerspace is heading to Ticknock Forest for a POTA activation on Easter Monday, 6 April. We’ll be on air as EI0TOG, with EI7IRB leading the activation. Come along in person or listen out for us on the bands. More info: www.tog.ie/2026/04/pota... #POTA #HamRadio @irts.bsky.social

A lovely bit of radio experimenting in the space last night. Daniel EI8ICB was testing a home-made 4m antenna and managed a QSO with EI3IXB, David Gardiner from South Dublin Radio Club. Hard to beat seeing homebrew gear working on air. 📡 @irts.bsky.social

Delighted to share that we have received Shared Island Civic Society Fund support for All Island Maker Mobility – Connecting Communities Through Making with FarsetLabs . Site visits, residencies, STEM outreach, and showcases at conferences. www.tog.ie/2026/03/all-... #SharedIsland

We are proud to be at ZeroDays CTF today as a community supporter. Conor and Isabelle are on the TOG stand teaching lockpicking and hosting two CTF challenges throughout the day. It is great to bring a bit of hands on making and problem solving into the event. #ZeroDaysCTF

Hair-straighteners, headphones, food dicers, kettles, steamers, lamps, jewellery and a toy train - amazing fixing by @togdublin.bsky.social for the last 2 hours in Unit18. Many happy customers, what a great way to finish #GreenWeek in @tcddublin.bsky.social

Our favourite time of year has arrived - the Dublin Maker Open Call is officially open! Bring a project, a process, or a way of making and be part of this year’s festival at Leopardstown Racecourse on the 22nd and 23rd of August. More info: www.dublinmaker.ie/open-call #DublinMaker2026

📚 Join us this month by reading Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan 🤖 An alt-history 1980s story about one of the first humanoid robots — and the messy human questions that come with it. 📅 Tue 31 Mar • 7:30pm 📍 TOG Hackerspace, Dublin 12 🔗 www.meetup.com/tog-dublin-h... All welcome — finished or not ☕📖

TOG Hackerspace is at Dublin Comic Con this weekend. Come say hello at our stand and check out some of the projects, retro gear, and maker fun we’ve brought along. #TOG #DublinComicCon #Makers #Dublin