Events – Page 4

What’s been going on: Light sabre tune-ups!

Written on August 27, 2018.

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been performing surgery on the light sabres people made in our class several months ago. All our light sabres can do single or multiple colours. Those multiple colours are way more impressive than the picture shows. Our light sabres were designed by ylab member Richard. We have a custom circuit...

Radio Open House: New Faces, New Ideas

Written on June 27, 2018.

Great to see many new faces at our amateur radio open house on Monday, June 25. In addition to the presentation and discussion around the various aspects of amateur radio, we had a great group of people from Toronto Mesh. Directional antenna for mesh networks. They are active in several areas of distributed mesh networks, and are putting...

Open Houses Back! Radio Technology Night Mon June 25!

Written on June 25, 2018.

On Wed June 20, we had our first maker space open house since the re-opening – and this week we’re doing it again with an amateur radio technology night. It was great to see some new faces last week with interest in satellite communications, traditional printing, robotics and other tech. Much to our surprise,...

DDO Re-Opening Wrap Up

Written on June 12, 2018.

No posts for a while because we were busier than expected with the planning for the Town of Richmond Hill’s David Dunlap Observatory re-opening on Saturday June 9. It was a mad scramble after the two-week closure of the DDO facility for a movie/series shoot. Ylab members and volunteers were there with an info booth outside and...

DDO Official Re-Opening Sat. June 9. Register for tours!

Written on June 1, 2018.

The DDO’s official re-opening has been announced for Saturday June 9 from 1 PM to 4 PM – but you need to register here if you want to tour the facilities and ylab’s space. Space is going fast! We are expecting a lot of people, and fire/safety code limits the number of people going into the building and the telescope dome. Parking...

More progress settling in at the DDO

Written on April 24, 2018.

We’re settling in and things and getting back to as normal as normal gets for ylab. The laser cutter is back in operation and better than ever. We spent a lot of time calibrating, and the precision is better than it was when new. We are having to re-set some of the cutting settings for less power or time. It’s a maker space. What else...

DDO Workshop: Respecting the heritage

Written on April 16, 2018.

Operating a maker space in the basement of the David Dunlap Observatory means taking special care to respect the heritage and history of the facilities. We posted earlier about the incredible old workbench we cleaned out in the workshop. The new workbench overlay. Nothing short of a nuclear event can harm that vise. Without putting in...

Laser cutter returns to the DDO

Written on April 13, 2018.

IT’S BACK! Our laser cutter. Back in its home sweet dome. On Wednesday night, the weather gods shone down on us and stopped the downpour just in time to get the our laser cutter loaded up at from the undisclosed location (a.k.a Richard’s garage). After we got it loaded. Because you really, really don’t want to see inside Richard’s...

Radio non-silence. Background non-noise.

Written on April 9, 2018.

Ylab has run some amateur radio events and classes with our friends from the York Region Amateur Radio Club (YRARC). We like radio stuff because there’s a history of it at the DDO, and there’s some fascinating new activity and technology that’s clearly not your grandfather’s old ham rig. Some ylab members are also Scout leaders, and we’ve been helping...

Much improvement and excitement at ylab and the DDO

Written on April 5, 2018.

It’s ylab’s first week back with the DDO now being run by the Town of Richmond Hill, and there are lots of improvements to our space and the entire facility. While progress appears slow, in the background, the Town’s staff are accomplishing great things. We mentioned a lot of clean-up in earlier posts. Invisible, but most apparent:...

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