questions about TOG

c0rn3y

Hi all,

I was looking over @ tog.ie and see that you guys/girls are doing some really cool stuff.

I was wondering about the "Electronics and Micro Controller Night" and "Computing/Programming/Networking Night". Is there room left over to drop by on those nights? Whats the average age of the people there?

It's always fun to meet up and talk to like minded people.

Have loads of ideas that I would like to make "real" and this looks like a cool place to do just that.

Take care all

zg3409

c0rn3y wrote: »

Hi all,

I was looking over @ tog.ie and see that you guys/girls are doing some really cool stuff.

I was wondering about the "Electronics and Micro Controller Night" and "Computing/Programming/Networking Night". Is there room left over to drop by on those nights? Whats the average age of the people there?

It's always fun to meet up and talk to like minded people.

Have loads of ideas that I would like to make "real" and this looks like a cool place to do just that.

Take care all

Yes there is room. The nights are generally informal, the space is normally open before 7pm and you can just drop down. The average age is probably 30s with people 20/30/40 attending. We do have younger/older people for some events. The Wednesday night computing/programming is quite quiet. It's best to join the public mailing list, explain your interests and what night you will be down, then others with like minded interests will turn up also.

What are your main interests and what projects would you like to work on?

Dan

c0rn3y

Hi zg3409 and thanks for you reply.

Hehe "my interests" are all over the place I guess.

But I guess would could say that they are, electronics, CNC, web development, sim racing.

I am in the planing phase of a new racing sim rig and will be building most of the parts my self.

Will be building:

• Pedal assembly (Hydraulic brake and clutch) with FFB to simulate locking up brakes
• Vertical hydraulic handbrake
• Button box for quick settings with LCD display for telemetry based on a arduino board
• H gated shifter (not sure yet how to make this but have some ideas)
• Sequential shifter (many different ideas for this one)
• Tactile feedback connected to rig (bass shaker)

So from that list you can see I need to figure out a lot of stuff and its always fun to do that around like minded people

Now please don't think I am contacting and wanting to join in on TOG because of tools and space to build, I have good access at home to that

Below is one of my design ideas for the rig so you get an idea of what I mean.

zg3409

Yes we have a small CNC machine and a 3D printer. We also have a few mame boxes in real arcade machines. We don't have any arcade racing machines but we do have contacts with an arcade so we could enquire for an old chassis. We have experience of wiring controls to standard PCs