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Due to work in preparation for the new Stockyards GO station, the 512 St. Clair Streetcar will not be running past Lansdowne until at least mid-October. If you rely on the TTC to get to the lab, there are a few viable alternatives.

• A shuttle bus, 512B, will be running from Lansdowne Station. You can catch the bus at Lansdowne Station if you are coming from Line 2 or from Lansdowne and St. Clair if you are coming westbound on the 512.
• If you are able to walk for about 10-15 minutes, you…

Sometimes it’s nice to take a break. That’s why every hackerspace needs a tree house!

On top of our new electronics workbench (to be featured at a later date), sits a loft adorned with artificial turf. We can now touch grass without going outside into the noxious mid-summer air! The loft features a plush couch, a CRT television for all your retro gaming needs and a bookshelf housing fiction and non-fiction alike.

Matt Machado, who is also our newly appointed president, directed the…

We have so many fun events coming up this summer that bridge the worlds of art and technology! Come out to one or all of them and experience the Hacklab spirit!

June 6th – Art Jam (With Iron Raptor)

Come chill and jam with Iron Raptor, Meet other artists and enjoy snacks!

June 13th – Draw Furries IRL! (With Zee The Raccoon)

Costumed Life Drawing hosted by Zee the Raccoon
-SOLD OUT-

June 18th – Nerd Show and Tell (Hosted by Vincent and Paul) June 20th – Fusion…

When: Sunday, 19 April 2026, 1 pm to 5 pm

E-waste does not belong in the landfill. Help Hacklab in its mission to make you independent from your junk and pick up a few new gadgets, gizmos and obsessions along the way!

Junk Independence Day is an event where people come together to swap and recycle old electronics including:

• Computers, laptops and parts
• Printers
• Stereo amps, speakers
• Streetlights
• Tablets
• Calculators
• Hobby electronics supplies

House Rules:

Al…

A-Train sorts through boxes of circuit boards and presents one to the camera. (Luciano Cesta)

Every few months, the lab welcomes people from across the city and beyond to drop off their old electronics and snap up other items people brought. After, we take the remainder of the inevitable pile of old electronics to be recycled or otherwise disposed of safely.

On this JID, the entire surface of the 20’x5’ table in the middle of the lab was covered many times over with circuit boards,…

• Sunday October 26
• 12 Noon – 6PM

Got some old electronics hiding away at home? Looking for a source of spare parts for a project? Junk Independence Day is where people bring in and swap old electronics and e-waste.

Typical / past items included:

• iPods / Mp3 Players / camcorders
• Computers, laptops and parts
• Printers / Scanners
• Stereo amps, speakers
• Traffic walk/don’t walk streetlights!
• Hobby Electronics parts + kits

Not to be forgotten, there are always lots…

Come to Hacklab this Sunday, August 31 to learn about cyanotyping, a 100-year-old method of photographic reproduction! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cyanotype-blueprinting-in-the-present-day-registration-1595749181759

Spot welding is very useful in makerspaces. Whether you want to join pieces of sheet metal together to make a project box or make battery packs from existing cells, a spot welder is an awesome piece of equipment. Anton and Joshua, both recently inaugurated members, thought they would try making one themselves.

Spot welders work by using heat generated by a material’s resistance to melt metal pressed between its two electrodes. Unlike other forms of welding, no material is added to join…