Diyode Guelph

What is Ramp It Up?

Ramp It Up is Diyode’s community-led initiative to improve accessibility for local businesses in Guelph. Many storefronts still face step barriers that make them difficult or impossible to access for people using mobility devices, strollers, or walkers. So, our members have taken to design, build, and finish custom wooden ramps to bridge these gaps, making businesses more welcoming and inclusive.

The ramps are designed using Stop Gap’s system: For every 1 inch in…

This grant was provided by the City of Guelph and reviewed and awarded in collaboration the Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition, whose work focuses on inspiring connection and community across Guelph, within the traditional and ancestral territory of the Mississaugas of…

At our recent Skill Forge Welding Workshop, we took the chance to slow down and appreciate the beauty of welding.

A huge thank you to @modern.jemz, @w.inkley and @evanhardie65 for leading each section of the workshop and sharing their expertise, and enthusiasm. Your leadership lit the way (literally and figuratively). Thank you to @kitchener_cwbassociation for sponsoring our workshops and of course, thank you to everyone who came out to weld, grind, and learn the magic of metal working.

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Another successful night of makers laying their first beads at the Skill Forge Welding Workshop!

Massive thanks to our instructors @modern.jemz, @w.inkley and @evanhardie65 for sharing their knowledge and everyone who participated!

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About a year and a half ago, I came to Diyode for three things. I wanted access to a 3D printer. I wanted a place where I could learn to solder. And because I was new to the country, I wanted friends.

One of those items was solved because my dad got a nice new 3D printer, so I got his old one. The other two were largely solved by Cliff Gates. One day I’ll do a post on my slapdash DIY laptop project, but for now, the important part of that story was that Cliff was the one that hung out with…

For the third year, Diyode has made a contribution to the poppy fund at Guelph’s local Canadian Royal Legion. This year that contribution reached $1250, a modest increase from the previous year’s amount of $1100, but a sizable increase from the first year’s $150. This is thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of makers at Diyode that put in the extra time to make something that supports the community.

You may have come across the wooden poppies created at Diyode at businesses…

For context, when I think of leather, I’m thinking “the heaviest armor you’re allowed to wear as a rogue.” Leather is flexible and in contrast to something like platemail (yes we’re still in DnD land) isn’t something you forge. If it’s not something you forge, it’s more like cloth, so it’s got to be something you sew.

This is the winding train of thoughts which lead me to being so so wrong. Leather is very much not like cloth. Whether or not you got to the same place is probably predicated…

Our second Welding Workshop of Skill Forge Series III! Creativity sparked and skills took shape!

A huge thank you to all the participants who joined us, to @modern.jemz and @w.inkley for leading the session and sharing their knowledge, and to the CWB Kitchener chapter – @kitchener_cwbassociation – for their generous sponsorship.

We’re thrilled to see so many new welders in action!

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Welding Workshop Recap! In our latest Skill Forge session, participants got hands-on with welding and grinding techniques, transforming scrap metal into their very own custom creations! A huge thank you to our amazing instructors, @modern.jemz and @w.inkley for bringing their expertise and creativity to the metalshop table.

Special shout-out to our sponsor, the @kitchener_cwbassociation for making this event possible!

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I have always wanted to live on a spaceship. While science fiction has granted us plenty of excellent star fighter designs like Luke Skywalker’s X-Wing from Star Wars, or Starbuck’s Viper from Battlestar Galactica, the best spaceships are the ones that double as houses. From Star Wars we have the Millennium Falcon, or the Razor Crest, or the Ghost (watch Rebels). Firefly gave us Serenity. You can visit any planet in the solar system in the Rocinante from the Expanse. I have more, but I should…