Category: Activities
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A Practical Renewables Course
I have been living off-grid for nearly 20 years and have spent much of that time working hands-on with renewable energy systems, particularly solar and wind power, drawing on my background in instrumentation and controls. When I first began, renewable energy was far from mainstream. There was little commercial interest, fossil fuels dominated the energy…
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A Busy Saturday at the DCS Modelling Group
Members of the Dunoon Community Shed Modelling group meet on a Saturday afternoon. There is a great deal of interesting activity currently going on including the refurbishment of a rmote control scale model of HMS Zenith, building of a Maclaren racing car, a Jeep, Apache attack helicopter, model trees for a model railway layout and…
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Sponsor a Basket 2026
Update: 6/7/26 – As of today, all the baskets have been sponsored and the baskets are up in Argyll Street. The plaques acknowledging the sponsors will be put up in the next couple of days. Thank you to everyone who has helped us beautify our town this year. This year, we are asking local residents…
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Maker Course: Getting Started with Microcontrollers
Dunoon Community Workshop now has a developing electronics workshop. We are trying to interest young people in trying to develop maker, and repair skills that will become increasingly important to life. The Dunoon Community Shed is soon going to start running a course in electronics using microcontrollers. The course will be run by a Shed…
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Are you curious to try 3D printing?
Are you curious to try 3D printing? But thinking it would be difficult and expensive? The reality in 2025, especially at the Dunoon Community Shed, is that it’s cheap and surprisingly easy. The Shed now has an Elegoo Neptune 4 Plus 3D printer which members can use, so that takes out the major cost of entry.…
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Digital Making at the Shed
When we were consulting members and the community about facilities that they would like to see available at the shed, one of the things that came up was 3D Printing and similar technologies. When building out the factory that we bought in October 2023, we included two small rooms that could be used for such…
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New Model Railway Layout Progress
Progress on the MRG new layout continues. We now have both loops running and track work is being finished off on the upper level. Scenery construction has started with a base layer on the 4 track section and is ready for scenic materials to be applied to bring that area to life.
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Update on New Model Railway Layout at the Shed
A brief update on the Model Railway Group: We’ve got the framework fitted and plywood laid for the main lines. This comprises two large dumbell tail chasers plus a parallel pair of lines initally set up as an end to end operation. We are now laying foam track bed and track and have had a…
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Plenty of Dwarves and a Heist at the Shed
4th May 2025 All Stations Go! This Weekend, the Forces of the most brilliant and innocent Abyssal Dwarves faced off against their occasional allies, the Twilight Kin. Duels were had across the Multiverse’s of two different warping realities, Magic the Gathering and Lorcana. The finally, a bunch of Cowboys in space with various messed up…
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Music Studio Opens at the Shed
We have been talking about the plans for the music space at the Dunoon Community Shed for a long time and it has been part of the major construction work since we bought the building in October 2023 and started to renovate it and build new facilities. The Music Studio is now open and has…