Upcoming Event

Finally! An Open House! May 5 2022

Written on April 19, 2022.

YES! OUR FIRST OPEN HOUSE SINCE THE COVID LOCKDOWN! We’ve finally mustered up the courage to let more people in. Our first post-COVID open house is scheduled for Thursday May 5, 2022 in our home at the David Dunlap Observatory. If you’ve been before, you still want to come out. We have lots of new tools, and we’ll...

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...

Sat March 11: Come see us at Richmond Green Library Maker Day

Written on March 3, 2017.

Richmond Hill Public Library’s Richmond Green branch near Leslie and Elgin Mills. is hosting a Maker Event on Saturday, March 11 from noon until 5 PM, and Ylab will be there. It’s a family event – ages 6 and up, according to the RHPL event listing. While you’re in the area, bring out your...

Arduino open house notes + hands-on class info

Written on October 13, 2016.

We had a great group show up for the Wed Oct 12 Arduino: What’s It All About? open house. Big thanks to members Jack, Richard, Pek, Ross and Paul for bringing in and sharing their creations, and as always, to Jay for loaning his light sabres. We’re caving to popular demand and finally scheduling an Arduino hands-on class....

New schedule! New seminars! New Open House format!

Written on September 9, 2016.

We’re changing things up for the fall! OPEN HOUSE NIGHTS: LESS IS MORE! We’ve halted our regular open house Wednesdays to make them even better. Starting October 12, we’ll have them bi-weekly, on every second Wednesday, and feature a free one-hour seminar/demo session at each one. To kick it off, we’ve scheduled a free What’s...

March 29: Qualcomm Hosting Next Ylab/North of 41 Event

Written on March 10, 2016.

Our last corporate event at Lenovo was such a success that we’re doing it again – and this time, Qualcomm Canada is hosting us. Breakfast with the CEOs: Innovation and Technology in the Cloud Come out and hear how three York Region companies have innovated to use cloud computing to create new lines of business. These...

Robotycs back with a vengeance on Wed. Jan 27

Written on January 21, 2016.

BATTLEBOTS! Ylab’s monthly Robotycs evening is back with a vengeance on Wednesday January 27. This month’s Robot Talk features battlebot veteran Ramy Gattas. Ramy hosted our first Robotycs events at Logics Academy last year. It’s a privilege to have join us at the DDO for the evening. Ramy will be sharing his adventures...

October Wrap-Up: Python! Robots! Nerds! Makers! Haunted House! TAVES!

Written on November 3, 2015.

October YLab Meeting Group Shot. October was a crazy month. YLab is all about tech community, so it’s more than just the events we put on. YLab regulars, volunteers and friends have been all over the place, including: YLab’s Python Constricted class, hosted by the Markham Public Library, where a dozen people were introducted to...

Securing Your Home Router Recap and Upcoming Events

Written on September 18, 2015.

Filling the boardroom with makers and networking equipment. It was an amazing turnout at our September 16th event centred around securing your home router. After going through some background information on routers and how their firmware is developed, YLab makers eagerly started reflashing their router’s with open source...

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