Tog

Tog or TOG may refer to:

TOG (hackerspace)

TOG is a hackerspace in Dublin, Ireland.tóg is a word in the Irish language; one of its meanings is 'to build or construct'.

History

It was started in January 2009. The space opened in May 2009. In June 2010, TOG moved to a new, larger building on Chancery Lane. In January 2015 it was confirmed that the lease on this building would not be extended beyond April 2015, and TOG announced its intention to move to a new premises in Dublin city centre. In the event the lease was extended through October and TOG moved to its new premises, the ground floor of 22 Blackpitts, in mid-October 2015.

Structure

TOG is a community-operated physical space based run by its members to provide a shared space. The members have a place to be creative and work on their projects in an environment that is both inspiring and supportive of both new and old technologies. The space is funded for by its members and allows members 24-hour access to a place equipped with shared equipment supplied or donated by members or friends of TOG.

Tog (unit)

The tog is a measure of thermal resistance of a unit area, also known as thermal insulance. It is commonly used in the textile industry and often seen quoted on, for example, duvets and carpet underlay.

The Shirley Institute in Manchester, England developed the tog as an easy-to-follow alternative to the SI unit of m²K/W. The name comes from the informal word "togs" for clothing which itself was probably derived from the word toga, a Roman garment.

The basic unit of insulation coefficient is the R_SI, (1 m²K/W). 1 tog = 0.1 R_SI. There is also a clo clothing unit equivalent to 0.155 R_SI or 1.55 tog.

A tog is 0.1 m²K/W. In other words, the thermal resistance in togs is equal to ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material, when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre.

British duvets are sold in steps of 1.5 tog from 4.5 tog (summer) to 16.5 tog (extra-warm). The stated values are minimal, actual values may be up to 3 tog higher.

Tog'l

Tog'l was a construction set produced by Mattel from 1968 through 1970, similar in concept to Lego.

Composition

At its core was a cube-shaped building block called a "Tog'l Block". Each side of the block had a hole or a pin that could be used to connect to the corresponding element (pins snapped into holes) on the side of another block. A chief advantage of Tog'l blocks over Lego (and similar) bricks is that a Lego brick can only attach to other bricks on two of its faces (top or bottom), while Tog'l blocks could attach to others on all six of its faces (each of its six faces could attach to another block).

Another feature that gave the product its name was that one side had a hinge that allowed models built with Tog'l blocks to flex and move. Other building elements included wheels, axles, pinion gears, tubes, girders, air bellows, windows, doors, blue pins, green "hemisphere" pins, red double pins, clown heads, pig heads, hands, feet, and many other variations with generic uses or specific purposes.