CCC Camp Live Streaming

CCC Camp Live Streaming
Dear fellow sympathizers of CCC & the hacker ethics, if you haven’t made it to the CCC Camp 2011 in Finowfurt near Berlin (Germany), you have the possibility to come to our beloved syn2cat Hackerspace in Strassen (Luxembourg) and watch with us some live stream lectures or just discuss about technology and the world or ...

Communication Security

Communication Security
Dear syn2cat & non-yet-syn2cat folks! Communication Security is a term that can be defined by a few point of views, so trollchen & prometheus from C3L, but also in syn2cat decided to give it their own definition for this Saturday evening talk and though to illustrate it with their own views, opinions and ideas, but ...

Lët’z Hack! 47 – Arrrduino Pirates and NOT the Carribeans

Lët'z Hack! 47 - Arrrduino Pirates and NOT the Carribeans
Dear Lët’z Hack! listeners, Arduino hackers and folks out there! The 6th of August this year, syn2ship will put out to sea to conquer all new terrains and master new challenges. Since 2005 the Arduino [0] has become a powerful and strong friend of fellow hackers out there and has set course now for the ...

Ubuntu Release Party 11.10: Oneiric Ocelot 1

Ubuntu Release Party 11.10: Oneiric Ocelot
It hasn’t been that long ago that our last Ubuntu Release Party took place. It was the first one with some talks and presentations. Hopefully in the future there will even attend more folks and may be even do their own hacks on the party. Until the next one it still is a while, but ...

PS3 Move Hack on HackADay

PS3 Move Hack on HackADay
We’re proud to announce that one of our Members Project has been featured on Hackaday: Kenn’s PS3 Move Hack is featured on the famous blog where he gives explanations to his hack and Project. If you want to read Kenn’s diary about the project so you may visit the project page on www.eissq.com/ps3_move/

Hacking the PS3 Move 1

Hacking the PS3 Move
I can’t believe it. It’s 4AM, and I’m just now leaving the hackerspace, after having made the final push to get the Hacking the Playstation 3 Move page out the door. Thanks to all at the syn2cat who made this possible.

After the Black Adder, the half-adder

After the Black Adder, the half-adder
Jhemp built this across the space of a week. It’s quite impressive, indeed! This is the basic building block of an adder, itself a subcomponent of the full mechanical calculator we hope to build for the 2011 Science Festival.

I spy with my eye something… 3

I spy with my eye something...
…high-energy particle physics. These particular chalkboard musings were the leftovers from a one-man jam session, when Bartek was plowing his way through some journal papers as preparation for his new research job. Apparently, all constants on the board are infinity, but they’re nice infinities– they learned how to play with other– so you can solve ...

Pardon me, would you have any Grey Sugru?

Pardon me, would you have any Grey Sugru?
“apparently princess alexandra of luxemburg has just bought a pack of sugru! even princesses are repairing these days ;-)”, from Sugru’s twitter feed. Later corrected by “@projectsugru @sciencegallery it was Princess Sibilla actually, and yes some sugru will be making its way to Luxembourg”, from Michael John Gorman. It seems that even Luxembourgish royalty appreciates ...

Hackers’ Night Out: Tron Legacy

Hackers' Night Out: Tron Legacy
Friday night, a hacker horde descended upon Cinebelval to watch Tron Legacy in 3D. Disappointingly, but not at all rarely, the opening nights in Luxembourg tend to be weeks, if not months, behind the rest of the world. Having bravely withstood the pressure and not cheated by watching the movie first in a neighboring country, ...