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Cyberpunk Friday: TRON

Jan

8

2011

On 14th of January we’re going to screen TRON at our hackerspace in Strassen. This will probably be played on a vintage Laserdisc Player, with the video “quality” of those times. So everyone who has never witnessed Laserdisc, this is the opportunity to see it in action. And to see an awesome movie, considering the year it was ...

Review: Foire de l’Etudiant 2010

Jan

3

2011

Our Friends at BEE Secure were so kind to write a review about syn2cat at the national Foire de l’Etudiant 2010 The article is in French, hope you enjoy it. http://www.bee-secure.lu/node/478

2011 is going to become hack-tacular!

Jan

2

2011

In the name of syn2cat’s administrative council, I’d like to wish you all a happy new year 2011! While 2010 has been a great year for syn2cat, 2011 is going to become even more spectacular. And you, as a member and supporter of our hackerspace are a guarantor of just that. While 2010 saw a ...

Fellow hackers, welcome to 2k11

Jan

1

2011

Hello fellow hackers, On behalf of the syn2cat hackerspace, I wish you all a pleasant and happy new year. We survived another decade. Of course we’re looking forward to new events & projects. Our next big meeting will be on 8th of January, it’s a bootstrap meeting. (Starting on 19:00) The next event will be ...

Christmas, Christmas time is here…

Dec

17

2010

This weekend, the efforts of Georges, Romain, and all the others finally paid off when the syn2cat set up shop at the Strassen Christmas market. Open Friday evening and Saturday day, the market wasn’t a grandiose affair, with only around 10 booths. The hackerspace’s booth was pretty much the only one selling anything that wasn’t ...

Blinkentrees weekend 1

Dec

7

2010

This weekend, the hackerspace was a hive of activity. Romain Schmitz and his merry helpers set about to hack up some Christmas cheer, in the way of some blinkentrees, little blinking Christmas trees that use the eminently hackable ATTiny. These trees are certified 100% home-grown in the hackerspace, and guaranteed to last at least till ...

syn2cat@MAKE

Dec

3

2010

MAKE is featuring the OpenDuino on their website. MAKE is featuring hackerspaces.org Open Door hackathon and has chosen our OpenDuino to demonstrate to everyone how a door opener could look. Of course, the pictures no longer do justice, as the OpenDuino has evolved significantly since then, as has the general lock setup at the hackerspace. ...

Chocolate workshop

Dec

1

2010

On Saturday Nov. 28th, Georges Kesseler took it upon himself to hold the hackerspace’s first chocolate workshop. Georges graciously offered to teach us how to make silicone molds and then to use them to make chocolate parts. He uses this process to make the Keybites. The genesis of the workshop was to make more chocolate ...

LiLux meeting in Strassen

Nov

5

2010

On Wednesday the 21st of October, LiLux, the Luxembourgish Linux User Group met in Strassen. Almost ’til midnight, a multi-cultural and multi-generational mix of geeks led discussions in up to four languages in parallel. People talked about difficulties with non-GNU versions of tar, Firefox’s “safebrowsing” capabilities and operation of the Sheevaplug embedded system, amongst other ...

Progressbar hackerspace (Slovakia) at hack.lu

Nov

4

2010

“Luxembourg hackerspace unlike that Bratislava has a huge area (reading room, workshop, separate bar with a fridge full of Club Mate) and also great support from the city itself, thus they can afford to Luxembourg ratios symbolic Member – only € 6 per month. Every day there are 5-10 people present during the presentations and ...