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See how our Blinkentrees are made – Part 1

Oct

14

2011

Material for our Blinkentrees has been ordered and arrived. Blinkentrees are electronic Christmas trees which are sold on the X-Mas market in Strassen in December. Because a whole bunch of such trees are to be built, a strict plan is required to get them finished in time. Thus we will start the Blinkentree 2011 Project ...

Tweetup nächsten Donneschten am @syn2cat

Sep

30

2011

Short notice: den nächsten Donneschden ass am @syn2cat zu Stroossen (Hei mei infos zur Location) ass en Tweetup (Twitter Meetup). Du kanns dech op der Event Sait aschreiwen mat dengem Twitter username. (http://wiki.hackerspace.lu/wiki/Tweetup) Bis nächsten Donneschten am @syn2cat!

Hacking haunting hardware

Sep

19

2011

Early this month, more exactly on the 2nd of September from 7pm till around midnight, Strassen’s city council and their city youth committee organised the second iteration of their nighttime rallye through the nearby woods. Syn2cat was asked to support this event with some fancy decoration and did of course gladly accept the challenge. The ...

Syn2cat meets Shack 1

Aug

31

2011

On last Friday two hackers from Syn2cat hit the road to the Large Hacker Convention taking place in the Shackspace (the Stuttgart hackerspace) which didn’t just promise a lot but exceeded by far all expectations with a whole bunch of hacking activities in hard- and software (see pictures here). BUT hacking doesn’t necessarily mean that ...

syn2roadtrip to CCC 1

Aug

31

2011

A few hackers made a roadtrip to the Chaos Communication Camp in Finowurth, near Berlin. Along the road were a few visits to some hackerspaces and attractions including C4 in Cologne or Miniaturwunderwelt in Hamburg. You can see some snapshots in our little video feature. Enjoy

LHC2 – be part of it

Aug

24

2011

Dear fellow hackers, Syn2cat invites you to join us visiting the Shackspace in Stuttgart from August 26th to 28th when the Large Hacker Convention 2 takes place. What’s the Large Hacker Convention? The Large Hackerspace Convention Episode II should be exactly that. Hackerspaces and hackerspace-folks from all over Germany, Europe, the world, our galaxy, and ...

Coding Contest in its first edition

Aug

12

2011

Dear syn2cat reader, hackers & coders out there! This Saturday – tomorrow – will be the first edition of the official syn2cat Coding Contest, realized by destructive. Scraaatch! What is this about? Well you probably all know what a contest is and if not look it up on Wikipedia. Well coding is a synonym for ...

CCC Camp Live Streaming

Aug

12

2011

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

Aug

5

2011

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

Jul

26

2011

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 ...