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Ubuntu Release Party 11.10: Oneiric Ocelot 1

May

21

2011

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

Mar

19

2011

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

Feb

26

2011

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

Feb

14

2011

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

Feb

11

2011

…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?

Feb

9

2011

“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

Jan

26

2011

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, ...

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 ...