syn2cat

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 ...

Lët’z Hack! – The hacker programme with syn2cat

Oct

3

2010

Join the members of the Luxembourgish hackerspace, syn2cat, on a journey through the exciting world of technology. Accentuated by progressive electronic music we present new developments in electronics and computer science and report on congruent news from the art and music scenes. Together with interesting guests we aim to discuss the problems raised by intellectual ...

Rest in Pixels, Oneup; creator of stuff, inspiration to people

Dec

18

2009

Florian Hufsky, aged 23, fellow hacker, designer, programmer, metalab member, pirate, and above all inspiration to many people, died on the 16th December 2009. Though none of the syn2cat people had the chance to know him personally, many have expressed how they were emotionally touchedby this tragic event.

syn2cat in the news!

Nov

5

2009

We’re in the news! The Voix, a French-language Luxembourgish newspaper followed up on our latest press release, came by the space, and published a whole page on us. I must admit that it feels really good when your public relations work finally pays off. One of our goals, de-securitising ‘hackers’ seems to be well underway ...