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Mechanical binary adder by syn2cat hackerspace 1

Oct

22

2011

Several months of bending and soldering copper wires are gradually bearing their fruits. To be publicly unveiled at MNHN’s Science-Festival from November 10th through 13th, syn2cat’s 4-bit adder built entirely from copper wire, copper tubing, lead solder and marbles is nearing completion. Catch a first glimpse of this ball-machine con calculator in the following youtube ...

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 The last two weeks leading up to the event saw hackers buzzing through the hackerspace, looking for gimmicks they could transform into bristling and beautiful artefacts ...

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 ...