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Food hacking event with foodhacking base

Jan

20

2014

Frantisek Apfelbeck and Eunha Jun from foodhackingbase had a trip through european hackerspaces and on short notice we managed to gather people for a 2 day hacking event around kefir making and korean cooking. The first day (friday 17 january) was focussed around how to create your own kefir culture. The second, and most interisting, ...

Successful 30th Chaos Communication Congress video streaming

Jan

12

2014

The traditional live transmission of the biggest hacker congress in Europe has been successfully run during the 4 days of the conference. The 30th anniversary of the congress had for one no motto as was explained in the opening keynote. The hacker world is speechless after all the revelations by E. Snowden. Many talks also ...

Christmas Market 2013

Dec

26

2013

It has already become a tradition that syn2cat is present at the annual Strassen Christmas Market. This year it was on 13th and 14th december. Trying to be innovative and present every year something new, we had the ultimaker at our booth. After the last year’s success, there were also glowpins on sale, which gained ...

Science Festival 2013

Nov

21

2013

Science Festival 2013’s main theme was water, so syn2cat researched how we could hack something as common as H2O. We found that non-newtonian fluids were a great subject, especially corn starch mixed with water (called oobleck). The planning consisted of preparing several essential experiments and some accompanying optional bonus items. We would like to thank the ...

makerbot thingomatic build-up

Oct

31

2013

At hack.lu we got a great present from kd85: a brand new Thing-o-matic Makerbot, complete with heated, automated build platform. As soon as the conference was over, we rushed to our beloved space to start putting it all together. Here are some pictures taken during the construction. Most of them from unpacking, after that, hands ...