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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 ...

syn2cat at hack.lu

Oct

28

2013

Last week we had our booth at the annual hack.lu conference. We showed the ultimaker printing various items. Also shapeoko and some quadrocopters completed the setup. The fog screen was rebuild and displayed the current time in mid air while distributing moisture throughout the big room. A fridge full of Club Mate waited for the ...

Game evening 1

Feb

9

2013

So hackers are computer nerds? Think again. We like to socialize, do creative things and build stuff. So what about games? Computer games do not always give that social aspect as with the classic board and card games. So some fellow syn2catters met last Thursday for a game night. The chosen game was Munchkin. An ...