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By TeK, May 2, 2011 09:11

lonex-berlin.de/junex

Comments Off on MirrorBot Video – Moving Projections Controller Interface

By TeK, January 5, 2011 17:58

Part #02 of the MirrorBot Demo Video

** Video Installation Audio Visual Special Event n8 @Tacheles 17.12.2010

• Music by Nil Wu Ming — ThanX!!   www.nilwuming.org

• Headsquatter.org Live Visuals       www.headsquatter.org

** Details of the Controller device:

• Programs and Live Mode LCD screen interface

Part #01 of the Video, Installation in MIKZ, Berlin 03.2010: /2011/01/03/mirrorbot-video-moving-projections-in-action

Technical details: lab.synoptx.net/mirrorbot

Comments Off on Chaos Computer Congress Mirror – Videos of CCC Talks

By TeK, January 5, 2011 08:07

There was some disc space free on a server and so we collected CCC Congress videos of the last years:

• http://ccc.synoptx.net

You can watch the talks directly in the brower

or start a player-program like vlc or mplayer with the http:// url

or download the file with “save as..”

Comments Off on 27C3 – Chaos Communication Congress PeaceMissions: Livestreaming at Vetomat & Samacafe

By TeK, December 26, 2010 23:22

It’s time for the CCC congress!!

Tickets are sold out, as usual, so Berlin-Fhain nerds prepared worm-hole access to the congress:

• All day livestreaming of lectures

• VPN access to the congress network

FHain  Peace Missions:

• nerdcafe@vetomat   14:00 – >= 0:00

• hackerslounge@samacafe   17:00 – 21:00

Comments Off on Arduino Workshop “Hardware 2 Software Interaction” Level #01

By TeK, October 5, 2010 19:21

15.11.2010 @ nerdcafe FHain LUG    nerdcafe.vetomat.net

Workshop Info

Hardware Hacking -DiY — Introduction to Hardware <-> Software Interaction

This introduction is intended for anyone interested in (easy) electronics hardware and (mostly easy) software coding. Artists / *Designers & Hackers of all kinds are invited to join the FREE sessions in Berlin Friedrichshain.

TKilla will introduce the Arduino micro-controller platform and show some practical examples. Basics of electronics and some interesting components will be explained shortly, but there are no tricky mechanical works and no soldering involved.

We will focus on software programming inside the Arduino editor to show how to read analog values from various interesting sensors and output to LEDs and maybe servo motors.

To get some interesting visual results, we will use Processing to display incoming values from sensors in graphical ways.

After the lesson, you should have an idea how to design & build your own simple robots (servo motors…) or sensory controllers (MIDI / OSC faderboxes,..).

If there is time, everyone can install the software and try with a board and sensors. We can focus on special topics and the workshop part (maybe MIDI Controllers) in a follow-up evening.

Synoptx Crew organizes all material, tools and a nice location.

Max. 5 Arduino boards will be available, so bring your own, if you have one or contact us by mail or comment..

BYO laptop!

and interesting electronics (sensors) to recycle! (old joysticks, buttons, potis, faders, sensors,…)

Comments Off on git – Version Control System – Workshop @Nerdcafe

By TeK, September 25, 2010 18:35

git-workshop

27.09. – 19:00

nerdcafe.10247.net

This lecture is an introduction to git, mainly from client-site,
but some tricks for servers to control access are also introduced (gitosis).
Furthermore, with git-svn you are able to reach a svn-repo via a git repo.

Comments Off on Software Freedom Day 18.09.2010 E-Lok Berlin

By TeK, September 17, 2010 02:17

Flyer Software Freedom Day 2010 Berlin

LinuxWorks!

ist Gastgeber zum diesjährigen

Software Freedom Day

Der “Software Freedom Day” ist eine jährliche, weltweite Veranstaltung um Freie Software zu präsentieren und den Dialog zwischen deren Nutzern und Entwicklern zu fördern.

In Berlin wird dazu dieses Jahr ein Vielzahl von Ausstellern zusammen kommen. Neben Vorträgen und Infoständen wird somit ein Fest organisiert, das den Teinehmenden bis spät in die Nacht Gelegenheit zum gemeinsamen Austausch und zum Kennenlernen bietet.

Die Organisation erfolgt offen im Wiki:

linuxwiki.de/SFD2010

Comments Off on Headsquatter Live Visuals .: Suppe+Mucke & Suchtfaktor 4.9.’10

By TeK, September 4, 2010 14:22

Today the Headsquatter.org VJ crew plays two live video performances with multiple projections

Suppe+Mucke Strassenfest

Moving projections at Drachenspielplatz Schreinerstrasse or in Samariterstrasse – 20h-22h

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Suchtfaktor Party @MIKZ

Minimal electro 23:59h – late

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headsquatter.org

youtube.com/headsquatter

myspace.com/headsquatter

Come, have a look!

Comments Off on Datenschutz und Web 2.0 – Heise Artikel Serie

By TeK, August 28, 2010 14:27

Nächsten Monat wollen wir bei der Korrupta Hackers Lounge im Samacafe über dieses Thema informieren.

Dazu passend hier einige interessante Artikel aus der CT — komplett online verfügbar!

Datenschutz und Web 2.0 – Heise Artikel Serie

Comments Off on How to build a Hackerspace

By TeK, August 25, 2010 19:05

F'Hain LinuxUserGroup @Nerdcafe in Vetomat

We watched a lecture from CCC congress 24C3 at Samacafe yesterday to get ideas how to organize hackerspaces and linux user groups. It was presented on the congress in 2007 by Lars Weiler and Jens Ohlig.

“Design Patterns” are presented in the lecture: many typical hackerspace-orga problems are identified and a possible solution is presented.  Some design patterns also match for living together in communities, others are optimized for nerds and their special lifestyle.

Video of the lecture:                     Building a Hackerspace MP4

Here is the PDF of the slides:     Building a Hackerspace PDF

Info WIKI:                                         Hackerspaces.org WIKI

btw: there are 100s other interesting videos of the CCC lectures!  fem.tu-illmenau.de

Notes by ZBog:

What could be better than the solution presented in the lecture::

Be culturally neutral
-> I can say clean and white walls, then we are anyway fine with a specified target

Plenum is suggested a weekly appointment not irregular and not more then 1 daily meeting
-> Ill suggest the weekly plenum must be maximum 3 hours long

4 years is a good time to consider if the hacker space is running or not
-> in our case will be an office, then 2 years are necessary to calculate the income, first year there are to many expenses to count really

Decision with Direct Democracy
-> again we are speaking about an Office, so I think that Decision making should be divided in 3 levels , on the beginning I planned 2 levels Plenum and team, but we all know there is no democracy in 2, you ll need the 3rd vote to break the war, any group counts as 1 vote

• Plenum democracy
• Working team, who is directly involved
• Director / main developer / Art director and so on

How to resolve problems

• do not attack people before the deadline, they are already stressed, just wait for  the release party or organize a meeting after release to discuss how the work went and what needs to be improved next time
• if you are sharing a project, wait until the project is finished or you break the team mood
• In plenum you should generally not speak about somebody, but about “what will happen if”, do not use names or the war will start