Projects
From syn2cat - HackerSpace.lu
These are our current and future projects, as well as an abundant array of project suggestions. Should you be interested in doing one of these or yet another project, simply join our mailing list and state so. We're anxious to get started on some of these awesome ideas!
To create a new project wiki page, please use the project form. New projects also usually go through the Funding process.
There is also a lot of new projects at https://github.com/syn2cat. If you can think of a way to automatically get them onto here, please implement it or let us know!
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[edit] Running Projects
| Project | Picture | Description | Type | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicorn Tapeworm | A Led chain in Engineering | software | F3l1x | |
| Discord Bot |  | A discord bot to update the status depending on the level2 api | software | F3l1x |
| Home Assistant |  | This manages the entirety of the smart plugs and lights. | network | F3l1x |
| Ikea LED Wall | lets add some fancy WS2812b LEDs to the big Ikea wall | hardware | Sid | |
| Retro-PSU money box | Using a coffee-cup as till for our little sweets/drinks shop has proven to be problematic, because some people took it as free-to-take money source. We will replace it with a piggy-bank type box where money can be thrown in but not taken out. A beautiful old home-made PSU functions as box itself. We will add an arduino driven code lock that can unlock the box. | security | Joekutz | |
| PiDor | a raspberry pi caring about open/close of Level2 | security | Muling Gunstick | |
| USRP |  | Universal Software Radio Peripheral | hardware | Muling |
| HackerJeopardy | The syn2cat version of the well known hacker jeopardy | hardware | Gunstick NPU | |
| RadioShow |  | Lët'z Hack! D'Hacker-Emissioun vu syn2cat op Radio ARA | media | Prometheus Slopjong |
| Membership Management Tool | A tool designed to manage your membership. (MeMaTool) | software | Sim0n | |
| ComputerMuseum | little collection of classic computer systems | hardware | Gunstick | |
| Lasertag linux |  | we've ported the popular lasertagging software to Linux | software | Bartek |
[edit] Stalled Projects
These projects have been started but are currently stalled for one or the other reason. Contact the project's leader to restart it.
| Project | Picture | Description | Type | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HacKids |  | Kids are the future. So let's give them the knowledge and tools to design their own. | misc | |
| Pentium2Atari | Put PC hardware into the case of an Atari ST | hardware | ||
| MwRegExt |  | Extending the Mediawiki registration extension used at HaxoGreen 2010 and haxogreen 2012 | software | Kwisatz |
| DeliciousThings | Food is delicious, especially when hacked | misc | Macfreak109 | |
| ChaosVPN | Inter Hackerspace private network | network | Sim0n | |
| Syn2Sat | Install satellite equipment for viewing enjoyment and sky scanning | media | Gunstick | |
| Swarm Bots |  | This projects aims at creating robots that communicate and work together to accomplish an given task | hardware | Trollchen |
| Electr-O-Mat |  | Pimp my electrical installation in the Hackerspace. | hardware | NPU |
| Mac-a-Tag | Multipoint Lasertagging with Macintosh | misc | Gunstick | |
| Clutter Experiments | clutter is a next-generation canvas library for open architectures | software | Bartek | |
| TagBot | pan & tilt robot with cairomm/gtkmm drawing interface | hardware | Bartek | |
| Syn2Sign | Building signs to hang next to the "TreffADHS" ones outside our space. | misc | Kwisatz | |
| LetterRack |  | Build an awesome big letterbox out of a half height computer rack. | hardware | Steve |
[edit] Future (planned) Projects
| Project | Picture | Description | Type | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syn2rbine | Create electricity from a windmill or wind turbine | hardware | Kwisatz | |
| FogScreen | Laminar Flow Fog Screen | hardware | Gunstick | |
| BOINC2syn |  | BOINC uses personal computers / server's processor units overcapacity to support their own scientific calculations. | software | Prometheus |
| Toolset Documentation | documentation for the syn2cat toolset | software | Bartek | |
| Christmas Face | christmas-themed video installation | art | Bartek | |
| Function generator | With this function generator one can generate sine, triangle and rectangle wave forms with a variable frequence from 1kHz up to 1MHz. | hardware | Slopjong | |
| WarzoneProject |  | Inter HackerSpace Security effort | security | Steve |
| ChemLab | Build a small chemistry lab | misc | Sim0n | |
| GliderStream |  | game of life gliders on an endless procession | hardware | Gunstick |
| FollowTheLight | artistic projections using openFrameworks or FreeJ | art | Kwisatz | |
| DigitalBackPack | The Digital Back Pack will be an overlay project for the real World and the Digital world. | misc | Steve | |
| Instructables | for people in developing countries, e.g. micro-generators, photothermal installations, water filtration systems | charity | Bartek | |
| CodingForKidsWithKids | software |
[edit] Project ideas
| Project | Picture | Description | Type | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMS2Space |  | A LED scroller where people can send SMS and mails to, to be read by anonymous at the space. | misc | Kwisatz |
[edit] U19 section
| Project | Picture | Description | Type | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalBackPack | The Digital Back Pack will be an overlay project for the real World and the Digital world. | misc | Steve | |
| CodingForKidsWithKids | software |
[edit] Concluded Projects
| Project | Picture | Description | Type | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GameCookies |  | Game theme inspired cookies | art | NPU Gunstick |
| Tweet2cat |  | summarize syn2cat feeds to twitter automatically | software | Perforin |
| Syn2wall |  | Building up a wall in the chill to create a quiet, neat library in the Hackerspace. | misc | NPU |
| Cortana |  | The project's name Cortana regroups an enormous amount of ideas to improve syn2cat's sensors as capabilities to communicate within the community as well as with the outside world. | network | Prometheus Trollchen |
| Deaddrops |  | Anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space | network | Perforin Trollchen |
| Wii2Mad |  | The idea is to convert Logic Gates into mechanical ones, with the same properties. The electrical impules are simulated by marbles. | misc | Gunstick |
| ChillyChill |  | Rearrange the chill area into a comfy room. | misc | Gunstick |
| KeyBite |  | A slap of chocolate looking like a keyboard | art | Gunstick |
| Touchy |  | Install linux on an old Siemens TRADEBOARD E | software | Gunstick |
| TeraSpace | general disk storage for everyone | hardware | Gunstick | |
| SauveTaLiberte | translate rettedeinefreiheit.de into french | media | Gunstick | |
| Blinkentree |  | We built our own blinking X-mas tree for the market in Strassen. | hardware | Slopjong Prometheus |
| Blinkentree DE | | BlinkenTree stellt eine der Weihnachtsaktivtäten des syn2cat Hackerspace dar. | hardware | Slopjong Prometheus |
| RadiusBridge |  | Use your wiki password for wireless lan. | software | Sim0n |
| Syn2Skin | a custom layout for our wiki | media | Bartek | |
| Rekult | Do walls dream of recycled sheep? | art | Steve Bartek |
