Nice spring weather for a few days of hacking during our Easter (H)Egg 2016.
Working on home-made piezo crystals making our own Rochelle salts using selfmade chemistry lab equipment and continuing the Harz 5 project to mine our own resin and make colophonium, which then later can be turned into great DIY flux for coating our circuitboards.
Pfffuuu…. but not so much wood available. let’s get into the forest and start another edition of Hinderbiegele!
We are looking forward to another “claaaassiiic” Hack-Session over the next 8 days. The RandeLab is hosting a bunch of great hackers, forest-geeks, Harz 5 & Coconut researchers to collaborate and experiment together.
Hopefully the Euglena Burger will be ready to be served soon!
This weekend we have gathered some friends of the Hackteria Network to discuss and reflect on the various aspects of citizen science. The session started with chemical and thermal experimentations with pine tree resin, followed by a slow cooked fondue brought to us by the maker extraordinaire from Fribourg, Michi Egger, a.n.y.m.a.
And thx to Eugenio we had deep discussions on the role of gravitational escapism on evolutionary development of the human species.
During our discussions we have read through some recent reports mapping the citizen science ecosystem in Switzerland, the role of DIY science in citizen science EU report, and some general historic texts on citizen participation introduction “The Ladder” by Sherry Arnstein from 1969. The most recent paper by Rüdiger Trojok was also serving us to contribute to our discussion about the role of “Biohacking als emanzipierte Citizen Science” and our activities in the hackteria network, where he makes a strong point of new developments and the emancipation of the movement to be taken into account in contemporary citizen science world.
As we have been involved in various discussions recently this weekend served us to get a clearer idea and strategic vision for our role and goals. Upcoming events such as the “Citizen Science Workshop – Standards and Recommendations for Citizen Science” in Zürich, 17th November 2015, and the meeting of the Swiss network of citizen science, topic “Bio-hacking meets Citizen Science”, in collaboration with Science et Cité, will give us more opportunities to learn and contribute to the discourse.
These days I finally got a 3D-Printer for the RandeLab. It’s a derivative of the Rostock Delta RepRap, re-designed by some peeps in Toulouse and sold as a cheap kit, µ-Delta. And yes, it goes very well with some French wine from the Bergerac region and a fresh piece of local deer with some veggies.
Grey is the New PINK !
A nice week to celebrate my birthday in the forests of Randen.
Various hacks, making, celebrating and warm discussions in front of the fire over these couple of days. Distributed birthday party of dusjagr from 4th – 9th of November in the RandeLab also known as Fablab Underes Ätzisloo.
Jugendfrische hin und her, erst mit 40 ist man wer!
Come for a visit! If you don’t know where we are, follow this map:
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Getting ready for the IoT special event in RandeLab, re-union with the Center for Alternative Coconut Research, the FabLab Underes Ätzisloo, StahlLabs, Make IoT Zurich and some random Slovenian guys making hats…
“Having a beer and Schwartenmagen in the beautiful Schaffhausen woods, listening to the birds and watching the spring flowers. Got some ESP6288s, ATTinys, Arduinos and coconuts.” from GlobalIoTDay – 2015
http://iotday.org/event/iot-day-at-fablab-unteres-atzisloo-randelab-center-for-alternative-coconut-research/
Dominik Mahic playing the Landjägersynth:
IoT Infrastructure watching:
Preparing IoT modules – where is the coconut?
Sticking the BLE acceleration module into the coconut. The little plastic bag protects the circuitry.
