September was a pretty busy month for Hackable Devices. For the first time ever, the Open World Forum opened to everyone on Saturday, September 24th for Experiment Day.
For us, this event was pretty important as we, CKAB Hackable Devices, were the official co-organizer of the Experiment Day. We previewed our B60 prototype, the first augmented foosball.
We hacked the classical Bonzini B60 and connected it! Electronic kit inside the foosball lets it find and display real-time scores. Players can compete from all around the world while a screen displays scores and messages.
ExpEyes, Shruthi-1 and Milkymist demos... the CKAB stand was full. Exhibitors had a great opportunity to networking for this first day entirely dedicated to Open Source, Do-It-Yourself and Connected Things. We were preparing this event for a few months and wanted to give everyone a voice. Startups (Snootlab, Sen.Se & Olab), designers (Jerry, Gobi, the Never Ending Bench among others), students (Plastibot, Radio 3.0, Potentialité), associations (Les Petits Débrouillards) and also artists were present.
At the entrance of the Open World Forum, avenue George V, street artist Shane painted a fresco using data coming from an oscilloscope for the Landstream project with Olga Kisseleva. And didn't stop here... He went then on the other side of the huge board to paint the Open World Forum sign. We brought it back home at the CKAB Store, 19 Galerie Feydeau, to show it off in the Passage!
Tons of cool things happened during this Experiment Day: steampunk art by Ez3kiel, demos of Makerbot by FAClab (La Forge des Possibles), highly successful soldering workshops, MakeSense holdups, pitches, keynotes...
We hope you all had as much fun as we had! See you next year in Paris for the next Open World Forum!
By mathmath Wed 05 Oct 2011 in
September was a pretty busy month for Hackable Devices. For the first time ever, the Open World Forum opened to everyone on Saturday, September 24th for Experiment Day.
For us, this event was pretty important as we, CKAB Hackable Devices, were the official co-organizer of the Experiment Day. We previewed our B60 prototype, the first augmented foosball.
We hacked the classical Bonzini B60 and connected it! Electronic kit inside the foosball lets it find and display real-time scores. Players can compete from all around the world while a screen displays scores and messages.
ExpEyes, Shruthi-1 and Milkymist demos... the CKAB stand was full. Exhibitors had a great opportunity to networking for this first day entirely dedicated to Open Source, Do-It-Yourself and Connected Things. We were preparing this event for a few months and wanted to give everyone a voice. Startups (Snootlab, Sen.Se & Olab), designers (Jerry, Gobi, the Never Ending Bench among others), students (Plastibot, Radio 3.0, Potentialité), associations (Les Petits Débrouillards) and also artists were present.
At the entrance of the Open World Forum, avenue George V, street artist Shane painted a fresco using data coming from an oscilloscope for the Landstream project with Olga Kisseleva. And didn't stop here... He went then on the other side of the huge board to paint the Open World Forum sign. We brought it back home at the CKAB Store, 19 Galerie Feydeau, to show it off in the Passage!
Tons of cool things happened during this Experiment Day: steampunk art by Ez3kiel, demos of Makerbot by FAClab (La Forge des Possibles), highly successful soldering workshops, MakeSense holdups, pitches, keynotes...
We hope you all had as much fun as we had! See you next year in Paris for the next Open World Forum!