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 ...

For the first ARTMAKERS event ever, The Creators Project and Silicon Maniacs bring you fun and creativity with easy-to-use and fun technologies. How? By testing new tools in a friendly environment.

Hack a Kinect, shoot arty videos with an old Nintendo, design 3D things from your mobile phone, make a remote control that can switch off any screen...

Complete newbie or tech expert, looking for inspiration or just willing to test new things, brainstorm and mingle with a creative bunch of professionnals. Everyone is invited!

This Thursday, September 1st from 7pm to late at La Cantine. Sign up here.

I'm repeatedly asked how these images are made in large format, from single sheets of A4 paper ?

Actually it's quite simple. You only need to use the Rasterbator to pixelize your image according your desire. Then, Posterazor is your friend, and help you to cut the Rasterbatorized image into a poster up to the size you need.

Here the original image as an holiday exercice. =] Have fun and nice image hacking (do not forget to share your results, review in september!)

As you may know, we were attenders at the Libre Software Meeting 2011 in Strasbourg, France. For having done lots of event and workshop all over Europe for 3 years now, let me tell you it's always surprising. Every workshop is different, and this one made no exception to the rule! First because the workshop room was full all day long, everyday.

Workshops were previously scheduled every afternoon, but we had to finally open non stop during the whole event. For those looking for evidences about the emerging interest of French people for hardware hacking, DIY and DIWO, it was the place to be. :)

Then because for the first time, kiddos spontaneously asked for having a dedicated workshop! Thanks to `Machtelt`_, their wishes come true. Believe me or not, baby hackers ...

Back on a full week spend at the temporary FabLab - a project called FabLab Squared - that happened at the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie during Futur-En-Seine 2011.

People worked together all year long in order to set up Fab Lab Squared, which is a mini-fablab with a laser cutting machine, a RepRap and a milling machine (an a team of super cool "fab managers": Arthur from Nod-A, Julien from PING, Fabien from FINGSilicon Sentier), an exhibition (students from the school of design ENSCI shown their prototypes of Open Source products that you can make in a fablab), and a design contest called the Unlimited Design Contest. All week long, designers came at FabLab Squared to work on their projects.

Crédit photo: Benjamin Boccas pour Futur En Seine 2011

The inauguration day was a big one, Jérôme was even able to give a TV B-Gone to Claudie Haigneré ...

Third edition of Pas Sage En Seine that has been held in Paris for 3 days just ended. Hackable Devices was there!

We opened our brand new space, CKAB store, which is still in progress! Lots of hackers, makers and people wanting to know what was going on came to see us. We had some really interesting conversations around the Makerbot, Milkymist, Shruthiand its new homemade wood casing (thanks again to Paul and Yvan who worked on this prototype for the past weeks!).

A few people told us that they would be interested by having Hackable Devices tee-shirts. I totally agree, that would be awesome! Definitively on our list.

Saturday and sunday nights have been super lively too at the space with a demo of Milkymist with drums and mojito prepared par Jérôme and homemade cream puffs at Bearstech (Yummy!)

Sunday night, Kasey presented DIY beer that he and ...

De retour du THSF, comme d'habitude pour ce genre d'événement, sur les genoux.

Superbe édition que cette cuvée 2011, pour moults raisons:

Tout d'abord beaucoup plus de monde que lors de la première édition de l'an passée. Le grand public était plus présent, intéressé, impliqué. Nous sommes de moins en moins entre initiés, à croire que la "geek attitude" fait des émules jour après jour.

Ensuite, des intervenants de qualité. Les conférences étaient vraiment accessibles, de Milkymist à Usinette, en passant par Paparazzi.

Puis des ateliers ouverts à toutes, à tous, et dans tous les sens. Le stand h:D n'a pas désempli le samedi, et pas seulement parce que Massimo (co-fondateur d'Arduino) était là.

Au delà du stand habituel, nous avions installé une dizaine de station de soudure, en libre accès. Pour écumer l'Europe depuis deux ans maintenant, c'est un plaisir ...

For all of you that refresh their page every day...waiting desperately for a new article on the Hackable-Devices blog...Don't cry anymore, we are back!

And we've worked a lot during these two long months! The Hackable-Devices team is growing - I will present you everyone in the next days - and we are preparing tons of novelties!

If the suspens is way too big for you, you can already ask John, Jérôme or Guyzmo who will be at the THSF (Toulouse Hackerspace Factory) Friday, the 27th, Saturday, the 28th and Sunday, the 29th of May for demos and workshops dedicated to Arduino and Milkymist, our ultimate Open device for VJ and video effect.

On the Hackable-Devices stand, you'll be able to discover our electronic kits and test the Makerbot.

I will really be sad to miss the party... the complete team has been mobilised these last days ...

Encore une bien belle réussite que cette troisième édition de la Maker Faire UK !

C'est un plaisir de voir qu'un tel événement grand public attire autant de monde, puisque pas moins de 8000 personnes ont défilées sur deux jours parmis les nombreux stands installés au sein du Center For Life de Newcastle.

Nous avions apportés à dos d'homme (en train pour être exact, mais quand même, c'est du sport croyez moi sur parole !) plus d'une soixantaine de kilos de matériel de démonstration. Il y en avait pour tous les goûts, des habituels kits ludo-éducatifs jusqu'à la maintenant "traditionnelle" impression 3D, en passant par la synthèse audio ou vidéo. J'avais pris soin d'avoir des sets de ...