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NEW: Project Glider

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The building, in which project bluebox took place, had been built in 1967. Shortly after the German Reunification, all inhabitants started to move out. Almost each of them left behind a nice ceiling light in his or her flat. In the run-up to HAR2009, nine of the old lamps went into action again. After cleaning and repairing them, they were arranged as a 3×3 matrix. Now, they are showing the appropriate hacker symbol Glider, which refers the the hacker culture around free software and open source. See Wikipedia for further information..

HAR 2009 - Hacker Glider
HAR 2009 – Hacker Glider

bluebox Movie available on YouTube!

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The amazing documentation video of project bluebox is finally available on the internet!

We had to keep it from the public until now, because music was employed, that can only be used against payment of a fee to the performing rights society (GEMA), when the movie is supposed to be publicly available. Now, ST set the movie to music again with music free of GEMA charges. Enjoy it!

HAR: BlinkenArea Presentation

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Yesterday afternoon, we had our presentation about the BlinkenArea and our flashlight projects. Unfortunately, the tent was not full to capacity, because the weather was very well for the first time. Nevertheless, we got a lot of positive feedback and we would like to thank those, who joined the presentation. Some of you asked for more technical details after it. Apparently, we should hold two different presentations during one event to get you all satisfied.

Thanks to Sascha for the nice pictures! Get more on flickr.com!

HAR: Village Nearly Finished

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During the last two days, we continued to build up more BlinkenArea projects. Yesterday, the construction lights were arranged and got wired today. We also set up the Glider and improved it by coating the roof battens with black paint (Thanks to PoC Sascha, who origanised the paint and to the guys, who borrowed it). TroiCade is now operating at HARcade, a village about computer games. Furthermore, the IT infrastructure has been installed and the tent has been cleaned up already. Today, we will ad some information about the projects. Thus, we nearly completed the BlinkenArea village so far. Unfortunately, the weather is cloudy and rainy most of the time. 🙁

Blinkenarea Village on Day -1

Now, it is time for cooking. Have a nice afternoon!

HAR: Happy Meal

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Yesterday, we prepared our first meal in our great tent. It was spaghetti with cheese and tomato sauce – what else? But for the sake of variety, we had pancakes with a various number of side dishes, such as apple and cranberry puree, Nutella, bacon, and cheese, a short while ago with Efelon and Sandra, who joined us this afternoon. Hence, our mothers can be assured that everything is fine with us.

HAR: Arrived at de Paasheuvel

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Travel to NL - in between a large traffic jam
Today, we arrived at HAR area between 2 and 3 am, although we planned to join HAR on sunday. Heavy traffic and our nice trailer allowed us to cover the distance to the Netherlands in about 13 hours. After that horrible awesome trip, we pitched our tents immediately and went to bed just before 6 am. Noise waked us up at 9.30 am and of course we were all pretty tired today, but take a deep breath of fresh air when waking up was great.

Nevertheless, we started to build up the BlinkenArea village. Yesterday, Stefan and his dad had already installed the new orange BlinkenArea tent. Hence, we got started unloading our nice trailer in the morning and set out the first projects, such as blueboxMini, Glider and TroiCade, during the day. In the evening, we went for a walk and wanted to buy some food in town. Unfortunately, the shop closed just before our arrival and we had to have a second try by car. The PoC recommended a nearby shop, where we could get everything. Thank you very much!

The sun was shining during the day, but in the meantime it started to rain. Hopefully, it will stop soon. Have a nice evening, everybody!

HAR: Weather Forecast

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Before packing my bags, I just had a look for the weather forecast. Follow this Link to get the complete information about the weather at Vierhouten, NL during HAR on wetter.com.

HAR weather by wetter.com

HAR2009: Modern Transport

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We used to cram our passenger cars to bring all the different flashing devices to the particular events. But times have changed and we don’t want to travel hundreds upon hundreds of kilometers by brimful cars anymore. Unfortunately, we are not able to inaugurate our nice new transport aircraft, because there are no runways in our backyards and around HAR area respectively. Hence, ST worked out another answer to the problem and chartered a trailer, that we picked up on monday. HAR, we’re coming!

Der Volvo mit dem Anhänger!

BlinkenArea joins HAR2009

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HAR Logo

In August, the international technology and security conference Hacking at Random takes place in the Netherlands. We are going to join the event

For further information and the program visit the HAR website. Of course, we created an own event page on blinkenarea.org, where you can find detailed information, soon.

Linux-Tage: Unser Stand

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BlinkenArea Stand: Poster

Wie wir bereits berichteten, wird es bei den 10. Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen nicht nur Vorträge, sondern auch einen Stand der BlinkenArea geben. Seit heute hat unser Stand auch ein hübsches Plakat, damit Passanten wissen, wer wir eigentlich sind und auf den Vortrag über die BlinkenArea von ST und stefan hingewiesen sind. Am Stand werden neben netten Blinkern natürlich auch viele Projekte zugegen sein. Um ein paar zu nennen, seien an dieser Stelle der Blinkomat mit BlinkenSisters, AntiKippenLights, BlinkstroemAdvanced, BlinkenLEDs und LED-23 erwähnt.

Linux Days: our stand

The BlinkenArea will not only give lectures at 10th Chemnitz’ Linux Days but will also showcast itself as well as its projects at a stand. Today, we created a nice poster (in German) with some information about us and the announcement for the lecture about the BlinkenArea given by ST and stefan. At our stand, visitors can meet the BlinkenArea people and have a look at smaller projects as the Blinkomat with BlinkenSisters, AntiKippenLights, BlinkstroemAdvanced, BlinkenLEDs and LED-23.