Im Rahmen der World Space Week wird Mark Döbling im shackspace einen Vortrag zum Thema “Kommunikationssysteme in Satelliten“ halten.

Nach einer kurzen Einführung in die Geschichte der Raumfahrt geht es direkt weiter mit einer Übersicht der Anwendungsgebiete für Satelliten und dem Aufbau und Funktionsprinzip selbiger.
Im weiteren Verlauf werden die Unterschiede zwischen den verschiedenen Umlaufbahnen sowie Probleme und Lösungen im Bereich der Datenübertragung beleuchtet.
Nach einem abschließenden Ausblick in die Zukunft der Satellitenkommunikation laden wir ein um in gemütlicher Runde zu diskutieren.

Zum Vortrag:
Eintritt frei! Um formlose Voranmeldung (Doodle) wird ausdrücklich gebeten.
Datum: Samstag, 8. Oktober 2011
Beginn: 19:30 Uhr
Dauer: 45 bis 60 Minuten
Anfahrtsbeschreibung

Zum Vortragenden:
Mark Döbling, 37, hat in seiner Position als Teamleiter in der automatischen optischen Inspektion von SMD bestückten Leiterplatten für die Raumfahrt bei Tesat Spacecom GmbH täglich mit Satelliten zu tun und engagiert sich in seiner Freizeit im shackspace.

Zur World Space Week:
Die internationale Weltraumwoche wurde 1999 von der UNO ins Leben gerufen. Die alljährlich vom 4. bis 10. Oktober organisierte World Space Week würdigt im weltweiten Maßstab „die Beiträge von Raumfahrtforschung und Weltraumtechnologie zur Verbesserung menschlicher Lebensumstände“. Das Eröffnungsdatum soll an den 4. Oktober 1957 erinnern, als mit dem Sputnik-Satelliten der erste künstliche Erdtrabant startete, während mit dem Schlusstag des 10. Oktober 1967 gedacht wird, als der internationale Weltraumvertrag in Kraft trat.

Through the personal effort of a few members shackspace recently acquired a new and quite awesome toy: an IBM BladeCenter E fully loaded with six dual PowerPC 970FX (2.2GHz) and eight dual PowerPC 970 (1.6GHz) blades.

To make hacking on algorithms and software meant to run highly parallel even more fun, each blade comes with dual Mellanox InfiniBand 1X (2.5Gb/s) adapters on top of their dual GigE ports to ensure that sweet low latency every hacker is craving for.

If you want to take a closer look at the specs or track the progress of the project, make sure to stop by the BladeCenter page in our wiki. Of course, if you ever wanted to try your parallel algorithm or software across 14 machines with a total of 28 cores, we’ve got the means for that now ;) Just drop by and talk to one of the hackers involved in the project.

Earlier this year a delegation of shackspace hackers visited the colleagues of entropia in Karlsruhe at their annual Gulasch Programmier Nacht (GPN11). We had a lot of fun hacking stuff, giving and listening to talks, attending workshops and what not.

Make sure to check out the recordings of the talks!

The following few are (for various reasons) somehow, at least partially, shackspace related:

• Gulaschbytes
• Hackstation
• Lightning Talks

Vor nicht all zu langer Zeit hatten wir und unsere Nachbarn Besuch von der Stuttgarter Zeitung, hier das Ergebnis:

“Es ist ein regnerischer Donnerstagabend im Gewerbegebiet von Stuttgart-Wangen. Dort, gegenüber der Kulturhaus-Arena, haben Künstler und Tüftler eine neue Heimat gefunden. Der Großteil von ihnen war bis Anfang des Jahres im Pfleiderer-Areal im Inneren Nordbahnhof beheimatet, das aber im Zuge der Bauarbeiten für Stuttgart 21 geräumt werden musste. […]” – Stuttgarter Zeitung “Ein neuer Freiraum für Stuttgart“

Hier gibt’s den kompletten Artikel über uns und unsere Nachbarn in der Ulmer Straße 255.

The folks of RaumZeitLabor in Mannheim visited us and, with the meme “there is no fan“ having been coined at the previous LHC held at their space, they brought a simulacrum nofan made from an LED matrix panel with them. While being awesome it didn’t blow hard enough. Also there were safety concerns, mainly having to do with the fact that LED matrix panels are inherently safe, which is kind of boring. We’ve rectified all of that. RZL went home with a real nofan! Watch it in action:

We’ve had a blast! It was great seeing so many fellow hackerspace folks at the space. We’ve even had a visitor that told us he heard about us from MAKE zine. Not sure how we ended up there. Awesome!

We would like to thank everyone who visited, contributed, hacked, talked, presented stuff, offered workshops, brought awesome gear and experimental drinks (Club-Mate wine was awesome! Go RaumZeitLabor!). The event was as awesome because all of you made it that way!

If you hacked anything, took photos, or have an anecdote or two, please let us know (send a mail to hadez a-t shackspace.de) and we’ll assemble everything into a follow-up post here on the blog.

We’ve had a lot of people at the space and quite some hackerspaces were represented. In no particular order (and I might have missed one or two): c-base, sublab, c3d2, RaumZeitLabor, syn2cat, Chaostreff Tübingen, Kreativität trifft Technik Oldenburg, ECC, c3pb / subraum, entropia.

Good news everyone! The shackspace hackerspace passport stamp arrived! And as a special bonus there’s also a Ministry of Cancer stamp on top of that. So make sure to pack your passport and get two stamps for the price of one :)

Several folks around here started to drop camp beds and sleeping mats at the space. This means we’ll have a couple of those for you on a on-site first come first served basis.

We also have quite a number of talks, workshops and couches on the list already:

• Talk: IPv6 bei einem ISP im WAN
• Talk: Nutzen und Risiken der Bereitstellung von Internet-Zugängen
• Talk: JavaScript im Jahr 2011
• Talk: Penspinning
• Social Couch: Ways to achieve 24/7 access to the hackspace
• Social Couch: Patterns to get rid of waste and cleaning the space
• Social Couch: How to build great teams and enable teamwork
• Social Couch: All mail clients suck. All mailing list users suck. Why???
• Dev&Tech Couch: Etching like a boss: What works, what doesn’t
• Dev&Tech Couch: Running IPv6 in the hackspace
• Dev&Tech Couch: Storage for projects
• Dev&Tech Couch: Soldering
• Workshop: PCB Design for beginners
• Workshop: Etching
• Workshop: Soldering for beginners
• Workshop: Just Fucking Shoot (Photography Workshop)
• Workshop: Physical destruction of Blackberry smart phones
• Workshop: Penspinning
  If you want to give a talk and/or workshop, by all means, please add it to the wiki page, you’re free to edit it :)

We’re also planning to cook some food on Saturday and Sunday as well as prepare breakfast. If you want to get your share, there will be a list lying around on-site where you can put your name down :)

If you have not yet signed up (it’s free!), please do so to help us planning.

You can find shackspace close to coordinates 48.777113,9.235659 and rumor has it that there is additional parking (not quite official) available at 48.776606,9.236457.

If you get lost on your way to shackspace, give us a call at the new shack-o-phon: +49 (0)711 21729823

Radiotux @Binaergewitter war zu Gast im shackspace und es ging um das Arbeiten und Lernen in Hackerspaces. Mit dabei ware @jvanvinkenroye, @pfleidi, @makefoo, @hdznrrd. Moderation: @radiotux.

Die volle Sendung und Show-Notes gibt’s auf der Binärgewitter Website zum Download.

We’ve had a really busy weekend at shackspace and a ton of things happened.

In limited detail:

• In preparation of the upcoming LHC2 event we’ve cleared out two spare rooms that can be used as sleeping quarters if you do not have a hotel room or other place to stay. Protip: bring a sleeping mat and the usual stuff!
• If everything works out (last minute as usual) there will be a shackspace passport stamp available for your hackerspace passport at LHC2. Protip: bring your passports or receive an enhanced pat-down at the door… maybe… if you like.
• A team of fearless engineers repaired our snack vending machine which broke Saturday night. Protip: always, ALWAYS use cable lugs on all terminals or your vending machine will die in a fire. Ours almost did, and it wasn’t even our fault, it was the original manufacturer’s.
• urkrebs now has a tiny monitoring display, codename ‘oncology‘ (sic)
• We’ve tried to get rid of or at least lessen the amount of our used up PCB etching solution. The test failed catastrophically and we now have around twice as much crap. Things can’t always work out the first time around. Chemistry kicked our butts. Protip: if something works for FeCl3 it doesn’t mean it’ll work for Na2S2O8.
• On the bright side: we’ve conducted successful galvanization experiments with the left-over etching solution. Achievement unlocked! There will be more experiments with shiny results in the future.
• A reprap mendel was spotted on Saturday! It’s still work in progress and needs some fine-tuning.
• There was (a limited amount of) Kinect hacking going on.
• More things that I forgot :x

The Stuttgart 42 village is set up at the Finowfurt camping grounds and everyone arrived safely at camp.

You can find a few first impressions of the campsite in our gallery.