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RMLL/LSM 2012 : First time out of France

Sun, 07/15/2012 - 17:06 — jbaubort

From the 7th july to the 12th took place the LSM (Libre Software Meeting) in Geneva, for the first time out of france. It was hosted in Geneva, after the Liège cancellation. It was a rush of 9 monthes for the Geneva application; thanks to the Free IT Foundation and the organizers for all the work.

PTL / FIXME Booth

We shared our booth at the "Boulevard du Libre" with the Geneva Hackerspace Post Tenebras Lab (PTL), from saturday to thursday. PTL brought their nice Reprap 3d printer, which was printing most of the time at the booth. Thanks a lot to Sebastien for the demonstrations and the expertise on the printer. The effervescence was complete, visitors came non stop all the week to ask questions and see the it in action. It was very tiring but we made a lot of interesting encounters.

FIXME took Nemen's robot and a set of lock picking tools. The tools were nice to explain the Hacker spirit, trying to understand how it works and not being interested at breaking doors. The robot had a great success amoung children as well as a couple of LEDs throwies.

Arduino Robot

Mon, 07/09/2012 - 15:18 — nemen

After one year of work from time to time, on this snow plow R/C model, and an intensive sprint to finish for the RMLL 2012, it's almost done. :)

This autonomous robot can move randomly in a space (rooms, corridors, ...) while avoiding obstacles with its sensors.

There are many improvements to come.

Hardware:

  • Snow plow R/C model
  • Arduino Duemilanove
  • IR sensor: Sharp GP2Y0A02YK
  • Ultrasonic sensor: SRF05
  • Servo moto

Table ronde "Culture" #1

Fri, 06/29/2012 - 13:15 — tengu

Le jeudi 28 juin 2012 a eu lieu la première table ronde "Culturelle" de FIXME.
Parmi les participants, on a retrouvé:

La discussion a commencé par une description de la situation actuelle, faite par Christian Wicky principalement. D'après lui, le chiffre d'affaire de la vente de musique, tout supports confondus, serait passé de 300Mio. de dollars à 100Mio. en 10 ans.

S'en est suivi quelques descriptions du système de perception/redistribution (mesure des audiences difficiles sur les plateformes disparates), de discussions autour des chiffres avancés par les deux parties, et pour finir un gros débat sur la propriété intellectuelle, sur ses origines et son utilité.

Manifestement la rencontre est un succès, les intervenants étant tous intéressants et respectueux les uns des autres. Nous renouvellerons l'évènement dès que possible avec d'autres invités.

-Tengu, -Rorist

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