Pangloss Labs is a centre of expertise in open source hardware, software and most importantly ideas and techniques. Currently both a French association and a Swiss association, run by entrepreneurs, we hold experimental (hardware, software and social entrepreneurship) labs, and prototype innovation activities across various sectors.
Each year we choose from dozens of the best new documentaries in both English and French and choose 11-12 for the film festival. To be chosen they have be a great film first, show a problem and propose a concrete solution to the problem. No “we’re all doomed” films at our festival
The fourth edition in Ferney will be held on 18th-22nd March 2015.
Interested in finding out more about the local maker community? How about if you could meet them all in one place? The LemanMake festival unites hackerspaces, fablabs, bio-hackerspaces, hobbyists and professionals from all around Lake Geneva. It will be held on 27 & 28 June in Nyon, Switzerland.
A diverse group of geeks, engineers and hackers got together back in 2009 by asking the question online “is there a kind of makerspace in Geneva?”. PTL opened it’s doors in May 2012, and has held open evenings every Tuesday ever since.
The DCP – or Digital Cinema Package is the format that cinemas play – it’s a lot better than DVD and even blu-ray! Count on a 2k (like HD) movie taking between 75-160 Gigabytes and a 4k (like ultra-HD) movie taking up to 600 GB.
Professional kit for making DCPs is expensive, but fortunately for festivals like mine there’s great open source software for making DCPs for your local cinema!
DCP-O-Matic – this one is brilliant as you can cluster together computers to reduce encode time. With this software I went from 3 days to 7 hours to make a DCP.
The film festival starts today, hope to see you there. If not, see you next week on WRS!
Here’s the usual set of links & videos from the show:
For the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge:
The Virtual Private Network (VPN) comparison site I mentioned is https://www.bestvpn.com
Just to be safe, I suggest you use either Paypal or an e-card (one time use card number) from your bank to make the payments to these companies. It’s not that they aren’t safe, but I’ve noticed that they come and go over time.
Open source routers will allow you to VPN to your own home, but I won’t give you a link. If you don’t know how to find these, you shouldn’t be attempting it. Surf safely!
And remember – a VPN is just a pretend (really long) network cable.
For details of the next Pangloss events click here.
Here’s the usual set of links & videos from the show:
The Internet of Things market is expected to be huge, with pretty much all market forecasts in the high billions of dollars. By 2020, there are expected to be more than 100 billion devices connected.
The home monitoring (air quality, temperature etc) system I have is from Netatmo My little drone is the Parrot Minidrone Rolling Spider, available from 1000ordi in Geneva for 135-7 CHF. They also have a range of Connected Objects and speak English (not a lot, but enough!).
The lighting system from Philips that’s getting towards what I’d like
And of course, the build it yourself option with the Arduino Micro from Sparkfun and the Femtoduino
We held the first Pangloss Labs Internet of Things meetup on the 23rd of February in Eaux-vives. For details of our next events click here.
The Pangloss Labs Internet of Things meetup will be held on the 23rd of February in Eaux-vives. You don’t need to be an expert – just bring an object and tell us how you’d like it to be connected (or not!) For details on this and all our events click here.
Here’s the usual set of links & videos from the show:
The totally brain-resetting LIFT Conference web site so you can see what you missed. The presentation from my workshop on Designing Alternative Currency Systems can be found on the Pangloss Labs site.
The BikeCityGuide can be found in the app stores for iOS and Android, or take a look at their web site. The Geneva map basically goes from the Jura to the Saleve.
You’ll need to use google translate or the Chrome browser (which has google translate built in) to read the Norwegian findmysheep.com website, but it’s worth it to find out how to get those 21st century cowbells.
Being more serious, the European Space Agency Technology Transfer program is designed to bring space applications into our daily lives, so if you are a startup company, you’ll want to take a look.
You know about the awesome Solar Impulse project, but have you heard of Solar Stratos – using solar power to get to the edge of space? Another local project, as is Swiss Space Systems – who are hiring.
The Pangloss Labs Internet of Things meetup will be held on the 23rd of February in Eaux-vives. You don’t need to be an expert – just bring an object and tell us how you’d like it to be connected (or not!) For details on this and all our events click here.
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Have a good week, and remember that according to the original Terminator movie humanity should have been destroyed by now, so we are definitely not in that future.