(01/06/18) THSF and vacation

Ah !

The month full of non working days perfect for take some vacation, yes ? But not only it's also the month of my birthday, and what is better for me than participate to an hackers festival ??? I don't know for now but if i find it i will let you know.

So after all this cold time in the polih winter i'm back in France for somes days but as some know me i like join the usefull and the funny part so during this festival i joined an french organisation and share a stand during the THSF (the hackerspace factory or festival).
The topic was about langages so we choose to create an activity about sharing message with an introduction of coding inspired by the movie 'the martians'.

As you know or maybe not it's forbidden to make pictures in this kind of event but i made one of our stand. (you can also recognize my bestfriend who come to see me during the festival or maybe more drink beers with me for my birthday party ;-) )

The festival was 11 to 13 may and my birthday is the 15 of may... So during this festival in Toulouse was also the time for make party with my old friends. Yeah my friends are there because we grow up in this region for most of them around Carcassonne... an nice city if you have some time in the South of France.

Anyway Pastis (french alcohol), cheese (french passion) and barbecue (another french passion), it was really to see all of them and share moment. Many if them are travellers so it was nice to speak about expériences.


It was also a moment to see France with my new travellers eyes and a little start not of nostalgy but the inverse... i don't want come bak there. Life in Poland is really diferent and i'm feel more in adequation than in France... I don't if it's everywhere and for everyone the same kind of feelings but it's not so comfortable.

(24/04/18) Exhibition after aerial residency

This month was the month of the biggest part of the residency for Barbara Stelmachowska the artist who was selected for be the first artist who make a residency in the makerspace.
After one month of research and trying diferent options, she finally choose to represente ''the smog'' who was the starting point of the topic of the residency, like an flushes.
Under this softness and fluffy apperance her idea was to create an shapes who invite to dialog about the polution and the using of coil in heating system.

(22/02/18) Aerial Residency

Aerial Residency

   One of new project of Pralnia, it's an artist/maker/designer residency. The topic of this residency is the "smog" because in the village many people use coil for heating and it's create a lot of smoke, but the village is surrounded by mountain so the wind can't be come and put smog away. Finaly we are in the mountain in the middle of nowhere with national park everywhere but the air is polute like in a big city.
   The objective of this residency is sensibilate locals to this problem but also introduce Pralnia not only like an geek place for technicians.
   And the biggest honor is the team offer me a place in jury for help to choose the artist/maker.

Facebook page :  https://web.facebook.com/aerialresidency2018/

Open Air Project
Pralnia Makerpace is one of the locations of the OpenAirProject network, which aims to build a network of cheap but precise air quality sensors. You can check and see how the situation of air quality in Sokołowsko looks like (and it does not look good): https://openairproject.com/ The reason for this is that most households are heated using old installations together with poor quality fuel.
It is an open source project and more information can be found here: https://github.com/openairproject/sensor-esp32

(22/02/18) Elder's presentation, Erasmus+ deadline done !

Elder's presentation, Erasmus+ deadline

   Marcin is an member of Pralnia but is also involved in diferent project and he ask me to make an presentation of our activities and show some technologies able to be connected with elders.
   So i presented 3d printing (for sure), Lofi robot and coding but also my favorite Makey makey and scratch with an fruit piano... you have question about that ? it's pretty simple when you touch an fruit you create an electric connection and the makey makey give this information to the computer, and for finish on scratch (the coding software) i wrote a code for playing music.
   The presentation was in an new kind of library in Wroclaw.

For Erasmus+ with big surprise and hard work it was possible to finish every projects before the deadline !! So now... just need to wait for the answer.

(04/02/18) Mid term meeting in Torùn

Mid term meeting in Torùn

   Finaly i survived of the week in Torùn with Erasmus+ activities and in fact it was not so bad... The first day was not really funny because i spent all the day in transport bus to Wroclaw, train to Poznan, train to Torùn finaly i took a cab until hostel.

   I was afraid about games and stupid activities like ice breaking... But it was not the main point of this week, the idea of this was more about make a point and have an reflexion about EVS, what kind of difficulties we had met, what was our expectative before the EVS, what is the reality for us and what is our project for the future after the Evs.It was really interesting moment, for think about ourself.
   The second interesting point was met somes other volunteers from diferents country with the same kind of problems, same good moments and experiences...
   We have spend an good week, make new friends, visit the city and follow the program of Michael and Voytech two greats trainors, there program and their tools was incredible and really interesting.
   After that i see more clear in my future, i want stay in Poland after the Evs and continue the project. I really like this country, architecture, history and peoples... For now i want stay and we will see.

   Torùn is an beautiful city with an medieval history of Teutonic knives and many kings, in France i like history and castles and it was really intersting for me to discover new things on another point of view. There is also many museums and churchs i hope i will have time for spend more time to visit this city.

One partcicpant made an video of the week... follow the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y227-3gR2A

 I leave this picture in color, black and yellow... it's like the theme blog.

(22/01/18) New year and winter break

New year and winter break

   I don't speak to much in this blog about friendship because it need to be an report of the work but there is no too much job in this period, kids have vacation, the team also... But i start to have many friends in the village so i stayed for christmas and new year.
    For the new year, Radek opened a bar in the village, so now it will be the place to be for drink somes beers with kind peoples, and also good place for pratice my polish... yeah i learn more how to swear like a real polish but... you know it's also learning ! ahah

   So for the new evening i was seek so i don't have spend all the night awake, but i've speak and met many person from the village or families coming for christmas. At midnight, Polish have the same tradition as German they put firework everywhere in the street it's like an big mess with car alarm ! But after that champagne and all peoples make hugs, it's was really surprising for me.

   The other surprise of January was the coming of my best friend Martin from France, we had spend many good time together and visit Wroclaw and good place for drink somes beers.
    We had visit the "museum of games an computers of the past era" it's an small museum about videogames and computers like the name told ! It's an place with a lot of accessible videogames and we are geek so we have spend many times on Metal Slug, Mario kart 64, duck hunt.... The guy working in the museum was really cool and i've speak with him about the possibility to mkae an partnership and organise somes workshops in their place.

   Happy news of the day ! we planned to visit Warsaw because Martin had is plane there to come back to Toulouse, but i received an email and i need to be in Torun for the Mid term meeting... So sad ! I don't like this kind of meeting with group and games... I hope it will be good.
So i will be there 29 until 2 february...

Martin, me an Radek block in the snow...       

(10/01/18) Erasmus+

Erasmus+

   Like i told after the Luxembourg Ka1, i kept contact with some participants of this training. And with them and friends from France we prepare differents Erasmus+  project. This is the lists of project we are working on. For all projects we included Pralnia makerspace for connect them with the european maker movement.

-Ka1 "Noisy stuff": It was an idea of 2 guys and me,  to create an training course about making but on the theme of music, music making and instruments making will be the main part and for that we will need to introduce the digital fabrication, CAD and electronics...
This training will take place in Pralnia makerspace, in Sokolowsko.

-Ka2 "Environmental éducation and digital youthwork": For this project the idea is make an bridge between environment and technologie, The main idea is make an experience to connect one plant on an weather station controled by computer and connected on internet. The same equipment will be in different school in diferent country and we will create an web platform to exchange and follow results.

-Ka2 "W3M4KE": Coordinate by the city of Rybnik on initiative of the internet education of Kielce, this project have to objective to develop makerspace in Poland but also the non formal education in makerspace for youth in collaboration with schools.

It's a lot of work before 15th February, but we can do that and it can be really interesitng to Pralnia to be connected with different organisations and country !