(27/07/2018) "Mini maker week"

What the f... Mini maker week ?


Mini maker week was an idea to make in one week many workshops to promote the activity of the makerspace, invite people to come and visit us and improve our place. I was responsible to organised everything so it was difficult and first time for me to connecting many workshops, partners and communication. Obviously the team was here to helping me during harder moment.


And this was the program
Monday - initiation 3D printing and modeling 2h, come saturday to bring your 3d prints
Tuesday - initiation coding with Mblock and writing a song workshop 2h
Wednesday - Make a Vr movie (1/2 part) 4h (for kids between 12 and 16 years)*
-Evening retrogaming
Thursday - Make a Vr movie (2/2 part) 4h, watch the movie saturday on virtual reality headset*
-Evening discovering coding toys
Friday - Initiation robotic and create your own jewelry 2h

Saturday - Makerspace opening from 10 to 20h

During the week many workshops was ran by some intervenant like Brigitte Wild an french artist who was running the VR workshops assisted by Piotr Kedielski, Marek Kocon (Nut cane) who was running the music workshop, Aleksandra Otrowska for the Jewelry also Michal and Ida Fischer for everything during the week and Ana Elke for translation and communication with parents.

 During the week we also had a visit of the office of unemployement for showing to entrepreneer, unemployed people in the way of creating company, an example of "solidarity company" different that what public are used.

 The calm before the storm.


And an original song wrote by kids, it's about an hamster.

(23/06/2018) Last month

June is also my last mont in the Evs adventure... The end of discovering an new culture, country, way of living, inhuman crazy cold winter...
What can i say...

RRRRIIINNNGGGG (old phone style ringing)
What ? I heard good ? 2 month more of EVS, For sure I accept.

So maybe it,s time to talk about volunteering with Erasmus+. Last year at the same period i was aware about the existence of the Erasmus+ program concerning mobility project and mobility for youthworker because i'd apply to participate to one in Luxembourg. It's clearly after this training about "makerspace in digital youthwork" and the meeting with many interesting peoples that my practice of making started to have access to an higher level, an european level.

it's an really nice adventure to do volunteering abroad because everything is little bit new and different so new taste... A taste of Europe

A selfie from my shitty previous smartphone one year ago (in July in fact)

In my geek practice we don't really have border we are doing stuff and exchanging with peoples on internet from everywhere around the globe without taking care from where are people, what color they have or religion... We are just sharing information and good time.
So experimenting that in real is completely different and is the reason of the existence of hackerspace, makerspace, fablab... we needed a place for sharing a coffee.. or a beer !

During my studies i never heard about European volunteering service and i think it's sad because it can change lives, give you another point a view of the world and your place in. I was really lost in my studies but one year to think and live an experience can help you to find you and what you want to do.

The Pralnia team offer me also to maybe stay after my EVS, and work for them to continue the projects i started and develop the place and more. They offer me to also take a part of the recruitment of new volunteers for the next year and be in charge a part of their activities be one of coordinator and take care of them. It's really an great proposal because it's an really good way to share my experience and give opportunities to upgrade the project. 

(23/06/2018) Relaxing month ?

June, it was one of the month
In Poland, the winter was an not so rude experience finally i was more scared about before and in fact i possible to survive so i was waiting to see the summer coming... Sadly or strangely summer was not here during June but autumn YES ! arrrrgh the most depressing month grey everyday and often an small rain between some thunderstorm... and i just wanted a barbecue...

Anyway i spend a long time inside and it gave me time to improve my skills in 3d printing, i tried new settings, adjust temperature, speeds... and the spiralize mode really interesting for fast printing.
It create empty object just a shell strong enough to be touched and manipulate and be used like decoration object.
So i print some design find one the web for decorate the makerspace.

i was waiting for when i was a child, it's the beginning of summer and the announce of great moment during vacation.
As i said it was the end of school and the beginning of the vacation, so less work 'outside' and more groups was coming to the makerspace. It's really nice to "work at home" no needs to search the remote of the video projector, the electricity plugs... So easier but also nicer because all thoses kids was giving more life to the space.
The space is clearly not perfectly finished and some work left but step by step is operational.

So we hosted an groupes of space architect to design Mars houses some looks really similar of on our planet but somes designs are more interesting, we can maybe send that to Nasa ;-)

Bonus or not

EUH.... Is that the beginning of summer in Poland ?

(01/06/18) Travelling

I tell you the destination and my occupation For May but one interesting part of travelling is... the travel ! And i take time on the both way of my travel to visit two most knowned city of Poland. Warsawa and Gdansk... yeah visit was a big words because i didn't stayed enough time to visit all the things thoses cities who have many things to offer about architecture, art, culture, food, parks...

One my way i needed to stop to Warsawa for take the plane to france but also to renew my papers because my ID card was expired and i had for travelling an 'emergency passport' (available for one year only). So two possibilities was offred to me renew my papers in France and wait 1 month and half or make it in the French Polish ambassy and wait 3 weeks and take them from Wroclaw the city close than Sokolowsko...Honnestly, i didn't think about it two much ;-)

This picture is sponsored by Deadpool !


On the way back i stopped to Gdansk, one of the Trojmiasto cities in the north of Poland, they're called Trojmiasto or ''three cities'' in Polish because there is Gdynia,Sopot and Gdansk connected to each other on the side of the Baltic sea.
I only visited Gdansk and Sopot, maybe Gdynia the next time.
It was an good occasion to see architecture between old and past and some boats... and PIRATE BOATS ! AAAAAARRGH

(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