As we grew older people follow the path of marriage. As people tend to incremental innovation in society we just introduce the concept of bachelor parties. Well enough of social critisim we had a lovely time in Bamberg fighting for our beer, or in my case, a spezi diploma!
Actually really looking forward to the ceremony!
The Ministry of Transportation invited interested people to take part at their Hackathon. Lukily a lot of companies provided us with data eg. City of Aalen, Cit of Stuttgart, Airport Stuttgart, Deutsche Bahn (German Railways), Fahrgemeinschaft.de, Flixbus, INRIX, KreisVerkehr Schwäbisch Hall (local transportation provider), Telefonica NEXT, VVS (local transportation provider) and some other companies who do operate within Baden-Württemberg.
We tried to make life easier for the travellers of the Airport Stuttgart by providing them a calculation of ther estimated time of arrival at the Airport by including multimodal ways of transport (bicycle, bus, car, carsharing and train). We didn’t make it to the well priced first places but we gained a lot of experience and confidence in working with such a data driven business modell.
Thanks a lot team for guiding me through my first hackathon!
After having finished up all work – I will be leaving to Japan from may 17th until june 10th. Time for car repairing cars, chasing twisted mountain roads and of course meeting my family.
Roasting at home or basically homeroasting is the effort to be better than your local roaster. Or suit your individual needs.
But to get there its a long way home! Basically first you are figuring out
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fter doing my first batches with 2 year old beans of the shelf. Thus I started with an arabica monsooned malabar. First batches had been probably the worst due to lack of control of the mashinery.
Roughly 1kg later it was drinkable buy using a Kaletta drip-on and a porta filter (Bezzera BZ10). From now on its about consistency in roasting and finding a suitable type of beans. We will see.
We are doing a repair café every last wednesday of the month at the Werkstadt Haus Tübingen. A couple of repair enthusiasts, some organizers and just a bunch of nice people gather together to repair old memories of the past (e.g. radios, CD plays, vinyl players but even smartphones, laptops etc.)
We ended up having a lot of visitors who come for the first time, so we ended up thinking about our goal to chang the mindset of our visitors.
We have roughly 50 % first time guest albeit one third to the other half are second+ time visitors. So should we be happy?
A repair café is based on the initiative of the Anstiftung!
As some of you might know – I do like coffee.
In the past I did a lot of experiements in regards of buying, consuming and roasting by my self. Top of the line was a Severin popcorn maker modified to have independent heating and fand unit to reach temperatures of 220+°C.
Surprisingly this device had been some kind of risky due to the lack of electrical education of myself.
To fasten up progress (after 2 years of just consuming) I ordered a Kaldi drum roaster in South Corea.
Visiting old friends is best!
As a friend started up new in Vienna and actually has been a colleague to a friend of my guys at the shared appartement, we hit for a roadtrip to Vienna. Heading from Reutlingen to Salzburg via Linz to Vienna! A town with lots and lots of historical place and the right amount of hipsteresque including some decent coffee.
The “Anstiftung”, previously known as Anstiftung Ertomis decided to start a collaborative online platform for open workshops of any kind.
So we met up at Hobby Himmel a professionally run tech shop style format of an open workshop. By beeing professional they do care about OEE or availabilty of parts unlike the other hobbyist workshops as ours in Tuebingen. But to finance this approach, usage is paid by hours / usage and not by a standard club membership (although two different types of flatrate is available).
Fun fact – Hobby Himmel is just a test to proof everyone wrong: “A professional tech shop in Germany is possible!”
