Tickets are for sale on eventbrite Each event alone is 30$, or 50$ to attend both.

The workshop presentations will be in English, but we are more than happy to provide support and answer questions in French.

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER VISION WITH OPENCV

Do you want to make your computer react to light, movement and gestures? Do you want to capture and process images and video as part of your project? Do you wonder: what’s wrong with these lazy AI programmers, why can’t my computer recognize me yet? Get answers to all these questions and more at the Foulab Workshop “Introduction to computer vision with OpenCV”!

The workshop is aimed at people with some programming knowledge, but not necessarily any computer vision knowledge. We will cover:

• how to install and set up the Open Computer Vision toolkit,
• an introduction to computer vision algorithms,
• a couple interactive OpenCV demonstrations that you can use as a starting point for your own projects.

The primary programming language for the workshop will be Python. The workshop has been updated from previous workshops to cover OpenCV 2.4.6, and the latest version of OpenCV’s python interface.

Time: Saturday, November 2, 1-5pm Postponed
Required materials: laptop, webcam

While this workshop will be limited in scope to OpenCV itself, people are encouraged to stay after the workshop and discuss more advanced topics, such as the interfacing of openCV with other libraries and languages. If you have projects in mind or in progress, please do stick around and chat with us!

INTRODUCTION TO WEBGL

Long gone are the days of simple text tickers and epileptic shock inducing blink tags.These days we see javascript as a fast growing multimedia oriented language, and the jump to 3D is now at the cutting edge of competing with your native desktop application with WebGL.

In collaboration with Montreal’s very own demoparty, RECURSION, and it’s hackerspace, Foulab, we are happy to present an introduction to the modern OpenGL 3D processing pipeline through OpenGL.

Building off certain image processing concepts presented in the OpenCV workshop, we will give you an introduction to the following concepts so that you may start programming your own 3D demoes.

We will go over a number of small things specific to basic demo making including: setting up the rendering pipeline, in addition to explaining its internals. Simple examples of procedural rendering. As well as an overview of how this can go on to be applied to OpenGL in general.

Time: Sunday, November 3rd, 1-5pm
Required materials: laptop, chrome

Please be advised that a working knowledge of basic linear algebra will be required, in addition to that of programming.

FOULAB Party - Monday July 1st @ 15:00 - 23:00

There’s going to be a FOULAB PARTY on July 1st! What’s a better way to spend a public holiday than hanging out with fellow hackers? The theme is summertime - beach, barbeque, solar panels? Make of that what you will.

Bringing food and drink to share is encouraged.

July’s come, and 2024 is half over already! Got anything planned for this year? Do it! At FOULAB.

Fan Wiki Night - Tuesday July 2nd @ 20:00 - 20:30

Another wiki night! eigma is leading the party only in spirit - let’s band together and self-organize to get our internal encyclopedia all dressed up nice and clean.

It’s good when the documentation is good and relevant - let’s save FOULAB by making sure it stays that way.

Sunday Mesh Morning IV - Sunday July 7th @ 10:00 - 13:00

kryma and the mesh network team invite you to get funky with your networking once again. Sunday Mesh Morning IV straight into your veins - don’t miss the opportunity!

This month, featuring FOULAB websites getting on the mesh and the jankiest mobile data plan that has ever grazed Montreal.

Warhammer Night Strikes Back - Thursday July 11th @ 19:00 - 21:00

Warhammer nights are getting into full swing. Some official, some ad-hoc - they say running a little plastic army every once in a while is the best treat you can get.

der_moderne_man and the team are hosting again. Come join us, we’re military generals out there.

FOULAB Monthly Meeting - Tuesday July 16th @ 20:00 - 22:00

Meeting meeting! During a public night nonetheless. Let’s shake the formula up a little.

Come and discuss the new Internet plan, museum progress, and anything else that’s been happening around the lab that you may want to bring up. Decisions will be made, pizza will be had!

Demonstration of Resilient Infrastructure Through Open Sessions (aka Infrastructure Night) - Tuesday July 23rd @ 20:00 - 22:00

Another outage has happened at Foulab! Or will happen. Let’s join eigma and the ministry of infrastructure, and butt our heads together to fix a difficult problem surgically implanted into the lab’s network.

What a good way to learn about system administration, and its specifics at our space. Problems being fixed by hackers - you love to see it. Problems being fixed by you - you’ll love to do it.

F0UL4B HACKERSPACE PROJECT NIGHT - Thursday July 25th @ 20:00 - 22:00

Three months have passed, and it’s time for ANOTHER PROJECT NIGHT!

You’ve been hacking away and making a sick new prototype you’re eager to share with FOULAB? You’ve been interested in what a hackerspace actually does? ‘Tis the day for demos - come get your fill.

Over two hours, watch people’s pet projects get proudly presented, or join yourself to demonstrate a device you’ve developed. Perfect celebration of hacker culture - and of all the new inventions too!

Hosted by an old friend of Foulab, this event is sure to be a blast.

Do you feel it? We’re a quarter of the way through the 21st century! Feel old yet? Suppress those feelings with some good old-fashioned hacking and making! Here’s what’s coming up in January:

Wednesday Mesh Evening - Wednesday January 8th @ 19:00 - 22:00

Tired of spending time with your family? I know I am. Join us for the first social gathering of the year! Lots of new nodes, the region’s Meshtastic coverage is booming - what a good time to mesh around this January is shaping up to be!

Join the network! Explore mesh networking in all its forms. Discuss, research, test the unknown, and deploy peer-to-peer infrastructure!

Everyone is hosting, and kryma invites you to host as well.

The network must grow! The network must grow! The network must grow! The network must grow! The network must grow! The network must grow! The network mu- (the author has been disconnected from the network)

Workshop Reorganization Planning! - Thursday January 9th @ 20:00 - 21:30

The Foulab workshop area needs some love! We have a lot of tools, both traditional (hand tools, drill press, bandsaw, air compressor, welder, etc) and modern (3D printer, CNC mills, laser cutter) but not a lot of good places to put them.

We do, however, have an excess of storage racking left over from the museum expansion, so let’s solve two problems at once and reorganize the workshop!

This is the initial planning meeting, to measure out the tools we have, propose racking layouts, and prepare for the work that lies ahead. Anyone interested in helping out is invited to attend!

Open Gaming Night - Tuesday January 21st @ 20:00 - 22:00

Starting in January, we’ve opened up the monthly Warhammer 40k gaming night to include other games. This month, der_moderne_man will bring Steve Jackson’s fantasy dueling games Melee & Wizard. Others are encouraged to bring games they want to play. Warhammer? Magic the Gathering? Risk? Mouseguard: Swords & Strongholds?

The more the merrier!

FOULAB Monthly Meeting - Thursday January 23rd @ 20:00 - 21:30

The first meeting of the year! Make a New Year’s resolution to come to this meeting and make your voice heard on things that mattermost.

Share your ideas, your projects, and your thoughts on the future of Foulab. Your input is important to our future!

Project Night - Tuesday January 28th @ 19:00 - 22:00

Project night is back! Did you work on something exciting over the holidays? Bring it to project night and show it off!

Let your creativity (and ego) shine! Practice your presentation skills, and get feedback from your peers. Talk about the great things you’ve done, and the challenges you’ve faced.

Beginners welcome! If you’re new to the space, come by and see what we’re all about. It’s a great way to meet people and get involved in the community.

Killed by Dice Presents: Three Sixteen V - Sunday January 26th @ 16:00 - 21:00

Dice shall roll. Chaos shall reign. Blood shall spill.

Find out at the fifth installment of the Three Sixteen series, a tabletop roleplaying game set in a far-future galaxy where humanity has spread to the stars.

RSVP early - spots are limited.

Can you even survive the night? Face der_moderne_man and find out.

Collaborated by the NDG tabletop roleplaying group Killed by Dice and Foulab.

2024 is almost over. Can you hear the sound? It’s the New Year coming! Here are the last events of this year - don’t miss them.

Wednesday Mesh Evening - Wednesday December 11th @ 19:00 - 22:00

The last social gathering of the year. Lots of new nodes, the region’s Meshtastic coverage is booming - what a good time to mesh around this December is shaping up to be!

The Wednesday Mesh Evening is a Wednesday evening event dedicated to mesh networking in all its forms. From discussing it, researching and testing alternative network topologies, to practical exercises in deploying peer-to-peer infrastructure in FOULAB and around it.

Everyone is hosting, and kryma invites you to host as well. Join the network!

Friday the 13th Party - Friday December 13th @ 19:00 - 22:00

Christmas is just around the corner. New Year’s Eve is just behind Christmas. But at Foulab, we do things our own way. Join us on the scariest Friday of 2024 for an official continuation of our Halloween party - things are about to get a little spooky!

This is Foulab’s year-end party - bring a happy face and some food, let’s all enjoy an evening of December festivities with an unusual twist.

FOULAB Monthly Meeting - Tuesday December 17th @ 20:00 - 21:30

The last meeting of the year is upon us! Let’s wrap up this year on a good note… is there some news about the sink I’m hearing?

This public night will have a special time slot for an organizational meeting. Join us to talk about FOULAB - make your voice heard on things that matter most.

Data Science in Python - Saturday December 21st @ 15:00 - 17:00

Time to learn some coding! AI is on everyone’s mind - and big data is how you get it done. Come join us in a tutorial that shows you the easiest ways to get started with data science and big data.

This tutorial with cover the basics of various tools and concepts in data science, and show you how to scale beyond.

Foulab’s data science expert v2thegreat will be hosting - whether you’re new to the topic or have prior experience, this workshop will give you just what you need.

August already? Time sure flies when you are having FOULAB. Let’s have more - here is how to do it.

Wiki Night - Tuesday August 6th @ 20:00 - 20:30

eigma is inviting us all once again to gather round, have a glass of fizzy water, and edit FOULAB’s history in real time.

Last month, it was the Wiki night fan club gathering together to look at polls and blogs - a month before that, we were editing orphaned pages back into the wiki graph. What will it be now? Join us for the precisely timed 30 minutes and find out!

Sunday Mesh Morning V - Sunday August 11th @ 10:00 - 13:00

The mesh networking sessions return! Join kryma and friends in making a new, hyper-local version of the Internet - where all the world is accessible from your PC, as long as your idea of the world is limited to the Saint Henri neighbourhood of Montreal.

Sunday stands for a pleasant day outside, Mesh stands for new friends and a new network, and Morning stands for having something to wake up early for. What does V stand for? Vendetta, of course.

Warhammer Night 3 - Tuesday August 13th @ 20:00 - 22:00

This evening, Warhammer rides again! Security briefcases chock-full of little plastic miniatures and a session of intense large-scale combat await you. Bring a hand-painted army or borrow one from the locals, and make your enemies pay.

der_moderne_man returns in the leading role, to put together a crew. Prepare for an unforgettable evening.

FOULAB Monthly Meeting - Tuesday August 20th @ 20:00 - 21:00

Another public night meeting? Last month, so many new faces were involved - and the reception was fantastic. Let’s do it again.

Show up during this public night to discuss FOULAB’s goings on, the new users, the projects going on at the space. Let’s all celebrate the lab, talk business, and maybe grab a pizza later.

Hydroponics 101: Intro to the Kratky method - Thursday August 22nd @ 20:00 - 21:00

It’s been a while since we had a quick rundown on the basics of hydroponic methods. Perhaps it’s high time to do it again. And what’s a better way to learn hydroponics from the Farmer of FOULAB himself, the user tlot?

Dead simple, our tech-agriculture instructor says. Put a seed in the water, make the water right, and you’ll get salad for days - no maintenance at all! Join us for an explanation. Recommended donation - $10 CAD.

FouLAN Party - Saturday August 24th @ 19:00 - 23:00

FOULAB’s gaming collective comes together for another evening! The Mario fans from this spring are ready to present the assembled collection, and the FPS aficionados are itching for a proper party.

Unreal Tournament is on the docket, our host nintendoeats promises, and they say some of the players coming are pretty damn good. Knock them down a notch - or get taught the real meaning of the word “1337”.

Demonstration of Resilient Infrastructure Through Open Sessions (aka Infrastructure Night) - Tuesday August 27th @ 20:00 - 22:00

Another infrastructure night! This night’s theme, the new Internet. Not the Sunday Mesh Morning type - we are changing our ISP and would like some input.

Quiz Night: Back to School Edition - Wednesday August 28th @ 19:00 - 22:00

August is coming close to an end, everybody! Summer break is over, school’s back in. You know what that means - time to study for the test.

Come join a fantastic game evening prepared by the Foulab professor kida - show off your knowledge of all sorts of facts about hackers and hacking in the form of a Montreal-renowned FOULAB quiz, coming back this Wednesday evening.

It’s finally Spring proper! Even though the weather outside might say otherwise. What’s going on at Foulab? Something new, as usual. Come explore this month’s selection of things for a local hacker to do.

Cleaning day + FOULAB Monthly Meeting - Saturday April 6th @ 10:00 - 19:00

The time has come! Let’s get together and give the space a clean so big it lasts a year, if not more. Everyone is welcome to attend - it’s a commonly known fact that doing something good with others energizes like nothing else.

Starting from 3PM, we plan to take a break for a FOULAB meeting. Topics of discussion are logistics - and at last, the unveiling of the grand museum project. Do come by - even if you’re not an active Foulaber!

Sunday Mesh Morning - Sunday April 7th @ 09:00 - 12:00

A brief, low-key event with FOULAB’s mesh networking enthusiasts hosted by kryma. Come play with OpenWRT hardware and learn about Montreal’s WiFi mesh projects - from Reseau Libre to KULUPU to our little in-house Bobcat chatbot.

Wiki Night - Thursday April 11th @ 19:00 - 20:30

Ever wondered what the lab was originally built around? Ever wanted to go for a dive deep into the space’s history?

FOULAB’s infrastructure specialist eigma shows and tells about the layers of the newly reconstructed FOULAB wiki. Come join - both readers and writers welcome.

Killed by Dice Presents: Mothership Returns - Sunday April 21st @ 16:00 - 19:00

Our tabletop friends at Killed by Dice, led by der_moderne_man, bring you another fantastic roleplay event. This time, we’re returning to the cold space and dark halls of Mothership - a terrifying science fiction RPG that will see you battling horrors among the unblinking stars. As usual, please register on Eventbrite if you’d like to join - spots are limited!

FOULAB Project Night - Thursday April 25th @ 19:30 - 21:30

It’s the event everyone’s been waiting for! A chance to show off your coolest and most ingenious projects of the month, or to admire the ones brought by others. Join a celebration of the hacker spirit, hosted by none other than Mr. X of Foulab himself - the executive member idefix. Bring your own project if you want to show it. Don’t have one? You’re welcome to come look, too.

A special mention also goes out to our friends at OSHWA - a summit for open hardware artists and hobbyists taking place just next month in Montreal. Come give them a visit - the lineup features plenty of clever hardware hacks that are sure to be a delight.