Betahaus is one of my favorite places in Berlin. I work and have meetings in the cafe, I hack around in the makerspace Open Design City at the back, and …
Open source hardware and software from Berlin.
New logo and website revamp
Hello everyone, we are back ! With lots of fresh and refreshing news. First of all, I am very glad and proud to announce that we could charm a seed …
Successful Nanode workshop is to be continued..
(sorry for not blogging about this earlier, it was just a crazy time…) We made it!! The first Nanode workshop in Berlin! On Friday and Saturday we had in total …
Workshop: Solder and hack the Nanode!
OptimaLabs is organizing its first workshop! It will take place this weekend in Berlin. You can come on Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. Description below: Nanode is an arduino-clone with …
Our first project: See-a-Watt
There is undoubtedly a pressing need to measure and monitor electricity consumption at the level of households and small/medium businesses (bigger organisations are doing it for decades already). Electricity is getting more and more …
Timelapse: OptimaLabs @ BTU Sommerfest
During my participation in the BTU Cottbus Sommerfest, I wanted to make something fun and cool with the help of Jonathan Saudhof (thanks a lot Josch ;-) ). I saw …








