When new technology zooms to the rescue of ancient heritage
From 3D reproduction to laser-cut models, heritage sites around the world are getting a makeover thanks to digital innovations.
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Published 30 May 2017 by Cherise Fong
From 3D reproduction to laser-cut models, heritage sites around the world are getting a makeover thanks to digital innovations.
Published 23 May 2017
After launching the Bio Academy and the Textile Academy, the Fab Academy is considering expanding its programs to design and storytelling.
Published 23 May 2017 by Victor Didelot
You can’t miss them… On every street corner, in shops and schools, fidget spinners are everywhere! Makery offers you this DIY tutorial for under 2€.
Published 23 May 2017 by Nicolas Barrial
France’s first sex hackathon took place on May 19-21. Even if its main sponsor was the market leader of the French porn industry, the event was rather demure.
Published 18 May 2017 by Pauline Comte
#Fablab Festival. In Toulouse, the talks, barcamps and round tables were furiously lacking in women. Makery managed to meet a few female makers, however, their pockets full of projects.
Published 17 May 2017 by Benjamin Cadon
Calafou, the eco-industrial post-capitalist Catalan colony, organized Hack the Earth from April 14 to 16. A bio-political path, both suststainable and desirable, is written there.
Published 16 May 2017 by Annick Rivoire
#Fablab Festival. More of a great Make celebration than the makers’ rendezvous: the Toulouse festival welcomed 9,000 visitors from May 11 to 14. Report.
Published 16 May 2017 by Victor Didelot
#Fablab Festival. The Low-tech Lab presented in Toulouse a wind turbine made from salvage materials. And it only costs €15. Tutorial.
Published 16 May 2017
Tortoises ridden by robots that guide them is the experience of a team of Korean researchers. A first step towards biobots?
Published 16 May 2017 by Ewen Chardronnet
#Fablab Festival. Interview with Krzysztof Nawratek, architect and urbanist from the University of Sheffield, about the essay he directed, “Urban Re-industrialization”.
Published 9 May 2017
Researchers in the United States demonstrated that the replication of the HIV could be stopped thanks to the CRISPR-Cas9 technique, kind of genetic scissors.
Published 9 May 2017 by Nicolas Barrial
Sound waves hide strange patterns, first revealed in the 19th century by the founder of modern acoustics Ernst Chladni, who used a vibrating plate. The DIY version by the cofounder of a Belgian hackerspace.
Published 5 May 2017
Safecast, best known for its DIY Geiger counter, the bGeigie, just announced on April 29 its newest device: Solarcast has sensors to measure temperature, humidity, radiation and air quality.
Published 5 May 2017 by Pauline Comte
Ouvert depuis un mois dans le 20ème à Paris, le SimplonLab initie enfants et ados de ce quartier populaire à la fabrication numérique, grâce au programme Fablabs solidaires de la fondation Orange et l'aide de la mairie de Paris.
Published 5 May 2017 by Damien Bourniquel
For WYHIWYS (What You Hear Is What You See), creation for Makery, the artist Damien Bourniquel composes a mash-up of Youtube videos shaped by ASMR.
Published 2 May 2017 by Nicolas Barrial
Thin as an atom, stronger than steel, and the best known conductor of electricity, graphene is a revolution. But patents are piling up, as are prototypes, and we can’t wait to use it.
Published 28 April 2017 by Cherise Fong
Conceived with Japanese farmers in mind, UECS-Pi is a functional prototype of an autonomous greenhouse that runs on a Raspberry Pi connected to an Arduino.
Published 28 April 2017
Programing an assistant robot has never been as simple, thanks to the software developed by a team from Georgia Tech University that offers a point and click interface.
Published 28 April 2017 by David Rochelet
David Rochelet, who founded the Doualab in Cameroon, is also part of the adventure of the Ongola Fablab, the first in the capital Yaoundé. He tells us about its opening on April 6.
Published 25 April 2017 by Adrien Malguy
Taiwan is renovating its military-industrial heritage. The ex-military base of Treasure Hill was turned into an artistic village where the OpenLab Taipei is blossoming.