Our maker-farmers visit the mushroom urban farm in Paris
Théo Champagnat et Jean-Noël Gertz grow mushrooms in a disused underground car park. We sent our future maker-farmers on the first official visit of the only organic farm in Paris.
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Google gives up on the Moon
There will be no Google-sponsored robot on the Moon. On January 23, the Lunar XPrize officially announced that it was ending the competition.
The image that travelled 800,000 kilometers through space
Mars, the Earth and the Moon joined by the magic of an image… The artist-researcher Benjamin Pothier tells us about this space art performance from Dwingeloo radio telescope.
Bela, just a few milliseconds away from a Raspberry Pi
Bela is an open source nano-computer that processes audio signals and sensors with ultra-low latency. For musical ears, but not only.
They made Open Source Body
Hailing from Israel, Spain, Netherlands, Russia, Italy and France, they participated in the Open Source Body festival to defend their vision of open hardware for open science. Portraits.
Inside Open Source Body
It’s over! A look back on the Makery festival in Paris, where for the 1st time in France the actors of Open Science Hardware met the public.
Create an insect that sings to the sun
To usher in the spring, Veronika Krenn and Davide Bevilacqua, who first impressed us with their electro-bestiary, share their recipe for creating a singing insect.
Learning by doing at STEAM School in Mumbai
Indian maker Abhijeet Khandagale was part of STEAM School—one week of shared prototyping for sustainable development between France and India at Maker’s Asylum in Mumbai.
Lab machines of the future
No fablab without machines. But how will they evolve? Makery takes a closer look at equipment in digital fabrication laboratories of the near and distant future.
The making of the maker-farmers (4)
The long-term aim of Alexis and Blanche is to produce energy from sources on their permaculture farm: biomass, sun, geothermal. Here is their energy strategy interim plan.
These researchers “contaminated” by the maker spirit
The symposium of RGCS, international network of researchers around collaborative workspaces, took place in London mid-January. Report.
And the YouFab Award 2017 goes to…
Bioart, minimalist architecture, haptic digits, 3D-printed new materials… winners in review of the 6th edition of the YouFab international competition for digital fabrication.
“Fablab Opera”, let yourself be shaken by the sound of machines
Having written for Makery the soundtrack of lab machines, Jean-Philippe Renoult composed “Make Sound, binaural Fablab Opera” for a prestigious art radio program.
“Learning aquaponics is easier than it looks”
At Green Lab in London, we attended a workshop to create an aquaponic system. In order to be an aquaponist, you need to know a bit of everything: chemistry, design, plumbing, maths...
MakerTour lives on: after Europe, Asia
In 2015, two fans of the maker movement conceived MakerTour, a journey through France and Europe. Following their lead, MakerTour Asia was launched two years later. We look back on their journeys.
Now on sale: “Hello World”, the first album by an AI
January 12 marks the release of “Hello World”, fruit of the collaboration between composer Benoit Carré, the AI Flow Machines and guest artists.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me who is the most LED of them all
Build this LEDs mirror in five steps and admire yourself endlessly thanks to the tunnel effect. This ultra simple tutorial also works for a futuristic coffee table.
Open Source Body: Makery has its festival
Makery is organizing its first big event around Open Science Hardware and open hardware for healthcare. Hitherto unseen in France.
So TechShop, closing or reopening?
As the TechShop saga rages on in the U.S., a new TechShop opens inside Station F in Paris, while TechShop Tokyo forges ahead with impassive optimism.
Music Hackspace: it pays to squat
In 2011, the Music Hackspace was a group of noisy hackers getting together in a café. Six years later, the collective moved into a prestigious cultural institution in London.