In Great Britain, a junior high school is welcoming a rather peculiar resident: Cinder, an augmented reality cat fed with solar power and in charge of making sustainable architecture visible.
Plastic wrappings are a plague in Africa. Not for the Cameroonian engineer Calvin Tiam who developed a roof coating made from plastic waste. Meeting.
Do fablabs help big cities to become resilient? Sent to Visualizar by Ping and Makery, developer Julien Paris spent 10 days in Madrid working on the Fabcity Dashboard.
Sprint session of ironic prototyping at the first French stupid hackathon organized by the Stereolux Arts and Technologies Laboratory in Nantes on October 29.
Every year in Cambodia, the Mekong River floods hundreds of hectares around Lake Tonlé Sap. A project by architect Jonathan Chhen allies ecotourism, ecodesign and social good.
The Slovenian bio-artist Špela Petrič offered a performance with extraction of hormones on October 21 at the Plateforme C fablab in Nantes. She also presented her “plant-human monsters".
The flourishing start-up of Alex Klein, 26, has already sold 100,000 DIY computer kits and is launching a new range of tech objects to build and code yourself. Encounter.
No need to be a billionaire to experience outer space. Makery teaches you to convert an ordinary ballpoint pen into an “anti-gravity” pen to write in any position...
The future biodesign agency Termatière now has its first material, a composite of vine shoots for manufacturing wine crates.
The Chemputer, developed by Lee Cronin with support from BAE Systems, is one of the first prototypes to seriously tackle digitizing chemistry.
To reconstitute his lost memories, Colombian artist Fito Segrera created an installation that tinkers with your memories using an Open BCI (brain-computer interface) headset.
The 4th Fashion Tech Week in Paris culminated on October 13 at Institut français de la mode, with an exhibition of smart clothing. Follow the guide to build your 1st e-textile circuit.
The Influencers festival, on October 20-22 in Barcelona, presents the best of tactical media. We met its founder, Bani Brusadin.
Welcome to the future. In less than a month, two titles composed by artificial intelligence have exceeded 1.5 million views on the Web.
For the last 9 months Alexis & Blanche have been trying to reduce their waste to zero. By the end of September, they reached 90g per person per week. How do they do it?
From September 26 to October 5 at the Medialab Prado, Visualizar questioned the use of urban open data. Feedback from Julien Paris the developer sent by Ping and the Makery medialab.
A hood to blind surveillance cameras, a public bench transformed into a shelter...“Hacker Citizen” is a book of recipes to reappropriate urban space.
What are the recipes that make fablabs a success? Born in 2011, the Ouagalab is the oldest makerspace in West Africa. Report.
Makery is on-site to accompany the construction of a future shelter for refugees in Paris, co-designed by architects, graphic designers, social workers and botany artists.
French committed citizens create a solidarity app for the roofless, “Besoin d’un toi”. Activation this month.
