/ Voices
In order to make his microfarm a reality, Alexis trained in permaculture at the Norman farm of Bec Hellouin. He took the opportunity to interview his founders, Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer.
/ Tidbits
Two weeks after the tweet in which he accused the Chinese maker Naomi Wu of not being what she said she was, the boss of Make Media made his second mea culpa.
/ Investigation
Before the industrial vats, Shojinmeat Project’s first objective is to culture meat cells in home incubators. This Japanese citizen science movement has nothing to do with artificial burgers or vegan activism.
/ News
The maker world has taken a blow. On Wednesday, November 15, the TechShop makerspace chain, now liquidated, announced the closure of its ten locations in the United States.
/ Interview
Chinese maker Naomi Wu, alias Sexy Cyborg, defends herself in Makery against the founder of Make, who did “crippling damage” to her reputation by accusing her of being no more than a persona.
/ Proto
As a preview, the French designer Fanny Prudhomme is presenting les Parleuses, a sexual education kit created for her diploma in design, a set of women's sexual organs, hand-sewn or to be made.
/ News
With 18,000 visitors from November 2-4 in Namur, Belgium, the 7th Kikk festival conciliates between the general public and a specialized program mixing art, DIY and tech. Recipe.
/ News
We Are Robots, the first edition of a festival dedicated to music and its future innovations, was held on November 2-5 in London, where we met up with the cream of maker musicians.
/ Voices
How will we travel tomorrow? From railway vehicles to solar tuk-tuk, Rob La Frenais, who conducts the Future of Transportation project with the Srishti Institute, gives a few art and DIY ideas.
/ Tidbits
On October 25, Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to the humanoid robot Sophia. Will this AI have more rights than the Saudi women?
/ Voices
How do you do keep the trees and plants on a permaculture farm watered given global warming? Alexis and Blanche got busy with a digger to make a rainwater storage facility and a natural swimming pool.
/ News
The Science Museum in London organized a night event around retro-gaming on October 25. Cardboard robots, games and friction slide, regression has some good sides.
/ Lab Life
Niched on the third floor of a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s first FabCafe opened just over a year ago.
/ Tidbits
The mini electric taxi boats SeaBubbles won't fly over the river Seine. The designer and seaman Alain Thébault has chosen Geneva instead of Paris for his prototype test.
/ DIY
#BalanceTonPorc (RatoutYourPig) and #MeToo will not be enough. Women still have a lot to do to command respect. #JustInCase, here is a small tutorial for a DIY pepper spray…
/ Tidbits
The first civil infrastructure for bicycles to be 3D-printed in reinforced pre-stressed concrete opened to cyclists in the village of Gemert, Netherlands.
/ DIY
No need to wait for Apple’s ARKit to get started with augmented reality. All you need are a Web browser and a few lines of code.
/ News
Visit of Artisan’s Asylum, one of the largest makerspace in the US, that saw the birth of MegaBots. On October 17, 2017, the mega-robot EaglePrime fought its Japanese rival Kuratas.
/ News
Should the smart city be the sandbox of the Internet of Things? The Smart Cities Asia conference, held in Kuala Lumpur on October 2-3, explored various manifestations of high-tech urbanism.
/ News
On September 21-24, the MIT Media Lab hosted the Bio Summit, the largest assembly of biohackers to date. A milestone in the movement of community biology labs.
