/ Interview
Interview with Marko Peljhan, the Slovenian artist behind Makrolab, which since 1997 has traveled around the world, hosting artists, hackers, scientists. Part 1.
/ News
To build an ephemeral city out of raw clay in less than 48 hours with 500 pairs of hands: this was the festival challenge of the experimental architecture organization Bellastock.
/ News
Experience a 100% DIY “maker vacation” at IndieCamp in Névez, Brittany, featuring a solar-powered shower, mycelium, ironworking and Raspberry Pi workshops.
/ Tidbits
On July 13, in Amsterdam, 10 scientist makers set off on their European tour on board the Do-it-Together Science Bus, in association with the Waag Society fablab.
/ Voices
Nearly five months that our material maker is in Africa with Termatière, her bio-sourced materials company. The key moments upon her return.
/ Proto
Conceived at the Green Fab Lab in Barcelona and currently in crowdfunding, Aquapioneers is an aquaponics kit for all pioneers of agriculture above ground.
/ Tidbits
The most powerful MRI medical scanner in the world, equipped with a magnet weighing more than 130 tons, was presented on July 6 by the NeuroSpin institute, a research center dedicated to human brain imaging.
/ Portrait
The cliché of Africa, one digital revolution behind, is not for her. At 27, the “serial maker” has co-founded Baby Lab, a third place in Abidjan, and created her own brand of recycled jewelry.
/ Voices
Antoine Bonnet aka KiK, circuit-bender, maker artist in electronics, DIYbio, textile and sound design had just died. We were about to publish his first column. Here it is as a tribute.
/ Events
The second edition of Border Sessions, the festival at the frontiers of technology, was held in The Hague on June 28-30. In its own friendly way, it pushes us to think “out of the box”.
/ Tidbits
The European Parliament voted this July 4 in favor of a report destined to make goods longer-lasting and easier to repair.
/ Tidbits
The architecture made from mycelium proposed by Aleksi Vesaluoma with Grown Structures could enable to design solid structures, durable and respectful of the environment.
/ DIY
The makers of Ecoteclab are into low-tech and sustainable development. We were with them in June at their monthly DIY workshop to create an instrument that measures the wind.
/ Voices
They organized in May a seminar on biohacking in healthcare. Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou and Jérôme Avom explain the potential of open science for developing countries.
/ Lab Life
The media darling and cofounder of La Paillasse biohacklab in Paris has resigned, now replaced by Hacene Lahreche. For French fablabs, this change marks the end of the “sandbox” era.
/ Lab Life
Visiting the coders of Ayiyikoh in Abidjan, who have been defending open source since 2014 for the autonomy of economics in Africa. The fablab is training the young in code and entrepreneurship.
/ DIY
As the heatwave drags on, let’s take action! To keep cool without going broke, follow our guide to the best DIY tutorials to beat the heat.
/ News
This is our summer guide to holiday camps for coders, tinkerers, biohackers… Travel through our map featuring 16 points of interest, from Denmark to Sicily.
/ News
In Yokohama on August 31 and September 1, an artificial intelligence tournament invites contestants to develop manipulative impostor bots.
/ Tidbits
Chinese scientists have just established a record distance for quantum teleportation, 1,200km apart. A step further for data protection.
