/ Voices
Is this the home stretch? Termatière, the business project specialized in the low-tech conception of new bio-sourced local materials, has never been as close to becoming a reality…
/ News
A hundred artists explore the themes of science fiction and space with a DIY and dystopian aesthetic inside a car park in London. Pictures of “Big Deal No 7”, an exhibition at Q-Park in Whitcomb Street.
/ Tidbits
Exactly one hundred years after his death in 1916, Japan’s most famous Meiji-era author, Natsume Soseki, was both commemorated and revived at a Tokyo University in the form of an android.
/ Tidbits
Open Gov Summit: French organizations promoting civil and digital liberties criticize France's flawed expression of open democracy.
/ DIY
Makery rounded up a stocking full of 3D files for original decorations, gifts to make at home or in a fablab. For a DIY Christmas.
/ Lab Life
Fablab Setagaya, the 18th and newest addition to the Fablab Japan network, is officially open since November 1, 2016 in a micro village of arts and crafts in the southwest of Tokyo.
/ News
On November 26 and 27, the artist Tomás Saraceno brought together researchers from the most prestigious universities in the world for a hackathon unlike any other. Objective: invent the Aerocene era.
/ doc
The good papers from “Ours to Hack and to Own” by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider. This book supports the launch of an international consortium for platform cooperativism.
/ Investigation
VR is still complicated and expensive to produce. However, immersive reports are becoming increasingly common, creating a new form of engagement in news information.
/ Tidbits
Agricool recycles containers into organic strawberry tanks in town. And it works: the start-up has just raised €4 million.
/ Portrait
Bucket Drummer Masa, 28, doesn’t consider himself a maker musician. Playing his homemade, hand-tuned bucket drums and PVC pipe didgeridoo, however, are his DIY claim to fame.
/ Proto
French researcher Mathieu Le Goc’s mini-robots, a new form of manipulable interface, charmed the Web. Explanations.
/ DIY
Bart Bakker, pioneer of the maker movement, founder of the Minifablab in Utrecht, Netherlands, has designed a portable lab that you can cycle around with you: the Fabsladda
/ News
At Rencontres Bandits-Mages in Bourges, France, the Quimera Rosa collective presented “Transplant”, a biohacking art project that injects and tattoos chlorophyll to create human-plants.
/ Tidbits
Designer Isis Shiffer won the James Dyson Award for her EcoHelmet, a paper folding helmet designed with a honeycomb structure giving its strength.
/ Proto
Deux chercheurs de l'université de Pennsylvanie ont inventé Piccolissimo, un drone de 28mm de diamètre et 2,5g. Muni d'un capteur, il pourrait effectuer toutes sortes de tâches, seul ou en essaim.
/ News
Hackoustic brings together ten or so sound artists in London. Circuit bending, DIY lute-making, 3D printed records... these maker musicians share their knowledge and exhibit their talents.
/ News
Police raid, building collapse... Dodging destiny, the Cairo Hackerspace team took to the road as nomads, driving a microbus through Egypt to meet the country’s makers.
/ DIY
Astrophysicist David Clements, with a group of students from Imperial College London, has converted the mapping of “the oldest light in the universe” into a 3D printer file. Makery met the man.
/ News
Les filles du facteur, association created by the fashion designer Delphine Kohler, recycles plastic bags into design objects, helping women in Burkina Faso and in France to create their activity.
