/ 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.
/ Events
“Man Made Clouds” is the first smokable book on clouds made by man, autumn present from the duo of artists HeHe. Chosen extracts for Makery.
/ Voices
At Woma, in Paris, the CNC occupies an entire room. This digital milling machine commands everyone’s respect. Here it is, picked up in binaural by the artist Jean-Philippe Renoult.
/ News
The aircraft imagined by anime master Hayao Miyazaki in “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” has become a reality, thanks to Japanese media artist Kazuhiko Hachiya.
/ News
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.
/ Proto
Plastic wrappings are a plague in Africa. Not for the Cameroonian engineer Calvin Tiam who developed a roof coating made from plastic waste. Meeting.
/ medialab
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.
/ Tidbits
Sprint session of ironic prototyping at the first French stupid hackathon organized by the Stereolux Arts and Technologies Laboratory in Nantes on October 29.
/ News
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.
/ Portrait
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".
/ News
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.
