/ Events
On December 17 and 18, at Goldsmith University, in Great-Britain, took place the first hackathon to thwart the relations between sex and technology. Report.
/ Interview
Part 2 of our interview with the Time’s Up collective from Linz on their floating investigation of fair trade sail cargo practices.
/ DIY
Not only is the didgeridoo one of the world’s oldest musical instruments, it can help treat asthma and sleep apnea. Best of all, anyone can make one out of a plastic pipe.
/ Proto
Airblock is a shock absorber modular DIY drone that turns into a car as well as a hovercraft. Developed in China, to carry out stunts in mid air, on the ground and even in a swimming-pool.
/ Interview
The artist collective based in the harbor of Linz for the past 20 years has become increasingly engaged in DIY nautical culture. Part 1 of a flowing interview.
/ Proto
Hong Kong’s first makerspace has created a prototype of the electric vehicle of the future... which looks like a dome on wheels.
/ 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.
