/ DIY
It’s summer, it’s hot, it’s time to find solutions to get some fresh air! Air-conditioning units are too expensive, and ventilation fan isn’t enough. Here are three DIY refreshing solutions.
/ Tidbits
For the first time, not just a city but an entire country is a candidate to host the FAB14 conference in 2018.
/ News
Reborn Kyoto breathes new life into old kimonos. The nonprofit organization trains marginalized women in Cambodia, Vietnam or Rwanda, while transforming quality silk into ready-to-wear fashion.
/ Interview
Marc Dusseiller, cofounder of the international open source network of biohackers and bioartists Hackteria talks about how the DIYbio movement came to Europe.
/ Lab Life
In Tübingen, the fablab concerns itself with social integration of migrants and takes part in the Freifunk project for free access to the Internet. Guided tour.
/ Voices
Caroline Grellier allowed herself a little getaway outside the lab where she refines her vine shoot composites to find inspiration at Terra2016, world congress for lovers of earthen architecture.
/ Tidbits
More than 2,300km on the odometer and 30 labs visited in a month. The riders of the Fab Bike Tour pursue their European labs visits on bicycle.
/ DIY
Le 14 Juillet dans le parc du Sénat à Paris s'est tenue la première course (interdite) française «Pokémon Go». Le jeu en réalité augmentée de Nintendo n'est pourtant pas encore officiellement déployé en France. On y était.
/ News
Border Sessions was held in The Hague on July 6-7, offering a full schedule of talks and workshops to scratch disruptive technologies, or “fringe tech” pushing the science limits.
/ Proto
The house built by makers Rob Oudendijk and Yuka Hayashi has no foundation, its walls are made of extruded polystyrene foam and mortar. Visit of this DIY domicile.
/ Portrait
With 21 million views, Wintergatan’s Marble Machine is a YouTube hit. Interview with its creator, Martin Molin, a born maker.
/ Tidbits
The French National Institute for computer science and applied mathematics (Inria) puts online Software Heritage, a platform that archives free software and calls for contribution.
/ News
By day, they are designers, artists or producers. By night, they are Trafo Pop, a gang of bikers on bicycles with jackets flocked with LEDs. Discover the Berlin “hackerspace on wheels”.
/ Voices
The artist Jean-Philippe Renoult makes the Roland BN-20, a vinyl printer cutter, swing for Makesound, his binaural sound column. Headphones highly recommended!
/ Voices
To coincide with the first Zero Waste Festival in France from June 30th to July 2d, ecowarrior Alexis explains his life with Blanche, minimizing their impact on the environment.
/ Tidbits
The first Starts, European prize rewarding the role of art in innovation, were presented on Thursday, June 23.
/ creation-2
Discover the "camps" and "summer schools" in Europe, for an informed public of hackers, DIYers, coders. Follow the guide of this journey in sixteen stages.
/ Lab Life
We ventured into Yamamoto Lab at Nagasaki University, pioneer of the biomimetic fish robots. Professor Ikuo Yamamoto’s marine-inspired mechatronics have won awards. And set records.
/ DIY
Sergey Komardenkov, Russian designer from the collective Playtronica, explains how to turn a tightrope into a theremin.
/ Voices
After discussing the theoretical dimension of the commons, Olivier Blondeau shows how the Github platform, well known to makers and developers, constitutes a common good.
