Print glass in 3D? Yes, she can!
Mediated Matter researchers of the MIT Media Lab in Boston developed the very first 3D printer for glass. Opening new possibilities for design and architecture.
by Caroline Grellier
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Our maker in bio-sourced materials has not been idle this summer. La Termatière completed its funding, launched a market study, wrote its R&D program and recruited a partner.
The Baganda, ancestral makers of bark cloth in Uganda
How an ancestral know-how of bark cloth production became an international eco-fashion company, between Uganda and Germany.
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June priority for La Termatière, the bio-sourced materials agency: hunting for euros! Contests, feasibility studies allowing me to check what my vine shoot has in its fibre.
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Peanut shells, rice bran, cow pat and homemade moulds… Our material maker continues her inspiring immersion in Togo, at the bio-sourced local material lab.
Minodoo, Togo’s nomadic maker community
In Togo, the makers community of Minodoo organizes OpenSourceTours, some wandering introductory events in the true spirit of open source.
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For her agro-material design agency project La Termatière, Caroline Grellier went off to Togo to observe the activity of a research centre in local materials.
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La Termatière, Caroline Grellier’s project of viticulture by-products development, must define its investments needs in order to progress from DIY to mass production.
Engineer Lolo: Arduino under his skin
As TRATECH, a sort of maker faire in Ghana, comes to a close, Léonce Atanley, never without an Arduino in his backpack, tells Makery about his future projects as an experienced maker for Africa.
Florent Youzan, advocate of free software in Africa
In Ivory Coast, computer engineer and tireless advocate of free software Florent Youzan is the co-founder of Ovillage, a third-space in Abidjan that produces social innovation projects.
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A podium at the Paris Agricultural Show start-up contest and a meeting with scientists: the great leaps forward of Caroline Grellier's viticulture by-products upgrading project.
Do it Yourself: the vital recipe of the all-purpose dough
Test the homemade recipe for the repairing and protecting dough, based on corn flour and silicone.
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The designer Caroline Grellier keeps the diary of her project of viticulture by-products upgrading. Her Cooperative is now doubly incubated by Agro Valo Méditerranée and Alter’Incub.
The future of 3D printing in coffee grounds
The Italian Francesco Pacelli’s Hoop project recycles food waste, especially coffee, to make material close to ceramic for 3D printing.
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Does a maker make a good innovator? Caroline Grellier, designer, chronicles her project “Cooperative for the upgrading of viticulture materials", incubated by Sup’Agro Montpellier.
Hatching of labs at the Lomé InnovAfrica forum
Seven African makers present their projects during the sixth InnovAfrica forum that brought together from the 24th to the 28th of November in Lomé, Togo, 150 Africans from 15 French speaking countries.
Ouagadougou makers had their revolution and completed their fablab
Burkina Faso had its quiet revolution on October 30th by demonstrating to obtain the departure of president Compaoré. The Ouagalab makers took part in the demonstrations whilst completing work on the future fablab.
Ouagalab: slowly but surely
Makers from Togo, Ghana, Benin and Ivory Coast met in June 2014 in Ouagalab, the first fablab of West Africa.