Do it Yourself : 6 posters to hang in your lab
Security, documentation… here are a few basic pin-ups for your fab space.
by Quentin Chevrier
DIY: 6 (truly) useful 3D prints for the office
Stamp, coffee cup, keyboard... a few everyday professional objects achievable in 3D printing.
DIY: can one print the charm of one’s twelfth night cake?
Will 3D printing save us from graceless charms and misshapen characters? Not so sure…
The labs are also Charlie
An overview of initiatives and support to #JeSuisCharlie movement by labs across France.
Do It Yourself: micro breathalyzer
An anti-doping theme for karaoke amateurs: how to know if the person talking in the microphone has been drinking.
Do it Yourself: this year, we are making presents ourselves!
The Christmas spirit, DiY version: Makery is helping you concoct 100% DiY presents, for more or less conversant makers.
Do it Yourself: pallet it be
All about pallets, a cheap, easily accessible, rather ecological material. The LEGO brick of reclaimed furniture design.
Maurin Donneaud invents “robot skin”
Meet Maurin Donneaud, a couturier of connected fabrics at Data Paulette, the new hackerspace for textiles in Paris.
Loungeshare #3, from dustbin to daring design
27 designers, craftsmen and curious onlookers got together for a design salvage workshop at ICI Montreuil this week-end.
We proto-tested WeIO, the Arduino for connected designers
WeIO is a new programmable circuit board for designers of smart objects. Makery beta-tested it.
Electrolab, soon-to-be the biggest European hackerspace in Nanterre
In the parisian suburb, Electrolab’s 120 members are working relentlessly to expand their hackerspace from 150 to 1500 m2.
Open Google Car in a backpack
Benjamin Bernard created a prototype to shoot panoramic views of Brittan. Like Google Street View, but his prototype fits in a backpack.
In Paris, Usine IO wants to earn its place between R&D and fablab
A huge high-tech prototyping workshop: this is Usine IO in Paris. Guided tour with Gary Cige, co-founder.
100,000 people watch the 3D printing of a car
It's not the first 3D-printed car. However, it is the first to have such a big audience during its production.
A boat-lab packed with prototypes tours the Mediterranean Sea
Lab-REV's crew transforms a boat into a lab to prove the relevance of associating digital fabrication, ecological activism and yachting.
Do it Yourself: an interactive umbrella
An umbrella is handy. A tinkered umbrella is, in addition, illuminated and interactive.
Artists and hackers titillate innovation at the first Art Hack Day in France
48 hours to tackle innovation through artistic prototy
DiY: Make your own cheap conductive ink
Un tutoriel complet d’encre conductrice à base de poudre de graphite.
Handicap: labs reinvent prostheses
More and more projects dedicated to making life easier for handicapped people are popping up in the labs.
Valldaura, self-sufficient mountain lab
Overlooking Barcelona lies an experimental fablab that is one-of-a-kind: Valldaura, the self-sufficient Green Fablab.