Hacking a smoke detector to prevent flooding
When floods are coming, there is a way to convert a smoke detector into a water detector. Here’s how.
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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.
(Français) Mathilde Berchon : «Ses utilisateurs ont transformé l’impression 3D en profondeur»
(Français) Mathilde Berchon signe la deuxième édition (en moins d’un an !) de « L’Impression 3D », aux éditions Eyrolles. Un best-seller pour « rejoindre le mouvement », dit-elle.
«WYHIWYS 01», 3D printing mash-up
Artist Damien Bourniquel, from the Blackboxe hackerspace in Paris, has created for Makery a cacophonic mash-up on 3D printing.
The FabMake in Nantes: open but not so easy to access
The new FabMake is located at the heart of the Technocampus, huge industrial complex dedicated to research in Nantes.
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.
DIY: Flex those muscles!
In order to supply power to all sorts of objects, the LittleBits EMG SpikerBox kit uses muscular electric activity.
PrintAlive Bioprinter regenerates skin by printing tissue-bandages
Treating severely burned people with 3D printing is possible with PrintAlive Bioprinter, a Canadian prototype.
“DIYsect”, the webdoc on the road towards biotech ethics
Makery met Mary Tsang and Ben Welmond in Los Angeles, where they finishes “DIYsect”, a webdoc on biohacktivism.
Do It Yourself: Shelf vegetable garden
Learn how to grow herbs with little or no maintenance on your bookshelf.
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.
Journey to the heart of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA’s oldest lab applies maker culture to build the future Curiosity and Voyager.
Do it Yourself: an interactive umbrella
An umbrella is handy. A tinkered umbrella is, in addition, illuminated and interactive.
Knit while decoding
The Tricodeur is a pirated knitting machine designed to subvert the sensible textile design.
Artists and hackers titillate innovation at the first Art Hack Day in France
48 hours to tackle innovation through artistic prototy
In Los Angeles, LA Biohackers dreams of biology for all
At LA Biohackers, children, parents and hackers meet around DIY biology.
El Paso, fablab of the Far West
Interview with Gustavo Arriago, co-founder of Fablab El Paso opened in march 2014
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.