Published 26 January 2016

The best of YouFab 2015, the creative fabrication contest organized by FabCafé Tokyo. Makery was there.

Published 19 January 2016 by Cherise Fong

Open source and soon to be sold for less than a hundred euros, OCPC heralds the revolution of the computer numerical control machine for all.

Published 5 January 2016 by Cherise Fong

Made in Japan, Mesh is the latest prototyping kit for all, allowing anyone to playfully appropriate the Internet of Things—following in the footsteps of U.S. start-up Littlebits and European initiative SAM.

Published 15 December 2015 by Cherise Fong

The very first FabLearn Asia took place on December 12-13 in Yokohama. It was inspired by the original FabLearn conference organized since 2011 by Stanford University. Makery was there

Published 15 December 2015 by Cherise Fong

Created in the birthplace of Hello Kitty, the young Japanese collective Neurowear prototypes playful prostheses that immediately make us smile... by exploiting our brainwaves!

Published 1 December 2015 by Cherise Fong

Professor Hiroya Tanaka, a kind of Japanese Neil Gershenfeld, opened several fablabs and trained battalions of makers. Portrait.

Published 16 November 2015 by Cherise Fong

In Japan, where traditional agricultural practices are aging fast, research looks toward connected solutions. Sensprout and Techrice are two rising projects using environmental sensors.

Published 9 November 2015 by Cherise Fong

Makery collected a few stellar samples of DIY clocks kits to suit a wide range of more or less mathematical minds...

Published 19 October 2015 by Cherise Fong

The makers of the start-up Akafugu in Tokyo offer open source kits to build your own design objects using old Nixie and VFD tubes.

Published 13 October 2015 by Cherise Fong

“Don’t Follow the Wind” is an invisible exhibition inside the contaminated Fukushima's Exclusion Zone. For the awareness of future generations.

Published 5 October 2015 by Cherise Fong

Inspired by Instructables, Fabble is a budding Japanese website for sharing geeky but poetic DIY projects.

Published 11 August 2015 by Cherise Fong

Amidst the rice paddies of Chiba in Japan, three co-founders of Tokyo HackerSpace created Hacker Farm, a rural hackerspace to build stuff and live green.

Published 20 July 2015 by Cherise Fong

Why is there only one hackerspace in Tokyo? It has moved around a lot over the past 6 years, all the way to this quiet garage northwest of the city, where Makery paid a visit.

Published 10 April 2015 by Cherise Fong

Folded cranes dancing in sync—paper animation, puppet gadgetry, or Japanese traditional art revisited? Discover the Ugoita collective.

Published 30 March 2015 by Cherise Fong

Japanese maker Toshitatsu Munakata has designed a kit inspired by pteranodon to build a machine that flaps its wings.

Published 3 February 2015 by Cherise Fong

YCAM in Yamaguchi opens its media arts production to prototyping and open source, beginning with its in-house fablab, Edu Lab.

Published 20 January 2015 by Cherise Fong

A visit to Kyushu, better known for its natural hot springs (from volcanic sand to melting mud to boiling waters), which also has its own reserve of digital hot spots.

Published 28 November 2014 by Cherise Fong

On November 23-24, 300 Japanese makers came together at Tokyo Big Sight to show off their latest designs and inventions at Maker Faire Tokyo.

Published 4 November 2014 by Cherise Fong

Launched in Tokyo after the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Safecast measures nuclear radiation with a DIY device and shares the data on an open map. Makery met the core team behind the project.

Published 7 October 2014 by Cherise Fong

Digital fabrication spaces in Tokyo are adapted to local culture, mostly based on consumption.