/ Events
#Fablab Festival. Interview with Krzysztof Nawratek, architect and urbanist from the University of Sheffield, about the essay he directed, “Urban Re-industrialization”.
/ Tidbits
Researchers in the United States demonstrated that the replication of the HIV could be stopped thanks to the CRISPR-Cas9 technique, kind of genetic scissors.
/ DIY
Sound waves hide strange patterns, first revealed in the 19th century by the founder of modern acoustics Ernst Chladni, who used a vibrating plate. The DIY version by the cofounder of a Belgian hackerspace.
/ Tidbits
Safecast, best known for its DIY Geiger counter, the bGeigie, just announced on April 29 its newest device: Solarcast has sensors to measure temperature, humidity, radiation and air quality.
/ Lab Life
Ouvert depuis un mois dans le 20ème à Paris, le SimplonLab initie enfants et ados de ce quartier populaire à la fabrication numérique, grâce au programme Fablabs solidaires de la fondation Orange et l'aide de la mairie de Paris.
/ Voices
For WYHIWYS (What You Hear Is What You See), creation for Makery, the artist Damien Bourniquel composes a mash-up of Youtube videos shaped by ASMR.
/ News
Thin as an atom, stronger than steel, and the best known conductor of electricity, graphene is a revolution. But patents are piling up, as are prototypes, and we can’t wait to use it.
/ Proto
Conceived with Japanese farmers in mind, UECS-Pi is a functional prototype of an autonomous greenhouse that runs on a Raspberry Pi connected to an Arduino.
/ Tidbits
Programing an assistant robot has never been as simple, thanks to the software developed by a team from Georgia Tech University that offers a point and click interface.
/ Voices
David Rochelet, who founded the Doualab in Cameroon, is also part of the adventure of the Ongola Fablab, the first in the capital Yaoundé. He tells us about its opening on April 6.
/ Lab Life
Taiwan is renovating its military-industrial heritage. The ex-military base of Treasure Hill was turned into an artistic village where the OpenLab Taipei is blossoming.
/ News
With very limited access to drinkable water in Africa, the distribution of Pure Water bags has been organized since the 2000s. And has led to an environmental plague. Recycling projects emerge.
/ Voices
Experiencing very high altitude to prepare for a journey into space: artist-researcher Benjamin Pothier tells Makery about his expedition in the Chilean highlands.
/ Tidbits
On April 28 will be held in Toulouse (Southwestern France) the first NanoCar Race. Four international teams will “drive” molecular machines on a nano-sized racetrack.
/ Voices
The artist-researcher Benjamin Pothier joined a geological and glaciological expedition in the Chilean desert, in conditions analogous to Mars. First part of his logbook for Makery.
/ Voices
One foot in France and the other in Africa, our material maker found the balance for her business of upcycling projects for local resources, Termatière.
/ Proto
A wall calendar made of intelligent paper that displays the latest updates from your smartphone is the idea underlying designer Kosho Tsuboi’s “Magic Calendar”.
/ Investigation
Driverless buses, cars that park themselves... If the autonomous vehicle is already on the streets, hackers are waiting in ambush to denounce its security flaws.
/ Tidbits
Researchers from the University of California presented a rubber-like material that is stretchable and transparent, conducts ions and can heal itself to regain all its fantastic properties.
/ Interview
“Designer Maker User”, the exhibition of the new Design Museum, tells the story of manufactured production, from the pre-industrial era to the era of digital crafts.
