/ Events
#Fablab Festival. In Toulouse, the talks, barcamps and round tables were furiously lacking in women. Makery managed to meet a few female makers, however, their pockets full of projects.
/ Voices
Calafou, the eco-industrial post-capitalist Catalan colony, organized Hack the Earth from April 14 to 16. A bio-political path, both suststainable and desirable, is written there.
/ Events
#Fablab Festival. More of a great Make celebration than the makers’ rendezvous: the Toulouse festival welcomed 9,000 visitors from May 11 to 14. Report.
/ DIY
#Fablab Festival. The Low-tech Lab presented in Toulouse a wind turbine made from salvage materials. And it only costs €15. Tutorial.
/ Tidbits
Tortoises ridden by robots that guide them is the experience of a team of Korean researchers. A first step towards biobots?
/ 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.
