/ Lab Life
Opened six months ago within the avant-garde ArtScience Museum in Singapore’s newest commercial and tourist district, the FabCafe is the latest addition to the global network born in Tokyo in 2012.
/ DIY
At some point, we’ve all been stuck in a hotel room with a dead phone and no way of charging it. One Italian maker found the trick, which consists of screwing the charger into a lightbulb socket.
/ News
The “3D Additivist Cookbook” was launched at Transmediale in Berlin on January 31. About a hundred artists, makers and activists contributed to this book of 3D printing recipes and imaginative and provocative methods.
/ DIY
Do you find conductive ink pens too costly and recipes too chemical? A lab in Barcelona offers a simple method to make your own conductive ink at home.
/ Interview
Plastic artist, designer of poetical automated creatures, Zaven Paré, precursor of the actor-robot, has been involved with robots for more than 20 years. Interview.
/ Interview
Anupama Gowda and Pavan Kumar, encountered at the FAB12 international fablab conference in Shenzhen, created the first fablab in Bangalore, India, under a metro station. For Makery, Anupama Gowda tells its story.
/ Portrait
He plays synth on his bike, turns Trump into a toupeed Furby and everything he touches into a musical instrument. In London, Makery met Sam Battle, aka Look Mum No Computer.
/ Tidbits
Tokyo 2020 organizing committee invites all residents of Japan to donate their obsolete electronic devices to manufacture 100% of the Olympic medals.
/ Tidbits
According to a study published by four major universities, resorting to 3D printing in PLA would allow the textile industry to be more respectful of the environment.
/ News
During a workshop on January 27-28 in Paris, The Yes Men, masters of hoax, shared their recipes for staging peaceful acts of protest and poking fun at the media. Ingredients.
/ Lab Life
It’s summertime in Buenos Aires, not the best time to discover the growing network of Argentinian fablabs. While waiting for FAB13, the fabconf in Santiago de Chile in July, visit of El Reactor.
/ Proto
One month after Brexit, there was Hack Brexit, a hackathon to create tools that counteracted misleading political campaigns. Six months later, the collective presents two prototypes.
/ Interview
She has a flat stomach and a full brain. In Shenzhen, Naomi “Sexy Cyborg” Wu makes infinity mini-skirts and translucent “blinkinis”. Interview with the “lady maker”.
/ Tidbits
Europe is pondering robots. On January 12, members of the Committee on Legal Affairs met to discuss regulations for robotics to be adopted by the European Union.
/ Investigation
Ever since complex theories have been popularized, self-proclaimed geniuses have been proposing their own answers to science’s unanswered questions. The scientific community is disconcerted by these DIY theories.
/ Voices
The first material of Termatière, a vine shoot composite, is in the hands of potential clients. Our maker met other fans of materials to recycle in Africa.
/ DIY
Here the tutorial for the Pussy Hat, the pink hat with cat ears worn by thousands of protesters during the Women’s March on Washington on January 21. The fun anti-Trump symbol.
/ Proto
A house that adapts to seasons and opens like a flower. The nice idea of London architects became viral… 7 years later. But still not real. Meeting with the creators of “D*Dynamic”.
/ Proto
Skipper Alain Thébault chose Paris to test his eco-taxis that hover above the water. Initially announced for June, the Sea Bubbles are still 3D models.
/ Tidbits
103 Perdix mini drones swarmed in the sky thanks to collective artificial intelligence, announced the secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense on January 9.
