Do it Yourself special heatwave: 15-minute A/C
39 degrees... so what? Makery shows you how to keep cool despite the heatwave with DIY air-conditioners that can be built in less than 15 minutes. A little sweat for lots of comfort.
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How to prototype in virtual reality
La modélisation et le prototypage à l'aide d'un casque VR ne sont pas encore vraiment à portée de main. Makery a passé en revue les solutions plus ou moins immersives à disposition. Ever since “Minority Report” and “The Matrix”, computer manufacturers have been dreaming about it, but modeling and prototyping using a VR headset isn't quite here ye
Rural.Scapes, a rural lab for artists, cows and chicken in Brazil
The Rural.Scapes farm is a lab that defends “Rural Intermedia”, confronts artists with local territory and know-how.
Futur en Seine: “demo or die” in Paris
Prototypes paraded across Innovation Village at Futur en Seine 2015, Paris' all-digital festival, at Gaîté Lyrique from June 11 to 14.
Do it Yourself: Install TailsOS, the anonymous Linux on USB key
TailsOS is a free, anonymizing and amnesic operating system thats fits on a USB key. This (advanced) DiY guides you through the steps to install it.
Column of a material maker #6
Peanut shells, rice bran, cow pat and homemade moulds… Our material maker continues her inspiring immersion in Togo, at the bio-sourced local material lab.
Do it Yourself: brew your own beer
How to make your own beer? The Makery recipe to brew 7 liters of pure lager.
No Chanel at the textile hackerspace
Where does DIY dressmaking stand? On May 27th, the intelligent and connected textile day that took place at Stereolux in Nantes provided an update. Makery was there.
Do it Yourself: Automatic Tinder Finger
In a minimalist DIY approach to save their over-eager fingers from carpal tunnel syndrome, a few makers tried their hands at hacking the mobile matchmaking app Tinder.
Hackers meet the mainstream at THSF in Toulouse
A huge mix of geekeries and experiences for the general public made up the programme for the THSF, a festival organized by art collective Mix’art Myrys and Tetalab hackerspace, May 14-17, in Toulouse.
Pallet it Yourself under cover of the peach walls
Furniture made of reusable pallets is the workshop proposed by the green warriors of UpCycly in Montreuil, as part of the peach wall Festival on May 24th. Makery was there.
Toulouse FabFest: the union of French labs in front of 5,000 visitors
A network of French fablabs in the works, 50 fablabs and 5,000 visitors were present: The Toulouse Fablab Festival passes the test of its first edition with flying colours.
Bricole it Yourself: the modular synthesizer
It’s possible to recreate the pleasant analogue fuzz of Moog era synthesizers without breaking the bank. At Shoogle studios in Glasgow, Makery built a synth for ten pounds.
35,000 visitors at the Paris Maker Faire, a record
A big success for the 2nd edition of the Paris Maker Faire that quadrupled its visits this year, setting up at the Paris Trade Fair on the 2nd and 3rd of May.
How to prototype a MakerBox, the gift box for future makers
Advanced prototyping for the MakerBox, the gift box project from "Usbek & Rica". Before the public launch in October, Makery was among the proto-testers at WoMa.
12 headsets that will make virtual reality
Immersive headsets are ubiquitous in the media, but very few are available on the market. Makery sifted through the marketing, often as virtual as the reality it purports to create.
Do it Yourself: BB-8, the droid from the next «Star Wars»
Whilst waiting for December and the new Star Wars saga, BB-8, the droid replacing R2-D2, has become a favourite with the fans. Making of its DIY version by an American designer.
15,000 Parisians revitalised at the “Fête de la récup”
Resounding success for the “Fête de la récup” (Reuse party) this weekend in Paris. Some 15,000 curious people, solidarity-based players and makers participated in the recycling centre workshops.
Column of a material maker #4
La Termatière, Caroline Grellier’s project of viticulture by-products development, must define its investments needs in order to progress from DIY to mass production.
Gambiarra: repair culture by Felipe Fonseca
Felipe Fonseca co-founded the MetaReciclagem network in 2002. This “historical” maker denounces the entrepreneurial drift of the movement in “Repair culture” and here, for Makery.