Do it Yourself: pallet it be
All about pallets, a cheap, easily accessible, rather ecological material. The LEGO brick of reclaimed furniture design.
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Hatching of labs at the Lomé InnovAfrica forum
Seven African makers present their projects during the sixth InnovAfrica forum that brought together from the 24th to the 28th of November in Lomé, Togo, 150 Africans from 15 French speaking countries.
Top 10 kits for hardware prototyping
Our Top 10 of prototyping kits. They are offering makers a broader choice of circuit boards to create their projects faster and faster.
“Digital craftsmen”, extract “to read whilst keeping a watch on generalised hacking”
Makery offers you an extract from “Digital Craftsmen” e-book. Johan Söderberg, researcher in information technology, questions intellectual property in the fablab era.
Do It Yourself: round-up of quick fixes for handicapped friends
A little survey of DIY tricks and quick fixes designed by handicapped people and their entourage to improve their everyday lives.
Loungeshare #3, from dustbin to daring design
27 designers, craftsmen and curious onlookers got together for a design salvage workshop at ICI Montreuil this week-end.
Do it Yourself: pick up your pulse with your fingertips
Sporty, curious, worried? And what if you made your cardiac sensor yourself?
Vegan cheese wins 1st prize for open labs at iGEM
Vegan cheese won the gold medal at iGEM’s first competition open to community labs. The international synthetic biology competition ended on November 3 in Boston.
Ultra low tech USB charger
In the middle of nowhere, your phone rings but your battery is dying... Here's a 5€ DiY rescue solution!
One week throughout Brussels open labs
Makery pushed the door of four open labs in Brussels, meeting the users.
3D metal printing for all with Mini Metal Maker
Mini Metal Maker will soon let us 3D print small objects at home, easily and safely.
Ouagalab: slowly but surely
Makers from Togo, Ghana, Benin and Ivory Coast met in June 2014 in Ouagalab, the first fablab of West Africa.
Do It Yourself: Anti tight-ass butt plug
In support of Paul McCarthy, the aggressed artist who made the vandalized sculpture in Paris, Makery presents its first explicitly adult tutorial: the DIY butt plug.
The maker ecosystem in São Paulo
Explore the local playground of DIY paulistas with Fabien Eychenne, a fablab specialist who recently relocated to Brazil’s economic capital.
We sat in the Turtle, the 100 % recycled African car
The Turtle, DIY car made in Ghana, can be seen (and tried) at the Bel Ordinaire art centre in Pau (France) as part of the exhibition “Disnovation”, focus of the Accès(s) festival.
Electrolab, soon-to-be the biggest European hackerspace in Nanterre
In the parisian suburb, Electrolab’s 120 members are working relentlessly to expand their hackerspace from 150 to 1500 m2.
In Tokyo, fablabs are more fab than lab
Digital fabrication spaces in Tokyo are adapted to local culture, mostly based on consumption.
Hacking a smoke detector to prevent flooding
When floods are coming, there is a way to convert a smoke detector into a water detector. Here’s how.
«WYHIWYS 01», 3D printing mash-up
Artist Damien Bourniquel, from the Blackboxe hackerspace in Paris, has created for Makery a cacophonic mash-up on 3D printing.
The FabMake in Nantes: open but not so easy to access
The new FabMake is located at the heart of the Technocampus, huge industrial complex dedicated to research in Nantes.