Published 27 September 2021 by Bérengère Fally

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, makers across France and Belgium got organized to prototype open source ventilators. A research study by Interreg FabricAr3v.

Published 23 July 2020 by Ewen Chardronnet

Days after the lockdown began in France, makers and software entrepreneurs in the region of Nantes began to design an open source ventilator: MakAir.

Published 21 July 2020 by Elsa Ferreira

After hard science, soft science. Just One Giant Lab (JOGL), an online collaborative open science laboratory, accompanies social and citizen projects seeking to improve communal quality of life.

Published 29 June 2020 by Cherise Fong

While big data grabs headlines, individual citizen scientists are quietly using wearable technologies to track their own symptoms, monitor their health and gain insight into themselves.

Published 22 June 2020 by Enrico Bassi

Mobilized Italian makers showed the way for makers around the world. Enrico Bassi of Opendot fablab in Milan, specialized in open healthcare, tells the story.

Published 18 June 2020 by Hugues Aubin

Three regional networks spanning Brittany, France and West Africa have partnered with local health, research and corporate organizations to provide African fablabs with machines and consumables.

Published 17 June 2020 by Cesar Garcia Saez

Co-founder of Makerspace Madrid, Cesar Garcia Saez comes back to the mobilization of the makers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain.

Published 2 June 2020 by Elsa Ferreira

100 hours: the time it took the team at University College London, assisted by Mercedes’s Formula 1 department, to develop the first prototype of a CPAP device.

Published 22 May 2020 by Cherise Fong

If JOGL’s OpenCovid19 Initiative came out of a crisis, the collaborations that are forming among its members prove that this online platform is much more than a flash mob. What does the data say?

Published 20 May 2020 by Elsa Ferreira

In the UK, DIY problem-solving makers and open-source engineers, in collaboration with clinical teams, are contributing their technical expertise to the collective response against Covid-19.

Published 10 May 2020 by Ewen Chardronnet

In Paris, a citizen collective is working to produce an emergency medical ventilator that is open source, low-cost and easy to reproduce.

Published 8 May 2020 by Rob La Frenais

The independent curator and critic Rob La Frenais runs the "Future of Transportation" group on Facebook. New chronicle about mobility after the lockdown.

Published 5 May 2020 by Cherise Fong

JOGL, a global platform for collaborating on open source biotech projects, recently launched a series of micro-grants for projects directly tackling the Covid-19 crisis.

Published 28 April 2020 by Denis "Jaromil" Roio

New correspondance on proximity-tracing with Denis Roio aka Jaromil from Dyne.org.

Published 28 April 2020 by Ewen Chardronnet

In early April, Makerscovid.paris received an outsize order for 8,400 protective gowns. Two labs and a library rose to the challenge.

Published 26 April 2020 by Rob La Frenais

Independent curator and critic Rob La Frenais runs the "Future of Transportation" group on Facebook. He writes in Makery his thoughts about mobility after the lockdown.

Published 26 April 2020 by la rédaction

Makery relays voices from fabrication spaces federated around the collective Makers x Covid Paris to support the city's frontline workers.

Published 22 April 2020 by Quentin Chevrier

Capturing the moment for distributed production of PPE, photographer Quentin Chevrier followed deliveries around a city on lockdown by the collective Makers x Covid Paris.

Published 20 April 2020

On April 12, the Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) in Taipei launched a series of DIY anti-virus workshops for all ages, the first of which focused on transforming a Micro:bit micro-computer into an infrared thermometer.

Published 17 April 2020 by Denis "Jaromil" Roio

Denis Roio aka Jaromil shares here his further thinkings about the development of an ethical contact-tracing solution.