A smart bonsai, a drawing robot and mannequin heartbeats…
Photo highlights of the 5th Bricole It, an afternoon of casual coding and tinkering hosted by Makery on October 17.
by la rédaction
Peter William Holden’s batty hat work
The artist Peter William Holden reveals the cogs of “Critical mass”, his latest robotic installation combining engineering of illusion and art of body movement.
DIY clay robot
Children are creative, but when they have nothing to build, they take things apart. Here are some robot-monsters tested by a workshop in Berlin to initiate the little ones to constructive tinkering.
Medium, the Oculus virtual sculpture workshop
Oculus reveals Medium, an application that allows you to sculpt in virtual reality, during the Oculus Connect conference, from the 23rd to the 25th of September in Hollywood.
Hybrid landscapes, ecology and DIY in the wild
Field Notes Hybrid Matters is a bi-annual arts & science field laboratory organised in one of the northern most corners of Finnish Lapland, Kilpisjärvi lake.
“For a great transformation”, by Colette Tron
The Transformaking summit took place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on September 14-16. Colette Tron, artistic director of Alphabetville, was there and advocates the critical doing.
Montreal, heart of makers (part 2)
In Montreal, the hatching of fablabs belongs to makers with catching enthusiasm. We met some of them.
Smart clothes go green
To open Fashion Tech Week in Paris, Wair and WearHacks start-ups organized a Greenathon on September 19-20 that combined fashion, tech and ecology.
My fablabs in Montreal (part 1)
Montreal, eldorado of new media since the 1990s, has the advantages of being bilingual, inexpensive and welcoming. Report on emerging makerspaces and hackerspaces.
My eco-hacking day at POC21
From mid-August, one hundred makers prototyped the transition to an eco-friendly world near Paris. Ophélia Noor describes a typical day at this camp for a zero carbone, zero waste society.
DIY n°5, Saturday, October 17th
Technological second degree, free and sometimes bizarre prototyping day. By Makery.
After the connected object, Open Hybrid invents the hybrid object
Open Hybrid, developed by a design researcher at MIT, combines augmented reality with the Arduino micro controller. And allows you to design hybrid objects in open source.
Special back to school DiY: make a compass
Printed in 3D, made of wood or from a hack of a pair of scissors, DiY compasses for makers returning after the summer break.
The University of Tokyo invents a high-speed video projector
The University of Tokyo has just prototyped a device that addresses new modes of digital projection, such as projection mapping and augmented reality.
Slovenia: hackers take off to nature!
The PIF Camp took place this early August in the pristine nature of Trenta, a spectacular Alpine valley in the Triglav National Park in Slovenia.
Holograms with a smartphone and an old CD case
Hold on to those old CD cases, they can project you into the future. Indeed, watch how to display an animated hologram using a smartphone and a Plexiglass pyramid.
I spent one month in San Francisco to explore ecosexuality
Isabelle Carlier from the organization Bandits-Mages in Bourges, France, spent a month in Santa Cruz and San Francisco with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens for the creation of E.A.R.T.H. Lab.
A design lab revisits the game of life in architecture
The Spyropoulos Design Lab in London explores a “conscious” architecture driven by design and Arduinos according to behavioural patterns. An ecology serving man and city.
FAB11 Boston: the MIT Media Lab is too small!
800 fablabbers, 45 conference speakers, 120 workshops... FAB11, the 11th worldwide fablab conference, invades the MIT in Boston from the 3rd to the 9th of August.
Little Devices, the medical DiY missionary lab
At Little Devices, an MIT lab dedicated to medical DiY, Anna Young, designer, imagines maker-compatible solutions to give power back to nursing staff. She was in Paris in June.