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.
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Open Google Car in a backpack
Benjamin Bernard created a prototype to shoot panoramic views of Brittan. Like Google Street View, but his prototype fits in a backpack.
In Paris, Usine IO wants to earn its place between R&D and fablab
A huge high-tech prototyping workshop: this is Usine IO in Paris. Guided tour with Gary Cige, co-founder.
DIY: Flex those muscles!
In order to supply power to all sorts of objects, the LittleBits EMG SpikerBox kit uses muscular electric activity.
Do It Yourself: Shelf vegetable garden
Learn how to grow herbs with little or no maintenance on your bookshelf.
100,000 people watch the 3D printing of a car
It's not the first 3D-printed car. However, it is the first to have such a big audience during its production.
A boat-lab packed with prototypes tours the Mediterranean Sea
Lab-REV's crew transforms a boat into a lab to prove the relevance of associating digital fabrication, ecological activism and yachting.
Do it Yourself: an interactive umbrella
An umbrella is handy. A tinkered umbrella is, in addition, illuminated and interactive.
Artists and hackers titillate innovation at the first Art Hack Day in France
48 hours to tackle innovation through artistic prototy
DiY: Make your own cheap conductive ink
Un tutoriel complet d’encre conductrice à base de poudre de graphite.
Handicap: labs reinvent prostheses
More and more projects dedicated to making life easier for handicapped people are popping up in the labs.
Valldaura, self-sufficient mountain lab
Overlooking Barcelona lies an experimental fablab that is one-of-a-kind: Valldaura, the self-sufficient Green Fablab.
10 fablabbers at FAB10 Barcelona
10 fablabbers and their points of view, projects, needs, ambitions from all over the world.
“Sur les rails”, deviant compilation
"Sur les rails" is the fruit of the collaborative labour between sound artists keen on circuit bending and autistic and disabled people.
Maker Faire in Paris: to be fair, could be better
7,500 visitors roamed the aisles of the first Maker Faire Paris on the 21st and 22nd of June at Centquatre. A public success despite some muddles.
Whisper in Van Gogh’s 3D-printed ear
This is (almost) Van Gogh’s severed ear.
11,000 addicted to the first French MOOC on digital fabrication
“It was awesome, I’m exhausted.” Baptiste Gaultier, engineer at Télécom Bretagne, comments on the success of the first French MOOC FAB.
open SNP, the P2P of the genome
The first open-source platform intended to share human genotype is celebrating its 1000th online genotype.
URME, a 3D face mask against video surveillance
The best way to be anonymous is to be anyone or rather… be Leo Selvaggio.