Pimp up your hair drier into an Atari Punk Console
A hair drier, what for? In less than three hours, we turned our old Babyliss into an Atari Punk Console with sinusoidal sounds.
DIY
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.
The mushroom DIY
It’s the high season for mushrooms, but not all aspiring makers live in the country. Makery tells you everything about growing oyster mushrooms at home.
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.
Destroy it Yourself: explode your passport’s RFID chip
After a German man exploded the RFID chip of his ID card in the microwave oven, Makery researched the the most efficient techniques. At your own risk and peril
When Scopitone burns the keyboard with Makey Makey
Time for fun video DIY! The Makey Makey workshop of the Scopitone festival aligns itself with the game frenzy prevailing in Nantes with fun and easy to reproduce projects.
DIY n°5, Saturday, October 17th
Technological second degree, free and sometimes bizarre prototyping day. By Makery.
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.
Make your own DiY pallet pool for under 100 euros
Had enough of the heat? To cool off without shelling out more than 100 euros, Makery found this DiY pool made from recycled pallets.
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.
Special girls: stand and pee with dignity
Festivals are filling up, and so are urinals. Ladies, this one is for you. In order to avoid peeing on your shoes or mooning the public gaze, Makery gives you this DiY to freely urinate standing up.
Do it Yourself with solidary bikes
Makery tested a handful of participatory and solidary bicycle repair workshops. These organizations are based on mutual aid and skill sharing in both dedicated and traveling spaces. Meet the bicycle as a vehicle of solidarity.
DiY: The mosquito hunt
Little tour of anti-mosquito tutorials so that the unpleasant and disease carrying bug does not ruin your summer.
The cosplayer’s Do it Yourself
250,000 people participated in Japan Expo from the 2nd until the 5th of July in Paris. Makery interrogated the cosplayers on their costume fabrication methods.
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.
DIY 4: LED masks, bicycle piano-wheel and hydroponics
Review of projects realised during the 4th DIY on Saturday June 20th.
DIY: how do you set up your fablab?
In a 7 day sprint race, 10 commandments or 3 fundamental questions. Selection of fablab battle plans by Makery.
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.
Do it Yourself: brew your own beer
How to make your own beer? The Makery recipe to brew 7 liters of pure lager.
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.