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« Le logiciel libre, l’innovation partagée et la production collaborative menacent le capitalisme tel que nous le connaissons. » C’est ainsi que Michel Bauwens résume son propos dans les colonnes du...

Vo Trong Nghia discusses a house in Vietnam with a vertical garden on its facade in this movie from the World Architecture Festival.

Low-cost knocks offs of multimillion dollar weapons systems - the era of large scale, run-and-gun ...

Money has turned abundance into scarcity. Not money per se, only the kind of money we use today, the kind of money that is evaporating as we speak, money with a very special characteristic that...

These Brooklyn artists’ DIY guide to countersurveillance may be a spoof, but they’re serious about getting you to think about Big Brother.

FabLab Toulouse Conference a réuni la semaine dernière un très beau plateau d'intervenants gravitant autour des fab labs, ces mini-usines citoyennes collaboratives de fabrication à la demande...

Sharing the world's first low-cost, DIY, open-source Tractor, Compressed Earth Brick Press, Power Cube, and Soil Pulverizer.

À la traîne en France, les fab labs, ces mini-usines collaboratives permettant de créer ou fabriquer des objets à la demande, vont se multiplier, entre autres grâce au projet interrégional de...

Here's how an astronomer made his own solar panels on the cheap with damaged, inexpensive materials from eBay and lots of elbow grease.

Il y a de l’espoir. Qu’on les appelle fab lab ou, comme ici, open source workshops, il se passe véritablement quelque chose dans le monde matériel actuellement. Quelque chose qui localement nous donne...

If you live in an area that sees a fair amount of wind and you’d like to reduce your utility bill by harnessing some of that wind power, a wind turbine might be a good idea. The ...

Kit for sale now- http://www.berezintechnologies.com blog -- http://www.berezin.com/jeff (more info) DIY vertical wind turbine of the Savonius style. Notable...

We built a 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home. It's a permanent magnet alternator, generating 3 phase ac, rectified to dc, and fed to a charge...

This vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) uses five 3” PVC pipes cut in half for blades rotating on three kids bicycle wheels to spin an Ametek 38 volt motor or a wind blue alternator. The whole th...

Did you know that people in Kenya, Afghanistan and Pakistan are building their own wireless networks out of found materials? Just $60 of everyday items such as wood, cans, plastic tubs, wires and c...

Shareable recently covered a group of residents of Jalalabad, Afghanistan who built their own open-source wireless network from junk and everyday household items.