High-Low Tech, a research group at the MIT Media Lab, integrates high and low technological materials, processes, and cultures. Our primary aim is to engage diverse audiences in designing and building their own technologies by situating computation in new cultural and material contexts, and by developing tools that democratize engineering. We believe that the future of technology will be largely determined by end-users who will design, build, and hack their own devices, and our goal is to inspire, shape, support, and study these communities. To this end, we explore the intersection of computation, physical materials, manufacturing processes, traditional crafts, and design.
http://hlt.media.mit.edu
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« Comme on le lit depuis deux ou trois ans, une petite mythologie s’est créée autour des ateliers ouverts aux amateurs éclairés et aux spécialistes que sont les fablabs. (...) »
http://bricolab.org/spip.php?article12
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RepLab is a proposed digital fabrication workshop. It would be a room with computer-controlled tools that could mould metal into any shape, mould plastic into any shape, print circuit boards, scan 3D shapes, melt down metal to pour it into moulds and do a few other basic tasks in a highly flexible way, with the result that you could make any electronic or mechanical device. In go scrap metal, plastic and silicon - out come bicycles, saucepans, tractors, medical equipment, mobile phones, laptop computers, Internet nodes, solar turbines, sculptures, robots and whatever else you can imagine. And one of the things it would be able to make would be another RepLab, as all the fabrication machines would use open-source designs. This would allow the labs to multiply like rabbits.
http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OS_...ld-url=true&title=OS_Fab_Lab_Proposal
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A Network of Farmers, Engineers, and Supporters Building the Global Village Construction Set.
The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
http://opensourceecology.org
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galerie de photos de fab lab squared à la cité des sciences.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/watsdesign/sets/72157626995770946
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http://www.pobot.org/Modes-de-production-du-materiel.html
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