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A Safe And Easy Way To Mine Metals From E-Waste. We don’t often think about the final resting place of our favorite devices.

A Safe And Easy Way To Mine Metals From E-Waste

But much of the electronics we throw away--computers, phones, televisions--gets illegally dumped in poverty-stricken countries like Ghana and Nigeria, which lack the infrastructure to recycle the parts efficiently. Getting Started with Arduino Kit V3.0. Getting Started with Arduino Kit v3.0 has everything you need to get started with Arduino, the open-source electronics prototyping platform that's taken the design and hobbyist world by storm.

Getting Started with Arduino Kit V3.0

Using the included components, along with our best-selling Getting Started with Arduino, 2nd Edition (sold separately), you'll be able to start building electronics projects that can sense and react to the physical world. Within seconds of opening the box, you can connect Arduino to your computer using a USB cable (both the cable and Arduino are included) and start playing.

With the free software available from the Arduino web site, you can start writing simple programs (called "sketches" in Arduino) and move on up to more complex examples. Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. Technologywillsaveus - Welcome. Now available as an offline 8xDVD set to Third World/Developing Countries - 5700 Electronic Books online and offline with Practical Technical Development Information for the Third World. Agriculture, Health, Education, Small Industries etc etc. Réparateur, un métier d’avenir. 4 Reasons Why The Future Of Capitalism Is Homegrown, Small Scale, And Independent. You won’t learn about it in business school, hear about it from Wall Street, or see it in Palo Alto.

4 Reasons Why The Future Of Capitalism Is Homegrown, Small Scale, And Independent

But if you spend time in Bushwick, Brooklyn, or on Rivington Street in Manhattan, you just might detect the outlines of an emerging “indie” capitalism. This new form of capitalism is not just about conventional startups and technology and venture capitalists. If you add up all the trends under way today, I believe we are beginning to see the start of something original, and perhaps wonderful. It may prove to be the economic and social antidote to the failed financial capitalism and crony capitalism that no longer delivers economic value in terms of jobs, income, and taxes to the people of this country. It’s too early to define the exact shape of this latest iteration of capitalism, but what indie capitalism appears to have is a distinct sensibility. Indie capitalism is local, not global, and cares about the community and jobs and says so right up front.

What do you think? Instructables - Make, How To, and DIY. Hackerspaces: From Electrical to Cultural Resistance. In­tro­duc­tion The pur­pose of this paper is to con­tribute to the study of this global move­ment of spaces and com­mu­ni­ties around the globe where peo­ple cre­ate and ex­per­i­ment with tech­nol­ogy, known as hack­er­spaces.

Hackerspaces: From Electrical to Cultural Resistance

It is a phe­nom­e­non that in re­cent years has shown a con­sid­er­able ex­pan­sion. Nous devrions pouvoir réparer tous nos gadgets par nous-mêmes. Entre les vis de sécurité, les connectiques propriétaires et exclusions de garantie, la plupart des fabricants mettent vraiment des bâtons dans les roues les consommateurs qui voudraient réparer eux-mêmes les produits qu’ils achètent.

Nous devrions pouvoir réparer tous nos gadgets par nous-mêmes

Et pourtant iFixit pense qu’on devrait tous avoir le droit de le faire. Voici la transcription de la version française du manifeste allant dans ce sens rédigé par le gars d’iFixit: Nous reconnaissons et déclarons les droits et principes suivants Manifeste du droit à réparer soi-même: Réparer vaut mieux que recycler.Maximiser la durée de vie du matériel que nous possédons est à la fois plus facile, plus écologique et moins coûteux que de le désosser pour en récupérer quelques matières premières.

Réparer épargne la Planète.La Terre possède une quantité limitée de ressources. Nous ne pouvons pas continuer à construire du matériel destiné à être immédiatement remplacé par la génération suivante. Open Source Ecology Weblog. Global Village Construction Set by Marcin Jakubowski. Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters building the Global Village Construction Set - a modular, DIY, low-cost, open source, 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.

Global Village Construction Set by Marcin Jakubowski

The aim of the GVCS is to lower the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing. Its a life-size lego set that can create entire economies, whether in rural Missouri, where the project was founded, or in the developing world. So Far we’ve prototyped 8 of the 50 Machines and we’ve been expanding rapidly. We are 100% crowd-funded. We have 400 True Fans that support our work monthly. Please watch these videos if you are new to the project: What Makes the Global Village Construction Set so special? Why should I help fund this project? The library of instructional material that we produce will make replication a straightforward task. Absolutely! 3D printing, laser cutting – design, make & build your own products with Ponoko. Lasersaur. Lasersaur The Lasersaur is an open source laser cutter.

Lasersaur

We designed it to fill the need of makers, artist and scientist who wanted a safe and highly-capable machine. L’Afrique, berceau de la bidouille. Traversée par la tradition de la bidouille, l'Afrique manquait jusqu'ici de lieux où développer cet esprit.

L’Afrique, berceau de la bidouille

Mais le succès du Maker Faire Africa augure de la création d'une ambitieuse communauté de partage entre makers et hackers du continent. [Tous les liens de cet article sont en anglais, sauf mention] Même pas une dizaine : les hackerspaces, lieux de rencontre pour les hackers, ces gens qui font usage créatif des technologies, sont quasiment absents de l’Afrique. Ils fleurissent pourtant dans le reste du monde, dans les pays occidentaux, mais aussi en Amérique du Sud ou en Asie. [Carte] Le Grand Emprunt booste les fab labs.

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Les fab labs, incubateurs de futur. 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.

Les fab labs, incubateurs de futur

Rencontres. Tomas Diez est directeur de projet Fab Lab Barcelona à l’IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia). DIY solar. FAB / HACK. FIX. DIY Wind turbines. Lego robot solves Rubik's Cube in 5 seconds.