This document describes an open workshop on "Vie des objets", or "Life of Objects", hosted by Jerome Abel from February 6-9, 2012 at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art in Nancy, France. The workshop explored artistic, technical, ethical and human experiences with communicating objects and the commodification of society. The document provides links to additional resources on the workshop topics.

1. Vie des objets
Les objets communiquants
et la société de la marchandise
(seconde partie)
Présentation de l'atelier « Vie des objets », animé par
Jérôme Abel, du 6 au 9 février 2012, à l'École Nationale
Supérieure d'Art de Nancy.
http://jeromeabel.net/fr/ressources/vie-des-objets-presentation

2. 6. Make
En regroupant des expériences
artistiques, techniques,
éthiques, humaines, on peut
malgré tout garder une certaine
forme d'optimisme. Il est
possible d'améliorer le monde à
notre échelle, proposer des
voies alternatives, concrètes,
refuser le court­termisme, la
fatalité et l'impuissance. Le
mouvement des logiciels libres
influencent la société,
l'enthousiasme aidant, les
bidouilleurs de tous horizons
fabriquent et partagent.

3. L'aspect générationnel
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4. Communauté
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5. Licences libres logiciel et matériel
Un logiciel est libre selon la Free Software Foundation s'il confère à
son utilisateur quatre libertés :
0. la liberté d'exécuter le programme, pour tous les usages,
1. la liberté d'étudier le fonctionnement du programme et de
l'adapter à ses besoins,
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2. la liberté de redistribuer des copies du programme (ce qui
implique la possibilité aussi bien de donner que de vendre des
copies),
3. la liberté d'améliorer le programme et de distribuer ces
améliorations au public, pour en faire profiter toute la
communauté.
0: The freedom to use the device for any purpose.
1: The freedom to study how the device works and change it
to make it to do what you wish. Access to the complete
design is precondition to this.
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2: Redistribute the device and/or design (remanufacture).
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3: The freedom to improve the device and/or design, and
release your improvements (and modified versions in
general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Access to the complete design is precondition to this.

6. Arduino et Freeduino
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> Liste de matériels open source
Visite de l'atelier de fabrication des cartes Arduino.
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7. Outils DIY : Rotational Moulding
« The D.I.Y rotation moulding machine was built to
replicate the industrial process to help further
understand its possibilities. The machine was built at
no cost from scrap materials and simply powered by a
cordless drill. With the use of cold setting bio resins,
Andrew and Craig are now able to create a fully
sustainable range of hollow plastic products.
The Real Rotational Moulding process is an
exceptionally flexible and cost effective method for
creating thermoplastic products and components. The
rotational moulding process is a high-temperature,
low-pressure plastic-forming process that uses heat
and biaxial rotation to produce hollow, one-piece
parts. Rotational moulds are significantly cheaper
than other types of mould. Very little material is
wasted using this process, and excess material can
often be re-used, making it a very economically and
environmentally viable manufacturing process.
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8. Outils DIY : CNC
« The DIYLILCNC project is a free & open-source set of
plans for an inexpensive, fully functional 3-axis CNC
mill that can be built by an individual with basic shop
skills and tool access.
CNC devices are used to fabricate physical objects with
a high degree of precision. Some CNC devices,
including the DIYLILCNC, feature a gantry-mounted
cutting tool (like a router) that can move in two or
more directions. The operation of the tool is controlled
by a computer, which is tasked with translating a
digital design into actual tool movement.
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9. Outils DIY : Laser cutter
« Step by step instructionon how to build a small DIY
laser cutter from two CD or DVD drives and a laser
diode extracted from a blue-ray player or as in this
case a 445nm diode form a DLP projector. Such a laser
can be found on ebay (1.5-2W 445nm Blue Diode in
Module W/Leads & Aixiz Glass) for about 50$
including appropriate housing (Aixiz) and lens . The
laser cutter is capable of cutting or graving thin
material like paper or adhesive tape. The cutting area
is about 45 mm x 45 mm. The drive is controled by
two Pololu steper moter driver and an arduino with
the teacup driver as described here.
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10. Outils DIY : Multimachine
« The MultiMachine, a humanitarian, open source
machine tool project for developing countries. The
MultiMachine all-purpose machine tool that can be
built by a semi-skilled. The Multi Machine mechanic
with just common hand tools. For machine
construction, electricity can be replaced with “elbow
grease” and the necessary material can come from
discarded vehicle parts. What can the MultiMachine
be used for in developing countries?
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11. Outils DIY : Global Village Construction Set
« The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is an open
technological platform that allows for the easy
fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines
that it takes to build a small civilization with modern
comforts.
Key Features of the GVCS : Open Source - Low-Cost -
Modular - User-Serviceable - DIY - Closed-Loop
Manufacturing - High Performance - Heirloom Design
- Flexible Fabrication
A modern, comfortable lifestyle relies on a variety of
efficient Industrial Machines. If you eat bread, you
rely on an Agricultural Combine. If you live in a wood
house, you rely on a Sawmill. Each of these machines
relies on other machines in order for it to exist.
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12. Open Structures
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13. Fablab house
« The Fab Lab House is a self-sufficient dwelling
produced to take part in the Solar Decathlon Europe
2010 competition by a consortium of organizations
and companies led by the Institute for Advanced
Architecture of Catalonia, The Center for Bits and
Atoms at MIT and the Global Fab Lab Network. The
objective is to design an integral solar house with the
technologies of our time, which will generate
maximum resources with minimum investment. A
house built for people, committed to creating the city,
and connected with the whole world. Welcome to the
Fab Lab House.
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14. Imprimantes 3D : printr bot
« A desktop 3D printer you can build in a couple hours.
Print plastic parts you design or download - even parts
for another printer
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15. Imprimantes 3D : makerbot residency
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16. Imprimantes 3D : Thingiverse
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17. Objets DIY : Boombox
« This is a boombox made with the tools and techniques
common to fab labs. It plays music off of a standard
SD card, runs on a single 9V battery, and can be
fabricated for under $100.
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18. Objets DIY : Tacit
« Tacit is a wearable system that translates the distance
to anything you aim your hand toward into pressure
on your wrist. The closer the object, the greater the
pressure. Sweep your hand around, and the device
conveys to you a tactile image of your surroundings. I
designed Tacit to help vision-impaired people navigate
their environments, but it’s also a fun and effective
sensory enhancement for fully sighted people —
especially in the dark.
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19. Objets DIY : Uzebox
« The Uzebox is a retro-minimalist open source video
game console design. It is based on an AVR 8-bit
general-purpose microcontroller made by Atmel. The
particularity of the system is that it uses an interrupt-
driven kernel and has no frame buffer. Functions such
as video sync generation, tile rendering, and music
mixing is done realtime by a background task so
games can easily be developed in C. The design goal
was to be as simple as possible yet have good enough
sound and graphics while leaving enough resources to
implement interesting games. Emphasis was put on
making it easy and fun to assemble and program for
any hobbyists. The final design contains only two
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chips: an ATmega644 and an AD725 RGB-to-
NTSC/PAL encoder.
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20. DIY ressources : A Kit-of-No-Parts
« A Kit-of-No-Parts demonstrates a new approach to
building electronics that emphasizes the expressive
qualities of diverse materials as well as the skill and
creativity of the builder. I believe that a more
insightful and skilled process is also capable of
producing more intelligible and personal results.
Conventionally electronics that are built from a kit-of-
parts have been optimized for speed, efficiency and
repeatability of assembly. While this approach
demonstrates the power of modular systems that have
made many of the technologies we rely on possible, it
also constrains us to particular styles of building,
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influencing what we build as well as impacting how we
come to think about electronics.
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21. The Eyewriter
« Members of Free Art and Technology (FAT),
OpenFrameworks, the Graffiti Research Lab, and The
Ebeling Group communities have teamed-up with a
legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist,
named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE. Tony was
diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left
him almost completely physically paralyzed… except
for his eyes. This international team is working
together to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking
system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just
their eyes. The long-term goal is to create a
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professional/social network of software developers,
hardware hackers, urban projection artists and ALS
patients from around the world who are using local
materials and open source research to creatively
connect and make eye art.
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22. Protei
« Current oil spill skimming technology could only
collect 3% of the DeepWater Horizon Oil Spill in the
Gulf of Mexico. The health of workers was exposed to
cancerous toxicant, the boats were expensive and
pollutive to operate, they could not operate in bad
weather (hurricane seaon) they could not operate at
night or far away.
Protei is a technology currently in development that
will provide
- Unmanned, no human exposed to toxicant.
- Green and cheap, sailing upwind, capturing oil
downwind.
- Self-righting, rugged, can operate in hurricane time.
- Semi-autonomous : can swarm continuously and far
away.
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23. Open Source Robotic
« An open-source robot is a robot whose blueprints,
schematics or source code are released under an open-
source model.
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Full robot projects
LH001, Open Hardware Medical-Research liquid handling robot
Sparky Jr., Mobile Telepresence Research Project, Est. 1994
Open Automaton Project (oap.sourceforge.net)
Leaf Project (www.leafproject.org/)
RobotCub, including iCub
DARwIn-OP
OpenRAVE
e-puck mobile robot, an open-hardware, education oriented, mobile robot.
Open-source Micro-robotic Project, an open-source space swarm robot project
Qwerkbot[1], simple open source robot from Carnegie Mellon University
Orb swarm[2]
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24. Open Pilot
« OpenPilot is a next-generation Open Source UAV
autopilot, it is a highly capable platform for multi-
rotor craft, helicopters as well as fixed wing aircraft. It
has been designed from the ground up by a
community of passionate developers from around the
globe, its core design principals are of quality and ease
of use. Simplicity does not come with any
compromises either: with no hard-coded settings, a
complete flight plan scripting language and other
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powerful features, OpenPilot is an extremely capable
UAV autopilot platform.
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25. Open Source Car : C,mm,n
« C,mm,n (pronounced ‘common’) is an open source
community for sustainable personal mobility. You
might think c,mm,n is about a new type of vehicle, and
it's true that we are developing a new type of electric
car. But c,mm,n is more than that: it is a total mobility
concept for the future. Our c,mm,nity is open to
anyone with a creative, intelligent and enterprising
perspective on mobility issues, and who wants to help
create a better world. C,mm,n follows the open source
model: as with open source software, we focus our
services around the product. Anyone can use it to offer
mobility services, just as long as any derived work
produced is released back to the community under an
open source licence. »
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26. Open-Source Photographic : OpenMoCo
« Motion control is quickly becoming the must have tool
for professionals and enthusiasts capturing video,
time-lapse, panoramic photography and image based
lighting. Typically accurate motion control comes with
a hefty price tag and little flexibility. The
OpenMoCo.org mission is to provide a community for
open-source software and hardware that enables
photographers and videographers on a budget access
to motion control tools. Here you'll find articles,
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hardware designs, software, and experiments in
motion control.
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27. Open Mobile : Open Moko
« Openmoko™ is a project dedicated to delivering
mobile phones with an open source software stack.
Openmoko was earlier more directly associated with
Openmoko Inc, but is nowadays a gathering of people
with the shared goal of "Free The Phone". Distributors
are currently selling updated versions of the
Openmoko Inc's phone released in 2008, Neo
FreeRunner, to advanced users, while the software
stack for FreeRunner and future free phones is being
developed by the community.
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28. Open Source ICs
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29. Open Source Biologie
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30. Open EEG
« Many people are interested in what is called
neurofeedback or EEG biofeedback training, a generic
mental training method which makes the trainee
consciously aware of the general activity in the brain.
This method shows great potential for improving
many mental capabilities and exploring consciousness.
Other people want to do experiments with brain-
computer interfaces or just want to have a look at their
brain at work.
Unfortunately, commercial EEG devices are generally
too expensive to become a hobbyist tool or toy.
The OpenEEG project is about making plans and
software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for
free (as in GPL). It is aimed toward amateurs who
would like to experiment with EEG. However, if you
are a pro in any of the fields of electronics,
neurofeedback, software development etc., you are of
course welcome to join the mailing-list and share your
wisdom.
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31. Open Source Neural Activity Monitors
« Yesterday we linked to an OCZ Neural Acutator
Interface teardown. Several in the comments wanted
to know more about the sensor electrodes. Check out
the OpenEEG project and OpenEEG mailing list for
information on sensing, amplifying, and recording
brain activity (EEG). The OpenEEG project maintains
an open source Simple ModularEEG design. Two
other open source variants of the ModularEEG are the
MonolithEEG and [Joshua Wojnas'] Programmable
Chip EEG BCI. All three projects use Atmel
microcontrollers, with designs in Cadsoft Eagle.
Brain activity is measured using passive or active
electrodes. Passive electrodes require a conductive
paste to make proper contact with the skin (examples:
1, 2). Active EEG sensors don’t need conductive goop
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because they have an amplifier directly on the
electrode (examples: 1, 2, 3).
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32. Pink Army Cooperative
« Pink army isn’t like anything you’ve seen before. A
new approach to developing breast cancer treatments.
Pink Army is a community-driven, member owned
Cooperative operating by open source principles.
Using synthetic biology and virotherapy to bring
individualized treatments tailored to each patient’s
DNA and cancer, faster and cheaper than ever before.
Breast Cancer R&D is Sick.
While the traditional approaches to breast cancer have
helped in understanding cancer, little progress has
been made in the area of treatment. For mid and late
stage cancer, the best options are still radiation and
chemotherapy. Right now, it takes 15-20 years from
the time a new drug is identified before it comes to
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market. The last big “breakthrough” drug was in 1998,
and there are no others on the horizon. We need a
change.
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33. Semences libres
« La semence, c’est le début de la chaîne alimentaire.
Celui qui contrôle la semence, contrôle la chaîne
alimentaire et donc contrôle les peuples
Pendant 12 000 ans, au moins, les paysans et les
paysannes du monde entier ont produit leurs propres
semences, ont amélioré, sélectionné et créé de
nouvelles variétés de céréales, de légumes, de fruits et
de plantes à fibres. Qui plus est, les agricultures
paysannes étaient des agricultures respectueuses de la
Terre Mère. Dans les temps anciens, on ne parlait pas
de “protection de ressources génétiques” et
“d’agriculture durable” : on savait intimement qu’une
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civilisation qui perd ses semences et qui détruit ses
sols est une civilisation qui est en train de mourir.
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34. Open Data
« Une donnée ouverte (en anglais open data) est une
information publique brute, qui a vocation à être
librement accessible. La philosophie pratique de l'open
data préconise une libre disponibilité pour tous et
chacun, sans restriction de copyright, brevets ou
d'autres mécanismes de contrôle.
En informatique, l’open data est une information
structurée publique ou privée et généralement non
utilisable par un humain mais interprétable par une
machine. »
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35. Open Manuels
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36. Open Graphisme / Design
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