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The very fashionable @Tatjna posted about this book that was Kickstartered last year. I pledged, it looked cool. It arrived last week.

It's a beautiful book, and I think a few people I know here may find it interesting and useful (@pjf I expect and likely more!): it shows historical context & archaeological evidence, and provides how-to's for fibre making, tool making, and garment making.

chronocopia.se/books/bog-fashi

A few years ago, I started keeping a paper running journal for 90% vain reasons. When I die, whatever online system I use will just … linger. No one’s gonna know it even existed. But half a shelf of notebooks? *Someone’s* gonna have to do *something* with them, and maybe they’ll open one and be like “whoa, Uncle J did some *really* stupid shit!”

Tiens tiens, il semblerait que les Véhicules Intermédiaires pourraient enfin connaître un petit moment de gloire : le film de @jeromezindy, La Nouvelle Aventure Mobile, met en scène l'écosystème d'acteurs des VI fédérés par l'Extrême Défi de l'ADEME. La bande-annonce : 📽️ youtu.be/wwRnvgH98CE

Le vhélio est bien présent, avec des scènes de montage collectif.

🍿 Les projections : xd.ademe.fr/le-film

When I build an earth house, I won't have the luxury of a large crew of helpers most of the time. I'm struggling to figure out how to get a big load of dirt 8 to 12 feet up in the air more easily than one 5-gallon bucket at a time.

The farm tractor I have access to won't reach that high with its bucket.

Anybody aware of any #lowtech designs for cranes or lifts? The catch is that it has to be portable because it needs to be repositioned as I build each wall, so I can't just sink a telephone pole in the ground and call it good.

I'm thinking a block and tackle would come in handy but I just can't picture the machine...

Un style pixel art rétro, volontairement daté, avec une palette de 32 couleurs et des contrôles simplifiés (croix directionnelle + 2 boutons). L’idée : recréer une réalité alternative du jeu vidéo, avec ses mascottes funky, ses influences à peine voilées (Zelda, Metroid, Ghost & Goblins…), et ses contraintes techniques assumées.
escapethecity.life/low-tech-uf #gaming #retrogaming #lowtech

retro-gaming low-tech
EscapeTheCity · Low-tech gaming : UFO 50, le meilleur hommage aux jeux vidéo des années 90'Écologie lucide et autonomie

Bonjour Mastodon ! Une courte #introduction après avoir passé un bon moment en observateur 👀.

Je viens des #Maths appliquées, et continue à m’intéresser aux sujets liés à la tech, quand elle me semble politiquement émancipatrice : #LowTech, #DIY, #LogicielLibre, #DonnéesOuvertes, etc.

Au quotidien, beaucoup de temps passé à farfouiller de la #Musique, un peu de #Cyclisme et de la #Cuisine 🤤

Mes pronoms : il/lui

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Hello Mastodon!

A brief #Introduction post after some time as a fediverse observer 👀.

I come from applied #Maths, and am still quite interested in related tech topics when they lead to more freedom and emancipation: #LowTech, #DIY, #FreeSoftware, #OpenSourceSoftware, #OpenData, etc.

In everyday life, a lot of my time is spent digging (and sometimes playing) some #Music, a bit of #Cycling, and #Cooking 🤤

My pronouns: he/him

A Cannondale "Beast of the East" that was saved from the bin the cleaned and polished.
I then made an unicrown fork and minibullmoose stem and buildt it with a mix of second hand and bin parts.
The custom framebage was made out of old Thomson bag by local bag maker Chloé from C.Pouki (https://c-pouki.be/) whose workshop is a few streets away from ours.

#framebuilding #4130society #handmade #restomod #framebag #upcycling #lowtech #lacyclerieliege #cannondale #rawfillets #karmawhweels
The first frame I made years ago; I started building it in a basement before we opened La Cyclerie in 2016. Thomas @cyclesrougegorge helped me fixing my mistakes and finishing the frame. It is branded "Deroy" after the name of Armand Deroy, a local framebuilder who was Thomas's teacher and mentor. I later build it the way I prefer; with a mix of second hand and bin parts with a low tech approach. This bike now belongs to a friend.

#lowtech #shimagnolo #lugsnotdrugs #framebuilding #4130society #deroy #lacyclerieliege #liege #4020 #handmade

BRUSSELS — BOOK LAUNCH — 29.4

→ How to make books more sustainable? During this evening, Low-tech Magazine will present our "Compressed Book Edition", this time in Brussels, at Architecture Curating Practice's gallery.

→ Inspired by the image compression on its solar-powered website, Low-tech Magazine squeezed the article catalog of their three-volume chronological book series into just one book. Compressing the content — an editorial and design choice — produces a larger reduction in resource use than printing on recycled paper could ever do.

🕰 18:30 Doors open
19:00 Book presentation and introduction of Low-tech Magazine
19:45 Q&A
20:00 Book sale / snacks & drinks / discussion

📌 Architecture curating practice,
et al. architect-run space
37 Rue des Tanneurs / Huidevettersstraat 137
1000 Brussels

(talk will be held in english)
Poster by our current intern Hugo Lopez

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#lowtechmagazine #lowtech #solarpoweredwebsite #solar #obsoletetechnology #bikegenerator #opensource #selfhosted #krisdedecker #degrowth #offgrid

Email has become too complicated for my dement mother. Also just reading a message doesn't work.

Is there such a thing as a cigarette-sized box, maybe with ePaper and SMS reception, no buttons no nothing, onto which we could send a short text "your gym session begins in 20 minutes" or something along those lines?

(Please don't say 'smartphone', you've no idea, and don't say Arduino and do it yourself.)

Il y a des podcasts qui donnent tellement envie de lire et creuser plus loin... Ce huitième podcast des enquêtes du low-tech lab en fait partie :

lowtechlab.org/fr/actualites-b

Vincent Liegey aborde plein de choses, plein de concepts intéressants, parle de plein de références, ...

lowtechlab.orgLow-tech Lab – [ENQUÊTE #8] À la rencontre de Cargonomia et VelomaLe Low-tech Lab est un programme de recherche et de documentation Open-Source visant à valoriser l’innovation low-tech tout en boostant son développement.

Low-tech resourcefulness:

In high school, I had a bedside clock radio with a cassette deck. I used to tune into the college radio station and record my favorite tunes. That is how I used to hear Planet Claire by the B-52s on demand.

A friend of mine who lived in Memphis recounted how she would hold her landline phone up to the radio during certain college radio shows so her sister in Little Rock, Arkansas could listen.

Where there is a will, there is a way.

🪫 ➡ 🔋 Saviez-vous que vous pouviez recharger vos #piles... non-rechargeables ?! 😱

Oui, on parle bien de vos piles alcalines AA et AAA, celles que vous achetez à la caisse au supermarché, et non pas des piles rechargeables, celles qui prennent malheureusement la poussière dans vos tiroirs…

Cette prouesse est possible grâce à un objet made in France que l’on appelle la #Regenbox.

Une #lowtech à laquelle on consacre un article de blog, pour tout vous expliquer 👇

lowreka.com/blogs/news/regenbox