This year I builded my final workshop (I hope so ;-). It’s a 100 square meter wooden building covered with solar panels. Builded next to the sawmill, it contains all my woodworking machines and tools. I now have a good place to work effectively.
The foundations were made with the help of a friend of mine and the use of a Mecalac. Yes, this was the opportunity to swap my forklift for a Mecalac, an incredible machine.
I sawed all the wood and crafted the timber structure alone. The incredible machine allowed me to lift it also by myself.
I designed and installed the complete solar system on the building. If everything goes well, it will cover all the costs of the construction after about 15 years of electricity production.
23/12/2016 | In News, Uncategorized | Tags : mill, saw, woodworking, workshop
Time goes so fast ! It’s already been over a year that I have not given some news here.
Since my last post, things have advanced again :
The 6 July of 2015, our second daughter came to life, the two sisters are happy together and we also !
Our big construction project is moving forward slowly but surely : the last year was most dedicated to the “longère’s” roofing.
My sawmill also grew, I now have a all terrain forklift (bought used an repaired by myself last winter), the saw got a shed over it (also built last winter) and more recently I got a sharpening machine to become more independent with the blades maintenance.
I also made a dedicated web site : http://boisduguidon.com/ and some business cards and flyers. It’s my own small business after all 😉
24/02/2016 | In News | Tags : child, mill, saw
It has been a long time since I have written anything here. Sorry for that, I’am still alive 😉 but my life has changed a bit.
Since 2013, I am owner of an old mill in the Morvan (Burgundy). I am working a lot on it as it was deserted for 60 years – everything has to be redone : from top to bottom, and we have decided to do everything by ourselves.
So I am experimenting a lot of new skills : driving my excavator to bury the electricity and water connections, felling 25m high poplars, carpentering a lot to redo all the roofings are just some of them.
Our daughter came to this world in 2013. She is now one year old and seems happy to have this not so conventional life. We are so happy to see here grow up each day in what we hope to become the best place to spend her childhood.
And last but not least, I am changing my professional activity, leaving behind me the technical design and development for commercial projects. I am completely diving into woodworking. I have started a sawmill at our new home. This is the very beginning and for now I will mainly saw wood for our roofings but I hope to quickly get clients and see this activity grow up.
However, I’ll try to maintain and show the interactive installations I made with Lab212. So if interested, you can still contact me for Stop-iT, Appel d’Air, Face to Face and Loup garou.
I will try to keep this site alive to relate personal projects and to share some news every now and then.
19/11/2014 | In News | Tags : child, mill, saw
During October in a lot of cities of France a special event is taking place during one night. It’s called “Nuit Blanche” for sleepless night. It primarly took place in Paris in 2001. The goal of this event is to invest the city with a lot of artpieces that work well at night. Over the years, more and more cities in France have they own “Nuit Blanche” and this year Lab212 were invited in some of them all over France : Bordeaux, Metz, Amiens, La Motte Servolex…
Here are some pictures of the events I went to.
In Bordeaux I worked on Kikko’s project called Bruit de fond. It’s a probe that moves up and down a light according to the deepness of a lake measured with a sonar. While the probe is moving on the water surface, a camera is taking long exposure shots to reveal the lake bed as light lines. I worked on the mechanics and electronics of the project, machining and building a lot of parts of the probe.
Find out more on the dedicated website.
In La Motte Servolex, for their “Nuit de la Création”, Stop-it was exposed for the first time in its new version. Stop-it doesn’t require a drawn grid anymore to stick the post-its on since the grid is now video projected. This improvement sound simple but it brings a lot :
– the light is perfectly uniform and improves the color detection
– the grid is adjustable in size through the software
– we have a play head precisely showing what notes are being read
– and the installation is now way easier to carry around
The setup shown on this pictures looks a bit wobbly but in fact worked very well relative to the 2 hours of time I was given to install 🙂
26/10/2012 | In Artistic, Experimental, Manufacturing, News | Tags : ableton live, lab212, mechanics, openframeworks, sonar, stop-it
From now, I’ll try to write my articles in english and gradually translate the rest of my site. So welcome to all non french speaking visitors !
I juste came back from a one week trip in Beijing with Pierre where we setup our interactive installation Stop-iT. We were invited from onedotzero to participate to the first exhibition of the new China Museum of Digital Art (CMoDA). First trip in Asia for both of us, this opportunity was a great experience in terms of human encounter (many thanks to all members of the CMoDA and onedotzero teams) and artistic inspirations (lots of amazing projects were exhibited there).
By the way, Stop-iT has now a records feature and a dedicated web site where you can listen to the real time uploaded creations of visitors.
22/12/2011 | In Artistic, News | Tags : ableton live, beijing, exhibition, lab212, midi, music, onedotzero, openframeworks, post-it, stop-it
Ça y est le lab212 a déménagé dans de nouveaux locaux. Toujours situés à Ivry sur Seine, ils sont (beaucoup) plus grands. Maintenant on a de la place pour faire les projets les plus fous.
Pour ma part, j’ai maintenant un véritable atelier, les machines ne sont plus coincées sous le plafond bas de la pièce de stockage… Plein de bonnes choses en perspective.
04/09/2011 | In News | Tags : lab212, workshop
Quelques images de DM02 installée à Belgrade au musée de l’Ethnologie. Le manque de signalétique et d’organisation a limité le passage : le dessin est loin d’être aussi rempli que prévu…
22/07/2011 | In Artistic, Electronics, Experimental, Manufacturing, News, Programming | Tags : arduino, belgrade, cocoa, dm02, exhibition, mechanics
L’installation FaceToFace réalisée avec Juliette du lab212 est exposée à la Maison Folie Moulins à Lille dans le cadre de l’exposition Alter Ego.
Initialement crée pour une performance en direct, FaceToFace à été adaptée au format “exposition” en ajoutant la possibilité d’ajouter son visage sur l’une des face du cube.
Le projet est visible à Lille jusqu’au 19 décembre 2010.
19/10/2010 | In Artistic, Electronics, News, Programming | Tags : accelerometer, arduino, bluetooth, exhibition, lab212, lille, openframeworks
Le projet Stop-iT créé avec Pierre en 2008 pour les journées portes ouvertes de Gobelins à été invité à la Campus Party de Bogotá (Colombie).
Campus Party est un gigantesque événement centré autour des nouvelles technologies, qui se déroule dans plusieurs pays hispanophones (Espagne, Brésil, Mexique…). Pendant une semaine, on y trouve un énorme regroupement d’étudiants (les campuseros), des robots, des projets interactifs, des pc tunné, des courses de fusées, des geeks, des donuts, des segway, et plein de gens sympa… le tout financé par les grandes marques de télécommunications.
Stop-iT a donc été invité pour l’édition Colombienne en tant que projet interactif innovant. Coïncidence : je travaillais justement sur une nouvelle version utilisant openFrameworks pour la captation des couleurs. Cela nous a donc permis de tester cette dernière pendant une semaine avec un public relativement expert en nouvelles technos. Verdict : Stop-iT plait, est plus stable, beaucoup plus souple et permet de réellement créer du son.
Techniquement, trois logiciels sont utilisés : Stop-iT, développé sur la base d’openFrameworks par mes soins, analyse la grille de couleurs et émets des messages midi vers Live (pour la génération de sons en temps réel) et vers Modul8 (pour l’affichage de vidéos et d’animation). Cette solution nous permet une souplesse extrême dans le choix et la configuration des sons et vidéos.
Cette semaine à Bogotá à été très enrichissante pour Pierre et moi-même, le projet Stop-iT est voué à évolué encore longtemps.
Merci à la “producción” pour leur accueil autant professionnel que chaleureux et à Armella pour avoir parlé de nous au staff de Campus Futuro.
07/07/2010 | In Artistic, News, Programming | Tags : ableton live, bogota, exhibition, lab212, midi, music, openframeworks, post-it, stop-it
Ça y est ! Ma CNC est arrivée après 6 semaines d’attente !
Une CNC c’est quoi ? C’est une machine (dans mon cas une fraiseuse) pilotée par ordinateur. On prépare son dessin (2D ou 3D) avec le soft de son choix puis on l’importe dans le logiciel de fraisage. Ce dernier guide l’outil (ici la fraiseuse) pour reproduire le dessin dans la matière à usiner. Bon, en réalité c’est pas si simple : il faut paramétrer tout un tas de choses…
On peu usiner presque tout : du bois, du plastique de l’aluminium. Une des premières utilisations que je souhaite en faire, c’est la réalisation de circuits imprimés électroniques. Le circuit est conçu dans le logiciel Eagle puis transféré vers le logiciel de fraisage. La machine vient graver la surface cuivrée des plaques de circuit imprimé pour isoler des pistes conductrices.
Voici mes tous premiers essais :
22/06/2010 | In Electronics, Manufacturing, News | Tags : cnc, mill, workshop