What we do
Everything here does one of three things: repairs something, gives something a second life, or protects the place we live. Most of it is still being built.
Recycling du déchet à la matière
We sort waste by material, check any plastic we’re not sure about, and turn clean, single-type material into something useful: filament (the plastic thread 3D printers use), sheets from bottle caps, moulded pulp from cardboard. Dead electronics are taken apart for their motors, rails and screws.
The first machine is a small one that turns a drink bottle into filament. The long-term design is the universal recycler: one modular line that sorts by physics — magnets, air, water, static — into clean streams.
Status First machines being built; most of the line is still on paper.
Architecture and most modules drawn. Nothing built yet beyond the first machines.
Planned. Bins and resin-code labels still to set up; the intake station design builds on it.
Procedure, booth and labels designed and rendered. Nothing printed or bought.
Printed parts drawn and rendered. Nothing bought or printed yet.
Physics, printed parts and test plan drafted. For 2027; nothing built.
Physics model and design drafted for 2027. Nothing built.
Print pack ready, donor printer inventoried. Hardware still to buy; no filament made yet.
Design and parts list done. Parts not ordered yet.
Process and mould rules written. Starts once the bottle machine makes its first spool.
A desktop extruder and crusher are bought and expected mid-November 2026.
Paused on 15 October 2026. Design and safety work kept; nothing ordered.
Planned for 2027. Collecting caps by colour in the meantime.
Repair café réparé ici
A free session once a month, on a Saturday. You bring a broken thing; a volunteer sits with you and you fix it together. When a plastic part is missing, we measure it, model it and print it — then publish the file so the next person with the same appliance can print it too.
Status Planning; first date not set.
Planning. The first date is not set yet; it will be announced on the mailing list.
Starts with the first repair café. No parts in the library yet.
Conservation tech pour la presqu’île
Volunteer trappers walk long lines to check traps that are mostly empty. Others sort thousands of trail-camera photos by hand. Cheap, tough electronics could give them those hours back: a sensor that says a trap has fired, a camera that counts what walks past.
The rule We build what they ask for, not what’s fun to build. A clever device nobody carries up a hill is a failure, however good the video.
Status Ideas only. We haven’t had the first conversation with trappers yet. That’s the next step.
Idea only. We haven't talked with trappers yet — that is the first step.
A written proposal. No conversation with conservation groups yet.
Teaching & kits pour tous les âges
Every project comes at three levels, so a nine-year-old and an engineer can work on the same thing.
Class visits, holiday sessions and evening classes are planned from 2027.
The design is always free. A kit only sells the convenience of having the parts in one box, and nothing is sold until someone outside the workshop has built and used it.
Schools and groups: get in touch
Parts list drafted. First prototype to be built on camera.
The map-making pipeline works and two test tiles are ready to print. Nothing printed yet.
The workshop l’atelier
The cottage can’t take a single screw, so we’re drawing furniture that stands on its own. Plywood boxes on a 150 mm grid, joined by printed keys — we call it Caisse, French for crate. Printed storage grids. A bench that packs up and travels to a repair café or a school. All of it will be published.
Version 0.2 of the system drawn, with generated layouts and cutting lists. Nothing cut yet.
Paused on 21 October 2026. The processing software is built but not switched on.
The channel en direct de l’atelier
A YouTube channel follows it all: the fit-out, the recycling machines, the repair café and, later, Trap Tech. One longer video every two weeks, English audio, English and French subtitles. Every video ends with the impact counter.
Status First three episodes scripted; the channel isn’t live yet.
If something in your work, your garden or your club could be done by a cheap, open tool, tell us. We’ll score it, reply, and if it fits the rules, build it with you.