Center of interests

This page lists my centers of interests.

Click on the link bellow an image to jump to the center of interest that we have in common!

Animation

Biking

Construction

Drones

Ecology

Fab lab

Games, board games!

Hiking

Instructables

Japan

Kayaking

Library

Museums

National Parks

Origami

Puzzles

Quidditch

Robotics

Smart cities

Tiny houses

gender eqUality

Vegetarianism

Woodworking

eXploration

Yellowstone

(almost) Zero waste

2 Center of interests

This section presents my center of interests, one for each letter in the alphabet.

I start each center of interest with a “how to” and put links to related pages.

2.1 Animation

2.1.1 How to start making animation

Blender
Maya

2.1.2 Cool animation movies

Sorted by alphabetical order

A Grand Day Out

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Incredibles 2

Isle of Dogs

Kubo and the Two Strings

Long Way North

Planet 51

Porco Rosso

Princess Mononoke

Ralph Breaks the Internet

Robots

Spirited Away

The Iron Giant

The Red Turtle

WALL-E

Zootopia

2.1.3 Cool short films

Sorted by alphabetical order

A quoi ça sert l'amour

Bendito Machine

One day

Game of Thrones Intro

(link is for season 1, spoiler free)

2.2 Biking

2.2.1 How to make a bike

How to Build Up a Bike instructables
Why Build Your Bike? instructables

2.2.2 How to ride a bike

2.2.3 Personal biking adventure

La Clacyclo

A biking adventure crowdfunded on Ulule!

Around 500km by bike in 5 days from Paris to Genêts near Le Mont Saint Michel.

Each day a checkpoint that revels the next day checkpoint.

This created a nice “treasure hunt” adventure. All Ulule bakers could chose their own path and speed to travel.

We also could choose in Ulule if we wanted to be completely autonomous, add a ticket for bus return, add hostel accommodations, add a bike rental. I initially buy the ticket for the bus return to Paris, but finally extend the biking adventure for two more days with a friend and return to Paris by train.

French Alps

Week-long bike trip with family in the alps going from mountain hut to mountain hut

Map of itinerary coming soon!

2.2.4 More french biking adventure

Anecdotes plein les sacoches

bike adventure book (France to Island and back) from Aurelia Brivet

GlobalBiker

Bike adventure blog, created by one of the founder of La Clacyclo

Hundred of stories of bike around the world

Le Braquet de la liberté

Blog of bike adventure around the globe

Great advises on gear, food and camping when traveling with a bike

2.3 Construction

I love to build things, with a plan or from scratch.

2.3.1 How to make (almost) anything

Fab Academy program
Instructables website

2.3.2 How to get inspired

2.3.3 Construction companies when I was Young (but not limited to)

Great memories from the set designed by this companies:

Lego
Knex

2.3.4 Construction companies nowadays (with glue)

Guillow's

Woody JOE (japanese site)

Video in japanese, but good presentation of the models (some are available on Amazon)

2.3.5 Construction companies nowadays (without any glue)

I discover the following companies that create awesome set using wood or cardboard and without any glue!

Assembli

Hacomo (PusuPusu)

Ki-gu-mi Wooden Art

Ugears

2.4 Drones

2.4.1 How to make drones

2.4.2 How to fly drones

Join a model aircraft making and flying association
Reminder: it is mandatory to know and follow the rules of your country before flying to avoid hurting:
For France based drone hobbyist, you can go to the following website:
- Fox AlphaTango Aviation Civile governmental page, with link
- Geoportail governmental page, with a map showing where you can/cannot fly your drone and at which maximum altitude

2.4.3 How to make conservation drones

Conservation drones
Follow the steps on this website (hopefully)!

2.4.4 How my story starts to nowadays

I started flying and building drone as a kid with my grandfather. All where fixed wing drones and (almost) never flew longer then 5 minutes.

This was mainly due to overweight in the drone (to much glue or paint), and my skills as a pilot at the time.

In my engineering school I kept building fixed wing drone inside a club we created with other fan of aeronautics.

Thanks (?) to a lot of glue and some asymmetric wings, our first drone was doing looping by itself during the flight.

Landing was faster than planned and pitiless...

I am a now a member of “Club de modélisme de Saclay”, a model aircraft making and flying association. Exchange and lesson with experimented builders and pilots within the club is really valuable. It has increased a lot my airplane build and flight skills.

During my last year internship as an engineering student I joined ONERA where I learned how to optimize a drone trajectory to track a target.

I then follow by starting a PhD thesis on how to develop a strategy to find and track multiple moving targets using a fleet of cooperative UAVs. More info here!

As a PhD student I learned theoretical knowledge on drones.

I then choose to enroll Fab Academy 2020 to

gain practical knowledge on how to make a real drone system

further participate in the Fab lab (and maker / do it yourself) movement.

In Fab academy 2020, I plan to do a final project that will incorporate drones, Fab lab, Conservation (Environmental effort) and communities.

2.5 Ecology/Environment

2.5.1 How you can reduce your environmental impact

Check and join the Fab Lab/Maker/do It yourself movement.

Check and join the Fab City initiative, whose motto is “Locally productive, globally connected cities”.
Check and try some day to day tricks to reduce your impact, get inspired with
- this instructables 100 Ways to Reduce Your Impact.
- google search engine
- (Almost) zero waste set of principles.

2.5.2 Personal commitment to reduce environmental impact

Trying (almost) zero waste set of principles
Choose living location that allows me to use bike to
- exploring the region of “Haute vallée de cheuvreuse” (nearby french regional natural park) for weekend activities
Join the Fab Lab movement!

2.6 Fab lab

2.6.1 How to make a Fab lab

How to start a Fab Lab (Fab foundation website)

2.6.2 How to join a Fab lab

Find one near your location, check the visit hours and register online and/or go visit it.

Map of the Fab Lab from fablabs.io website

Map of the Fab Lab from makery website

2.6.3 Personal Fab lab story

It all started when I went to the Maker Faire Paris 2016 at cité des sciences et de l'industrie. I discover the maker/do it yourself movement and two associations that I joined later. First one is Caliban a robotic association.

The second one is Placilab. This is the Fab Lab of the Planet science association based in Ris Orangis.

I spend one year as a member of the association, learning how to use a laser cutter and OpenSCAD, having great exchange with other members of the fablab.

I then discover the Digiscope Fab Lab, closer from my location than the Plascilab.

On the Digiscope website I discover a link for the Fab Academy program, here we go!

2.7 Games, Board games!

2.7.1 How to design and make a board game

2.7.1 Learn how to play a board game

I find it easier to first watch a youtube video and then read the rules of a board game.

Among the multitude of board game chains I really like the following one: