A Splendid Day in Eindhoven

By Sabrina Merlo

Sabrina Merlo

Sabrina is the Maker Faire Program Director. She works on stage content for the flagship fairs (Bay Area & New York), and also runs Maker Faire's global licensing program for locally and independently produced Maker Faires. She also co-creates the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in her town, Oakland, CA.

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3D research with an IKEA hacked Lamp hood on your head works best! Photographer René Paré.

Here’s a report on last weekend’s Eindhoven Mini Maker Faire by organizer René Pare:

Eindhoven Maker Faire (Netherlands) debuted splendidly on the weekend of March 29-30. Some 1,500 visitors and participants experienced the event in summer-like conditions in the perfect venue Klokgebouw – an appropriate former factory building of Philips Electronics. The population of makers ranged from exceptional innovations (Wunderbar IOT-kit), creative solutions (CRISP electronic modules for Smart Textiles) and experimental concepts to artists demonstrating stained glass with LED, plasma cutting, paper quilling. A responsive giant wheels robot hypnotized children, the first layers of crowd-printed Project Egg were produced on the spot. More than 40 makers were part of an amazingly cool event, including a wonderful makers dinner, a makerspace hackathon, a 30-ton truck mounted with a complete carillon, played by Rosemarie Seuntiens. A video team filmed every corner and all the makers, that will result in a special documentary, soon to come…

 

Dripping water. Photographer Nick Bookelaar
Flying robots! Photographer Nick Bookelaar
Oculus Rift demos. Photographer Leo Bakx
Oculus Rift demos. Photographer Leo Bakx
Girls crafting. Photographer Johan Plateijn
Photographer Leo Bakx / MADlab
Photographer Leo Bakx
Front view Booths Photographer Leo Bakx
Josette Pijnenborg – Blue Horse Glas in Lood. Photographer Leo Bakx
EHV logo blocks. Photographer Nick Bookelaar
M.A.R.S. Photographer Nick Bookelaar
LED lighting .Photographer Johan Plateijn
Protoplast + Urban Farming. Photographer Leo Bakx
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By Sabrina Merlo

Sabrina Merlo

Sabrina is the Maker Faire Program Director. She works on stage content for the flagship fairs (Bay Area & New York), and also runs Maker Faire's global licensing program for locally and independently produced Maker Faires. She also co-creates the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in her town, Oakland, CA.

View more articles by Sabrina Merlo