A Splendid Day in Eindhoven

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