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Still recovering from that weekend. My first maker faire, a "have to", because it was in Berlin, my hometown.
Friday night I was meeting with @WooDWorkeR, @Sophi Kravitz, @Elliot Williams and @al1 at the c-base. Shamefully I have to admit that this was my first trip to the space station based in Berlin, a meet-up place for computer friends, aliens, geeks and nerds and guys with no labels and categories. The tour offered some inspirations for new hacks and we've seen the #warpcore go crazy. Two notable projects that stuck in my head were the little speaker box, that made spherical noises when picking up magnetic fields (telephone amp by a company called micro-electric) and the 4 EL-Wire tube that looked like it was pulsing (no pictures were allowed to be taken, sry). We met other guys that wanted to check out the c-base before going to the maker faire and had a great time.
I think the speaker was based on something like this: http://www.jameco.com/jameco/workshop/diy/magnetic.html
Saturday I've met @al1 at the Ostbahnhof station near the Postbahnhof to go to the maker faire. Greeted by a fire throwing container robot we entered the first floor where some were still preparing their tables. I'm working through the flyers, they aren't in order.
MakerBeam
The first thing that got me interested was the MakerBeam starter kit. There was definitely a lot inside, different length of 1cm x 1cm extruded aluminum profiles with a threaded hole all the way through and multiple connectors to create presentable prototypes.
www.makerbeam.com - www.makerbeam.de
Seedstudio
they brought prototypes of their RePhone and Stickers and buttons and many staff.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seeed/rephone-kit-worlds-first-open-source-and-modular-p
Hartmut Wendt
He brought a din rail case for the raspberry Pi, a mini arcade case and a lot of other little boards that we had a good chat about.
Inspirational projects
www.hacklace.info - a tiny orange 8x8 matrix driven by an atmega328, arduino compatible - everything in a necklace form factor. I was close to buying one but have so many displays in that size, that I would be angry with my self. Another interesting device was the word clock by www.kellys-finest.de that were designed with common ebay classics like a chead arduino clone, 2 8x8 matrices with max7219 controller and a DS1307 module. And there was this beauty:
Pimoroni
they brought a lot of hats (shields, stacking stuff) for the raspberry PI and they might have thought that I was writing for hackaday.com - I had to wear a HaD shirt. There was a lot of RGB stuff going on!
Lasercutting and front plates
there were some service sellers that caught my eye. www.formulor.de and www.schaeffer-ag.de were there, and also http://pro.john-steel.com - beautiful interface and good pricing.
3D printing
http://i.materialise.com - first price test looks like prices of only 25% percent of shapeways for plastics. MeltWerk had some interesting prints as well, with prices around 75% of shapeways, tested with the same object. If you have a lot of LEGO parts, a browser and not so much time to wait for your 3D prints, you might want to take a look at www.brickify.it - there you can replace easy structures with LEGO parts to save time.
freie Maker
I'm printing myself right now - thanks to the guys from http://freie-maker.de - they brought a 3D scanner and scanned everyone who was interested - should have pulled in my belly :D After scanning a receipt with a link was printed and you have full control over the data. Awesome! We also met @Mario Lukas there and had a little chat.
After seeing the Siegessäule and the vintage computer festival, @al1 and I sank into the couches until the party started. We got our ESP8266 boards out, I brought my #zynthia - sequencer synthesizer and #USB cable tester - @al1 brought his #tiny7 displays. We had some great chats with a couple of guys that were drawn to us by my #RGB 16 Segment LED . We also met @Krzysztof Wrzalka and @Daniel Rojas who brought his two projects, the #Uranium Marble Ring Oscillator and the #Micro Word Clock
@antti.lukats brought some #DIPSY pcbs for everyone (that BGA stuff is tiny!) There was also a guy from the netherlands, who traded a devalued coin for one of my #Lithium Coin Cell charger boards.
I had a great time and exactly one club mate caipirinha too much - should have taken more photos.
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Dave, you should check out https://twitter.com/hackadayio/status/655828411013857280
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Well I know where _I'm_ going to be next October :)
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Great writeup! Awesome to see you as well.
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Awesome writeup! I'm still sad, that i didn't make it to Berlin.
Perhaps next year is a better date ;)
BTW: The Hacklace was also on the Friedrichshafen Maker World ;-)
BTW: You just stole me around a 3/4h ;-P
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Next time / next year!
Glad you took the time, it took me the same amount to write it :)
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Nice article!
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thanks! If you want a minime of yourself, write me a PN :)
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Thank you for visiting us! Hopefully we have some more time to chat next time...
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I also want to try something with aluminium extrusion beams...
For cases where MakerBeam/OpenBeam are still too big: http://www.nanobeam.us/ looks interesting. Those screws are ridiculously tiny. But the groove is just the right width to hold a PCB! :-)
I should try it some time..
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5mm sounds awesome!
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Nice pose for the 3D model! It will be fun to see the model once you're done printing.
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hehe thanks :) I didn't want the "hands on the side" pose and I think this is printable without support.
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Good planning :)
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