About 25,000 people participated in the Maker Days last weekend. The Maker Days awards went to the most innovative and special project and maker. The jury selected Giliam de Carpentier as the most innovative maker, while the keyboard of Sander Geraedts was awarded the most innovative project.
Carpentopod
This is a 12-legged walking coffee table designed and built from scratch. The leg mechanism looks similar to the ‘Strandbeest’ linkage but has an extra joint position for extra smoothness and stability. The legs are driven using only two relatively small brushless motors and are controlled using the designer’s wireless remote ‘Nunchuck’.
“After I tweaked this new mechanism using an automated simulation and optimisation process I wrote, I constructed it out of wood and aluminium using my CNC”.
–Giliam de Carpentier
Giliam is a game developer by profession but also a maker in his spare time, doing anything from writing low-level software to designing electronics to CNCing for projects related to model railways, toys, tool design, furniture design and home automation.
Make your own Keyboard
Sander Geraedts demonstrates how to design, build, and program a keyboard exactly the way you’ve always dreamed. Building a keyboard is an excellent first project because it teaches you essential skills in an accessible manner that you’ll use in every project you take on. The current updated version of my keyboard has a comfortable thumb cluster.
For Eindhoven News: Beena Arunraj
