Aachen Maker Meetup (Dorkbot): Event Reports

This page contains reports with the highlights of each of our monthly meetups. (Reports until 2015 are in German.)

2019

#123, Wed, Dec 18, 2019: Celebrating 10 Years of Fab Lab Aachen, with some exciting news about the growth of our Fab Lab! — Full Event Report
#122, Wed, Nov 20, 2019: 3D Printing with Stereolithography — Full Event Report
#121, Wed, Oct 16, 2019: Aachen Maker Meetup in the DigitAC — Full Event Report
#120, Wed, Sep 25, 2019: The Birth of a Fablab adventure: A short interactive introduction to the text adventure creation tool Inform7 — Full Event Report
#119, Wed, Aug 21, 2019: Best of CHI'19: Prof. Jan Borchers summarized new user interface research on tools for makers and electronics — Full Event Report
#118, Wed, Jul 17, 2019: We celebrated the 10-Year Anniversary of our Aachen Maker Meetup with over 60 attendees, new fabbed electronic games, the FabScan Pi DIY 3D scanner, a DIY laser art installation, and the Greatest Hits and Misses of 10 Years of Aachen Maker Meetup. Founding Fab Lab manager René Bohne (now in Berlin, via video), serial inventor Mario Lukas, and maker publisher Volker Bombien from Bombini-Verlag were there, and we gave fabbed buttons celebrating the occasion as a gift to everyone attending. — Full Event Report
#117, Wed, June 19, 2019: Raf Verheyen gave an overview of 3D printing techniques in industry, and we tested the DIY art installation. — Full Event Report
#116, Wed, May 15, 2019: AR Sketching, AI, and Dandelions. We saw a demo of the ARPen (available on the iOS App Store!), Tanja Golinski talked about her Master Thesis about how Makers document, Andreas Schuderer gave us an Introduction to AI, and Oleksiy presented his wonderful interactive art project Field of Magic Dandelions. — Full Event Report
#115, Wed, Apr 17, 2019: Our Egg-Bot decorated lots of Easter eggs, everyone got to try out a selfmade e-skateboard, Prof. Borchers introduced Adafruit's Gemma M0 board for wearable projects, and we started experimenting with Arduino's MKR 1010 board.
#114, Wed, Mar 20, 2019: Making Stuff. This month it was time to get our projects moving forward! — Full Event Report
#113, Wed, Feb 20, 2019: 'Maker Stories' - A film team came to interview interested makers about their current or other projects they built before. These interviews and projects will be integrated as 'Maker Stories' on Conrad's YouTube channel.
#112, Wed, Jan 16, 2019

2018

#111, Wed, Dec 19, 2018: Blender for Makers: Birgit Stolte gave an exciting talk and introduced us to the 3D design software 'Blender' and how we can use it for Maker projects.
#110, Special event, Nov 19, 2018: Tangible Learning Roadshow in Aachen.
#109, Wed, Oct 17, 2018
#108, Wed, Sep 19, 2018
Summer break in July and August due to conferences and other travel of the organizers
#107, 4th Wednesday of the month, Jun 27, 2018: Matlab Crash Course, and a Fab Academy final project
#106, Wed, May 16, 2018: CHI and Eggs: Current maker research, and the Egg-Bot plotter. With video highlights from CHI, the world's top conference on new user interface research, that show new research prototypes of personal fabrication tools, and the Egg-Bot plotter for eggs and other round objects.
#105, Wed, Apr 18, 2018: Wearables: From Body Sensors to Interactive Fashion. With Markus Lüken's wireless wearable sensors for body signals, a new toolkit for on-body haptic output using Shape Memory Alloys in 3D printed enclosures, a project tracking dance movements using wearable sensors, and a haptic vest for the blind. — Full Event Report.
#104, Wed, Mar 21, 2018: Tools — Makers' Favorite Helpers. With a show-and-tell of Roger Leifert's Every Maker Should Have One must-have selection of tools. — Full Event Report and Video.
#103, Wed, Feb 21, 2018: The past, present, and future or learning Maker skills. With special guest Frank Brennecke from Berlin, published in c't Make for his modern extensions to the legendary Philips EE electronics kits. More details (in German). — Full Event Report and Video.
#102, Wed, Jan 17, 2018

Reports from our monthly meetups between February 2015 (#67) and January 2018 (#102) are not online.

2015

66. Treffen, Mi. 21.01.2015 - RepRap Install Party

2014

65. Treffen, Mi. 17.12.2014
64. Treffen, Mi. 19.11.2014 - Instructables.com Build Night with Spark Cores
63. Treffen, Mi. 15.10.2014
62. Treffen, Mi. 17.09.2014
61. Treffen, Mi. 20.08.2014
60. Treffen, Mi. 16.07.2014
59. Treffen, Mi. 18.06.2014
58. Treffen, Mi. 14.05.2014 - Mitch Altman
57. Treffen, Mi. 16.04.2014 - Burkhard Kainka
56. Treffen, Mi. 19.03.2014
55. Treffen, Mi. 26.02.2014 - Lumiblade OLED Wand
54. Treffen, Mi. 15.01.2014 - Renzo

2013

53. Treffen, Mi. 18.12.2013 - ZDF logo! und Simon Merkt
52. Treffen, Mi. 13.11.2013
51. Treffen, Mi. 16.10.2013
50. Treffen, Mi. 09.09.2013 - Makerfaire Kerkrade
49. Treffen, Mi. 17.07.2013 - 4 Jahre amm, MakeLight
48. Treffen, Mi. 19.06.2013
47. Treffen, Mi. 22.05.2013 - Amateurfunk
46. Treffen, Mi. 17.04.2013
45. Treffen, Mi. 20.03.2013
44. Treffen, Mi. 20.02.2013
43. Treffen, Mi. 16.01.2013 - Enigma

2012

42. Treffen, Mi. 14.12.2012
41. Treffen, Mi. 21.11.2012
40. Treffen, Mi. 17.10.2012
39. Treffen, Mi. 19.09.2012
Das Treffen am 15.08.2012 ist ausgefallen
38. Treffen, Mi. 18.07.2012
37. Treffen, Mi. 27.06.2012
36. Treffen, Mi. 23.05.2012
35. Treffen, Mi. 19.04.2012
34. Treffen, Mi. 21.03.2012 - in der Holzwerkstatt der Architekten
33. Treffen, Mi. 15.02.2012
32. Treffen, Mi. 18.01.2012

2011

2010

20. Treffen, Mi. 15.12.2010 - Idee zur 1. 3D-Drucker-Masterclass
19. Treffen, Mi. 24.11.2010 - Eagle-CAD-Kurs, RepRap Mendel von Ruben und Jos, Quadcopter-Nachtflug
18. Treffen, Mi. 27.10.2010 - Jans MakerBot & Nutella-Frostruder, Rubens RepRap Mendel, FabScan 3D, Arduino Uno, mbed
17. Treffen, Mi. 15.09.2010
16. Treffen, Mi. 25.08.2010 - Jans FAB6-Bericht, Gerrits RepRap Mendel, Wasserplasma-Antrieb für Cubesat-Satellit
15. Treffen, Mi. 21.07.2010 - 3D-Photographie, TI Launchpad, Kühlschrankgriffe
14. Treffen, Mi. 16.06.2010 - Tom Igoe, RapMan, Reflow-Ofen, twitternde Blumen
13. Treffen, Mi. 19.05.2010 - Shapeways-Vortrag
Zwölftes Treffen, Mi. 21.04.2010 - RepRap, MakerBot, Contraptor CNC, Mudpad
Elftes Treffen, Mi. 17.03.2010 - Artikel in der Süddeutschen Zeitung, Christophs Contraptor CNC, Rubens RepRap, dorkpov, Timos Quadcopter, Jans "The Clock", Nixie-Clock
Zehntes Treffen, Mi. 17.02.2010 - Lochkamera, ATxmega-Arduino
Neuntes Treffen, Mi. 20.01.2010 - RepRap, fd0's LED-Steuerung, Fab Lab Aachen, Quadcopter

2009

Achtes Treffen, Mi. 16.12.2009 - interaktiver an.schlag LED-Cube, Madgets, Contraptor CNC, Makerbeam, Cubespawn, eigene Arduino-Shields
Siebtes Treffen, Mi 18.11.2009 - dorkpov 1.0, Fabiennes MakerBot 3D-Drucker
Sechstes Treffen, Mi 21.10.2009 - Quadcopter, bausteln, bildr.org
Fünftes Treffen, Mi 23.9.2009 - atoms & bits Festival, Küchenbrettgitarre, LEGO-MIDI-Controller, Quadcopter, Udos Elektroniklabor, Geschenkpaket
Viertes Treffen, Mi 26.8.2009 - WDR Lokalzeit TV, Leuchtjacken, interaktive Schwerter, Nintendo-Hacks
Drittes Treffen, Sa. 1.8.2009 - beim Chaos Computer Club Cologne, Arduino, fd0's rumpus & ethersex
Zweites Treffen, Mi. 22.7.2009 - Renés dorkpov-Prototyp, Jans MIDI Strip, Jumps Origami, Jan & Renés LumiNet
Erstes dorkbot-Treffen, Sa. 6.6.2009 - dorkbot-Gründung, Christophs Arduino-Talk

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