Making with Machines

What do robotics and stage performance have in common and how do they come together? Maas and Jori travel to Delft to meet Daniel Simu, a performer, acrobat, juggler and creative engineer, who incorporates robotics into his acts on stage. Together with the Acrobot he has been on America's got Talent, the Delft Fringe and many more place. His newest act is a performance in collaboration with a co-b...

For this episode of Making with Machines Jori travels to Rotterdam to meet Stijn van Aardenne. During Covid, Stijn started building his own, large format, 3D printer. Over the years, he has upgraded it with a pallet extruder and a rotating buildplate. The objects that can be made with this unique printing approach have come to define the design language of the Stijn's work. The lamps he makes are...

In the fourth episode of Making with Machines we discuss open hardware design with Jens Dyvik. Jens is an independent designer and FabLab founder based in Oslo, Norway. In the conversation we discuss the process of making open hardware design and what difficulties might arise, what it takes to open your own FabLab, and the three levels of using digital fabrication machines. Jens studied design at...

Bruna Goveia Da Rocha is an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology and an expert in digital embroidery. She has played a big part in both our studies, where we individually collaborated with her on several occasions. Bruna finished her studies in product design at Universidade Positivo in 2012 and continued with the masters in industrial design at the Eindhoven University of...

Our first guest episode stars Max Alberts, a designer with an interesting background and a cool project to tell us about! Max started his education in orthopedic technology, where he had his first encounters with 3D printing as a tool. Picking it up as a hobby, he continued to investigate the role that 3D printing could have in his practice. However, when he started his Master's in Industrial Desi...

In this first episode of Making with Machines, Jori and Maas, two makers who work with machines discuss their motivation for making a podcast and talk about some of their own experiences making with machines, 3D printers mostly. Maas is a graduate student at the Eindhoven University of Technology who likes tinkering with 3D printers to explore in what other creative ways they can be used. Jori als...