User:ErikDeBruijn

I'm Erik de Bruijn. I develop for the RepRap and have built myself two Darwins so far. One is produced by the other. I frequently give talks on the subject to spread the joy and inspire people to learn to create and learn what is so great about open source. I'm also researching the RepRap community to learn how open source hardware development differs from software, but might one day be as common or even more common and visible than OSS.

For more info, my Google profile is probably most up-to-date.

RepRap Talks

Talks:

• 2010-11 (Upcoming) Talk at Fourth Annual Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit, FSCONS 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 2010-04 European Space Agency (ESA). Representing RepRap together with Rhys Jones from Bath University. Topic: self-replicating flexible manufacturing tools and Additive Manufacturing and its applications in the space sector.
• 2010-04 Speaking at SHiFT Portugal. Also hosting a tech workshop. Slides and comments, here.
• 2010-03 MIT Innovation Lab, Talk on my RepRap and Open Hardware research at MIT Sloan School of Management,Cambridge, MA, USA (slides)
• 2010-02 FOSDEM 10, Brussels (Demo. Talk by Adrian Bowyer)
• 2010-01 Guest Lecture at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL.
• 2009-11 NPOX new media festival (demo), Hilversum, NL
• 2009-11 Innovation centered conference at Essent, Den Bosch, NL
• 2009-11 The Emergence of Innovation Communities in Open Hardware, Nottingham University, UK
• 2009-11 Media Ecologies, Salford University, Manchester, UK
• 2009-10 PHILIPS Corporate Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation Masterclass, Deurne, NL
• 2009-08 Hacking At Random, On-stage demo during main track. Speakers: Adrian Bowyer and Neil Gershenfeld, Vierhouten, NL
• 2009-06 Reboot 11 in Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2008-11 The Wikimedia Conference (Wikipedia), Utrecht, NL

Interviews / other coverage

• 2010-04 Interview in Dutch radio show "Met 't oog op morgen" (ca. 300,000 audience, weblog, player, mp3)
• 2010-04 Dutch Newspaper "Trouw": two page article
• 2010-03 Interview Reformatorisch dagblad (two page article)
• 2010-03 Omroep Brabant (Hot en Gespot, youtube video)
• 2010-02 Dutch National news: NOS Journaal op 3 (view it via Youtube)
• 2010-02 Dutch Newspaper article in NRC and NRC.next (also: video interview on NRC.next weblog)
• 2009-12 Dutch article in Intermediair

Leo the Traveling RepRap

Erik has built a RepRap Darwin which is now a "Traveling RepRap" as part of the Loaner Program. It is hosted by a new person who prints a set and then it is passed on to the next person.

For more information:

• Initial announcement on my blog: Erik's RepRap for loan!

Mini-Mendel for AltLab, Lisboa

I've printed a full RP set and provided most parts for a Mini-Mendel for AltLab, Lisboa. It's currently being assembled.