On June 30th and July 1st, the first edition of Addidex Connect took place at the 3D Maker Zone in Haarlem. The event brought together practitioners in LFAM (Large Format Additive Manufacturing) from all over the world. The event featured talks from industry leaders and panels on a range of topics, as well as the first live event of Making with Machines.
For Addidex Connect, we curated a panel with four independent makers and innovators in the field of 3D printing: Stijn van Aardenne, Angelika Bocian-Jaworska, Anika Greyling, and Marcel Kerkmans. Live on stage, they talk about their approach as makers, how they collaborate with their machines and how they navigate the influence of the material on their work. In short, the topics you have come to expect from an episode of Making with Machines.
You can now listen to the panel on our Patreon, Spotify, and Apple podcasts. As well as all other talks and panels on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@MJsweers).
Addidex Connect will be back next year to bring together the field of LFAM once more. Be sure to keep an eye out on their website, Addedex.com (https://Addedex.com), for updates on the next event. I hope to see you there.
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2 Jul 2026
Performing with Robots with Daniel Simu
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-bot (collaborative robotic arm), the Jugglebot; together they investigate the relationship between man and machine and what it means to work together with new emerging technologies.
In the conversation we dive into his development of both the Acrobot and the Jugglebot. As engineers and designers, we're curious to learn from his experience developing technology from a different starting point. We find overlapping challenges and opportunities and areas where we can learn from the creative arts.
Follow Daniel Simu on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simu.circus/?hl=en (https://www.instagram.com/simu.circus/?hl=en)
Find more information about Daniel Simu and his work at: https://danielsimu.com/ (https://danielsimu.com/)
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12 May 2026
Rotating the plane with Stijn van Aardenne
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 informed by what the machine can do, and more importantly, by what it cannot do, yet.
During the conversation we discuss the motivation behind Stijn's work, his design process and what it's like to run a small business selling 3D printed design lamps. Whether you already know Stijn's work or you're discovering it just know you will learn more about the man behind the machine and the machine that he built.
Follow Stijn van Aardenne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stijnvanaardenne/ (https://www.instagram.com/stijnvanaardenne/)
Find more information about Stijn van Aardenne's work: https://stijnvanaardenne.com/ (https://stijnvanaardenne.com/)
Do you enjoy listening to Making with Machines? Help us produce more episodes by supporting the show directly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JorivanderKolk (https://www.patreon.com/c/JorivanderKolk)
24 Dec 2025
Open hardware design with Jens Dyvik
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 the Design Academy in Eindhoven. He did an internship at the then newly opened WAAG FabLab in Amsterdam which inspired him to go on a two year world tour visiting FabLabs all around the globe.
After his travels, Jens settled in Oslo where he co-founded the Fellesverkstedet FabLab and started working as an Independent Designer developing recipes for open hardware machines.
If you're interested in learning more about Jens's work, listen to this latest episode of Making with Machines.
More information about Jens and to follow his work you can follow him on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/jensdyvik
More about Fellesverkstedet can be found here: https://www.fellesverkstedet.no/
21 Apr 2025
Digital Embroidery with Bruna Goveia Da Rocha
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 Technology. It was there that she encountered digital embroidery in the wearable senses lab and it has been her machine of choice ever since.
She finished her PhD on the topic of sample making in digital craftsmanship in 2023, where she developed an understanding of how we make design, and highlighted the intrinsic value of prototypes and samples as contributions themselves.
In this episode, we dive into the specifics of digital embroidery and try to unpack the role of making in her practice.
One of her staple publications on samples: 10.1145/3532106.3533516 (https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533516)
25 Oct 2024
Interactive fabrication with Max Alberts
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 Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology, he started to regard the machine as a way to make creative things.
During his graduation project, he made a 3D printer that allowed live modification of G-code, facilitating more open-ended exploration with texture and structure. The outcomes are not predetermined, and looking at the machine and material inspires different explorations.
Now he is teaching at Orthopedic Technology, where he is curious how he will interweave his design thinking into the education.
Curious about Max and or his project? Please have a listen to our new episode!
The project about drizzling honey: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3656156.3665434 (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3656156.3665434).
7 Oct 2024
What is Making with Machines?
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 also likes tinkering with 3D printers, especially when robotic arms are involved, he recently started as a freelance 3D print engineer after having worked at a 3D concrete printing startup.
Together they are on a mission to explore how digital fabrication technology can be used in creative and artistic ways. Always asking the question “What else can it do?” Join them on this journey through the world of creative digital fabrication.
You can find the paper “FabriClick: Interweaving Pushbuttons into Fabrics Using 3D Printing and Digital Embroidery” here:
https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395569 (https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395569)
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