Author: Edwin Dertien

  The flatpackwalkers are on exhibit in the ‘Garden of Machines’ at ‘ het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam’ 18-04 – 23-08, 2015.  

This is the first attempt of building a walking house, the Baba[01]. It was shown during Gogbot 2014 – where it usually was referred to as the ‘birdhouse’

For the seeker mission #5 during Gogbot 2014 I provided the spaceship’s robotics. A robot for pipe inspection under the craft – and the converted utility vehicle (S.P.O.T.) as assistive robot for Extra Vehicular Activities

Rocket build together with Jelle de Graaf and Erik Terhorst for the lustrum of art collective B93 in Enschede.

The dancing white man of Leonard van Munster has been on exhibit in ‘Stadschouwburg Amsterdam’ from 2012 until 2016. It featured at TEDx Amsterdam (2012), in Klokhuis and many other media. It also has been on display in Museum de

The FirePlotter (Vuurplotter) is a 3 meter wide drawing machine using burning paste. It can make line drawings and has been used to paint numerous burning messages. The machine has been developed with Wout Zweers.  

A design project with Jonas Samson. LED illuminated ‘wallpaper’ responds to sensor inputs. Several installations have been built, a.o. one in the tunnel by Schiphol Airport which responds to trains driving past and passengers on the platform. A different installation

The A4 robots are designed aimed at production using a laser cutter with just one A4-size sheet of material. The robots have featured on many exhibits, such as TechFest Mumbai (2012), Gogbot Enschede (2013), Tuin van de Machines (het nieuwe

In this work, I explore how robot cleaners could act as autonomous actors. Some of the cleaners are under remote control, some are ‘hacked’ but most of them simply run their program unaltered. With coffee powder as a subtractive medium.