GeekLabs | wiki

Esbjerg, Denmark, Monday night at the end of November, on a cold night with a beautiful full moon. The city is the fifth in population in Denmark. GeekLabs, a makerspace started in 2017 by Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielson, electronic engineer, is the only collaborative workshop of the city. The space is close to the center, train station (Esbjerg St.) and bus station “Baggesens Alle” (3B, 4B, 816), in a building called “Tobakken”. You can easily find it, behind the mall center called “Boen Shopping”. This building is not only for the makerspace, you can also go there to attend concerts or drink a nice coffee in a bar. GeekLabs is located downstairs, the entrance is in front of the building, by the elevator. To enter the space, you’ll either need to know the access code or know someone on the inside!

GeekLabs is not only a traditional makerspace, this one is a part of a bigger association called “Tobakkens Kreative Væksted”, gathering several workshops: sewing, painting, glassware, drawing, pottery and probably a little more. This association has around 100 contributors. GeekLabs is the “geeky” part, using digital fabrication equipments like 3D printers or laser cutter to build things. Another important place is the coffee space, where everyone is welcomed anytime. People are playing old arcade games on Amiga emulators, talking about their projects and printing pieces of devices on 3D printers by the center of the table.

The GeekLabs makerspace only has one dedicated room, with different equipments inside like 3D printers, ceramic printers, several computers, and a laser cuter. The other workshops can be used by others in the association. Some machinery require training, but luckily the people from the association can help or train people to be independent with the hardware or devices for their projects.

GeekLabs need communication, the space is a little empty and they don’t really have big projects running in the space at the moment. Some people in the makerspace have their own project, like the 2D Bot Printer. Interesting stuff. They don’t really have an inventory of the hardware and device. They do some work with arduino.

The team is really interested by MakerTour and the idea to create “an inventory” and connect different place in the world. They don’t have much people coming yet, not even students. They think this is probably due to the communication and are not really good in this part of the activity. They don’t document their projects much, nor their "best practices”. It would be a good thing to share this kind of best practices with them!

Mikkel is an electronician, he has worked on different kind of hardware and device and was a linux kernel module/driver maintainor. It was a real pleasure to meet him!

Gasværksgade 2, kælderen, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark
+4528139066
Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielsen <miki [at] mikini.dk>

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2018-09-20: first contact by mail

2018-10-18: answer by mail from Mikkel

2018-10:19: answered by giving more information

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