On November 7th, you can find us in Salzburg at this year’s Maker Faire, hosted at the HTBLuVA Salzburg!
Doors open 10:00 a.m. -6:00 p.m.
Flex.Node goes Maker Faire Salzburg 2026
PROTOTYPING
Cluster 3: Building Our First Flex.Node Dome
After months of collecting detergent bottles, experimenting with connectors, heat-welding plastic nodes, printing prototypes, and testing assemblies, we built our first Flex.Node geodesic dome.
At this year’s Angewandte Festival, we presented the project to the public for the first time. Over four days, visitors could not only walk inside the dome but also explore the development process behind it.
Cluster 3: Redesigning the Bottle Cap — a 3D-Printable Connection System
Following the insights from our tension tests, we shifted our focus towards redesigning the bottle cap as a connection element. The aim is to develop a 3D-printable cap that allows pipes to be inserted and fixed, enabling the construction of stable systems.
Continue readingCluster 1: bike frame demonstrator
Cluster 1: Formable bike frame structure
Cluster 3: From Container to Connector
We’re returning to the detergent bottle — and to the techniques we explored earlier with pressed plastic panels in the Pearse structure. But this time, the goal is to preserve more of the bottle’s original shape while still transforming it into a structural element.
Continue readingCluster 3: Molding Experiments – recycled Plastic Panels
Recycling plastic into panels for Peter Pearce’s Curved Space structure presents several challenges, from understanding material properties to refining the molding process. Through this series of experiments, we explored different plastic types, tested different melting techniques to create saddle pentagon panels.
Continue readingCluster 3: Toy recreated- Curved Space Diamond Structure
We’ve recreated all five pieces of the Curved Space for 3D printing, transforming them into a toy. The goal was to explore the challenges and problems of the structure on a small scale in order to better understand what needs attention when scaling up.
Continue readingCluster 1: pattern 1 demonstrator
After mainly digital work, we fabricated a physical sample of a bike-frame construction.
Continue readingCluster 1 : Educational Construction Toy
Another directive of this project is finding different ways to increase the accessibility to, and to spread the knowledge we aquire in the process of our research. Inventorics is located at the Institute of Art Science and Art Education after all.
While working on physical studies with 3d-printed bike-frames the idea to develop this into a toy construction kit evolved quite naturally…
