Hannover Maker Faire Expands the Design Community

Sept. 18, 2024

The Hannover Maker Faire provided manufacturers, educational institutions, and electronics firms a venue to present themselves and their projects to the young and upcoming development community.

Alix Paultre

Related To: Electronic Design

Now the third largest event of its kind in the world, the Hannover Maker Faire saw 15,800 participants pass through its doors this year—an increase of 10% over the previous year. The event took place at the Hannover Congress Centrum, giving makers, educational institutions, and companies a platform to present themselves and their projects for the 10th time.

The diversity of the offerings was reflected in maker projects addressing applications from cutting-edge technologies like AI and quantum computing to robotics and programming to traditional craft techniques such as spinning and forging.

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.