• Some 400 inventors, do-it-yourselfers and artists come to town with their curiosities for the Nantes Maker Campus.

  • Several thousand people are expected to attend this “great science festival”.

It has become “the most important maker event in France”. From Friday to Sunday, some 400 inventors, handymen and artists arrive with their curiosities under the Shelves and on the forecourt of the Machines for the 5th edition of Nantes Maker Campus. Several thousand people are expected to witness the stroll of strange men cans from Africa, climb aboard a poetic carousel of automata entirely made by hand, or even discover a strange artistic discipline: beerpainting, which consists of painting large canvases with the necks of beer bottles.

First event authorized on the site, while the movement has grown even further during the health crisis, "it will be one of the most beautiful programs of the festival," indicates Pierre Orefice, director of Machines.

There is a new generation of makers that is breaking through, often very young people, who do not come from major universities because it is not necessarily in the traditional sectors where the greatest innovations are born.

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Various sensory experiences

The public will also meet, and for the first time, the Great Blue Heron of the future Tree of the same name, which was built in recent months in the Machine workshop.

The mechanical bird with a wingspan of 16 meters will begin its tests for all to see.

A little further, in a black box, visitors will also be able to indulge in various sensory experiences such as attending a concert of robot musicians or discovering this light and sound installation, lit by a stroboscope, which uses water as a material for sculpture.

Admission to this "great science festival", which targets a family audience, is free.

But you will have to pay to access all the exhibitors (full price: 10 euros, tonnage of 1,000 people in the village).

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