Factoria at UDD Chile: environmental health for all
World Maker Faire 2016
MAKERS
Camilo Rodriguez
Camilo Rodriguez-Beltran is currently a research professor at the School of Engineering at Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD) in Chile. He leads the C+ Lab (Cellular and City Dynamics Lab) and Factoría, the Space for Technology Creation at UDD.
Javiera De la Fuente
Javiera de la Fuente has been a maker since she was a kid. Nowadays she is a Digital Design Student at Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile. At the same time she is a researcher at AreaIX project at the same university.
Laura Calvo
Laura Calvo is a Digital Interaction Design student who's making skills range from programming and web design to game development. Her graphic representation abilities and focused prototyping knowledge allows her to shape her mental creations fast.
Benjamin Sans
Benja is a Civil Engineer Student at UDD in Santiago of Chile and a super-user at Área-IX project at UDD. He has worked on projects focused on environmental health, he created a gateway with nodes measuring CO2, CO and Methane in his secondary school
Joaquin Navarro
Joaquín is an undergraduate in Industrial Engineering at UDD in Santiago, Chile. His favorite hobby is to take things apart, and sometimes even put them back together! When he's not making his own projects, he works as a researcher at AreaIX
Orlando Malhue
Don Orlando is a clay hand crafter from rural community Pomaire. He has collaborated with UDD since 2013 in a broad range of projects applied to his community. His making skills are well known not only in Pomaire but around Chile
Factoria at UDD Chile, develops technology to democratize access to environmental/health monitoring including from free floating monitoring buoys and portable automatic DNA diagnostics, to clay handcrafting sensors and street art reactive spray paint
What inspired you to make this project?:
Local rural communities