Or – Copenhagen University Library – Nerd. A danish pun on the name of the location of our makerspace/fablab/playground.

One of the truly great things about working at this library, is the playfull attitude to innovation of our library director. About two years ago he wrote me and asked – “this 3D-printing thing, is that very difficult?”. As an engineer there is only one answer “not at all, and the printer can stay in my office”. Actually I had suggested introducing 3D-printing in the library about a year before. We bought a Makerbot, we played around with it, and made it available to the students.

And yesterday we had the grand opening of our innovation-lab (thats the official title, KUB-Nørd is so much better). Three printers, a 3D-scanner, arduinos, Raspberry Pis, Lego Mindstorm and lots of other fun stuff to play with. And the students loved it!