The second day began relatively slowly for most participants. One by one the last remaining hackers arrived, and jumped right into action. Hannah Perner-Wilson, an artist from Austria, who explores the field of e-textiles with various creative approaches for example started sewing pockets for her portable tool storage system right away.
Leslie Garcia and Paloma López from the Mexican artist collective Interspecifics held a demonstration of the EEG experiments for mapping brain activity and a presentation of their plan to build microbiological filters for tracking microorganisms. Of course, all participants took time to focus on their specific projects. Persistent sawing and drilling sounds could be heard in one corner, and one could also help preparing concrete.
Mike Page, who with his playful attitude and fun project definitely left his mark on last year’s PIFcamp, held an etching workshop, and practically everyone was soldering diverse electronic components, which by the end of the week will end up in modular synthesizers.
Part of the PIFgroup chose to step out into the wild and pick edible wild plants; along with the usual specimens like Wild carrots and Wild thyme this time they also brought back plants like Red clover and Mountain cumin. And we have to note: our PIFchefs really do make mind-blowing meals for us geeks, and even desserts aren’t missing or lacking. Tereza, Vid, Bojana and Dario, bravi maestri!
When there is so much work being done and the atmosphere is so cheerful one hardly notices when day turns into night. And since the workday culminated in a music jam, you can imagine the night was quite long. Looking forward to another day!