Vrijland
Latest change
2023-12-23
In brief:
Vrijland (litt: Free Land) is the compound where the Dutch
Hackerspace Hack42
was
housed until 2020. The Hackerspace rented two stories in a
building nearby. The Chapel is in use for weddings, conferences,
exhibitions,
parties, etc. It is there where I installed a Foucault Pendulum in
2017.
You
can find it on Google Earth coordinates 52 deg 02'14.21"N, 5 deg
54'05.84"E. (Koningsweg 31a, Arnhem)
The pendulum has operated here for a few days and was showed to
the public during the Hack42
Open Day at october 8, 2017, the "Weekend of Science" when many
science
related institutions open their doors for the public.
During the preparation the cable broke 2 times. Read the story of the broken cable.....
In the end of 2019 the message came that
Hack42 had to move to another location in 2020. So there will be
no further attempts to install a pendulum here.
Per 2020 Hack42 has moved to a location on an industrial aera in Arnhem. See Hack42.nl for more info.
Building the setup in the back of the chapel. The Top Mount is
hanging
off from
the balcony at approximately 5.5 meter high.
The plan was to
mount the pendulum to a raft of the roof, some 4 meters higher, after it had proved successfull operation.
That plan is not realized.