80 days, making it possible to discover and characterise eclipsing binaries with orbital periods of weeks that are very hard to study using light curves obtained from ground-based instruments. Extracting high quality photometry from the K2 images is challenging because the spacecraft is being operated using only 2 reaction wheels. This operating mode has made it possible to extend the mission lifetime, but does result in the pointing of the spacecraft being less stable than during the original Kepler mission. Nevertheless, there is now a variety of algorithms available to correct for the instrumental noise caused by this pointing drift that make it possible to recover photometric performance better than 100ppm per 6-hours at 12th magnitude, close to the performance of the original Kepler mission . These algorithms are generally optimised for the detection of the periodic shallow eclipses in the light curves of transiting exoplanets. Eclipsing binary stars have been found both as a by-product of these searches for transiting exoplanets and by searches for variable stars of all types in the Kepler K2 data. To-date, the characterisation of these eclipsing binaries has not been very detailed, being limited to estimates of the period plus, in some cases, some 