One evening in the life of the first Ekaterinburg hackspace. A small story about a very useful for any self-made venture. A lot of photos of interesting equipment and projects, few words. In the text I was not ashamed to give a couple of links. Hackspace works entirely on a voluntary basis - a free office in the very center of the city, bought by the founders at its own expense is not at all cheap equipment. About this undertaking are simply obliged to find out all the DIY artists of Ekaterinburg. Under the cut 20 large photos.

It is ridiculous to say that in the morning I didn’t really know about these comrades. I read the
article on our local resource , but did not attach any importance to it. Either a little specifics, or read too fluently. There was an impression that some kind of another undertaking for schoolchildren. Read and forget.
In the afternoon I saw VKontakte several incoming messages from a stranger. I was interested in merchandise in my arduino micro-online store. Word for word, some half a day of online communication, and we found just a bunch of points of intersection. I was visiting them tonight. And remained very impressed.
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MakeItLab is located in the very center of Yekaterinburg at 30, Weiner str. We pass along the pedestrian alley:

Not the most budget place, but the guys were able to negotiate with the owner of the office. Free rentals are certainly not eternal, but so far they are free from thoughts about finding money. We approach the cherished house. So it looks from the facade (the sign has nothing to do with us):

We go around the building, the entrance to the offices behind. Passing into the room we see a picture from the title. It does not convey the full wealth of equipment. I will show a close-up. In the first place, of course, is the new Duplicator 3 3D printer (the personal contribution of
Semen Parkyshev ):

There is a little creative mess around. If you look closely, you can find a number of already printed models:


In the corner, a small ... program-controlled milling machine was inconspicuously hidden:

Yes, next to an empty cucumber can. Filmed - as it is, without embellishment. (UPD: later it turned out that the cucumbers in the haklab did not seem to have eaten - a bank with acetone, for glossing out "printouts".) On the other side of the bank - an ultrasonic bath:

Soldering station with a bottle of alcohol:

More photos of the equipment and a complete list of what is available can be seen on the project website and in their repositories on the githab (link was higher). Now a little about projects. A bit of pictures and unexpected text interchange at the end.
Quadcopter
Equipped with innovative soft cushions that protect against breaking everything in the trash during a fall. Obviously, the authors of the project want to test the theory of the sandwich and butter.

Quadcopter dual core brain:

Unseen hairy walking beast

Chocolate 3D Printer
More recently, he was an ordinary plastic, but soon he would learn how to make chocolate candy-figures for wedding cakes. Who is going to drastically change their lives through a sudden wedding - pay attention.

Arcade machine
It will turn out from such a stand, by tearing off the already unnecessary sticker of Windows Mobile, painting the brand htc ...

... and putting inside such a perky game:

Robot Alcomat
The main character of this review ... is expected by a large army of dependent fans. Mixes three types of drinks in the required proportion. You can change the composition of the drink as consumed. Not limited to the most sophisticated fantasy field for experiments at private parties. A great option to stand out for the owners of cafes and restaurants. After completion of the development will be heated.

Managed by wi-fi. Those who wish can order the composition of the drink without removing any part of the body from the comfortable chair:

And now the most interesting and unexpected ...
The organizers will be unspeakably happy to personally interact with their own kind. Want to participate in any of the projects or just to take a look? Do you want to use the hackspace resources to develop your project? Get in touch with the guys (
nemilya ,
Oleg Evsegneev ,
spiritus_sancti ) - and you will succeed. And it will turn out without unnecessary financial costs. Now hakspeysu important to gather around him a community of enthusiastic people. Dreams of self-financing and ineffable personal enrichment are relegated to a far second plan.
PS The site of the project and now opens is not very bright, I am afraid it can be completely cured from the influx of habrotrafic. Here are links to the pages of the ghitkhabovsky repository of the haklab:
projects ,
equipment . And here is the
link to their guglogruppu .