Chinese Hackspace: Chaihuo Make Space

One of the participants in the Moscow Hackspace "Neuron" recently had the good fortune to be in the Chinese Chaihuo Make Space . Surely many people wonder what the hacker space movement in other countries looks like. Under the cut a small text review and a decent bunch of interesting photos (traffic!).

Few words

Make Space itself is located in an area that can be compared to ARTPLAY in Moscow. That is, this is a quarter for designers, artists and creative people. Offices, shops, a bit of everything. The front of Make Space is a theme shop for a hackspace audience. If you go deeper, there is one room with a large table + a second floor for workplaces of VIP participants.

In Chaihuo Make Space there are three types of memberships: 168 ¥ (you can attend events for free), 512 ¥ (you can visit the hackspace every day and work), 1024 ¥ (VIP-level = keys, work at any time, access to private meetings). Course 1 ¥ = 6 rubles.
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On Wednesdays and Sundays in the evening there are seminars. On Thursdays, meetings are held closed DIY-club. At the moment (autumn 2013) there are 20 paid members, of which 4 are VIP. A lot of people go to events, formally not being participants in a hackspace. An example of the theme of one of the seminars is a paper report about batteries as thick as paper. Present about 30-40 people. Attendance of the event - 20 ¥.

Financing structure: 50% earn on dues, fees for events and store. 50% sponsors. One of the sponsors is the famous Seeed Studio.

Photo report

Hackerspace is above all a large common table:



There is not a lot of space around the table:



When the number of visitors rolls over, the staircase saves:



Everything you need for creativity can be bought on site:





Personal things, devices and parts do not have to carry with you here and there:





Of course, you can use 3D-printers. How fashionable luminous:



So more or less common:



In order not to be distracted from the process, a sales point for various drinks is organized:



For those who are suddenly tired at work, you can sleep:



But it seems that the clamshell is not particularly used here. Real hackers do not sleep:



Time tracking is organized in the old manner:



The results of the creative process can be right here for sale:



Those who lack personal contact can continue to chat in a special chat:

Hakspeys in Yekaterinburg

If the hackspace-movement has already been able to take you by the soul, do not forget to subscribe to the hackspace blog MakeItLab (Ekaterinburg) . The more people will be interested in our activities, the more often we will be able to please you, our readers, with new interesting posts.

In the foreseeable future, you are waiting for posts about some projects being developed now in the walls of MakeItLab. First of all, we will tell you about such a robotic head . A working copy of which is already assembled and running. Our “corporate” arcade machine will also be ready soon. In general, it is better to find out about our daily life by subscribing to the VK community . It is there that small regular posts are posted by our regular members.

Among your regular MakeItLab participants is your submissive servant himself with his project of the open smart home CoolRF ( VK-community ). As part of this project, the design of a USB module for connecting a radio transmitter to a computer has been completed, a photo article is being prepared on the components for self-assembly of a DIY dimmer . After the end of the iron development of the first two modules, we switch to programming. We will deal with the firmware and teach you this matter. That our modules were in programming no more difficult than the now popular Arduino controllers.