FAB PICNIC at Polytechnic
This weekend (June 7-8), an open-air festival of scientific and technical creativity called FAB PICNIC is held in St. Petersburg. On the official page of VKontakte it is stated that exhibitions of technical and design projects, 3D printers, robots, quadcopters, board games, as well as hackathons and lecture halls with real scientists are expected.
For some reason, this news passed by Habr. On the first day of the festival, I got quite by accident: the night before I was walking near the Polytech and saw the unfolding objects. I decided to go and, as it turned out, for good reason.
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Under the cut I will describe some details, share photos and received promotional codes.
The beginning was scheduled for 12:00, but already at 11:30 most of the booths were deployed, the 3D printers printed something green, and the robots cheerfully drove around the tables. Entry is absolutely free for everyone.
The first stand I reached was made by robots with TRIK inscription.
Project engineers have developed a controller of the same name. The controller can analyze data from the connected external sensors, including the ability to monitor the object through an external camera (one of the robots had a shield from the Arduino).
The controller is programmed through its TRIK Studio IDE. Included you can purchase a designer with all the necessary strapping.
Anyone could steer a tracked all-terrain vehicle using a tablet. 15% discount on promotional code # FP2014
The project has approximately the same objectives as the previous one: an entertaining robot platform for schoolchildren / students.
Designer based on the Arduino with a box-set of various sensors and a visual IDE.
There were a lot of prototypes at the exhibition, for example:
Moon rovers
ATVs
Tracking camera
“Sound-controlled robots”
There was such a sample (unfortunately, I didn’t communicate with the author), I wasn’t even too lazy to cut the animation:
Printers were in abundance and printed without stopping. Here are a couple of them:
The guys demonstrated their printer with the name 3DMarket ZOOM, which can be used via the web interface on their website . The authors have already written about him in Habré.
The pre-order with the declared cost of 39900 rubles is about to open. Judging by the scheme, you can buy a printer, register on the site and get paid print orders. The printer looks very civil, that's what it gives out:
Exhibited on a general review in the morning.
Many printed samples were presented at the stand:
On its territory, YOTA laid a lawn, organized wifi, a free photo booth, bin-begs and charging for any phones.
Microsoft put a showcase with Nokia-novelties. Most of all I was interested in the camera phone Lumia 1020 , but then there was an incident and for some reason the camera stopped turning on: crashes when called from anywhere. When I went in a couple of hours - everything turned on (apparently the device was rebooted).
There was also a lot of freebies in the tent: drinks, sandwiches, cake and fruit. People flew very quickly.
A pleasant surprise was the stand with folding bikes, for a long time I wanted to see them live. There were two models to choose from: Strida LT and Strida SX. Rolled with pleasure.
Great were strong and transported all in a row, even attack aircraft from GeekPicnic.
Quadrocopters flew around the perimeter, and stormtroopers strolled around the stage and sometimes distributed the GEEK-ADMISSION promotional code with a 30% discount on geek-picnic , which will take place on August 9-10 on Elagin Island.
There was one interesting stand where it was proposed to pour water from a samovar with the help of the power of thought. On the head of the subject was put on something like ganitura. With the help of the same device it was possible to control such machines:
Redbul put X-BOX 360 with Mortal Kombat and a whole barrel filled with cans of your drink for free use - take what you want. And they took. Thank you, RedBull!
GaGa has provided board games for every taste: table hockey, jenga, uno and many more, the names of which I do not even know.
If you post in instagram photo with the tag #fabpicnic, then she will come out of this printer:
There were also guys who offered to play a computer with dominoes:
and even pass cognitive psychology tests
I almost forgot about quadcopters! Here they are:
So was the first day. Let's see what will happen tomorrow, perhaps the post will be supplemented.
More colorful photos can be viewed here .
upd: On the second day, several new booths appeared and a dome with a spherical cinema was launched. Unfortunately, the camera did not capture anything. We will wait for a repetition next year.
upd 2: The organizers confirmed that the event will be held annually.
For some reason, this news passed by Habr. On the first day of the festival, I got quite by accident: the night before I was walking near the Polytech and saw the unfolding objects. I decided to go and, as it turned out, for good reason.
')
Under the cut I will describe some details, share photos and received promotional codes.
The beginning was scheduled for 12:00, but already at 11:30 most of the booths were deployed, the 3D printers printed something green, and the robots cheerfully drove around the tables. Entry is absolutely free for everyone.
Robotics
TRIK
The first stand I reached was made by robots with TRIK inscription.
Project engineers have developed a controller of the same name. The controller can analyze data from the connected external sensors, including the ability to monitor the object through an external camera (one of the robots had a shield from the Arduino).
The controller is programmed through its TRIK Studio IDE. Included you can purchase a designer with all the necessary strapping.
Anyone could steer a tracked all-terrain vehicle using a tablet. 15% discount on promotional code # FP2014
Scratchduino
The project has approximately the same objectives as the previous one: an entertaining robot platform for schoolchildren / students.
Designer based on the Arduino with a box-set of various sensors and a visual IDE.
Prototypes
There were a lot of prototypes at the exhibition, for example:
Moon rovers
ATVs
Tracking camera
“Sound-controlled robots”
There was such a sample (unfortunately, I didn’t communicate with the author), I wasn’t even too lazy to cut the animation:
3D printers
Printers were in abundance and printed without stopping. Here are a couple of them:
3DMarket ZOOM
The guys demonstrated their printer with the name 3DMarket ZOOM, which can be used via the web interface on their website . The authors have already written about him in Habré.
The pre-order with the declared cost of 39900 rubles is about to open. Judging by the scheme, you can buy a printer, register on the site and get paid print orders. The printer looks very civil, that's what it gives out:
MakerBot Replicator2 and Picasso
Exhibited on a general review in the morning.
Many printed samples were presented at the stand:
Yota
On its territory, YOTA laid a lawn, organized wifi, a free photo booth, bin-begs and charging for any phones.
Microsoft
Microsoft put a showcase with Nokia-novelties. Most of all I was interested in the camera phone Lumia 1020 , but then there was an incident and for some reason the camera stopped turning on: crashes when called from anywhere. When I went in a couple of hours - everything turned on (apparently the device was rebooted).
There was also a lot of freebies in the tent: drinks, sandwiches, cake and fruit. People flew very quickly.
Entertainment
Strida
A pleasant surprise was the stand with folding bikes, for a long time I wanted to see them live. There were two models to choose from: Strida LT and Strida SX. Rolled with pleasure.
Great were strong and transported all in a row, even attack aircraft from GeekPicnic.
Geek picnic
Quadrocopters flew around the perimeter, and stormtroopers strolled around the stage and sometimes distributed the GEEK-ADMISSION promotional code with a 30% discount on geek-picnic , which will take place on August 9-10 on Elagin Island.
Power of thought
There was one interesting stand where it was proposed to pour water from a samovar with the help of the power of thought. On the head of the subject was put on something like ganitura. With the help of the same device it was possible to control such machines:
Redbull
Redbul put X-BOX 360 with Mortal Kombat and a whole barrel filled with cans of your drink for free use - take what you want. And they took. Thank you, RedBull!
Gaga
GaGa has provided board games for every taste: table hockey, jenga, uno and many more, the names of which I do not even know.
InstaGreen
If you post in instagram photo with the tag #fabpicnic, then she will come out of this printer:
There were also guys who offered to play a computer with dominoes:
and even pass cognitive psychology tests
I almost forgot about quadcopters! Here they are:
So was the first day. Let's see what will happen tomorrow, perhaps the post will be supplemented.
More colorful photos can be viewed here .
upd: On the second day, several new booths appeared and a dome with a spherical cinema was launched. Unfortunately, the camera did not capture anything. We will wait for a repetition next year.
upd 2: The organizers confirmed that the event will be held annually.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/225843/
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