Popularization of technical creativity in China

Last time we walked through one of the largest exhibitions of electronics and robotics, MakerFaire, which took place in the Chinese city of Shenzhen.

Today we will visit the cozy cafe of the university campus, where free workshops from the local TechSpace hackspace for university students took place.
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At these workshops anyone could try:

• create an interactive card
• put together a singing pencil
• solder led pendant

The text will be used fragments of translation from Chinese, from the publication of this event on the blog Hackspace TechSpace :

Since last year, the TechSpace community has launched cooperation with the Institute of Management of the Shenzhen University. A non-university practical base for creativity and the implementation of new ideas was jointly created. This is the first event of this kind in which the emphasis is on obtaining new knowledge through technical work.

Here is the cafe during the master class:

Interactive open

Interactive open - this master class for the most beginners



consists of a conductor based on copper tape.



You can make different patterns, add a power source, and surface mounted LEDs.

"Singing" pencil

An interesting project - Drawdio , the essence of it lies in the fact that the nozzle on the pencil is made, and after that when the rod is touched to the drawings - the speaker makes different sounds.

As a basis used a brush, plus this:

* 555 microcircuit
* battery
* speaker

To make a "singing pencil", no special skills are required. The whole theoretical base takes less than two hours, and humanitarian students can make everything themselves, with their own hands.

Hearing sounds that a pencil suddenly begins to emit, students almost jump for joy!

Here is how it is in the build process, and the instructions are in plain and understandable Chinese:



Build in full swing:


Check:

LED pendant

To make a necklace with a beating heart, you need to have soldering skills. I remember many years ago, I soldered a radio receiver, which did not even have a case. This process seemed to me very boring. But now, looking at the participants, I see how passionate they are. Not to mention the fact that at the end of them waiting for a reward in the form of the original pendant. Learning is always interesting when it includes game moments.

LED pendant is made on the basis of DIY project Square8 .

TechSpace

Here are the TechSpace hackspace volunteers who conducted these master classes:



By the way, about this hackspace in the city of Shenzhen, we were told recently. And here is the link to the Google group TechSpace .

Finally

Thank you Sakuya for responding and helping with the translation from Chinese, and thanks to targence for the photos provided.

I think this kind of teaching is very useful for students - interesting skills are naturally obtained, students will learn something new. Cooperation of universities and hakspeys (clubs of technical creativity) is mutually beneficial.

If you are in Yekaterinburg, and there are ideas on cooperation, we will be glad to hear - write . If in another city, you can find hackpaces, fablabs, and TsMITs that could hold interesting master classes.