Festival "City of Techno-Creativity" is held in Yekaterinburg

Our hackspace MakeItLab takes part in the “City of Techno-Creativity” festival now taking place in Yekaterinburg.



The festival is not a project of a corporation, it is held by volunteers who are interested in the development and popularization of technical creativity.

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The essence of the project is the organization and conduct of masterclasses for 4+ audiences, in different directions - this is robotics, programming, 3D printing, and performances and much more. The 2015 program can be read here .



The festival was already held in February 2014, then 18 events took place at 9 venues in Yekaterinburg. More than 500 schoolchildren and students took part in the festival.



Read more about the festival and this year's program.



How was the festival formed? Here is what Irina Zakirova (executive director of the festival) says about this:

Everything happened in the summer of 2013. Ideas, as a rule, do not come spontaneously. Not only insight is important, but also the period of incubation, when an idea is born. And also the experience that always remains with you. We with Rezeda (Reseda Rybalko - the head of the festival) were helped by our ten years of experience with gifted high school students. Despite the fact that the Center “Giftedness and Technologies”, in which we worked, was actually closed by reorganization, our experience and team of students and teachers of COT remained with us. The team in which we created educational events and projects of the city, region and region. With high school students, we learned how to develop ideas, work in a team, make choices, make decisions and take responsibility for the situation.



The social and educational project “Festival“ City of Techno-Creativity ”has become our civic initiative. The festival was completely made by volunteers. Basically, it is young people aged 14 to 30 years. Many volunteers were alumni of COT and our students.

The motto of the festival was the words of the festival supervisor Novoselov Sergey Arkadyevich:

You can teach to invent any and in any field. It is important to create a motive to make the child interesting.

Overview of the festival:

Excursion to the center of prototyping and prototyping of Ural Federal University [February 5]

In our city there is a wonderful center " Layout and prototyping at UrFU ", about which there was an article on Habré (photo from the article).



There is a 3D powder printer - which allows you to print color 3D models. Information on the tour .

Techno Workshop "Collect a Robot"

To get acquainted with robotics with the support of our hackspace, the first public club of robotics is open, working every day (from 2 to 8 February) from 10:00 to 22:00, in the Greenwich shopping center, level 3, next to the playground. more details .

Vibrobot

A vibrobot is a simple “robot” consisting of a vibro-motor, a battery, a body (cardboard cup) and flamasters. When you turn it on, placing it on a piece of paper - it starts drawing pictures. At IT-Yolka, what we did last year - the guys really liked them.



Beginning: February 7, at 11:00

Venue: Europe Shopping Center (3rd floor), ave. Lenin, 25. Read more

TECHNOLOGY [February 7]

TechnoNight is an experimental format event - a combination of a cognitive and entertaining program on the subject of technical creativity, modern technologies and robotics. In one place it will be possible to see light and sound installations, robots of various stripes, listen to popular lectures on scientific subjects, attend master classes, create a new reality in the game. Everyone who comes will be able to touch the miracle of technical creativity!



Beginning: 20-00, February 7

Venue: Ural State Economic University, ul. March 8, 62



TechnoNight will start at 20-00, February 7 and will last until the morning of February 8, 2015.

Radio electronics in our life or almighty router

Perhaps you read on Habré an article about making a SchoolCall based on a router ; the author of these articles, Vyacheslav Mezentsev (@ViacheslavMezentsev), will hold within the framework of the “Nightly Training for Young Engineers” - a masterclass on routers how to use them (mobile Internet, programming):

At the master class "Radio electronics in our life or the almighty router" the children will learn how to solve specific life problems and travel comfort you can use a router. As with a router, you can make a radio-controlled robot, a school bell, and many other useful things.

Documents (for participation): Regulations on night gatherings for young engineers with an agreement

“Microcontrollers are easy! And networks are easy at all! ”

Our good friend from Popov Radio Engineering College, Sergey Grishchenko (@ ssg1712) will hold a masterclass on working with microcontrollers (programming on the Arduino).



Also on Tehnonoch Sergey will bring a copter:





And arm manipulator:

Interactive sand

The essence of the project - the projector is transmitted to the sand, and the reading of the sand relief is also taking place. This information is processed - and a picture of the landscape is formed - mountains, water. And a person can change the relief of the sand - change the landscape. The project was carried out by participants of our hackspace, and will be shown at the festival.



As part of TechnoNoc from 20.00 to 23.00 - the stand "Interactive sand" will be available

3d printing workshop

Interest in 3D printing is gaining momentum every year. A photo from the “City of Techno-Creativity” festival from last year (2014) - Oleg Evsegneev (curator of the MakeItLab hackspace) - demonstrates a freshly printed 3D whistle to the guys.



Here are some more photos from the last festival - the guys got 3d printed figures on the memory:





In the framework of "TechnoNoch" - 21.00 and 22.30 - Workshop on 3D printing. Oleg second year tirelessly carries to the masses this technology. Anyone wishing to get acquainted with 3D-printers are invited to this event.

Performances

We recently spoke about Denis Perevalov, and the OpenFrameworks framework on the basis of which interactive installations (performances are created). Denis responded to our proposal to participate in the festival, and set up 5 interactive installations for the City of Craft Works festival - including at the opening of the festival (in the photo - one of the works of Denis - "The Interactive Installation of Man-Moth ").



Lecture Programming the future. How to teach a computer to do what is necessary, without any programming [February 05]



In the framework of "TechnoNoch": From 20.00 to 23.00 - Light, color and sound installations. Denis Perevalov and his team are like magicians: you touch the table, and a beautiful picture appears in the monitor, sounds are flowing from the speakers, you drive on the table - and then you are an artist and a musician right away. Or stomp your foot, and beams of light appear around. Magic! It is better to see once and ask the guys what the secret is.



List of all events of the event Tehnonoch .

Techno Marathon Assembly 3D-printers

Marathons for the assembly of 3D printers - this is an interesting exercise, and our hackspace and the organizers of the festival did not stand aside, and on February 20 there will be a marathon for the assembly of 3D printers.



This is an open event for any educational organization. To become a participant in the techno-marathon, you need to push the team out of a teacher and 3 schoolchildren, register on the festival website and pay the cost of a 3D printer component. Read more

Links

In this review it is impossible to cover all the events, for details see the program.

• Festival site "City of Technical Works"
• Festival program for 2015
• Project "Map of Technical Creativity"
• Festival page, VKontakte

The “City of Techno-Creativity” festival is a civic initiative of enthusiasts, and no one has set goals for commercial gain, but if you want to support the project financially ( Charitable contribution to the festival of Technological Creativity ), these funds will be used to further develop the idea of ​​the festival.