old gadget probation .:. EN/RU

I've been shying away from entering the competition for quite some time, but last week I took some pictures from the children's festival that I thought were wonderful. And I couldn’t help but share them with all the Hiveans.

The festival was dedicated to children's creativity (the program included painting with paints, pencils, mops on the floor (!), playing the ukulele, creating a cartoon, laying out a large fresco from pieces of smalt, creating masks, printing images using potatoes, and much more.. .) real creativity! An honest post will follow (and more than one).

When we bought our ticket and headed towards the locker room to undress and get rid of our backpacks, the first thing we saw was an Old Typewriter. It was placed in a dark place (unfortunately), a corner with poor lighting, so it limited my ability to take good photos.

However, the temptation was great! and not only with us, many children stopped nearby to get acquainted with a gadget unknown to them... the gadget contained buttons with letters - children already understand what letters are - and when pressed it created an interesting analog effect. Unfortunately, this is a really old technique, and in order to function, it requires the same old consumables, namely, a cloth ink ribbon. Without tape, the machine worked “idle” - that is, it made noise and moved the keys, but did not print anything.

Moreover, while poking at the keys, many children (the majority!) had no idea what the result should be and simply played with it as if it were an interesting toy. In the first photo you can see that there is not even a sheet of paper inserted into the typewriter - without paper the machine cannot print anything either. Later, I found a suitable piece of paper and helped the children, explaining how the machine works, and how it should be used, and what result we should “theoretically” get.

Colossal fun, as you can see from the photo. The children simply stood in line to poke at the typewriter... and by the way, the biggest fun for them was to poke it with both palms at once - to press the maximum number of keys: in this case, the typewriter was producing the most interesting effects ;=)