[GreenKeys] Makerfaire Hannover/Germany report

Mon Sep 17 12:35:12 EDT 2018

This is really great, Henning. Thank you for sharing.

I just brought my machines to a local Maker Faire this Saturday. There were
only an estimated 1500 people there (which is a actually big event for us
around here, especially considering this was the first time faire was held
in this location versus the competing faire earlier this year in Salt Lake
City), but I think half of them must have stopped by my booth-- people LOVE
these machines it seems wherever they are in the world, and for good
reason. I'll be writing up more about mine and sharing with the group when
I can catch two minutes to breathe, but I already see that I want to
emulate a few things that you implemented in future faires. Your setup is
excellent, and doing the whole telegram thing right down to mailing it to
people and using custom stamps is beyond wonderful. Excellent job!

--Jordan

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:17 AM Henning Treumann via GreenKeys <
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> To those who might be interested about teleprinter/teletype activities in
> Germany:
>
> Last weekend we participated again at the Hannover Makerfaire. The
> Hannover Makerfaire was the first Makerfaire in Germany and the i-Telex
> Group has been participating there since its first time in 2013. Normally
> about 20,000 visitors are counted.
>
> This year we displayed our i-Telex system, ITTY teletype service, printing
> the Europe channel
> from Paul in Colorado and as a special service "i-Telex Telegram Service".
>
> As machines for one of the i-Telex systems we used:
> -  Siemens T37 in acrylic glas case (we call this machine "snow white" :-)
> )
> -  Siemens T100S in mk I case
> -  Siemens T1000
> -  Lorenz Lo133
>
> For ITTY we used a SEL/Lorenz Lo2000 receive only with punch.
> This machine came from German embassy service and is still labled to be
> used formerly
> at the Athens/Greece embassy....
> The Lo2000 is a semi electronic machine with a very unique type carrousel
> printing
> technology.
>
> For the telegram service we used an original Siemens T68d telegram service
> strip printer for 9.5mm wide strip paper.
>
> This year we used two separate i-Telex systems to have one always free for
> the telegram service.
> Connection to the internet was made by a tiny router and 3G mobile
> internet stick.
>
> The telegram service is run by our young member Finn, who is just 15 years
> old and
> very keen on this topic. We built him a "real" telegraph office.
> He also got an original postal service cap and he wore matching blue
> colored clothes. :-)
> For a small fee of 4 € you could send a telegram, of course original
> transmitted via
> the i-Telex netowrk to a distant station, also with a strip printer. The
> receiving
> station glued the received telegrams onto a old style telegram form and
> put them in
> an old style envelope with a "customized" i-Telex stamp. Then he posts
> them by
> normal postal service to the receiver of the message.
> In Germany it is possble to get your own customized official stamps.
> For our i-Telex telegram service we made stamps with a picture of a
> Siemens T68d
> telegram strip printer on it, of course. ;-) The model of machine this
> telegram was sent with...
> You can imagine that this service has been absolutely "crazy" for most of
> the visitors and at the end "telegraphist" Finn sent over 50 telegrams to
> receivers in Germany and neigbour countries. :-)
> He almost has not been able to leave the both for more than eating and
> visiting the bathrooms.... :-)
>
> Again it was great fun and addidtionally to the success of the i-Telex
> telegram service we had nice talks with visitors and we even might get some
> new members who already have a
> teleprinter at home and now know what to do with it "useful"  or looking
> for a machine to join the network after they got hold of one.
> Beside of that it was a big social i-Telex member meeting. Members from
> all over northern and
> western part of Germany visited us to meet and talk to others they only
> knew from chatting
> by i-Telex before.
>
> I hope you will enjoy the photos:
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/5vSwxL7tFU59RZcM6
>
> Henning DF3OE
> Blumenhagen/Germany
> i-Telex: 925302 and 55571
>
> www.i-telex.net
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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