Festival Setup

We travel to festivals with our "Lötzelt" (soldering tent) and give the visitors the opportunity to be creative with our soldering kits. Often beyond our own imagination

Results

Cute cat

Beautiful butterflies

Unique unicorn

Neat Nibbles

Requisites

Don't be afraid. Start small and simple with a few solder stations and a few wooden pegs and blinky LEDs. No need to go to the full setup we have now after years and years

• a tent or shelter from rain and sun

  

• 10 tables and 10 benches

  

• 18 solder stations

  • cheap or expensive ones, does not really matter - we began with the 25€ blue ones from Conrad and threw some ~150€ from Ersa and Hakko in the mix later when we had the donations

  • solder

  • pliers - use expensive ones since the cheap ones break easily or get damages at least. visitors try to cut everything with them

    

  • solder mats, third hands and other little tools

  • colorful desktop lamps from IKEA + color filter paper (neat 3D printed magnetic holder)

    

  • decoration material from a cheap deco store, e.g. "Action Markt". bring feathers and plushy balls.

Layout

Many people will come, separate your tent into sections

1. parts collection + wire stripping

   

2. drilling station. separate from hot glue and solder stations

   

3. At this point people usually have to wait to get to one of the 18 solder stations.

   Arrange tables in 2 facing "U"s. With 3 stations per table, so the tutors (minimum 2 persons) can freely roam in the middle and help people. Often people come in pairs, do not cramp more stations onto one table. And do not let other people be in the middle. Thats your little room of freedom. Also keep the multimeters, additional solder, wire strippers and expensive solder kits there. Stacks of boxes are nice.

   

4. deco station. Much hot glue and much decoration needed. Separate (!) from everything else, since there will be a big, big mess after a few hours