It was a wonderful morning as we were excited to go and see the home of Makeblock – see Alice again and meet the founder: Jasen Wang. There was an indoor market on the ground floor of the building that houses Makeblock (we heard a large number of chickens) and Read more…
blog written by Roman Buehler Yesterday I temporarily separated from my beloved TINRS-friends and went to Zhuhai, where I met my other lovely friend John Wang. I and my brother met him for the first time in our China Trip 2011, when we crisscrossed China on a different kind of Read more…
A brief compilation of us on the Shenzhen Maker Faire – there are more videos with interviews and explanations to come but currently we are still very busy running around in China
The Maker Faire was surrounded by buildings of all shapes, heigths and sizes. We like this one especially because it looks like the towers have a reel of components running down their sides – on all sides. Such a fitting decorum for a Maker get-together.
The colourful logo made us feel right at home as the lab is full of MakeBlock parts. In the past we’ve built a PCB CNC-mill, a drawing robot, a SMT reel holder, a knife guide for cutting PCB and a small SCARA robot. Many more things will be built with Read more…
One of the things we saw on the Faire was Palette – a system of connectable blocks. Each block contains an interaction element – a knob, a slider, a button, a LED or a tiny screen. You can connect the blocks together using side connectors to build a customized control surface Read more…
At the Shenzhen Maker Faire we spotted Bunnie and had ourselves a little chat. We explained the concept behind TINRS and he fully agreed with showing the world that stuff can be done. When he asked if we had a sticker we offered a choice selection of our cut outs Read more…
Today at the Shenzhen Maker Faire we saw a few things that WERE rocket science – so we give them little rockets (laser cut outs) as our Rocket Award. The Award of The Day definitely goes (went) to SpaceIL – the private Israelian space program. Not so much because they are going Read more…
There is one thing in Hong Kong that has completely divided the group – the Durian. Some of us (the ones that have a sense of smell) think it is a foul smelling horrible fruit that should not be consumed by humans or in the vicinity of humans. Others think Read more…
The group for our first mission pooled together in Amsterdam. At the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport we fell into a tech trap of alluring looking tables with protruding sockets which turned out to have no power – We hope that Schiphol is busy with an upgrade. The power may not have Read more…