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
Hongkong – looking back from the Avenue of the Stars back in to Nathan Road: Our view from the apartment in Shenzhen:
The fishponds are harmless. The chinese empire has new plans: We are not sure what we are supposed to do with these metro-doors:
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
We were already spotted on the platform of the metrostation “Are you coming for Maker Faire?” – “yes” – “Follow me, I show you”. It must be our geek-sjiek attitude.. Just out of the station there were many of the Maker-red-robots, drones in the air and a rather large Bumblebee Read more