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…
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…
Krzysztof Foltman has posted his FPGA efforts so far on GitHub! Currently the codebase contains modules to deal with: – key-matrix input – LED output with brightness control – Serial port input and output – SPI flash – Quad-SPI flash (4 times as fast as regular SPI) No doubt this will Read more…