MAKE it in China: Hacking Shenzhen
Nomiku co-founder Lisa Fetterman shares her hacks for negotiating the makers’ life in Shenzhen, China.
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Bunnie Teaches Outsourcing to China
From his roost in Singapore, Bunnie Huang has just completed a four-part series on outsourcing to China. He wrote his tutorial for visiting MIT Media Lab graduate students, but as with so much of what Bunnie does, he’s making it available to the world.
World’s Biggest LED Cube?
This recent post at Hack a Day, about Utah-based Adaptive Computing’s 163 LED All Spark Cube, spurred an interesting comment thread about the current world record for voxel count in 3D displays using a spatial grid of LEDs. Of course, once you start talking world records, questions start coming up fast: Do monochrome systems count? What about arrangements that are not cubes? Should hobbyist builds be in a separate category from commercial products? Right now, the title holder seems to be…
MAKE it in China: How to Spot a Good Factory
We hear a lot of horror stories about factories in China so how do you avoid becoming one yourself? Certainly not by dwelling on failure. Failure happens when you’re manufacturing in China or anywhere— even if you have made the best plans. Here’s what to look for.
Five Questions for Zach “Hoeken” Smith
Zach “Hoeken” Smith is a co-founder of MakerBot, but he left the company 18 months ago and now calls Shenzhen, China home. In addition to pursuing his own projects he’s the program director for Haxlr8r , San Francisco-based hardware start-up incubator. As part of MAKE’s coverage of the “maker pro” space, I recently interviewed Zach about his work in China.
Reel Crime: The Pulse Sensor Counterfeit LEDs Story
Drinking our tea in cozy confidence, we plugged the production samples into Arduino, put the unit on our fingertip, and casually looked at the screen for the Processing sketch to perfectly render our heartbeat. [Cue first spit-take.]
$33 Board Turns Your Bare LCD Into Working Monitor
This is a question we hear a lot: “I have a spare LCD panel; what else do I need to make a monitor?” This Chinese eBay seller has the cheapest out-of-the-box solution I’ve seen…
