Posted in MakeBusiness on Sep 13th, 2013
On the last day (Sep 8) of my trip to Shenzhen, I came across a scheduled event at ChaiHuo Maker Space. ChaiHuo is sponsored by SeeedStudio, and the name means ‘wood fire’. As a Chinese saying says: everybody adds firewood, the flame shoots higher. Chaihuo Maker Space is a place to inspire people to come […]
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Posted in MakeBusiness on Sep 7th, 2013
Day 4, I paid a special visit to HAXLR8R. HAXLR8R provides seeding fund to entrepreneurs who are passionate about building hardware devices. It offers $25K funding, office space, access to equipment and tools to a team of startups, in order to help them convert great ideas to functioning and marketable final products. They are very […]
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Posted in MakeBusiness on Sep 6th, 2013
Time flies. Yesterday was day 3 of my visit to Shenzhen. I went back to SeeedStudio and worked with the engineers on improving the design we talked about during day 1. Here I will give you a sneak peak preview of what’s happening. First, we are going to design a paper box for OpenSprinkler. The […]
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Posted in MakeBusiness on Sep 4th, 2013
Continuing my last post about this week’s trip to ShenZhen, today’s agenda is to visit Hua Qiang Bei (HQB) — the largest electronics market in the world. HQB is located close to the center of the city. The name literally means the north of the Hua Qiang street. The area spans several big buildings, each […]
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Posted in MakeBusiness on Sep 3rd, 2013
This week I am on a business trip to Shenzhen — the city with the largest electronics markets in the world. My plan is to visit several studios / factories and the of course the electronic markets here, and also some of my old friends. I will try to document my trip as much as […]
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