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Category: Maker Faire
exiii Prosthetic Carbon fiber hand “Handii” by 3D printer
Posted by – July 13, 2015
The Japanise company exiii bring their prosthetic hand to Maker Faire Shenzhen 2015. Uses light 3D printed materials of Carbon fiber. The exiii handii can controlled by muscle, with 1 motor in each finger and EMG sensor inside, smartphone can control the handii based on the pattern of the signal which received wirelessly.
Shenzhen Maker Faire: Atmel SMART SAM L21 ARM Cortex M0+
Posted by – July 7, 2015
Atmel SMART SAM L21 is the world’s lowest power ARM Processor based on ARM Cortex-M0+, can use as low as 35 µA/MHz in active mode and 200nA in Sleep mode. Atmel shows examples in Shenzhen, including to run an E Ink diplay, showing how they are getting hardware makers to use this solution for ultra-low-power Internet of Things (IoT). The Atmel module can also feature Full Speed USB host and device, Event System and Sleepwalking, 12-bit analog, AES, capacitive touch sensing, built in opAmps and much more. As introduced at the Shenzhen Maker Faire show, these Atmel modules are sold to makers on Alibaba.com and Taobao.com
Maker Faire Shenzhen 2015
Posted by – June 28, 2015
Maker Faire is in Shenzhen, the world capital of hardware creation, making it probably more relevant than the Maker Faires previously held in San Mateo, New York, Detroit, Kansas City, Rome, Newcastle, Tokyo and elsewhere.
MakerFaire Shenzhen 2015 is organized by Chaihuo Maker Space, a subsidiary of Seeed Studio, which is one of the leading companies in Shenzhen providing hardware components for Makers in Shenzhen and around the world.
Sponsored by the Shenzhen Government, Maker Faire Shenzhen 2015 has grown 10 times compared with 2014 with over 300 exhibitors attending, including ARM, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Freescale, Atmel, pch, intel and etc; design houses like hackaday, seeed studio, Makeblock, 40% of the makers attending come from outside of China. Products include any creative hardware, from development boards, modules, robots, prosthetic hands to an electronically enhanced pure hand-made wooden chair. For more information you can visit: http://makerfaireshenzhen.com/
Makeblock Maker Open Final Day, finished projects, Winner Announced
Posted by – June 22, 2015
This is the final day of the Shenzhen Maker Open 2015, where all the projects are presented and where the winner is announced. Maker Open is a 48-hour international robotic competition held by Makeblock, SIAT and Shenzhen Government. Makeblock is a robot construction platform, which provide anodized aluminum extrusion mechanics, easy-to-use electronics and software that are supported by each other. Makeblock’s mission is to lower the skill level requirement of making things!
There are 12 team from overseas and China joining the 2015 Shenzhen Maker Open, including students from MIT, university Utah, makers from Italy and Austria, as well as the students from Peking university, student from Shenzhen high schools and more. The Maker game theme is “music/chess/writing/drawing” in Chinese tradional archaism called“琴棋书画qinqishuhua”.
Maker Open came from Makeblock’s company trandition activity – 24 hours makerathon! Makeblock brings it to Shenzhen Maker Week.
Makeblock’s websites:
http://www.makeropen.org
http://www.makeblock.cc
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maker-Open/127115557619938
http://facebook.com/makeblock
http://twitter.com/makeblock
https://www.youtube.com/Makeblock
http://google.com/+Makeblock
Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c 96Boards 64bit Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 development board
Posted by – June 22, 2015
Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c is a credit card sized 96Boards compliant development board based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, with I/O like USB device, 1080P HDMI, micro USB port, support WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, support Android, linux, planned to support windows 10 in the near future. The DragonBoard 410c is designed to support rapid software development, education and prototyping, including the next generation of robotics, cameras, medical devices, vending machines, smart buildings, digital signage, casino gaming consoles, and much more. At Maker Fair Shenzhen, Qualcomm is showing off how easy it is to get going with development using their new DragonBoard 410c, being released now, it will start shipping in the next weeks through Arrow Electronics.
Makeblock Maker Open Shenzhen (Day 2), 48-hour Robotic Competition
Posted by – June 21, 2015
Maker Open is a 48 hours international robotic competition held by Makeblock, SIAT and Shenzhen Government. Makeblock is a robot construction platform, which provide anodized aluminum extrusion mechanics, easy-to-use electronics and software that are supported by each other. Makeblock’s mission is to lower the skill level requirement of making things!
There are 12 Maker teams from overseas and China joining the 2015 Shenzhen Maker Open, including students from MIT, university Utah, makers from Italy and Austria, as well as the students from Peking university, student from Shenzhen high schools and more. The Maker game theme is “music/chess/writing/drawing” in Chinese tradional archaism called“琴棋书画qinqishuhua”.
Maker Open came from Makeblock’s company trandition activity – 24 hours makerathon! Makeblock brings it to Shenzhen Maker Week.
Makeblock’s websites:
http://www.makeropen.org
http://www.makeblock.cc
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Maker-Open/127115557619938
http://facebook.com/makeblock
http://twitter.com/makeblock
https://www.youtube.com/Makeblock
http://google.com/+Makeblock
