Sunchip launches their Rockchip RK3368 Octa-core ARM Cortex-A53 with PowerVR G6110 GPU, 2GB RAM and 8GB Flash, runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, comes with Gigabit Ethernet, BT4 and it can decode 4K H265 at 60fps to the HDMI 2.0 output.
MeLE is famous for designing and making the best Air Mouses out of the Shenzhen market, the MeLE F10 Deluxe is perhaps the most popular 2.4Ghz air mouse with Li-battery. Now MeLE have a new lower cost version MeLE F10 Lite that uses Triple-A batteries instead. It can work as a remote, wireless mouse, QWERTY keyboard, it supports Linux, Android, Windows and Mac OSX and does not need drivers. With IR learning function, it also can used as an universal remote. It also includes a laser pointer. The Price is $12 for orders above 2K. The F10 Lite is already for sale at http://www.aliexpress.com/MeLE F10 Lite
Windows 10 is hereby presented by MeLE on their new MeLE PCG01, their newest generation Fanless Intel Compute Stick. It based on Intel Quad-Core Bay trial Z3735F, 2GB RAM, 32GB EMMC with Micro SD card slot. It has 1 standard USB 2.0 HOST and 2 Micro-USB, an external WiFi antenna, WiFi 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0. MeLE provides direct Microsoft license for Windows 10. The PCG01 with official Windows 10 will be start shipping on July 29th. Customers who already bought PCG01/PCG03/PCG09 in the past few months with Window 8.1 will get a free upgrade to Windows 10.
Geniatech shows the AmLogic T866 TV Box with Dual HDMI input. Amlogic T866 is a 28nm HKMG process Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU up to 1.8Ghz, with the Octa-Core Mali-450 GPU up to 600Mhz, HDMI 2.0 output, it support the 4K@60fps H.265 hardware decode. The Geniatech AT1866 has Dual-HDMI input, supports HDCP2.2, it can be used as the HDMI Hub to TV in the living room, it can have multi-source support PIP (picture in picture) in Android. The box is running Android 4.4 now, Android 5.0 is upgradable in the near future.
Geniatech shows the first 64bit AmLogic S905 TV Box, on 28nm HKMG process node, 64bit Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53, Five-core Mali-450MP GPU at up to 750MHz with OpenGL ES 11./2.0 and OpenVG 1.1 support. AmLogic S905 supports real 4K 60fps H.265 10-bit video decode on the HDMI 2.0 output. It runs Android 5.1, mass production is soon ready.
Flyshark shows their new sports camera using Actions SOC records 1080P with WiFi, streams video and photos to mobile phone, you can order starting from 1 unit with the iLepo brand name. The Flyshark $25 Bluetooth foldable keyboard, Ultra slim and light, special for smart phone and tablet. $69 Flyshark smartwatch, MT6261, GSM, Bluetooth. Supports Android, iOS, Bluetooth connection to smart phone. It got 700+ backers on kickstarter.
Bluetimes shows their sparkling new design power banks with bluetooth selfie camera buttons, $18 and $35 Ithink IP Camera with motion monitor through mobile phone, 720p recording, support WiFi, 4G network. Bluetimes is also launching their $60 Intel dual core mini pc. Bluetimes sells about 40-60 thousand power banks per month.
You can contact Bluetimes here to enquire about distribution and to buy samples of these (please only contact them if you are a serious potential distributor):
Selina Song, Sales Manager
Mobile: +86 15889676443
Phone: +86 755 27319033 ext: 8012 sales2@ebluetimes.com
skype: ebluetimes-sales2 http://ebluetimes.com
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.
Unuiga shows their latest Android Full HD LED projector based on DLP (Digital Light Processing) technology from Texas Instruments, brightness is at 400 lumens (but due to the LED backlight it looks kind of like 1500Lumen projectors using a normal bulb). Supports 1920×1080 Full HD resolution. It is based on Rockchip RK3288, Quad core ARM Cortex-A17 up to 1.8Ghz, GPU is Mali-T74, 2G DDR2, Built-in Flash Memory supports up to 32GB. Support H.264, H.265 4K video decoding.
Connectors include HDMI-IN, VGA, AV, USB and it has built-in Speakers. With dual band WiFi 2.4G/5G Hz, Bluetooth 4.0. It is running android 4.4 now, android 5.1 will be ready when/if there are orders above 1K. The price is $459 for 1K order.
Unuiga EZcast5G dongle is their new generation EZcast dongle with 2.4G/5G dual band WiFi 801.11ac, offering a faster more stable WiFi performance which is important for streaming video on this type of product. It works with iOS, MacOS, Android, Windows via EZcast app. Compatible with DLNA, Miracast and airplay. It can cast the local content pictures, videos (up to 1080P video), music, document from your phone/tablet/PC to TV. Also support online streaming (up to 1080P video) and document, storages files to your TV. With OTA (over the air) firmware upgrade. Unuiga is starting to ship it now for $19.
Sunchip releases their first Intel based Wintel box the CX-W8, running Intel x86 Z3735F with 2GB RAM and 32GB Flash, selling starting at $69 for 1 thousand pieces without the $25 Windows 8.1 Licence.
TV Box Power Plug based on the AmLogic S805, ships at only $29 for 1 thousand pieces with 512MB RAM, 1GB RAM costs $3.5 more, other RAM and Flash configurations possible.
Nordic Semiconductor shows their ultra low power Bluetooth Low Energy, Ant, 2.4Ghz ARM Cortex-M0 based system on chips for trying to simplify the development of Wearables, Internet of Things devices, they are working to make things as simple as possible. One of the features that Nordic Semiconductor is able to demonstrate is to send voice over Bluetooth Low Energy. Nordic Semiconductor’s implementation of Thread and mbed are being demonstrated.
Unuiga shows their new 3G WCDMA Android TV box, based on Dual-core Rockchip RK3168 ARM Cortex-A9 running at up to 1.5GHz. It is a 28nm HKMG low power process with GPU PowerVR SGX54X up to 600MHz. With the 3G WCDMA SIM card slot, you can even make a phone call on the Unuiga 3G Box directly and stream videos through 3G data. Connectors include USB, LAN, WIFI, Bluetooth, SD card reader, HDMI up to 1080P. It runs Android 4.2 at the moment (Lollipop upgrade maybe possible). Best price is at $53 from 1K order. Add $1 for Bluetooth 4, a $3 built-in webcam and built-in 2.5″ Hard Drive options are also possible.
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
The idea is to sell the world’s cheapest phones in bulk to anyone directly from the factory in Shenzhen China. Anyone can be a small distributor and make money reselling everywhere.
LY is a new Smartphones brand from Shenzhen China. The cheapest model is LY3 sold at $28 (for 25 pieces) with a 3.5″HVGA display on Spreadtrum SC7715 Single-core ARM Cortex-A5.
LY1 sells at $119 (for 25 pieces) with a 5″HD display and with better-than Android One specs using the MediaTek MT6582 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 runs Android 5.1 Lollipop.
LY2 sells at $53 (for 25 pieces) with a 4″WVGA display on a MediaTek MT6572 Dual-core ARM Cortex-A7.
The idea of LY is that people buying more than 1 unit get these discounts which is also the profits they can make if they resell them at the suggested price:
1 = Full price
5 = 15% discount
10 = 20% discount
25 = 30% discount
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/
Unuiga S812 Box using Amlogic S812 Quad Core ARM Cortex A9, Mali 450 GPU, 2G DDR 3/16G Flash. Based on Android 5.1 lollipop, 2T2R 802.11 a/c/b/g/n dual band WiFi, 1000M Ethernet, Bluetooth 4.1. It supports 4K H.265 decoding and hardware 3D graphics acceleration, supports HDMI CEC and DRM such as Verimatrix, Widewine. They can make a DVB-T2/DVB-S2 and HDMI-IN version also. With 2 different new private tooling, mass production i ready from this month.
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.
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.