Maker Faire Shenzhen China: Dangerous Prototypes FAQ presentation
There were six featured speakers at Maker Faire Shenzhen covering all aspects of engineering and hardware manufacturing. We did an FAQ about Dangerous Prototypes, what we do, and why we like open source. Download the presentation here.
- What we do
- How we started
- Why open source?
- Why open development?
- Why free PCBs?
- Why fulfillment?
- Lessons learned
Video exists, but the audio is totally worthless. We might do the presentation from the workshop if there’s interest.
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Comments
I’ve wondered those questions, I’d love to see it.
I know I’ve commented on post, sorry… I’m putting my son to bed and just catching up on ask my reading
That was supposed to be “commented on every post”
Thanks for your comments, they feed the bloggers :)
That link does not work for me :(
I have been looking for the presentations from this mini-maker faire … does anyone know where the other ones are??
I posted a comment asking this on the Senzhen faire site a couple of days back … but it has not appeared yet .. I guess they are in recovery mode .. or preparing for the Beijing event.
http://dangerousprototypes.com/files/MakerFaireShenzhen-DP-FAQ.ppt
was a little dissapointed to see a PowerPoint file, and not a pdf/OO.org file! Good money wasted on a MS Office license! :p
lol, i promise you it was made in open office presenter (or whatever it’s called), I just posted it as ppt for the lowest common denominator. There may even be conversion bugs in the .ppt version :)
PDF is a good idea, I didn’t think of that.
http://dangerousprototypes.com/files/MakerFaireShenzhen-DP-FAQ.pdf
Exported from Impress ;)
I take back everything I said :p
But yeah, PDF is even a more common I think, as most people who do have Office (few have the free viewer or even know of its existance) and when they do, I bet a large part has it illegally :)
Rant over. :) It’s a great presentation and would have been better seeing it RL! :D
I never even considered getting a pick and place machine until you said not to get one… Now I want one bad.
Every time I give a presentation I work in the ‘don’t buy a pick and place’ line. Every time someone comes up afterwards and says they bought one and it stalled/harmed/crashed their main money making activities. I have heard dozens of horror stories, and only one ‘we got it working’ story (outside of Adafruit and SFE, but a buyer at SFE told me they are sending more stuff out to be professionally assembled too).
It’s a cool machine/robot, it you want one just to tinker, go for it! If you hope to turn your widget into a small fortune by assembling it in your garage, you’re probably better off working at McDonald’s for 6 months and investing the money in long term bonds…
You should start a video section called “Me & _____” where you show how to use DP products. For example “Me & Bus Pirate” you make a video on how to test a SPI device or whatever using the Bus pirate. In this way you make publicity to DP products, and generate original content for the blog, because often on the blog you show articles that had been already published on other sites (Hack a day, hacked gadgets, …). Just a suggestion.