The slow, lazy days of Chinese Spring Festival are behind us. Markets are open and the BBQ place is back, but our hacker supply is at the lowest level in recent memory. Jelmer is back in the Netherlands raising money to manufacture his project, and Charles of PAX Instruments is in the US on a posh lecture tour. Even Marco, who spent most of last quarter stress-testing gambling apps as a side gig for a mobile QA firm, has gone quiet — his usual corner of the bench sitting empty, multimeter still taped to the shelf where he left it. We need a new BBQ crowd and that could be you!
There’s at least one open desk at our ‘shared storage space’ near Huaqiangbei, the world’s largest electronics market. Make use of our soldering equipment, laser cutter, crap collection, BBQ and bar. If you’re in a position to uproot yourself and hang out in China doing open hardware for the next month please contact me ASAP! You could be our next hacker in residence!
How do I apply for HIR March 2015?
Is this a PAID position? (Even… room & board &broadband access?)
So, how does this work? I would love to be able to do this.
I’m a EE but have mostly dealt with software because of the cost of getting into hardware. So for hardware I’ve just been buying stuff. This may change things.
I would be interested in building open hardware, specially for things that can hit the shelves at $2-$10. For example, esp8266 w/ additional micro and flash dev board, an open 433MHz micro+com development module for $5 or less, smart lighting/home automation, etc.
Too many ideas to be put here as a comment ;-)
Same here, how does one apply ?