Had enough Gangnum style? Yeah me too. Its blaring from every market in Huaqiangbei in Shenzhen, and seemingly all of China. Even The Party endorsed it calling it a harmonious tone. Kevin, our test engineer, even made Eric and I dance it at the Seeed anniversary/New Year party. Enough already! Can’t someone make it stop?
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Out of Shenzhen: Nannie Sunday in Central
Hong Kong nannies, mostly from the Philippines, have Sunday off. Thousands of nannies gather and setup camp along Central Hong Kong island. Its absolutely one of the coolest things to see on a Sunday afternoon, and a great chance to practice my 4 Pinyo vocabulary words – salamat, oo, hindi, and seget (spelled phonetically).
Out of Shenzhen: Central mid level escalators
In my humble opinion the kilometer long central mid level escalators are the top attraction in Hong Kong. On the way out of Shenzhen we always check in and drop bags at Hong Kong city checking and then head up about half way to Taco Loco for some if the best carnitas tacos anywhere in […]
Seeed Studio anniversary party begins
The theme is cosplay. Everyone has a costume and each department will perform a show.
Practice for Seeed Studio anniversary party
Tomorrow is Seeed’s anniversary party and every department is doing a skit or song. There are rumors of Gangnum. This the r&d department getting into the spirit.
Sample boxes for Bus Pirate educational kit
Needed a box for the educational kit so Seeed’s sourcers went to Huaqiangbei market and returned with this collection a few hours later. Very cool.
$5000 pick and place
This is a $5000 pick and place by the people who made the reflow oven we bought yesterday. Not as cheap as the $3200 PNP discussed in the forum recently, but we can’t see that one because they are in Shanghai. They demoed with 0402 and it worked quite well and super fast. Even on […]
Shipping goodies from Shenzhen
Checked prices from shippers right in the market yesterday. You can buy stuff and haul it over there piece by piece if you can’t carry it all. You could probably hire someone to cart it too, but hauling treasure through the market is a point of pride. Best rates for FedEx air freight (6 to […]
220 dollar IR reflow oven
Picked up this infrared reflow oven for 1400 rmb, about 200 bucks, in Shenzhen. It isn’t the at923 (or whatever) that shows up on eBay for $300, and lacks the viewing window. Comes highly recommended by Dimitri at SmARtMAKER, and seemed better built than the other one which was available at the stand next door. […]
Test rig pickup
Picked up a generic test rig in Shenzhen to refine and standardize project production testing. Cost was 500 rmb or about 80 bucks. Build to our custom specs and ready overnight.
WordPress reinstall and site updates completed
Woohoo! WordPress comments were taking 10-15 seconds to post, now they’re working instantly again. Thanks for hanging with us. Here’s a run down on what we did today. We don’t know the cause, only that a fresh WordPress install helped. Backed up server Deleted /wp-admin/ and /wp-includes/ folders, replaced with new versions and set proper […]
WordPress reinstall in progress
Today we’re reinstalling WordPress, the blogging software. A server tune up has it running much faster, but comments and some back end stuff like comment moderation are still taking 10-15 seconds or longer. A secondary test site was setup yesterday and works much better, so today we’ll wipe and reinstall WordPress. You’ll notice sitewide slowdowns […]
Testing the new reduced-sized ICSP connector
This week we received a batch of PCBs and amongst them was the latest revision of our USB TFT breakoutboard. This board is the first board that features a new ICSP footprint, which occupies less space on the PCB and should improve testing and programming times at Seeed.
More from Maker Faire Tokyo 2012
Another one for the FACEFRAME series! with Tayken. Check out lots of pictures below the fold.
Tokyo Maker Faire 2012 Day 2
Maker Faire Tokyo 2012 is packed to capacity! Follow the pics live with our twitter feed, or wait for them to pop up on the blog. More pics below the fold.
Tokyo Maker Faire 2012: Cool stuff
“One of my favorite things about Tokyo Maker Faire is all of the crazy little flying machines”. We are twitting the pictures as we take them, so tune in to our twitter account, or wait till we post them on the blog. Check out lots of pictures below the fold.
Tokyo Maker Faire 2012: Robots and Art day 1
“Really big freaking robot. I imagine James Cameron is around here somewhere”. Follow the pics live with our twitter feed, or wait for them to pop up on the blog. More pics below the fold.
Booths and Exhibits at Tokyo Maker Faire day 1
Superhacker Yoshi with his wireless LAN shield for Arduino. Follow the pics live with our twitter feed, or wait till we post them on the blog. More pics below the fold.
Tokyo Hackerspace table at Maker Faire day 1
Tokyo Hackerspace displays kits and other open hardware at Maker Faire. Follow the pics live with our twitter feed, or wait for them to pop up on the blog.
Tokyo Maker Faire 2012: Around the Faire day 1
Food trucks outside Maker Faire Tokyo. Getting ready to cover Faire for Make mag and give a talk at 4 on open hardware. Follow the pics live with our twitter feed, or wait for them to pop up on the blog. More pics below the fold.