We toured the offices and factory where Seeed Studio makes open source hardware in Shenzhen, China. All our open source projects are manufactured and shipped from here. Be sure to check out our visit to the Shenhzen Maker Faire, as well as our Global Geek Tour wiki.
Category Archives: Videos
Maker Faire tip: How many cards and stickers to bring
We lugged 50 pounds of business cards to our first Maker Faire, it was way to many. Now we take two small Seeed boxes of cards to the Bay Area Maker Faire, and one to smaller Faires like New York, Tokyo, and Shenzhen. The same rule seems to work for stickers too.
VIDEO #16: Shenzhen Maker Faire
Shenzhen’s Maker Faire was China’s first. It was a huge success, and everyone on our team had a great time. Here’s our interviews with the makers and celebrities. Shenzen Maker Faire Erik Pan, Seeed Studio Santiago, James, Jimson, and Gavin, Newdo Studio Rockets, DFRobot David Li, Founder of Xin Che Jian, China’s first Hackerspace Star, […]
VIDEO #15: Apliu Street electronics market tour
Dangerous Prototypes drops by the Apliu Street electronics market in Hong Kong on the way to Shenzhen, China. It’s a smaller market, but a great warmup for Hua Qiang Bei. Check out pictures, and descriptions in our posts. You can also grab a Google Maps layer for all the locations we visited.
WORKSHOP VIDEO #14: Global Geek Tour China preview
We toured the prime geek locations in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China on our penultimate Global Geek Tour. Monday thru Friday of next week we’ll have videos, pictures, and giveaways. Here’s a quick preview. Don’t miss a single day or giveaway next week.
WORKSHOP VIDEO #13: PIC18F2550 breakout board build
This week we build the PIC18F2550 breakout board, and get a box of goodies from Mouser. For this build we used the Goot brand liquid flux , see out how it compares to other fluxes in the flux battle video. For part sources see the Dangerous Prototypes partlist. Workshop videos are an in-development project. Today’s […]
WORKSHOP VIDEO #12: New Dangerous Prototypes workshop
Take a tour of our the new workshop that’s setup to document projects and make build videos. Don’t miss last week’s Global Geek Tour to the electronics markets of Seoul. We’ll be back next week with a PIC 18F2550 USB breadboard helper build video. Check out our collection of workshop videos.
GLOBAL GEEK VIDEO #11: Yongsan and Cheonggyechon electronics markets in Seoul, South Korea
This week we take you on a Global Geek Tour of the electronics markets in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul isn’t known for its markets like Tokyo or Shenzhen, but with electronics giants like Samsung based here there’s a huge and thriving scene. We visit Yongsan, then stop by Hacker Space Seoul before heading into the […]
Workshop Video #10: BGA revisited
In an earlier Workshop Video we challenged Sjaak to solder a TMP006 non-contact temperature sensor in a BGA package. We lacked the skills to make it happen, but this week DP engineer Jer shows how he successfully soldered 2 of 4 breakout boards. Jer doesn’t hold the the chip in place with kapton tape like […]
HOW-TO VIDEO #09: Visit Akihabara Electric Town
Akihabara is a giant neighborhood of electronics stores in Tokyo, Japan. This weekend we explored the markets with Tokyo Hacker Space on the first leg of our Global Geek Tour. The SEG Electronics Market in Shenzhen is definitely bigger, but Akihabara is a lot easier to get to. We can visit Japan with just a […]
WORKSHOP VIDEO #08: How to mail free PCBs
This week we talk about the Free PCB drawer, and show how we mail out all those free PCBs. We order PCBs from Seeed Studio’s Fusion PCB service and get ten copies of every board. Usually we only need 2 or 3, so that’s a whole lot of PCBs we’ll never use. Since the beginning, […]
WORKSHOP VIDEO #07: Video editing workstation build
Making workshop videos is a lot of fun, but editing the high-def video is painfully slow on even our best CAD workstation. We set out to upgrade one workstation to run Adobe Premiere with a budget of about 500 bucks. It’s not a killer gaming rig, but it encodes videos in minutes instead of hours: […]
Workshop Video #06: Battle of the solder flux
We broke out 4 different types of flux we had in the workshop and tried them with surface mount parts. Liquid flux, flux paste, syringe flux, and a flux marker are all tested. We used each to solder a 0805 resistor and some pins of a QFP 0.5mm pitch IC to an xQFP protoboard. Edsyn […]
Workshop video #05: USB Persistence of Vision Toy firmware
After more than a year of off and on development, there’s finally a working firmware for the USB Persistence of Vision Toy. With a bit more tweaking we’ll be ready to release the code. This week’s workshop video is an overview of the POV Toy project. Displays pattern or words when waved in the air […]
Workshop video #04: Bus Blaster v4 solder and assembly
Today is the second half of the Bus Blaster v4 workshop video. We solder the board, including two big TQFP chips and a bunch of 0603 passives. The Bus Blaster is our inexpensive, open source JTAG debugger based on the FTDI FT2232H USB->serial chip. Bus Blaster v4 adds a support for a new type of […]
Workshop video #03: Bus Blaster JTAG debugger history
In this video Texas Instruments gets the Big Box award, and we discuss the evolution of the Bus Blaster JTAG debugger. The Bus Blaster is our inexpensive, open source JTAG debugger based on the FTDI FT2232H UBS->serial chip. This chip has 2 JTAG interfaces and can program/debug two separate JTAG targets. Bus Blaster v1 used […]
Workshop video #02: Bus Pirate and Bus Blaster
Workshop update on Bus Pirate firmware, Bus Blaster v3, and Bus Blaster v4. A quick look at our new Nasty Clamp camera tripods too. Bus Pirate firmware v6.1 is now available Bus Blaster JTAG debugger CPLD development boards use a bigger version of the CPLD on the Bus Blaster Nasty Clamps You can get Bus […]
Workshop videos roundup
Here’s a list of the videos we’ve posted in the last few months. More are on the way. Our goal isn’t to replace written content. Videos don’t get indexed by search engines, and you can’t print it out and take it to your workbench. We just want to show what’s going on in the workshop, […]
Workshop video #01: Sjaak solders a QFN chip, attempts the BGA challenge
We took our cameras on the road and visited Sjaak’s workshop this week. He showed us how he solders QFN chips with a bit of hot air and normal drag-soldering. We also surprised him with a challenge to solder a tiny BGA chip, see how it turns out. Here’s some links mentioned in the video: […]
Comments seem to be down on some posts
Our apologies, there is an an unknown error commenting on the workshop video post and some other posts (such as this one). We narrowed the error down and can hack around it for now. This post has the error and is left for testing. Sorry for the junky front page. We’ll try to get it […]