Sunday, January 27th, 2013
Besides hunting electronics, we always have clothes tailored in Shenzhen. The Louhu Commercial City is a mall right outside the boarder crossing. Its mostly knock off crap, but at the top there's a huge fabric market and dozens of tailors. They do suits, but also anything you can imagine, and...Tags: Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Sunday, January 27th, 2013
Guide books warn that the boarder crossing from Hong Kong to Shenzhen at Louhu can be extremely busy. We've always sailed through in a couple minutes. Today, after leaving China immigration, we encountered this sea of people in the no mans land bridge to Hong Kong. Still only took about...Tags: louhu, Shenzhen, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Sunday, January 27th, 2013
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,...Tags: Hong Kong, layover (not Bourdains though), Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
Today we mapped the most expansive part of Hua Qiang Bei parts market, the quadrant with the famous SEG market building. SEG is the best known, but there are a dozen other buildings too. Most buildings have some combination of cell phones and accessories, but there's some good parts shops...Tags: Shenzhen, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
We also mapped the South West quadrant (empty, consumer electronics only), and the North West quadrant (a dozen buildings with 6-7 floors each, including the 6 floor international LED building). Here's some of our highlights, including: Some sort of passive component pick and place Multiple stores selling only one type...Tags: Shenzhen, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
One of our goals on this trip is to map out the main component buildings of Hua Qiang Bei market. Today we explored the South-East quadrant we've never noticed before. This part was full of cell phone replacement parts and repair stands. It was much like Manish market in Mumbai...Tags: Shenzhen, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
Today we started off by meeting with Susan at Vita International Freight Company. They gave a great price on air freighting 100kg of stuff back to the workshop (about $3 per KG all in). (more…)Tags: Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
Dangerous Prototypes tours the biggest electronics market of all, the Hua Qiang Bei market in Shenzhen, China. This is the third and biggest market on our Global Geek Tour. Be sure to check out Akihabara in Tokyo and Cheonggyecheon in Seoul too. VIDEO: Hua Qiang Bei market in Shenzhen, China...Tags: China, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
Meet the people behind our projects on the Seeed Studio tour: VIDEO: Seeed Studio open source hardware manufacturing tour in Shenzhen, China 2012 Seeed Studio open hardware manufacturing tour Seeed Studio tour: PeopleTags: China, roundup, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
This week the Global Geek Tour took us to Shenzhen, China. On the way to Shenzhen we had a day in Hong Kong so we scoped out the Apliu Street electronics market. Check out our video and all the picture posts below. VIDEO: Apliu Street electronics market tour GLOBAL GEEK...Tags: China, roundup, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Here's some other cool stuff we found in other buildings in Hua Qiang Bei. The surface mount part reels we've been questing on every tour were present in spades. This is one of dozens of shops with inexpensive reels of resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc. More pictures below the fold. (more…)Tags: China, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Seeed Studio took us to Shenzhen Sunlight Electronic Co., a special supplier they use to avoid counterfeit and unreliable chips. Sunlight Electronic Co pools orders from smaller manufacturers and buys directly from the chip factory to ensure quality. Price breaks start at 100 pieces, but the best breaks are at...Tags: China, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Shenzhen is well known for locally produced and customized technology. From custom cell phones to personalized push buttons, you can find it in Hua Qiang Bei. Sjaak found a building that consists entirely of USB flash disk sellers. There's a huge selection of colorful silicone housing. Just pick one and...Tags: China, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
There's activity all around the Hua Qiang Bei market buildings. People and cars tussle for space in the street. Moving carts loaded with electronic components on the way to small manufacturers are everywhere, often in the middle of traffic. Continue below for more sights from around from Hua Qiang Bei....Tags: China, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Today we giveaway four tubes of Amtech flux clones that we bought in Shenzhen. Leave a comment below, and we’ll pick 4 winners tomorrow. There's some speculation if this flux is good, bad, smelly, or worse. We'll test it out in a future workshop video.Tags: China, giveaway, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
The SEG Market in Shenzhen, and the other markets too, are a maze packed with lots of small shops and goodies. It's hard to find that shop with a special bargain again after you wander away. Below the fold are some tips for finding your way around the markets. (more…)Tags: China, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
Every market we've visited on the Global Geek Tour has a preponderance of LEDs. Hua Qiang Bei takes it a step further with a six floor building dedicated to LEDs and accessories. It's unbelievable. (more…)Tags: China, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
We all bought one of these USB microscope at the SEG Market. We were immediately fond of the heavy base and the smooth adjustment of the camera. We bargained a bit and bought it for 260 RMB ($40), that's half the cost of the same thing on eBay from another...Tags: China, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
SEG market is the best known electronic part market in Hua Qiang Bei neighborhood. It's two giant floors of component and tool stands. The upper floors are full of computer parts and consumer electronics, also very cool, but we're here for the electronics. This is an overview of the second...Tags: China, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
[embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBtRJc-z05k[/embed] Dangerous Prototypes tours the biggest electronics market of all, the Hua Qiang Bei market in Shenzhen, China. This is the third and biggest market on our Global Geek Tour. Be sure to check out Akihabara in Tokyo and Cheonggyecheon in Seoul too. First we went to the SEG building,...Tags: China, Shenzhen Geek Tour video, Shenzhen Global Geek Tour 2012
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