Robotics Achievement Exhibition - MakerFaire 2015 in Shenzhen China



    Once again we will visit you at the grandiose exhibition of achievements of robotics and electronics MakerFaire in the capital of hi-tech - Shenzhen . The exhibition was held June 19-21, 2015. This year, the exhibition area has grown 4 times - now a separate quarter has already been allocated.

    Let me remind you that MakerFaire is an exhibition that was conceived by MAKE magazine, and was first held in 2006. The aim of the exhibition / festival is to popularize the movement of “makers” - people who do something with their own hands, the direction of DIY, creativity, now you can see robotics, 3D printing, quadrocopters on it. This is an international phenomenon.

    We begin our tour of MakerFaire in Shenzhen.


    First, look at the map:


    There are performances, a 3D planetarium.

    Installations:
    1. Large Robots
    2. Energy saving vehicles
    3. DIY Aircrafts
    4. Star Wars
    5. DIY Rockets
    6. Skeletronics

    Indoor Pavilions:
    1. Maker Station
    2. BGI
    3. Hackidemia
    4. Maywa Denki
    5. LIFT
    6. Shenzhen Art Museum

    Here This is what the exhibition looks like in general: The


    unchanging symbol of MakerFaire is the “M” robot.



    The electric car is popular:




    Quadcopters


    A line from the industry leader in flying robots DJI


    ProDrone


    Crazeponi presents DIY kits


    A whole paradise for copters:


    3D printing



    A lot of attention has been paid to the 3D printing industry.

    Demonstration stand of one of the companies:


    If you look closely, you can see Russian motifs :)



    Shinig3d stand A


    printer that prints with two nozzles: It


    prints a globe:


    The MakerPi stand is quite cheerful:


    Examples of large figures:


    IdeaPrinter:


    MostFun:


    Electronics, Robotics


    Hackspace SZDIY provided a labyrinth stand based on the Delta robot:


    UARM project

    This is a startup that has successfully raised over $ 200k for a robotic arm project. At the exhibition they had a separate stand.



    The manipulator looks beautiful, metal, at the end - a vacuum suction cup for gripping objects:


    A whole "zoo" of robotic manipulators playing in a ball and cutting something on acrylic:


    ASL RobotBase

    ASL RobotBase booth


    The company is engaged in the development of robotic kits (Getting Started with Robot Kit, AS-2WD Aluminum Mobile Robotic Car, AS-6DOF Biped Robot, AS-6DOF Aliminium Robotic Arm, Aluminum Servo Bracket and others) and sells them through its online store .

    According to the About page from their website, they are actively participating in the OpenSource movement, translating into Arduino a Chinese book.

    Here is the founder of ASL RobotBase Yu Xinlong, with the founder of Arduino - Massimo Banzi.
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    In addition to its own production and development, the company is the official supplier of such brands Parallax, Sparkfun, Pololu, Acroname, Arduino, Robotshop, Robotis, Tamiya, GWS and others.

    DIY rockets


    At this exhibition, stands dedicated to DIY rocket science were provided.



    Propulsion:


    Launch control panel:


    Baby detector


    The issues of notifying parents when a small child soaked diapers were not even ignored:




    QC Maker Education


    An interesting stand with different educational DIY kits - for assembly from wood.





    Interactive Piano


    A piano stand was assembled on the street. Backlight and sound - you could play a melody.



    Smart shoe


    Have you ever wondered how many steps you take in home slippers?

    Now you can count the steps, and your home activity is Smart Shoe.



    There is even a small application for statistics:


    Indicators


    A whole stand of various indicators.


    Another:


    WRTNode Project


    You probably know about OpenWRT a Linux-based operating system for embedded systems (routers). We heard about VoCore and BlackSwift.

    WRTNode is an open platform project based on OpenWRT.



    Various integration options are presented, and additional shields for developers.

    An example of a bunch with the Makeblock


    Bareconductive


    Conductive ink - is detected by touch and a sound is generated.


    Segment indicators


    Good old segment indicators


    Skeletronics


    This is something similar to an exoskeleton - a system that repeats human movements.

    Better to see once (3 seconds):


    Impressions


    Of course, this is only a small part of what was presented at MakerFaire, we did not show stands with Dev boards, stands of corporations such as Intel, Microsoft, TI. Also, 5 hackspace of China demonstrated their projects at their stands - we just looked at SZDIY.

    But even what they saw is enough to understand that 3D printing, copters, robotics and DIY are developing well in China, and enough attention is paid to this.

    By the way, for comparison, you can see the story about the exhibition last year: MakerFaire in 2014

    Acknowledgments


    Once again we say more thanks to targence , now already a resident of the wonderful city of Shenzhen, for the material provided. More details can be found in his flickr album .

    Learning chinese


    And a little about our hackspace MakeItLab in Yekaterinburg. One of the founders of hackspace - seriously decided to study Chinese. And it’s better to study communicating with real Chinese - we started a series of meetings where both Chinese students and Chinese who study in our city participate. Photos from the meeting that took place this month:

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