MIT Media Lab’s month in Shenzhen

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When you've got a month worth of blog postings it's pretty difficult to choose one photograph that sums it all up. This one shows the tour group from MIT Media Lab in ESD garb ready for their tour of Okano SMT and Speaker Factory. It was part of a tour of Shenzhen aimed at bringing graduate students up to speed on what it means to manufacture products in the city. Luckily, Freaklabs member … [Read more...]

[ch00ftech] Visits a Shenzhen Market

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On a business trip, [ch00ftech] visited a Shenzhen electronics market and documented the trip. Some of the attractions included multiple Apple stores of questionable authenticity, stores selling PC components with no manuals, drivers, or packaging, and a variety of LEDs and lasers. [ch00ftech] showed off the loot from the trip, including breadboards, perf boards, LED matrices, and an RFID … [Read more...]

Getting your stuff built: how to shop, conduct business, stay alive, and eat your way through Shenzhen

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This is [Bob Baddeley]. He's an EE with an idea that started as a fun project until someone said "hey, that's cool". He started thinking about what it would take to launch it commercially and before he knew it he was involved in a startup accelerator to help him assemble what he needs to make his idea into a business. He spent several weeks in China learning about manufacturing and posted … [Read more...]