Maker movement in Asia　 -Innovation from Everywhere-

Masakazu Takasu @ tksteamLab (Tokyo),

I’m a Maker, from Japan.I’m supporting two Maker Faire Committee.

Maker Faire Shenzhen 201622-23/Oct

Maker Faire Singapore 201625-26/July

TAKASU Masakazu

Who am I?

FeaturedTokyo (2012-)Taipei (2013-) 　　　Shenzhen (2014-)Singapore (2015-)Seoul (2015-) Tainan (2015-) Next NovHongkong (2015-) Next Nov

MiniJapan –Ogaki, YamaguchiChina -BeijingTaiwan- 新竹 , TaichungThailand-BangkokMalaysia-Penang …AND Chengdu,Xiean, ChiangMai,,,,

Maker Faire in All around ASIA.

Maker Movement In Asia

-Biggest one 　 China-Smallest one 　 Singapore

Maker Movement

-Bloomberg

What’s a Different from Before? -Cheaper, Easier, Faster

DreamerKit, Web tutorial

Prototype MakerArduino, Digital Fablicaion

Veteran MakerOnline PCB, Online CNC

Hardware StartupCrowdfunding,

Mass ProductionOnline promotion, Supply chain

-Seeedstudio

Biggest one

Maker’s Hollywood, Shenzhen, China.

More than 1000 factory in Shanzhen

-HAXLR8R

Huaqiangbei is 3000% bigger than Akihabara.Every product [Made in Shenzhen]

-HAXLR8R

Can buy component from1 to 1,000,000

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Components all around to iterate faster

-HAXLR8R

Chinese Style OpenSource HardWare

GongBan( 公板）Public PCBA

GongMo( 公模）Public Mold,Plastic

You can choose any price and quality!

$40 $7

Smart Watch in Shenzen

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Activity Tracker in Shenzhen

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Well known called ShanZhai 山寨

ShanZhai 山寨 but also Indie Design

-Seeed

PPAP innovationI have a tablet, I have a Speker,,,

Oh, Android Compo!

PPAP innovationI have a tablet, I have a rearview…

Oh, Android reaview + Drive recorder

And also new interface

New product daily advtisement

-HAXLR8R

$45(280 RMB)

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Software became Open source,

Hardware became Open source.

Patent and Copyrights are not important in Shenzhen.

But, they make something new,

山塞 Shanzai makes Innovation.

[Deploy or Die]

MAKERS, well known in China,

Well miss understood.

Maker Tea

Maker LunchBox

Café incubation

China still makes only COPYCAT?

Meitu Best Selfie cell phone in the world

-Meitu

Meitu Best Selfie cellphone in the world

-Meitu

Technology from Japan, concept from China.

-Meitu

Innovation with China

Seeedstudio, Maker support industry.

-Seeedstudio

Online PCB

Bazzar

Agile Manufacturing Center

More Cheep, More fast, More Easy…Innovation from Biggest makers countly.

Smaillest one.

Singapore

Small field (Same as Centre of Tokyo)Small population(5 million, 30% of Tokyo)

Small resource (We have to buy water from Malaysia)

Singapore is Small, Small, Small,,,

That is [Extra hard mode] for Survive.

China is Bigger than SingaporeBlock71, Singapore Pudon Software park,

Shanghai

But Singapore making future City.

Investment for ventures in Singapore over 17 billion dollars in 2013.Larger than Japan, Korea, and Hongkong.

Block 71,Where lives in Over 100 ventures.

Biopolis

Automation

If company in Singapore buy automation system, such as cashier change to iPad, They will get 70 percent rebate from the Singapore government.Automation development in Singapore, and go to the world market.

Singapore will make [SYSTEM]

More systemize,More organize,More smart.

ELECTRONIC ROAD PRICING (ERP)

Optimizes usage of the road network by encouraging motorists to consider alternatives.

Minister of Smart nation office Vivian Balakrishnan

His hobby is building simple robots, assembling watches, wireless devices and programming apps.He is really geek minister.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong making Sudoku Solver

by C++Vivian Translated to

Javascript

PARTICIPATION, NOT PERMISSION

Maker Movement In Asia

-biggest one 　 China More Cheep, More Easy, More Fast, Diversity

-smallest one 　 SingaporeMore Expensive, More Difficult, More Long

time, Smart

Different City, Different Maker Culture

深圳 Shenzhen=Scaling成都 Chengdu= People to be a Maker

-Seeedstudio

成都 To be a Maker

深圳 Scaling

Eric Pan told at Chengdu Maker Faire

天時 (timing)Chengdu also startup boom,People need new thing.

地利 (Personality)Chengdu have economy networking, and people’s community

人和 (Human Resource)A lot of local makers community and culture.

Chaihuo MakerSpace at ChengduNear the University

MakerSpace at 西南交通大学Established at 2012,

Product Design cource 2000 student.

MakerSpace for fun, in free time

Chengdu’s MakerSpace 「木牛流馬」Established at 2013

Maker Faire ChengduArt and design area, similer OCT at Shenhzen.

100 booth, 110000 visitor in 2 days.RoboCon, Live show, Workshop, Talk,,,,

Maker Faire Chengdu

Maker Faire ChengduDifferent from Shenzhen,School and kids

Maker Faire ChengduSame as Shenzhen,StartupsDifferent from Shenzhen, Traditional craft

We are MAKERS all of us.

All Makers can make innovation.

Maker Movement in Thailand

MakerSpace Thailand

ChiangMai Maker Club

Design week ChiangMai 2014,2016

HOME OF MAKERS by Gravitech , Bangkok

Dr.Pan GravitechBorn in Bangkok, company in Silicon Valley, and make branch at Thailand.

Maker Movement in Nepal

Maker Movement in Norway

We makers are all different and all wonderful.