 So I am absolutely useless in front of a crowd and as friendly as you are and as informal as this is, you are a crowd. So I want to talk to you a little bit about the two places that I visited in the last few months. And because there are quite a few people who are going to share their stories and I'm more interested in what they have to say, I'm going to try and run through this as quickly as humanly possible. So if you see an interesting picture or something that you don't understand that I'm saying, stop me and go back to it. So these are the two events. One is in Berlin, Republica 15. But I want to talk about the event. I'll talk about the small little gathering that I was part of, which is sort of in the middle of it. And of course there's the Make a Fair Shenzhen, which is the wrong way to pronounce Shenzhen, but other people will talk about Shenzhen. I'll talk about Make a Camp, which is a seven day event that led up to Make a Fair. So Republica is pretty huge, something that happens in Europe. It's a bit like the dead of Europe. It's not focused entirely on, it's not directly relevant to what we do at Make a Fair, but the group that I was part of, we sort of created an ad hoc Make a Area hub in the middle of this conference. So I want to tell you about the conference. You can look that up and there's a lot of stuff there. This is to give you a flavor of Berlin. This happened on the 1st of May, Mayday, where everything... Can we turn off the lights for a second? Yeah, because the pictures are not adjusted, so it's going to be quite dark, and I'm horrible at taking pictures. So I just take lots of them. Okay, so Berlin is completely crowded on the 1st of May. All the streets are closed down in this particular area called Kreuzberg, and it's party central. It looks pretty impressive. But the thing that I want to talk to you about is GIG, and GIG is Global Innovation Gathering. It is coming together of different people from various parts of the world. Usually they run communities or hubs or fab labs or maker spaces in different parts of Africa, mostly. South America and two from Asia. One of them is me. So I'm going to introduce every single one of them and what they do. I'm kidding. We did the whole bar camp style thing, and this is even before the conference. So a lot of fun was had. It was all very community and everything. So this was in a neighborhood. We had a little sort of weekend flea market where we had people from different parts of Berlin come over and we had a little maker repair section that was going on. So to get everybody from the GIG gang to get a feel for Berlin. Hey, 3D printing. This is the makings of the selfie booth. If you want to know about the selfie booth, come to the Maker Faire. So as part of this thing, we got a chance to look around Berlin. These are co-working spaces and collaborative spaces. This area is called Stuttbad. It looks very cool, but it's a community where young people find it difficult to get into the work and be productive members of society. So this area used to be a giant swimming pool, which is now turned into a giant discotheque. So the giant pool that you're seeing was built sometime in the 70s and all the incredible German engineering you're seeing at the back has converted this entire space into a sound machine. So they used the reverberation of the tiles to basically blow the windows off this building. But that happens at night. It's like a typical underground club. During the day, they have an outdoor area where they involve the community. They grow stuff, so they have their own hydroponics and things. This is the shower area. It used to be the shower area. So what is it? Right now it's not being used, but they're planning to use it for fun things. Cubicles is one of the ideas, but... Co-working space, yes! It is co-working spaces. The bath tubs are sort of built into the wall. So they've put, like, flanks of wood on top of it and they're using it as chairs actually. Put a table in front of it. And of course, you know, there has to be a coffee place. Without coffee places, none of these things would function. Yeah, that's good. This is called factory. I'm going quite quickly. This is good. And factory Berlin is huge. This is one half of a panorama, so you get a sense of the thing. These little fenced up places that you're seeing, that is where the Berlin Wall used to be. Nobody really cares about the Berlin Wall. Every time you ask somebody as a tourist, because of the wall, they have to sort of figure out where to hang on a second. So it doesn't really exist, except in places like that. You have a little memorial to see things. So we've got to see other places. This is a university where they're talking about wearable tech. This is interesting because... Not because of the hand, I've come to that. It's a hoodie with built-in soft speakers. And the sort of whatever you call these things on the side have gesture recognition. So when you pull on one, you change the sound. When you pull on the other, you increase and decrease the volume. So it's all sort of built into it. Anyway, so fun projects like that. And of course the hand. What is with the hand? It was just something that was hanging out of a shelf. I wanted to get how incredibly organized all of the little things are. Our makers faces are not so organized. But this is Germany after all. I have a picture that says nothing about Germany. I saw something similar in Australia. So I guess this person is running it, right? No much help there. So this is the only other touristy thing I was able to do through the bus. I was able to take a picture of touristy things. Didn't have time to do anything else. This is an amazing collective, cooperative, co-working space called the Think Farm. You can't see it on the sign, but Think Farm. And this is my favorite picture of all because it says kaput on it. You don't have to learn Germans and know what it means. Right? Okay. Think Farm is brilliant because it's a large space in a typical neighborhood and they house, again, typical companies that have a social agenda. So it's a bit like the hub in Singapore. But you also see three different ones. The way they run the space and fund it is brilliant. They have a model where they make and they market and they sell their own brand of beer. And that's how they support the space. So part of the revenue that comes in from selling beer and beer is very, very common everywhere in Germany. You can have beer on the MRT. You can walk in and out of it without even thinking twice. So it's very much in the culture. So they run the place. They've got a nice little brand thing going. So they promote that and the funds that come from it go into keeping the space alive. Of course, they have their own built lofts and foosball tables and stuff like that. This is a new space which is Impact Hub Berlin. And that was the only sign for the place that I could find. This tiny little thing on a peg somewhere on a wall because this was the first day that they had opened up and they finally found a home for themselves. So we were there to basically inaugurate the place with this huge media event and the next day was the conference. So of course we had to have another bar camp while we were there. This is the area which happens to be around the corner from checkpoint Charlie, which is the only other Berlin wall crossing that touristy thing that I was able to do. Anyway, so this is the Republic. This is the event actual. It's huge. Lots of stuff going on, but right in the middle of it we have the maker space, which we sort of created. So all the people from the different parts, the Global Innovation Gathering, had these projects and we were sort of occupying that space to engage audiences while they were going through it. So while you had some interesting projects like this, this is an entire habitat built out of water containers and I think pallets. Can't really see it. So a lot of making happened at the workspace. This is workshops from, I think, folks from Kenya. This is the delegation from Brazil. They were always like in party mode, which is excellent. They really kept the place alive. But yeah, lots of fun, interesting things going on. This was amazing. This was like a sort of self-contained house called the Little House. It was brilliant. Lots of fun things going on. Going to move things along. And this is my thing. This is the reason I was there. This is the homemade coffee machine. So I got a whole bunch of Germans to play around with clothes hangers for a while. And they loved it, especially the Brazilians. And if a Brazilian approves of the coffee that's made, it is excellent. This was brilliant, the jackpot machine. I love it. So the way the machine works is you walk up to him, shake his hand, then he moves around, makes bleep bleep noises, and then his hand disappears and then the little roller things move. And then if you win, he pushes out lemons from the box and then he goes bleep bleep bleep again. So that's him crawling out of it in the night. So that was a gig in the Republic. Lots of big talks. Corey Dr. Ra was there. Okay, this is... I'm just going to play this very quickly. It's okay, it's nothing... It kind of summarizes the whole thing. That's mate happening in the background. The innovation gathering and put together a sort of directory of all the maker spaces and hubs that it is currently involved in. So you can take a look at this later on. Okay, so can I move on to Shinsen or should we switch to somebody else and then come back to me? Just Shinsen. Okay. So Shinsen was amazing. Quite a bit of a contrast going from cold freezing 15 degrees, no less than 10 degrees in Berlin to incredibly hot sweating buckets. Shinsen, it was very hot. So luckily I had some time in between over here. But the idea behind Shinsen was to do a seven-day camp where people would come from different parts of China and make a maker space which would then become part of the maker path. Okay. So we got there early obviously and while we were there in this new sort of software business park together with seed, there's a triple E. So for about a week I was basically annoying everybody saying seed all the time. So this is the container. And these are the folks that we were working with. I'm going to introduce every single one of them and tell you the background. I'm kidding again. So we got ideation happened. We got on top of things. More ideation happened. Oh, and there was a problem. There were lots of problems. We didn't have the material which we were supposed to use to make the maker space. So we kind of had to improvise. And while we were setting up the maker fair was being set up and I probably shouldn't be telling you this but you see those panels on the floor. Those are all LCD panels that go up onto the screen. So there's huge LED display that was being set up. So what we did was to sort of steal their garbage. And then that sort of set the trend. We went around looking all over the place for more and more and more and more and more and more. So that became the adventure. We got all the stuff together, more ideation and then first order of business, get some shade. So shade happened. We got everybody together. And while this was going on outside we also had activities indoors. Seed has a beautiful office which they had just moved into in that location. So everybody, all the participants got this box. And what's in the box is a whole bunch of good stuff. And this is the purpose of Maker Camp. All the participants, they have to work with the kids and come up with a project. And that project would then be taught to children in schools around ancient sense. So that was the objective. And it went horribly wrong. Of course. But it also went horribly right. So lots of ideation planning, getting people together. Talks. This is Cesar from Hong Kong. He came over. That was a different adventure. Yankee Lee from Hong Kong as well. Design Center. She was amazing. She was talking about, well, teaching. Some show and tell happened in between. More talks happened over Skype. More talks, more presentations, gamification. This is Lynn. And Lynn is amazing because she's one of our mentors and she's from Shanson. And she's learned Arduino by herself. And she's come up with a project that was for Maker Camp. And she helped us with translation. And she helped organize. And she's pregnant. She's also expecting. So, I mean, she's a powerhouse. This lady is amazing. So this was the worst part about Shanson. And the pictures on Facebook, on my Facebook page, when you see later on will not tell you this. So if you want to know more about the horrors of Shanson, you can talk to me later on. The best part about Shanson is obviously this place who recognizes where this is. Excellent. So you know what this is. This is just madness. It's just amazing madness. It is haven for everyone who is a maker. You have to experience this. And I've coined a phrase. You get from one place to the next. And there is so much innovation happening just on that table. The stuff that he's using to clean, the stuff that they're doing behind the table. And this is going on everywhere. Every building that you see, every floor that you see, every little desk that you see, there is incredible innovation happening. This is a micro factory. And they're assembling phones. So they've set up with everything that they need. And this is like heaven. I don't know how many people squeezed in there. It's amazing. So this goes on. Oh, this is amazing also. This is the entire Apple lineup. None of these are genuine. Yes, I have a small size. You have the baby iPhone. I brought along with me one of the most latest iPhones, which is a baby iPhone. Wow. You can pass it on. It totally works, right? So that was because we met Sean. This one has a single SIM, but I also have the dual SIM one. And they all work. It's amazing. Say again? Wow. Good question. I don't know. Only one way to find out. Is it Portrait? Radina. Is it Portrait? I will pass it around so you can see. Yes, take a look. It is. I'm not sure. You mean in MTK? Yes, MTK. Sean and Bunny Sean. Sean is the guy who directed me to this place. And it was an adventure on its own. He said, look out for a building that has a fish tank in it. And I found it. I'll tell you that later on if you like. I cannot tell. But it's relentless. I would have to do this essentially, which probably prevents Sean. So there's more and more and more. Oh, I love this one. This is an entire station with just firmware updates happening. So this is like the software corner of the building. He's got all of the firmware going into, I don't know, how many different phones at the same time. And they're doing this day after day after day after day. And it's amazing. It's just mind-boggling. You keep doing this. And every time you go there, I've coined this phrase. It's called HQB syndrome. HQB is Hwachang Bay. And syndrome is the I can't finish a sentence type of thing that happens. Because you're sensory overload. You can't really take it all in at the same time. There's just phenomenal amount of stuff going on. Oh, I fell in love with this thing. I mean, who doesn't want this now, right? So... Bob is this. And this is a small one. So the place where we found this was wasn't Hwachang Bay. These guys found it from Hwachang Bay. Oh, yes, for the time. And I absolutely love these guys. So Ian was there, of course. But was it Chris? I think it was Charles. This guy, he was working there at the time. And he was working on this thing, which is taking a bunch of feature phones and turning them sort of trying to get mapping what you can do with those feature phones. Kind of similar to what the MTK thing, but he was doing it from a black box approach. And it's kind of cool. So he was there and he was talking about that. Of course, the place is amazing. I love this. Yes, and this is the outside of the building. In case you go hunting for it, outside looks like that. Look for 42. Deep reference. And of course we took a thumbnail picture. So that's all of us. That's half the group, actually. The other half didn't make it because of the heat. So it's appropriate. So the container got some upgrades while we were there. This was tremendous fun. It was just tremendous fun. Do you think? Yeah. And oh look, bunny ears. Yes. Yes, I often visit this place. That can mean only one thing. This is Katya. I must mention Katya. Katya is showing off, she's basically flashing everybody in the group. So if you pull back in the picture, you'll see everybody taking pictures of her belly. It's actually quite funny. But what she's showing is this lily pad thing and she's a wizard at wearables. She's designed this thing which is conductive makeup and you should look her up. There's a drone that you can control by winks and a phone app that you can control by gestures of your hair. So if you twirl your hair, it starts recording. If you twirl your hair, another way it stops recording. So she was there to get everybody excited about wearables and stuff. So all of these things that we put together were then featured at the Aki Party, which Thakasu will tell you more about. It was tremendous fun. So all of this is from the kit. More projects, fun projects. This is paper folding. So origami. This is my workshop. It was tremendously fun because the very next day we had to go to the university. So half of them went to university, the other half went to high school. Most of the dinos wound up in the high school, but we took some to the university as well. So, you know, usual curiosity. And this is the crazy group. Oh, and more people started showing up, the closer we got to make a fair. So this is Thomas Socolendi. No prizes for guessing which country he's from. But he's from Pebo. And he was there because Pebo and Seed have a collaboration, which I find terribly exciting. This was Massimo, the guy, Arduino guy. Genuino guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes. So he was there. It was tremendous fun to talk to him. He's been followed around by a number of people. And other people as well, who dress just like me. These are the guys from Make Fashion. Again, phenomenal work. The sort of pieces that they put together were listening to muscle activity. And I've never spoken to a fashion designer about algorithms before. So these guys know what they're into. It's tremendous fun. This is the Zado modules that Seed produces, which are these tiny little modules. You can connect them together and make fun things with. So I got the chance to meet with Nosk. He's the product designer for the entire range. And so these are the two guys that combine. So the Pebble guy and the Seed guy are going to be producing modules that are wearable on your watch. So the smart watch remains a watch and you add modules to make the watch even smarter. So it's coming out soon. So we have other guests. This is Kang from Malaysia. And Cindy, who's fascinated with the OLPC. These are the guys from Hong Kong who are doing Make Camp, Make A Camp. But they were sponsored by Google Weboint. And of course, Eric from Strawbees. Oh, this was so much fun. He's going to be here at the Make Affair. And you must. If you haven't seen Strawbees before, you have to get into it. They have their own microcontrollers and stuff. But the coolest thing was this flying drone that was made entirely out of Strawbees, which flies. That's what it looks like. I don't have a video of that unfortunately. It's there on Facebook. Yeah, so that's us. That's it. That's all I got. Will you make a show of the organic? Yes. Oh yes, of course. I can plug this in later on. If you guys are interested, we will take a look at this. But I'm also going to have this probably somewhere at the Make Affair. It's a very simple thing. It's got a servo inside with some magnets. And there are controls that go down. You can step on the controls. So when you step, it moves. So you dance around while it dances. Great. Do you know what this is? This stuff that I found in Park Jung-Bee. It's a new ice cream. Sir, sir. Please show the comment for his presentation. Oh, yes. 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