 So we're here at the McBlock office, checking out some of what these guys are doing. Let's find some guy who can do a tour for us around here. All the engineers are working and stuff. Hi. Hello. Hi. Hi. So who are you? Oh, I'm you. I'm a software engineer at McBlock, and welcome to McBlock. You make software, yes, my workspace, and here's the app we are making. It's called M0, a controlling app for any robust idea, the big idea is we want to make it easy for everybody, and we should spend more time in inventing ideas and caring about people. Can you show this app a little bit? So what can it do? You can design a control panel for anything you make with McBlock products. This is part of the robot? This is controlling the robot? What will it do? It can control the robot, yes. Controlling this one. So is this app already available, or are you working on it, making a new version? What are you doing? It's a new version, have better graphics and other features, but there's already one on episode. This is iOS? Yes, it's iOS. So you make the iOS? Yeah. Does anybody make Android? Yeah, this guy. His name is Min. Hello. Hey. So this is the Android software, and this is the iOS software, right here. So can we go around and meet some of you guys, what are you doing? Yeah, yes, we are developers, and we are making, you know, the website system. The website and the community to share our projects and learn from our products. What are these people doing? Oh, they are marketing departments, so they are... Marketing sales? Yeah. Marketing sales. Yeah. All right, let's walk around. So around here is software guys, right? Right. And here's our desktop software developer, and he's making software and block, where you can control and design how you want to play with your hardware, and they can even upload a program to add your own board. Nice. Cool. And what's going on here? He's a JavaScript developer, and he works with me with the iOS version. So this is controlling the robot, and what is this blinking light stuff? It's LED. Yeah. It's part of the pack. People can buy this already, right? Yeah, it's a release, but it will be available soon. Available soon? Yeah, available soon. It's going to be huge. What is the target? What is the strategy? Is this for education? Yeah, primarily for education, but it's also fun and playable, so you can make many different forms of that robot, and you can learn programming. So block-based interface, is it related to Samo Pepper, what's the name of that? You know, making these blocks right there is like, it's like a scratch. Scratch? Is it scratch? Yeah, it looks like scratch, but it's better for apps. So it's an alternative to scratch? Is it different from scratch? Yeah, but the logic is the same. Is it possible in the future that people can just use blocks and program something advanced, or you need to go in a code? I think so. Well, if you play well with blocks, you will eventually code, but I hope people can just play around with the blocks and do awesome stuff in their life. Let's go around. Yeah. So, around here. So he's making sure that what's happening, what's he doing right now? He's debugging or developing a self-balanced car. No. Does it work? It's working? I don't think so. Not yet. It takes time. It's not so easy, right? Yeah, it's not easy. And is this PCB? Yeah, right. I mean, you're designing a board. Is this PCB? Hmm. Something similar. What is this? What's this? It's a driver. Motor driver, I think. You can have motors here, and you can connect to a rope. Control balls here. You know, the colors. The colors match, and it works. So it's easy to connect? It's slow. Yeah. And the PCB is good? Good quality? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They have an iteration. So it's ready. Yeah. Where are you working on here? I think that's the chiefs. You know, you are calling the chiefs. Like a CPU? Yeah. Choosing the CPU? Yeah. The prime of the system. All right. Let's go to this guy. Also PCB stuff. Right. This looks cool. So what is that? Can you hold it up? Is that an ID cube? Is that a hobby project? Is this for fun? Yeah. This is for fun. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby. It's a hobby project. So is our YouTube. You can rotate that and play. All right. Eating snakes. In this video. Apple Orange or some Paris you can touch it touch the fruit and the signal will come to the CPU Cool, it's working. Yes gonna come out. That's cool. Okay, cool So is this exactly the same software you have on the iOS and now the same solution or is it only PC style? This is for PC you see you can program complex programs with this software And you can convert your blocks into Arduino code so we can learn both blocking and coding All right So why do you have so much stuff on the table? What's he doing this guy? Testing everything yeah testing all works property testing connecting Testing and testing all this stuff different stuff here and here What's he doing Oh Can we see this one yeah, yeah, what is this? It's a LED panel to try already in a Dharma Oh, it's a powerful 3d printer 3d printer power Display display. Yeah, so you can show panel control make my new selection and Decide what you want to print Cool, so a make block at make block the possibilities in the future is gonna be huge, right? What what do you feel is gonna happen in the next year to next two or three years? Maybe with my block with my class in general like this is this is right People can do lots of creative stuff, right? Right for sure And we have you see we are making bigger and more powerful more accurate three different hairs and our software will be easier for to use and More user-friendly Let's check what's he's doing This is the self-balancing robot. This is awesome So he's doing the camera part yeah What's special about this camera is 720p 1080p is going around sneaking into the room Not really it's just a camera it's just a camera Cool, and this is another PCB around here Yeah And We just found with this in Kickstarter and it's quite interesting because it has Motor drivers you can connect up to like over 10 over 10 motors so you can control different Devices like a 3d printer our Walking robot and lots of people buy this to build their own 3d printer. That's a new channel. You know 3d printer Yeah, what else what other thing they can do? You know they can do anything with a lot of things with a lot of motors So like they want to build a walking robot So they need lots of servos to control arms and the legs and they use this board They don't need to worry about how many parts they have because it's had many cool And there's a guy here who does engines or something Can you hold this up? Can you hold it up? So hello. Hey, what is she working on there? Mechanical designer and doing this part. Can we see this? What is the secret? Hmm It's not our product okay Let's take this this guy. What is he doing? Hello? Hey? Hey? What is this going on here? This is Jimmy night. This is Tank form for our new product to them zero and it's not released yet, but you will be soon So we're seeing a lots of secret future stuff here lots of stuff is happening here to make my block office Yeah, it's a nice nice office space here. No crazy big buildings Yeah, our stuff are flexible. So even our As engineers will use that every day. All right cool There's more more lots of stuff going on here. How many guys are you at make block? It's over 150 Working lots of hardware designing stuff with all these Sometimes really printed parts or sometimes new parts that you get made. Yeah, so people can actually make robots out of your stuff This is a robot What are some of the examples of amazing things you have seen people do make blocks so far Oh So what's inside, what's the what's the CPU what's the battery? Cpo's in there is a We'll check the spec slider it looks cool. Okay, so he's going to test it out over there and the screens And working on Low-level software stuff, right? Let's go around over here. Hey Hey, hello, what is going on here? What is this robot there? Chase the light yeah He looks cool Obstacle can I go and grab a coke from the fridge and bring to this is what I want also I hope that stuff like this will happen soon. How soon I want we already have one you have one I wonder if they are setting that but they Apparently they have all the specifications and designs online for free really using make block Yeah, you think about and these are the future make blocks also around here Right working on stuff cool, so busy office and The Christmas is soon does this mean even more busy than normal because Christmas is soon. Yeah, that could be a Good fortune and this is a design department. So we had designers also designers are filming videos there Yeah, I like you. Yeah, he's one, you know designing websites and instruction books. Let's go over there Let's just see what happens. What do you do in this area here? Oh? Things and how to people sleeping but nobody's sleeping nobody's resting everybody's working And doing some Is she building a 3d? Hello building a 3d printer Can we go in that room over there There Can we check out what they do in there? Oh? Yeah, I'm making a video of Children playing our product So a lot of children play with your product, right? Hello. Hello. Wow This is my make block, okay Yeah Yeah Casting and production line. Yeah, and these are the workshops so we can you know soldiers on me All right some stuff and these are our labs Let's check what they do over here. This is like a studio filming filming the Preparing to do Hey, you know, hi. Hello So this guy is gonna just go around here Yeah, and you're gonna film it soon already film it Can we check over there with the all the components people can just grab and build stuff with it Internal makes space make her face, okay Lots of 3d printers Lots of tools If you want to make something by ourself you can just grab stuff now here different sizes Different colors Does make block have all the components people need or can just build more and more components in the future? Yeah, we are building more and more in the future you may have something like It's called a smoke sensor so you can tell whether your house is inflated or whether your mom is smoking or not Yeah, that's a good device. They have Wi-Fi modules Connect your device to the internet and receive Facebook mentions So but any new model Any new sensor people want they can design based on your specs, maybe and add more and more stuff Let's go around around here more more components here This is another advanced There are some works with these in our spare not spare time, but This is from the make-open. No, yeah, this this guy Right and it's Christmas. Hello. Hi, Merry Christmas, and these are all the components you have right here and available worldwide people can build all kinds of creative stuff elephants and robots and and The winner of the make-open the Italian guys are here All right, cool. Thanks a lot for showing us around. Thank you