{"id":532,"date":"2012-05-04T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T00:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/?p=532"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:28:49","slug":"beijing-maker-carnival-five-dollar-micro-controller-candle-replacement-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usabledevices.com\/ud\/2012\/05\/beijing-maker-carnival-five-dollar-micro-controller-candle-replacement-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Maker carnival, five dollar micro controller, candle replacement and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing Maker Carnival was held last weekend: &#8220;makers and hackers from around the world and China came together to show off their projects, do talks and lead workshops. The event was mainly organized by Beijing Maxpace with a lead role by Justin Wang (\u738b\u76db\u6797) and the help of many students from various Chinese universities in Beijing&#8221;. Ricky from Xinchejian attended and presented and has published some very interesting <a title=\"Beijing Maker Carnival 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/xinchejian.com\/2012\/05\/03\/rickys-report-on-makercarnival-talks\/\">highlights<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>A portable, rechargeable, affordable candle replacement has been developed by the Wyld Collective and Foul labs in Canada to help reduce very frequent fires in Bangkok! They gave a presentation at <a title=\"Xinchejian Shangai hackerspace\" href=\"http:\/\/xinchejian.com\/\">Xinchejian<\/a> in Shanghai and also attended the Beijing Maker Carnival. It is really inspiring to hear how such a simple LED light can have a major social impact, quite possibly worldwide!<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Altman and his &#8220;crew&#8221; were in Beijing for the Maker Carnival and also visited\u00a0<a title=\"Xinchejian Shangai hackerspace\" href=\"http:\/\/xinchejian.com\/\">Xinchejian<\/a> in Shanghai a few weeks ago. The inspirations that I gained from there talks were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mitch has been living of the proceeds of the TV-b-gone for several years! UPDATE &#8211; Mitch just blogged his <a title=\"Mitch Altman china trip report 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.noisebridge.net\/2012\/05\/04\/hacker-trip-to-china-2\/\">trip report<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>$5 micro controller <a title=\"$5 micro controller MC HCK\" href=\"http:\/\/mchck.org\">MC HCK<\/a>\u00a0that is roughly equivalent to an Arduino is being developed by Simon Schubert. This extremely affordable price will make the board very accessible to those who otherwise cannot access these tools and also means the board can be &#8220;left in place&#8221; as a permanent project, rather than disassembled for the next project! I really like this idea!<\/li>\n<li>Yair Reshef showed how extremely simple ideas can have a huge influence: {coin battery + LED + tape} = fun toy to introduce very young kids to electronics! I scored some that were left behind and a couple were still working a week later!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing Maker Carnival was held last weekend: &#8220;makers and hackers from around the world and China came together to show off their projects, do talks and lead workshops. 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