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Day 1 - Arrival (June 7th 2015)
My flight from BOS --> HKG was 16 hours long. I flew Air Canada which briefly stopped at Toronto. Even with an aisle seat, the flight wasn't too terrible. The in-flight entertainment has...
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Day 2 - Orientation (June 8th 2015)
Orientation Day started at 10am in the Lobby of the apartment where I met the other class instructors Sean and Akiba along with my fellow classmates David, Saquib, Jeremy, and Artem. Bunnie helped us...
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Day 3 - 1st Class Session (June 9th 2015)
The first day of class mostly consisted of a course overview. Throughout the bootcamp, we are modifying a pre-existing platform called the Orchard, which is an open hardware/software platform with...
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Day 4 - Jiada Factory (June 10th 2015)
Today we saw three different factory facilities:Jiada's injection modeling and tooling King Credie's PCB production AQS's SMT and hand-assembly line. I'm going to split this up in three separate posts...
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Day 4 - King Credie Factory (June 10th 2015)
King CredieKing Credie is a PCB manufacturer and owned by Simen Zeng. Funny story about their company's name: Originally they were called Credit, which was short for creditability. They soon got the...
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Day 4 - AQS Factory (June 10th 2015)
AQSAQS is a SMT (surface mount technology) and hand-assembly manufacturer and owned by John Lee. I really enjoyed seeing this particular factory as it gave me a close experience of what the production...
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Day 5 - Learning Altium (June 11th 2015)
Today, we had a crash course on Altium 101. Altium is a very sophisticated and powerful electronics design software. But like any complicated tool, there is a bit of a learning curve in navigating all...
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Day 6 - Sourcing Components (June 12th 2015)
Today, I learned the world outside of Digikey. When prototyping, Digikey is the best place to get quick, reliable, small-quantity components. With those safe components, you should finalize your design...
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Day 7/8 - Everyday Living (June 13-14th 2015)
This weekend, I got a bit of down time and a chance to do everyday-living in China. I did my first load of laundry, which took figuring out what each button meant. Drying machines are not common...
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Day 9 - PCB Design Review (June 15th 2015)
For today’s class lecture, Bunnie reviewed everyone’s PCB layout in Altium to catch design errors before we push them into production. Majority of the feedback related to vias since we were unfamiliar...
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Day 11 - Book Printing & Binding Factory (June 17th 2015)
During our long car ride to the printing factory, the class got into an interesting discussion over how much the U.S. economy directly effects China's economy and environment. The busiest production...
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Day 12 - EQ of PCB boards (June 18th 2015)
Sign at the entrance of King Credie when we came to visitIn the previous Day-9 post, we finalized our PCB boards and sent the gerber files to be reviewed by King Credie for EQ (engineering quality) to...
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Day 12 - Flex PCB Tour (June 18th 2015)
After the EQ session with King Credie, we visited their flexible PCB factory. Flex PCBs are often used in applications where flexibility, light-weightiness, and space-saving are important factors to...
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Day 13 - Lung Cheong Tour (June 19th 2015)
I skipped a regular day of bootcamp class to join a factory tour with the Hacker Camp group. Dangerous Prototypes, which is an open-hardware company based in Shenzhen, is hosting a 3-day Hacker Camp...
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Day 15 - Maker Faire Shenzhen (June 21st 2015)
Crew rolling into the Shenzhen Maker FaireNadya, Jess, Jie, Bunnie, Dan, and I arrived at Maker Faire Shenzhen early Sunday morning to first attend Bunnie's talk on "An Outsider's Journey Through the...
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Day 16 - Solidworks & Vibration Motors (June 22nd 2015)
A few days ago, Bunnie gave a 2hr tour of Solidworks 101 covering its parametric modeling concept, making basic sketches and dimensions, and creating features like extrusions, holes, and revolutions....
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Day 17 - Time Apparatus Brainstorming (June 23rd 2015)
For Problem set 6 (PS6), we were simply told to "purchase components and tools to create, modify, or extend an apparatus that indicates the passage of time." With all the shop tools I need at HAX...
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Day X - A Gift for Joi Ito (July 5th 2015)
*NOTICE* I'm flashing forward to July 5th to post this time-sensitive story, but please look forward to reading posts describing my adventures from June 23rd - July 4th.Two weeks ago (June 21st) after...
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Day 18 - Leather Tour & AQS Mold Design Review (June 24th 2015)
For the next 3 days and 2 nights, we stayed in the Dongguan area, a major manufacturing hub of China, to visit a diverse set of factories: leather, zipper, ball bearing, high-precision molding, and...
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