China Internship

I had my internship in China's Silicon Valley - Shenzhen. The company I worked for was SZOIL - Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab.

Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab (SZOIL), established by Maker Collider and SIDA, is a space and platform for worldwide makers to communicate and cooperate. SZOIL is also the first Fab Lab in Shenzhen authorized by MIT CBA as a research and development partner of Fab Lab 2.0.

SZOIL embodies four functions including Fab Lab promotion and Fab Lab 2.0 research and development, innovation and entrepreneur education courses for makers, global maker service platform, and industry chain collaboration service. The lab dedicates in exploring the issues and developing solutions to connect the massive production ecosystem to small hardware startups so as to promote the international standing of Shenzhen in the development of digital intelligent hardware and manufacturing and build a future intelligent hardware Silicon Valley by combining new open source method and current manufacturing system in Shenzhen.

Donkey Car

One of our projects was creating a Donkeycar. The documentation for it can be found online here. Following the guide to install the hardware and software it would seem to be simple, however with the compatibility with IOS, the files not showing and the WiFi cutting out when downloading dependancies, it deemed much harder.

Donkeycar is a project that upgrades the components of an normal RC car to allow for self-driving capabilities. It includes an addition of a camera which allows the vehicle to learn the track and teach it to drive around without crashing or crossing the track lines. The Raspberry Pi is used to control the vehicle through SSH or WiFi and allows for additional motor modules to be added.

White-Label

In this video my team and I describe the process of White-label products. It was more of a comical video than one describing all the processes. Nonetheless it gave a great insight into the markets inside Huaqiangbei.