Maker movement in Asia　 -Innovation from Everywhere-

Masakazu Takasu @ tksteamLab (Tokyo),

I’m a Maker, from Japan.I’m supporting two Maker Faire Committee.

Maker Faire Shenzhen 201519-21/June 六月 Maker Faire Singapore 2015

11-12/July 七月

TAKASU Masakazu

Who am I?

FeaturedTokyo (2012-)Taipei (2013-) 　　　Shenzhen (2014-)Singapore (2015-)Seoul (2015-) Tainan (2015-) Next NovHongkong (2015-) Next Nov

MiniJapan –Ogaki, YamaguchiChina -BeijingTaiwan- 新竹 , TaichungThailand-BangkokMalaysia-Penang

Maker Faire in All around ASIA.

Maker Movement In Asia

-Biggest one 　 China-Smallest one 　 Singapore

Maker Movement

-Bloomberg

What’s a Different from Before? -Cheaper, Easier, Faster

DreamerKit, Web tutorial

Prototype MakerArduino, Digital Fablicaion

Veteran MakerOnline PCB, Online CNC

Hardware StartupCrowdfunding,

Mass ProductionOnline promotion, Supply chain

-Seeedstudio

Biggest one

Maker’s Hollywood, Shenzhen, China.

More than 1000 factory in Shanzhen

-HAXLR8R

Huaqiangbei is 3000% bigger than Akihabara.Every product [Made in Shenzhen]

-HAXLR8R

Can buy component from1 to 1,000,000

-HAXLR8R

Components all around to iterate faster

-HAXLR8R

Smart Watch in Shenzen

-HAXLR8R

Activity Tracker in Shenzhen

-HAXLR8R

What is this?

-HAXLR8R

$45(280 RMB)

-HAXLR8R

-HAXLR8R

Software became Open source,

Hardware became Open source.

Patent and Copyrights are not important in Shenzhen.

But, they make something new,

山塞 Shanzai makes Innovation.

[Deploy or Die]

China still makes only COPYCAT?

Meitu Best Selfie cell phone in the world

-Meitu

Meitu Best Selfie cellphone in the world

-Meitu

Technology from Japan, concept from China.

-Meitu

Innovation with China

Seeedstudio, Maker support industry.

-Seeedstudio

Online PCB

Bazzar

Agile Manufacturing Center

More Cheep, More fast, More Easy…Innovation from Biggest makers countly.

Smaillest one.

Singapore

Small field (Same as Centre of Tokyo)Small population(5 million, 30% of Tokyo)

Small resource (We have to buy water from Malaysia)

Singapore is Small, Small, Small,,,

That is [Extra hard mode] for Survive.

China is Bigger than SingaporeBlock71, Singapore Pudon Software park,

Shanghai

But Singapore making future City.

Investment for ventures in Singapore over 17 billion dollars in 2013.Larger than Japan, Korea, and Hongkong.

Block 71,Where lives in Over 100 ventures.

Biopolis

Automation

If company in Singapore buy automation system, such as cashier change to iPad, They will get 70 percent rebate from the Singapore government.Automation development in Singapore, and go to the world market.

Singapore will make [SYSTEM]

More systemize,More organize,More smart.

ELECTRONIC ROAD PRICING (ERP)

Optimizes usage of the road network by encouraging motorists to consider alternatives.

Minister of Smart nation office Vivian Balakrishnan

His hobby is building simple robots, assembling watches, wireless devices and programming apps.He is really geek minister.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong making Sudoku Solver

by C++Vivian Translated to

Javascript

PARTICIPATION, NOT PERMISSION

Maker Movement In Asia

-biggest one 　 China More Cheep, More Easy, More Fast, Diversity

-smallest one 　 SingaporeMore Expensive, More Difficult, More Long

time, Smart

We are MAKERS all of us.

All Makers can make innovation.

Maker Movement in Thailand

Maker Movement in Nepal

Maker Movement in Norway

We makers are all different and all wonderful.

I‘m writing of the book about Makers ecosystem, including Shenzhen and Singapore.

I hope to soon in the market early 2016Please check it out!メイカーズのエコシステム -ホビイストが世界を変える-(仮題)paper and e-book, Including KOBO!