MakerFaire in Detroit 2012!
2012.7.28-29 MakerFaire in Detroit was opened! It was hosted at the Henry Ford museum. It was the best place for MakerFaire, because it has huge park. List of Sponsors. There are no name of Google….Why? Maker Faire in NYC was… Agricultural machinery.So Old! Live of repairing old engine For repaire old machine, they have to...
Visiting for MIT Media Lab
I visit MIT Media Lab! It was like a dream… Well known laboratory. We often see in many TV programs in Japan. I was nervas when I enter there. At First I guided FABLAB. Any kind of machines for manufacturing existed in there. They all industrial machine… Popular and famous class “Make Almost Anything” is...
Visit BUILDS, a hackerspace
I visited a Hackerspace,BUILDS! It’s in Boston University. Before I enter the room, I saw a display on the door… This display shows location when member send position data to this PC. It’s looks so fun!! BUILDS is a hackerspace only for software engineering. So I can’t see any machine for make, but so many...
Visiting Bocop, hacker space
I visited a hackerspace in Boston,”Bocoup“! Becoup is located in office area. It was slightly different from other hackerspaces… Yes, there were no machine for make something. Bocoup is a hackerspace only for software. I joined their event about entrepreneurship with beer! They show me their co-working space. That was so huge and clean! Three...
visiting MITERS, HackerSpace!
I visit HackerSpace in MIT,MITERS!! MIT is well known as high level college! I’m excited! On the way to MITERS I saw two boys riding electrical kick board. They ware just guys I saw on TV program in Japan… They show me their factory. And here is their project room. I can see the quad-copter...
Visiting South End Technology,FABLAB!
I visit South End Technology Center. Hear is community based FABLAB. The community was established by Mr. Mel King. He is professor of MIT now. You can see his name and about SETC in “Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop”,Professor Neil Gershenfeld wrote. They give me a dinner. Thank you! I like the cake the most!...
Visiting of Artisan’s Asylum!
Hacker Space, “Artisan’s Asylum” was so huge Hacker Space! It’s a Heaven of maker! Now there are 120 members. They all have individual space. The space is the peculiarity of the Artisan’s Asylum! Those are all so unique. Painter, Wood Builder, Metal Builder, Electronic Engineer,Designer,etc…That looks like MakerFaire！ This is front. Members have to check in...
Visit a sign factory in Ecuador
In Quito my friend invited me a factory of signboard. After met at Quito, she took me by bus, bus, and bus! Then we reached to a small town. She told me that, an air port will build near the town. Because of that the town is growing now. When I visited there, we could...
Visit Otavalo!
I visited Otavalo for about 2 hours from Quito by bus. There are so many people in bus terminal. They come Quito for business or go to market of Otavalo. Can you see the red box with a picture of chicken? Chicken was crying in the box. A bus, I rode. That was a good road....
Visited AGS, Spanish School in Ecuador
I visited a Spanish school in Ecuador “Andean Global Studies” (AGS). In Ecuador, They used Spanish usually. By the way, there are under 150 Japanese in Ecuador now. That was so stylish based white color. I could see a photo of mountain looks like Mt.Fuji in Japan very well. That is a mountain in Ecuador...
My first Spanish bloc
I arrived at Quito, a capital of Ecuador! It’s my first trip for South America, and Spanish bloc. I can’t order even if a coffee… I am wondering this trip… I learned a word of Spanish, “Gracias”.
Visiting Brooklyn Brainery
I visited Brooklyn Brainery! It’s not HackerSpace, but I have wanted to visit. This facility gather people who want to teach something and who want to take classes. Founder of here, J SOMA, want to provide community as accessible, community-driven, crowdsourced education. There are two big class rooms. One is arranged many chairs on the front...
