Ed:  Regular readers will recall numerous articles we have written on the importance of hardware startups moving to shenzhen for the first 6-12 months of their startup. In my day job we prototype hardware. I now have an engineer living in Shenzhen and we are turning round prototypes in 3-10 days vs 4-6 weeks locally and →

Guest Post: Martin Pasquier If you were waiting for a sign that China has changed and is an amazing huge thing adapting to the new industrial revolution, Shenzhen hosting a Maker Faire is probably a good sign. Take what was a fishing village 30 years ago, with 200-300 000 inhabitants. Credit: Chris  CC Create a special economic zone to →

Shenzhen is the best city in the world for Makers, Hackers and anyone who needs to build physical product. After two visits I am convinced you are crazy to build electronics or hardware in any other part of the world. I just returned from a trip to Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It was my first →

Startup Name Eighty Nine Robotics What problem are you solving? Existing fixed cameras or telepresence solutions don\’t have the mobility that a flying camera drone does. If something is out of range or out of focus, you\’re out of luck. Rook solves this by streaming video through the cloud, right to your phone, with easy →

                        Given the number of logo’s featured above and on the program landing page, it might be hard to guess what the teams selected for the UNSW Startup China program have to expect, let alone what the winners among them will be given. Here →

Great idea, we might be geographically close but most Australian’s have no idea how far our Asian neighbours are sprinting ahead of us (especially China), any program that will help close that gap is a great thing. Might be a good idea to include Hong Kong and Shenzhen on the program. Startup Name Asia Recon What problem →

Ed: The best presentation on hardware in 2015, possibly ever. I visited Cyril and HAXLR8R in Shenzhen in October and saw their hackerspace which is 200m from probably the largest wholesale electronics component market in the world. Arguably they are one of the most successful non corporate hardware accelerators in the world with over 50 startups →

I started writing this article 6 months ago, but such is the nature of hardware, you think its going to be a 3 month project but it turns into 12. I am not an electrical engineer by trade, although I spent the first part of my working life working on aircraft and components so I am →