Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
The bustling metropolis of Beijing, the most populous capital city in the world, is home to more than 21 million people and millennia of tradition blended with cutting-edge technologies. This week, for the fourth year in a row, it’s also home to Maker Faire Beijing, the largest and fastest-growing gathering of makers in the region.
Last year’s Maker Faire Beijing was wildly popular, attracting roughly 50,000 attendees, more than five times the number of visitors who attended the first iteration in 2015. There were 289 maker exhibits, 14% of which were from international makers from the United States, Japan, France, and Chile, while about 4% were from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other regions.This year’s Maker Faire Beijing, which spans from October 17–23 at the Beijing Olympic Park Central District, focuses on innovation and features about 300 maker exhibits, including individual maker of all stripes, robot competition teams, maker education exhibits, many different forms of art, and large-scale devices, to name just a few.
The organizing team has outlined the larger goals of the event to be:
- Serve the national “mass entrepreneurship, mass innovation” development strategy.
- Promote the inheritance and development of the craftsman spirit.
- Enrich the spiritual and cultural life of people of the region.
- Set up a maker display, communication, and learning platform to assist maker innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Strengthen the practice of personnel training and exchange.
- Explore new models for the exchange of cultural and artistic creative talents.
Among the array of maker projects, there’s a healthy sampling of robots,…
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