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Rebuilding the world, from the 'periphery'
1. Shigeru Kobayashi (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences [IAMAS])
Forum: Makers in Visionary / 客与前瞻!
Rebuilding the world, from the‘periphery’
First of all, thank you very much for inviting me. I’m really happy to be here to get a chance
to give a talk for this very exciting session.
2. Self-introduction
As a Maker and an educator
in the era of the Maker Movement
Let me introduce about myself as a Maker brie?y.
3. Maker Faire Shenzhen
Gainer v1.0(2006年)
写真撮影:高尾俊介
In 2005, prototyping physical interfaces
and interactions was not so easy at that time
I designed Gainer, a toolkit for physical computing, with my colleagues in 2005. It was just
before the era of Arduino. Since prototyping physical interfaces and interactions was not so
easy at that time, we developed Gainer for designers and artists.
4. 写真提供:ICC
I learned huge needs of
developing skills of creating ideas from scratch and make it physical
After releasing Gainer, I get many requests from manufacturers. Through holding workshops
for designers, engineers and marketers at manufacturers, I learned huge needs of developing
skills of creating ideas from scratch and make it physical.
5. I believed that those are the indications of the new era of industry
Simultaneously, I felt the rise of the Maker Movement. I believed that those are the
indications of the new era of industries. To introduce related activities and players, I wrote
several articles to Make magazine in Japanese.
6. 写真撮影:萩原健一
As an educator in the era of the Maker Movement, I wrote several books. This is ‘Prototyping
Lab’, a book to introduce various ways of prototyping with utilizing Arduino. The book is now
published in three languages.
19. Photo by SparkFun Electronics (CC: BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Arduino Fio: a small Arduino with a battery charger and a socket for a
XBee wireless modem
And I designed Arduino Fio with Sparkfun Electronics in 2010. It’s a small Arduino with a
battery charger and a socket for a XBee wireless modem. Of course, it’s an open source
hardware product.
20. An open source Geiger counter with GPS and logger function
developed by Safecast
Recently, Arduino Fio has been utilized as a part of a very interesting project, bGeigie Nano.
bGeigie Nano is an open source Geiger counter with GPS and logger function developed by
Safecast. It consists of various open source hardware products by SparkFun and Adafruit.
21. The team held workshops in Fukushima and other areas of Japan, and has been publishing
gathered data as online maps and smartphone applications.
23. Introduction
We are Makers (by Dale Dougherty)
OK, let me introduce the Maker Movement in Japan around us.
24. Mini Maker Faire in Ogaki, a city with a population of 200,000 people
We held Mini Maker Faire two times in our local town, Ogaki. Ogaki is a city with a population
of 200,000 people. Though it’s a really small in comparison to Shenzhen or Tokyo,
25. >140 teams of Makers and 5,00 visitors
we welcomed over 140 teams of Makers and 5,000 visitors
26. from all over the country
from all over the country.
31. I believe in creativity of people as Makers
I believe in creativity of people as Makers. I hope that you too. ;) The next one is an
accelerator of the movement.
32. fabrication // 製造
fabulous // 素晴らしい
fun // 楽しい
foundation // 基礎?土台
failure // 失敗
future // 未来
federation // 連合
factory // 工場
facilitation // 促進
foolish // ばかげた
fab // 誂える?拵える
あつら こしら
fusion // 融合
We have been running a studio with digital fabrication tools for two years, as a part of our
institute. ↓ We named the workshop as ‘f.Labo’. The ‘f’ stands for various meanings. ↓
Usually, people at big companies fears failures. But to learn something, failures are very
important. f.Labo is a safe base camp.
34. CNC (Roland D. G.: Modela MDX-40A)
Laser cutter (Trotec: Speedy300)
3D printer (3D Systems: Cube)
Paper cutter (Graphtec: Craft ROBO)
And there are various digital fabrication tools.
35. CNC (ShopBot: PRSalpha 96-48-6)
3D printer (MakerBot: Replicator 5th Gen.)
3D modeling I/F (3D Systems: Freeform)
3D scanner (Rubicon: 3D scanner)
36. do as told have a good command
workshops as a‘stamp board’
Through observations of makers and students, we found that there is a gap between ‘do as
told’ and ‘have a good command’. That’s why we designed over 20 workshops as a stamp
board,
38. http://f-labo.tumblr.com
This is an example. Started with drawing patterns and scanning, painted colors on an acrylic
board, fabricated with a laser cutter. In the end, they got colorful buttons like this.
39. This is a little bit different. Started with drawing, made data with Illustrator, fabricated with a
laser cutter. In the end, they got goods for lunch boxes.
40. One more example. Started with scanning with 123D Catch by Autodesk, edited, and printed
with 3D printers. In the end, they got caps with faces for PET bottles.
42. tankaizu =
illustrated parts
breakdown
budokai =
martial arts cup
As a project of the studio, we held Tenkaizu Budokai two times. The cup is named after
Dragon Ball. Tenkaizu means illustrated parts breakdown, and budokai means martial arts
cup.
43. Rules:
1. Should be built with 2.5mm thick MDF boards fabricated with a
laser cutter and parts printed with a 3D printer
2. All parts should be assembled without glues
The regulation was like this. Firstly, should be built with 2.5mm thick MDF boards fabricated
with a laser cutter and parts printed with a 3D printer. Secondly, all parts should be
assembled without glues.
44. Maker Faire Tokyo 2013 with O’Reilly Japan
The last time was held with O’Reilly Japan as a part of the Maker Faire Tokyo 2013.
50. Manufacturers
Makers
In reality, the volume of Makers, if we looking at the whole industry, might be like this. But I
feel that the gap between Manufacturers and Makers has been getting closer in last a few
years by leaders such as Seeed Studio, PCH and so on.
53. Mainstream
‘Periphery’
To tackle this challenge, I’d like to prose rebuilding the world from the ‘periphery’, instead of
the mainstream. Since that should be much easier.
54. Case 1
An open make-a-thon event held with Engadget Japanese
I’ll introduce my ideas utilizing case studies. I held over 10 make-a-thon events in this one
year. This is one of them.
55. >30 participants including; software developers, hardware engineers,
UI/UX designers, artists and local factory engineers
We gathered around 30 participants including; software developers, hardware engineers, UI/
UX designers, artists and local factory engineers.
56. The design challenge of make-a-thon events
How might we make our daily life pleasant
with smartphone gadgets?
The design challenge was, “How might we make our daily life pleasant with smartphone
gadgets?”.
57. Electronics
Circuit
Exterior
Smart-
phoneApp
Web
Service
konashi
How might we encourage participants to think of the whole?
The participants were encourage to think of the whole (big picture) instead of their comfort
zones such as… To further facilitate communication between zones, we utilized konashi by
Yukai Engineering.
58. http://konashi.ux-xu.com/documents/
Konashi is a physical computing toolkit to create wireless devices for smartphones & tablets.
Technically it consists of a Bluetooth Low Energy wireless module and software libraries for
Objective-C and JavaScript.
62. http://www.flickr.com/photos/opencu/sets/72157633896214841/
and practical ways of utilizing basic sensors and actuators. To simplify the step, we utilized
the Grove toolkit by Seeed Studio. We found that the Grove toolkit was really helpful! After
these introductory workshops, participants worked together toward the demonstration
session on the day two.
63. Day 1 1-3 week(s) Day 2
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Introduction
Make (distributed
activities)
Make (integration)
Introduction
Make (distributed
activities)
Make (integration)
Lunch (team building)
Make (distributed
activities)
Make (integration)
Idea sketching
Make (distributed
activities)
Make (integration)
Idea sketching
Make (distributed
activities)
Make (integration)
Getting started
Make (distributed
activities)
Make (integration)
Hardware sketching
Make (distributed
activities)
Make (integration)
Hardware sketching
Make (distributed
activities)
Presentation
Presentation
Make (distributed
activities)
Presentation
Usually, hack-a-thon or make-a-thon events are held in continuous two days in a weekend.
But we divided into two separate days. Since making physical things is a time consuming
task. For example, purchase components online will take a day to be delivered. Print
something with a 3D printer will take a few hours to a day. To let participants making things
at high quality, we designed the schedule like this.
85. Case 2
A project started with a closed make-a-thon
The second case is a product development project. We embedded a make-a-thon as a kick-
starter of the project.
86. This is ‘Hikarimasu’. I know more interesting projects in addition, but I can’t introduce today.
Since they are under development as products.
88. Manufacturers
Makers
It’s the end of my talk, so let me conclude. As I mentioned before, the volume of Makers
might be like this. But I feel that the gap between Manufacturers and Makers has been getting
closer in last a few years by leaders such as Seeed Studio, PCH and so on.
90. Manufacturers
Makers
If we interpret the world like this, I believe that we can rebuild the world from the ‘periphery’.
Let’s rebuild the world from us, Makers! Thank you very much.