Engineering Query at King Kredie
Inside the King Kredie Engineering Query room On Day 9 I mentioned that we had submitted our boards for Engineering Queries, but I didn’t quite explain what those are. When you’re working with
How is Shenzhen so green?
Watering trucks! Saw this during a night out. They go around and spray down all the fancy greenery.
Shenzhen Maker Faire
We were lucky enough to overlap our stay with the Shenzhen Maker Faire! There were a lot of drones… I even ran into some friends! Lizhou Sha (https://twitter.com/mentisoasis) MIT ‘18 Deb
Leather Factory Tour
Today we visited the PrimeAsia Leather (http://www.primeasialeather.com) Factory. A warm welcome. A ‘real’ welcome. The leather comes in to the factory pre-treated. The tannery is (typically)
Zipper Factory Tour
The Zipper factory tour was courtesy of Daniel Liang (http://danielliang.com/randomness/). This was one of the more detailed tours; there’s a whole lot that goes into a zipper! Daniel’s factory
Mannequin Factory Tour
A question you dread your child asking – where do mannequins come from? Well in today’s blog, we’ll find out! This factory was very perspective changing. Usually, people think of China as
Precision Casting Factory Tour
The precision casting plant was really neat! They have some pretty major clients, which you might be able to guess from some of the photos (but probably best if this doesn’t show up in the search
Furniture Factory Tour
For Day 23 we’re going to take a look at a furniture factory. This is a HUGE factory; probably the largest we saw on our trip, spanning many many hangars. Unfortunately I didn’t take too many
Chinese Massage Parlor
In the evening of the 23rd, we took a trip over to a local massage parlor. Before you crack any jokes about what goes on in the massage parlor (yes, that does still exist if you want to find it),
South China Material City Tour
With my back still in significant pain from the previous nights massages, it was time for the South China Material City. The South China Material City is an industrial region situated in Shenzhen
Manual Board Population/SMT Factory Tour
When you make a lot of a board, you get a fully automated SMT line. But what about when you only make 5? Programming a SMT line takes time and is expensive. So you can do the dumb thing – do them
Wirebonding Factory Tour
Wirebonding is a technique you’re probably familiar with if you’ve ever taken apart a cheap toy. It’s a slightly harder technique to employ than using a standard packaged chip, but if employed
Smell Clock
The smell clock is a device I built for the Shenzhen manufacturing bootcamp. While we were there, we had a challenge to build a prototype on a tight budget. The assignment was to build something that
Jasmine Rice Factory Tour
Note the change of location! While I was in Thailand visiting my friend there; I had the fortune of being able to visit his family’s rice processing factory. They’re basically the world’s
Returning Home
Well, my travels in Asia are over. What better way to wrap things up than to make tea ceremony with mom and take photos on a shenzhen-selfie stick.
Scaling Bitcoin
I’m honored to be serving as Program Chair for the first ever Scaling Bitcoin in Montreal. More Info (https://scalingbitcoin.org/montreal2015/#location)
Probabalistic Payments in Bitcoin using OP_SIZE
I designed a mechanism that allows for probabilistic payments in Bitcoin. The foundation of the mechanism is sane, where it veers out of “sanity” is in the attempts to get it to work well
Graduating MIT
Well, I did it: I graduated MIT with my S.B. and M.Eng in 4 years! And apparently I was the most joyously nerdy
tail -f /var/log/life
I’m hoping to start blogging more frequently – consider this the first post. I’m going to fill in some back-dated posts though.
Contributing to Bitcoin
I gave a talk at the Digital Garage New Context Conference San Francisco on how to begin contributing to Bitcoin. Slides Here (/public/pdfs/ContributeToBitcoin.pdf)