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ReFuture

ReFuture | #Refugee #DesignThinking During one day, Hong Kong refugees, asylum seekers and volunteers meet, share their stories and work together with Design Thinking method and Rapid Prototyping to invent better appliances, adapted to the needs and desires of the Hong Kong refugees and asylum seekers. Version after version, a better design is

Marine Litter Detective | #Ocean #Electronics

Do you know where marine litter comes from? A lot of litter generated on land actually ends up in the ocean, but how? WWF-Hong Kong, in cooperation with MakerBay, has designed a tracking device to simulate how litter enters the sea through storm drains and rivers, and is working with students

“V Ladder” Coral Reef Mapping Robot – Prototype and test

https://www.facebook.com/cesar.harada/videos/10158456840291427 Today we built and tested our latest prototype for our #Coral #Reef #Mapping #Robot. “V Ladder”: Simplification towards more efficiency. 5 underwater cameras to take thousands of pictures, create high-resolution maps, and train our AI to classify coral. it’s a simplification from last week “Delta Force” that had a triangular chassis.

Coral Reef Mapping Robot, “Delta Force”

Our #Coral #Reef #Mapping #Robot effort intensifies! Our latest prototype did really well! Huge thanks to the volunteers who came and the advice given to us in the comments on social media – it really helped! 2020/08/08 Test session at Approach Beach, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong Our #Coral #Reef #Mapping

Berrybot A.I Youth Competition, at Wyng Foundation

The Wyng Foundation organized a very cool student competition to introduce them to AI. MakerBay helped mentor the students working on their robots and coding. WYNG Philomathia Machine Learning/AI Competition Corpus Christi College of the University of Cambridge, Philomathia Foundation and WYNG Foundation co-hosted the WYNG Philomathia Machine Learning/AI Competition 2018-19 to

Soft Robot Obtains Characteristics from Cheetahs and Marlins

Dr. Jie Yin developed this device called the LEAP (Leveraging Elastic instabilities for Amplified Performance), is the latest in soft robots technology that is capable of moving faster and smoother on rough surfaces (exemplifying a cheetah’s running style) or in water, but most importantly, it can delicately grab objects as

Kids4kids Event “The Idea Life Cycle” Aug 25, 2020

MakerBay is very excited to join Kids4kids flagship annual event represented by MakerBay Founder Cesar Jung-Harada in discussion with Bailey Cherry Founder of Rebooked. “Learn from two social entrepreneurs how they take an idea to implementation to making an impact to the community.” Time: Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 5:00 –

Fabricademy Study Group in Makerbay!

I joined a meetup held by Makerbay and DIY BIO HK, it’s a Textile x Bio x Digital Fab Study Group! In this few weeks, we started experimenting with e-textile, I don’t have so much electronic skill, so learn from basic by open source: https://class.textile-academy.org/classes/week05/ Please join us if you are interested

Holm Glad School

MakerBay is very honoured to be one of the educational partners of the Jockey Club ‘Learning by Doing’ Academy (LBD) of Holm Glad No.2 Primary School to bring the joy of making and citizen science to local primary school students. On 10th December, an official opening ceremony of the LBD was held.