Confirmed Companies Joining Us On Digital Mission China
The digital mission to China and the Shenzhen Maker Faire is approaching ever closer, but fear not, there is still time to apply if you’re a maker, creative technologist or entrepreneur and want to come along and partake in our specially tailored week-long programme.
We’ve put together a list of the confirmed companies coming along on the trip. If you’d like to join them apply here, or visit the Digital Mission China page for more details on the trip as a whole.
Arachnid Labs – Arachnid Labs is a one-man operation that creates interesting, functional, and high quality electronic tools that would otherwise be out of reach for electronic hobbyists. The man behind the plan is Nick Johnson, who you may know from his regular hack-a-day apperances for projects like iZac the Android Bartender, the stackable motor shield, the circular sand plotter and the advice machine.
Breakthemold – Breakthemould is a route to market with a difference. They provide product designers and retailers with the tools they need to rapidly design, manufacture and sell new products. The 'Product Design Platform' allows designers to find manufacturers, retailers and resources needed to develop new products. The Breakthemold 'Marketplace' allows designers to sell completed products to end customers and retail buyers.
Crowdrooster – if you have an idea for a product, crowdrooster are the new crowdfunding platform for makers. From wearables to home tech everything we own is about to be reforged and become part of the Internet of Things. The Maker Movement, a passionate army of modern inventors, is out there right now working to unleash this wave of reimagined products.
That Maker army deserves a product focused funding platform and the public needs an 'all tech' marketplace to find the most innovative gadgets. Based in London’s extraordinary Makerversity, a huge new makerspace in the historic Somerset House, Crowdrooster will be launching in the first week of April 2014.
Lighthouse Studio - is a digital culture agency based in Brighton that supports, commissions and exhibits work by artists and filmmakers. They aim to nurture the research, development and production of new work at the intersection of design, technology, and the creative industries, generating unique strands of activity, supporting new interdisciplinary practice, and contributing to the evolution of business and operations.
We present in our own venue in Brighton and beyond, nationally and internationally. In the past 18 months, we have presented or co-produced solo shows by David Blandy, The Otolith Group, Kutlug Ataman among others and shown work by Blast Theory, Invisible Flock, Rafael Lozano Hemmer and over two dozen other artists. Lighthouse manages the high-level production scheme, BFI Shorts, in collaboration with the British Film Institute and runs Guiding Lights, the UK’s leading mentoring programme for filmmakers.
Music Thing Modular – MTM produces open source, Creative Commons licensed designs for electronic musical instruments.
The designs are built to facilitate distributed manufacturing; a series of digital files are published which can be used to manufacture printed circuit boards, fabricate front panels or order parts.
Pimoroni Ltd - Pimoroni want to encourage everyone to tinker. To not feel scared of technology. To understand what's inside the gadgets they use, and how they can make their own interesting creations.To do this Pimoroni have created an agile manufacturing company in Sheffield, UK using Maker ideals to encourage making things that are joyful and interesting to encourage education.
Shoptivity – The Shoptivity team came together in March and are dedicated to looking into the Internet of Things relating to high streets, retailers and office buildings. The primary hardware focus is to combine wifi, BLE and other connected devices to enhance the out-store experience when shoppers are browsing the high street.
Solid Labs - Primo Kickstarted late 2013 by London based company Solid Labs with a simple mission: Introducing programming logic to children, taking them from a basic introduction at preliterate age all the way to the command line.
Triggertrap Ltd - Triggertrap Ltd was founded in 2011, and was brought to life through crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Based in the UK, the company’s flagship smartphone-based camera triggering solution, Triggertrap Mobile, has been downloaded more than 750,000 times and is in use by thousands of photographers in more than a hundred different countries.
In October 2013, Triggertrap launched its second Kickstarter campaign to raise funding Triggertrap Ada - an infinitely-expandable modular camera triggering system for high-speed photography - which raised over £290,000 ($475,000) and became one of the UK’s 10 highest-grossing Kickstarter projects of all time.
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