TAKASU Masakazu

Biography

Experienced Practitioner in Maker Faire (Shenzhen and Singapore)
Global Business Development, Switch Science (Japan)

TAKASU Masakazu supports the Maker Faire in Shenzhen and Singapore, as well as the Maker Carnival in Shanghai. With his homeland in Japan, he has an expertise in bringing together and reinterpreting the exciting ways of making use of technology, design and science in Japan.  Based in Shenzhen, he can now be considered as the most experienced person of Maker Faire in Asia.

He is also well connected with Makers all over Japan and across Asia. His company, Switch Science, has now become a very renowned maker tool platform in Japan, and it is also a DIY Indie product marketplace. His book, ECOSYSTEM BY MAKERS, has been widely published in Japan.

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Abstract

Indie Product by DIY, Without Investment
(presented in Panel Discussion 2: Knowledge and Making)

Takasu Masakasu advocates the idea of training people to make their own Indie Hardware, that also means, people can make product literally without investment. Hardware is not easy to be made, as it bears a physical form, and making hardware is always more uncontrollable than creating software. Starting from zero is the best way for one to understand DIY, to control what is being made, as well as to keep track of the final outcome.

Mr. Takasu will share his rich experience about Indie Hardware Movement in Japan and some other Asian countries.