Paul Hamilton is one of Shenzhen’s core foreign hackers, check out the articles below to see a few of his activities.
Xi’an Makers Education Scene
By Diane Kern Hamilton I recently had the pleasure of spending nine days in Xi'an, the capitol city of Shaanxi Provence, China. I visited more than ten different educational facilities from kindergarten to university. All had one thing in common: they are turning away...
SteamHead Tour of M5
A few of us where fortunate to have a tour of the Shenzhen based M5 office and factory. This included their production and testing facilities. They have made a few different testing jigs and even an automated extruded aluminium slot cutter rig that of course uses an...
Qiu and Paul Tour the X-Factory Maker Space
Another SteamHead resident Qiu and Paul managed to wrangle a tour of the X-factory Makerspace. We spent a delightful hour being led around the space by Violet, the Community Outreach Officer. This included her showing us a plant desk growing station that she had...
Soldering LED Boards
Paul was busy working on a personal project at SteamHead one morning when James called up saying that he would be over with a gentleman called Fisherman to visit the space. He presumed it was to show him around the space and explain what happens at SteamHead. It turns...
Conclusion of the Eight Week HTTA Tour
The HTTA: Hackers Tour Through Asia, started on the 12th of March just before the Singapore Foss Asia 2019 Summit and concluded in Shenzhen on the 1st of June 2019 after nearly three months of traveling by bus, train and plane across the huge continent. A...
The HTTA 2019 Residency
During the three week SteamHead residency, Paul spent many happy working hours on some projects in the SteamHead main work room. While most of the time was spent designing up and 3D printing a windup butterfly release mechanism, along with a corresponding...
Mentoring and Helping out at the May 2019 Make Fashion Edu Event
Paul arrived at SteamHead Residency just in time to help mentor a few of the SIAS students with their Make Fashion Edu projects. This involved a few emergency call outs to help troubleshoot electronics and design issues. On the afternoon of the show, he helped...
