Information about "creator space"

The word "creator" derives from the English word "hacker", which does not refer to the hacker in the field of computer, but to the person who tries to turn all kinds of ideas into reality without the goal of profit.
A creator is a group of people who like or enjoy innovation, the pursuit of their own creative realization, whether to achieve business value, whether to help others, etc., is not their primary purpose. The creator space is a community platform for these creators to combine offline and online integration, innovation and dating to create ideas and exchange ideas and products. In the root of the source, this kind of interest-driven enthusiasts have been in fact very early, people have been engaged in activities called DIY. With the rise of the overseas maker Movement, a group of interested groups in China has gradually become familiar with the creation of the space, the creator community and other identities. These new creators have different characteristics, and their functional positioning and operation mode are not the same. The creator community has become a new booster for leading the new industrial revolution in the world. With the help of the Internet, individual creators are gradually converging into communities, creating a space for creators.

Domestic maker Space is the start-up stage, the source of creativity is mainly from foreign open source website, has not yet formed a distinctive, sustainable development model. In addition to the individual creator space is a comprehensive platform, the future of the creation of space specialization trend is unavoidable. The business model and operation mode of the creator space itself is also worth exploring and groping.

In 2007, a computer security expert and an invention expert established the Noise Bridge (Noisebridge) maker space in San Francisco, USA. In the years that followed, Mitch Altman, one of the two founders, Mitch Ottmann The global maker movement of the world. In our country, as early as the 80-90 years of the last century, DIY (do It yourself, that is, self-made) craze has begun to become popular. From assembling chairs, semiconductor "chatter", to repairing home appliances and cars, people are passionate about making their own products rather than buying them. With the development of computer industry in China, DIY quickly entered a new field. The adequate supply of computer accessories and convenient purchase channels, so that "save computer" from the North Canton and other first-tier cities quickly popular and throughout the country. Looking back on decades, the "do-it-yourself" form of the design, development, production of the crowd, although in different fields, the object of the ever-changing, but there is a common feature is that they are based on interests or hobbies, depending on the strength of individuals or small team to achieve. At the same time, this kind of people can also win the understanding, respect and worship of the people around them by making products, applying them and creating value.

In recent years, the Internet is no longer an independent system, it has penetrated into the first, second, tertiary industry, is promoting a large-scale industrial change. And a group of people, with their keen sense of smell and rapid response to new technology, with the help of network resources to constantly converge on the energy, to guide and influence the change. Dale Dougherty, a well-known American tech-media man who once proposed the concept of Web 2.0, defines such groups as "maker" (Chinese as "creator"). Chris Anderson, author of the "Long Tail theory", former editor of the United States "Wired" magazine, is more responsive to the trend and resigned to the new identity of the entrepreneur, creating a new technology enterprise, 3D Robotics. In his view, the maker community has become a new booster to lead the world's new industrial revolution.
Throughout the past two years, the emergence of the domestic group of creators, to a certain extent, due to China's electronic components and information industry unprecedented speed of development. Especially in the south of China, electronic components and the same year's computer accessories, in all types of electronic market can be close to the cost of low prices of large quantities of procurement. This provides unlimited possibilities for those who love to assemble and combine components with different functions and features. In addition to the growing global open source software community, as well as the development of the rapidly growing open source hardware community, the people who are passionate about their own development are inspired by the world, they are no longer satisfied with the simple mechanical and electrical product production, but also the use of a variety of different electronic components between the relatively open interface, try different combinations To create different new products and applications.
With the help of the Internet, individual creators have gradually converged into a community. In order to let more people know their work, these DIY enthusiasts use the internet to show their achievements and learn from each other to form a social group. The rise of the personal level of the creators has gradually brought together the entire community in the technical level and scale of the advantages, which is now all over the emergence of various types of different positioning of the prototype of the creator space. Of course, by the geographical, industrial structure, community attributes and other factors, different creators of space in function and positioning are more or less there is a difference. This article will showcase the current development of the creator community from multiple perspectives through a number of different types of creator spaces or examples from the creator community. Of course, nowadays our country's maker culture and information industry are closely related, but also constantly changing, so this article must not do a full inventory, just see around corners.

Defined:

Creator space refers to the working space of a community-based operation where people with common interests (usually computer, mechanical, technical, scientific, digital art live electronic technology) can meet, socialize, and collaborate.

Service:

This studio provides people with tools, materials, and expertise for people to work their own ideas.

Characteristics:

The creator space, also known as hackerspaces or Fab labs, continues to emerge worldwide. It is part of a thriving maker movement that encourages innovation.

"Creator" refers to people who try to turn ideas into reality out of interest and hobbies. In the context of the Internet, the creators have a new definition, they can use open source hardware and the Internet, to turn more ideas into products.

Example Chengdu Creator Space:

Chengdu Creator Space is a creator space, is a driving Internet computing, open source hardware, open source software, technology innovation, knowledge sharing, creative communication and collaborative creation of the main service organization.

Brief introduction

With a global footprint, they all have physical space and are operating in a community-based way. Here, you can work on interesting projects together. Chengdu Creator Space is not only the first maker space in the West, but also one of the world's hundreds of creator spaces.

While each creator space operates autonomously, everyone is guided by the same philosophy-seeking happiness in creation. In a creator environment, you can study new technologies, collaborate with teams, and participate in international competitions to find and create new opportunities.

To the hardware and software gurus, electronic artists, designers, DIY enthusiasts and all who like to create a variety of things themselves to provide an open community, experimental space and basic equipment. Here, you can not only with the interests of people like to dismantle and disassemble a variety of electronic and physical products, but also can work together to implement some good design and ideas.

Service

Chengdu Creator Space provides the workspace to people to carry out their own projects, and holds seminars and training courses on different topics including electronics, embedded systems, programming and robotics. In addition, "Chengdu creator Space" will also become a financing and management platform to support people to implement their own works and projects.

The creator space dates back to 1978-Jobs (Stevejobs) and Wozniak (Steven Wozniak) showed Apple Zero at their Homebrewcomputer club, and then Bill Gates began to raise money for basic language ...

The mission of Chengdu creator Space is to support, create and promote 3D printing, mobile computing, open source hardware and the Internet of things. In order to achieve this goal, Chengdu creator Space will actively hold lectures, seminars, projects, start-up promotion, workshops, competitions, as well as participate in international competitions. Our long-term goal is to spread the concept of creator space throughout China and to promote the culture of our creators.

Information about "creator space"