Log

3:30AM

  • Wake up from jetlag
  • Shower
  • Grab 3 tea eggs from 7-11 and eat them

5:00AM

  • Record myself talking about the project casually on iPhone
    • Redo several takes
  • Edit it and compile vlog footage from DJI, iPhone

10:30AM

  • Onigiri from 7-11
  • Learn how to use You-Bikes
  • Bike to Guang Hua market
  • Spend time seeing electronics inside
  • Cannot find any sophisticated camera sensors on the first two floors

12:30PM

  • Realize I have a call with Remy
  • Head to cafe inside Syndred mall with wifi and coworking
  • Call Remy who gives me great content advice

2:50PM

  • Decide to go visit Fablab since it’s open til 5PM
  • Bike 30 mins over there
  • Loiter and knock on Fablab door until I get Hao-min’s attention, who walks me through space
  • Get access now to Fablab and all its machines
  • Hang out at Fablab
    • Some guy who works for the NSA is here with his laptop and daughter. Intersting

4:20PM

  • Transit back to Airbnb

5:00PM

  • Buy watermelon
  • Eat watermelon

5:30PM

  • Pass out

9:00PM

  • Wake up
  • Pass out

11:30PM

  • Wake up, do some work on video format
  • Increasingly frustrated with no progress on the engineering side

1:30AM

  • Pass out

Thoughts

  • Overcame several fears/uncertainties
    • Bike rentals
    • Guanghua plaza, asking for components in Chinese
    • Vlogging the whole day with Meta Raybans on
    • Overcoming exhaustion and going to Fablab without know how it’d be
    • Being annoying enough to knock repeatedly on Fablab’s door to then meet Haomin and get access