Developing gadgets with their own hands: guide to the action

Definitions can be mass, but the fact is that this project unique in the world yet. And, apparently, does not appear in the foreseeable future. Why? The answer to this question will be given material, in which we will reveal in detail the essence of MediaTek Labs and explain how you can develop electronic gadgets yourself, at home and without any investment.

Due MediaTek Labs even inexperienced enthusiast can try to realize their ideas - for example, create a smart fitness bracelet, smart watch or tea with Internet access.

Program participants can be no experience, because the development of gadget it can help experts registered in the program MediaTek Labs (about the experts below). The only problem may be the lack of knowledge of English, since many participants MediaTek Labs are foreigners. But in the end, the machine translation services will help to solve the language barrier issue. Better yet, just learn English, if you have not already. In life exactly come in handy.

Who is he, this inexperienced enthusiast?

It may seem that we have in the human mind, which is important only for the idea, not the money. But this is not the case. Do not forget that good development can be quite interested investors.

MediaTek Labs portal designed including to finance research in one form or another.

After all, for custom designs closely following and the company MediaTek, and representatives of Asian factories, and even the product managers of major electronics manufacturers. All of them are interested in the implementation of new projects - provided that the projects are interesting and promising. Under implementation it is necessary to understand not only the creation of the device from the ground to the level of a working prototype, but the serial assembly. And where assembly and sale there, and where the sale, there is... money, fame, villas, "Ferrari", in an interview with "Forbes" and so on. ;)

Also MediaTek Labs attended by representatives of the design studios, telecommunications companies, manufacturers of electronic components (sensors, batteries, screens, etc.). They can also help with the development of your devices - as the Council, and on a larger scale: for example, suggest the components necessary to build a prototype. Complete the picture of hundreds of simple enthusiasts - both amateur and professional specialists is not bound by large companies.

The MediaTek Labs as an amateur enthusiasts and professional specialists are in search of ambitious projects that can be implemented with like-minded people.

Programmers, modelers, engineers, circuit design, ready to join your high-profile projects, or call in your own.

As a more concrete example of interaction possible within MediaTek Labs.

Imagine a developer creating a connected internet air conditioning. This device must be switched on and off remotely using mobile applications on your smartphone. To, say, the time to cool the apartment while the owner was going home from work. Not a bad idea, right? Alas, for its implementation not enough to be a highly motivated innovator - will have to find experts who will be engaged in the iron and software, because in this air conditioner will have to create from scratch the software and hardware security. So, the inventor of the air conditioner, unfortunately, can not be programmed, and proper engineering skills he either. He is a designer, and therefore is only able to determine the appearance and functions of the device - in other words, to generate ideas.

To solve these problems with many unknowns and is MediaTek Labs.

The MediaTek Labs young enthusiast can find and programmer and engineer circuitry capable to develop a controller on-off air conditioner, and a specialist in cloud services. And these guys are from the same number of enthusiasts like himself.

It is logical that not acting alone, but together, the project will be able to realize much faster and better. And if you remember the support from registered on MediaTek Labs factories, parts manufacturers and end-user devices, as well as most of these engineers the most MediaTek, - so prospects are opening up at all excellent.

The most important thing - to become a member tehnoinkubatora MediaTek Labs absolutely free. To do this, simply register on the labs.mediatek.com.

In addition to access to the IT community portal user gets a free software development kit for creating software for future device - SDK. A more technical documentation mountain.

In addition to tools for creating software, MediaTek Labs and provides a basic set of design hardware devices that is directly iron. He called LinkIt One. It includes a chipset MediaTek Aster based on the ARM7 processor, GPS and Wi-Fi, as well as means for connecting other components, such as modems for cellular communication. This set is worth quite democratic - only $ 79 (buy here).

Of course, some other large companies, such as Intel and Qualcomm's, are also developing its developer support program, but they are similar to MediaTek Labs only at first glance. The fact that their programs are focused on large companies, partners or students of higher educational institutions. With the first office Intel and Qualcomm level can begin large-scale projects with multi-million dollar budgets, Second (students) - to lure to work the simple engineer. But to inexperienced and inexperienced enthusiasts, who want to make something of their own in the field of Internet of Things and wearable electronics, Grand Market business chips not: let them live as they want.

Whether it MediaTek Labs: This initiative is aimed precisely at those same single-enthusiasts striving for success.

Here it is appropriate to add that MediaTek with all this too grand chip market: the company second place in the market of processors for smartphones and tablets. Only in 2013 it was released more than 200 million smartphones MediaTek chipsets. They are used in Sony, HTC devices, Xiaomi, Meizu, Acer, Lenovo, Alcatel, and so on.

Finally add that MediaTek Labs has several thousand registered. So do not worry about what you will be left alone with their ideas and problems in their implementation. Most of the residents tehnoinkubatora - citizens of the countries of Asia and the United States, although members from Eastern Europe and Russia are also missing: there are about a quarter of the total number of participants in the program. Recommended hurry and start as soon as possible - to enlist the help MediaTek and large manufacturers engineers, and then... get on the cover of a "Forbes."

Register on MediaTek Labs