Factory direct! We’ve got Linus and Johan back from Taiwan. As we’ve mentioned in previous updates, they have been visiting our factory, Yomura, to oversee the production of the Memoto camera. Things are moving ahead and looking good. Here are some highlights of their trip and progress that’s being made.
Chuck, Ming, Linus and a few innocent bystanders. Arrival day in Taiwan, somewhat tired, but still excited after at least 16 hours of traveling. There’s nothing like walking out of cool air-conditioned airport into a tropical climate.
A busy intersection in Taipei with Taipei 101 in the distance. Interesting how Johan managed to capture only one Scooter, there were hordes of them everywhere.
The conference room, setup for our visit, with an incoming continuous flow of water, coffee and enthusiasm from the Yomura team. Almost daily, new samples arrived for various parts of the products and piled up on the tables, shortening the cycle time for feedback immensely compared to when shipping everything to/from Sweden.
The production test software testing a Memoto PCB through USB. Different versions of the test is placed at different points along the production path.
Johan and the teams from Yomura and Fudy.
This is an imposing complicated machine with lots of levers and wheels, used to produce parts of the Memoto packaging.
The box used for testing the camera’s color and focus properties. It is screened to reduce the influence of outside light sources in the test, to make it as repeatable as possible.
Load testing the clip and plastic strength. We wouldn’t recommend doing this test at home.. Please note that the Memoto logo visible on this unit is not the final version, which will be a bit more subtle.
This is one of the production lines used for assembling the surface-mounted components onto the printed circuit boards and the associated reflow soldering.
Weekend break in the mountains at Yangmingshan National Park. The Qingtiangang lava terrace was previously used as a pasture for grazing cattle.
These are the first trial injection shots of the Memoto-orange plastic covers. Please note that the lighting in the room where we took this photo was not optimal to faithfully reproduce the color.
Linus wearing the first assembled prototype using the Memoto Orange casing. As Johan was shooting, someone was arriving with a tray of new samples of some sort.
Have a nice weekend!
/Memoto team
2 Comments
Really exciting stuff!
I run an orphanage in Zambia and employ 22 workers. I will be getting this device for monitoring what and where our Nannies are during the day. Unfortunately, we will not be subscribing to the cloud thing as we don’t have the monthly fee. But I will sift through the photos if there is an incident with the kids. A great program to use to ID the kids or people is Picasa.