Hello everyone, I’m Danu (M2) , Master Student in Interface Device Lab at Kanazawa University.

In this post I want to share My experience when I attended a technology exhibition event that took place in the city of Ogaki

I took part in this activity when Prof. Akita informed him that he would be participating in an event as an exhibitor at a technology exhibition called Ogaki Mini Maker Faire 2022 Japan and needed help preparing things for this activity. At first, I was doubtful because I couldn’t speak Japanese whether it was possible to take part in the activity. However, Prof. Akita allowed me as an international student to participate in order to gain experience and new things in these activities.

Of course, I’m not alone in this event. My 3 Lab mates Named Mr. Sabirin (D2), Mr. Shiraya(B4), and Mr. Tokuda (B4) helped run this event smoothly.

As the name implies, this event was held at Softopia Japan Center in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture. This event lasts for 2 days, namely Saturday and Sunday, 3-4 December 2022.

So many technologies at this event maybe I will share technologies or projects that are very interesting to me.

1.Ros Rober by K_Miura

This project is a robot in the form of a 2-wheeled car where this robot can recognize or describe the circumstances around it, for example obstacles or walls. This robot uses Raspberry Pi as a microcontroller, lidar and ultrasonic sensors to detect whether there are obstacles around it and detects the distance between the robot and the object. Not only does it calculate the distance, but the shape of the surrounding conditions will be displayed using the ROS (Robot Operation System) application.

2. MicroMouse Robot by まついのまうす製作所

Micromouse is an autonomous small mobile robot where this robot can search and analyze which path to take to reach the finish line. This robot is often used for competitions. Equipped with a microcomputer and sensors, this robot will not hit a wall and can be the fastest way to reach the finish line.

There are many other projects that are no less interesting, but I can’t share all of them. There was an unexpected moment for me when I visited one of the exhibitors named Ksasao (Brownie). I remember this name is a creator who made a very detailed tutorial about M5stickV, and I happened to use M5stickV when I was taking My Bachelor Degree. I am very grateful to him for being kind enough to share his knowledge.

Lastly, thank you for reading this post, I hope you get new insights and can be useful in the future.

Written by Danu on Saturday December 17 2022, in Kanazawa, Japan.