• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Build Electronic Circuits

Build Electronic Circuits

Electronics explained in a simple way

  • Start Learning
    • Basic Electronics
    • Digital Electronics
    • Circuits
    • Practical Skills
      • Printed Circuit Boards
    • Microcontrollers
      • Arduino
    • Maker Lifestyle
      • Podcast
  • About Me
  • Blog
  • Products
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Maker Lifestyle / My trip to Shenzhen [VIDEO]

My trip to Shenzhen [VIDEO]

June 11, 2018 By Øyvind Nydal Dahl 3 Comments

“We’re never going to make it!”

Jensa and I arrived early at the airport in Oslo.

But that didn’t help. Because our flight from Oslo had technical problems. So it was delayed and we missed our connecting flight to Hong Kong…

Not a good start of our trip…

But in the end, we arrived in Shenzhen, China. Elias was already waiting for us. So, we shared a bag of fish-skin chips with egg yolk (!), then headed out to town.

Check out my video below from our Shenzhen trip:

I’ve wanted to visit Shenzhen for more than 10 years.

It’s a very important city in the electronics world. There are lots of famous products that had been produced there.

Like the iPhone.

In a “normal” city, you will see billboards with Coca-Cola ads and similar. But in Shenzhen, the billboards have ads for capacitors or LEDs!

And there are skyscrapers covered with LEDs to make them giant video screens.

The malls are full of electronics shops. There are whole floors dedicated to LEDs. Or connectors.

And they are full of interesting gadgets.

The group at a bar in Shenzhen
Shenzhen downtown
Inside a Shenzhen electronics mall
A cat cake in Shenzhen
Sitting on shenzhen rooftop
View of the Shenzhen skyline

Here are some of the things we bought:

  • An electronic drawing pad for $5. Very simple, just a pad you can draw on. And a button to erase everything and start over again. This is great for doing calculations or practicing drawing.
  • LED-strips for your eye-lids. Cost around $1. Not very useful, but probably very fun at some event where you need to use a costume, like Halloween.
  • Electric muscle stimulator. I was the lucky one to get to try this. At low intensity, it was a fun series of mini-shocks. At high-intensity it was extremely rough, making my arm motionless.
  • A drone. Elias wanted to make cool drone-footage for a video. But he didn’t want to spend too much. The drone was fun, but the image quality of the camera was horrible.
  • My wife wanted a purse. So I bought her USB stick shaped like a purse.

Because of my delayed flight, I only got to enjoy Shenzhen for three days. But I got a taste of what the city has to offer, and I will definitely be back in the future!

Filed Under: Maker Lifestyle

Reader Interactions

Comments


  1. willis says

    July 27, 2018

    thank you for your trust with shenzhen

    Reply

  2. Rey-an says

    August 15, 2018

    I live in Shenzhen, I should have toured you around. Did you go to huaxin Station?

    Reply

    • admin says

      August 15, 2018

      Yes, I was in that area! Very nice place =)

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Search:

Footer

Topics

  • Basic Electronics
  • Digital Electronics
  • Circuits
  • Practical Skills
  • Microcontrollers
  • Maker Lifestyle
  • Newsletter Archive

Social:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Copyright © 2021 · Ohmify AS · Terms and Conditions · Privacy Policy