presentation video takasu FOSSASIA2017 https://youtu.be/456ddJWBbwE Nico-Tech is a community of tech geeks with otaku-culture backgrounds sharing their creations on a video website.We think all the technology is exciting entertainment, Memetically Mutated Engineering.

1. Nico-Tech,
Tech for fun community and culture in Japan
..and Story driven making

2. Who is it?
MakerFaire Singapore/Shenzhen organizer
Over 30 MakerFaire participated

3. Technology Community on NicoNico Douga
(Video sharing community in Japan).
Nico-Tech is not a society, no member list,
You are Nico-Tech when upload video to
NicoNico Douga and tagging Nico-Tech.
Established 2008
Total 36,954 movies at 18/Mar/2017.
Nico-Tech Overview

4. A typical movie style
Important
-Make laughing
-How to make it
No matter
-Why are you making it
-Success or failure

5. By video sharing community.
-More focus to fun, story, laughing.
-Far from startups and business innovation.
-Close for Otaku, Manga, Game, Music and any
other contents.
Contrast between Nico-tech and other community

6. Technology for fun

7. Why Japanese tech community that focus for fun?
-They start making before the startup boom.
-Major member making in after working time at a
big company.
-Dubble work and startups are prohibited in
company regulation.
What is the opportunity?
- More focus to Strory.
- Nico-Tech is standing between technology and
contents.

8. The US creates devices for first-person
shooters;
we use them to shake hands with
virtual idols

9. アメリカと日本の違い
Virtual Reality in Japan

10. Nico-Tech love to
“Make: technology on our time.”

11. We love to have fun using technology
Trial and error is the best part of development.
Debugging is fun in programming, isn’t it?
It is the essence of development - so we don’t
hide our failures.

12. Stories drive our motivation
Scientist Masahiko Inami invented his Optical Camouflage
technology inspired by Ghost in the Shell.
His favorite quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.” -Arthur C. Clarke
Engrossing stories encourage others to act.
They push fiction to become reality.

13. Stories drive our motivation
Award-winning science fiction author Hosuke Nojiri
(@nojiri_h) is also an active member of Nico-Tech.
He says “I don’t just write science fiction, I do science
fiction,” and engages in various maker activities:
Launching homemade rockets
Creating ornithopters shaped like underwear

14. Stories drive our motivation
Nojiri’s latest novel is a story of the future
where a Fablab style open-sourced factory
develops a spaceship and eventually achieves
spaceflight.

15. Story driven making
We created the ASIMO for our longing of Astro Boy.
We long for Hatsune Miku and strive to make her real.
There is no Apple nor Google in asia.
But we do have stories - and we think that brings us very
close to the future. We walk different paths from silicon
valley, but all roads lead to the future.

16. HATUNE MIKU Realize project

17. HATUNE MIKU Realize project

18. Startups from Japan

19. Opportunity - Story driven making -
The best way to predict the future is
to invent it --Alan Kay
Any Sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguhable from
magic --Arthur C. Clarke
We can find new idea in SF story.

20. DIY Community In japan
DIY Music Tune
1200 DIY Tunes. Every tune Over 100000 View.
Over 500 DIY Music Maker.
DIY Animation,Manga
We Japanese can make 3 hour concert.
Every song’s are DIY Tune,
Every dance’s are DIY animation,
Every cloth are DIY Manga.
This is HATSUNE MIKU.

21. This presentation was
crowdsourced online by Japanese
Makers
Our motivation is fun.
Fun is what makes the future.
We look forward to seeing you at
Maker Faire Tokyo 2017! 5-6/Aug

23. will share my slide to Slideshare, please check my account
Thanks! (English)
謝謝！(Chinese)
terima kasih! (Bahasa Malay)
நன்றி (Tamil)
TAKASU Masakazu
takasu@team-lab.com
Twitter: @tks
Wechat: takasumasakazu
Facebook: TAKASU tks Masakazu
Q&A

24. We are Nico-Tech!
@akira_you
@akita11
@drinami
@en129
@hiroyeah
@goroman
@kairoshi
@nojiri_h
@needle
@sandie_marie
@s_osafune