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Week 9 was a blast for us, it was the second instalment of the "When Idea Meets Frugal Technology" Series, this time, it's our very own Thilina teaching us Quick Prototyping, with cardboard of course. Cardboard you say? YES! CARDBOARD!

You'll be amazed by how much you can make with just cardboard! Just to the left, you can see our Jonathan standing on a platform made from cardboard, and who could miss the cardboard lamp shade hanging from the ceiling?

Just to warm things up we started with making some Post-Its holders with cardboard, and for the second stage, we went crazy making a drug dispensing solution. One team decided to follow a more Halloween themed path and made a bridge with Gummi Bears walking on top. One bear was decapitated with its body on the ledge and head down below. It was a great night for everyone.

This concludes the "When Idea Meets Frugal Technology" Series, and the teams will be showcasing their ideas the coming week in the Roadshow, stay tuned for the updates!

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Week 8! This week, we have the first of our workshops from the [When Idea Meets Simple Technology] Series - Make an Android App. We have some new faces at SIGHT this time, as the workshop is led by Amogh, an exchange student from the University of New South Wales in robotics engineering. He's been living in Hong Kong since January this year and spends his spare time traveling, working on start-ups and playing the ukulele.

Amogh showed us around the MIT App Inventor 2, a great way to start with App developing, Campers and students were put through their paces, from simple apps such as the "meowing kitty" to the "vaccination tracker". And of course, how could we forget the cameo from our President Prof. Tony Chan!!!! He was asking us to "go to have tea with him", we'll see if we can sneak a video out!

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Week 7

15/10/2015

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Another week passes by at the SIGHT Camp and Campers are starting to up their game and come up with ideas for next semester. We have 2 teams working on diabetic retinopathy detection in Indonesia, 2 on healthy snacks for Cambodian kids, 2 on purifying water in Guizhou, 1 on helping rare disease patients in Hong Kong and 1 on hand sanitation in Cambodia. Yesterday they presented their first ideas and some do indeed look very promising! We shall have 2 prototyping workshops coming up in the coming 2 weeks, they are both full but check them out anyways!

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Week 6

8/10/2015

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After a nice break in Week 5, SIGHT Camp is back Week 6! The old software and hardware teams from last year came back to share about their ups and (mostly) downs! The Campers then had a crash course on brainstorming ideas.

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