It's a new day.

Atletico woke up punctually and turned his head to look at the south window, just in time to see the curtains illuminated by the first rays of the morning sun.

There are vine patterns swaying in the light spots, which are disturbed by the morning breeze and early birds.

Without waking up his sleeping wife, he lifted the thin quilt and got out of bed to wash.

With a thought, E7U parsed the received DTMB ground wave signal and listed six video windows in front of him. After the system upgrade, the E7U chip on his body has been able to decode the latest AVS+ signal and can watch all terrestrial channels normally. However, it is only 6 o'clock in the morning, and many channels do not have night programs, so they will have to wait an hour or two before they start.

Atletico Madrid is not a multi-threaded computer after all, and he quickly turned off other channels and turned on the sound of CCTV.

Accompanied by the familiar sound of the horn, the packaging animation of the "Nuclear Explosion Pacific" program, which has not changed for many years, reappeared.

After the intro, the familiar host did not appear. On the virtual screen, the Huangpu River and the Oriental Pearl Tower, bathed in the morning light, the Ludao Gulangyu Island, where the sun has just risen, and the stone steps of Huashan that still need street lights to illuminate, are finally aimed at the world's largest city square.

After a search, he quickly understood why. In order to celebrate the National Day, the Central Aunt's Information Department prepared a special program today to broadcast the flag-raising ceremony in the square.

The capital is two degrees west of Egret Island, and it will take ten minutes for the sun to find the flagpole. Sure enough, the live broadcast screen quickly moved to the studio, and it was still the male host who spoke first: "Morning news of the world, start a new day!"

Casually dragging the video window aside, Atletico quickly cleaned up and turned and walked into the cloakroom.

Similar to Zuckerberg, he also has a lot of T-shirts of the same style in his wardrobe, but instead of the cashmere gray crewneck T of Italian Brunello Cucinelli, but the blue lapel T of domestic cotton, the brand is the Bee brand.

In response to the general trend of "consumption upgrading", a number of Internet companies have launched "carefully selected" e-commerce similar to Costco supermarkets in the United States, through professional buyers to screen a large number of goods, to provide consumers with a small number of high-quality, low-cost goods, to help everyone save time and money to improve the quality of life. Even pig farms engaged in online games have started e-commerce, and coarse grains and bees, which have always been known as "grocery stores", are even more unwilling.

Although they are all bulk purchases (retain the original brand) or entrust a third-party factory ODM (OEM, using the bee trademark) or OEM (OEM, bees participate in the design), the iterative improvement and quality control of physical products are obviously much more troublesome than electronic products and computer software. Fortunately, Bee is not a listed company after all, and the selection team has enough time to learn by doing, and it is slowly on the right track.

Then, the daily necessities of Atletico Madrid's family were contracted by "Bee Selection", and the family also had a lot of "Bee" brand clothes.

In the autumn evening in the south, the outdoor temperature at this time was acceptable, so Atletico Madrid directly changed into a set of T-shirts, shorts, and jogging shoes, and trotted out of the house with a little preparation.

Breathing in the humid air of the early morning, the body gradually comes out of hibernation mode and rejuvenates with the jogging movement.

I was about to think about something while my mind was clear, but a hello sounded in my ears.

"Ma Dong, good morning!"

When he looked back, he saw a young man with glasses running towards him.

Atletico Madrid didn't stop, waiting for the other party to come to his side, and then he responded: "It's Gu Nan, what's the matter with you?"

The latter was a little stunned when he heard this, and he was speechless.

Glancing at the stunned look on his face, Atletico reminded with a smile: "Everyone's time is precious, just say anything directly!"

As he spoke, he turned his head to look to the side.

There are not only two of them who get up early to exercise in the community, and there are several pairs of eyes looking at this side at this moment, obviously with the idea of filling in the position and continuing to chat.

It is rumored within the company that as long as you can talk about Ma Dong during your morning run, you can skip the normal process of internal entrepreneurship of sending emails, writing reports, being evaluated, doing defenses, and crowdfunding, and directly start the project with initial investment. As long as I heard that the boss was at home, as long as the weather permitted, there would be a lot of people lining up around his house every morning, waiting to talk and sell their projects to him.

Atletico Madrid's morning running time is fixed at sunrise, and everyone has a tacit understanding that they will not deliberately get up early to grab a position, but they ran into Gu Nan, a stunned young man.

The latter specially set an alarm clock and got up early to squat near the horse house, and sure enough, he grabbed the first place.

He originally wanted to talk about the weather first, and then talk about the National Day holiday, and finally break a few words about whether Barcelona will join Ligue 1 if the Catalan referendum is successful, and then throw out the final goal when the chat atmosphere is hot, but he didn't expect the boss to ask directly, and he was a little at a loss for a while.

Fortunately, Gu Nan graduated from a prestigious school with a master's degree after all, and his IQ was not offline for too long, so he quickly reacted and hurriedly introduced: "That's the case, I have an idea about the external device of the bee mobile phone." ”

"Hmm," Atletico said noncommittally, but there was some disappointment in their hearts.

There are so many mobile phone peripherals, but there are very few that can really be welcomed by the market, and he doesn't think that the one around him can have any breakthrough results.

Noticing that his interest didn't seem to be high, Gu Nan's heart tightened, and he hurriedly took out the sample he made, "Different from the current mainstream form, I plan to use cardboard to make peripherals, I call it 'smart cardboard'." ”

"Cardboard?" Seeing the object in his hand, Atletico finally had an interested smile on his face.

It's not the first time to make mobile phone peripherals out of cardboard, as early as three years ago, someone thought of creating low-cost VR glasses from cheap materials such as cardboard, lenses, magnets, rubber bands, Velcro, etc. Because of the cheap novelty, this thing has also been all the rage, only Google Cardboard has created a sales miracle of 10 million shipments, although the sales of small factories in the south of China are not as good, the sum is also very considerable.

However, mobile phones are not designed for VR after all, and the simple structure of the carton brings problems such as narrow field of view, inconvenient operation, and almost no ergonomics.

Obviously, Gu Nan's cardboard peripherals also have to face similar problems.

Hearing Atletico mention these problems, he turned over the cardboard in his hand, pointed to the silver lines on it and said: "These are printed circuits, as long as a special wire is pasted here and connected to the headphone jack or USB interface of the mobile phone, you can send control signals to the mobile phone and interact with the mobile phone." ”

Atletico Madrid's face was a little more interested, he stopped his steps and stretched out his hand to point to the bench not far away, "It's a little interesting, let's go over there and talk." ”

"yes!" successfully entered the second stage, Gu Nan shouted in his heart, and his steps towards the bench were much brisker.

casually touched the morning dew on the chair, the two sat down side by side, Gu Nan took out his laptop from his bag and opened it, and introduced his "smart cardboard" in detail.

"Modular mobile phones are rich in functions and full of possibilities, but module sales are limited, and manufacturers can only increase the terminal price in order to recover the investment in design and mold stocking. Excessively high prices inhibit sales growth, which further pushes prices into a vicious circle. Ever since I saw Google Cardboard, I've wondered if I can reduce the manufacturing cost of functional modules with cardboard, a material that is at my fingertips. Later, I saw that there were foreign streamers who used fruit as game controllers, and suddenly I thought about whether I could combine the two, and then I had this. ”

The so-called fruit controller is actually to connect the fruit with a wire to the input end of the card computer such as Raspberry Pi and Bread Card, and with the help of the latter, the electrical signal caused by the finger touch is translated into an input signal that the computer can understand, which is equivalent to using the card computer and the fruit to create a "manual keyboard/handle". Fruit only acts as a button, and can be replaced with conductive items such as keychains, wine bottle caps, large screws, metal badges, fidget spinners, etc. Since these things are available, printed circuits made of conductive materials are naturally possible.

Thanks to various developer communities, you can easily get relevant programs and tutorials on the Internet, and you can make your own fruit controller by simply doing it, and then you can shoot videos to show off to your audience.

But this is not what Gu Nan wants, because he wants to transplant this set of things to the mobile phone platform to make mobile phone peripherals, he can only give up the ready-made code and write a special wire control program for the bee mobile phone by himself. When the program was complete, he spent some time catching bugs and optimizing them, while working on the demo features, and then came to Atletico with his results.

"So, you're going to make a beggar's version of Moto mods out of cardboard and headphone cables?"

Because of poor performance, the former communications giant Motorola was split, the walkie-talkie business was independent and renamed Motorola Systems, and the mobile communication business was sold to Google, and then sold by the latter to Face Think. However, this acquisition failed to achieve the desired results, and Motorola, which was incorporated into the face thinking system, soon fell into a confused and low ebb, with production research and development slowing down, advertising slowing down, and sales declining, and could only rely on the Moto Z series to barely maintain a trace of face. The latter is dominated by the ultra-slim design and Moto Mods expandable modules.

Hearing Atletico Madrid's culture, Gu Nan shook his head, "That's to add speakers, cameras, projectors, and ink screens to mobile phones, but my idea is to turn mobile phones into other things, which can be portable game consoles, remote control toys, or electronic musical instruments." The target consumer is not adult geeks, but Steam teenagers. ”

This steam doesn't mean steam, and the steam boy is not a fat believer in v-sheg.

STEAM is a supplement to the buzzword STEM education, in addition to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, art education is newly added, emphasizing the cultivation of comprehensive talents who are both liberal arts and sciences, good at practice, and full of creativity.

Quality education shouted for 30 years, but in the actual implementation of the appearance, parents want to once and for all, schools, training institutions will promote skills education, as a result of various training courses reported a bunch of piano sketch taekwondo disciple rules learned, but in the end it is difficult to transform into the real comprehensive quality. When the American education community put forward the concept of STEM and STEAM that emphasizes hands-on ability and creativity, the domestic education and training circles immediately moved with the wind and quickly launched a new banner.

There is no doubt that it is obviously better to encourage hands-on and entertaining children to carry out scientific education and artistic edification, traditional rote memorization, and writing about the aftermath of watching movies. LEGO was an early adopter of programmable bricks for teenagers, and today it is firmly at the top of the field. Gu Nan's idea is similar to Lego, but the plastic building blocks are replaced with cardboard, users can either buy the officially sold cardboard modules, or only buy the necessary accessories, and then design and print by themselves, the threshold for getting started is obviously much lower than other programmable toys.

Atletico nodded, "I probably understand, you want to turn your old phone into a development platform similar to a bread card for teenagers, right?"

"Yes," Gu Nan nodded decisively and looked at the other party expectantly, "That's why I came to Ma Dong to get your help." ”

As far as he knows, the person in front of him attaches great importance to comprehensive education, and his support for programmable toys is also very strong, if he can get his nod in support, "smart cardboard" can be on the fast track.

"It's a good idea, it's in line with the trend of comprehensive education, and it also takes into account the environmental theme of cardboard recycling. It's just that these things are simple and difficult to develop, how are you going to solve them?"

Hearing him mention this, Gu Nan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, in order to make the several demonstration prototypes mentioned earlier, he took nearly a year of spare time back and forth. Of course, there are reasons for his low eye and low hands-on ability, and it is also related to the ease of use and mastery of cardboard toys.

After thinking about it, he said: "My idea is to walk on two legs, on the one hand, contact a paper designer who specializes in cardboard to buy ready-made designs and transform them, and on the other hand, open the system to cultivate community power, and two pronged approaches." ”

Hearing these two methods, Atletico Madrid asked again: "The last question, how to deal with piracy?"

Gu Nan scratched his head when he heard this, "I've also thought about this, the cardboard can be completely open, let's just make a good data cable." ”

The data cable can be embedded with a microchip similar to Apple's MFI chip and Bee's PBB module, and it is indeed difficult for outsiders to pirate when Bee has mastered the operating system. It's just that this thing is too niche after all, and it is a low-cost product that emphasizes low cost, so it really doesn't make much money by simply selling lines.

However, many things cannot be measured by money and craftsmanship, and Atletico finally nodded, "That's good, do you have the project manual, give me a copy!"

Hearing this, Gu Nan was overjoyed, and hurriedly responded: "Bring it!"

He took out a USB flash drive from his bag and handed it to Atletico Madrid, he took out a stack of cardboard and matching data cables, LED lamp beads, and small motors and handed them over, "These are the demonstration prototypes I developed myself, which are handles, cars, small trains, and square drums." ”

As a result, Atletico stood up, "It's just right, I'm worried that I don't have anything to fool the little ones at home, you came at the right time." ”

Whether steam toys are fun or not, of course, can only be concluded when children have played with them. 2k reading web