In addition to FLUX, there is another team from Taiwan Province Province that landed at Kickstarter. This is a coffee filter cup made by several high-tech people. Yes, it has no electronic products and no software, but it conforms to the modern people's pursuit of "good taste". Coupled with the moving story behind it, this Lulu's hand has made a proud achievement when it boarded the flyingV public fundraising platform in Taiwan Province Province as a boutique.
Lulu's hand went on the shelves of flyingV on September 7th, and on the first day, it broke through the fundraising goal of100000 yuan. Two months later, we finally raised1340,000 yuan and pre-sold more than 500 sets of products.
(lulu? Hand scored a touchdown as soon as he played! )
If you also drink a single cup of coffee, do you feel frustrated that you can't brew a good taste? Professor Su Wenyu, the founder of Lulu Hand, and Lin, a doctoral student at Chengda University, decided to make a coffee filter cup by themselves because of the same troubles, and set the goal as "everyone can easily make good coffee". This investment is two years.
"It's really not easy for me and two programmers to engage in institutional design and metal processing, learn from scratch and look back at this development process. Professor Su Wenyu said: "However, since we took Maker as our job, we have been polishing and constantly changing it. Such persistence has also made us meet many noble people with similar ideas. 」
In this process, there are two people they want to thank most. One is boss Liao, who lives in the brigade. He is willing to provide guidance on processing and manufacturing when the order is not seen. Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Visual Communication at Tainan University of Applied Science and Technology, is one of them. Because of her participation, Lulu's hand not only has the inner beauty of technology, but also has a sense of exquisite design.
(Professor Su Wenyu from the Department of Endowment Engineering of Chengda University is almost critical of beauty, and is in the spirit of making a maker with Lulu? The team worked together to create this original coffee filter cup from Taiwan Province Province. )
As a collector of vinyl records, Su Wenyu is almost critical of beautiful things, which is why they change samples again at all costs. Now, he shows the finished Lulu's hand affectionately, as if to introduce his children: "Look at its polished mirror, don't lose the exquisite coffee utensils in Italy or France." 」
Of course, only external beauty is not enough, and the inner beauty of Lulu's hand is equally convincing.
Lin said, "Lulu's hands are easy to operate. Our special drip mechanism design simplifies the brewing process and enables ordinary busy office workers to brew a good cup of coffee quickly. 」
With Lulu's hand, fine coffee lovers don't have to hold the pot in their hands and brew coffee slowly around the circle, but simple operation doesn't mean that the taste will be less. After you are familiar with it, you can still use its flow control to change the brewing method, accurately control the extraction time, and flexibly adjust the water temperature, and finally achieve the desired strong and weak taste.
(The operation is simple and changeable. )
(lulu? Hand's four kits. )
However, in addition to their insistence on good taste, they also have a sense of mission to education and society.
"Many students have good ideas, but once they leave school, they may still choose to enter the old road of big enterprises or foundries." Su Wenyu didn't want to bury her ideals, so she showed her students with actions that her research results or works could be realized through public fund-raising. As for the traditional processors, in this development process, they have realized that combining the strength of community, fine products and brands will give them an opportunity to get rid of the predicament of low-profit OEM. (Refer to this article)
For education, he has a more ambitious plan, hoping to help rural children get rid of poverty. In recent years, Su Wenyu led engineering students to Dongshi Township, Chiayi, and taught children basic programming languages face to face. He said, "For children from rural areas, the best way to get rid of poverty is programming. 」
He called this program "Program The World Program Education Program", and it also successfully raised funds on flyingV, but in order to make this program last for a long time, he hoped to continue to run this program The World Program and help students innovate and start businesses through the remaining 20% in Lulu's hand. So every purchase of this project is a support for this positive force.
Well, having said that, let's contact Kickstarter to do something. At present, this project provides early bird price concessions for 65,438+000 coffee lovers (free shipping in Taiwan Province Province). If you don't drink coffee but agree that MIT products will go international, I hope you can give us $65,438 +0 or $5 for this project to enter Kickstarter's home page.
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