The DesignSpark team in Asia joined the Maker Faire this weekend in Singapore, first of the kind for the team.

The Maker Faire was participated by a full room of enthusiatic art, craft, electronics, and robotic hobbyists and solution providers, gathered over the weekend as part of the 3-week Science Festival across Singapore.

We borrowed two sets of demonstrations from one of Japan's hobbyists and featured at the DesignSpark booth:

You can see the first was a MP3 Music Player demo in which the 32-bit RX Renesas MCU board (called Gadget Renesas GR Sakura) has codec to play mp3 and operates a touch-screen to allow tapping to select songs.  The second one is a swinging GR Sakura board is enclosed in a Lego frame with a motor driving the spin at the bottom, and the side of the Sakura board has a panel of LEDs to give an effect as 360 degrees display panel.  Programmed with two games, you can play bouncing ping pong and Tetris.

Here is a fun banana piano keyboard at one of the other booths of another creator: