The Hebocon Battle will take place Saturday September 15, 2018, 6pm, at Werk21.

Are you in? Bring your robot to the Hebocon booth in the main hall on Saturday before 5:30pm.

“Hebocon is a robot sumo-wrestling competition for those who are not technically gifted. It is a competition where crappy robots that can just barely move gather and somehow manage to engage in odd, awkward battles. To my knowledge, this is the only robot contest in the world where people with no technical capabilities to make robots are presented prizes.

In July 19, 2014, the first Hebocon competition was organized and held by Hebocon Master Daiju Ishikawa in Tokyo, Japan. After a video about the competition was included in the Jury Selections of the Japan Media Arts Festival, held by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs, Hebocon has made media appearances in many countries, and now, it looks like Hebocon is about to go international.” – CC BY hebocon.org

What is a Hebocon (Englisch)
Rules (Englisch)

Questions? Email hebocon@makerfairezurich.ch

We are excited that u-blox supports us once again this year, as a sponsor for Zürich Mini Maker Faire 2017!

u‑blox is dedicated to developing and distributing chips and modules for wireless communication and positioning in an excellent way and with the focus on the customers and their applications. Therefore they are a fabless company, heavily investing in R&D to provide the market with products and solutions for the Internet of Things. For example the Particle Electron, which is based on a 3G-cellular module by u-blox. For more information about u-blox visit u-blox.com and the u-blox blog.

We’re glad that Disney Research supports Zürich Mini Maker Faire 2017 as a sponsor!

The Disney Research lab in Zürich has strong ties to the Computer Graphics lab at ETH Zürich. It is influencing video of the future (video manipulation, video coding, 3D, and perceptual studies), computational cinematography, human and facial animation, and capture technologies. Additional strengths include wireless networking and computational materials. For more information about the fascinating projects, visit Disney Research Zürich and the DisneyResearchHub YouTube channel.