MIXTILE is an extensible embedded series development kit launched by fun technology to help Captain or startup quickly create smart devices. Liu Zhenyu, company CEO, said they are about to launch a prototype (named MIXTILE LOFT-Q) for home environment, and the chip characteristics adopted are biased in the entertainment direction, and can be used as a smart home control center and data center.
Liu Zhenyu, "Standing in Technology and Humanistic Crossroads"
Liu Zhenyu is a senior wenthouse. In 2010, Dong Yingjun, which has been cultivated in the Internet field for many years, and its development of the product "flash robot" has been successful. In 2011, the two began planning a MIXTILE series of products and established fun technology in 2013, hoping to accumulate them for many years of technical experience and resource sharing, helping Corporate and initial teams to develop their own products more conveniently.
Unlike the Raspberry Pie, MIXTILE is the target of forming products, considering the package and appearance problem of product development, it will not be seen as a thing to study, study, and It is a household appliance.
Building a home environment with emotions
In the circle of Captain, everyone has a home, car, and wearable device, etc. Liu Zhenyu introduced the road, the reason why the home is in this direction is because there is a lot of fun in the family, everyone is very willing to transform some different things.
Although this product is facing home direction, it is not necessarily used to do smart home. Liu Zhenyu said that the performance of MIXTILE LOFT-Q is good at entertainment direction, with high-fidelity media playback function, with super high-definition video decoding ability, and Yucai can build a home theater himself. The display portion is also relatively strong, which can be used to play games.
In addition, Captain can also make it a smart home control center and data center, support ZigBee, Wi-Fi and other transport protocols. Subsequent, they will also develop components that can be superimposed, and the game can add a camera according to the needs of yourself, high-fidelity decoder. With the MIXTILE kit, developers may neither write code, nor can they do solder, and they can achieve their own functions; slightly complicated, you may need to adjust software, add a little external equipment.
"Let your family live more comfortable" is the concept of the MIXTILE series of products. Recreational is the need for communication emotions in home life, including games. Although the game of Android platform is not ideal, Liu Zhenyu believes that ecological construction needs a process, but everyone has some attempts, will be developed. His most optimistic driving power is from the US game host developer Ouya.
Liu Zhenyu most wanted to see that Creative customers can make products that combine entertainment and intelligence control. For example, a simple movie scene: When the player starts playing video, the amplifier will automatically open, the light will automatically adjust the brightness, no need to repeat the operation of the machine.
To be promoted by good products, then talk about agreement criteria
The paradox of the smart home alliance has gradually emerged, but everyone is still not far away, because "Qian Jing" in this field is tempting. "It is because of the interests of too many interests, each company has its own small abacus. No one is willing to listen to who, there is no sign of any company standing out in a short time."
Liu Zhenyu believes that the smart home has indeed reached the period from high-end community to ordinary people's family, and people's demand is more and more strong. But I have been delayed, and the opposite is the problem of the empty talk about the agreement. This is the end of this. Be sure to wait for everyone to have a really good product, think about it, will be willing to sit on a piece of talk, otherwise, why do I want to listen to you.
The reason has not had good products, one is because of this industry that intelligently controls, the idea of developing products cannot be easily converted, more is to consider problems from industrialization, pursuing the stability of the product. Avoid problems. They are not very high in technology, and the personnel structure, knowledge reserves do not have conditions for steering new environments.
Moreover, the bases established for many years are also a great historical burden, and they are all of their assets, and they can't throw away. If these companies are determined to distinguish a part of the team to set up a new brand, it is a good attempt, or the new user has an opportunity to test, but their thinking will inevitably have some limitations. For example, don't dare to make the machine to decide something like Nest.
Those start-ups that do smart home have not made automation control, and what they do is not so stable, and the smart part may do very good, but the basic function is often not good enough.
Is there a good smart product? Encourage Correspondents to explode
How do this dilemma of smart home development? It is indeed a good product to drive, and good products need good ideas and different common people. Since there is no home that can stand out, isn't it just a chance to Corporate and a small company?
Mixtile is open source hardware enthusiasts, in recent years, this circle has shown large-scale growth trends. The Raspberry Pie has now sold several million pieces, and Liu Zhenyu noted that in Europe and North America, there are more and more hardware enthusiast clubs, indicating that everyone will spend a long time. Do something you want.
But their creativity and ideas tend to be restricted by resources, and MIXTILE is serving these groups, through continuous announcement of some of its research and development of some of the technology and providing some basic resources, can help Captain or make the team to turn these ideas into a truly Product or service.
This is the vision of Liu Zhenyu team, to dig up the true and good idea of the group, solve some fundamental and actual problems, may be unwell to use, not stable, but finally "becomes a new business seed ". If there is a big company comes out to propose the acquisition, turn it into a bigger business, go to thousands of households, and the creation will be very satisfied.
MIXTILE LOFT-Q will be launched by the end of October, Liu Zhenyu said that the enthusiasm of Chuangke is very high. After the product is launched, it is necessary to build a series of perfect communication channels, including the sharing of a better case between Yucai and mutual assistance, etc. Need to meet the needs of different people. At present, the team's most tight thing is recruiting, "but it is still smooth."
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