The Amp Hour

An Interview with Scotty Allen (Strangeparts)

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Welcome Scotty Allen of Strangeparts.com!

  • Chris and Scotty were just hanging out at Supercon. Scotty gave a talk from there last year.
  • Scotty's latest video is about making an RFID chip
  • Kitchen Confidential
  • Scotty did software consulting in college and then joined the Google search team.
  • He decided to quit and travel more and was became a "Minimalist by default" when he accidentally set apartment on fire.
  • Blog posts in 2014 had him curious about Shenzhen, including posts from Ian from Dangerous Prototypes.
  • He first visited with Mitch Altman during his yearly tour to China.
  • Greg from RevRobotics makes parts for FRC
  • The process to stay in China
  • WePay (really "WeChat Pay")
  • QR codes
  • Scotty knows some conversational Chinese, but also relies on Google translate and Microsoft translate (OCR).
  • Videos
    • iPhone
      • Making the phone
      • Bringing back the jack
      • RFID
        • Checking out the stickers
        • 2nd video at Impinge
        • Factory tours
          • JLCPCB
          • Industrial SLA
          • Accidentally went to a hockey stick factory
          • Videoes with Collin Abroadcast in the Yiwu commodities market outside of Shanghai
            • Inside the massive market
            • Cashierless convenience store
            • Places Scotty wants to tour (please contact if you know of any contacts)
              • Silicon fab
              • Batteries - LiPo
              • Injection molding - greg nedall
              • White label modification
              • 100 units
                • Chinese entrepreneurs use local manufacturing
                • iPhone testing board (also pictured above) is a good example
                • Intermeshed network of specialized manufacturing
                • People shop around for quality/relationships
                • Finding factories
                  • Moving outside of Shenzhen
                  •  Mismatched expectations
                  • Chinese entrepreneurs
                    • Moving upmarket
                    • Shanzai phones
                    • Made in China 2025
                    • 100 year plan with 5 year plan segments
                    • Scotty doesn't plan to start a QVC channel
                    • DSLR video shooter
                    • Video
                      • Background in video/theater
                      • Story telling
                      • Quest
                      • The Engineers journey
                        • Any complex project goes through the heroes journey
                        • The only way through is to change who they are as a person
                        • There are two ways the story can finish
                          • Succeed
                          • Explaining why it can't be done
                          • Battery stories with past guest Steve Kreuzer
                          • Boards brought from the market
                          • Scotty is growing the Strangeparts team, namely looking for a COO.
                          • Contact Scotty on
                            • Twitter @strangepartscom
                            • [email protected]
                              • ...more
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