Recently SIAT and Banana Pi conducted an open source hardware seminar together in Shenzhen. Officials from the SIAT, Mr. Bi, director of R&D department, Mr. Xue, director of HR department and a World Bank representative attended the seminar. At this formal event, members from both Banana Pi team and SIAT discussed and analyzed the current situation and trend of the open source hardware movement in China and abroad.
The highlights of the seminar were the demonstrations of the Banana Pi product. Banana Pi was presented to run Android TvBox, Scratch and to control a Arduino Robot, etc. Banana Pi received high praise from Mr. Bi, Mr. Xue, and also the World Bank representative, they all expressed great interest in Banana Pi. They said that they fully supported Banana Pi¡¯s efforts to popularize open source hardware in China and they would help Banana Pi promote the application of Scratch in education.