_Seeed Studio_ is an open-hardware facilitator based in Shenzhen (China). Its goal is to promote the maker movement and the spread of maker culture (do-it-yourself, do-it-together, innovative spirit etc.).

We started _Seeed Studio_ because we love the concept of open hardware. With the development of the maker culture and the upsurge in open hardware, we are taking advantage of the favorable situation to start research and development in open-hardware components and modules and then to provide them to the community. Communicating with the community members, we learned that one of the main problems for innovators is the difficulty of getting ideas into prototypes and from prototypes into production.

Hence we decided to support the community by providing innovative and cost-effective prototyping solutions for innovators. We help innovators turn their concepts into reality, shortening the time consumed in the idea-to-prototype-to-product process. The participants are all the community members: _Seeed_ staff, cooperative designers, artists, teachers, students, and many others. Open hardware is used in many fields, such as environmental detection and protection, near-space exploration, the Internet of Things, clean energy, fashion, wearable electronics, arts etc.

We also organize or support various activities/events in order to expand the community and strengthen the interaction. Currently, _Seeed Studio_ is one of the world’s most important open-hardware providers, maker-event participants and maker-culture propagators.

Links: www.seeedstudio.com/blog

_Seeed Studio_ (CN) was founded in 2008 in Shenzhen. The open-hardware facilitator supports the community by providing innovative and cost-effective prototyping solutions to innovators.