No Curation, More Diversity: Walking Through NT Kanazawa

How a first-come, first-served exhibition and a public venue create one of Japan’s most distinctive maker eventsI recently published an English-language video from NT Kanazawa, a community-driven DIY and technology event held directly in front of Kanazawa Station in Japan. In the video, I walk through the venue and introduce robots, drones, student-built hardware, interactive installations, M5Stack projects, a walking 3D printer, humanoid robots, StampFly, StackChan, and many other experimental devices.https://medium.com/media/3297346a1663e167ac26f2000b634083/hrefThe individual projects are interesting, of course. But what continues to interest me about NT Kanazawa is not simply what people exhibit. ...

July 20, 2026 · 7 min · Masakazu Takasu