Today, I remembered (for Mitch) how I signed up for a SoftBank prepaid phone online account. It requires a 4-digit PIN to get your password, and the default PIN (at least for us) was 1234. (On the phone itself, the default PIN, which you need for some actions– like deleting certain things– is 9999.) On…Continue Reading…

On Friday, I met up with Phu Cuong. We went to a sushi restaurant and had all-you-can-eat sushi. Fortunately, he speaks fluent Japanese, so he was able to order for us.. and boy, did he order! It was a fantastic lunch. After eating, we wandered around the Bic Camera store, and I checked out some…Continue Reading…

Yesterday (Thrusday), I visited Akiba’s apartment. He demoed his Pick & Place machine. It’s awesome. Then we walked around Akihabara. We went to an Art Museum. Inside, there is an Open Source Hardware Shop. We used our fame to gain access 10 minutes before they opened :)

Photo: Pizza delivery in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan Yesterday, I woke up late, and walked around Ikebukuro on my own. I found a business called Pizza-La which apparently does pizza delivery on the 3-wheeled vehicles you see in the photo. I came across Rikkyo University, a neat Japanese university. I explored the campus, and took the…Continue Reading…

Photo: Tempura by-the-piece at the grocery store On Tuesday, we visited Tokyo Hackerspace. I was inspired with ideas for Saigon Hackspace, which will be a hackerspace in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was one of those mornings where I woke up very late; I think it was nearly noon. I went with Nick to…Continue Reading…

Tokyo Union Church: 5-7-7 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan. 3400-0047 Today we went to Hakone and used our “Hakone Free Pass” which had cost ¥5,000. I had actually forgotten that I had been to Hakone before. For some reason, I imagined that I had never seen Mount Fuji in person. Perhaps that is the case; maybe…Continue Reading…