Place: Stuttgart, Germany
Date: 29th October 2006
I had never seen such a huge exhibition for hobby projects. Its mind blowing to see the power of engineering in Germany. The Mechanical designs, small engines, precision plastic molds for the toys, accuracy in designs. We are talking about toys and hobby projects!!! People have spent their whole life working on one project! When they do it… they do it their best!
Construction…
You guys must have seen the huge construction machines, here we are talking about small versions of them and they exactly do the same thing!
Bike…
This bike looks huge and like a real bike, but it is a small bike kept on a table with real engine may be a size of 10CC. It had real disc breaks!
Helicopter…
Guy flying an Helicopter… its a small one made out of plastic but gives you control to fly in all directions.
Toy car…
This toy car has a real engine which runs on some alcohol based fuel and can go almost up to 40Kmph.
Train station…
Its a complete train station with city around it. I could also spot small toy people made around it. The trains are very accurate and move around on the tracks, change tracks. Spoke to this guy with my broken german and found out that he has taken 10years to build it!!!
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. It has taught us right from design, manufacturing, testing, marketing, customer handling… anything that you can think about in an MBA.
