KIDE 2026
Three entries. One booth. The 13th Kaohsiung International Invention & Design Expo, 26–28 November.
Our InventionsAI Organizing Shelf
Tell it what you need today. One motorised camera arm scans every shelf — a missing slot turns red and your phone buzzes.
Multi-Toiletries Dispenser
Load up to three toiletries. Press a button, an ultrasonic sensor releases it into your hand. Rebuilt every year since 2024 — never restarted.
AI Checkout Mirror
A fitting-room mirror that recognises the clothes you are holding and rings them up, so the queue never happens.
Also in the Lab
Not every build comes home with a medal. Both of these were finished, entered and defended anyway.
Smart Rainwater
Control Roof
A roof that decides when to catch rain and when to shed it, cutting how much water a building throws away.
Multi-Move
Umbrella Holder
A clamp that holds an umbrella off your backpack so both hands stay free in the rain.
The Record
Competitions
The expos the lab works toward each year. Which ones we enter depends on which projects are actually ready.
Updates
KIDE 2026 — three entries
The lab takes three projects to the 13th Kaohsiung International Invention & Design Expo, 26–28 November. Internal mock judging runs 19 November in the Computer Science Experimental Lab.
Gold coverage in 經濟日報
The AI Organizing Shelf gold at WorldInvent Singapore was covered by Economic Daily News alongside Taiwan’s other entries.
Gold — AI Organizing Shelf
Judged 28 July in the online edition of WorldInvent Singapore. Entered as a team of five; the dispenser took bronze at the same event.
Silver + INNOPA Special Award
The Automatic Multi-Toiletries Dispenser at the 25th Malaysia Technology Expo — its third year out and its third different medal.
Rising Star — BIEA STEM, UK
The Smart Rainwater Control Roof placed in the British International Education Association STEM competition.
The Lab
We find a problem that annoys us, build it until it switches on, and then defend it on an expo floor in front of judges who look for holes in it.
Back the Build
Everything on this site was built by students on a school-club budget. Support goes into parts and entry fees — not overheads.
Components
Sensors, motors, microcontrollers and the single-board computers that run the vision models. The AI Organizing Shelf alone was about NT$10,000 in parts.
Fabrication
Filament, sheet material and the rebuilds — most parts get printed more than once before a prototype actually switches on.
Competition Entry
Entry fees and shipping for the expos the lab enters each year, starting with KIDE in Kaohsiung this November.
The Booth
Large-format poster printing, display stands and the parts that make a table look like something worth stopping at.
