International travel to hand off the design to other companies:
Once the reference design was complete and fully tested, I was part of a small team of engineers that traveled to three different high-volume manufacturers in Asia who were gearing up to produce their own cameras based upon our reference design, using our camera chips. I had never traveled in Asia before, so this was a very interesting experience. While we spent most of the time working, we did generally have evenings free and we were gone for a total of two weeks, so there was some time to explore :)
One was located in South Korea, and we were visiting there during winter. Here are a few pictures from the South Korea portion of the trip:
Next, we visited a company in Taiwan (and one of our team members was raised in Taiwan, so we got to explore even more of the city of Taipei):
One of the places we saw was called 'Snake Alley' because they sell, among other things, live snakes, and other things related to snakes (I will spare you the details, but if you are interested, Google 'snake alley, taipei' if you want to learn more).
Finally, we finished the trip visiting a company in Singapore. Although it had been snowing in South Korea, it was a tropical 85 degrees with high humidity in Singapore which is near the equator:
