Summary of 3D Printer（PIC)
February 18th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
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Wednesday night with 3D Printing
February 14th, 2012 § 2 comments § permalink
A few days ago, Jeremy’s Weibo got retweeted over a thousand times and shows a lot of interests in 3D Printing and related technology. In this week’s Wednesday night event, we invite a few speakers to give talks on their experience with 3D printers
Cheng Zhang a MCAD&PLM Competitive Strategy Specialis be giving a talk on Open engineering and will help to debunk myths on 3D printing.
Staphany will discuss her experience building two Makerbots
Michael will talk about the state of RepRap in XinCheJian
Aquaponic update from Roger Mu
February 14th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Roger Mu who presented his home farm a few weeks ago just sent a few pictures to share. Some pretty nice tomatoes
vvvv workshop
February 12th, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
Introduction to vvvv workshop at Xinchejian; a multimedia development environment. Next week: advanced practical workshop.
Introduction to Filmmaking – Showtime
February 8th, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
After more than 12 hours hard work – learning, scripting, shooting, editing … Wednesday February 8th 7:00 PM is the SHOWTIME for the short films we have produced in the Introduction to Filmmaking workshop. The Instructor, French filmmaker Jérôme Laniau will comment on our final work. Come to celebrate and enjoy with us. Everybody is very welcome.
Let’s take a look at our work, also our cast and crew:
1. The Shadow
- Lily Yuan
- Bob Wang
- Yihao Zhang
2. Crazy Winner
- Moad El Abdi
- Chihiro Hosoe
- Vanessa Shi
- Bethany Jesseph
3. Hands
- Qu Ru
4. The Art of the Killing
- IHan Cheng
- Chihiro Hosoe
- Vanessa Shi
5. China Scary – The Interrogator
- Ricky Ng-Adam
- Lionello Lunesu
- Yunheng Yang
- Honghao Zheng
- Rockets Xia
6. PWB (Painting Without Brush)
- Stéfanie Vallée
- Bethany Jesseph
- Lawrence Wang
XinCheJian in “New Forces of Global Governance”
February 5th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
XinCheJian is at the center of a new article “SHANGHAI, THEY SAY, ISN’T CHINA. BUT MANY CHINESE CITIES IN MANY WAYS ARE FOLLOWING SHANGHAI’S LEAD. SO ONE DAY SHANGHAI COULD WELL BECOME CHINA. WHY? WHY NOT?” by Ulrike Reinhard
Xinchejian, the first of many hackerspaces in China, is a place closely related to Xindanwei. A hackerspace is a community-operated physical place where people can meet and fool around with their projects. Each hackerspace is an autonomous entity, but they all share the same philosophy: it’s an environment where people can learn and tinker with technology, work in teams and take part in international competitions where many new opportunities can be found and created for all.
Unlike Xindanwei, Xinchejian is not in the middle of a tourist shopping district in a glossy picture postcard part of Shanghai. It’s in a far more “real” part of town, away from the rich expats and the manicured shopping malls down a narrow hard-to-find one way street in an old warehouse. If I’d have come in my own car, I’d have had to parlay with the locals to park it! In other words, it’s in a spot not too dissimilar from the other neighborhoods where hackerspaces are hidden away.
Also, big thanks to Ulrike for nominating XinCheJian to the Digital Community in this year’s Ars Electronica.
Squishy circuit
February 4th, 2012 § 2 comments § permalink
Squishy conductive men and women!!
February 26th, 9AM to 12PM will be the first conductive dough workshop, be a god and make a your own male & female dough (conductive and non-conductive) with a simple recipie with your own hands, create a funny conductive “man” doll or “female” doll.
The dough recipe is very simple, which uses common everyday materials, flour, salt, vegetable oil, water, and so on. with simple mixing and kneading with a splash of color to make any color.
Want to make a squishy circuit?
1) build all kinds of circuits from buzzers to LEDS to motors
2) A safe and easy way for kids to play with dough and experiment with electricity (Low power)
3) Pick and choose the color of the dough to make what ever comes to mind
4) Use the dough with arduino to make some eye popping artistic projects (great for the entire family)
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Welcome children over the age of five and the playful spirit of moms and dads together in this workshop, and our dough carnival 
Attribution:
Crazy dough (squishy circuit) is the product of the American University of St. Thomas University UST Design Lab AnnMarie P. Thomas, professor and her team developed and used to help children quickly and securely visual learning circuit. Thank AnnMarie P. Thomas and her team around the world to share the results of this teaching, but also thanks to Squishy Circuits, project Matthew Schmidtbauer in the process of organizing this workshop to provide technical guidance. Text pictures from facebook and Squishy Circuits, the project’s website.