新车间 [Xinchejian]

Totally popular!!! We have almost 30 kids plus parents. Thanks to Sunny teaching the workshop and Infy and Joshua to help out.

Modern Weekly did a nice report on Maker in China featuring Beijing Hackerspace and XinCheJian.

Tony Zhang from Neurosky

He brought their brainwave reading and EKG measuring system.

Hans Bao from Innovati

Hans came in from Taiwan to talk about his Commander system. And show off their kick ass humanoid.

Sunny and Squishy Circuit

I can’t wait for the Sunday workshop!

Stanley and Arduino/ODB

Stanley is back to talk more about hacking car with Arduino and ODB.

Sunday – here are a few teasers to the new “line followers” being built.. Excuse the Cheap editing..

checkout this awesome robot.. thanks to them for sending us a paper robot with the commander system inside

Stephany and her R2B2 Makerbot

Michael and the RepRap

Valentin and his social glasses

Stanley and the ProEmulator

Zhang Chen and the overview of 3D printing in manufacture

Heart Shape LED

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

Roger Mu who presented his home farm a few weeks ago just sent a few pictures to share. Some pretty nice tomatoes

Introduction to vvvv workshop at Xinchejian; a multimedia development environment. Next week: advanced practical workshop.

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 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.