June 27th, 2012 § § permalink
It may be raining once this week, but it’ll never stop the wednesday meetup, tonight we’ve got some interesting speakers and this weekend come join us as we say goodbye to a few friends particularly Peng Ziyun (Clemence) off to University and Andi is returning home to finish university, they will be around so say your good byes.
Rob van Kranenburg – Internet of Things will be doing a round table on Saturday the 30th at XinCheJian with hands on projects, expected to start at around 5pm for an hour, limited seats available so do book on the website if you are attending.
=Wednesday Presenters=
Huang Xinyu – Android/IR remote control, talking about hacking a standard IR plug and controlling any IR device possible, is this the all in one remote, straight from the power socket?
Robin Zhang will be talking about and demoing interfacing with an Arduino through an iPhone/iPad directly and saving over US$40 and it’s MFi approved!
This guy will be talking about building devices to monitor PH levels along with dissolved Oxygen and controlling the water to have 4 thermoclines, using a Zigbee network and finally passing the data back over a GSM network, in near real time, making commercial fishery management that much simpler
R&D director Joan Llabata a multimedia Artist, developer and film maker from Spain and also the director of the R&D hacklab at GreenHouseCore in Shanghai. He studied computer engineering and arts in Spain but never graduated he was won many awards, he’ll be talking on Arts as a developer, the create perspective, conceptualizing, design and production of interactive systems, it’s exactly what we do, with more planning
June 22nd, 2012 § § permalink
The farming team got two more systems online today: Bubble bucket:
Fogger aeroponic:
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June 21st, 2012 § § permalink
Ariel Yotam is sharing with us what life in the village is like, and show a few solar products that are already helping villagers.
some solar products
Oscar as know at weibo named @口琴小子 shared with us the experience of creating their own DIY drum set.
Jackie from the hydroponics team was share with us the progress of “odor of oregano”.
Barry Xu come from DFRobot shared with us the ultimate tool for urban farming: Ecoduino. Really handy and easy to use tool for wireless green home monitoring.
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June 19th, 2012 § § permalink
After another one week, we got pretty good seedling with strong roots; transplant was completed this evening with great support from Roger. More details will be shared on this Wednesday evening XCJ meetup; stay still and get your nose ready 
June 15th, 2012 § § permalink
Roger setup the aquaponic box last Saturday. It’s a ebb and flow system with ceramic pebbles.
June 14th, 2012 § § permalink
instead of traditional seedling from seeds, we are trying to grow roots in water and coconut peat bases from fresh oregano plant (stems with leaves). after 1 week, more than 50% oregano has grown its own roots. finding:
- oregano grows taller with more leaves in coconut peat than in water,but with less and smaller roots
- in the same water base, oregano grows more and roots with lightening compares to those under sunlight.
June 8th, 2012 § § permalink
The Second Maker Portraits, here is our Flickr group
June 8th, 2012 § § permalink
The Urban Farming Lab is opened! We have setup an ebb and flow system and are planning to build other system in the near future.
Ebb and Flow system
PH, Temperature and Conductivity PPM meter
LED growing lights
Fish Tank for Aquaponic
June 6th, 2012 § § permalink
This last weekend we saw XinCheJian overflowing with kids during our kid-maker-faire they got to see and do everything we do, well, ok not all but they did use solder and hotglue which is a key ingredient to everything.
Check out Sandle making this wednesday, just bring your own shoes you wish to modify.
=Wednesday Presenters=
Rodolfo Cossovich from Rudy Bike Fame will be presenting Next Generation of Building Systems: Fab-Lab Compatibility, talking about hardware parts that are designed to be interconnected to construct different devices and their applications. With the onset of cheap laser cutters, 3d printing and free (as in beer) or opensource CAD software making it even easier for people to get started and making things often out of reach, rethinking and rebuilding a huge industry from the ground up, from education in maths, sciences, designs, user skills and manufacturing processes with resources available at the touch of a button, do you build once or build to modify? it’s a presentation you should not miss.
Jim Hotary director of Eastworks Innovation Center of Faurecia will be speaking tonight about how they get down with R&D to create compelling user experiences, most of what they do is closed door but we’ve convinced him to share, he’ll be talking about SmartFit the ergonomic app for your phone that adjusts your seat to the correct position for your body.
June 3rd, 2012 § § permalink
Yesterday’s Young Makers Open Day was pretty successful! Thanks to all the participants for coming! Thanks to all XinCheJian volunteers who spent time and energy preparing and helping out!
For more pictures: http://is.gd/c2aXuB
