Lio and Gilbert won the first place with total load of 7.65kg! The winning team got an Arduino UNO board and some components!

Sherry and Min Lin won the second place with total load of 5.48kg!

CSTD team won the third place with total load of 3.61kg!

Congratulations to first 3 winning teams and thank you all for participating! A Special thank you to the people at TechYiZu for sponsoring the event.

Spencer from the new website Usable Devices (“Devices that work, those that don’t and those that need to be created!“) has already some interesting writing on its blog with both technical articles such as an attempt to build a robot for the next roborace, a flattering article towards XinCheJian with a profile of two out of the three founders (the other being of course Min Lin Hsieh) and a report on the presentation from MakeSense at the last Wednesday Open House. Always interesting for us to get an outsider perspective to our space and insights in more of the local projects!

Quad Copter workshop by He QiChen – 26th Saturday 9am – 12pm
You’ll get every single part you need to build your own quad copter and fly it. This workshop is run by He Qichen
Sign up online here: http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=73

Roboracing – Sunday 1pm – 4pm – free
If you’re going to race send an email to xinchejian@googlegroups.com, if you’re planning on watching please let us know by signing up here: http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=71 race starts at 2pm loose with setup/testing from 1pm

Can the champion hold onto his *wictory* cup?

Come and join us, we’ve still got Kits available for those who want to learn to solder or produce something worthwhile in an hour. fun to do and fun to play with, get the brain machine to truly relax.

It’s always good to make stuff, nothing beats the self accomplishment of making something and finishing it, if you make bits n bytes all day, come and make bits n bobs.

This week at XinCheJian we have something for everyone.

He QiChen dubbed the “Mitch Altman of China” is a young creative entrepreneur with a very bright future. His latest idea is called Toy Story (云端漫步) which has got him noticed at the latest startup weekend. Learn more tonight as He QiChen presents his Vision.

Also going on tonight is a Christmas team, tonight is brainstorming. Some interesting things are already coming up on the mailing list so come and make something you can be proud of and share with others to make this December one of a kind.

If this doesn’t do it for you, this Sunday is robo-racing weekend, a great time to make your robot or modify it to race better is tonight.

We’ve just received our nine temperature controlled soldering station with digital display! Generously given by ELEMENT14 as participation prizes to for the spring 2011 Great Global Hackerspace Challenge competition.

Hi All!

The toy hacking contest is coming to the last stage – Vote! You can find all the final submissions there and check them in detail.

Please vote for XinCheJian’s Beckoning Cat (no. 2) and help to spread the words to your friends, the poll ends on October 7th!

http://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2011/09/28/toy-hacking-contest-vote-for-your-favorite-project/

Thanks!

Video on YouTube

Hello to all the Enthusiasts and hackers out there, come join us this evening for a jam packed 2 hours, so get up off the couch and make a difference.

As always, hacking wednesdays is open to the public, if you’d like to support the space and help us continue hacking Wednesdays feel free to donate either cash or buy products from XinCheJian (even drinks!), only your support will help us sustain the space.

Mitch Altman kits are still in stock, jump on those before it’s too late, learn how to make the LED cube using multiplexing and learn how to solder.

==== Hacking Wednesdays ====

If you want to try your robot in this weekends race and have yet to finish it or build one, dont fear, come down to XinCheJian tonight and buy a R/C car like rickys 70rmb, rip the guts out and replace it with an Arduino 180rmb, theNelsons h-bridge shield 50rmb and 2 ultra sonic sensors 35rmb.. everything you need is in the space, not only will you be a hacker but you’ll learn some awesome skills while you do it.

Tonight Min Lin and Ricky will be around to share stories from their recent hacking journeys.

Get an insight into processing. we have a special guest coming down who’ll be setting up a processing workshop, find out whats involved tonight.

Michael (RubberDucky) will be drilling into the walls to setup some computer benches, and also hooking up his mega-super-awesome-button-box for the new restricted toys (lathes, mills, bandsaw, drill)

Paul will be discussing the lock-picking study with interested participants.

Lio will be figuring out how he’s going to do the bamboo go-kart with those interested for the ben heck challenge (find out more tonight) and how you can be involved.

After the event around 9pm the hackers will take to the tracks for some go-karting “research” at Chang Feng park indoor race track for some super awesome driving skills “bring a head mounted camera”

If you thought this Wednesday is fun, wait for the weekend..

==== This Weekend ====

Saturday – all day: Organic waste workshop.. find out how to make bio-diesel, sign up and more information here:

http://xinchejian.com/event/?regevent_action=register&event_id=55&name_of_event=OrganicWasteRecyclingWorkshop

Saturday afternoon – 5 presentations from XinCheJian will be delivered at _Barcamp_ Shanghai so come and show your support for xinchejian.. sign up and more information here: http://techyizu.org/shanghai-barcamp-2011-september-24

Sunday morning – Ardublock workshop.. never programmed in arduino before? use ardublock to visually program.
sign up here: http://xinchejian.com/event/?regevent_action=register&event_id=58&name_of_event=ArduBlockWorkshop

Sunday afternoon – Robo Racing championship, find out if the Title stays with XinCheJian for a 3rd victory, find out if anyone can take on theNelsons or mindstorm robots! Man vs Machine will Machine win again!
Sign up here: http://xinchejian.com/event/?regevent_action=register&event_id=57&name_of_event=RoboracingCompetition

Severin reports on his progress:

Started working on the beckoning cat last night, so I wanted to give you
an update about the progress. Took the cat apart, and got as far as attaching the arm to one servo, so it should now be able to move back and forth, like it’s traditionally supposed to, just that we can control the motion. Took a whole bunch of pictures and I’ll start writing some step-by-step instructions in the next few days.

If anyone wants to help me on the project, let me know. More people, more
ideas, and a more awesome cat

Participants last preparations:

Participants self presentation:

Racing!

The Winners: Nelson Zhang (Autonomous Wall-E) and Michael Liao (Remote controlled Tank)
A big THANK to Shanda Innovations for sponsoring 2 E-Book readers as prices for the winners!

Roborace Contestants and their Creators:

Thumbs up to all the participants for their great work! Thank you to Shanda Innovations for being our generous sponsor! Thank you to TimeOut magazine for featuring our event! Thank you to DFRobot and RoboticFan particularly Ricky Ye and Rocky for co-organizing this event! Thank you to XinDanWei for promoting our event! Thank you to everyone who visited us yesterday! Thank you to those who cannot come for your mental support! Thank you to Andi for the great poster and flyer design! Thank you to Paul for sponsoring the posters printouts! Thank you to Bindy for helping out on translations and selling drinks! Thank you to Michael for sponsoring his E-book for next competition and buying drinks to the participants! Thank you to John for helping out on event organization! Thank you to Airie for promoting the event on RenRen! Thank you to Min Lin for promoting, coordinating and organizing the event!

We’re planning to have the next Roboracing at the end of August, stay tuned!

This event is open to everyone, please bring your friends and family! Register here.

The competition will be in 2 parts:

* Autonomous robot car racing

* Remote controlled robot car racing

==>Competition Rules<==

If you wish to become participant at the racing, please send email to: roboracing@googlegroups.com

If you wish to become sponsor of this event, please send email to: staff@xinchejian.com

Here’s some pictures of the last Roboracing event.

Registered teams:

Team 1: Lauren Pan (Toy car modification robot)
Team 2: Barry Xu (DIY robot)
Team 3: Daniel (2WD Mobile robot kit)
Team 4: Zhang Chen (Andriod control HCR)
Team 5: Jiang Gui Long/Wu Tao/Zhang Jie ( Android Control HCR)
Team 6: Rockets (Tank mobile robot)
Team 7: Unknown (LEGO mobile robot)
Team 8: Ricky Ye (HCR robot)
Team 9: Ricky Ng-Adam (Autonomous robot toy car – ART)
Team 10: Lutz Michaelis (Autonomous Beetleduino)
Team 11: Paul Adams (Hoverbot Hubert)
Team 12: Nelson Zhang (Autonomous Wall-E)
Team 13: Lionello Lunesu (LEGO mobile robot)
Team 14: David Li (Soccerbot)