There’s a group buy happening right now! and a competition going on!

Dagu electronics has announced a competition: use a doodlebot to make the most awesome drawing to compete for prizes, plenty of prizes to be won! read about it here: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/37126

Lutz a long time member of XinCheJian has contacted them since we’re in china and negotiated a great deal if we do a group buy, our target.. at least 20 pieces and our price.. 198rmb/each

if you want to get a doodle bot and not participate in the competition instead that’s fine! but if you want to get in on the competition, then it’s even more awesome!

here is more information about the competition: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/37175

Sign up to the XinCheJian google group (email xinchejian+subscribe@googlegroups.com),  Send an email to xinchejian@googlegroups.com  titled “programming competition” with the words “i Pledge to buy X amount of Doodlebots if we succeed in our group buy” then get ready to send 198rmb to a group buy alipay account or drop into XinCheJian and hand over the cash to a staff member!  Lets put a deadline of May 22nd on this so we can hack the doodlebot sooner than later. Do not transfer or pay until Lutz gives us the word via email and verify it by checking http://xinchejian.com website.

Once the pledge is made, you’re on the hook for the cash!

Bragging rights, well deserved, the winner of this years Autonomous racing championship is EdwardRF with his entry XHD, a 10 second car that flew around the track, sticking like glue to the ground, nimble and hightech in one.

5 competitors competed for best time in time trials on the track for 2012, but only one would win. first up on the track was “Icecream Breaker” which unfortunately didn’t make it off the starting track.

The second contestant was Charlie “wallbanger” famed for it’s uncanny desire to hit every wall in the past, for this year it had an upgrade, 2 Sharp IR range sensors a powerful microservo, a high current motor driver all on top of an arduino nano built right into the original platform, he was no longer a wallbanger but a high powered racing car which clocked in at 7seconds in testing on the same course but different surface. Charlie set the time to beat at 14.62 seconds

XHD time to roll around, with a tough 14.62 seconds to beat, it started out on the track for 1 flawless lap, unfortunately the second lap was not as great, but it did clock in at 10.25seconds. this was the highest tech vehicle to race, PID controllers, wickedly expensive racing platform, 3 Sharp IR range sensors, 1 nano, 1 703n, 1 micro servo, 1 high power motor for the quad wheel drive-shaft with differential driving allowing it to take corners like no ones business.

With a little intermission Cherokey was ready to try again, this 4 wheel drive platform from dfrobot needed a little more time to work out the bugs but it was a great start, it could turn 360° on the spot! equipped with 4 Basic IR sensors, 4 powered wheel drive shaft and a nice base, unfortunately it’s fastest time on the track was 25.02 seconds with 1 collision making it 35.02 seconds.

With man behind the wheel in the only entrant into the User controlled group Stanley clocked in with Loader Shovel with 31.96 seconds, not a good start for human controlled. anyway he won by default.

Lio finally entered in with the Lone Ranger – unfortunately time and a new platform didn’t work out for him, it was a good show of walloping wall-banging!.

in winner takes all, EdwardRF took home the prize of 500rmb congratulations to EdwardRF, if you would like to challenge him, make sure you have a 10 second car or you’ll be paying the price of loosing to the champion.

Congratulations to those that built a 3D printer on the weekend, Lucio was excited and nervous to host this workshop, being his first ever one! You’ve all done very well and not given up! Look out for more improvements and more workshops from High Energy – i don’t sleep – Lucio!

Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述

胡介鸣 – BlackBoxlab
Alex Cureton-Griffiths – SpaceGAMBIT

Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍

胡 介鸣 will be presenting blackboxlab and some of their installation work done previously and how you can also get involved. Using art, electronics, design, interaction, any action! check out http://www.blackboxlab.org

Alex from SpaceGAMBIT will hopefully be presenting this evening, it’s been hard to pin him down, so we just tied a rope to his rocketship!

who else? *your name here* it’s also adhoc, so get ready, just keep it to 9 minutes plus Q&A afterwards

我们准备在2012年12月16日下午1点在世界末日前举办本年度最后的新车间机器人比赛。

如果你想要加入这个比赛，请注册我们的活动（你可以参观，但相信我们，加入比赛比作壁上观的感觉会更好！）。加入比赛的需要丢100元人民币到我们的比赛箱，最终胜者将拿走所有的钱，当然如果没有人胜出的话，这些前会用于支持新车间的日常运行。这将是这件乐事的小小刺激吧。

如果你愿意参加循线比赛，虽然没有奖励，但同时也是免费参加噢（如果你愿意，也可以制造一些刺激）。

嗯，下个季度将没有比赛了噢，一起来飞驰吧！

1: 自动组 - entry 100rmb winner takes all

http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/RoboRacing (Challenge track)

2: 循线组 - entry ???rmb winner takes all?

http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/Analog_line_follower

http://xinchejian.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/track-201204.pdf << track

注册: http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=156

Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述

Andy Shum from BASF will be in tonight announcing the new global product design competition which has been opened up to hacker spaces to participate, with 6,000 Euros on the line and a paid for trip to France for the winners – dont miss out, we’re also opening up the floor for ad-hoc presentations of 9 minutes, all are welcome, surprise us all.

Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍

Andy Shum participated in a spaghetti bridge building competition previously, he’s going to talk about the product design competition and why they opened it up to Hackerspaces around the world, get the scoop and ask some questions. http://stinkybad.com/quiet

who else? *your name here* it’s adhoc, so get ready, just keep it to 9 minutes plus Q&A afterwards

Upcoming Events/近期活动安排

Saturday 27th 1:00 to 5:30pm http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=149 Build your own award winning swarm robot and help the team out, they will continue to develop the swarm robot platform and your contributions during the workshop will help them do so, build your own 10dollar robot for only 300rmb, act now and register and pay only 280rmb

上周六，我们成功地举办了第一场群体智能机器人工坊，有10位成员参与其中：3位10岁左右的小创客，4位美女和3位帅哥。虽然过程中有些小插曲（元件替换和未收到电池），但现在电池和充电器都已经就位了。工坊成员可以在本周三晚上的开放活动，或是周四晚上的群体智能机器人小组聚会，过来领取电池和充电器，也可以发邮件到：staff@xinchejian.com 另约时间。

另外，新车间的群体智能机器人也已经参与到了世界范围内的教育比赛中，详情可点击这里

A few updates from projects in XinCheJian at the moment, Edward, Lutz and the rest of the swarmbots team have been working late in the evenings on a daily basis and producing good results! Stephany helped to print the swarm player designed by Valentin (without the e).

Valentin has been working on the Reprap over the weekend and this week, keep an eye out or an ear out for it printing.

Paul has been working on the CNC mill, the computer has 8GB SSD thanks to Edward, which means its quite fast!

Resistors are now available sorted by resistance, cut into 10′s and hung on the wall near the kitchen, that’s 10 resistors for 1rmb

=Wednesday Presenters=

David Li, the Foreman of XinCheJian And Roger Mu king of the jungle, will be kicking off the Hydroponics corner, a group is forming around Hydroponics, Areoponics – lets see what seeds they will plant first.

Li Xiang a Ph.D Candidate from Shanghai Jiao Tong University will be presenting his project and also seeking help in an experience involving machine learning and robotics along the lines of Factory Automation for Docks.

The rest of the evening will be met with discussions and people working on projects

XinCheJian will be holding a young maker faire on June 2nd, if you would like to help out or show your projects then please contact us.

恭喜Lio和Gilbert赢得第一名，他们的意面桥能载重7.65公斤！第一名的奖品是一块Arduino Uno开发板和一些电子元件！

旻琳和Sherry做的意面桥得第二名，能载重5.48公斤，其实本来可以得第一的，但因为宽度少了2、3公分稳定性不太够。

今天意面桥比赛第三名CSTD组，载重为3.61公斤！

恭喜前三名的队伍，也感谢大家热烈的参与！

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