December 7th, 2012 § § permalink
For those people who aren’t going to the 3D Printer Workshop, we recommend going to the HACKYIZU – Techyizu’s Hackathon this Saturday and Sunday (Dec 8, Dec 9). Hackyizu should be a great event for developers, designers, and tech enthusiasts to get together and build something cool over a weekend. Come to pitch your idea, join a team, or just hang out with people from startups, and tech companies like Microsoft and Google.
The Hackathon will be held at Innovation Works‘ offices in Yangpu District.
Building 3#, No.200 East Guoding Road, Yangpu district (杨浦区国定东路200号3号楼)
The event is free, and there will be free food, t-shirts, and even prizes!
Read more details on the Techyizu website.
December 5th, 2012 § § permalink
12月05日周三开放日更新
- Marie Dariel – Bio Mimickery
- Michael Rozenberg – A board game fanatic
Marie Dariel will be talking about bio mimickery in design and how they hope to launch a program in the middle of next year that focuses on Nature-Inspired Innovation, a hot topic.
Michael Rozenberg will be presenting on board games, his deep passion for them and how he’s using them in day to day life and business. He’s also bringing his most loved board game over tonight, so get ready to get your game on and take it for a spin!
who else? *your name here* it’s also adhoc, so get ready, just keep it to 9 minutes plus Q&A afterwards
November 28th, 2012 § § permalink
Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述
CSK is coming down to show the MK802 (better than a Raspberry PI) doing motion tracking using an Arduino and OpenCV
Valentin is going to show us his recent project he worked on with Supernature named “Tablet Man” that’s loads of tablets, tron like suits and battery packs that will stop an airplane!
Sam Lynn will be presenting XZR magazine, a quarterly free bi-lingual magazine written by young reporters writing about things that inspire them but around technology, arts, music and also how to get involved.
November 21st, 2012 § § permalink
11月21日周三开放日更新
Due to last weeks unfortunate event we had to cancel the Kinect workshop, its always good to register for events as this time we were able to contact almost everyone before they headed out, unfortunately Patrick’s stay is coming to an end and he’s off soon, so drop in and say hi! when he’s back lets hope he’ll do some more awesome workshops.
Tonight: we have Kelvin from Shanghai Ureal a large scale 3D printing house that wants to print your stuff! and hopefully a special announcement from Lucio on the “build your own 3D printer” workshop coming up!
We have an open spot this evening for ad-hoc presentation so feel free to take the stage, just announce yourself upon arrival so we can prepare things in advance.
November 14th, 2012 § § permalink
Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述
Last Weekend it was great to see the multi touch tables working in no time! Patricks at it again, check out this weekend!
Francesca will be presenting on design buildings with locally available materials with an example of a school in the Himalayas, not to be missed
Zhang Chi (张驰) will be presenting on building your own oscilloscope (those pricey things with squiggly lines going up and down) and the workshop he’s got running, if you sign up tonight, you’ll get a 100rmb discount on the workshop! that’s up to 40mhz frequency or 20mhz if you want a little cheaper, it’s USB!
Upcoming Events/近期活动安排
Building interactive installations with the vvvv environment – vvvv与交互项目应用工作坊 (英语教学)
http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=152
Date: Saturday Nov. 17th & Sunday Nov. 18th 2012
Time: 10AM – 12PM, LUNCH, 1PM – 5PM
This is the most in-demand for workshop, 2 days of feature-packed-fun-filled-action-play – only a few spots remain
be Secret spy, or a double agent! – 007秘笈之一～密信潜伏
http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=153
Date: Saturday 24th 2012
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Perfect for kids and adults alike to explore and experiment with science and technology in a fun filled 007 workshop
November 7th, 2012 § § permalink
Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述
It’s adhoc wednesday, you know the score – open Mic without the Mic, get up and present something. that’s 9 minutes on stage, if you are giving a presentation please let a staff member know on arrival and what you need prepared. 7pm – be there.
For the next few weeks we have Patrick of the vvvv fame in town who will be running these awesome vvvv workshops. He travels the world over doing installations for fun and for work, he knows what he’s doing and has been doing it for years. sign up online and dont wait since there is limited seats, please if you cannot make it or are not sure, do not sign up as you will be denying someone a place.
Upcoming Events/近期活动安排
Multi-touch screen introduction workshop – 多点触摸屏入门工作坊 (英语教学)
http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=150
Date: Saturday Nov. 10th 2012
Time: 1PM – 5PM
In this workshop the participants will build a small multitouch screen out of a cheap webcam and a cardboard box which they can take home for further experiments. They will also learn how to use Community Core Vision, an open source software which does touch-table related computer vision.
In depth vvvv and multi-touch screen workshop – vvvv与多点触摸屏应用工作坊 (英语教学)
http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=151
Date: Sunday Nov. 11th 2012
Time: 10AM – 12PM, LUNCH, 1PM – 5PM
cant make saturday? dont worry do sunday, its a little more indepth but well worth it
Building interactive installations with the vvvv environment – vvvv与交互项目应用工作坊 (英语教学)
http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=152
Date: Saturday Nov. 17th & Sunday Nov. 18th 2012
Time: 10AM – 12PM, LUNCH, 1PM – 5PM
This is the most in-demand for workshop, 2 days of feature-packed-fun-filled-psychedelic-play
October 31st, 2012 § § permalink
Shanghai Maker Carnival is this weekend!! XinCheJian makers will be presenting lots of fun projects!
Location: Century Park Pudong, Shanghai (subway line 2, Science Museum station, exit 4 and 5)
Date&Time: Nov. 2 to 4, 9AM~5PM
The event is free but the park charges 10rmb entrance fee.
October 31st, 2012 § § permalink
Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述
Jared from Picarty will be presenting on his new app, recently famed for his presentation at barcamp “how i built my first app but still cant program” and it’s also adhoc wednesday, so get up and talk, just keep it to 9 minutes
Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍
Jared from Picarty will be presenting on his new app, recently famed for his presentation at barcamp “how i built my first app but still cant program” a good insight into what it take and where he is taking it – get hands on with his app this evening.
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
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Join us at maker carnival shanghai for shanghais first maker carnival, its located in century park and xinchejian will be demoing projects, we’re still looking for more helpers over the 3 days.
October 24th, 2012 § § permalink
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
October 16th, 2012 § § permalink
Bring out your robots! We will have an evening dedicated to Robotics talks next Wednesday evening at XinCheJian (1035 Changle Rd, 2nd floor, Xuhui District, Shanghai, CHINA, 200031) from 19h00 to 21h00. Talks will be between 8 and 20 minutes each. You have a robot but no presentation? Feel free to demo it before and after the talks!
Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer from the AI Lab at the University of Zurich will be talking about his work in robotics (such as Roboy) in a talk entitled “Embodied Intelligence”. Dr Pfeifer is the worldwide leader on how well designed intelligent bodies can dramatically reduce non-linear control complexity (“embodiment”) and the Deputy Director of the NCCR (National Competence Center for Research in Robotics) in Switzerland.
Dr Ricky Ye (叶琛) and Rockets Xia (夏青) from DFRobot will bring and present a set of their commercial robots and how they’re approaching development of robots with OpenSource and OpenHardware.
Spencer Featherstone and Edward Jiang (姜昊) will give an update on XinCheJian Swarm Robots. Our swarm robots placed second at the AFRON competition, just between Harvard and MIT!
Rodolfo “Rudy” Cossovich will show off making robots with Multiplo, the robot building system. Rudy has just recently successfully completed a round of fundraising on Kickstarter for Multiplo.
Announcement by Ricky Ng-Adam （伍思力), translated to Chinese by Amaca Wang, revision by Min Lin Hsieh. Robot drawing by Kevin Chen.
September 28th, 2012 § § permalink
This is a bit of a late follow up to the Barcamp Shanghai Fall 2012. Barcamp is an “unconference” where people come to share ideas, usually with a focus on technology. Over 500 people came to the event, and Xinchejian had a room to ourselves.
Here are some of the things we were doing:
* Xinchejian had an LED badge soldering station thanks to Min Lin Hsieh
* Arcade machine (Xinchejian’s unofficial day care for kids) by Lionello Lunesu
* Analog Line Followers and Swarm Robots by Lutz Michaelis
* Social glasses by Valentin Gauffre
* Space Gambit by Alex Cureton-Griffiths
* Lophilo by Ricky Ng-Adam
* 3D printing by Stephany Xu
* Compact micro-controller board by Sunny Jr
* Translation Station by Victoria
* Turning your stuff into a kit by Spencer Featherstone
* Adopt-a-Kitten by Freda
* Fish poo farming by David Li
* Robots Wars by Rockets 夏青
Many thanks to Paul Adams who was onsite all day for his help with the schedule and setup.
Read the total event recap from Techyizu
Overall, it was a fun event, and we recommend finding us at the next Barcamp!
August 22nd, 2012 § § permalink
A feature packed Wednesday planned for this week, from @aGuegu to Ben Houge to China Haxlr8r Folks, as always come along and buy a beer or soft drink and listen to some great presentations, finished with a round of do-nothing-but-chat or build-something-awesome you decide! 7-9pm dont be lame, hit the hackerspace on your way home!
Weihong Guan (@aGuegu) a fellow hacker and researcher will be presenting his projects this evening, from Nixie tube heaven from the 70s to showing off his amazing 8x8x8 led cube, this guy makes his living by selling his inventions which can be found all over the internet. His awesome 8x8x8 cube kit will dazzle anyone and is the perfect table top conversation piece, with integrated arduino in a tiny tiny form factor driving 512 LEDS! plus 4 more for fun!
Cyril Ebersweiler started the haxlr8r.com, a hardware accelerator program based in Shenzhen. Haxlr8r people will come visit on Wednesday afternoon and hopefully stay to the evening, there is a high chance that Cyril will not be able to stay as him and his wife are currently expecting a new hacker in the family.
Ben Houge, with 16 years of experience developing video games, including 4 years at ubisoft shanghai working on Tom Clancy’s EndWar, he will be teaching the MAX/MSP workshop this weekend at xinchejian on saturday (http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=143), a tool in which he creates most of his musical mayhem, i’ve seen this guy present before, and wow, quite the experience. he currently teaches in Boston area, where he teaches video game music at Berklee College and is also working on a research project with MIT http://mit.edu/music21/ on musicological analysis.
