Chromaphase (aka  Matthieu Tondeur) will be presenting this Wednesday at XinCheJian. In addition to having his own Wikipedia page, Matthieu is currently doing exciting 3D mapping video DJ  using Mao Livehouse as his home base. Here’s his self introduction:

Is it seasons greetings or Spring festival? neither, it’s half way between the both, Enjoy this feature filled Wednesday.

==Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述==

Yair Reshef guest from Israel will be talking about Hackerspaces in Israel, His projects, 3D scanner demo (http://mantis-vision.com/)

Thomas Yao, the creator of GitCafe and SHLUG advocate will be presenting this evening on GitCafe, where they are and where they are going!

Rick Sheridan, CEO of RST in San Francisco will give his sourcing insights, previously scheduled for last week.

Yeung Man Leung 扬文梁, Razorfish! a lesson in big data and connected consumer experiences!

=Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍=
Yair Reshef – An art technologist and educator, consulting some of the leading art and design institutes in Israel. In this capacity he helps promote creative technology in the arts and vise verse. A recent such example is fabrication of a hepatic car wheel for a year long collaboration between Bezalel academy of Arts and General motors. As an educator he gives workshops and helps people experience rapid prototyping of electronics and code, his students ranging from small kids to teachers and faculty. Coming from Israel, he keeps a close watch on start-up culture, and have always been amazed by the power of a few committed talents to bring things to be.

Thomas Yao, a geek by heart has been involved in and runs the SHLUG for many years now, he is no stranger to XinCheJian and often visits, we’re waiting to find out what exciting things are coming to gitcafe this year!

Rick Sheridan, CEO of RST in San Francisco and friend of Mitch Altman will be presenting this evening, his expertise is in management of sourcing for OEMS and i bet he has some hairy stories to share.

Razorfish is sending down their top man! this guy eats big data and creates a masterpiece, driving digital media for fast moving companies, find out what he has to say on hacking.

We hope by now that your Christmas gifts have broken and that you have already started hacking them! we’ve got a great line up this week of presenters, also keep an eye for Dork Bot announcement to be hosted on the 19th. Since it’s a new year, why not be more active and make something! make stuff!

This weeks lineup is as follows: Rick Sheridan, an expert in sourcing components. Hailing a NY storyteller, Colt Ma, and his Arduino based coffee roaster! Lobtail is flying in to show-off cloud-lab and 1626 潮流双周刊 magazine will be interviewing people!

=Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍=

Rick Sheridan, CEO of RST in San Francisco and friend of Mitch Altman will be presenting this evening, his expertise is in management of sourcing for OEMS and i bet he has some hairy stories to share.

Hailing from Shanghai, China, Dd ( Yang Jiang 江暘 ) is a New-York based visual storyteller that incorporates a multitude of mediums such as photography, painting, videography, interactive design and more into her art. For her, art is an essential way to approach her inner-self as well as the mysteries of nature. She attempts to honor both timeless wonders in the nature and the time-bound world of form. Now, she is pursuing her second master’s degree at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, where she is developing new modalities to integrate the beauty and intelligence of nature into the everyday lives of people.

自动咖啡烘焙机：项目刚起步，原型机Mark I基于一台小型爆米花机+arduino改造而来，通过大量的测试调整，已有了比较稳定的效果。 – The Arduino based coffee roaster Mark I ! based on an old popcorn machine.

Lobtail the creator of cloud-lab is building an interesting community tool, a virtual hackerspace with tools and equipment available for loan and projects published and collaboratively worked on.

Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述

• IKEA lamps: by Mika & Edward
• Fast & furious robot car: Edward
• Swarmbot update: Leo

Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍

This evening Mika and Edward will present dot dot dot the 64bit ikea lights, Edward will be show off his fastest robo racing car and Leo will show us swarm robots, he even has a an island variant – very cool!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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