December 26th, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
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!
December 16th, 2012 § 3 comments § permalink
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.
December 12th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
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!
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
December 5th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
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 § 0 comments § permalink
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 § 0 comments § permalink
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 § 0 comments § 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 § 1 comment § permalink
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.
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 § 2 comments § 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 § 0 comments § permalink
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.
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
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
September 26th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
XinCheJian will be active during the october holiday, opening from 10am until 9pm or the last man out the door, for those that didn’t make it to the 3D printing workshop on the weekend it was a great success! this thursday we have the makers photo session, so if you want to get your electronic portaits on join David and Lutz with your projects for an awesome photo shoot, our previous shots can be found here: http://xinchejian.com/makers/
Lionello Lunesu (Lio) will be talking about Demo Scene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscenea computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer. The main goal of a demo is to show off programming, artistic, and musical skills, so join him, and “just make it!”
August 22nd, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
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.
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