Rockets

夏青，微笑的Rockets，前环境工程师，现DFRobot社区经理，Ham，呼号BG4HTO，从小爱折腾，参加过一次机器人挑战大赛后决定自制机器人。第一次在新车间找到同好，热爱一切可以动手实践的玩意！

Battle of 3D Printers

Both Lucio and Rockets are working on 3D Printers.

Lucio

Brazilian, Lawyer, MBA, and ex-executive, turned his life on its head, sold his house and bought a sailboat, crossed the Atlantic twice and lived for a year with his wife, three kids and dog at sea, sailing along the coast of Brazil and through the Caribbean Islands. Loves sailing, cycling, movies, practicing Kung Fu and cooking.

Now living in Shanghai, joined the Shanghai Hackspace (XinCheJian) and built the space’s first working DIY 3Dprinter from scratch.

Photography by Lumi and Postprocessed by David

Matthieu Tondeur aka Chromaphase

Live visual artist / 3D mapping

Actually working on the Daedalus city project. Its a gigantic city robot that carry swarm robot and received real time synchronization 3D mapping with advanced content. Robots inside robots.

Why XCJ ?

As an artist that is passionated in science and electronic i found my place in Xinchejian. here I can cooperate with people that are from different cultures and expertises. Making stuff that link art and technology is my aim. Also its a good working atmosphere when doing some projects. Always a member is around for help or advise, help you to “make stuff”

Who are you?

My name is Lutz and I am member of Xinchejian. Now my job is robotics engineer and in my spare time i am taking photos (yeah, the Maker Portrait photos are my creation but David did the post processing). In Xinchejian I am mainly active in robotics and related workshops. I am from Germany and living 8 years in Shanghai now but if you wanna talk in Chinese to me then please be prepared that you might have to switch to English…谢谢

Why are you member of of XinCheJian?

Well, a couple of years somebody forced me to go there…really bad things happened after the first visit. I did not only abandon my first hobby (remember…photography) but also spend less time with the great photographer Flickr group here in Shanghai.
Slowly I adapted to my new life and became another person…I mutated to … something else. Now instead of taking pictures of flowers, buildings and other stuff I am building robots, electronic things and even changed my job. I can also meet my needs to take pictures in Xinchejian since our new style is to combine those two hobbies. Now I am taking pictures of people with robots, people with lamps, with Mojito’s, pretty models with 3D printed stuff on them Yeah, I am happy to be member of XCJ (that’s the short version) because I can meet people with the same addiction there and doing some crazy stuff together. The mix of that many cultures, languages and believes make Xinchejian to a place where you wanna be to create awesome things.
Don’t believe the pictures you see now, it’s staged.But I can tell you, sometimes we are close to insanity…(not really, let me phrase it “There is more than meets the eye” ”)

Photo by David (with a Canon!!!) Oh, he’s a Nikon guy!

Who are you?

Hey y’all, my name is IHan, the geek wannabe. I’m an interaction designer and an amateur cook. You’ll see me in Xinchejian a lot, mainly baking cookies and making Mojitos, not exactly high tech… but one day, it’ll be cookies with edible health monitoring chips and Mojitos with blood alcohol level reader straws;)

Why are you member of of XinCheJian?

I admire people who can make things and I hope if I hang out with the cool gang a lot, I might be able to be just as cool one day;)
People are very generous and open here. I’m always inspired to see how XCJ is pushing science and technology to the general public. Shanghai is very lucky to have this group of people and this space, and I’d love to see more people joining the force.
Also, I love the culture in XCJ. At work, everything is designed for a reason, so the “making for the sake of making” attitude in XCJ is very liberating.

Photo by Lumi

The Second Maker Portraits, here is our Flickr group

Who are you?
I’m not a superhero or that guy from the big bang theory, I am however closer to a human than those would think, I am Paul Adams.

What do you do?
Some say I run the United states of America, but I don’t believe that, by education I’m a Graphic Designer by industry I’m a one man web development company.

What inspires you?
The learning process is inspirational but doing anything with stuff is just the greatest!

What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?
I like the makers, and I like making stuff, the crazy projects with the “don’t talk about it, go do it“ mentality is awesome. Plus if you’ve been around long enough you’ll start to learn things you never thought possible. An example is my first few visits to XinCheJian, I was hacking my first robot – a Hovercraft. I had no idea where to begin or what I was doing, it was He Qichen who took 10 minutes to give me the brief introduction to using a multimeter and I was setup and burning stuff quicker than you could scream ‘FIRE!”

XinCheJian is a new experience, the fact you have the opportunity to do anything is mind blowing, the chance to share the chance to learn whilst being around like-minded people is phenomenal.

I love the fact that the entire hackerspace community is not pretentious; true, honest people doing real things, you need to get your hands dirty, you need to build stuff. “Talkers walk but makers provoke!” (yes I should work on that one)

What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?
I want to do something, accomplish many tasks, and learn as much as I can, share everything and experience both the good and bad, i have a thirst for experiencing new things, I also love the idea of being a pioneer.

If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?

It would have to be how much I don’t know, especially some of those technical conversations that happen, I just nod my head in agreement and every now and then say “interesting, tell me more!”

Tell us a secret.. One you haven’t told anyone else?
This last year has been fulfilling, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it, loved the bad and enjoyed the good, I wouldn’t change it.

Who’s your idol?
Lady Ada (Limor) is my idol.

Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)
I would rate myself at 42 on the geeky slider out of 63, 2/3rd geek.

1. Who are you?姜昊, a fat guy.
2. What do you do?Full time web developer, part time hacker.
3. What inspires you?People who do more stuff than what they say.
4. What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?People who makes things, and things gets done. People help each other and exchange ideas.
5. What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?Make ideas into real physical thing. Knowing the path is totally different from walking the path.
6. If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?Food?
7. Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?I am fatter than i look.
8. Who’s your idol?André Tanguy
9. Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)6?

1. Who are you?
   I’m Mika Lin | 林信義，call me mika please:)
2. What do you do?
   I’m a Interaction designer at ETU in Shanghai.
3. What inspires you?
   Life and nature. And I like the way of communication between people and objects.
4. What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?
   i can get many instruments,knowledges,skills here.and make the imagination comes true.
5. What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?
   Combine human body and real object,present the data of body in a new way,make the original thing more interesting,more funny.
6. If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?
   No more excuses No more think. Just Make the thing in your mind expressing your imagination in your mind with real object.
7. Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?
   Actually the white hair you see on my head. i just insert it into my head…(coool ?…….hahaha)
8. Who’s your idol?
   Nature | Albert Einstein | Louis Isadore Kahn | James Francis Cameron, all of them enlighten me on study,observation and combination.
9. Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)
   Between 0 and 10,i choose 6,it is a place appropriate and still rest many spaces developed and obsorb many new things.

1) Who are you?
Sunny, Sun.

2) What do you do?
Quality and Supplier Chain Management

3) What inspires you?
The movie of “Old Boy” always inspired me to do sth for myself. Never say late to your dream. Go for it and do sth for it.

4) What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?
To be frank, It is the home feeling that attracts me here. In Xinchejian, we treat each other as family members and we share idea and help each other like family members. also we got a lot of courage from xinchejian. There are many falling dreams in my kids time, i want to pick them up and realize them at Xinchejian with the help of community.

5) What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?
I am not satisfied to the current education in China, which still use all the old days tools and method to educate our kids. Also the whole purpose of the school is competition and high score. Our teachers seldom ask our kids what they really like and what they want to do. I want to run a new kids “Play and Learn program” and make some changes to Kids education. Maybe It can only be a small step, but with the help of XinCheJian and Internet, I am sure more and more friends will join in me to make a change.

6) If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?
Stop Talking, do something right now.

7) Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?
I learn a lot from my son and in some point of view, he is teaching me a lot about kids. and I really want to be his best friend forever.

8 ) Who’s your idol?
My father is my idol. he is really a great man feeding all my three brothers and sponsor our high education. He is also a role model to be a responsible man to family.

9) Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)
I think am a geek but my skills are still far away from Geek. So Nerd maybe a more right word for me.

Lio 李欧

1. Who are you?
   Lionello Lunesu, but please call me Lio.
2. What do you do?
   I’m a Tech Lead at Microsoft China.
3. What inspires you?
   People making stuff.
4. What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?
   Everything you could possibly need to realize your idea is there, no more excuses.
5. What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?
   Being a programmer I’m making stuff all day, but nothing beats working with real materials.
6. If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?
   I’d like everyone to know that finishing a project, no matter how insignificant it seems, results in a high, and it will make you go back for more.
7. Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?
   Uh, see the answer to the next question:
8. Who’s your idol?
   I’m going to sound like a nerd, but Bill Gates inspires me. He’s a geek with business skills and his heart is in the right place.
9. Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)
   From 0 (Queen Elizabeth) to 10 (übergeek), I’m probably around an 8: pretty geeky yet not unsociable (.. I hope!)