新车间 [Xinchejian]

YN460 is a nice Chinese made flash for photography. The first hack is to enable controlling the power and flash trigger with Arduino. In the following video, the Arduino runs a 3 second step that trigger at its 7 power level.

Next step, adding network capacity to the flash and control it from iPhone!

Building an army of inexpensive quadcopters…

Wow, this is pretty big news for us at Xinchejian. Google releases Android robot libraries. In China, we have access to the biggest variety of Android devices, all thanks to the Shanzhai industry.

(Via DIYDrone.)

One of the first projects people want to start in Xinchejian is the Quadcopter. We started with a group of 3 discussing about this and finding the open design we want to use online. One key criteria is we should be able to source all the components easily found in Shanghai. So, off we go. The design we picked is the one designed by kinderkram. It uses gyros from Wii Motion Plus and accelerometer from Shanzhaied Nunchuk. Read More…