this is the 3rd week after oregano cutting been transplanted into small pots with 4 different mediums and was surprised to find out those in vermiculite/‎蛭石 grow generally better (light blue pot) than the rest; especially there are 2 out of 5 died in soil base – with 24/7 lights on, water in soil base probably be dried out faster than vermiculite, coconut peat and perlite. 三周后的牛至幼苗在各自培养介质中均有良好的成长趋势；另人意外的是，在蛭石中，牛至的生长高度和强壮度是整体最好的。其次分别是椰糠，珍珠岩，再者是传统的培养土 – 猜测可能是因为在24小时持续的外加光照条件下，培养土中的水分流失比较严重。

top: 4 best growing in vermiculite base
bottom (from left to right): the best in soil (H=65mm), in perlite (H=67mm), in coconut peat (H=58mm) and in vermiculite (H=95mm),

It has been 2 weeks since oregano been transplanted into bigger pots with 4 different mediums, including soil and hydroponics which are coconut peat, perlite and vermiculite. By far, all cuttings are survived in their own home base while those in perlite are slightly shorter and smaller.

Florescent lights are set up last weekend (216W in total with 4 bulbs) running 24/7, and a small fan (2.5W) is available for creating mini air circulation environment. Once timers are fixed, ideally they will be off for 6 hours every 18 hours.

If you have any questions or be interested in growing your own hydroponic plants, feel free to contact David Li, Roger Mu or Jackie Hu.

Roger has summarized several ongoing hydroponic projects in XinCheJian, including:
- Ebb & Flow (operational since 4-June)
- Aquaponics (operational since 11-June)
- Fogger (operational since 16-ish-June)
- Bubbler (operational since 16-June)
- Aeroponics (under construction)
- Oregano (operational since 16-June)

if anyone of you have interested in joining us or for more information, feel free to contact David Li or Roger Mu.

After another one week, we got pretty good seedling with strong roots; transplant was completed this evening with great support from Roger.  More details will be shared on this Wednesday evening XCJ meetup; stay still and get your nose ready

This last week we’ve seen the kickoff meeting of swarm robots at the same time the light switches and power sockets have been installed! if you’ve not heard about swarm robots there is a meeting this thursday, check out the wiki page here: http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/Swarm_robots

7pm – free @ XinCheJian 2.0 1035 Changle Rd, 2nd floor – 上海徐汇区长乐路1035号2楼 see here for a map and directions: http://xinchejian.com/contact-us/?lang=zh

=Wednesday Presenters=

Tonight we have Lisa Juen, who will be showing off how she is integrating electronics into jewellery design for her brand proonk, www.proonk.com

=workshops=

新手创建3D模型 – 3D Modeling for Newbies – 2012/05/12, http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=125

During this workshop you’ll get introduced to the opensource tool Autodesk 123D and start modeling with easy step by step guides.

=Recent changes at XinCheJian=

Membership is now Just 100rmb per month per member, for an additional 200rmb a month you can also store your projects/stuff in the space in a box that is no bigger than 50x50x30cm, you can contribute more money if you want as a donation. Failure to pay membership will result in your junk being stored at XinCheJian becoming a donation to the space. XinCheJian will no longer offer community parts but instead sell them in sets, for example 10 resistors for 1rmb to cut down on waste. Members will have access to the space and the tools, strangers must be accompanied by a member at all times and will be responsible for that friend during that period at XinCheJian. For Full details see http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/Policy or http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/Policy/zh

=A quick blurb about XinCheJian=

XinCheJian is a community run hackerspace located in the heart of Shanghai, without your support with time, workshops, donations and memberships we would not be able to keep the space alive and in the same form as it is today, think about giving back in any way you can and help alleviate the financial burdens of those few who are funding the space.

=Volunteer Jobs at XinCheJian=
As a Volunteer you’ll earn your membership, you’ll also be expected to joinStaff meetings at least once a month. Only apply if you’re serious. Without the generosity of the current volunteers and sharing tasks in their free time, it would be near impossible to keep XinCheJian alive.

*Treasurer*
As the Treasurer you’ll be responsible for.. treasure. you need to <strike>have your own calculator</strike> we’ll provide you a calculator. the following are what you’ll need to handle on a monthly basis.

- Income/Outgoing spread sheets
- Look after the donation box
- Organizes the rent and bills from the bank account
- We’ll even send you to business accounting with the government (we’ll pay for this)
- Kind reminders to members to pay their membership dues

*Journalists*

A Journalist will be expected to write at least 1 article a week on a topic of whats going on inside XinCheJian, you pick a project and review it, can be a few hours an evening writing and a few hours in the day interviewing.

- you’ll be given an account on xinchejian.com
- You will need a camera
- English or Chinese – or both is encouraged
- confident and outgoing
- get as much information possible from people in the shortest amount of time.

This will be the last Wednesday in the old space, given that it’s a holiday we’re adjusting the time to be able to bring you an explosive get together during the day, read on for more.

Just a quick reminder, we kindly ask that those with “stuff” in XinCheJian remove it before the 8th and anything left behind will be considered a donation, if you would like to help with the moving we’ll have a packing party on the 7th, send an message on Weibo or here if you’d like to help out.

Wednesday presentations

Wednesday will start at 3:00pm not 7pm due to the speakers availability and the holiday, this is a one time only and we will return to the regular time next week.

Markus Bindhammer http://sugarshot.org/ ,from Germany is an enthusiastic experimental Rocketeer, amateur chemist, technician and mathmatician residing in Shanghai, Markus and his team Selene was a former Google lunar X Prize competitor.

Markus will be talking about “Experimental Rockets”, this will be explosive and Captivating, a great way to start moving to space with the best foot forward or rocket.

We’ve just got word over the hackerspace wire that the joint space program proposal to Darpa is entering negotiations for a potential contract award, good job and fingers crossed to those involved.

Coming up soon

新手玩转Arduino – Arduino for Total Newbies – 2012/04/14 – http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=112
Mitch Altman is going to be visiting us and running Arduino for Total Newbies! not only are you going to learn about programming Arduino’s but you’re also going to make your own Arduino! all in 3 hours! *this event is filling up faster than we could imagine, go sign up now*.

机器车竞赛 – Roboracing Competition – 2012/04/22 – http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=110
Are you ready!? Line followers, Autonomous’rs and remote specialists, take part in the 2nd race of this year, come show us what you’re made of! the 2012/04 track has been published on the wiki and demo’d at Barcamp! http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/RoboRacing

Processing class (English instructions) – 2012/04/28 – http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=114
Finally, given the huge success of the Ravens Processing classes in chinese, he’s -beenforced- agreed to run the class in English! he is doing some awesome stuff.

A quick blurb about XinCheJian

XinCheJian is a community run hackerspace located in the heart of Shanghai, without your support with time, workshops, donations and memberships we would not be able to keep the space alive and in the same form as it is today, think about giving back in any way you can and help alleviate the financial responsibilities. We have starter memberships from 300rmb a month with most members opting to take out a 500rmb membership a month to support the community, by being a member you’ll get access to the space whenever and workshops at the component price, we even have startup memberships for people looking to build a business and gain access to the space and tools at off hours.

Volunteer Jobs at XinCheJian
As a Volunteer you’ll earn your membership, you’ll also be expected to joinStaff meetings at least once a month. Only apply if you’re serious. Without the generosity of the current volunteers and sharing tasks in their free time, it would be near impossible to keep XinCheJian alive.

Treasurer
As the Treasurer you’ll be responsible for.. treasure. you need to have your own calculator we’ll provide you a calculator. the following are what you’ll need to handle on a monthly basis.

- Income/Outgoing spread sheets
- Look after the donation box
- Organizes the rent and bills from the bank account
- We’ll even send you to business accounting with the government (we’ll pay for this)
- Kind reminders to members to pay their membership dues

Journalists

A Journalist will be expected to write at least 1 article a week on a topic of whats going on inside XinCheJian, you pick a project and review it, can be a few hours an evening writing and a few hours in the day interviewing.

- you’ll be given an account on xinchejian.com
- You will need a camera
- English or Chinese – or both is encouraged
- confident and outgoing
- get as much information possible from people in the shortest amount of time.

1）Who are you?
廖俊彦, aka RubberDucky, or hey you, or Mike

What do you do?
Work for a private equity fund during the day, fight BS as my alter ego
during the night.

What inspires you?
People with not just passion but the decisiveness to do something about it,
and beer.

What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?
Likeminded comfortable community, accesses to resources, lack of BS, secret
hideout for alter ego

What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?
Make things! and ummm mostly repair the stuff I break.  Experiment with and
learn different building skills.

If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?
Share?  Share?  Evil VC’s don’t share.  Hmmm, a sense of peace and
contentment.  Wait, that’s 2, give me 1 back.

Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?
Ummm, in my former life I was one of the presidents of the USA….hopefully
one of the good ones.

Who’s your idol?
According to Google,
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100512231219AAXeHS8

Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that
way)
The sum, as k goes from a to b of f(k), where a=2, b=5, f(k) is ((k^2)+1)
Minus the meaning of life, the universe, and everything
Divided by 2 (cause I want to save the other half for later)

Have you ever wanted to write your own song, but never knew how to play any instruments?

This presentation will teach you how to use the loops already programmed in Garage Band to make your own song. No musical ability needed! We’ll also discuss standard song structure and what that means to a particular song.

Feel free to bring your own Apple computer to follow along.

Come see us at Xin Che Jian This event is free!

Presentation will be given by Joshua Rosen. He is a current intern at Meteroi. Has been studying and playing music for the past 8 years and has opened up for acts such as Peter Frampton, Blues Traveler and Mountain. He is currently participating in an exchange program at Donghua University. 

A quick thank you to all the friends and presenters of XinCheJian who
managed to make it to Occupy Barcamp, We had an Epic turnout and
XinCheJian really did a great job to Occupy Barcamp in Shanghai this
year, find out how we’re taking it up a notch and heading to capital
to Occupy the Maker Faire next month.

This weekend is the start of the Jue Festival dedicated to Music, Arts
and Technology that XinCheJian is involved in and supporting all
through the hard-work of Ziyun Peng.

Tonight’s Presentations

We have Derek Zhang coming down from his hobbyist store and bringing
some things that he’s developed, last week he showed us some videos of
boat racers able to hit 90km/h and copters of sorts – flying stunt
patterns, he has a strong footing in the shanghai R/C crowd and
invites us all to come play.

Susan Evans From GoodToChina will be talking about the upcoming Eco
Design Fair along with their two exhibits around Sustainable Build and
Urban Farming and how you can get involved through XinCheJian and
GoodToChina

This week

“Art+Tech”主题演讲 Dorkbot：《觉》＋ 新车间＝艺术＋技术；JUE + Xinchejian = Art +
Technology – 2012/03/10
Sign up here for a 10rmb discount: http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=109

DIY声音合成器!－ OSC6 Make Your Own Sound Synthesizer! – OSC6 – 2012/03/11
Build your own synthesizer in a day! Sign up here:

http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=106

Coming up soon

全息鸡尾酒－增强现实AR入门工作坊 | Hologram Cocktail – Workshop Guide to Augmented
Reality Technology :
3月17日（周六） 下午1点－4点 (还剩 13 个名额)
Mar.17th (Sat.) 1:00P.M. – 4:00P.M. (13 spaces availabe)
线上报名省30元 Register here to get a 30RMB
discount：http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=113

Milkymist One开源视频合成器工作坊 Milkymist One Live Video Synthesizer Workshop:
3月17日（周六） 下午5点－8点 (还剩 1 个名额)
Mar.17th (Sat.) 5:00P.M. – 8:00P.M. (1 space availabe)
请在此报名 Please register here：http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=107

A quick blurb about XinCheJian

XinCheJian is a community run hackerspace located in the heart of
Shanghai, without your support we would not be able to keep the space
alive and in the same form as it is today, think about giving back in
any way you can and help alleviate the financial responsibilities. We
have starter memberships from 300rmb a month with most members opting
to take out a 500rmb membership a month to support the community, by
being a member you’ll get access to the space whenever and workshops
at the lessor price, we even have Startup memberships for people
looking to build a business and gain access to the space and tools
during 9-5 office hours.

Volunteer Jobs at XinCheJian

As a Volunteer you’ll earn your membership, you’ll also be expected to
join Staff meetings at least once a month. Only apply if you’re
serious. Without the generosity of the current volunteers and sharing
tasks in their free time, it would be near impossible to keep
XinCheJian alive.

Treasurer
As the Treasurer you’ll be responsible for.. treasure. you need to
have your own calculator we’ll provide you a
calculator. the following are what you’ll need to handle on a monthly
basis.

- Income/Outgoing spread sheets
- Look after the donation box
- Organizes the rent and bills from the bank account
- We’ll even send you to business accounting with the government
(we’ll pay for this)
- Kind reminders to members to pay their membership dues

Journalists

A Journalist will be expected to write at least 1 article a week on a
topic of whats going on inside XinCheJian, you pick a project and
review it, can be a few hours an evening writing and a few hours in
the day interviewing.

- you’ll be given an account on xinchejian.com
- You will need a camera
- English or Chinese – or both is encouraged
- confident and outgoing
- get as much information possible from people in the shortest amount of time.

Modern Weekly did a nice report on Maker in China featuring Beijing Hackerspace and XinCheJian.

Sunday – here are a few teasers to the new “line followers” being built.. Excuse the Cheap editing..