新车间 [Xinchejian]

A few updates from projects in XinCheJian at the moment, Edward, Lutz and the rest of the swarmbots team have been working late in the evenings on a daily basis and producing good results! Stephany helped to print the swarm player designed by Valentin (without the e).

Valentin has been working on the Reprap over the weekend and this week, keep an eye out or an ear out for it printing.

Paul has been working on the CNC mill, the computer has 8GB SSD thanks to Edward, which means its quite fast!

Resistors are now available sorted by resistance, cut into 10′s and hung on the wall near the kitchen, that’s 10 resistors for 1rmb

=Wednesday Presenters=

David Li, the Foreman of XinCheJian And Roger Mu king of the jungle, will be kicking off the Hydroponics corner, a group is forming around Hydroponics, Areoponics – lets see what seeds they will plant first.

Li Xiang a Ph.D Candidate from Shanghai Jiao Tong University will be presenting his project and also seeking help in an experience involving machine learning and robotics along the lines of Factory Automation for Docks.

The rest of the evening will be met with discussions and people working on projects

XinCheJian will be holding a young maker faire on June 2nd, if you would like to help out or show your projects then please contact us.

上周，首届创客嘉年华活动在北京中华世纪坛数字艺术馆（CMoDA）举行。活动现场来自国内外的各位创客齐聚一堂，共同展示项目、做主题演讲，也带来了自己的工作坊，活动取得了巨大的成功！

在这里，首先要特别感谢来自北京创客空间(Beijing Maxpace) 的王盛林，感谢北京各高校学生们提供的帮助。

感谢活动的组织方，从场地协调、邀请世界各地的参会人、提供活动差旅预算，到精心设计的T恤、活动手册，他们都付出了巨大的努力。此外，活动现场的志愿者为我们做了一些收尾的采购工作、提供后勤，也为我们带来了很大的便利。

感谢Mitch Altman远道而来，作为全球创客空间的带头人，他的精神深深地打动着我们。

感谢谢旻琳帮忙筹备新车间项目和工作坊参展的繁琐细节，在她的协助下我们的参展过程很顺利。

感谢DFRobot，在他们努力下，DFRobot展位现场人头攒动，展览效果异常绚丽。此外，他们也为新车间和新车间的项目提供了巨大的帮助。

感谢新车间参展的会员们，他们把新车间的各个项目带到了北京，向参观者进行展示，这期间也耗费了他们大量的时间和体力。他们是：Lionello Lunesu, Paul Adams, Mika Lin, Edward Jiang, 何琪辰, 谢旻琳, Ricky Ng-Adam。

特别感谢Lio的付出，无论是在活动现场还是工作坊，他都为我们解决了很多问题。

感谢各个工作坊带来的项目：Sunny的导电面团，Mika的心形LED，11岁的Edward Giles的Arduino 电子琴，Edward Jiang的巡线小车和木有用的机器，谢旻琳的虫虫机器人，何琪辰的Ardublock。

同样，也要感谢Andrea Carlon和Russell在项目中提供的协助。

团队中有着这么多耐心细致和充满激情的成员，我们倍感欣慰。

最后，感谢参与创客嘉年华活动并做展示的各位创客们：Paul和彭子耘的迷你互动小世界，Paul的Arduino捕鼠器，Lutz的筷子机器人以及方晶的怪物垃圾桶。

摄影：Ricky Ng-Adam, Andrea Carlon, Mitch Altman, Paul Adams

翻译：Otto Mao

模拟电路巡线机器人

疯乐，疯乐，你想迅速参加向来以险恶而著称的新车间机器人比赛么？那就来学着做个模拟电路的巡线机器人吧，没法再简单了。

你只要能看懂这行字，就肯定能造出来，真是一点难度都没有，也无须任何编程经验。虽然难度不高但是你也能学点东西：模拟电路入门以及初级焊接技术。

本工作坊适合对焊接和机器人有兴趣的人。因为需要使用电烙铁，所以必需要是10岁以上才能参加。

火速报名: http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=117

【2012《觉》音乐+艺术 现场】2012.3月11日 新车间《觉》系列活动 工作坊之一：DIY声音合成器 － 発震陆 osc6 （摄影：YU）

Totally popular!!! We have almost 30 kids plus parents. Thanks to Sunny teaching the workshop and Infy and Joshua to help out.

Sunny demonstrates how to “cook” the circuit.

Cute Kuma (bear) with LED necklace.

Joshua’s storm trooper?

Dino from one of the kids.

Introduction to vvvv workshop at Xinchejian; a multimedia development environment. Next week: advanced practical workshop.

什么？人有男女之分，面团也有性别？？？

2月26号上午9点~12点的面团工作坊，让我们像女娲造人一样，亲手制造出热情奔放的导电“男“面团（conductive dough）和文静温婉的绝缘”女”面团 (non-conductive dough) 。
面团的配方非常简单，都是我们在日常生活中天天用到的材料，如面粉，食用盐，植物油，水等。仅需简单的混合和揉匀，就可以轻松做成面团了。经过我们作坊做出来的这一对面团，是纯洁的面团，绿色的面团，简单的面团，对于孩子绝对安全的面团…

那疯狂面团（squishy circuit）有什么用处呢？用处可大了。
1） 区别于你家里的橡皮泥，我们工作坊的面团可以和LED灯，马达，蜂鸣器一起搭建各种好玩的电路。你可以迅速的用疯狂面团做出各种漂亮闪烁的的东东，如下图
2） 孩子们可以在玩面团的过程中可以学习电路的基本知识。
3） 你可以做出各种你喜欢颜色的面团
4） 疯狂面团甚至可以和智能电路板arduino一起使用，制作互动艺术作品
5） 。。。。。。。。。。。。
6） 最后，你还可以把面团当馒头蒸了吃，至于味道好不好，就等你的博客了 ：）

欢迎5岁以上的小朋友和童心未泯的爸爸妈妈们一起来我们的工作坊，来和我们的面团一起狂欢吧：）

注：

疯狂面团（squishy circuit）是美国University of St. Thomas 大学UST Design Lab的AnnMarie P. Thomas教授和她的团队开发的产品，用来帮助孩子们迅速安全的视觉化学习电路。感谢AnnMarie P. Thomas和她的团队与全世界分享了这个教学成果，同时也感谢Squishy Circuits project的Matthew Schmidtbauer在举办这个workshop过程中提供的技术指导。文中的图片来源于facebook 和Squishy Circuits项目的网页。

电影工作坊正在进行Jerome正在介绍电影的制作流程。

对不起，此内容只适用于English。

Welcome to another week of XinCheJian Wednesday open house. First of all we’d like to thank everyone for coming out Rain or Shine in support.. and soon to be Snow and Ice. This week will be no different, with lots happening in the space.

Remember XinCheJian is funded by the community for the community, buy a kit from us, a membership or even a drink, it all goes back to support the community.

Wednesday talks
Michael will be introducing the upcoming challenge to Spaghetti bridge in collaboration with Techyizu.. it’ll be interesting to see if they can build as good as they can talk.

This week

Friday 16th 6:30pm – late
MakeSense is running a technology cook-off this Friday in Chinese and are looking for hackers, social entrepreneurs and designers to make a mess in the kitchen to produce some Michelin Star food..

http://xinchejian.com/2011/12/13/cooking-a-product-3-hungry-hackers-needed/

Saturday 17th 9am – 4pm
Processing – Intense course – 800RMB
Learn processing from the Master himself, Raven will be teaching this class again, but this time it’s an intensive course to keep you on your toes. After 3 weeks you’ll be ready to rock & roll
http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=81

Sunday 18th 9am – 1pm
Arduino workshop – By Paul and Ricky

Learn the basics of Arduino Programming from Ricky followed up by Pauls hands on examples using what you learnt from Ricky. This will get you kick-started and launched into Arduino and hacking. You’ll need a starter kit to preform all the fun examples. You’ll also need to have the Arduino IDE running from http://arduino.cc if you’re not sure then come on Wednesday with your computer.
Sign up here:  http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=85

Sunday 18th 2pm – 4pm
Communication Between Max/Msp and Arduino – By Ziyun Peng

Learn about how to integrate MAX/MSP with Arduino, this powerful toolkit will add the dimension of audio to your projects, offer you an alternative to link the digital sounds with the physical world. Learn from a leading sound artist.
sign up here: http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=84

From the Mailing list

TheNelson is heading back to Shanghai for the winter Holidays, he’s setting up camp at XinCheJian and learning LISP over the holiday, so throw an email on the mailing list if you’re interested.

Volunteer Jobs at XinCheJian
As a Volunteer you’ll earn your membership, you’ll also be expected to join Tuesday Staff meetings from 7-9pm. Only apply if you’re serious. Without the generosity of the current volunteers, 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 and some experience with keeping records. 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
- Talks to founders for more money
- Kind reminders to members to pay their membership dues

Event Manager

The Event manager will play a key roll in helping keep the space running and getting the correct information out there, this is a dedicated position and will take several hours per week online. This person needs to be compassionate but firm, well organized, able to follow up and personable making it easy for people to run workshops.

- Schedules events within the space
- Confirms events with people based on signups
- Encourages and guides people to get content together to promote event
- Handles external media for events (posting to media sites)
- Posts events to the XinCheJian site

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.

Lutz老师和谢老师教导十个小朋友做虫虫机器人。