Dagu electronics has announced a competition: use a doodlebot to make the most awesome drawing to compete for prizes, plenty of prizes to be won! read about it here: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/37126

Lutz a long time member of XinCheJian has contacted them since we’re in china and negotiated a great deal if we do a group buy, our target.. at least 20 pieces and our price.. 198rmb/each

if you want to get a doodle bot and not participate in the competition instead that’s fine! but if you want to get in on the competition, then it’s even more awesome!

here is more information about the competition: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/37175

Sign up to the XinCheJian google group (email xinchejian+subscribe@googlegroups.com),  Send an email to xinchejian@googlegroups.com  titled “programming competition” with the words “i Pledge to buy X amount of Doodlebots if we succeed in our group buy” then get ready to send 198rmb to a group buy alipay account or drop into XinCheJian and hand over the cash to a staff member!  Lets put a deadline of May 22nd on this so we can hack the doodlebot sooner than later. Do not transfer or pay until Lutz gives us the word via email and verify it by checking http://xinchejian.com website.

Once the pledge is made, you’re on the hook for the cash!

If you haven’t signed on for the workshop this weekend sign up now before it’s too late for stop motion animation and giving personalities to anything you can dream of!
Rob van Kranenburg from the Council of Internet of Things is coming down next month and he’s bringing some people with him, keep an eye out on that one.

Announcements this week:

1. Movie Night – 15th of May 7:30PM (friday) – Gunbuster Night!
2. Workshops for Month of Cinematography has been announced, sign up to what’s left.

Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述

• Oculas Rift demo
• D Programming
• Ad-hoc presentation

Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍

• Oculus rift, you’ve heard so much about it but have you experienced it? tonight we have a hands on demonstration.. simulate falling from the sky in an intense hyper interaction.
• Lio is going to be giving an introduction to D Programming and why it makes sense to learn D instead of C++ where the programming paradigm is better suited. This will follow on later next month with a workshop to getting started with D.
• A Maker presentation is also scheduled for this evening with an introduction to who they are and what they want to achieve in the community for their first project, no mention on names just yet.

There will be Internet of Things China 2013 Conference & Exhibitionin Shanghai from June 4 to 5. More information about the conference here.

Rob van Kranenburg founded Council, a think tank for the Internet of Things, to bring this latter perspective into the heart of the debates. He is Chair of the Working Group Societal of the IOT Forum, member of the Expert Group on IOT for the European Commission, and Stakeholder Coordinator for IoT-A. Mr. van Kranenburg will travel to Shanghai for IOT 2013 China.

Rob is good friends of both XinCheJian and Xindanwei and we are happy to have him coming to XinCheJian for a night of Internet of Things on June 5th. The event will start at 7pm in XinCheJian (1035 Changle Lu, 2F) featuring these speakers:

• Rob van Kranenburg: Internet of Things
• Dr. J. (Sjaak) Wolfert: SmartAgriFood
• David Li: Makers and IoT

The Internet of Things (IoT); imagine a world where everything can be both analogue and digitally approached – reformulates our relationship with objects – things- as well as the objects themselves. Currently we can discern two main blocks of thought on IoT. The first is a reactive framework of ideas and thought that sees IoT as a layer of digital connectivity on top of existing infrastructure and things. This position sees IoT as a manageable set of convergent developments on infrastructure, services, applications and governance tools. It is assumed that, as in the transition from mainframe to Internet some business will fail and new ones will emerge, this will happen within the current governance, currency end business models. The second is a proactive framework of ideas and thought that sees IoT as a severely disruptive convergence that is unmanageable with current tools, as it will change the notion of what data and what noise is from the supply chain on to ‘apps’. Read more (PDF) for the lecture .

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.

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

Live visual artist / 3D mapping

Actually working on the Daedalus city project. Its a gigantic city robot that carry smarm robot and received real time synchrnization 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”

The creative programming meeting aims to bring together everybody who is interested in programming.

In the “First Creative Programming Meeting” we discussed the meaning of creativity in relation to programming. Two ideas appeared, on the one hand creativity in the finding of solutions for problems and on the other hand using programming for creative “aesthetic products” (art, music, design). Easer of this ideas appeals to you, you might find somebody in the group.

Format for the now starting “Weekly Creative Programming Meeting” on Monday evenings, is ‘present a problem’ and ‘retrieve different solutions’. Each week a few people can bring their current projects and explain their problems, when the problem “activates” some creativity of the participants it might develop into a “creative” solution finding group.

Feel free to invent a problem and bring it to xinchejian on monday evenings!

Holiday folks! it’s time to hack stuff! Thursday -> Saturday, Check the website often over this holiday time, we’re going to be doing all sorts of magic.

Announcements this week:

•  Valentin from Social glasses is back in town, catch him around the space!
• Ladies, it’s your turn, sign up for 3months at XinCheJian and get 1 month for free, starting.. last week
• Roboracing – it’s on the 6th of April! 2pm – 5pm bring your 10 second cars! or your ultra fast line followers, the competition is just starting for the season – we’re waiting on a special location announcement for this race, i think you dont want to miss it, plus work on your car Thursday and Friday as it’s a tomb sweeping holiday!
• May is dedicated to the month of Cinematography – keep an eye out for events revolving around cinematography
• June is dedicated to “intro” for everything, from introduction to arduino, machine room, 3d printing, 3d modeling, electronics, this is the ultimate makers month!

Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述

• Tom Igoe – one night only! see him in XinCheJian – Internet of Things Expert: Author, Arduino Team Member and Teacher

Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍

Tom Igoe is an Associate Arts Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Coming from a background in theatre lighting design, Igoe makes tools that sense and respond to a wide range of human physical expression. He is the aread head for physical computing courses, and teaches courses in networking as well. He is also interested in how to lessen the impact that making things has on the environment, and how open hardware development can contribute to that. He has written three books for makers, and is working on a fourth. He is an occasional contributor to Make magazine as well. He is a co-founder of Arduino. He has consulted for various museums and interactive design companies as well. He is currently living a personal dream of working with monkeys, and wants to visit Svalbard someday.

Also if you use Processing and Arduino you can thank him tonight!

ONE NIGHT ONLY! DONT MISS OUT!

Fast forward to 18:18!