二月 4th, 2012 § § permalink
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。
三月 15th, 2011 § § permalink
We have the FRAME!!!
Danny show up in Barcamp with a big surprise! He show me the fiber/aluminium frame of the quadcopter he just got CNCed. What a beauty!


三月 13th, 2011 § § permalink
We took the Green for the afternoon to talk about Hackerspace, Maker, Open Source Hardware and of course ROBOTS!!!

The crazy robot car David was carrying around at Barcamp
The robot was built the night before barcamp with YM4 from Embedream, Arduino Uno and a HC-SR04. The little YM4 is a lot of fun. The independently controlled wheels allowing the car to turn on a fix axis and this saves the use to savor to turn the limited angle SR04 around to inspect the environment. But at 3AM, it was discovered a little drawback of controlling two independent wheels while trying to make the it going straight. Well, it was 3AM so I decide to let it acts a little crazy. I am dedicating this crazy robot to the crazy Shanghai taxi driver who took me to the barcamp in the morning! I will name it 840.

Pitching Hackerspace
Kicking off the afternoon with pitch of Hackerspace and Maker Culture

Hmm, this is why the call this session “THE GREEN.” Get to make fun of making is much more fun then golf as hobby.

HCR, the open source robots from DFRobot
Rick Ye gave a talk on his open source HCR robot. I was driving it around to round up people to the talk. This version has a cam pointing upward and a automated navigation mode. It’s a lot of fun to watch it walking all over the place on its own from the video at the control.

This little guy has great potential to be a good caddy on the green.

Video of HCR
Thanks to Scott for the video.