Participants last preparations:

Participants self presentation:

Racing!

The Winners: Nelson Zhang (Autonomous Wall-E) and Michael Liao (Remote controlled Tank)
A big THANK to Shanda Innovations for sponsoring 2 E-Book readers as prices for the winners!

Roborace Contestants and their Creators:

Thumbs up to all the participants for their great work! Thank you to Shanda Innovations for being our generous sponsor! Thank you to TimeOut magazine for featuring our event! Thank you to DFRobot and RoboticFan particularly Ricky Ye and Rocky for co-organizing this event! Thank you to XinDanWei for promoting our event! Thank you to everyone who visited us yesterday! Thank you to those who cannot come for your mental support! Thank you to Andi for the great poster and flyer design! Thank you to Paul for sponsoring the posters printouts! Thank you to Bindy for helping out on translations and selling drinks! Thank you to Michael for sponsoring his E-book for next competition and buying drinks to the participants! Thank you to John for helping out on event organization! Thank you to Airie for promoting the event on RenRen! Thank you to Min Lin for promoting, coordinating and organizing the event!

We’re planning to have the next Roboracing at the end of August, stay tuned!

This event is open to everyone, please bring your friends and family! Register here.

The competition will be in 2 parts:

* Autonomous robot car racing

* Remote controlled robot car racing

==>Competition Rules<==

If you wish to become participant at the racing, please send email to: roboracing@googlegroups.com

If you wish to become sponsor of this event, please send email to: staff@xinchejian.com

Here’s some pictures of the last Roboracing event.

Registered teams:

Team 1: Lauren Pan (Toy car modification robot)
Team 2: Barry Xu (DIY robot)
Team 3: Daniel (2WD Mobile robot kit)
Team 4: Zhang Chen (Andriod control HCR)
Team 5: Jiang Gui Long/Wu Tao/Zhang Jie ( Android Control HCR)
Team 6: Rockets (Tank mobile robot)
Team 7: Unknown (LEGO mobile robot)
Team 8: Ricky Ye (HCR robot)
Team 9: Ricky Ng-Adam (Autonomous robot toy car – ART)
Team 10: Lutz Michaelis (Autonomous Beetleduino)
Team 11: Paul Adams (Hoverbot Hubert)
Team 12: Nelson Zhang (Autonomous Wall-E)
Team 13: Lionello Lunesu (LEGO mobile robot)
Team 14: David Li (Soccerbot)

How to make music in Linux

Cross-compiling to ARM and Introduction to Panda board

Around 50 persons showed up even though it was raining like crazy outside! A big THANK to all the participants for their support!

XinCheJian is proud to host Dorkbot Shangahi #4 on Sunday May 29th. Dorkbot is a group of affiliated organizations worldwide that sponsor grassroots meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and anyone else working under the very broad umbrella of electronic art. The dorkbot motto is “people doing strange things with electricity”.

There were 4 artists who presented their work:

Wu Juehui // Juehui is a New Media Artist. In recent years, Wu Juehui operates on the potential interface between art and science, between body and media in close collaboration with research institutes for neural engineering, automatic control and computer graphics.

Harald Haraldsson // Harald is the founder of Wonwei and presented some of their latest work, he also talked about how creative coding can be applied to computational design.

Wang Changcun // Media artist based in Hangzhou, with works exhibited in China, France, Netherlands and Belgium. He talked about his creative process using Max/MSP, Processing, and Flash.

Jingni Wang // Media artist based in Shanghai. She graduated from China Academy of Art, Intermedia Art Department and has completed artist residencies in Netherlands, Belgium, and China. Jingni Wang presented her wearable computing project called Lover’s Instrument. She also talked about social sustainability.

More pictures

Mitch Altman, Inventor of the famous TV-B-Gone, a remote control keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He is co-founder of Noisebridge, a San Francisco hackerspace, creator of the Brain Machine project in MAKE Magazine, gives workshops around the world on how to solder and make cool things with microcontrollers, and is CEO of Cornfield Electronics.

We’re very lucky to have Mitch visiting XinCheJian on April 17th and give a talk on Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers! Everyone can learn and have fun making cool things with electronics!

Please register here for the event.

RoboPeak from Shanghai

We are so glad that RoboPeak, a robotic R&D team has agreed to be one of the speaking at our reopening event on March 26. We ran into this team founded in 2009 on Sina Weibo and are very impressed by what they are doing. We look forward to seeing their presentation.

Quoting from their web site:

RoboPeak is a research & development team in robotics platforms and applications, founded in 2009. Our team members are Software Engineers, Electronics Engineers and New Media Artists that all come from China.

RoboPeak develops both software and hardware, which include personal robotic platforms, Robot Operating System and related devices.

Our vision is to enrich people’s daily-life with the ever-changing development and innovation in robotic technologies.

From their blog, they are doing very impressive work with Arduino and Robotic. Here is a picture of their robot. Definitely check out the blog! Click on the image to read more about their works.

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IDEO模式: 山寨设计是创新的开放平台
时间: 2011年元月二十二日，下午两点到五点
地点：徐汇区永嘉路50号新单位（近陕西南路）
费用:  30元/人

山寨是一个为草根创意阶级提供的开放式创新平台: 复制苹果, 诺基亚, 三星智能手机, 这些仿冒品由原产品改装而成同时加入了更吸引于中国消费者的设计. 山寨设计师为电子产品注入闪光点和关键元素.

其目的正是为了使产品在价格, 外观, 价值和用户需求上能接近普通消费人群. 山寨设计为国际公司向中国本土消费者介绍他们的品牌提供了一个机会, 他们也能借机观察中国本土文化如何作用于他们的产品, 如何相互磨合与适应.

这些公司怎样通过观察山寨设计来学习? IDEO 将分享他们对于这一重大领域的观点和方法学.

2:00pm
开放: 新单位CEO 刘妍介绍活动内容,演讲者, 来宾, 目标阐述

2:15pm
1. 山寨设计作为一种商业创新的开放平台- IDEO (15分钟)
2. 怎样山寨?
-快速原型-IDEO-30分钟
-原型的工具
-Arduino – Flamingo EDA -20分钟
- Android –20分钟
-从原型到制作 – C2Tech –20分钟

4:30pm
Android原型板以及工具的使用说明
参访新车间, 相互认识新朋友.

Shanzhai Design as an Open Platform for Business Innovation – Pattern from IDEO

Time: 14:00 – 17:00, Jan 22, 2011

Location: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd
Cost: 30yuan/person

Shanzhai is an open platform for grassroots innovation. Apple, Nokia, and Samsung smartphones get copied, but the knockoffs adapt the original designs in ways that appeal to Chinese customers. Shanzhai designers might add a flashlight, key in areas with unstable electricity.

The effect is to make products accessible to common folks in terms of price, aesthetics, values, and needs. Shanzhai designs are an opportunity for international companies to introduce Chinese consumers to their brands, and then observe how local Chinese culture adapts their offerings.

How might companies harness learning by observing Shanzhai designs? IDEO will share their perspectives and methodologies on these big questions for business.

2:00pm
Opening: Introduce the event, speakers, guests and talk about the goals, by Liu Yan(xindanwei)

2:15pm
1.IDEO: “Shanzhai as an open platform for innovation” – 15 minutes
2.How to Shanzhai?
- “Rapid prototyping” – IDEO – 30 minutes
- Tool of prototyping
- Arduino – Flamingo EDA – 20 minutes
- Android – – 20 minutes
-From prototype to production – C2Tech – 20 minutes

4:00pm
Part Two: Android prototype boards and tools demonstration Followed by a visit to Xinchejian and networking

新车间开放日：休闲机器人的时代
时间: 2011年元月十六日，下午一点到五点
地点：徐汇区永嘉路50号新单位（近陕西南路）
费用: 免费

随着数字零件价格的降低加上丰富的开源机器人软件，DIY机器人已经可以当做事一个假日的休闲活动。这次的新车间开放日我们将介绍几个会员DIY的机器人和介绍一个将要举办的积极人竞赛。如果你对机器人有兴趣，请在这个周日加入我们，一起了解现代机器人的发展，一起讨论如何玩机器人。如果有小孩的话，非常欢迎他们一起来参加这个的活动。

- 关于HC Robot

http://code.google.com/p/hcrobot/

- 关于A.R.T.

http://xinchejian.com/?p=289

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Robot Contest Kick Off- Xin Che Jian Open House: the coming of entertainment robots
Time: 13:00 – 17:00, Jan 16, 2011
Location: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd
Cost: Free, Open house

Building robots is fun and building robots to race is doubling the fun! The era of robot building as hobby has come and we plan to celebrate the beginning of this era with a festive robot contest. At this Xin Che Jian open house, we will present a few home built robots and the plan for a contest for discussion. Come and see how you can get involved! If you are a parent, bring the kids! We are sure they will love the robots!

Robots on site:
- HC Robot: open source home help robots

http://code.google.com/p/hcrobot/

- A.R.T.

http://xinchejian.com/?p=289

Register for the event here

Today we at Xinchejian kicked off the first of the “Xinshanzhai” series of talks and discussion on how “Shanzhai” micro manufacture efficiency combined with open innovation process and open source hardware will change how China innovate. We had the honor to have Eric Pan, CEO and Founder of Seeed Studio to give the talk “Facilitate Open Innovation – The Seeed Studio Approach” [Speech Slides].

Seeed Studio was founded 3 years ago in Shenzhen to explore combining open source hardware and the electronics supply chain in Shenzhen. Today, Seeed Studio employes over 30 engineers and support staffs with over USD$1 million in annual revenue mainly from US, Europe and Japanese customers which are 98% of its business. Seeed does not yet focus on Chinese market as Eric points out that the tinkers/makers community in China has not yet matured enough for Seeed and there is not enough community.

Seeed Studio has so far depends on words of mouth of open hardware community for its marketing and will launch its first marketing campaign in 2011. The following is one of the first ads to be run in Make Magazine.

Seeed’s current focus is to grow its WISH platform described by Eric as a ecosystem to support open source hardware designers to better manage the product life cycle. WISH platform let designers and users propose requests and new design and through the community voting and pre-ordering process to help to bring products to the market. The process is best illustrated by this slide from the speech. Seeed also works with partners sites such as Dangerous Prototypes to promote the platform.

Eric’s 30 minutes talk was followed by over 2 hours of heated discussion on the topics of open source hardware, innovation and manufacture. The talk and discussions were livecast on Sina Weibo by Steven Cheng under #新山寨#.

Time: 3pm Dec 26, 2010

Location: Xin Che Jian, 2nd floor, Yongjia Rd 50 (close to Shaanxi Road South)

Cost: 30RMB for non-Xinchejian members, free of charge for Xinchejian members.

Seeed Studio is an open hardware facilitation company based in Shenzhen, China. Benefiting from local manufacture power and convenient global logistic system, we integrate resources to serve new era of innovation. Seeed also works with global distributors and partners to push open hardware movement.

We design modular electronics for quick prototyping and small scale projects, which could be found at Bazaar. It also carries inventories from community innovators, we help people make, distribute their designs and collect the revenue. It’s a win-win situation and taking a shape towards an ecosystem. By working with us, innovators could focus on the designs, provide better support to the user and promote the product. Seeed Studio or similar service provider could get more traffic and bring up other product sales.

The manufacture part of hardware involves a lot details. We provide Propagate service to facilitate the process. Innovator send finished prototype with manufacturing files including Gerber file, BOM, test plan and other requirements. Our engineering team will validate and integrate the design into small batch production line. All products will be tested and packed under instruction. Innovators could also view current manufacture and distribution status from propagate. After deducting the manufacture costs, profit will be returned to innovators when inventory sold out.

To estimate the popularity before investing manufacture, innovators could post the idea or prototype to Wish. The community would vote, comment and collaborate on projects. You could also join interested groups to see what’s hot being worked on. By participating Wish, ideas with many votes could convert the popularity into coupons to purchase product or service. The idea poster could also share some coupon to the valuable commenter as appreciation.

Products and service info are hosted at a wiki called Garden. Feel free to add your guide, project or yourself as a freelancer.

About the speaker

Eric Pan, founder and director of Seeed Studio, grew up with DIY culture in China. He graduated as an EE bachelor from Chongqing University, with experiences and prizes from national wide contests of MCU, Embe dded Design, Robotics, and English skills. He first joined Intel in Chengdu as a FCBGA product Engineer whose main job includes quality control and new product integration. Then he worked at Beamstream LLC as international sourcing manager on system solutions. He established Seeed Studio since 2008 from bare ground and now turning it into an open source hardware facilitator with 30+ employee.

新山寨第一期: 开源硬件与开放式创新
时间:2010年12月26日下午3点
地点:徐汇区永嘉路50号2楼新车间 (靠近陕西南路)
费用:新车间会员免费, 非新车间会员每人30元

Seeed Studio 是一个位于深圳的开源硬件生产公司. 得益于本土制造业的巨大力量以及便利的全球物流系统. 我们整合不同资源从而服务于新纪元创新时代. Seeed也与全球分销商和合作伙伴合作共同推动开源硬件的前进.

Eric Pan 是Seeed studio 的创始人, 他从小受DIY文化影响. 他毕业于重庆大学,获得了电子工程学士学位. 他在微型计算机, 嵌入式设计, 机器人, 英文技能领域都有丰富经验集获奖. 他的第一份工作是在成都intel 担当FCBGA 产品工程师. 其主要工作是腹侧质量控制和新产品整合开发. 随后他在Beamstream LLC 工作担任国际采购经理. 在2008年他创立了Seeed studio —从零起点开始到现在拥有30名员工的开源硬件生产中心.

更多信息可以参考 http://seeedstudio.com/