1. Who are you?姜昊, a fat guy.
2. What do you do?Full time web developer, part time hacker.
3. What inspires you?People who do more stuff than what they say.
4. What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?People who makes things, and things gets done. People help each other and exchange ideas.
5. What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?Make ideas into real physical thing. Knowing the path is totally different from walking the path.
6. If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?Food?
7. Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?I am fatter than i look.
8. Who’s your idol?André Tanguy
9. Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)6?

1. Who are you?
   I’m Mika Lin | 林信義，call me mika please:)
2. What do you do?
   I’m a Interaction designer at ETU in Shanghai.
3. What inspires you?
   Life and nature. And I like the way of communication between people and objects.
4. What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?
   i can get many instruments,knowledges,skills here.and make the imagination comes true.
5. What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?
   Combine human body and real object,present the data of body in a new way,make the original thing more interesting,more funny.
6. If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?
   No more excuses No more think. Just Make the thing in your mind expressing your imagination in your mind with real object.
7. Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?
   Actually the white hair you see on my head. i just insert it into my head…(coool ?…….hahaha)
8. Who’s your idol?
   Nature | Albert Einstein | Louis Isadore Kahn | James Francis Cameron, all of them enlighten me on study,observation and combination.
9. Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)
   Between 0 and 10,i choose 6,it is a place appropriate and still rest many spaces developed and obsorb many new things.

1) Who are you?
Sunny, Sun.

2) What do you do?
Quality and Supplier Chain Management

3) What inspires you?
The movie of “Old Boy” always inspired me to do sth for myself. Never say late to your dream. Go for it and do sth for it.

4) What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?
To be frank, It is the home feeling that attracts me here. In Xinchejian, we treat each other as family members and we share idea and help each other like family members. also we got a lot of courage from xinchejian. There are many falling dreams in my kids time, i want to pick them up and realize them at Xinchejian with the help of community.

5) What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?
I am not satisfied to the current education in China, which still use all the old days tools and method to educate our kids. Also the whole purpose of the school is competition and high score. Our teachers seldom ask our kids what they really like and what they want to do. I want to run a new kids “Play and Learn program” and make some changes to Kids education. Maybe It can only be a small step, but with the help of XinCheJian and Internet, I am sure more and more friends will join in me to make a change.

6) If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?
Stop Talking, do something right now.

7) Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?
I learn a lot from my son and in some point of view, he is teaching me a lot about kids. and I really want to be his best friend forever.

8 ) Who’s your idol?
My father is my idol. he is really a great man feeding all my three brothers and sponsor our high education. He is also a role model to be a responsible man to family.

9) Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)
I think am a geek but my skills are still far away from Geek. So Nerd maybe a more right word for me.

Lio 李欧

1. Who are you?
   Lionello Lunesu, but please call me Lio.
2. What do you do?
   I’m a Tech Lead at Microsoft China.
3. What inspires you?
   People making stuff.
4. What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?
   Everything you could possibly need to realize your idea is there, no more excuses.
5. What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?
   Being a programmer I’m making stuff all day, but nothing beats working with real materials.
6. If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?
   I’d like everyone to know that finishing a project, no matter how insignificant it seems, results in a high, and it will make you go back for more.
7. Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?
   Uh, see the answer to the next question:
8. Who’s your idol?
   I’m going to sound like a nerd, but Bill Gates inspires me. He’s a geek with business skills and his heart is in the right place.
9. Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)
   From 0 (Queen Elizabeth) to 10 (übergeek), I’m probably around an 8: pretty geeky yet not unsociable (.. I hope!)

XinCheJian was in Barcamp Shanghai!

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.