What do you do?Full time web developer, part time hacker.
What inspires you?People who do more stuff than what they say.
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.
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.
If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?Food?
Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?I am fatter than i look.
Who’s your idol?André Tanguy
Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)6?
Who are you? I’m Mika Lin | 林信義，call me mika please:)
What do you do? I’m a Interaction designer at ETU in Shanghai.
What inspires you? Life and nature. And I like the way of communication between people and objects.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Who’s your idol? Nature | Albert Einstein | Louis Isadore Kahn | James Francis Cameron, all of them enlighten me on study,observation and combination.
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.
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.
1) Who are you?
I am Lutz from Germany, living in Shanghai since 2005
2) What do you do?
Working as a translator English-German for a big IT company.In my spare time I am a hobby photographer, maker, daddy, husband and friend (items are not listed in priority order)
3) What inspires you?
Nature in it’s different forms, shapes, lights, creatures etc. etc. etc… Smart people, kids…well too much to tell.
4) What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?
Well, it’s just a good place to meet people with similar interests, to see interesting projects, chatting, find help when facing a problem, laughing learning and expanding my horizon and many more reasons.
5) What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?
I do not have a specific target. I am open-minded and cannot tell you what I will do tomorrow (well, you know what I mean). I want to learn what I am interested in and this is a lot. I want to accomplish my goals, share my experience and ideas and want to increase my experience as well.
6) If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?
My life experience!
7) Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?
Ok, this is a tough question and I know who is asking But I will answer it.My secret is, and that is the first time that I am talking/writing about this…well, this is hard but I am trying…I told my very first girlfriend after puberty that I already had sex before….which was a lie
8 ) Who’s your idol?
I do not have an specific idol. Idols are things, people you admire or even pray to. I admire some people but cannot place them in an order. But two of them are my mom and my dad.
9) Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)
On a scale from 1 to 10 I would say 9.5
Who are you?
Lionello Lunesu, but please call me Lio.
What do you do?
I’m a Tech Lead at Microsoft China.
What inspires you?
People making stuff.
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.
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.
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.
Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?
Uh, see the answer to the next question:
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.
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!)
What do you do?
Tenant and Buyer Representation for MNC TOP500.
What inspires you?
Where you could do amazing things as you wish.
What attracts you to the space/what do you like about the space?
Use my own idea do wonderful things and could cooperate with friends and bring dreams come true.
What do you want to do/accomplish/learn/share/experience?
I want to do a image analysis of micro-expression by web camera .
If there is only one thing you could share with people, what would it be?
Time, to do a lot of things as wish.
Tell us a secret.. one you haven’t told anyone else?
I never fall in love with any one.
Who’s your idol?
If there must be one,absolutely myself.
Where would you rate yourself on a geeky slider? (or nerdy if you are that way)
I am a devil.17 of 10 if it must be rated.
Working with Shanghai Strobist, we have produced portraits of makers in XinCheJian. We will introduce each of the makers in the following posts. Here are preview of the portraits.
YN460 is a nice Chinese made flash for photography. The first hack is to enable controlling the power and flash trigger with Arduino. In the following video, the Arduino runs a 3 second step that trigger at its 7 power level.
Next step, adding network capacity to the flash and control it from iPhone!
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新车间 [Xinchejian].
Every Wednesday at 7:00 PM Xinchejian is free and open to the public.
Come to listen to people talk about their projects, and to learn more about Xinchejian.
1035 Changle Lu, 2nd Floor
But I will answer it.My secret is, and that is the first time that I am talking/writing about this…well, this is hard but I am trying…I told my very first girlfriend after puberty that I already had sex before….which was a lie 
