新车间 [XinCheJian]

新车间里来了鲸男，来自imlab的鲸男。是国内较早使用arduino并将arduino用于艺术领域的第一人。鲸男这次来新车间介绍了他之前的有趣的工作，并将其在日本留学期间的一些感受与大家进行了分享。最后鲸男介绍了今后imlab将要进行的工作，他和他的团队将就改善现有生活而进行设计，并进行原型开发，最终造福大众。鲸男及其团队最近将在上海进行调研，参加各种活动。imlab将会参加一系列的活动，并可能于下周到开源硬件厂商DFRobot进行沟通交流。

接下来Bryan介绍了开放的独立游戏开发游戏，并邀请大家到现场进行体验。

会后大家分开对各自关心的事情进行了互动和交流。

Edward展示了如何手工制造线路板。

Alex继续安装reprap，下个月，rockets会带巧克力来，我们要试验下“巧克力打印机”的可能性。

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The drinks are a bit pricey and it’s only one arcade cabinet right now, but we obviously love the idea of an arcade-themed bar!  The games are from the Winnitron Indie Game Arcade Network – you may remember the talk last Wednesday at XinCheJian by Bryan Ma. We particularly liked Paper Moon from Infinite Ammo although it’s a single player game.

Arcade: 57 Fuxing east road (corner Yongfu road) in Shanghai.

We’re definitely due for a resurgence of arcades… At XCJ, Lio is helping doing our part by building our own game cabinet (based on Commodore 64 games).

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Startup Sauna is a “open source” organization from Finland. They do not provide funding but coaching (different from mentoring…). The delegation (from left to right in the picture) was made up of Jevgeni Peltola (specializing in doing business in Russia), Antti Ylimultka (Startup Sauna Wingman) and Peter Vesterbacka (Rovio Mighty Eagle – they’re opening an office in Shanghai). They want to create a startup hub in Helsinki by inviting selected startups internationally to come and spend 8 weeks in Finland in an intense marathon. They’re looking for ideas that can work globally and good teams. Expect a warm-up event in Shanghai at the beginning of 2012! ]]>

Bryan Ma on Winnitron machine.

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Laser microscope, pcb printing, arcade cabinet making, lego mindstorm building, busting Pandaboard Linux config… Busy evening!

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2. A small drop of water. I use water from the aeroponic tank.

3. Aim the laser right through the droplet. Wear dark glasses while aiming and focusing. Even the reflection from this powerful laser can be dangerous!
4. Awesome laser show with live microbes swimming inside that you can watch for hours!!!

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Location:Xuanhua Rd,Shanghai,China

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Alex update on the progress of the new Botmill 3d printer:

I was working on the 3d printer with Mike last Saturday and the parts for the frame, Z and Y axes are almost ready and calibrated. We are missing some parts to assemble the motors and the head. And the X axis is still work in progress.

It’s a bit strange that Botmill would sell kits with missing parts (M4 threaded 70mm rod, M4 insert, etc). Some of the reprap parts are low quality (misprinted gears) and you have to be extra careful tightening nuts as I’ve accidentally cracked the extruder carriage. Work on this will continue on Wednesday evening at the space; feel free to help out!]]>

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It’s still got warts but I’m personally pretty happy with the results… You can see the PDF here.

40 pages in less than 72 hours is a big achievement and it’s truly been a global effort and a nice example of inter-hackerspaces collaboration. Huei Ming Tan (who did the bulk of the writing!) and Eddie Choo from Ground Up Initiative in Singapore (http://groundupinitiative.org/) with a lot of incredibly valuable and numerous feedback from Paul Szymkowiak and friends from Connected Community Hackerspace (http://hackmelbourne.org) in Australia and Jerry Isdale from Maui Makers (http://mauimakers.com) plus many others leaving comments here and elsewhere.

Thanks in particular to Paul and Jerry who made it possible for the document to go from mediocre to passable!

And a big, big thanks to Justin Myers from HacDC in Washington DC (http://www.hacdc.org/) who hand-delivered the document at the DARPA office in Arlington as you can see in the attachment…

When you think about it, this is hackers from 4.5 countries (China, Singapore, Australia, US and honestly, Maui, Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific so far away from the continental US) collaborating together. I think whether or not we get the grant (and we should, as I’m convinced Hackerspaces are the only viable option for 100YSS) this is awesome!

Now we have to wait to see who gets selected for the half a million dollars grant… If and when this happens, the initial caretakers will create the 100YSS nonprofit and a charter. Interested Hackerspaces representatives (one per Hackerspace) will be voted in the organization. These representative will then select staff members from candidates for the first 3 months (renewable), gather project proposals and start funding each one by one.

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