November 11th, 2011 § § permalink
Lio just finished getting the wood plate for the joysticks and buttons. He’s showing off the hacked TV driven by a Commodore 64 to generate a mirror image that can be itself “projected” on a mirror. He still has some work to do to wire everything up and make the case nicer, but the hard part is over. Interesting factoid: the speaker at the right is hiding a broken piece of the mirror!
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November 7th, 2011 § § permalink
All the hackerspaces were invited to participate in the CSDN Mobile Developer Conference
Getting ready the night before
Hackerspace and open source hardware took the biggest booth at the show. It’s over 70 sqm.
XinCheJian
3D Printer from Beijing Hackerspace
Pretty big event: over 2000 attendents
Lots of visitors to the booth
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November 7th, 2011 § § permalink
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Location:Xinchejian
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November 7th, 2011 § § permalink
Just got a few of these new boxes measured 35cm x 46 cm x 15.5cm to build aeroponic.
The size of the interior can be well supplied by just one ultrasonic fogger fixed at the center of the bottom without supporting structure for floating. The fogger is submerged in 7 cm of water for maxima efficiency. This also holds good amount of water to have a stable temperature. The fogger does well filling the space above with fog.
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Drill 3 cm holes on the cover with 7 cm spacing and transplant the lettuces.
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November 6th, 2011 § § permalink
…built by Edward. The simplest machine: when turned on, it turn itself off.
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November 6th, 2011 § § permalink
This morning, we had two classes for the price of one: learning how to program (for non-programmers) and using the Arduino to interface with electronics. Given by Ricky and Paul with some help from Edward.
Documentation on our wiki and source on Github.
We’ll be redoing the same content in different combinations of Chinese/English and experienced programmers/non-programmers.
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November 4th, 2011 § § permalink
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Lionello needed a twisted wire as an audio cable so he did what any good hacker would do: he made one! He used an old busted fan to turn the two wires into each other and voila: instead twisted wires!
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November 2nd, 2011 § § permalink
Photos of the open house today. Alex looking at the Makerbot, cutting a protoboard, repairing the Dirt Dog vacuum robot, Angie and some of the guys looking at getting a stepper motor to work.
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November 2nd, 2011 § § permalink