新车间 [XinCheJian]

posted a detail article on hacking HaiPad m701!

The M701 in itself is an example of hacking in China: here, hacking hardware that wasn’t thought to be workable together to achieve something close to a device that is much more expensive is not called a hobby but a full-time job! Like many others, the extremely low-cost of this 7 inch tablet is made out of a even lower cost chipset, the Telechips 8902. The Telechips was originally designed to fit high end automotive applications, not do tablets or robotics. This chipset powers a variety of similar devices: Augen Gentouch, Coby Kyros, HSG X5A, Haipad M701, Dawa D7, SmartQ v5/v7, Coby Kyros MID7005/MID7015, Imito iM7, Smartbook Surfer (Pictures) “Shanzhai” integrators prefer to keep their supply chain discreetly low-profile as they consider it their “secret” sauce. This is because in Shenzhen, manufacturers are in a race to produce a whole bunch and sell them before the local competitors do the same, often advertising capabilities of the underlying chipset that are actually unavailable to the user since unsupported by the OS.

搞飞机(4旋翼)小组

从路边铝门窗店里面山寨的骨架到搞到现在数字车床出来的铝底座和碳纤维的骨架，感谢其晨和东光的投入！希望在未来的几个月内可以开始飞。

照片由 Lutz 和 David 提供。

RoboPeak团队

很高兴在微博上碰到vinjn，邀请到他们RoboPeak的团队来分享他们的机器人。本来看他们的网站的时候一直觉得他们是个职业队，做很酷的机器人。活动那天见面才知道他们是玩家队，呵呵，感到压力，要督促自己了。;) 他们网站上有很多的技术相关资料，非常值得学习，在这里我们就贴出团队的照片。

照片由Lutz 和 David 提供。

Aaajiao of Xindanwei gave a talk on what it took to run a space and his personal experience with making and hacking. XinCheJian goes well back with Xindanwei from working together on Scratch for Kids to incubating XinCheJian on 2F of YongJia Lu location.

和Brad Ferguson的数字机床的竹子吉他和真空管的放大器一起摇滚

声音非常有震撼力！

照片由Lutz 和 David 提供。

Harald Haraldsson: 玩转 Kinect

今天新车间的开幕来了大概50几个人。 第一场的演示是 Wonwei 的 Harald Haraldsson.

准备开始

很山寨的固定Kinect

展示骨架追踪

使用Kinect和投影机的光画

这个是Harald的项目，我们玩摄影的都玩过光画，这个项目把光画带到下一个境界。使用Kinect侦测深度的功能追踪在投影机前的一个平面，不同的深度投影不同的图像。利用长曝光的相机在一旁拍下这个浮在半空中的3D景象。

可视化世界银行的资料

照片由Lutz 和 David 提供。

“山寨”四旋翼

从新车间一开始，就有不少的朋友对做四旋翼有兴趣，我们成立了一个四旋翼小组考虑如何能用在上海买的到的零件做一台四旋翼。

做骨架

第一次的尝试是很山寨的，找了一家做窗户的，切了几个50cm的铝条。不是很成功，中间的架子的设计还是蛮有挑战的。

电机和Arduino

电机当然就是上淘宝淘了，用一般航模电机。花了一些时间调通Arduino.

更好的骨架

东光找了一个朋友设计了一个铝和碳纤的骨架，非常的酷。有了这个骨架和电机，接下来就是剩下的传感的设计，希望在未来几个月内可以飞起来。

上海的RoboPeak

非常高兴上海 RoboPeak 机器人研发团队会在 3／26的活动 上为我们带来演说。非常期待。

从他们的网站上：

RoboPeak是国内由一群软件工程师、电子工程师、新媒体艺术家所组成的机器人及相关技术领域的设计研发团队，团队于2009年底创建。 团队致力于民用机器人平台系统、机器人操作系统(ROS)以及相关设备的设计研发，并尝试将日新月异的机器人技术融入人们的日常生活与娱乐当中。同时，我们将尽力为机器人技术在开源硬件、开源软件社区的普及做出贡献。 团队在嵌入式系统、系统级软件/固件、图像识别等领域拥有丰富的经验，拥有独立设计，开发机器人操作系统、相关传感器设备硬件/固件的能力。

这个团队在机器人和Arduino上做了相当多开发，详细的情况可以查看他们的博客.底下的图片来自他们的博客，看起来相当有趣的机器人设计，期待周六和他们见面。

iPad 遥控

XinCheJian’s Neighborhood

I have recently been asked quite a lot of questions about hackerspace, hacker culture and impact of hackerspace in China. This has gotten me starting to think a lot about what it means to run a hackerspace. I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood and find anything that’s related to makers. The following pictures are shops with in 500 meters of our new location in Anhua Lu. It’s a typical Shanghai neighborhood and quite interestingly how many maker related shops are around us.

Welding on the street

Bike modding? The guy is attaching a new rack to the back of the bike to carry more goods.

Window Frame Maker

They got good collection of aluminum windows frame and can cut it to any size we want.

Glass shop

Cotton Shop

This is a surprise fouind.

Lock Smith

Hardware Store

Quite a collection of home improvement materials

Home Appliance Repair

Also sell used home appliances. Will for treasure hunt one of these days.

We have the FRAME!!!

Danny show up in Barcamp with a big surprise! He show me the fiber/aluminium frame of the quadcopter he just got CNCed. What a beauty!