新车间 [XinCheJian]

Modern Weekly did a nice report on Maker in China featuring Beijing Hackerspace and XinCheJian. ]]>

Tony Zhang from Neurosky He brought their brainwave reading and EKG measuring system.

Hans Bao from Innovati

Sunny and Squishy Circuit

Stanley and Arduino/ODB

A few days ago, Jeremy’s Weibo got retweeted over a thousand times and shows a lot of interests in 3D Printing and related technology. In this week’s Wednesday night event, we invite a few speakers to give talks on their experience with 3D printers

Cheng Zhang a MCAD&PLM Competitive Strategy Specialis be giving a talk on Open engineering and will help to debunk myths on 3D printing.

Staphany will discuss her experience building two Makerbots

Michael will talk about the state of RepRap in XinCheJian

Roger Mu who presented his home farm a few weeks ago just sent a few pictures to share. Some pretty nice tomatoes

XinCheJian is at the center of a new article “SHANGHAI, THEY SAY, ISN’T CHINA. BUT MANY CHINESE CITIES IN MANY WAYS ARE FOLLOWING SHANGHAI’S LEAD. SO ONE DAY SHANGHAI COULD WELL BECOME CHINA. WHY? WHY NOT?” by Ulrike Reinhard

Xinchejian, the first of many hackerspaces in China, is a place closely related to Xindanwei. A hackerspace is a community-operated physical place where people can meet and fool around with their projects. Each hackerspace is an autonomous entity, but they all share the same philosophy: it’s an environment where people can learn and tinker with technology, work in teams and take part in international competitions where many new opportunities can be found and created for all. Unlike Xindanwei, Xinchejian is not in the middle of a tourist shopping district in a glossy picture postcard part of Shanghai. It’s in a far more “real” part of town, away from the rich expats and the manicured shopping malls down a narrow hard-to-find one way street in an old warehouse. If I’d have come in my own car, I’d have had to parlay with the locals to park it! In other words, it’s in a spot not too dissimilar from the other neighborhoods where hackerspaces are hidden away.

Also, big thanks to Ulrike for nominating XinCheJian to the Digital Community in this year’s Ars Electronica.

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“That’s Shanghai” with Gilbert on the cover. ]]>

Hope to keep it at this temperature.

Bryan Ma on Winnitron machine.