新车间 [XinCheJian]

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New interns: Yu Liu (Right) Dooho (left) messing with the tools in Xinfab

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XinCheJian members get free access to a large range of electronic and workshop tools and also cheap access to parts and through a co-operation with XinFab you can also pay for access to CNC, Laser cutter and a whole lot more. Workshops are run on a wide range of topics and when there are enough requests, this also includes an introduction the to Machine Room and also how to use the CNC and laser cutter. To help members begin to learn how to CNC, a draft guide has been started here. You can practice at home! This guide also gives good skills for learning how to laser cut and some for 3D printing. Members are also encouraged to help add more guides and improve the existing ones.]]>

上海静安愚园东路28号3号楼一楼 新车间 Register 报名参加 Fee: 300RMB; XinCheJian members enjoy reduced fee at 200RMB. Learn the basics of designing your own PCB, you can use free tools such as EagleCAD (freemium) or kicad (opensource). For this we’ll use EagleCAD first learn how to layout the schemetrics and then move into the layout tool and layout your very first PCB. We will design and Layout our very own Micro controller called “Annoying ATTron” using the ATTiny85 which is compatible with Arduino Core with a few addons but just 6 pins to play with and no external crystal needed. we’ll also use autoroute for the routing quickly, and you dont like it, no problem, on your own time after the workshop you’ll be able to handroute. We’ll use 0805 SMD components as much as possible because drilling holes just suck! What you must prepare 1. Download EagleCAD and activate the freemium version: www.cadsoft.de/freeware.htm 2. bring your computer, yourself to the workshop The Workshop The workshop will be a guided tutorial for 3 hours, it’s ideal for both kids and adults without programming or electrical knowledge. The workshop will be in English only given by Paul. ]]>

上海静安愚园东路28号3号楼一楼 新车间 Register 报名参加 时间：11月15号周六上午10点。 本次活动将会让爱好者,安装一个传奇级别的耳放，自己购买配件。极客都是喜欢动手和音乐的人，我们离不开music。 耳放是一个纯洁你的耳机让音乐到达飘飘欲仙的境界。当然你可以自由你愿意的配件然后大家来一起组织一起玩。如果你有一副好耳机，一定记得带出来测试这个耳放。这个耳放可以达到市面上2000-4000元的耳放级别。大家来见证奇迹的时刻。耳放做好后，我们可以K一下古典，人声，和旋以及一些新世纪和慢摇滚的音乐。有好的音源的伙伴可以带上你的音源来show一下台面分享一下音乐的动力。 选购配件价格200元。 本活动为会员免费小组活动。若需要配件，请务必提前报名并付款。无配件者可旁观。]]>

上海静安愚园东路28号3号楼一楼 新车间 报名参加 Register Time: 13:00 – 15:00 Sunday, Nov. 9th. Fee: 300rmb; 250rmb for xinchejian members. Price includes all materials needed. Are you tired of those old black speakers that only just make sounds? Maybe sound reactive lights are just not enough to impress you? How about a Plasma Speaker? A plasma speaker is a device that generates an high voltage electrical arc that makes purple light and music! Without any speakers or any moving parts! Sounds too good to be true? Well, you’re wrong, the high voltage arc really does ‘sing’ by vibrating in the air. (Of course, you will need to give the device musical audio for it to work.) *** Do NOT even attempt to build one if you have heart problems or weak heart or wearing a pacemaker, because one little shock from this thing can put you out. ]]>

上海静安）上海静安愚园东路28号3号楼一楼 新车间 立即报名 Register XinCheJian will host a Crossover Hackathon! Thanks to a proliferation of inexpensive SBCs (Single Board Computers), such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi, and an amazing array of easy-to-use sensors and actuators, the lines between programming and hardware are blurring fast. Even if you know nothing at all about hardware, you can get started in minutes and make a leap from the virtual to the physical. Along the way, you can help demonstrate why XinCheJian persists today: the vision that things can work together with open source and skills sharing. Join us to make simple hardware easy and complicated hardware possible, even if you are not an engineer. The hack-a-thon will kick off on September 19th from 18:30 – 21:00pm at XinCheJian and run from 9am on September 20th – 17:00pm on September 21st. The finalists in each theme will pitch their concept at kickoff. The winners are eligible to receive valuable prizes. Hackathon Event Dates and Details • September 20th, 2014 – concept development and hacking • September 21, 2014- Hacking and Finalist presentations, judging and awards ceremony from 5:00pm – 7:00pm. • Teams will be offered some pre-selected hardware and components. • Finalist presentations to the panel are limited to 15 minutes. Rules and Guidelines: • Max 5 people on each team • All IP belongs to team or individual • Create a quality powerpoint presentation and/or product demo • Participants will have 10 minutes to present and a 5 minute Q&A Judging Criteria: Scored 1-5 and weighed TBD Benefits: • Access to experts for product, idea validation, finalization of product, and presentation advice. • Networking Prizes: • Winner of each theme will receive valuable prizes and chance to represent XinCheJian at Makers Carnival. And more… ** Registration Deadline: 5pm on September 13th, 2014. ]]>

Human LED[/caption] So for those that might remember or have met theNelson, he dropped out of berkley by taking the thiel fellowship thielfellowship.org (resize the browser to see him on the right side) and has now released his first product of that, think social, think sharing, think music.. it’s all that in one! http://campaign.wearhaus.com/ – If you are a member of XinCheJian contact [email protected] for a discount code! theNelson is a special case, he joined XinCheJian in the early days on An Hua lu space, many many hours were given, he ran Designing your own PCB workshops which got a lot of people started almost 3 years ago, designed the first robo-racing shield that most still use and hack for other purposes and drops by as much as he can, he’s back mid may for a drop in to update us on how his new venture is going, oh, and i (Paul) still don’t think he’s 21! This is one small step for him in his future, we expect many many more! Here’s a few links and a funny photo i dug up:

• http://www.entrepreneur.com
• http://www.berkeleybyte.com
• http://www.forbes.com
• http://www.thestar.com
• http://www.china.org.cn

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Fee: Members RMB100; non members RMB200. Rookies like me always are fascinated by how circuit board plays important role in all electronics. Now we have a chance to learn to design our own. This coming Sunday 30th of March 12:30 – 15:30, Wouter will be teaching us how to design a PCB from scratch. Bring your laptop and yourself to the hackerspace.]]>

Helper Sessions and Assistive Devices group is growing, another new member joined last week and is learning Arduino – from blinking LED to accelerometer! A big feature was added to the air-mouse – a virtual mouse button. The virtual button (gesture) is controlled by horizontal shaking as seen in the video. You can also see the mouse control needs a little fine tuning.  Code is is on github. The Helper sessions are about sharing and learning anything. The Assistive devices are used as one focus for learning.  If you would like to join in and just explore a big range of hardware including the new Xadow, a wearable Arduino, that has eight add on modules and a wearable frame to mount the modules inside, all just shipped directly from the SeeedStudio research lab – hence at least one minor issue to fix. There are also bluetooth devices, 3D printing, eyetracking and heaps of code to write, so come and join in Thursday night from 7:30, no experience required, just Xinchejian membership.   Group members also arrange to meet at other times, so make contact directly or via the mailing list to arrange! Several wiki updates including this new page for heaps more good stuff to work on!  More information is here and here.]]>

7月17日周三开放日

Make something this summer!   Processing workshop went well on the weekend, for those that missed it, well worth checking out when it comes up again. just a friendly reminder that if you havn’t paid your membership dues, please do so at the space. in August paul will be running a free Arduino workshop for members only make sure you have your own Arduino kit, buy through the space to support XinCheJian. also let us know what you think about the new design on the xinchejian website. A friendly reminder that XinCheJian is a hackerspace and not a co-working space/cheap office space, its fine to work on your projects but not cool to run your business out of the space, people involved in this are kindly being asked to move to a co-working facility, we can make introductions if you need them. Just a reminder, if you would like to socialize or network please wait until after the presentations or go outside to give the presenters a chance to.. present.

Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述

• Sunny Sun Jr will be giving a brief insight to the biohack lab he wants to setup and ways you can join
• David Li will be showing off his new hydroponic system named the Vortex
• DFRobot is going to be opening the sumobot challenge, XinCheJian is already forming a team to smash them!

Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍

• The Famous Sunny Sun Jr wants to kick off the biohack lab, find out how you can be involved and what they are planning on doing, glow in the dark goldfish anyone?
• David li, a constant builder has his new system, making your own vortex to process worm casters or suck the world into
• DFRobot is going to introduce sumobot challenge this evening!

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