Sunny demonstrates how to “cook” the circuit.
Squishy Circuit Workshop Recap
February 26th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Squishy circuit
February 4th, 2012 § 5 comments § permalink
Attribution: Crazy dough (squishy circuit) is the product of the American University of St. Thomas University UST Design Lab AnnMarie P. Thomas, professor and her team developed and used to help children quickly and securely visual learning circuit. Thank AnnMarie P. Thomas and her team around the world to share the results of this teaching, but also thanks to Squishy Circuits, project Matthew Schmidtbauer in the process of organizing this workshop to provide technical guidance. Text pictures from facebook and Squishy Circuits, the project’s website.]]>
Dorkbot: JUE + XinCheJian = Art + Technology
January 14th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
About XinCheJian 新车间是一个开放式社区,吸引并集聚了各方硬件高手,电子艺术家,设计师,DIY爱好者,以及所有喜欢动手捣鼓各种东西的人。在这个实验空间里,大家不仅可以和兴趣相投的人一起拆拆装装各种电子和物理产品,而且还可以共同实施一些好的设计和想法。 “新车间”与第4届《觉》音乐+艺术节将于2012年3月9日-25日共同为您呈现一次艺术与电子的碰撞盛宴,而Dorkbot即是这场盛宴的开胃菜。 What is Dorkbot? Dorkbot是一场艺术家,发明家,电子爱好者的“集会”,是一个轻松氛围下互相间交流作品,想法与技术的平台。2012年3月,新车间与《觉》会共同举办一个以“艺术与技术”为主题的Dorkbot,邀请来自《觉》的艺术家们,以及坐在电脑前的你一起。 Looking for Presenters 成为我们的Dorkbot活动发言人,你将可以:
- 向大家展示你的作品,给予大家熟悉了解你的机会;
- 结识志趣相投的朋友,组建自己的艺术(产品)团队;
- 吸引对作品(产品)感兴趣的展出方或投资方。
- 在“新车间”与“觉”的Dorkbot上向艺术家与电子爱好者展示您的技术与产品;
- 通过举办工作坊的形式让艺术家与电子爱好者进一步了解您的技术与产品;
- 近距离体察用户体验,及时获取到来自潜在用户的反馈信息;
- 寻找未来的艺术或技术上的合作伙伴。
Milkymist One video synthesizer
December 28th, 2011 § 2 comments § permalink
The Milkymist One team will do a presentation at XinCheJian on January 11th – register now!
- MIDI devices/controllers
- DMX512 input/output
- OpenSoundControl clients
- USB computer keyboard, mouse
- Infrared remote control
- XC6SLX45 Spartan-6 FPGA
- 128MB 32-bit DDR400 SDRAM
- 32MB parallel flash
- VGA output, 24bpp, up to 140MHz pixel clock
- Multi-standard video input (PAL/SECAM/NTSC)
- AC’97 audio
- 10/100 Ethernet
- Memory card reader that accepts microSD cards
- Two USB-A receptacles that accept USB peripherals
- Two DMX512 ports
- MIDI IN and MIDI OUT ports
- RC5-compatible infrared receiver
- RS232 debug port
- JTAG port
- Flickernoise VJ Application
- RTEMS real-time operating system
- YAFFS flash filesystem
- Verilog HDL code for Milkymist SOC (LM32 CPU, MIDI, DMX, etc)
- libpng, libjpeg, openjpeg and jbig2dec image decompression libraries.
- freetype font rendering system.
- MuPDF library for the online help system.
- MTK, a modified version of the Genode FX embedded GUI toolkit.
- liboscparse, a variant of liblo, for OpenSoundControl communications.
Shyu Lee and XinCheJian
December 7th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
- 120 MHz, ARM Cortex-M3 based STM32F207 MCU of great power for controlling algorithms!
- 1MByte On-Chip Flash, unleashes your ideas of programming!
- 1MByte SRAM and 128MByte records whatever you want to collect!
- Altera EP3C16 FPGA awesomely glued with STM32 MCU brings extensive real-time logic and I/O expansion!
- 4.3” TFT LCD brings PSP feeling and a geeky keyboard!
- DM9000 100Mbps Ethernet connects your system with Internet!
- Donate one of the DS1000E development platform to XinCheJian,
- Answer the questions from your guys,
- And have a discussion about the applications and projects in XinCheJian.
- Provide technical consultancy for designs with ARM, FPGA, analog, wireless, motor control and so on,
- Help with identifying electrical components, give suggestion on purchasing, and provide discount information,
- Actively join in the discussions of XinCheJian, help with the projects and contests,
- Reply Emails of technical questions from senior members.