新车间 [XinCheJian]

1F, No.1 Building, No 28 East Yuyuan Road Hey XinCheJian Makers, How are you? What you’ve been made lately and curious on what others have been build? XCJ is organizing our very 1st time “Show and Tell” night in the space, welcoming our makers to showcase their cool projects and find people around you that will be interested in your project. Get excited? For Registration: 1. Take a picture of your project and register your name and details to email: [email protected]. The coolest project and the maker story will even have chance to be featured on our official website and Wechat post. Cool? Time: July 15th Wednesday 8pm – 10pm The Host: Ricky What you must bring: 1. Physical projects you’ve worked on and its story (Something you’ve made already, not a PPT). Location: 1F, No.3 Building, No. 28 Yuyuan East Road (XinCheJian) ]]>

About Speaker: Stephen Wolfram is a distinguished scientist, technologist and entrepreneur. He has devoted his career to the development and application of computational thinking. 斯蒂芬•沃尔夫勒姆是一位杰出的科学家、技术专家和创业家。他的整个职业生涯都贡献在计算化思维的研发和应用领域中。 His Mathematica software system launched in 1988 has been central to technical research and education for more than a generation. His work on basic science—summarized in his bestselling book A New Kind of Science—has defined a major new intellectual direction, with applications across the sciences, technology and the arts. In 2009 Wolfram built on his earlier work to launch Wolfram|Alpha to make as much of the world’s knowledge as possible computable—and accessible on the web and in intelligent assistants like Apple’s Siri. 他在1988年发布的Mathematica*软件系统就已经对技术研究和教育发展产生了不止一代人的核心影响。他在基础科学领域的工作，被概括成他的畅销书《一种新科学》**，已经定义了一种主要的新型智能方向，其应用横跨科学、技术和艺术。在2009年，他在其早期研究的基础上推出了Wolfram|Alpha知识引擎，用以将全世界的知识尽可能地转化为可计算的形式，并通过网络和类似苹果Siri这样的智能助手让人轻松获取。 In 2014, as a culmination of more than 30 years of work, Wolfram began to roll out the Wolfram Language, which dramatically raises the level of automation and built-in knowledge available in a programming language, and makes possible a new generation of readily deployed computational applications. 在2014年，基于30多年的积累，沃尔夫勒姆开始推出Wolfram语言，能够在这种编程语言中利用其内置的知识引擎显著地提高自动化的程度，并能让下一代的计算型应用成为可能。 Stephen Wolfram has been the CEO of Wolfram Research since its founding in 1987. He was educated at Eton, Oxford and Caltech, receiving his PhD in theoretical physics at the age of 20. This is his first visit to China. 斯蒂芬•沃尔夫勒姆从1987年起创办Wolfram研究公司并任CEO。他曾在伊顿公学、牛津大学及加州理工学院学习，并于20岁的时候获得理论物理博士学位。这是他首次访问中国。]]>

XinCheJian will be the featured hacker space at upcoming Shanghai Makers Carnival running through 18-19 of October. Come visit us at our booth and meet the most creative and most daring XinCheJian makers and see for yourself what can be achieved if you dare to do! This will be the biggest event of makers community. There will be talks and seminars, workshops, showcasing, as well as a market place. Don’t miss it out! Time: 18th-19th of October, 2014. Location: 290 SongHu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai. ]]>

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. ]]>

Time: 16:00, March 30th, Sunday. Danny will set up some simple practices to show how to use the device and explain some basics.]]>

Another packed open night in XinCheJian

Aaron MC the event for the first time!

Teacher Huang’s lecture

Teacher Huang teaches high school in Shanghai and found out about XinCheJian on the news. He has been bringing all the educational gadgets to open Wednesday nights!

Aquaponics system by Mr. Bian and Mr. Song

Mr. Bian and Mr. Song introduced the aquaponics system they have been building.

Hydrogen reactor

Pozible

Rick Chen, founder and CEO of Pozible.com presented the company.

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Hackerspace in the container!

Luts gave workshop on Insect Bots

The Snake!

Projects from Make+

Mengqi and his home made instruments

Aquaponics

Urban Farming from Goodtochina

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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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1. All questions welcome
2. We all share and help each other
3. Make & hack stuff – anything!

      …. one theme will be assistive devices as this covers a huge range of technology!

Anyone is free to suggest other themes! All languages are welcome. Proposed guidelines

• Display “Helper sessions” welcome sign – so people know were to come (don’t be shy !)
• Setup at one table/area – with chairs and clean workspace.
• Noisy discussions should move to another area, so main group can continue.
• Share and document – let other people know if you had a good time, or learnt something (or not)
  • Ask for wiki account and how to use the wiki!
• You need to be a member

These sessions are intended to extend the always great help available at anytime at Xinchejian 🙂

Aim is to fit in between formal workshop Xinchejian learning and to give some relief to Xinchejian regular members as they often spend most of their time helping others. THANKS for all the interest and support after Wednesday nights talk! When:- Trial Thursday from 7:30 starting from 11th July. If any interest we can try other times, including weekends. Where:- At Xinchejian Cost:- Free, but members only (100RMB per month, cheaper for longer periods) Links – Early draft pages have been started on the wiki:- Helper Sessions    Assistive Devices These will be added to in coming days and weeks. Note “Helper sessions” is a draft name – fits in with Maker, hacker, and also fits in with assistive technology. Any better suggestions?]]>

7月03日周三开放日 Make something this summer!   Tonight, it’s a back to normal @XinCheJian, several announcements, the possibility to receive the machineroom training with paul this evening after presentations and upcoming events, also keep an eye out on dotdotlab’s project “dotdotdot” launching downstairs in a joint interactive exhibition piece with W+K for the month. 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

• Biayna Bogosian – Synesthesia
• Spencer Featherstone – Assistive aids

Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍

• Biayna will present her research on design workflow automation that utilizes various physical and non-physical factors to add information resolution to the built environments. Biayna Bogosian is an architect interested in computational design and highly localized materialization processes that respond to data patterns. Biayna holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. Since 2011, Biayna has taught digital media seminars and design studios at Columbia University GSAPP, and USC School of Architecture.

• Spencer Featherstone the key ingredient in swarm robots is back and is going to discuss his progress in trying to make affordable, reasonably functional assistive aids, a call for interest in having one or more mini hack nights/weekends, or individuals who want to get involved, or create longer term project/s to develop and publish.

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