新车间 [XinCheJian]

Racing track mock-up and simulation with Google SketchUp

Some video

Some Pictures

We got full house this Sunday with 13 people doing Insect Bot workshop including 10 kids. It’s a lot of fun and most of insect got to walk.

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Pilot FIRST® Tech Challenge Robotics competition in Shanghai

Time: Saturday, April 23, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm

Location: Shanghai American School, Pudong campus

International school team robots will compete in the pilot FIRST® Tech Challenge high school robotics competition, developed by FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a U.S. based non-profit. Teams design, build and program robots to compete in an exciting, sports-like challenge. Reaching 250,000 students in grades K to 12 worldwide, FIRST engages students in science and technology learning and leadership and provides an opportunity to apply classroom concepts to ‘real-world’ engineering problems, work on open-ended challenges and create their own solutions. The event is free and open to the public. Contact Paula Joseph at [email protected] for more information.

For more information, contact Shelly Shen at [email protected] 13564738316 or Paula Joseph at [email protected] 18601794144

Insect Robot Workshop

Workshop instruction will be in Chinese.

• Date: April 24, Sunday
• Time: 1 ~ 5 PM
• Audience: any person aged from 5 ~ 99 interested in robotics 😉
• Bring your own notebook
• Fee：250 rmb
  The kit includes the following:
  • Arduino borad
  • 2 Servo
  • 1 Ultrasound distance sensor
  • Other material for the robot structures

I Love My Job!

Mitch started with a good slide. Loving your job is important!

Mitch Altman, Inventor of the famous TV-B-Gone, a remote control keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He is co-founder of Noisebridge, a San Francisco hackerspace, creator of the Brain Machine project in MAKE Magazine, gives workshops around the world on how to solder and make cool things with microcontrollers, and is CEO of Cornfield Electronics. We’re very lucky to have Mitch visiting XinCheJian on April 17th and give a talk on Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers! Everyone can learn and have fun making cool things with electronics! Please register here for the event.

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Mitch Altman, Inventor of the famous TV-B-Gone, a remote control keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He is co-founder of Noisebridge, a San Francisco hackerspace, creator of the Brain Machine project in MAKE Magazine, gives workshops around the world on how to solder and make cool things with microcontrollers, and is CEO of Cornfield Electronics. We’re very lucky to have Mitch visiting XinCheJian and give a talk on Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers! Everyone can learn and have fun making cool things with electronics! After the talk, there will be a workshop for interested people to experience fun making cool stuffs: The workshop is free, you only pay for the materials used for the project of your choice and you can bring it back home! ＊ TV-B-Gone (turn off TVs in public places!) Material cost：130rmb ＊ Brain Machine (Meditate, Hallucinate, and Trip Out!) Material cost：130rmb Please register here for the event.

member today! Xin Che Jian Open House Date: Sunday, April 3rd 2011 Time: 2PM to 5PM Location: Anhua Road No.76 suite 301, Changning District, Shanghai (near Jiangsu Road) Metro line 2, 11 (Jiangsu Rd Stop Exit No.4) Please sign up here for the event.]]>