新车间 [XinCheJian]

Wednesday’s Presentations IoT – Rob van Kranenburg Dr. J. (Sjaak) Wolfert: SmartAgriFood David Li: Makers and IoT Andrew: LED Cube and Timer]]>

Metropolis“. More about the project will be in the wiki soon as we just begun. Today we built the table where the city will be installed. The project will be a fusion of 3D projection and robot hardware combined with mechanics and interactive components. This project is open for all members with interest. There will be a huge part in 3D mapping/projection and this content has to be created too. The robotics and mechanical part will include Arduino based hardware for the movements, communication between the central computer and the city and interface for interactive components. If you think you could help with something then just let us know.  ]]>

Summary for Wednesday On Saturday at 2:30pm in XinCheJian David will be doing a mini workshop for 30 minutes, on starting seedlings for hydroponics, he needs your help, it’s free for members to attend, if you’re not a member, sign up before the workshop. What great weather we’ve had this week? t-shirts, shorts and flip-flops. we’ve strip it it down even further at XinCheJian, we’re going naked – free yourself! Presentations

• Shiyin Cai – Dialogue in the dark
• Bernard Xiong – RTOS/RT-Thread
• Aler Gu – 17 year making with fast contributions

Wednesday Presenters Shiyin Cai from Dialogue in the dark a China NGO raises awareness of issues facing visually impaired, expect total darkness (Or as best we can). Bernard Xiong from Real time operating system and lead developer, he recently released ART and opensource development board for RT-Thread and will be demoing ART. Aler Gu will be traveling across the country to come an present at XinCheJian, at age 17 he holds 2 patents, won numerous national awards and launched innovation clubs all revolving around robots and robotics, he gave a short demo at XinCheJian on the weekend of his mechanical hand, which was inspiring to see. he also has a voice controlled robot looking a bit like johnny 5. Have something good to present? email [email protected] for a short overview.]]>

Sponsorship XinCheJian is asking for 50,000 RMB from the main sponsor of the Soccerbots Exhibition. These costs are the minimum requirements to cover the basic materials, components, tools and support costs. Due to the extreme time constraints, half of the funds (25,000 RMB) must be provided before May 18th 2012. The overall engineering cost of the Soccerbots exhibition is estimated at well over 200,000 RMB when taking into account the cost of the expert engineering team donated by Xinchejian. The exhibition will be on loan to a space designated by the sponsor for the duration of the event. Given the transportation costs, the sponsor will need to provide the field based on a design and set of specifications provided by XinCheJian. XinCheJian will provide four robotic teams of seven players, remote controllers for the audience to play, the special football field sensors, the special game ball, and recharging units for the robots. All robots, playing field, remote controls, and equipment must be returned to XinCheJian at the end of the exhibition. Soccerbots Swarm Robotics Team XinCheJian has assembled a team of two senior engineers, Michaelis Lutz and Edward Jiang, with over 10 years of robotics experience. Assisting them to build the robots will be more than 10 part-time engineers and designers. Project Lead Engineers:

• Edward Jiang
• Edward Jiang is Vice-President of Technology at Tradesparq, the world’s fastest growing trade social network. Edward is a robot enthusiast with multiple robotics projects.
• http://xinchejian.com/2012/03/27/portraits-of-makers-edward-jiang/

Michaelis Lutz

• Michaelis Lutz is technical German translator for ASUSTEK COMPUTER, the PC manufacturer, with 40 years of experience in electronics and robotics.
• See his videos on Youku: http://u.youku.com/lumi3005
• http://xinchejian.com/2012/03/26/portraits-of-makers-lutz/

Xinchejian Project Engineers: Spencer Featherstone, Mika Lin, Valentin Gauffre, Raymond Walintukan, Tim Lan, Chong Yang, Robin Lee, Chris Carey, Infy Zhang XinCheJian supporting team: Ricky Ng-Adam and Kevin Chen (proposal), Otto Mao (translation) Previously Built Robots: Mr. Lutz and Mr. Jiang have built multiple robots at XinCheJian including:

• “Insectbot” autonomous robots
• Hacked RC car, turned into an autonomous robot
• R2D2 autonomous robot
• Micro-sized line-follower autonomous robot
• Four-legged autonomous walking robot

View a list of projects and pictures here:

• http://letsmakerobots.com/user/14721/pages/robot

Parting words At XinCheJian, we believe this would be a unique and attention-grabbing exhibition. This will be the first robotic football swarm game in China, which could draw interest from both traditional media and social media. Most important, we think the robots will attract lots of people who will come to watch the robots playing football! Our organization has positive visibility in the local media including magazines and TV media, many online social networks (such as Weibo) and our own blog. Our sponsor can gain positive exposure by associating itself to this ambitious and attractive project. We have a strong self-interest in seeing this project succeed and driving traffic to our sponsor to build an audience for the project and enhance our reputation as a creative and innovative space. 概念图Concept Proposals Figure 1: Audience members watching the Soccerbots playing football. Figure 2:  Proposed 3D model shell for the soccerbot robot exterior. Figure 3: Concept of external skins for soccerbots, based on European Football teams. ]]>

The Milkymist One team will do a presentation at XinCheJian on January 11th – register now!