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This weekend: Shanghai Maker Carnival
October 31st, 2012 § 5 comments § permalink
Wednesday Meetup – Free – @ XinCheJian – 7-9pm – 31/10/2012
October 31st, 2012 § 2 comments § permalink
Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述 Jared from Picarty will be presenting on his new app, recently famed for his presentation at barcamp “how i built my first app but still cant program” and it’s also adhoc wednesday, so get up and talk, just keep it to 9 minutes Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍 Jared from Picarty will be presenting on his new app, recently famed for his presentation at barcamp “how i built my first app but still cant program” a good insight into what it take and where he is taking it – get hands on with his app this evening. who else? *your name here* it’s adhoc, so get ready, just keep it to 9 minutes plus Q&A afterwards Upcoming Events/近期活动安排 Friday, Saturday and Sunday Join us at maker carnival shanghai for shanghais first maker carnival, its located in century park and xinchejian will be demoing projects, we’re still looking for more helpers over the 3 days.]]>
Wednesday Meetup – Free – @ XinCheJian – 7-9pm – 24/10/2012
October 24th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述 Andy Shum from BASF will be in tonight announcing the new global product design competition which has been opened up to hacker spaces to participate, with 6,000 Euros on the line and a paid for trip to France for the winners – dont miss out, we’re also opening up the floor for ad-hoc presentations of 9 minutes, all are welcome, surprise us all.
Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍
Andy Shum participated in a spaghetti bridge building competition previously, he’s going to talk about the product design competition and why they opened it up to Hackerspaces around the world, get the scoop and ask some questions. http://stinkybad.com/quiet who else? *your name here* it’s adhoc, so get ready, just keep it to 9 minutes plus Q&A afterwardsUpcoming Events/近期活动安排
Saturday 27th 1:00 to 5:30pm http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=149 Build your own award winning swarm robot and help the team out, they will continue to develop the swarm robot platform and your contributions during the workshop will help them do so, build your own 10dollar robot for only 300rmb, act now and register and pay only 280rmb]]>Robotics Spectacular at XinCheJian!
October 16th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Bring out your robots! We will have an evening dedicated to Robotics talks next Wednesday evening at XinCheJian (1035 Changle Rd, 2nd floor, Xuhui District, Shanghai, CHINA, 200031) from 19h00 to 21h00. Talks will be between 8 and 20 minutes each. You have a robot but no presentation? Feel free to demo it before and after the talks! Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer from the AI Lab at the University of Zurich will be talking about his work in robotics (such as Roboy) in a talk entitled “Embodied Intelligence”. Dr Pfeifer is the worldwide leader on how well designed intelligent bodies can dramatically reduce non-linear control complexity (“embodiment”) and the Deputy Director of the NCCR (National Competence Center for Research in Robotics) in Switzerland. Dr Ricky Ye (叶琛) and Rockets Xia (夏青) from DFRobot will bring and present a set of their commercial robots and how they’re approaching development of robots with OpenSource and OpenHardware. Spencer Featherstone and Edward Jiang (姜昊) will give an update on XinCheJian Swarm Robots. Our swarm robots placed second at the AFRON competition, just between Harvard and MIT! Rodolfo “Rudy” Cossovich will show off making robots with Multiplo, the robot building system. Rudy has just recently successfully completed a round of fundraising on Kickstarter for Multiplo. Announcement by Ricky Ng-Adam (伍思力), translated to Chinese by Amaca Wang, revision by Min Lin Hsieh. Robot drawing by Kevin Chen.]]>
Barcamp Shanghai Fall 2012
September 28th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Barcamp Shanghai Fall 2012. Barcamp is an “unconference” where people come to share ideas, usually with a focus on technology. Over 500 people came to the event, and Xinchejian had a room to ourselves. Here are some of the things we were doing: * Xinchejian had an LED badge soldering station thanks to Min Lin Hsieh * Arcade machine (Xinchejian’s unofficial day care for kids) by Lionello Lunesu * Analog Line Followers and Swarm Robots by Lutz Michaelis * Social glasses by Valentin Gauffre * Space Gambit by Alex Cureton-Griffiths * Lophilo by Ricky Ng-Adam * 3D printing by Stephany Xu * Compact micro-controller board by Sunny Jr * Translation Station by Victoria * Turning your stuff into a kit by Spencer Featherstone * Adopt-a-Kitten by Freda * Fish poo farming by David Li * Robots Wars by Rockets 夏青 Many thanks to Paul Adams who was onsite all day for his help with the schedule and setup. Read the total event recap from Techyizu Overall, it was a fun event, and we recommend finding us at the next Barcamp! ]]>
Wednesday Meetup – Free – @ XinCheJian – 7-9pm – 26/09/2012
September 26th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Wednesday Presenters
Wednesday Meetup – Free – @ XinCheJian – 7-9pm – 22/08/2012
August 22nd, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
A feature packed Wednesday planned for this week, from @aGuegu to Ben Houge to China Haxlr8r Folks, as always come along and buy a beer or soft drink and listen to some great presentations, finished with a round of do-nothing-but-chat or build-something-awesome you decide! 7-9pm dont be lame, hit the hackerspace on your way home!
Wednesday Meetup – Free – @ XinCheJian – 7-9pm – 1/08/2012
August 1st, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Summary for Wednesday We’ll have 2 guests this weekend Saola and Damrey will be visiting – both tropical storms, while that’s going on outside, we’ll be building up a storm inside! it’s time to get your hack on! David and Roger will be running another mini workshop this weekend, this time you’ll build your own simple hydroponics box to take home, with two different systems you’ll need to let David know by Wednesday, 150 – 200 rmb in materials but you’ll have a ready to use system to take home, contact [email protected] for more information. The awesome Barcamp is coming, sign up at http://www.techyizu.org/events/shanghai-barcamp-fall-2012/ for September – do it now, tell them you’re from xinchejian! XinCheJian will make our presence known, last time XinCheJian ran operation “Occupy Barcamp”, this season we’re taking it a step up; if you want to be a part of the XinCheJian Barcamp movement – then contact [email protected] if you have something to say, we want to hear, let us know if you wish to present on [email protected] but please read the guidelines Presentations
- Spencer a demonstration of partkeepr, and how to find what you need in XinCheJian
- David and Roger on Urban Farming
- Sunny Sun Jr. research and explosions
- Spencer (XinCheJian)- Partkeepr, designed for use in places with lots of parts, like hackerspaces this tool will help you cost out your projects and also find what you’re looking for and much more.
- David and Roger (XinCheJian) will be talking about changing the farming area, along with their new Talapia, which have been named already!
- Sunny Sun Jr (XinCheJian|not Agent squishy) at age unknown, but we guess he’s not 18 yet – will be talking about his latest research into Ultrabright LEDS, tiny fast motors and HUGE electromagnets!
Wednesday Meetup – Free – @ XinCheJian – 7-9pm – 25/07/2012
July 25th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
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 Meetup – Free – @ XinCheJian – 7-9pm – 18/07/2012
July 18th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Xinchejian Wednesday Open House. This is a chance for people to give interesting presentations on projects that they’re working on. If you would like to give a presentation at the Wednesday Open House, please read the http://wiki.xinchejian.com/wiki/Wednesday-guidelines and contact us on [email protected] Summary for Wednesday, 18 July 2012 Presentations * Richard Summers, W+K – Multiple Projects * Freda, XinCheJian – Pet Abandonment Project Upcoming Events * New Members Orientation Party on Friday, 20 July. Wednesday Presenters Richard Summers Richard Summers longs to live next to the ocean and from the people upstairs (W+K). He will be giving a talk on past and future projects, and his goal of blurring the line between reality and virtual reality. He’s worked on a few projects: * Large scale pinhole photography * Photosynthesized Easter eggs with his latest initiative * Project: “High Tide” Freda 冯佳 Freda will be talking about an initiative to deal with pet issues. Many people view pets in this way: “A pet is for Christmas and not for life“. She wants to tackle the problem of abandonment and mistreatment of pets, and she’ll be soliciting your ideas on this subject. * Pet abandonment project Are you interested in giving a talk? Write to us at [email protected].]]>