Please note that XinCheJian is closed tomorrow (March 3rd), we’ll be all busy occupying Barcamp!
XinCheJian is closed tomorrow (March 3rd)
March 2nd, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
vvvv workshop
February 12th, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
Introduction to vvvv workshop at Xinchejian; a multimedia development environment. Next week: advanced practical workshop.]]>
Wednesday Meetup – Free – @XinCheJian – 7-9pm
February 1st, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Wednesday talks Roger Mu will be giving a presentation on his hobby – Aquaponics, his past, present and future with hydroponics and he’ll talk about is simple hand watered bucket system along with the continuous flow PVC pip system, some technical shots at flood and drain techniques along with deep water culture, come loaded with your questions Justin – the cofounder of Max Space, the Beijing Hackerspace and organizer of Maker carnival – a 3 day theme park built to be enjoyed by everyone young and old with some creative people building their ideas into reality – full of performances, workshops, talks, activities from April 29 to May 1, 2012! Arvind Gupta – famed for designing the DJammer which was used by P. Diddy at the MTV music awards, will be introducing himself to the community this evening with a talk on Creative Confidence and Design Thinking. This week 电影制作入门工作坊 – Introduction to Filmmaking – 2012/02/04 (FULL) Jerome will be guiding this workshop from script writing filming and editing.. want to be involved but didn’t make the signup, think you can act and want to be an extra.. send an email to the [email protected] mailing list. Op-Amps for Everybody! 运算放大器工作坊 – 2012/02/05 2pm-4pm Sean Boyce from Foulab Hackerspace is visiting and will be giving this easy workshop that will involve SMD techniques and you’ll build your own guitar pickup! sign up here and learn something awesome.. http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=98 This Month Processing课程 – 2012/02/11 By Great demand, Raven is at it again, this media artist will take you on an extensive and indepth tour and practical application with processing, sign up early here: http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=100 机器车竞赛 – Roboracing Competition – 2012/02/26 Robo racing is opening on the 26th for the opening race, if you’re building at home it’ll be a left hand race sign up before the race so we have an idea who is racing, participation is free. Line followers, autonomous and user controlled all welcome, keep an eye out for more information on this.. http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=96 Volunteer Jobs at XinCheJian As a Volunteer you’ll earn your membership, you’ll also be expected to join Tuesday Staff meetings from 7-9pm. Only apply if you’re serious. Without the generosity of the current volunteers, sharing tasks in their free time, it would be near impossible to keep XinCheJian alive. *Treasurer* As the Treasurer you’ll be responsible for.. treasure. you need to <strike>have your own calculator</strike> we’ll provide you a calculator. the following are what you’ll need to handle on a monthly basis. – Income/Outgoing spread sheets – Look after the donation box – Organizes the rent and bills from the bank account – We’ll even send you to business accounting with the government (we’ll pay for this) – Kind reminders to members to pay their membership dues *Journalists* A Journalist will be expected to write at least 1 article a week on a topic of whats going on inside XinCheJian, you pick a project and review it, can be a few hours an evening writing and a few hours in the day interviewing. – you’ll be given an account on xinchejian.com – You will need a camera – English or Chinese – or both is encouraged – confident and outgoing – get as much information possible from people in the shortest amount of time.]]>
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。
wednesday meetup – Free – XinCheJian – 7-9pm
January 4th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Wednesday talks Mariane Petit and Dan osulivan from ITP NYU will be giving a presentation not to be missed, learn more about http://itp.nyu.edu The awesome TheNelson is also arranging an EagleCAD workshop this Wednesday before he goes back to the US, EagleCAD is used to design your own PCBs, expect it to start around 8pm, register online before the event and save 10rmb http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=92 Wednesday evenings are one of the best times to meet like minded people and build things with, it’s about making something happen. This week *Saturday 7th* 2pm – 5pm InsectBot workshop – This is the best introduction to Arduino and building something that moves – No Programming needed, this little Insectbot will take on what ever your imagination can throw at it. Register online before the event to guarantee you a spot. http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=93 *Sunday 8th* – 1pm – 5pm Arduino Programming workshop in Chinese, If you want to dive in the deep end and learn something for 2012 then jump into this course, it will introduce you too and orientate you in one of the most popular micro-controller development platforms out there, the Arduino. Register online to save yourself 10rmb http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=90 Volunteer Jobs at XinCheJian As a Volunteer you’ll earn your membership, you’ll also be expected to join Tuesday Staff meetings from 7-9pm. Only apply if you’re serious. Without the generosity of the current volunteers, sharing tasks in their free time, it would be near impossible to keep XinCheJian alive. Treasurer As the Treasurer you’ll be responsible for.. treasure. you need to have your own calculator and some experience with keeping records. the following are what you’ll need to handle on a monthly basis.
- Income/Outgoing spread sheets
- Look after the donation box
- Organizes the rent and bills
- Talks to founders for more money
- Kind reminders to members to pay their membership dues
- you’ll be given an account on xinchejian.com
- You will need a camera
- English or Chinese – or both is encouraged
- confident and outgoing
- get as much information possible from people in the shortest amount of time.
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.