新车间 [XinCheJian]

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Location:Xinchejian

Just got a few of these new boxes measured 35cm x 46 cm x 15.5cm to build aeroponic.

The size of the interior can be well supplied by just one ultrasonic fogger fixed at the center of the bottom without supporting structure for floating. The fogger is submerged in 7 cm of water for maxima efficiency. This also holds good amount of water to have a stable temperature. The fogger does well filling the space above with fog.

Michael has brought all the parts to assemble a reprap. We just have to follow the assembly instructions for the Mendel model with the parts bought from BotMill. Alex has taken the lead on assembling with and has gotten to the point of assembling the outer frame with the help of Min Lin. Anyone else interested by 3d printing is invited to join in. We will work on it both this evening (Monday November 7th) and Wednesday evening (November 9th). Instructionals videos are available online…

Lionello needed a twisted wire as an audio cable so he did what any good hacker would do: he made one! He used an old busted fan to turn the two wires into each other and voila: instead twisted wires!

Bhut Jolokia peppers on Taobao and start them today. The pepper is rated at 1,000,000 SHU. It will be fun to grow them and probably more fun to see someone eat them! 😉

Location:安西路,上海市,中国

Arcade Machines

XinCheJian crashed this party, we presented throughout the day and hijacked a presentation room, while Lio took the big stage with the D programming language and Oil waste management workshop last Saturday where a group of enthusiasts worked on designing solutions to prevent used cooking oil from being reused. Interesting ideas around intelligent oil recycling bins and cheap one time paper tester.. Robo Racing last Sunday left Lio still holding onto the championship trophy, next month – he had better be careful as we have some new robots that came together or got improved on after the race. === Wednesday === This week at XinCheJian we’ve got the following happening: Micheal is running the safety workshop, this quick 20 minute workshop on the Bandsaw and Drill Press with common safety precautions and outlines, be warned everyone must do these workshops to use these tools. Did you know the original design for a bandsaw was cutting meat.. yummy. Lock-picking study starts tonight, the first Lock will come today and the research will begin, Micheal’s Safety workshop will be useful as we’ll have to slice a lock open. Raven by popular demand is back tonight for those that missed his processing presentation, he’s generating a lot of buzz.. an earlier message on weibo read “can processing do motion tracking” he replied “yep, it can even detect color changes and blobs”.. – I cant wait to tie Processing, Servos, Arduino, and a laser assisted Nerf gun together. The not-Harry-potter Severin Schols will be dropping in tonight before his sad departure on Friday from China. 🙁 another true hacker needs to be replaced.. so here is the job description: Looking for male/female – 12-13yr old – 4ft 5″ – Blond haired – Blue Eyes (bleached hair and coloured contacts fine), must be able to do German accent, must like Cats and Barbie dolls ready for immediate replacement. Hopefully finishing off the side tables. A Good time to finish off or make your racing robot, parts are available in XinCheJian. Mitch Altman kits are still available, get the MintyBoost to charge your phone off of 2xAA batteries for when you’ve forgotten to charge your phone the evening before. === Make Things, not War === There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t === Holidays at XinCheJian === For non-members/members we’ll keep the Wednesday meetup during the holiday open, For members the space will be open if you have a Key, nothing is planned over that week but some of us will be there. If you don’t hold a key one of the best ways is to send an email to [email protected] the day before if you are planning on going down to see if anyone will be there, no reply means no.
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感谢上海科技报的邀请，9／17日新车间参加了在复兴公园的上海科普日活动。

XinCheJian crashed party at Barcamp Shanghai! We took over a room!

Paul and his very emotional plant

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新车间创客空间, 作为中国的第一个创客空间 (Hackerspace), 非常高兴地宣布我们已入围了Seeed Studio的玩具改装大赛。我们将会收到来自这家深圳开源硬件企业送出的两份Grove 套装，套装里包含的模块能让我们轻松地进行玩具改装。我们也因此获得了赢取特等奖200美金和一等奖100美金的机会。我们的两个参赛项目将会尽可能地使用套装里的所有电子模块。 第一个项目是招财猫大变身。招财猫通常摆放在店铺的柜台，用于招揽顾客和财气。我们的改装将会使它更有趣，而且还能跟顾客互动。这个项目的负责人是Severin Schols （一个经验丰富的德国创客），他将会和上海新车间的其他创客们合作完成招财猫的大变身。新车间的电子招财猫将具备有趣的附加功能，使它变得比平常更可爱！一个传统的摆设品与开源硬件的结合，将会给人们留下深刻的印象。 第二个项目是改装竞赛机器车，为其添加更多有趣的功能。在我们周末举行的机器车竞赛工作坊里，有许多队伍已经拥有机器车，或者正在组装自己的机器车。而另一份Grove套件将会提供给那些想要对机器车进行升级改装的队伍。我们通过前两次机器车竞赛（6月份和7月份）发现，那些虽然不实用但很有趣的功能将会为我们的观众带来巨大的欢乐：汽车的喇叭声，闪光和操作过程中的互动。Grove套装正好能带来有趣的升级，我们预期会有不少的队伍对此感兴趣。 最后，感谢Seeed Studio，我们已经收到两份Grove套装，还有其他为我们两个项目特备的零件（移动小车平台和伺服马达）。大家可以利用这些套件，为新车间赢得比赛！我们将会在9月15号把我们的设计和项目教程递交到Seeed Studio。 ]]>