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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.]]>
July 18th, 2012 § § 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].]]>
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Ariel Yotam is sharing with us what life in the village is like, and show a few solar products that are already helping villagers.
some solar products
Oscar as know at weibo named @口琴小子 shared with us the experience of creating their own DIY drum set.
Jackie from the hydroponics team was share with us the progress of “odor of oregano”.
Barry Xu come from DFRobot shared with us the ultimate tool for urban farming: Ecoduino. Really handy and easy to use tool for wireless green home monitoring.
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=Wednesday Presenters=
Rodolfo Cossovich from Rudy Bike Fame will be presenting Next Generation of Building Systems: Fab-Lab Compatibility, talking about hardware parts that are designed to be interconnected to construct different devices and their applications. With the onset of cheap laser cutters, 3d printing and free (as in beer) or opensource CAD software making it even easier for people to get started and making things often out of reach, rethinking and rebuilding a huge industry from the ground up, from education in maths, sciences, designs, user skills and manufacturing processes with resources available at the touch of a button, do you build once or build to modify? it’s a presentation you should not miss.
Jim Hotary director of Eastworks Innovation Center of Faurecia will be speaking tonight about how they get down with R&D to create compelling user experiences, most of what they do is closed door but we’ve convinced him to share, he’ll be talking about SmartFit the ergonomic app for your phone that adjusts your seat to the correct position for your body.
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=Wednesday Presenters=
Hector from DFrobots will be giving a short slideshow and talking about the San Franciso makerfaire with some of the coolest gadgets coming!
Nick a student from Concordia International school will be showing off some of his projects and some stuff they are working on in their hackerspace over in Jin Qiao.
Scott Ballantyne, a professional at beer drinking is looking at forming a “XinCheJian macro-brewery”, a group to produce homemade beer! that’s free as in beer, more news from him tonight.
=Workshops=
* 新车间小小创客游乐会 – XinCheJian Young Makers Open Day – 2012/06/02
XinCheJian will host a young makers open day on June 2nd, lots to see and do in this afternoon event, ending with spaghetti bridge, if you’d like to help out please let us know. more information is available here: http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=127
* Processing视觉编程入门课程 – 2012/06/03
Raven is back at it again, by great demand and popularity we bring you processing in Chinese, sign up here: http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=105
* 机器车竞赛 – Roboracing Competition – 2012/06/24
Ladies and Gentleman it’s time to start your engines, keep a lookout on the wiki page for the latest line follower course, if you havn’t already built a car, Now is the time, for reference the track line is 1″ wide (same thickness as electrical tape) – Sign up if you’re racing http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=110]]>
May 23rd, 2012 § § permalink
=Wednesday Presenters=
David Li, the Foreman of XinCheJian And Roger Mu king of the jungle, will be kicking off the Hydroponics corner, a group is forming around Hydroponics, Areoponics – lets see what seeds they will plant first.
Li Xiang a Ph.D Candidate from Shanghai Jiao Tong University will be presenting his project and also seeking help in an experience involving machine learning and robotics along the lines of Factory Automation for Docks.
The rest of the evening will be met with discussions and people working on projects
XinCheJian will be holding a young maker faire on June 2nd, if you would like to help out or show your projects then please contact us.]]>
May 16th, 2012 § § permalink
=Wednesday Presenters=
theNelson is back for a week, and he’ll be talking about RankBin and his Solar Charger.
Team Swarmbots will be giving us a little update and a way to join the team.
Axel aka Guttertec from FabLab, Cologne co-working space Will be giving us the insight into his latest projects and projects out of FabLab.
Steve Dalton visiting from Gold Coast TechSpace (http://gctechspace.org) in Australia will talk to us about their space and their projects.
=Workshops=
* Portraits of Makers Photoshoot! – 2012/05/24
Dress in your best birthday suit, round 2 of “stars in their eyes” by the Shanghai Strobist Group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist_shanghai/) will be taking place, dont forget to bring your projects. Help us out and sign up so we know how many are coming http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=128
* 机器车竞赛 – Roboracing Competition – 2012/06/24
Ladies and Gentleman it’s time to start your engines, keep a lookout on the wiki page for the latest line follower course, if you havn’t already built a car, Now is the time, for reference the track line is 1″ wide (same thickness as electrical tape) – Sign up if you’re racing http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=110]]>
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