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.]]>
Robotics Spectacular at XinCheJian!
October 16th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Paper Circuit
October 15th, 2012 § 3 comments § permalink
活动时间： 10月20号（周六）下午2~4PM 活动地点： 上海新车间: 上海市长乐路1035号2楼（长乐路，乌鲁木齐南路路口）地铁7号线出来步行10分钟即到） 活动收费： 每个孩子：100元（陪同大人免费），通过新车间网站报名 90元（点击活动报名链接即可报名） 最大报名人数：15个孩子 报名链接：http://xinchejian.com/event/?ee=148， 填好报名表格（Registration Details)表格的相关信息，然后点击表格下面的“Submit”按键，既完成网上报名。我们强烈建议家长们在网上预先报好名，因为空间面积有限，最大只能容纳15个家庭，因此参加活动将以网上报名的优先。如果您的孩子这次没有报上名，我们将根据报名情况以后再开workshop满足要求。多谢理解。 其他要求： 孩子年龄：最好6岁以上，操作过程中可能会使用到剪刀，需要家长帮助。 新车间是一个共享空间，有很多其他人的电子作品和电器工具，为了您和您孩子的安全，请仅在我们活动的区域活动，不去触碰其他作品和不安全的区域。我们会在活动中有专门集中介绍新车间的部分。谢谢您的理解 注： 纸电路（paper circuit）是美国MIT 互动媒体实验室开发的互动电子电路。此次活动得到了发明人 Jie, Qi的指导和准许。再次，也感谢MIT Media Lab和Jie, Qi的无私奉献和指导。 [gallery order="DESC" columns="1"]]]>
AFRON $10 robot challenge winners announced at World Maker Faire New York 2012
September 30th, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
1. Kilobot: Harvard, USA
2. SwarmRobot: China
3. SEG: MIT, USA
4. DiscBot: USA
That’s Xinchejian in second place, behind Harvard University’s funded research group and ahead of the MIT University!
Since entering the competition SwarmRobots we have been adding more capability including object detection, communication and wireless charging. If you would like to be part of Xinchejian or the SwarmRobots team, come to Xinchejian’s free Open Night, every Wednesday at 7:30PM to find out more or start with these videos!]]>
3D printing in time lapse
September 28th, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
http://www.flickr.com/photos/minweiphoto/ Now watch the video and see 37 minutes flying away in just 1.27 minutes…impressive: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDU1NjU5OTQ4.html]]>
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!
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Wednesday Meetup – Free – @ XinCheJian – 7-9pm – 26/09/2012
September 26th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Wednesday Presenters
#Aquaponic#: we have perfect water
September 23rd, 2012 § 2 comments § permalink
We just tested the water and it’s perfect. 7.0 in PH, no ammonia and nitrite and full of nitrate. Looking forward to seeing these grow!
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Location:Huashan Road,,China
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September 17th, 2012 § 3 comments § permalink
A successful workshop to build SwarmRobots with ten attendees was held last Saturday. There were some minor hiccups with part changes and delivery, but the batteries and chargers have now arrived. Workshop attendees can be collect these at the Wednesday Open night and presentation night or at Thursday nights SwarmRobot makers night, or by arrangement.
The SwarmRobots have also been entered into a worldwide educational competition, see our entry here.
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Weekly Update 5 september 2012
September 5th, 2012 § 3 comments § permalink
Cara silver and Ihan Cheng presenting about Rwanda research.. from Frog Design in Shanghai talking about their Research methods and experience gained in Rawanda, lots of photos. Yongting Wang, Ph.D. looking to kick off the XinCheJian BIO-HACK group, her first target of injecting Bio-luminescence into E-Coli to create some glow in the dark bacteria, we welcome our bacteria overlords that glow in the dark. The founder of a Kickstarter site based in Shanghai Dreamore.cn will be giving a talk, a great time to find out how to get your project listed and how it will work. Yeelink from Qingdao will talk about hooking your Arduino into the cloud, this is the Pachube/cosm for China based services.
Barcamp Shanghai
Barcamp is this weekend, whats that mean for you? if you were planning on working out of XinCheJian on Saturday, unless you are a keyholder there will be no one there for you, email [email protected] to see what can be arranged.]]>It's a Bugs Eats Bugs World
September 3rd, 2012 § 3 comments § permalink
I was referred to predator mites by a few organic farmers on weibo. They look badass! They are smaller then red spider mites but literally eat them for lunch. Each adult predator mite will eats about 200 to 400 red spider mites.
I ordered a few bags of them and just finishing deploying them in the garden. There are both adults and eggs in the bag. Place the opening close to stem of infested plants and the predator mites will climb out of the bags to track down the spider mites. It’s a long night waiting but I can’t wait to see if any of them come to action by the morning.
Go Killer Bugs!!! – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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