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3 days class designing solutions to prevent used cooking oil unsafe reuse. Research, reflexion, brainstorming, idea selection, storyboard, presentation. Interesting ideas around intelligent oil recycling bins and cheap one time paper tester.
Next steps: turn into engineering projects and products?
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Nanode is a set of improvements on the original Arduino board with an integrated Ethernet controller and a design that is easy to hand-assemble while paying attention to some details such as the placement of the board LED and reset switch. The ability to connect to the network gives us a whole new universe of possibilities for Internet-connected devices.
Thanks to Ken Boak and Toby Yu for their generous donation, we’ll be received five free Nanode boards to play with in the XinCheJian hackerspace. Pricing will be around 200 RMB at the moment.
Below is a picture of the first two boards at XinCheJian running the default program (flashing the LED connected to pin #6). The Ethernet controller (ENC28J60) is the same we’ve used in the Transfabric’s interactive door project.
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时间分布和周期：每周日下午1点至4点。共6周。 时间分布和周期：每周日下午1点至4点。共6周。 第一堂课日期：10月16日 最后一堂课日期：11月20日 课程内容安排： Week 1: P5介绍，软件面板功能介绍/ 基本的2D图形绘制/ 基本的2D图形绘制与鼠标的互动 Week 2: 变量的概念/ 判断的概念/ 循环的概念/ 函数的概念 Week 3: 对象的概念/ OOP（基础） Week 4: 数组 Week 5: 位图应用/ 摄像头应用 Week 6: 一些有趣的第三方类库的应用与实例 每次课程的大致时间段安排： 1：00 – 1：30 － P5作品欣赏 1：30 – 2：20 －当日计划的概念知识点的教学与实例的演示 2：20 – 2：30 － 休息 2：30 – 3：00 － Q&A，个别的提问与答疑 3：00 – 4：00 － DIY，根据当日教授的知识制作，个人创作，结束时展示 针对受众：入门级P5互动爱好者 / 艺术类学生，人数控制在15人以上，30人以内。 备注：需自行携带笔记本并备有当日课程需要的文件（在每次课程的前一天共享当日的课件，学生自行下载） 收费：每个人整个课程18个小时的费用为800元，在校学生可以打7.5折。 报名：有兴趣学习的人请联系：[email protected] 教师资料： Raven Kwok | 郭锐文 the-moor.blogbus.com weibo.com/ravenkwok vimeo.com/ravenkwok Personal Showreel 2007-2011:
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爱上Arduino中文书：45人民币一本（附学习光碟），有兴趣的人请过来新车间购买！
We’re selling them for 45 RMB (to cover shipping), the book comes with a learning CD. Buy one and get started with Arduino!
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Logisim, an OpenSource digital simulation software with a tiny project.
Perfect tool for our future digital logic workshops to teach basic boolean operations and logic constructs.
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XinCheJian crashed party at Barcamp Shanghai! We took over a room!
Paul and his very emotional plant
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September 21st, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
==== Hacking Wednesdays ==== If you want to try your robot in this weekends race and have yet to finish it or build one, dont fear, come down to XinCheJian tonight and buy a R/C car like rickys 70rmb, rip the guts out and replace it with an Arduino 180rmb, theNelsons h-bridge shield 50rmb and 2 ultra sonic sensors 35rmb.. everything you need is in the space, not only will you be a hacker but you’ll learn some awesome skills while you do it. Tonight Min Lin and Ricky will be around to share stories from their recent hacking journeys. Get an insight into processing. we have a special guest coming down who’ll be setting up a processing workshop, find out whats involved tonight. Michael (RubberDucky) will be drilling into the walls to setup some computer benches, and also hooking up his mega-super-awesome-button-box for the new restricted toys (lathes, mills, bandsaw, drill) Paul will be discussing the lock-picking study with interested participants. Lio will be figuring out how he’s going to do the bamboo go-kart with those interested for the ben heck challenge (find out more tonight) and how you can be involved. After the event around 9pm the hackers will take to the tracks for some go-karting “research” at Chang Feng park indoor race track for some super awesome driving skills “bring a head mounted camera” If you thought this Wednesday is fun, wait for the weekend..
September 21st, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Understanding and mastering digital logic is a key part of becoming a better hacker. As part of getting better skills towards this, we’ve had our first FPGA workshop Sunday September 18th at XinCheJian. The workshop was given by Tinghui “Steven” WANG with the assistance of Qi “Kiki” Yao, both engineers from Digilent Inc. They demonstrated the power of FPGA through various demos such as a 720p real-time video hardware encoding and the FPGA acting as a Nintendo and executing the Super Mario ROM in addition to showing a large variety of FPGA-based projects.
This was followed by step-by-step instructions to create and test our first few VHDL design using the Xilinx ISE WebPack FPGA design software.
They’ve generously donated a Nexys3 Xilinx FPGA development board available for use to any interested XinCheJian member.
Please refer to our initial XinCheJian Wiki page on our efforts to teach digital logic using 7400 ICs and FPGA. Feel free to add your own perspective to that documentation!]]>
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