First Aquaponic Spinach Harvest
August 10th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
The very classic hydroponic roots. Short and bushy.
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“Future is Co-” at Xindanwei: Coworking in China, America and the World
August 9th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Notes from the moderator, An Xiao are available.
Quotes:
At a hacker space like Xinchejian, this might mean bringing in hackers of different kinds, from software programmers to roboticists to urban farmers. The point is to find that magic spark of synergy that a more homogenous group wouldn’t be able to provide.]]>
We've got XinCheJian patches!
August 4th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
People can now support XinCheJian by buying these nice patches, sold for RMB15 each. All profits goes to support XinCheJian Shanghai Hackers Community ^_^
Main Logo Design
Paul Adams sponsored for these two designs, thank you Paul!
Design by Andrea Carlon
QR code, very limited edition!!
August 3rd Weekly Wednesday Meetup!
August 4th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
CET Academic Programs, the same program that found us our fantastic summer intern Jonathan Kalin to XinCheJian. We had the pleasure to have a new paying member join us: Scott, who’s been very active in the urban farming project. We also welcomed a new visitor (Severin, originally from Germany) who immediately got to work helping Michael assembling a new CNC mill and trying to repair the broken Apple Time Capsule that Scott brought in (with some impressive capacitors sparks!). All this in the middle of a very busy evening with Paul fixing the Internet access (a simple re-crimp on the RJ45 cable did the trick), soldering together ultra-bright LEDs for the interactive plant project and taking apart the bubble jet printer with Michael. In the meantime, Lio whipped up a converter from 12V to 6V for the alarm battery (with a homemade heatsink) and figured out the rookie mistake that Ricky made preventing him from controlling the servos with the Freescale XL Star board (note to self: all grounds need to be connected to each other!). Ricky also helped out with Fan’s piano-driven RGB LEDs project MCU software. Lili was also in the space to promote her Bee Housing project (codename: Goldendust). Of note also is the successful daytrip to the Beijing road electronics market where Nelson bought the components for this weekend H-Bridge soldering extravaganza. See you next week!
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Goldendust pollination project
August 3rd, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink
August 14th 2011 depending on how many people sign up.]]>
Weekly meetup on Wednesday
August 3rd, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
his workshop this weekend for the upcoming roborace, after a good turn out last weekend for PCB design workshop our new H-Bridge shields for Arduino should be in this week just in time for putting them together and hacking on your Robot for the competition at this weekends workshop, so if you havn’t got yourself a cheap R/C toy yet, start shopping on TAOBAO or come on down and talk to TheNelson for some winning ideas. Michael will be around tonight – the user-controlled champion of R/C toys if you want a good insight to how he done it and how he managed to literally “blow the competition away” with his tank. Michael just got back into the country, Jet lag wont stop this guy from hacking tonight, he’s bringing with him a new CNC mill to put together – this will be awesome! So show your support and come on down to Meetup Wednesday tonight at 7pm at XinCheJian, sign up and let us know you’re coming! ]]>
Roboracing Competition – 2011/07/10
July 11th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Participants last preparations:
Participants self presentation:
Racing!
The Winners: Nelson Zhang (Autonomous Wall-E) and Michael Liao (Remote controlled Tank)A big THANK to Shanda Innovations for sponsoring 2 E-Book readers as prices for the winners!
Roborace Contestants and their Creators:
Thumbs up to all the participants for their great work! Thank you to Shanda Innovations for being our generous sponsor! Thank you to TimeOut magazine for featuring our event! Thank you to DFRobot and RoboticFan particularly Ricky Ye and Rocky for co-organizing this event! Thank you to XinDanWei for promoting our event! Thank you to everyone who visited us yesterday! Thank you to those who cannot come for your mental support! Thank you to Andi for the great poster and flyer design! Thank you to Paul for sponsoring the posters printouts! Thank you to Bindy for helping out on translations and selling drinks! Thank you to Michael for sponsoring his E-book for next competition and buying drinks to the participants! Thank you to John for helping out on event organization! Thank you to Airie for promoting the event on RenRen! Thank you to Min Lin for promoting, coordinating and organizing the event!
We’re planning to have the next Roboracing at the end of August, stay tuned!
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