Insect Robot Body
April 24th, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink
Insect Robot Body
Inspired by Lumi’s Insect Robot, we had our first insect robot workshop today.
The BOM
- Cloth hanger
- 9v battery
- Batter Holder
- Ultrasound Distance Sensor
- Servo
- Arduino UNO
- Velcro!!!
Video of Mitch Altman (Soldering Wisdom) explaining some basic soldering techniques
April 19th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
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Chinese version of "Soldering is easy" comic book
April 19th, 2011 § 4 comments § permalink
You can download the PDF version on MightyOhm’s website.
Please feel free to distribute the document widely, it’s completely FREE! You are also welcome to practice soldering at XinCheJian!]]>
Pilot FIRST® Tech Challenge Robotics competition in Shanghai: April 23
April 19th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Pilot FIRST® Tech Challenge Robotics competition in Shanghai
Time: Saturday, April 23, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Shanghai American School, Pudong campus
International school team robots will compete in the pilot FIRST® Tech Challenge high school robotics competition, developed by FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a U.S. based non-profit. Teams design, build and program robots to compete in an exciting, sports-like challenge. Reaching 250,000 students in grades K to 12 worldwide, FIRST engages students in science and technology learning and leadership and provides an opportunity to apply classroom concepts to ‘real-world’ engineering problems, work on open-ended challenges and create their own solutions. The event is free and open to the public. Contact Paula Joseph at [email protected] for more information.
For more information, contact Shelly Shen at [email protected] 13564738316 or Paula Joseph at [email protected] 18601794144
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Insect Robot Workshop
April 18th, 2011 § 5 comments § permalink
Insect Robot Workshop
Workshop instruction will be in Chinese.
- Date: April 24, Sunday
- Time: 1 ~ 5 PM
- Audience: any person aged from 5 ~ 99 interested in robotics 😉
- Bring your own notebook
- Fee：250 rmb
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The kit includes the following:
- Arduino borad
- 2 Servo
- 1 Ultrasound distance sensor
- Other material for the robot structures
Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers with Mitch Alman
April 18th, 2011 § 4 comments § permalink
I Love My Job!
Mitch started with a good slide. Loving your job is important!
XinCheJian and Xilinx
April 15th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Kevin Xie from Xilinx (University Program Greater China manager) came by to visit XinCheJian last Sunday as he’s very interested in helping Hackerspaces in China. He sees Hackerspaces like XinCheJian as a potential opportunity for students to apply the knowledge they gain in university in real devices while inspiring them to do cool stuff.
Xilinx programmable logic devices is what is powering many industrial strength devices and an important building block in any larger project. Xilinx offer capabilities that complement micro-controllers very well when continuous signal processing is needed. This could offer us interesting alternatives to real-time sensors data processing and actuators control in a very compact package.
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Telepresence teaching robot
April 13th, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink
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Mitch Alman, inventor of TV-B-Gone
April 11th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Mitch Altman, Inventor of the famous TV-B-Gone, a remote control keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He is co-founder of Noisebridge, a San Francisco hackerspace, creator of the Brain Machine project in MAKE Magazine, gives workshops around the world on how to solder and make cool things with microcontrollers, and is CEO of Cornfield Electronics.
We’re very lucky to have Mitch visiting XinCheJian on April 17th and give a talk on Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers! Everyone can learn and have fun making cool things with electronics!
Please register here for the event.
