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Insect Robot from Lumi
April 11th, 2011 § 4 comments § permalink
And Hacking HaiPad
April 10th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
posted a detail article on hacking HaiPad m701!
The M701 in itself is an example of hacking in China: here, hacking hardware that wasn’t thought to be workable together to achieve something close to a device that is much more expensive is not called a hobby but a full-time job! Like many others, the extremely low-cost of this 7 inch tablet is made out of a even lower cost chipset, the Telechips 8902. The Telechips was originally designed to fit high end automotive applications, not do tablets or robotics. This chipset powers a variety of similar devices: Augen Gentouch, Coby Kyros, HSG X5A, Haipad M701, Dawa D7, SmartQ v5/v7, Coby Kyros MID7005/MID7015, Imito iM7, Smartbook Surfer (Pictures) “Shanzhai” integrators prefer to keep their supply chain discreetly low-profile as they consider it their “secret” sauce. This is because in Shenzhen, manufacturers are in a race to produce a whole bunch and sell them before the local competitors do the same, often advertising capabilities of the underlying chipset that are actually unavailable to the user since unsupported by the OS.
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Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers!
April 5th, 2011 § 3 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 and give a talk on Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers! Everyone can learn and have fun making cool things with electronics! After the talk, there will be a workshop for interested people to experience fun making cool stuffs: The workshop is free, you only pay for the materials used for the project of your choice and you can bring it back home! ＊ TV-B-Gone (turn off TVs in public places!) Material cost：130rmb ＊ Brain Machine (Meditate, Hallucinate, and Trip Out!) Material cost：130rmb Please register here for the event.
Xin Che Jian Opening Special
March 31st, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
member today! Xin Che Jian Open House Date: Sunday, April 3rd 2011 Time: 2PM to 5PM Location: Anhua Road No.76 suite 301, Changning District, Shanghai (near Jiangsu Road) Metro line 2, 11 (Jiangsu Rd Stop Exit No.4) Please sign up here for the event.]]>
Quadcopter Team
March 27th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
RoboPeak Team
March 27th, 2011 § 3 comments § permalink
We are very happy to be able to invite this Shanghai based Robot team. I ran into them on Weibo and thought they were professional team. Only when we meet, I learn that they are also a group of robot hobbyist. Wow! That’s some bar they set up for robot hobbyist! We gotta keep up!
There are a lot of information about their work on their web site. We post the faces behind the team and look forward to meeting them again.
Blessing from Xindanwei
March 26th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Rocking with CNC'ed Bamboo Guitar and Vacuum Tube AMP
March 26th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Rocking with Brad Ferguson‘s CNC’ed Bamboo Guitar and Vacuum Tube AMP
That combo sounds AWESOME!
Visualize World Bank Data with Kinect
March 26th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
Visualize World Bank Data with Kinect by Harald Haraldsson
There are over 50 people attending the grand opening of XinCheJian. The first talk of the events was given by Harald Haraldsson of Wonwei about hacking Kinect. Harald is one of the most talented interactive hacker in Shanghai. Make sure to see the light painting with Kinect at the bottom of this post.
Getting Ready
Kinect on a stick
Busy Gesticulating: demo skeleton tracking
Light Painting with Kinect and Projector
This is amazing project by Harald. Those of us into photographers have play around with light painting but Harald’s hack took it to the next step. Kinect can detect depth of an object before it. By using a piece of flat surface with projected images on it from projector, the Kinect is used to changed the images projected depending on the depth of the surface. With a camera shooting at long exposure mode, it created a 3D hologram like images. Harald show photos for data visualization.
Visualization of World Bank Data
Here are a few more pictures provided by Harald. He used the light painting to visualize economic indicator data from World Bank.
