上海静安愚园东路28号3号楼一楼 新车间
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Fee:
RMB 200. RMB 150 for XinCheJian members.
Intro to Design Thinking for Makers:
Innovative companies, and inventors in general, don’t just come up with new product ideas out of thin air. They used problem-solving methods, such as “design thinking” to establish competitive advantage. These methods focus on listening to user needs, empathy, logical and creative thinking, collaboration, and experimentation. Design thinking methods can be applied in any field, and even in personal life, and can go a long way in helping makers create products that solve real needs.
This intensive hands-on workshop will go through all the steps of the design process, but will spend most of the time on tools and methods to build empathy for the users, as this crucial first step often proves to be challenging in certain contexts (cultural and mindset)
This workshop can help you:
· become a better innovator
· learn which questions can lead to uncovering hidden needs
· solve complex challenges at work or in life
· combine creativity and innovation with logic and analysis
· become a better collaborator
What to expect:
This will be an intensive hands-on workshop that goes through the whole design thinking process and helps you learn-by-doing. You won’t be sitting, listening to a boring lecture, but getting your hands dirty and interacting with each other right from the beginning.
Who should enroll:
This workshop is ideal for not only makers interested into turning their ideas into real products or services but also professionals from any industry that are interested in learning new approaches to problem solving.
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创客的设计思维工作坊 9月19号｜Design Thinking for Makers Workshop Sep 19th
September 14th, 2015 § 1 comment § permalink
Processing图形控制工作坊 9月13号｜Visual Interaction with Processing Workshop Sept. 13th
September 9th, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink
上海静安愚园东路28号3号楼一楼 新车间
报名参加 Sign Up
Fee:
RMB 200; RMB 150 for XinCheJian Members.
Preparations:
Bring your own computer (windows is better) and pre-instal software (Processing and Arduino)
Workshop Content:
Sept. 13th 13:00 – 15:00
Learn to set up environment
Learn to connect Arduino with Processing
Learn to send/receive data from arduino/processing to processibg/arduino via serial port
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三维建模与3D打印机操作工作坊 9月11-13号｜3D Modeling & Printing Workshop Sep 11th – 13th
September 7th, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink
上海静安愚园东路28号3号楼一楼 新车间
报名参加 Sign Up
Fee:
RMB200. 150rmb for xinchejian members.
Preparations:
Bring your own laptop and pre-installsoftwares (Cura, fusion360)
Workshop Content:
Sep 11th 19:00 – 21:00
Learn to 3D model with Fusion360 software (please download and install beforehand.)
Sep 13th 10:00 – 12:00
A brief story about 3DPrinters;
Setup a 3D Printer;
Use the internet to Download 3D models;
How to 3DPrint with Cura Software
Hands on! Print a quick 3D model yourself .
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Wednesday Night Live (Sept.2) 周三夜现场（9月2日）
September 6th, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink
ROS) robots, a set of software libraries and tools that help people build robot applications. It was hard for most of people to believe that a high school student could understand so much about ROS the software that most of people nearly heard about. Andrew Geng, a long term member of XinCheJian who is still in university, brought his new project – ATLAS (aerial filming drone). With 9 minutes speech, he explained how ATLAS was built and the theory. From the first project of Andrew in XinCheJian – a wireless charger to his latest project – the ATLAS, we can definitely see his progress in XinCheJian. As the first hacker space in China, XinCheJian hopes to offer everyone a platform to create and build their own projects, no matter who you are, or where you come from.]]>
On learning Hydroponics at Xinchejian
August 24th, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink
Once the roots were firmly in place, the next step was to get our shelves set up in the enclosure. It was a bit of a mess… 
But once we cleared it out there was plenty of space. We then set up our watering system. Here’s an overview of the system and how it works. Basically, we filled a reservoir (bucket) with a nutrient solution (food for the plants). The water pump will rest inside this container and periodically pump the nutrient solution through the hoses to our plants, washing over the roots and flowing through a drainage system back into the reservoir. We didn’t have a proper hose outlet so I 3d printed one. (It’s nice find practical uses for my printer.) The pump is hooked up to an electrical outlet with a timer so we can easily set a schedule for feeding. Here’s a shot of the hose assembly. 
Here’s a shot of my plants after running the hoses to them. 
I’m excited to see these grow over the next few months. I’m excited to see what else I can learn about plants in the process. And, I am especially excited about jalanpenos.”]]>
XinCheJian's Second Makers' Hour | 新车间的第二次“创客一小时”
August 17th, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink
Mr. Wu, who also attended Makers’ Hour the week before, is working on a wireless camera. He wishes to integrate technologies such as Raspberry Pi to create a wireless and wearable camera.
These three young men made their own motorcycle and are ready to manufacture and sell within this year. They wish to bring in technologies such as Bluetooth headset helmets and mobile device applications to accompany their product.
Jerry is able to control his wireless LED panel through a mobile application. His application can not only change the brightness but also the color temperature of the light source. He believes color temperature has an effect on the productivity and emotions of a person.
XinCheJian strongly encourages makers to come by on Wednesday nights to present their creations. By having makers communicate with one another, makers can gain insight and opportunities they would not have had working alone. Through making connections with each other, makers may overcome problems they have with the project, find partners to collaborate with, and sharing experience about commercializing products. Makers’ Hour is for makers who have physical projects to show. This means projects such as: embedded devices, robots, internet of things, and other practical devices. We will be strict about not having people without physical projects.
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William Kim Internship Review
July 28th, 2015 § 0 comments § permalink
SMIC Private School, as a XinCheJian intern to our space for over 100 hours between July 15th and July 27th 2015 at our Hero Center location (Jing’an, Shanghai). XinCheJian is a community space focused on technology that provides its members with a space to work on their project, Internet access, tools and components in an atmosphere focused on making. As the space sees heavy use daily by members, it’s essential for us to have people in charge of the space to help and interns are very appreciated in that role. In school, William had already shown great leadership being president of both the computer sciences and the sciences club. He’s planning on pursuing studies in Computer Sciences or Electronic Engineering abroad so was looking for a volunteer internship relevant to his interests. To that end, he already acquired skills in programming and Arduino microcontrollers which are very useful within an Hackerspace. William first took on the space as a project in itself, completing over 50 different individual tasks. Increasing entropy is a natural state of things, especially in an hackerspace that sees many projects and many contributions. Regular cleaning and sorting is required to get the handle on the chaos. First set of tasks he took on covered a massive and much needed cleaning and installing of new shelves to allow better sorting of the electronics components that followed. Another good organization innovation was the labeling of the rental storage boxes to track usage. Another significant tasks was around XinCheJian computers: from testing the donated computers to making sure that as many of them were functional with Internet access. In addition, he’s taken the initiative in promoting the space through videos and welcoming personally members to the space, introducing them to the hackerspace. He signed up 7 new members to the space. He also supported the Arduino workshops organized by Yu, another intern. William’s contributions, completing his Objectives and Key Results set at the start at 100%, have made the space more efficient and a better working space for all makers. William’s work ethics, knowledge and initiative were impressive and all the senior members that have worked with him believe he has a bright future ahead of him.]]>