新车间 [XinCheJian]

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All the hackerspaces were invited to participate in the CSDN Mobile Developer Conference

Getting ready the night before

Hackerspace and open source hardware took the biggest booth at the show. It’s over 70 sqm.

XinCheJian

3D Printer from Beijing Hackerspace

ArduBlock on 70″ touch surface

Pretty big event: over 2000 attendents

Lots of visitors to the booth

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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. ]]>

Mitch Altman是美国著名的TV-B-Gone的发明者，TV-B-Gone是一个能在公共场所关闭任何电视的遥控钥匙串。Mitch是旧金山Noisebridge黑客空间的共创办人，是大脑机器(Brain Machine) 的创造者，也是Cornfield Electronics首席执行官。 Mitch在世界各地教导过焊锡和如何用微控制器做出很酷的项目。我们很幸运能邀请到Mitch Altman 4月17日来新车间教导大家！每个人都可以学习和享受亲手做电子项目的乐趣！ 有兴趣参加的人请报名。

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Mitch Altman是美国著名的TV-B-Gone的发明者，TV-B-Gone是一个能在公共场所关闭任何电视的遥控钥匙串。Mitch是旧金山Noisebridge黑客空间的共创办人，是大脑机器(Brain Machine) 的创造者，也是Cornfield Electronics首席执行官。 Mitch在世界各地教导过焊锡和如何用微控制器做出很酷的项目。我们很幸运能邀请到Mitch Altman来新车间教导大家！每个人都可以学习和享受亲手做电子项目的乐趣！ 演讲结束後, 有兴趣的人可以参加Mitch教授的工作坊: 想参加的人只需支付材料的费用，做完後还可以把您的酷项目带回家！ ＊ TV-B-Gone (turn off TVs in public places!) 材料费：130元 ＊ Brain Machine (Meditate, Hallucinate, and Trip Out!) 材料费：130元 有兴趣参加的人请报名。

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XinCheJian’s Neighborhood

I have recently been asked quite a lot of questions about hackerspace, hacker culture and impact of hackerspace in China. This has gotten me starting to think a lot about what it means to run a hackerspace. I decided to take a walk around the neighborhood and find anything that’s related to makers. The following pictures are shops with in 500 meters of our new location in Anhua Lu. It’s a typical Shanghai neighborhood and quite interestingly how many maker related shops are around us.

Welding on the street

Bike modding? The guy is attaching a new rack to the back of the bike to carry more goods.

Window Frame Maker

They got good collection of aluminum windows frame and can cut it to any size we want.

Glass shop

Cotton Shop

This is a surprise fouind.

Lock Smith

Hardware Store

Quite a collection of home improvement materials

Home Appliance Repair

Also sell used home appliances. Will for treasure hunt one of these days.