新车间 [XinCheJian]

Over the weekend, we hosted a “Makerspace & Education Workshop” in collaboration with IMA of NYU Shanghai. Thanks for Marianne Petit for arranging everything. More info and photos can be found here and here.

Opening by Marianne Petit

Marianne prepared her opening speech in Mandarin and delivered it beautifully!

About IMA/ITP

Learning about assistive technology

XinCheJian and Makerspace by David Li

Make your own device by Huang Zhenxin

Teacher Huang is now a regular presentor of Wednesday open night in XinCheJian. He brought a lot of his home made devices. The photo is a wireless powered LED submerged in water. The power source is hacked from a electronic hot plate. Amazing ingenuity!

Afternoon Workshops on Lasercutter by Vivian Xu, 3D printing by Marianne Petit, Arduino by Ricky Ye and Ardublock by David Li

Xie Zuoru from Wenzhou presenting his STEAM class

Wu Junjie presented Edumaker

NYU IMA students presnted their mid-term projects

Ding Xiaoyong presented classic Chinese architecture works

Chen Tong from SIVA presented his work on integrating folk craft into art school

Hackerspace in the container!

Luts gave workshop on Insect Bots

The Snake!

Projects from Make+

Mengqi and his home made instruments

Aquaponics

Urban Farming from Goodtochina

We built a Pop Up Hackerspace in a container as part of the Make+ for accelerating Makers’ project through Art. This is first to be host at  the Creative Carnival in Shanghai. It’s done and opened over the weekend! It has been a success attracting a lot of visitors interested in 3D printing, robotics and Maker Culture! People come to see projects by the local makers, take workshop on Arduino and 3D printing and having fun talking to the makers. The pop up hackerspace will start its journey around China after the Shanghai Maker Carnival on Oct 19-20.

Lining up to see Maker’s Works!

Vivi working her art on the container

Sumo Robot!

The Ham is here! Antenna went up!

Kids having fun with Sumo Robot!

Passing by taking photos of the space

Wonder of 3D Printing!

People working on their projects at the space

Nice skyscrapers of Pudong as backdrop

Night falls!

Vivi works wonder on the container

Two 3D Printer experts talking shop about new printer

Doraemon robot built by a team of 10 years old!

Flying machine!

Freda’s talking cat painting

Qichen’s brainwave and LED heart hack!

Dreammaker!

Hackerspace at night

Amazing view from the pop up hackerspace!

Trip plan

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Also, 100 earth worms are added to help process the organic matter in the system. Hope they can survive with constant ebb and flow. 🙂 Finally, over 300 Chinese green, tomato, cucumbers, eggplants, and sun flowers are transplanted and we should be ready to harvest in about 4 weeks.
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The system is still showing some sign of the young aquaponic system, a bit iron deficiency. Chelated iron has been added to improve that as well as a bag of coral skeleton is added as PH buffer. ]]>

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XinCheJian is proud to host Dorkbot Shangahi #4 on Sunday May 29th. Dorkbot is a group of affiliated organizations worldwide that sponsor grassroots meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and anyone else working under the very broad umbrella of electronic art. The dorkbot motto is “people doing strange things with electricity”.

There were 4 artists who presented their work:

Wu Juehui // Juehui is a New Media Artist. In recent years, Wu Juehui operates on the potential interface between art and science, between body and media in close collaboration with research institutes for neural engineering, automatic control and computer graphics.

Harald Haraldsson // Harald is the founder of Wonwei and presented some of their latest work, he also talked about how creative coding can be applied to computational design.

Wang Changcun // Media artist based in Hangzhou, with works exhibited in China, France, Netherlands and Belgium. He talked about his creative process using Max/MSP, Processing, and Flash.

Jingni Wang // Media artist based in Shanghai. She graduated from China Academy of Art, Intermedia Art Department and has completed artist residencies in Netherlands, Belgium, and China. Jingni Wang presented her wearable computing project called Lover’s Instrument. She also talked about social sustainability.

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