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XinCheJian is a Hackerspace in Shanghai!

XinCheJian provides a community environment with open hardware setup for hardware thinkers, digital artists, designers, DIY hobbyists and everyone interested in figuring out how things work and are happy to get their hand dirty to build some fun stuffs with some like-minded people.
XinCheJian will provide workspace for people to work on projects, organize workshop and courses on various subjects ranging from electronics, embedded system, and programming and host speakers and workshop session. Also, XinCheJian will act as fund raising and supporting platform for people interested in prototyping their ideas and launching new projects.

新车间项目向硬件高手，电子艺术家，设计师，DIY爱好者和所有喜欢自己动手捣鼓各种东西的人提供了一个开放式社区，实验空间和基础设备。在这里，大家不仅可以和兴趣相投的人一起拆拆装装各种电子和物理产品，而且还可以共同实施一些好的设计和想法。
新车间将工作空间提供给人们来实施自己项目，举办包括电子，嵌入式系统，编程和机器人等不同主题的研讨会和培训班。此外，“新车间”也将成为一个融资和管理平台，来支持人们实施自己的作品和项目。

Please visit our website: xinchejian.com

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Nice website. With your neighborhood shops, you can make giant arts maybe steel dragons with the help of that welder and some hardware from the hardware store, and cloth from the cotton shop. I'd like to see some Chinese dragon in New Year parades controlled by Arduino, motors and LEDs and maybe head controlled by the dragon ball (video tracking). Would make a big impression on the general public too!

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Well, the Arduino/Android workshop last time was very educating and I am sure there will be more.

@liudr: Haha, Arduino controlled dragon...it's a good idea...maybe we could design the blimp we are planning to look like a dragon ;-)

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It would be nice to use things such as wii-remote inside of the dragon mouth that tracks an IR led attached to a small dragon ball. The ball should be cheap since it has almost no electronics inside. You can pass one to kids in the crowd and show them how to attract the dragon. Let them play it and keep it, certainly with your hackerspace contact info on it  Don't know how difficult it would be.

BTW, some POV texts on moving platforms will attract lots of kids too. I made one for teaching and smaller kids love it. Again a good piece to occasionally broadcast your advertisement mixed with blessings of spring festival or something while you parade at night.