Xindanwei Chitchat Edition 26: From Designer to DIYer-Maker’s Movement Globally
Time: 19:30-21:30 Thursday, Oct, 28st
Location: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd
Cost:
30RMB (providing tea, coffee, soft drink and snacks); Free of Charge for Xindanwei Monthly and Yearly Member
Important Notice:
-This is a reservation only event, seats are limited to the first 40 people who are registered at the event page of Xindanwei website.
- Transportation: We highly recommend you to take public transportation instead of driving, for we are conveniently located next to Metro line 1, 10(Shaanxi Rd South Stop) and Metro 9 (Jiashan Rd stop) as well as bus line 96, 104, 911, 167，42，920，926，128，146，24
Maker (DIY) has always been part of the culture driving the experimenting with new technology. With recent advance of digital technology and falling price of the components, mashing digital and craft become a new hobbyist movement. Web site such as instructables (http://www.instructables.com/) and Thingiverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/) have facilitate a global exchange of ideas and hacker spaces are spawned everywhere. The modern makers shares information on things from bags made from recycle clothes to UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) to robots. A lot of these exchanges also covered under the open source hardware license.
This chit-chat will cover this exciting global movement and how we want to facilitate it in Shanghai with xinchejian and hack hotel.
Speaker: David Li
maker, hacker and programmer. He received his degree in computer science from University of Southern California and in the past 20 years, he has worked in the area of virtual reality, online virtual space, enterprise computing, mobile system and lately social network applications.
