“Xinshanzhai 3: A New Era for Robots Driven By Open Source Hardwrae”

Hosted by: Xindanwei and Xinchejian
Speaker: Dr. Ricky Ye of DFRRobot
Time: 2:30pm-4:30pm 14 Jan 2012
Venue: Xindanwei, Yongjia Rd 50 (close to Shaanxi Rd South)
Fee: 30RMB/person (inlcuding fresh coffee and tea)

Xindanwei and XinCheJian have ran a few Xinshanzhai talks to discuss the open source hardware and open source innovation. We have done two with SeeedStudio and IDEO about a year ago. We are looking to restart this series of talk with DFRobot kicking off the talk again. We have invited the founder of DFRRobot about his experience about how DFRobot gets started, how he get into Arduino/HCR and how open source hardware has help his business.

About DFRobot:

DFRobot was founded on 2007 in Beijing, China. DFRobot is a professional robot technology developer, especially in open source hardware, mobile robot platform, robot sensors. Their first product is the URM37 V3.2 ultrasonic sensor which is now becoming a really popular distance sensor in robotics market. They are now the biggest robotics online shop in China.

They are very active in open-source hardware community such as Arduino. Besides that they are the official Arduino distributor in China, they also had their own brand “DFRduino” which provides the same features but lower cost.  DFRduino has a  whole range of shields and sensors that can match most education, prototyping, DIY projects and research purpose.

About Dr. Ricky Ye:

CEO & Co-founder of DFRobot. Received his Ph.D. from Nottingham University (UK) in 2007. Involved in several EU core projects as researcher and project manager afterwards. At 2008, he launched an open source robot project called “HCR”, and joined the DFRobot in 2009. He is now focusing on the development of domestic robotics, AI technology and open source hardware.

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Time: 14:00 – 17:00, Jan 22, 2011
Location: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd
Cost: 30yuan/person

Shanzhai is an open platform for grassroots innovation. Apple, Nokia, and Samsung smartphones get copied, but the knockoffs adapt the original designs in ways that appeal to Chinese customers. Shanzhai designers might add a flashlight, key in areas with unstable electricity.

The effect is to make products accessible to common folks in terms of price, aesthetics, values, and needs. Shanzhai designs are an opportunity for international companies to introduce Chinese consumers to their brands, and then observe how local Chinese culture adapts their offerings.

How might companies harness learning by observing Shanzhai designs? IDEO will share their perspectives and methodologies on these big questions for business.

2:00pm
Opening: Introduce the event, speakers, guests and talk about the goals, by Liu Yan(xindanwei)

2:15pm
1.IDEO: “Shanzhai as an open platform for innovation” – 15 minutes
2.How to Shanzhai?
- “Rapid prototyping” – IDEO – 30 minutes
- Tool of prototyping
- Arduino – Flamingo EDA – 20 minutes
- Android – – 20 minutes
-From prototype to production – C2Tech – 20 minutes

4:00pm
Part Two: Android prototype boards and tools demonstration Followed by a visit to Xinchejian and networking

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xinshanzhai edition1: Facilitate Open Innovation: The Seeed Studio Approach
Time: 3pm Dec 26, 2010
Location: Xin Che Jian, 2nd floor, Yongjia Rd 50 (close to Shaanxi Road South)
Cost: 30RMB for non-Xinchejian members, free of charge for Xinchejian members.
Speaker: Wu Hao, CEO of c2tech.com.cn
Xiao Wenpeng, CEO Flamingo EDA

Seeed Studio is an open hardware facilitation company based in Shenzhen, China. Benefiting from local manufacture power and convenient global logistic system, we integrate resources to serve new era of innovation. Seeed also works with global distributors and partners to push open hardware movement.

We design modular electronics for quick prototyping and small scale projects, which could be found at Bazaar. It also carries inventories from community innovators, we help people make, distribute their designs and collect the revenue. It’s a win-win situation and taking a shape towards an ecosystem. By working with us, innovators could focus on the designs, provide better support to the user and promote the product. Seeed Studio or similar service provider could get more traffic and bring up other product sales.

The manufacture part of hardware involves a lot details. We provide Propagate service to facilitate the process. Innovator send finished prototype with manufacturing files including Gerber file, BOM, test plan and other requirements. Our engineering team will validate and integrate the design into small batch production line. All products will be tested and packed under instruction. Innovators could also view current manufacture and distribution status from propagate. After deducting the manufacture costs, profit will be returned to innovators when inventory sold out.

To estimate the popularity before investing manufacture, innovators could post the idea or prototype to Wish. The community would vote, comment and collaborate on projects. You could also join interested groups to see what’s hot being worked on. By participating Wish, ideas with many votes could convert the popularity into coupons to purchase product or service. The idea poster could also share some coupon to the valuable commenter as appreciation

Products and service info are hosted at a wiki called Garden. Feel free to add your guide, project or yourself as a freelancer.

Bio
Eric Pan, founder and director of Seeed Studio, grew up with DIY culture in China. He graduated as an EE bachelor from Chongqing University, with experiences and prizes from national wide contests of MCU, Embedded Design, Robotics, and English skills. He first joined Intel in Chengdu as a FCBGA product Engineer whose main job includes quality control and new product integration. Then he worked at Beamstream LLC as international sourcing manager on system solutions. He established Seeed Studio since 2008 from bare ground and now turning it into an open source hardware facilitator with 30+ employee.

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