Talk:Weekly Staff Meetings/2011-09-27

Meeting:

Michael, Min Lin, Ricky (...and later on Lio)

Weekend and Barcamp

• Kart racing Paul and Michael on Friday
• Barcamp on Saturday, Michael heavy drinking
  • Talks

Sunday roboracing

• Ardublock workshop
  • First workshop on Sunday
  • Being presented at the NY Makerfaire
  • Can be thought to kids
• Roboracing
• Lots of people showed up for roboracing on Sunday (5-6)
  • one guy sat down to help out with the electronics for Ricky's robot

Oil workshop

• Oil workshop workshop/class
  • Michael stopped by on Monday
  • We didn't collect any money
  • Lecture Monday morning, afternoon and workshop

Processing class

• Processing presentation
  • Clarify content of class in marketing material and goal of the workshop (better pitch)
  • 10 people signed up so far, most from artist background
  • 6 weeks workshop, October 16th, still looking for at least 5 more person
• Increase level better, more professional workshops

Upcoming Wednesday

• Paul
  • Lockpicking class
• Raven Kwok
  • will present processing again

Upcoming

• Two sponsored XinCheJian events in October
• Electronics workshop
  • Free sponsorship
  • October 22nd
• RT-Thread conference
• David going to mini-maker faire and OpenHardware panel
• Element14 challenge
  • In November
  • Sponsorship for Maker Fair next spring
• Quadcopter workshop
  • October 22nd morning first workshop
  • Complete project is 1700 RMB
  • Can we replace the remote by a mobile/computer wifi?
  • Making money off the kit

etc

• can't really make 50% on inventory..
• 10 books "Getting started with Arduino"
• Benjamin Koo
  • Lots of interesting ideas and discussions
  • Wants to change Chinese education from the ground up
  • Need to figure out the finances of our relation
• Membership fee
  • should we charge anything?
  • we make money out of workshops
  • we want an audience
  • we need to display the pricing list and put it on a scale
• Vacation
  • everyone to take turns
• Curriculum
  • Are we encouraging a mindset of formal education instead of discovery?
• Ricky tested one of the Nanode board
  • FTDI cable (is it really necessary)
• Getting some samples from DFRobot for new products
• NAO, educational robot, based in Shanghai
  • could they use XinCheJian to do workshop
  • looking for educational partners
• Where is Felix?

ideas

• self-driven kits, easy to use, breadboarding
  • mechanical, electronics, software
  • basic physics, basic electronics
  • sample programs, playing with values

TODO

• everyone participates to the blog
  • sign up to a [Wordpress account]
  • Download wordpress app on mobile
  • Write blog post and post images
• Everyone to sell more kits!!
• Michael will print the Arduino and Soldering comics and leave it in the space
• Michael following on the solar charger
• Min Lin will take pictures of the DFRobot products and blog them
• Michael doing a first safety class tomorrow (Wednesday)
• David to contact NAO and ask them for XinCheJian to be education partner?
• David to talk to Felix about the internship progress?
• Lio to stick the hard disk into the Ricky's old laptop
  • Paul to set it up as a Linux workstation?
• Ricky to introduce Linux geeks to Michael to set up the CNC software
• Lio to lend a boolean logic book from Kindle to Ricky
• Min Lin to help Michael to find an ITX power supply