Soldering Workshop – January 23rd 2016

  Mostly covered up by pretty cases, virtually all of today’s technology depends on some kind of electric circuitry. In our soldering workshop we decrease the distance between the participant and the circuit. You connect the dots. You bring life to the board.   儘管大多都包著漂亮的外殼,今時今日的科技都依賴著某種 電力的流動。在我們焊接工作坊中,我們拉近參加者和電路,你連繫著的不單是一個個點,而是生活的每個連接。   Thanks to RS Components (HK) for sponsoring!   Workshop …

DSL Junior Makers – electronics workshops for kids

In October we started with a series of electronics workshops for kids. We had a group of 4 kids aged 8-10 and introduced them to electronics and Arduino, by building simple projects connecting components on a breadboard. They built the projects by themselves, based on a drawing showing the connections. We learned about batteries, LEDs, …

Microwave Festival: Soldering Workshop and Spaghetti Bridge Competition – 12th November – 17th November

Microwave Festival Dim Sum Labs was at this year’s Microwave Festival that opened on the 12th November – 17th November at Hong Kong’s City Hall, including exhibits by: MakerBay, Nicholas Hanna and many others. The ‘Wifi shredder’ exhibit was one of the main highlights at the festival featured by Dim Sum Labs – displaying electronic …

Soldering Workshop – November 15th 2015

This workshop is part of Microwave International New Media Arts Festival to be held in City Hall Exhibition Centre on November 15th 2pm. Mostly covered up by pretty cases, virtually all of today’s technology depends on some kind of electric circuitry. In our soldering workshop we decrease the distance between the participant and the circuit. You connect …

Arduino introduction workshop Wed 6 May 2015

UPDATE: We had 9 participants for this session, keep an eye on this website and the HackJam FB group for the next edition. SLIDES Due to popular demand another edition of the Arduino hands-on introduction workshop at DSL on Wednesday 6 May 19:00-21:00! HKD 200 for non-members HKD 100 for DSL members We’ll introduce you …

ESP8266 wifi for Arduino workshop 15 April 2015

Join the IoT with your Arduino using the ESP8266 wifi module! The ESP8266 wifi chip has proved very popular over the last few months, enabling us to add relatively cheap wifi to Arduino projects. This workshop will show you how to get the ESP connected to your Arduino board via Software Serial, and how to …

Free LiV Workshop for DSL members on April 9 at 8pm

I am opening the series of LiV workshops in Hong Kong with a free workshop at Dim Sum Labs. I am offering this to Dim Sum Labs members only. I will also offer the workshop free of charge to the first three people who will join DSL before end of May.   There are still …

Arduino introduction workshop 25 March 2015

UPDATE: the workshop went well, with 7 participants; keep an eye on HackJam and this website for the next edition! To celebrate international Arduino Day we’ll have a hands-on Arduino introduction workshop on Wed eve 25 March 2015. We’ll introduce you to the basic Arduino setup and terminology of the world’s favourite open-source electronics prototyping platform, …