Workshop: Take-apart Day #2 – July 29th 2018

Take-Apart Day at Dim Sum Labs

Most of us have some unwanted electronics cluttering our small Hong Kong apartments, Let us help out! Bring them to Dim Sum Labs and take them apart! Your electronic trash will provide hours of fun as we dig our way into the guts of machines together to see what’s inside and learn how they worked. …

Book Launch : The Field Guide to Hacking

The Field Guide to Hacking

Book by Michelle Poon from Dim Sum Labs In The Field Guide to Hacking, the practises and protocols of hacking is defined by notions of peer production, self-organised communities, and the intellectual exercise of exploring anything beyond its intended purpose. Demonstrated by way of Dim Sum Labs hackerspace and its surrounding community, this collection of …

Dim Sum Labs Exhibit @ Hong Kong Maker Faire 2018

Maker Monday

The event will be held on 7 and 8 July 2018 at Poly-U with a series of happenings, including exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations and performances. Together we hope to promote “Maker Culture” to the general public, demonstrating creativity, inventiveness and resourcefulness. Dim Sum Labs is oriented towards DIY electronics and low-level programming, often with circuits, robots, …

Arcade Table – New Project for Members

Take-Apart Day at Dim Sum Labs

Hello Fellow members, This post is just for you. We have been given by an ex-member (Marc R.), known to develop its version of a Delta 3D printer and a 3D printer kit for kids made out of 3.5″ floppy drive and DVD drive. The Arcade table has already been hacked a couple of years …

JCCAC & Sham Shui Po Electronic Market

JCCAC with Dim Sum Labs

Lets meet some other creative types by visiting the Handicraft Fair at the HK Jockey Club’s Creative Arts Centre, followed by a visit to the nearby Electronics Markets in Sham Shui Po. The JCCAC is a renovated 9 storey factory building in Shek Kip Mei where around 150 artists have studios. Each quarter, the Centre …

Dim Sum Labs as a Co-Working Space …

Dim Sum Labs has been mentioned among the 5 best Hong Kong Coworking space by coworker.com. In the past a lots of its members used the space as a place to start-up their respective businesses. Most of them still members have their own offices. We do have a lot of space to offer during the …

Workshop: Arduino hands-on Introduction – 7th of June 2018

Introduction hands-on Arduino

After a successful workshop end of May, we’re hosting a similar one in June: Get started with Arduino the world’s favorite open-source electronics prototyping platform. Just bring your laptop, we have an Arduino-style board for you, and all components to build some simple projects. You’ll learn about digital and analog, input and output, while connecting …