Makers, Hackers and Midnight Tinkerers.. (v1.0)

Roc at Hong Kong PolyU

Since we brought back Maker Monday in February this year, cultivating creative aspirations amongst members and interests in fellow travelers who manage to find us on Meetups – a lot has been going on since. Hopefully, the objective is to showcase our works at the weekly Tuesday HackJam. Members at the labs work mostly during …

HackJam – 22nd of March 2016

HackJam at DimSumLabs

The main event tonight was the arrival and the set-up of the laser cutter that was ordered last week had finally arrived at DimSumLabs Hackerspace. The team is looking in the software and procedures. In the coming days we will train every member that want to use it; and then we will surely have workshops …

HackJam – 15 March 2016

Film director Anthony Ng

Not much happen this evening, the members talk about encryption, 3D scanning, help the film director Anthony Ng with the reality of technical facts for his new creation. The evening finished with entertainment, as one member completed his project with ESP2866, that he connected to the video projector to do …. check out the video …

Soldering Workshop – 4th March 2016

We started our first weekly Soldering Workshop that has for a while been on special select random days if members are available and want to host it. As it turns out we had past attendees return to do the workshop again and what’s great is they promised they will perhaps do it again! The workshop …

New monthly event: Crypto Party

Crypto Party Hong Kong

Crypto Party // Monthly Casual Crypto Contingent Wear your tinfoil hat, grab your OpenPGP keys, and take action to protect your privacy. Don’t worry if you don’t know the basics. We will share what we know and help set up your systems. The content of the next Crypto Party will be: How to use TOR …

HackJam – 23rd February 2016

The coming of age of plastic electronics

Dr Radu Sporea of the Advanced Technology Institute of University of Surrey shared a fascinating talk at British Council Hong Kong’s Café Scientifique on plastic electronics, and I invited him to Dim Sum Labs‘s HackJam afterwards where he showed us the world’s first production ready plastic display by Plastic Logic. Think of the foldable fullscreen …

HackJam – 2nd February 2016

Home Brewing

This evening was busy with content. 1. RedBear We had the team from RedBear coming up to deliver to our members who joined their kickstarter their ReadBear Duo and some individual gift. 2. Home-brewing Then we move on with Ollow Swan from Beijing on ‘Home-brewing’. Ollow refresh our memory on what is beer, what it …