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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 …
Please find the article that appeared on the Issue 79 of the HongKongEcho Magazine issued by the French Chamber of Commerce. You can read the article here: HongKongEcho-Issue-79 or find a copy of the complete magazine here
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We started Maker Monday, this year after a long hiatus. Our spontaneous steadfast itinerary in the spirit of making included: Open Source Laser cutting, LCD Dim Sum Labs badge (part of our on-going wearable technology), MPD rocket and routing the remaining half of the lights in the labs with wifi-enabled RGB LEDs. Notable traveling visitor …
David Lanzendörfer gave a talk about a new type of propulsion system that will hopefully one day revolutionize space travel called: “magnetoplasmadynamic thruster (MPD)“ which he has been developing for about 7 years. Former astronaut Chang Diaz is an early pioneer and has been developing MPD rockets since 1977 such as the VaSIMR which is …
