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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 …
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ä¾è³´è‘—æŸç¨® 電力的æµå‹•ã€‚在我們焊接工作åŠä¸ï¼Œæˆ‘們拉近åƒåŠ è€…å’Œé›»è·¯ï¼Œä½ é€£ç¹«è‘—çš„ä¸å–®æ˜¯ä¸€å€‹å€‹é»žï¼Œè€Œæ˜¯ç”Ÿæ´»çš„æ¯å€‹é€£æŽ¥ã€‚ Thanks to RS Components (HK) for sponsoring! Workshop …
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, …
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We were joined with this week’s HackJam: Jonathan Schipper from Gemsense, a wearable technology company from Israel. He gave a talk on 3D augmented environments and potentials of wearable technologies. Jonathan was at this years’ Hong Kong Maker Faire where he had given a presentation. We also learned of the vibrant maker scene in Israel which …
We were present during this first Hong Kong Maker Faire to introduce DimSumLabs to the general public and other makers / hackers in the area. We offered a Soldering Workshop to teach the basic of soldering to visitors. Here some videos of what you might have seen at the Hong Kong Maker …
Tonight we had the presentation of 2 new products that will be available on the market soon. RedBear Duo board The Duo is a thumb-size development board designed to simplify the process of building Internet of Things (IoT) products. The Duo provides everything you need—Wi-Fi, BLE and a powerful Cloud backend, all in a compact …
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 …
