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, …

HackJam – 1st December 2015

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 …

HackJam – 24th November 2015

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: 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 …

Spaghetti Bridge Competition – 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 3pm. Who among you can build the mightiest bridge? Who has the superior spaghetti engineering skills? For those of you brave enough, register to join the fun! Form your own team or join one, become an …