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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 …
Tonight we had presentations from 2 visitors: Terence Tam from OpenBeam Dr. Data Ng Dr Data Ng made a presentation on the Positron and Neutrinos and the Lab he worked at, a tiny room between the 2 lanes of the Aberdeen Tunnel in Hong Kong – Gate 5. Dr Data Ng can be contacted at …
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 …
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This workshop is part of Microwave International New Media Arts Festival to be held in City Hall Exhibition Centre on November 15th 2pm. 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 …
This HackJam was an action packed combo with Sébastien (M-Labs) starting the evening with a talk about his DIY vacuum chamber. We were delighted to have Chloe Chia from The French Chamber of Commerce, who also joined us taking various notes and pictures for an article she was writing on the labs. Manolis did …
Saturday 19th of September was the first edition of DSLAN, Lan Party by DimSumLabs. Here a short video of some of the participants that day.
Today we clean up the entropy pool that had accumulated in the corner to the right of the door. It’s all tucked away neatly now in boxes labelled by broad category, eg Power Cables, Radio Stuff, Wires etc. If you look for any item, you should probably check those boxes, and if you want to …
Tinkering I have done a bit of tinkering on the desk in front of the windows, separating the desks into two domains, the Computer side on the right and the electronic side on the left. Each desk has its own power sockets and equipment should be kept separately. These desks should be kept as in …
