Date / Time: Sat Jan 12 2019, 11am-1pm Use some very basic electronics knowledge and skills to create your very own light-up earrings, pendant or brooch using LEDs. Use (or learn on-the-spot) some basic soldering skills to create a bright, fun accessory. Use some very basic electronics knowledge and skills to create your very own …
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Date/Time – Wed Jan 9 2019, 7-9pm 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 will solder the components – including an LED, battery, switch and resistors and bring life …
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We are starting a Study Group on networks to Learn / Share knowledge in a collaborative approach during next week HackJam. We will start with general knowledge around TCP/IP, UDP, STUN/TURN, or anything else you wish to talk about on the subject of this study group on networks. Other topics such as P2P zero install …
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Tonight, we had an unscheduled visit by a French hacker who has been working the past year on reverse engineering the HTC Vive system and made a miniature version of their tracker / sensor. That system enable to follow 3d position a person or an object in a 3d space in real time. He explained …
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Date / Time: Saturday, November 24, 2018 from 15:00 to 17:00 Let’s solder! Let’s solder some TV-B-Gone! Let’s solder some TV-B-Gone with Mitch! For those who can’t make it on Saturday, we have another workshop on Sunday, but Mitch won’t be available for this one, as he has to go spread his cheer to other places. To …
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Date/Time: Wed Nov 28, 7-9:30pm In a 2.5 hr session, you’ll learn basic electronics concepts in a hands-on way – building a project that flashes, beeps and buzzes! No electronics or programming experience required. Take home an Arduino-style board and components to continue your experiments. Fee – HKD 300
Date / Time – Saturday Nov 17, 2-5pm We have some unwanted electronics cluttering our small Hong Kong Dim Sum Labs space. Let’s take them apart! Our electronic trash will provide hours of fun as we dig our way into the guts of machines together to see what’s inside and learn how they worked. We …
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Date / Time: Wednesday 14 Nov, 7:30-9:30pm See how you can perform individual human presence detection and have the house react to it, create lighting and sound atmospheres, measure and visualize sensor data. Using a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino and a time series database connected to various sensors and open source smart home hubs (Node-RED, …
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