Workshop: Take-apart Day #3 – Exploring the insides of old technology

Take-apart day

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 …

Visit: Sham Shui Po Electronics Markets

Visit of the Electronics markets / shops in Sham Shui Po on Saturday the 3rd of November 2018 at 13:00   Dim Sum Labs group visit to Electronics Markets and Apliu Street Flea Market in Sham Shui Po where we can browse consumer electronics, both new and second hand, and top up on project components …

JCCAC & Sham Shui Po Electronic Market

JCCAC with Dim Sum Labs

Lets meet some other creative types by visiting the Handicraft Fair at the HK Jockey Club’s Creative Arts Centre, followed by a visit to the nearby Electronics Markets in Sham Shui Po. The JCCAC is a renovated 9 storey factory building in Shek Kip Mei where around 150 artists have studios. Each quarter, the Centre …

Hua Qiang Bei – Market Discovery

Huaqiangbei with Dim Sum Labs

Visit of … Shenzhen’s world famous Hua Qiang Bei market is on our doorstep. Ninety percent of the world’s electronics is made in the South China region and sold here. You need to see it to believe it. Dim Sum Labs will be making its first 2018 group visit on Saturday 5 May, 2018. Everyone is welcome …

Arduino Junior Workshop

Last session of the school year 2015-2016 of the Junior Arduino Workshop

Today was the last of the Arduino workshop for the juniors for this school year. Tomorrow they start their summer holidays time. For their last workshop, they review all they learned and constructed this Lady Bug (cut with the Laser Cutter in the space, decorated by each maker as they desired) controlled by 2 potentiometers …

HackJam – 23rd February 2016

The coming of age of plastic electronics

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 …