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JUL 05 2024

Creating your own VPN w/ n3n – by Hamish

Our member emeritus, Hamish Coleman – still very active even when he is not in Hong Kong – came back for a quick visit. We welcomed him. Not only we have a great opportunity to hear about the project that he’s been working on for years and used by thousands – n3n (and its predecessor, n2n), but we also heard why he thinks Dim Sum Labs is so great for him and many like him in Hong Kong

See the talk on YouTube here:

n3n – Peer to Peer VPN

With n3n, you can create a virtual…

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JUN 23 2024

Happening Week – Storing Heat, AI Face Blurring, Revived Arcade – Oh My!

After a lot of clean up, the space is ready to see some actions. And we did just this past week! Iulian Arcus, our member who just moved from the UK, gave a very interesting talk on storing energy using heat batteries. Our friends at Open Source HK gave a talk on computer vision using SoC computers – Rasperry Pi 5 & Nvidia Jetson. And we managed to get the arcade machine going too!

Heat Battries

Did you know other than lithium-ion batteries, we can store energy from the sun as…

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MAY 19 2024

Cleaning up, make DSL nice(ish)

We are doing some cleaning up! As always, please consider becoming a member and support Hong Kong’s longest-running hackerspace since 2011.

Neil, in front of the old bench

Thanks to Felix, Gabriel, Neil, and Philip, we made DSL a little better for existing and new members. We figure we need to make the space nice and tidy to attract new members and make it a workable space for hacking. It’s amazing that we’ve stayed in the space for 13 years in a city where real estate transactions are…

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