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Book by Michelle Poon from Dim Sum Labs

In The Field Guide to Hacking, the practises and protocols of hacking is defined by notions of peer production, self-organised communities, and the intellectual exercise of exploring anything beyond its intended purpose. Demonstrated by way of Dim Sum Labs hackerspace and its surrounding community, this collection of snapshots is of the work generated from an organic nebula, culled from an overarching theme of exploration, curiosity, and output.

This book…

The event will be held on 7 and 8 July 2018 at Poly-U with a series of happenings, including exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations and performances.

Together we hope to promote “Maker Culture” to the general public, demonstrating creativity, inventiveness and resourcefulness.

Dim Sum Labs is oriented towards DIY electronics and low-level programming, often with circuits, robots, micro-controllers (especially the Arduino) and take on many other types of electrical and software projects.

Our…

Hello Fellow members,

This post is just for you. We have been given by an ex-member (Marc R.), known to develop its version of a Delta 3D printer and a 3D printer kit for kids made out of 3.5″ floppy drive and DVD drive.

The Arcade table has already been hacked a couple of years ago. It is running the Windows version of Mame, on an Pentium motherboard.

The mission if you’ll accept, is to:

• Replace the Pentium motherboard with its Windows XP by a Raspberry Pi running Linux,
• Enhance the audio…

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 holds a weekend fair providing a platform for the creative arts industry, attracting visitors and offering free arts programmes to the public.

Visitors can see original handicraft…

We had much fun and we all learn something during that afternoon. Here a few pictures of the moments in that afternoon,

Enjoy

Dim Sum Labs has been mentioned among the 5 best Hong Kong Coworking space by coworker.com.

In the past a lots of its members used the space as a place to start-up their respective businesses. Most of them still members have their own offices.

We do have a lot of space to offer during the day time as most of us have our own day job, and the space is available for the takers (membership for 1 month = 700HKD, for 1 week = 300HKD).

We see ourselves more as a community than a business running a…

After a successful workshop end of May, we’re hosting a similar one in June: Get started with Arduino the world’s favorite open-source electronics prototyping platform.

Just bring your laptop, we have an Arduino-style board for you, and all components to build some simple projects.

You’ll learn about digital and analog, input and output, while connecting the wires and writing Arduino code. No experience with software or hardware required.

We’ll spend about 2 hours building a project that you…

You may have some unwanted electronics cluttering your Hong Kong apartment, Let us help you out !

Come on the 2nd of June to destroy / take-apart unwanted electronic and at the same time learn a bit how the equipment is working.

Bring in your old, broken, and unused electronics such as:

• computer towers,
• VCRs,
• DVD players,
• phones,
• monitors,
• printers
• and other gizmos & gadgets …

Your trash will be everybody’s treasure !

To share your “treasures”, just bring them to Dim Sum Labs on the Saturday…

Today we regroup our research on how to flash the MicroPython onto our individual ESP32.

Most of us are using computers with Linux installed on it, so the following information is more intended toward this type of configuration rather than a computer running on Windows or IOS.

• To flash the bin file of the MicroPython onto our CPU we will be using: esptool
• To enter commands, configure the CPU (ESP32 & ESP8266) we use picocom

Once we all install the required software to flash and then connect…

Git is a version control system for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people.

It is primarily used for source code management in software development, but it can be used to keep track of changes in any set of files.

 

Want to learn how to use Git but wondering where to begin?

Dim Sum Labs is running a workshop series to introduce Git to new users via hands-on exercises on your own laptop spread over 3 Wednesdays from the 30th of May till the…