DimSumLabs

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…

UPDATE : The Workshop has been postponed to Thursday the 24th of May 2018

What we’ll do

Get started with 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…

We are rebooting the Dim Sum Robot project with a new head-master

Today, we start by exploring the basic design and core functions of our Dim Sum Robot, in order to take a decision on the hardware to use for this project.

 

Basic Design

 

CPU

Looking at CPU available and their characteristics to allow us to choose a good fit for the project.

PIC ATMEGA STM32 EFM32 Orange Pi Zero Raspberry Pi 2B ESP8266 ESP32  Architecture PIC Atmega ARM ARM ARM/Linux ARM/Linux  Tensilica  Tensilica Pric…

As mentioned last week, we are going on the 5th of May to Hua Qiang Bei to discover the World biggest electronic market.

You are welcome to join. To check the details go there : Hua Qiang Bei – Market Discovery

So far our list of interest for the visit of the market will be primarily on:

1. Components / Parts
   1. Buttons
   2. SMD Packs
   3. Proximity Sensor
      1. Time of flight sensor
   4. Motors / Actuators
      1. Motor Driver board
   5. Limit Switches
   6. Batteries
   7. Solar Panel
2. Equipment
   1. DVM
   2. Oscilloscope
   3. Soldering Iron TS-100

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 to join us.

We will be shopping for components for our own personal projects and also some for the Dim Sum Labs community.

If you want to buy some components, you are welcome to join us. Please make…