DimSumLabs

This evening we did not see a lot of members as a few of them are traveling to the Chaos Communication Congress or going on holidays for the Christmas / New year period.

This evening we had the visit of a few visitors, 4 to be exact, coming from the USA. Most of them new to Hong Kong or even Asia in general. We hope to see them again after the festivities.

One of them, Jeff to whom I talk with for some time is interested in golf, and is having his own design golf putter been CNCed in…

On this Saturday the 21st of December 2019, we will organise an afternoon for grown-up and kids to learn about the use of a laser cutter machine and create decorations for Christmas.

Painting will be involved as the laser cutter will only cut the pieces of wood. We will use Inkscape as the software to create the decoration or modify existing ones. We have collected a few ~20 decorations from the internet for the little ones to choose from. Teenagers and grown-up can create their own design.

Fun and productive Rasbperry Jam today. As it was the last jam of the year, we didnt have a huge number of people, but we still had plenty of projects to show off and work on – including some surprise yak shaving.

I was showing off my relatively rare “red” raspberry pi (The red color means it was a Pi made in China, specifically for the China market – so probably not so rare if you are popping over to Shenzhen)

We had a space member show up with her blinkenrobot kit to solder – This is a…

As usual, I went to the space for our weekly social night last night and helped show three new visitors around the space. We were also lucky to have Mitch Altman drop in – On his way home from the most recent Hacker Tour To China.

Some of the conversations from the night:

• Some people were talking about their plans to meet up for a visit to the SZ Maker faire this weekend.
• One of our members was building and showing off his new PC Engines apu4
• We started looking at getting a dev env for a Re…

Please find below the list of the workshops and event provided by the members of Dim Sum Labs in the coming weeks.

• Sat 7th Sep – Hong Kong Raspberry Jam
  • Starts at 14:00
  • Cost: 50HKD
  • Registration: Meetup.com
    

• August
  • Introduction to Arduino
  • Visit of Hua Qiang Bei – ShenZhen Electronic Market
  • Introduction to Arduino
  • Hong Kong Raspberry Jam
• July
  • Introduction to Arduino
  • Take-Apart Day
  • Hong Kong Raspberry Jam
  • Debian Buster Release Party
• June
  • Introduction…

Meet the hackers, makers, and product designers of China’s push for innovation. Majenta Strongheart visits MIT, HAX, Maker Bay, Seeed Studio, Dim Sum Labs, Ryte Studio, Electronica Shanghai and more.

Everyone is welcome to join us, kids with parent(s) are welcome too

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.

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. This is not a formal / professional guided tour – just a…

Let’s build your creative application yourself!
MaxMSP is an easy to learn visual programming language that helps you build complex, interactive programs within minutes, and without any prior experience with coding. It has been invented in the 80’s and has become ever since a standard for many creatives. Artists such as Aphex Twin, Radiohead and Autechre, as well as countless VJs, interaction designers, and tinkerers all over the world are using it as a privileged tool.

You will learn the basic electronics concepts in a hands-on way, building a project that flashes, beeps and make noises!

No electronics or programming experience required. Take home an Arduino compatible board and components to continue your experiments on your own and be able to create fantastic projects.

Important Information

• The workshop last around 2 and half hours and start at 19:00.
• You only require a notebook with a USB connection.
• Fee of 300HKD (payable on site) for the workshop…

This spider robot will be run from a Raspberry Pi 3 B / B+, and an Arduino UNO. The Spider will be able to sense its environment and make decision by itself to return home to recharge its battery, explore the new part of the house or outdoor without having to repeat the same path every single time.

There are 2 16-ports PWN driver motor boards to allow to manage the multitude of Servo motors for this robot:

• 24 to move the 3 limbs of each of the eight legs,
• 3 for the gimbal holding the…