Hong Kong's First Hackerspace since 2011
We are Hong Kong’s first hackerspace. Since 2011, we provide a space for creative, inquisitive and playful minds to hack the universe. Like every other space on planet earth where people gather, our hackerspace has struggled to make ends meet during the pandemic. Our membership plummeted. Our income from organising events in the space dried …
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, …
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 …
Read More “Happening Week – Storing Heat, AI Face Blurring, Revived Arcade – Oh My!”
On our first HackJam after decluttering and cleanup, we wiped some final bits and pieces. Alex gave an impromptu presentation about the Sunday visit to the UAS drone expo last weekend in Shenzhen. What else happened:
We are doing some cleaning up! As always, please consider becoming a member and support Hong Kong’s longest-running hackerspace since 2011. 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 …
During our weekly HackJam, visitor Iulian gave an impromptu presentation showing us TouchDesigner. Its node based editor is popular to create visuals for VJing in clubs. Iulian generated Perlin noise, then used the bass frequency of a music loop to advance through the noise along the z axis. Next, he showed how to separate an …
The presentation started with an introduction to living architecture, the practice of growing houses out of trees. For planning projects, visualization is important. During the second part of the presentation, we looked into SpeedTree, a software for designing trees in 3D. It is primarily used in the gaming and movie industries. We created a simple …
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In front of a packed space, Christian started his presentation by highlight a few examples where excessive jargon can make a valuable idea a complete turn-off for the public and investors. A simple methodology was shown on how to present a complex idea to nonspecialists using five tools. The presentation concluded with an exercise where …
