Pomoduino & DigitRaver – 2026-01-13

Happy crowd at the end of the HackJam

This time we had two guest for our Tuesday HackJam. Torrey came from Shenzhen and brought his Pomoduino kits, which we soldered together. The Pomoduino is a timer that helps you structure the day, concentrate on work, and take regular breaks. It also serves as an introduction into electronics and soldering. Valentin showed us the …

Using Nix for Python development like it’s 2025 – 2025-02-04

Photo of Adisbladis presenting about Nix

We had a full house for Adisbladis’ presentation during our weekly open evening, the HackJam. Adisbladis gave an introduction to the Nix package manager and to NixOS. He then showed us how to make use of Nix’s powerful features in the context of doing Python development with pyproject.nix. Adisbladis is a freelance Nix consultant & …

Playing with cables – 2025-01-25

Eli giving his talk on cable-driven robots

Engineer-artist Eli Silver popped over from Shenzhen to tell us about his latest experiments with cable driven parallel robots and their use in art and tech. He had announced his talk with a question: “What happens when we use our built environment as the structure of a robot?” We were shown examples of robots at …

Counting device on a breadboard – 2024-12-10

For a workshop during our weekly HackJam open night, Sadale brought electronics kits that he designed and got produced. We followed the instructions and were rewarded with a circuit that can count up to three: You press a button, and the next LED will light up. There are three LEDs, and there is a reset …

AI Image Generation with Stable Diffusion and Eden – 2024-11-25

AI Image Generation with Stable Diffusion and Eden

During his second workshop at Dim Sum Labs, Sam, a Berlin based creative technologist, gave an introduction into the AI image generator Eden. It gives access to the features of Stable Diffusion. We learned the basic creation of images, including how to use ChatGPT as a prompt generator. Then we moved on to train our …