Author: NP

Saturday 19th of September was the first edition of DSLAN, Lan Party by DimSumLabs. Here a short video of some of the participants that day.

Today we clean up the entropy pool that had accumulated in the corner to the right of the door. It’s all tucked away neatly now in boxes labelled by broad category, eg Power Cables, Radio Stuff, Wires etc. If you look for any item, you should probably check those boxes, and if you want to …

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Tinkering I have done a bit of tinkering on the desk in front of the windows, separating the desks into two domains, the Computer side on the right and the electronic side on the left. Each desk has its own power sockets and equipment should be kept separately. These desks should be kept as in …

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Quadcopter After an extremely short flight, Andy shared his knowledge on Quad-copters, the options to add-on such as GPS, camera, and not forgetting the functionalities of the firmware installed on the copter. Functionalities such as what the copter should do when it is out of range, low in battery, etc … making the difference between …

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Here some of what happen last week HackJam. Air-Conditioner Last week after a brain storming with few people on the basics of how an Air-Conditioner unit should work, we, this week, put the Air Conditioner down to check what was the cause of the problem. We determine that the current was not reaching the unique …

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UPDATE: We had 9 participants for this session, keep an eye on this website and the HackJam FB group for the next edition. SLIDES Due to popular demand another edition of the Arduino hands-on introduction workshop at DSL on Wednesday 6 May 19:00-21:00! HKD 200 for non-members HKD 100 for DSL members We’ll introduce you …

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In order to grow the community, work on the lab, contribute to shared projects, to, in general “enrich the Bao“, Saturdays have been officially declared Bao Enrichment Days (B.E.D). As Tuesday’s Hackjam serves as an occasion to show and tell, Saturday’s Bao Enrichment Day is supposed to serve as a day where members and interested outsiders …

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Join the IoT with your Arduino using the ESP8266 wifi module! The ESP8266 wifi chip has proved very popular over the last few months, enabling us to add relatively cheap wifi to Arduino projects. This workshop will show you how to get the ESP connected to your Arduino board via Software Serial, and how to …

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