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 …
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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:
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 …
Visiting hacker Cedric presented three open source sensing devices and wearable projects: Alex recorded a drone flythrough. Watch it on: archive.org
We started with laser cutting parts for a model of the squatter house ruin visited during our session in May. There were five participants, Simon and his two children as well as Effy and Victoria. Meanwhile I gave an introduction to living architecture and to our site. In the second part of the workshop, participants …
