Bamboo & Banyans: Site visit – 2023-03-25

On a Saturday morning, we met at Mui Wo Ferry Pier. It was just two of us. Another hacker wanted to join. Unfortunately, he went to the wrong pier. Saturday morning’s are not the most convenient times to meet, but we had to take what we get. The site is nearby private land, and coordination …

Bamboo & Banyans: Hacking nature for architecture – 2023-02-21

Our first presentation since Covid was well attended. After an introduction to the topic, Felix presented real world examples, from Baubotanik in Germany to the living root bridges of Meghalaya, India. When explaining the history of this emerging field, he touched on arborsculpture. Not all living architecture is started by humans. Having just come back …

Visit of Hua Qiang Bei

Huaqiangbei with Dim Sum Labs

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 …

Hong Kong Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Jam @ Dim Sum Labs

Date/Time: Sat 2 Mar 13:00 – 16:00 The 2-3rd of March is Raspberry Pi’s 7th birthday. On this weekend, the Raspberry Pi foundation is running birthday events all over the world – including Dim Sum Labs. This will also be the first Hong Kong Raspberry Pi Jam – a new regular event to be hosted …

Creative Coding Circle @ Dim Sum Labs

Date/Time: Weds 13 Feb 19:00 – 21:00 In February, Dim Sum Labs is proud to host the Creative Coding Circle ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++? What’s the Creative Coding Circle?++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++It’s an open conversation between artists, makers, designers, coders, performers, learners and anyone interested in the use of computing skills for artistic/personal expression. The event is free and open to …

Hype Explainers – Machine learning, Deep learning and Artificial intelligence

Date/Time: Thu Jan 24 2019, 7:30-8:30pm This session will cover the basics of machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence – covering concepts like supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks, and more. You can even bring your own laptop to write your own machine learning model in Python. At the end you will have a …

Presentation: Simple Home Automation Explained

Home Automation

Date / Time: Wednesday 14 Nov, 7:30-9:30pm See how you can perform individual human presence detection and have the house react to it, create lighting and sound atmospheres, measure and visualize sensor data. Using a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino and a time series database connected to various sensors and open source smart home hubs (Node-RED, …