HackJam – 22nd of March 2016

HackJam at DimSumLabs

The main event tonight was the arrival and the set-up of the laser cutter that was ordered last week had finally arrived at DimSumLabs Hackerspace. The team is looking in the software and procedures. In the coming days we will train every member that want to use it; and then we will surely have workshops …

HackJam – 15 March 2016

Film director Anthony Ng

Not much happen this evening, the members talk about encryption, 3D scanning, help the film director Anthony Ng with the reality of technical facts for his new creation. The evening finished with entertainment, as one member completed his project with ESP2866, that he connected to the video projector to do …. check out the video …

HackJam – 23rd February 2016

The coming of age of plastic electronics

Dr Radu Sporea of the Advanced Technology Institute of University of Surrey shared a fascinating talk at British Council Hong Kong’s Café Scientifique on plastic electronics, and I invited him to Dim Sum Labs‘s HackJam afterwards where he showed us the world’s first production ready plastic display by Plastic Logic. Think of the foldable fullscreen …

HackJam – 2nd February 2016

Home Brewing

This evening was busy with content. 1. RedBear We had the team from RedBear coming up to deliver to our members who joined their kickstarter their ReadBear Duo and some individual gift. 2. Home-brewing Then we move on with Ollow Swan from Beijing on ‘Home-brewing’. Ollow refresh our memory on what is beer, what it …

HackJam – 19th January 2016

David Lanzendörfer gave a talk about a new type of propulsion system that will hopefully one day revolutionize space travel called: “magnetoplasmadynamic thruster (MPD)“ which he has been developing for about 7 years. Former astronaut Chang Diaz is an early pioneer and has been developing MPD rockets since 1977 such as the VaSIMR which is …

HackJam – 1st December 2015

We were joined with this week’s HackJam: Jonathan Schipper from Gemsense, a wearable technology company from Israel. He gave a talk on 3D augmented environments and potentials of wearable technologies. Jonathan was at this years’ Hong Kong Maker Faire where he had given a presentation. We also learned of the vibrant maker scene in Israel which …

HackJam – 24th November 2015

Tonight we had the presentation of 2 new products that will be available on the market soon. RedBear Duo board The Duo is a thumb-size development board designed to simplify the process of building Internet of Things (IoT) products. The Duo provides everything you need—Wi-Fi, BLE and a powerful Cloud backend, all in a compact …

HackJam – 17th November 2015

OpenBeam / Printact

Tonight we had presentations from 2 visitors: Terence Tam from OpenBeam Dr. Data Ng Dr Data Ng made a presentation on the Positron and Neutrinos and the Lab he worked at, a tiny room between the 2 lanes of the Aberdeen Tunnel in Hong Kong – Gate 5. Dr Data Ng can be contacted at …