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Crypto Party // Monthly Casual Crypto Contingent Wear your tinfoil hat, grab your OpenPGP keys, and take action to protect your privacy. Don’t worry if you don’t know the basics. We will share what we know and help set up your systems. The content of the next Crypto Party will be: How to use TOR …
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 …
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 …
We started Maker Monday, this year after a long hiatus. Our spontaneous steadfast itinerary in the spirit of making included: Open Source Laser cutting, LCD Dim Sum Labs badge (part of our on-going wearable technology), MPD rocket and routing the remaining half of the lights in the labs with wifi-enabled RGB LEDs. Notable traveling visitor …
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 …
Mostly covered up by pretty cases, virtually all of today’s technology depends on some kind of electric circuitry. In our soldering workshop we decrease the distance between the participant and the circuit. You connect the dots. You bring life to the board. 儘管大多都包著漂亮的外殼，今時今日的科技都ä¾è³´è‘—æŸç¨® 電力的æµå‹•ã€‚在我們焊接工作åŠä¸ï¼Œæˆ‘們拉近åƒåŠ è€…å’Œé›»è·¯ï¼Œä½ é€£ç¹«è‘—çš„ä¸å–®æ˜¯ä¸€å€‹å€‹é»žï¼Œè€Œæ˜¯ç”Ÿæ´»çš„æ¯å€‹é€£æŽ¥ã€‚ Thanks to RS Components (HK) for sponsoring! Workshop …
In October we started with a series of electronics workshops for kids. We had a group of 4 kids aged 8-10 and introduced them to electronics and Arduino, by building simple projects connecting components on a breadboard. They built the projects by themselves, based on a drawing showing the connections. We learned about batteries, LEDs, …
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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 …
