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 …

Facebook does not care about Business Pages

Facebook don't care about you

Our Business Facebook page got compromised. We tried to get it back, but Facebook has a system in place for you to get back your personal Page, and got NOTHING for getting back your Business Page. We did provide them with a lot of information such as owning the domain name, address proof, pictures, but …

Sponsor Dim Sum Labs on GitHub

Sponsor Dim Sum Labs

Why sponsor Dim Sum Labs? Dim Sum Labs is a physical space. Dim Sum Labs has been around for over 10 years next month (November 2021) thanks to the generous contributions from its members and supporters. Dim Sum Labs has monthly operational costs of approximately 16’000HKD or 2’000USD. This amount covers the rent of the ‘office’ …

DIY your own Lantern for Mid-Autumn Festival 2021

Godzilla laser cut lantern

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming up as mooncakes and lantern specials are all around us. Let’s hack the traditional inspiration by re-imagining the handmade lantern with LEDs and recycle materials! Workshop Dates: Saturday the 18th of September 2021 from 13:00 till 18:00 At this workshop, the children and their parents will hack the traditional Mid-Autumn …

Project 2021- AI Physio Assistant

AI Physio Assistant

AI Physio Assistant is a project created by Kimberley Vanessa Cheung This is a virtual physiotherapy assistant to help improve the posture and back pain of users. This project uses a deep learning technique that detects the position and orientation of a person while they are doing the exercises.  It leverages mediapipe and python to …

Bio hacking: Mycelium – 2021-04-10

Ecovative mycelium with tetrahedral mould

About There will be a fresh 3 ℓ Ecovative GIY kit to play with, imported from Europe by one of our members. We will put the substrate into moulds, then let the mycelium grow, which will take a few days. Feel free to bring your own moulds. No prior knowledge required! Fee: 50 HKD for …