HackJam Highlights: 2013-04-30

  HackJam 2013-04-30 was a great success!  The room was packed with people working on projects, demonstrating nearly finished projects, receiving products and visiting from overseas.  There wasn’t an empty seat! We had two great guys come by, visiting as guests for the first time.  They were referred to us by our friends at Cocoon: …

HackJam Highlights: 2013-04-24

HackJam 2013-04-24 was a great success.  The room was packed with people working on projects, demonstrating nearly finished projects, receiving products and visiting from overseas.  There wasn’t an empty seat!     Makibox (in the form of Jon Buford) was in the house, delivering some freshly manufactured units to members who have been eagerly awaiting their units. …

Kicking off a new, recurring Free Software hackfest

Hackers know it: hacking is a lot of fun…but what to hack on exactly? Well, we are a group of people passionate about Free Software, and, starting May 1st, we will meet regularly to hack together on various projects. These recurring hackfests will take place every other Wednesday at the Dim Sum Labs, from 8pm to 10pm. So come and have fun with us!

Quick guide to DimSumLabs’ Github

I needed to upload my code for “Chef”, the newly wall-mounted internet connected LED matrix scroller at DimSumLabs (see picture), so that other people can hack it. We have a github account. I’m not a professional or social coder, so I am unfamiliar with git. Here’s what I did to get the code online, for …

The Freaks

Unbelievably, at yesterday’s busy HackJam at DimSumLabs, a band was formed (“The Freaks”) consisting of about half of us playing Ally Wong’s Theremin and half on my laser harp. Our musical repertoire was average at best, mostly sounding like a random cat dying of MIDI guitar powerchord overload, but Led Zeppelin probably sounded like that …