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 …

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 …

Bio hacking – 2021-04-03

Petri dishes

About Welcome our special guests from Bali who will tell us about fungi, slime mould, and maybe some other things. We hope to have vegan leather and open source seeds available to touch and play with. Day • Time • Fee Day: Saturday, 3 April 2021Address: Dim Sum Labs, 100 Jervois Street, 14th Floor, Sheung …

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 …