Hong Kong's First Hackerspace
HackJam 2013-05-07 was a great success! The room was packed with people planning project, starting projects, working on projects, demonstrating nearly finished projects, evaluating and receiving commercial products and visiting to see what all the excitement was about. It went great! HughW leading a NINJA BLOCKS workshop and also a NETDUINO demo …
Today the BRONZE lock was de-commissioned from the Dim Sum Labs entryway. This comes as part of an effort where we transition from a system where we have two different physical keys to a new system where we use our MTR cards as an entry control system, and in the event of a failure or power …
On Wednesday May 1st, we held the first instance of our new bi-monthly Free Software hackfest at the Dim Sum Labs. I have to admit I didn’t expect so many attendees for the first time, especially on a public holiday, but to my surprise about 12 hackers showed up, all passionate about Free Software. That …
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 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. …
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!
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 …
*Not working yet* More to come here, but right now I just needed a location to store the Heineken image so that an Arduino can serve it to people who want to know the party level at DimSumLabs. When it’s working the Party-o-meter will be located here, at the DimSumLabs router: http://203.198.139.121:8889/
