Kinabalu Coders

Supporting Open Developer and Maker Communities in Sabah

Who We Are

We are the Sabah Programmers and ICT Builders Association (Malay: Persatuan Pengaturcara Dan Pembina ICT Sabah) - better known as Kinabalu Coders ("KC"). Established and registered in May 2014, we are a coalition of leads, organisers, and volunteers from tech and maker related communities and local industries. Kinabalu Coders provides a platform for its member to engage with each other; make technology accessible; share knowledge and collaborate on projects; and reach out to like-minded individuals and organisations all across Sabah.

KC seeks to improve awareness and penetration of the latest concepts and applications from the global Coder, Tech and Maker movements. We strive to raise the overall proficiency of the communities we support, and thus improve the socioeconomic standard of our society as a whole through IT and tech.

We support and celebrate the arts, invention, innovation, creation and expression in all forms. The spirit of Bikin Sendiri (English: Do-It-Yourself) is in the collective DNA of our association and its communities. We look forward to hearing from you and hope you will support our activities and events in the near future.

News

Smart Space KK closes

Posted 4 November 2026

Smart Space KK began on Level 9 of Wisma Bandaraya (2014–2022) and continued on Level 12 as part of the KSTI Sandbox from 2022 until that space closed in August 2026 to make room for other projects of KPSTI (Kementerian Pendidikan, Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi, formerly KSTI). Kinabalu Coders and its communities continue online.

camera.sabah.io: new cameras coming

Posted 4 November 2026

The camera.sabah.io site remains online, but its cameras no longer update. New cameras are planned to be up by the end of 2026.

pifi.my: a look back

Posted 4 November 2026

pifi.my’s crowd-analytics work took an Excellence Prize in the 2016 UNDP / UN Global Pulse Big Ideas Competition. The public service wound down in 2021 once mainstream devices randomised Wi‑Fi probe MAC addresses.

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Communities We Support

Edham Arief

Kota Kinabalu Raspberry Jam

Raspberry Jams are events organised by the community to share knowledge, learn new things, and meet other Pi enthusiasts. They’re a great way to find out more about the Raspberry Pi and what you can do with it, and to find like-minded people.

Asraff Amzani

Borneo 3Ders

Nothing captures the public imagination more than 3D-printing. In a process known as additive manufacturing, 3D printers deposit materials such as plastics, metals, concrete and more (even chocolate!) layer-by-layer into three-dimensional objects at varying scales - from table-tops to entire buildings. This community is for 3D-printer and 3D-modelling enthusiasts who like to learn more about the technology and related skills and tools (including software!).

Ahmad Hafeezi Ali Amat
Baizurah Basri
Azlina Abdul Jalil

Google Business Group Kota Kinabalu

Google Business Group (GBG) is a community of business professionals, entrepreneurs or basically anyone who are interested in web technologies.

Redhooves
Asraff Amzani

Gamers Sabahan Tribe

Like games? We do too! Monthly gaming meetups on a variety of platforms (including tabletop!)

Moses Wong
Mahardani Kurniawan

Filmcamp Kota Kinabalu

Monthly meetups, discussions and briefings for those passionate about film-making, who want to help grow Sabah's local film industry and/or simply movie-lovers.

Sinn Chun Hou

GameDev Kota Kinabalu

This is a open-meetup / learning group for people who have interest in game development! Our mission is to grow the game developer community together and discover awesome ways to build games. We currently focus on using Unity, Unreal, virtual reality, as well as 3D modeling and animation.

Edham Arief

Kinabalu AI & Robotics Initiative

A group of people interested in general Artificial Intelligence, Deep-Learning, Machine-Learning, robotics and automation.

Facebook Group

Arthur Raymond

Information Security Group Kota Kinabalu

Also known as #pentesting (penetration testing), this group promotes good information security via collaboration between industry representatives and local hobbyists/enthusiasts.

Ahmad Hafeezi Ali Amat

Software Testing

The community promotes best practices in software development by creating awareness of the importance of testing in their work.

Edham Arief

Sabah Open Source Group

SOSG, founded in 2009, is KK's friendly Linux User Group (LUG). Its mission is to advocate Open Source and Free Software awareness in Sabah.

Projects We Support

Edham Arief
Julkifli Awang Besar

RoboNEO

RoboNEO is Sabah’s community robotics competition, first held in 2014 and still running as of 2025! Follow the programme at roboneo.net.

RoboNEO Code
RoboNEO Code (RBN-CODE)

Coding and practice battles are fully online at code.roboneo.net.

AQUAMS

AQUAMS (Air Quality Monitoring In Schools) is a collaboration between Kinabalu Coders, the Environmental Protection Department Sabah and UNICEF Malaysia.

sabah.io

sabah.io hosts community services for Kinabalu Coders.

gitlab.sabah.io
gitlab.sabah.io

GitLab.

karan.sabah.io
karan.sabah.io

Local electricity / outage checks.

Open Badges

Open Badges began as image-based credentials and have diversified into portable, verifiable claims you can carry across CVs and profiles.

camera.sabah.io

camera.sabah.io still hosts the Live Feeds pages for Kota Kinabalu, but the cameras no longer update. New cameras are planned to be online by the end of 2026.

Edham Arief
Julkifli Awang Besar
Arthur Raymond

Makerspace Kota Kinabalu
Historical

Smart Space KK, Kota Kinabalu’s first public makerspace, opened on Level 9 of Wisma Bandaraya and ran from 2014 to 2022. From 2022 it continued on Level 12 as part of the KSTI Sandbox until that space closed in August 2026 to make room for other projects of KPSTI (Kementerian Pendidikan, Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi, formerly KSTI). Kinabalu Coders continues online with its communities and programmes.

Arthur Raymond

pifi.my
Historical

pifi.my was an open-source, Raspberry Pi–based crowd analytics project that listened for Wi‑Fi probe requests to estimate visitor presence. It received an Excellence Prize in the UNDP / UN Global Pulse Big Ideas Competition for Sustainable Cities and Urban Communities (2016), selected from 271 proposals across ASEAN and the Republic of Korea. The service stopped in 2021 after phone makers and operating systems randomised MAC addresses in wireless probe requests, which removed the signal it relied on.

Asraff Amzani
Alexander Ting
Aj Yahya
Lawrence Chau

Xyclone 3D Printers
Historical

Xyclone grew out of local 3D-printing efforts to assemble and support printers here in Sabah. The commercial project went dormant, but 3D printers are now everyday tools even locally. During Malaysia’s COVID lockdown we 3D-printed and helped coordinate supplies and printing across Sabah online.

Politeknik Kota Kinabalu
Kementerian Pembangunan Sumber Dan Kemajuan Teknologi Maklumat

IOT for Communities
Historical

IOT for Communities set up shared LoRaWAN gateways with local partners so makers could run sensors across urban and rural Sabah. The Pulau Gaya base station was taken down after a storm in mid-2020; the pilot still showed the approach could work in demanding conditions with little day-to-day maintenance.

Kita Bikin Maker Expo
Historical

Kita Bikin Maker Expo began in November 2017 as East Malaysia’s first public maker exhibition, celebrating local invention and DIY. That share-and-share-alike spirit still runs through Sabah’s maker community today.

Politeknik Kota Kinabalu
Kelab Dron Sabah

Drones & ROV Challenge
Historical

The Drones & ROV Challenge grew from Sabah’s early MultiGP and underwater robotics events. Sabah’s drone community remains vibrant; underwater ROV work is still an untapped, underserved part of the local scene.

Support Us!

More than anything, we would love your support attending our events and activities. If you have something to share, a project to build, or are keen to establish a tech-related open community and need a platform to do so, let us know! We will be happy to lend you a hand.

Stay in touch

When you want to reach out to us and chat, you can contact us via Facebook; or drop us a line at hello@kinabalucoders.org.

Volunteering

Our grassroots communities are built on a strong foundation of volunteers - we are always seeking dedicated individuals and organisations to be advisers, facilitators, trainers and more for our events and services. Drop us an email if you are interested in lending your time to our organisation!

Donations

In-kind and cash donations directly support our community development and outreach efforts.

Crowdfund us via PayPal and/or Patreon

We also have a Bitcoin (btc, bch) address: 1JawB4d7mBz8C9TfoRQmN5w23WoKMhfbvR