Coding and practice battles are fully online at code.roboneo.net.
Supported Projects
RoboNEO
RoboNEO is Sabah’s community robotics competition, first held in 2014 and still running as of 2025! Follow the programme at roboneo.net.
AQUAMS
AQUAMS (Air Quality Monitoring In Schools) is a collaboration between Kinabalu Coders, the Environmental Protection Department Sabah and UNICEF Malaysia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.