Teardown, an awesome event for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware, returns to Portland this June.
When?
Friday 21st June to Sunday 23rd June 2024
Where?
Beautiful Portland, Oregon at Lloyd Center Mall
What?
Talks, workshops, installations, demos and space to hack – check out last year’s line up
Who?
Anyone interested in hardware: engineers, designers, artists, educators or enthusiasts
Teardown is about the practice and the art of hardware: prototyping, manufacturing, hacking, testing, creating, disassembling, experimenting, and circumventing, all while having fun. Leave the marketing glitz and talk of venture capital at the door and come prepared learn, teach, and be inspired.
Subsidized tickets for low-income attendees are available. If you would like to attend and feel you qualify, please email [email protected] for more information.
Free tickets are available for a limited number of volunteers who work at least two 4-hour shifts. Please email [email protected] if you would like to volunteer, including any schedule constraints.
A limited number of free tickets are also available for members of hackerspaces or makerspaces who want to come and represent their communities. Please email [email protected] with details about your space.
A limited number of full-price tickets will be available for sale at the door. Payment must be via credit card: cash is not accepted.
Have an idea for a talk, workshop, demo, or installation? We’re looking for a broad range of topics, participants, skill levels, and formats. Submit your Teardown proposal! Accepted proposals get free ticket(s).
Our friends at Crowd Supply are hosting a Hacker Holiday Party at their Northeast Portland office this Friday evening, December 8th:
Friday Dec 8 2023 06:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Crowd Supply 55 NE Farragut St #2 Portland, OR 97211 United States of America
Crowd Supply is hosting a Hacker Holiday Party at our Northeast Portland office. Join us for an evening of festive drinks, delicious pizza and lots of seasonally-appropriate nerding out.
As well as drinks, snacks and pizza, we will have table space and power available if you have any projects you want to show off. We will also bring out our sticker swap box and community notice boards, so if you have stickers, postcards, flyers or similar please feel free to bring them along.
How to find us
We are on the top floor of the big red building on NE Farragut St. You’ll see our Crowd Supply sign on the street. Go up the ramp by the sign and straight ahead. Google will try to make you turn off NE Farragut St and go round the corner to the train tracks below. Google is a liar.
You can cycle all the way north on Williams to get to our office, or the closest Max stop is N Lombard TC. Alternatively, there is plenty of on street parking.
The OSH Park team had a great time at Teardown in 2018 and 2019. This conference for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware finally returns this June!
Teardown is about the practice of hardware: prototyping, manufacturing, testing, disassembling, and circumventing, all while having fun. Leave the marketing glitz and talk of venture capital at the door and come prepared to learn and teach. See the full schedule of the previous Teardown held in 2019 or watch the recap video
Just the Facts
Who?
Anyone interested in hardware: engineers, designers, artists, students, teachers…
What?
A three-day line up of talks, workshops, demos, installations, and puzzles
When?
Friday – Sunday, June 23 – 25, 2023
Where?
Beautiful Portland, Oregon on the campus of Portland State University
Why?
Shipping great hardware to you is rewarding, but we miss seeing you in person
How?
With lots of help from our friends, including our partner, CETI
The Pocket Integrator is add-on board for Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operators that lets you play your drum machine like a drum:
Synchronizing your electronic instruments with live music can be hard. Pocket Integrator makes it easy! It’s an add-on board for Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operator series of hand-held drum machines, that lets you play them like a drum.
Just tap or shake to set the tempo and downbeat of your drum pattern. Keep tapping as long as you like. When you stop, it’ll hold the beat wherever you set it. It’s as easy as clapping your hands!
Mykle Hansen designed this open hardware add-on board that lets you play your Pocket Operator drum machine like a maraca:
Pocket Integrator is a magical, musical add-on board for Teenage Engineering’s Pocket Operator drum machines. Using a MEMS accelerometer, it lets you play drum patterns and synthesizers by tapping and shaking, just like a handheld percussion instrument. Play your Pocket Operator like a drum!
Tap to set the tempo and downbeat. Keep tapping as long as you like. When you stop, it’ll hold the beat wherever you set it. It’s as easy as clapping your hands! (In fact, it’s like using your hands to clap another pair of hands that magically keep clapping after you stop clapping your hands.)
Tomorrow, Friday, October 15th, Alicia Gibb and Javier Serrano from OSHWA will join Helen Leigh on the CrowdSupply Teardown live stream:
Crowd Supply’s Helen Leigh chats with Alicia Gibb, hardware hacker and open source hardware advocate, and Javier Serrano, who leads a team of electronics designers and Linux kernel developers at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
Join them as they discuss open hardware best practices, open source hardware movements around the world and the importance of open hardware for open science.
Tomorrow at noon Pacific/9pm CEST we are hosting a Teardown session livestream with Alicia Gibb & Javier Serrano.
We will talk about open hardware best practices, what open hardware looks like @CERN + why open hardware is vital for open science. Join us!https://t.co/g73Hf1Cxv0
Curious about FPGAs but not sure where to start? We’ve got you covered! We’re teaming up with Crowd Supply, OSH Park, and Mouser to give away 30 Hello FPGA kits this summer and cover prototyping costs for up to five new shield designs.
We will select up to five designs of a new Arduino shield for use with a Hello FPGA kit. Limit one proposal per person. Submit proposals with links to documentation via our contact form no later than Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 11:59 PM PDT. Winners will be announced on Friday, September 17, 2021. Winners will receive FREE PCB fabrication from OSH Park and parts from Mouser Electronics for prototypes of their design. Winners commit to submitting a video demonstrating a prototype of their proposed shield design in action no later than Tuesday, November 30, 2021. Selection of winners is at our discretion and will be based on the plausability of the proposed shield, completeness of the design, and the extent to which the new shield showcases the features of the Hello FPGA kit.
Professional-grade analog front-end amplification for ECG, EMG, EOG, and EEG biosensing on one tiny board
BioAmp EXG Pill is a small, powerful Analog Front End (AFE) biopotential signal acquisition board that can be paired with any 5 V Micro Controller Unit (MCU) with an ADC. It is capable of recording publication-quality biopotential signals like ECG, EMG, EOG, and EEG, without the inclusion of any dedicated hardware or software filters. It’s small size allows easy integration into mobile and space-constrained projects, and it’s powerful noise rejection makes it usable even when the device is close to the AC mains supply. Any 1.5 mm diameter wire can be used as a strain-relieving electrode cable, making BioAmp EXG Pill very cost-effective in comparison to other options.
New update for the Data Fitness Connector (DFC) on Crowd Supply which wirelessly connects your Peloton bike to third-party apps, fitness watches, and more:
At this point we’re about two thirds of of the way through the campaign, and we’re very excited to report that we’ve hit our funding goal! Thank you!
This week’s update is for the curious minds out there who like to see how things are made. We’re taking you behind the scenes for a look at how early prototypes were put together. The final version of DFC will be made by our manufacturing partner here in the US, but we needed to build a few ourselves so we could test them before ramping up production.
In the time-lapse video below, you can see how a prototype DFC circuit board was built, starting with the application of solder paste atop a stencil, followed by the careful placement of all those tiny little components that make it work. After that, the board was placed in a circuit oven (kind of like a fancy toaster oven), which melted the solder paste and secured everything in place.
Building circuits by hand in this way is an odd mix of calming concentration and frequent frustration, so we’re happy to hand this off to a robotic pick-and-place machine for mass production.
The Data Fitness Connector (DFC) data broadcaster is a Bluetooth device that allows Peloton bikes to communicate with fitness watches, head units, and apps—a feature that’s not available on stock Peloton bikes. It reads power and cadence data in realtime, through a cable connected to your bike, and broadcasts them to nearby devices, including those built around non-Peloton platforms like Zwift and Garmin. This allows you to enjoy the built-in functionality of your bike while simultaneously utilizing features and services that depend on third-party platforms.
Who Wants to Ride a Bike in Walled Garden?
Interested in the fitness data you produce? Want more control over who else has access to those data? Prefer not to be locked into a particular platform? If you have a Peloton bike, then DFC is for you.
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