From Andrew Back:

Open Source Hardware Camp 2018 call for Talks & Workshops

This year’s Open Source Hardware Camp will be hosted at The Blue Room in the historic county town of Lincoln, over the weekend of Sat 30th June & Sun 1st July. Lincoln is home to, amongst others, noted engine builders Ruston & Hornsby — now Siemens, via GEC and English Electric — and is well served by rail, reachable from Leeds and London within 2-2.5 hours, and 4-5 hours from Edinburgh and Southampton.

The call for talks and workshops has now gone out, there is no theme and topics may include, for example:

• Open source hardware projects
• Open development practices and principles
• Novel/interesting/fun projects built using open source hardware
• Tools (hardware and software)
• Skills and techniques, e.g. PCB fab, DIY SMT assembly
• Relevant technologies, e.g. SPI/I2C bus programming
• …something else relevant to the community

If you would like to give a talk on the Saturday and/or run a workshop on the Sunday, please submit details via the online form.

Tonight at Supplyframe DesignLab in Pasadena:

Join us for the first Hackaday LA meetup of 2018 TONIGHT at Supplyframe DesignLab at 6:30pm PST! Watch excellent talks from Carlyn Maw & Nikita Pashenkov and meet with your fellow LA hackers.

https://www.meetup.com/Hackaday-Los-Angeles/events/246422397

Look for Drew Fustini in purple!

If you’ve ever worked on a small PCB, you know how much of a hassle it can be to hold on to the thing. It’s almost as if they weren’t designed to be held in the grubby mitts of a human. As designs have become miniaturized over time, PCBs are often so fragile and festooned…

via Printed It: Rubber Band PCB Vise — Hackaday

When we think of building research hardware, lab coats and pristine workbenches come to mind. Shah Selbe used to do something kind of like that when he was engineering satellite propulsion systems. But after putting twelve of them into space, he ditched the office gig and took his gear to some of the wildest places on…

via Shah Selbe: Science in the World’s Wildest Places — Hackaday

When it comes to finding what direction a radio signal is coming from, the best and cheapest way to accomplish the task is usually a Yagi and getting dizzy. There are other methods, and at Shmoocon this last weekend, [Michael Ossmann] and [Schuyler St. Leger] demonstrated pseudo-doppler direction finding using cheap, off-the-shelf software defined radio…

via Shmoocon: Delightful Doppler Direction Finding With Software Defined Radio — Hackaday

This is a meetup of a few hours organized in the context of the Open Source Body week in La Paillase, Makery and Gaite Lyrique, about the interface of Open Hardware and Health.

We would like to invite all CRI researchers, students, or staff and other external guest to meet and discuss with Alexey Zaytsev, hardware designer based in Shenzhen, China; André Maia Chagas, part of the initiative TREND in Africa and creator of Flypi, a 100€ fluorescence microscope; and Guy Aildeberg, PhD student in CRI, developing a low cost DNA detection kit. We will know more about their projects, meet each other over a glass of wine or juice, and discuss about personal cases and general trends in this field.

Do you like Science, Technology, Art, and Hacking?  SparkleCon is this weekend at 23b hackerspace in the Los Angeles area:

SparkleCon

SparkleCon is a two day event where people from all walks of life come to share and participate in art, science, computers, security, and hacking. It has been hosted at 23b Hackerspace since 2013 and as attendance has grown over the years so has the extremeness of the events contents. Come and enjoy things like 3D body scanning, lock picking, coding, 3D printing, large Tesla coils, and nuclear fusion.

Join Drew Fustini, Chris Gammell, Andrew Sowa and more tomorrow night, Tuesday, January 23rd, in Chicago for Hardware Happy Hour (3H) at mHub:

https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/246504363/