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/

Prepare yourself for the return of Hackaday Belgrade! Our premier European conference — Hackaday Belgrade — is on 26 May and we want to hear what you’ve been working on. The Call for Proposals is now open. We seek talks and workshops exploring the most interesting uses of technology and the culture that goes along with it.…

via Hackaday Belgrade Call For Proposals Now Open! — Hackaday

Looking for a ultra tiny development board? Tomu is an ARM Cortex M0+ device that fits inside your USB port. We’ve seen these in person, and they’re tiny. There’s a few commercial devices in this form factor on the market. For example, the Yubikey Nano emulates a keyboard to provide codes for two-factor authentication. The…

via Tomu: A Microcontroller for Your USB Port — Hackaday

Ken Shirriff writes about a computer restoration project:

Xerox Alto’s 3 Mb/s Ethernet: Building a gateway with a BeagleBone

A small robot car that you could build yourself and program it to follow a black line on the floor. A small game platform, that you could build and program yourself. Those are the Tinusaur project goodies. They can help you learn, teach and make things with microcontrollers, and have […]

via ANNOUNCEMENT: The Tinusaur Crowdfunding Campaign on January 22nd 2018 — The Tinusaur Project

It probably doesn’t get much worse than nuclear conflagration, when it comes to risks facing the planet. Countries nervously peering at each other, each jealously guarding their stocks of warheads. It seems an unlikely place to find a 34C3 talk about 6502 microprocessors, but that’s what [Moritz Kütt] and [Alex Glaser] managed to deliver.

via 34C3: Vintage Verification, Stop Nuclear War With A 6502 — Hackaday

The Cartinu is a small robot car that you could build yourself. But don’t worry! It isn’t that complicated – this circuit, is so simple, that there are very few things that could go wrong. The “brain” of the Cartinu is the Tinusaur board that is powered by the popular Atmel ATtiny85 microcontroller. Once your Cartinu is ready […]

via CARTINU – Small Robot Car, Powered by the Tinusaur – ATtiny85 Board — The Tinusaur Project