Every year, sometime in March, the world’s preeminent 3D printing enthusiasts gather in the middle of nowhere This is MRRF, the Midwest RepRap Festival. It’s only two weeks away. You need to come. Get your (free) tickets here. I’ll be there, and Hackaday is proud to once again sponsor the festival. I need to backtrack a…
via Two Weeks Until The Greatest 3D Printer Meetup On The Planet — Hackaday
We’re excited to announce that Chicago will play host to the Hackaday Unconference on March 18th. We are happy to expand our unconference plans to include this event at Pumping Station One from 1-8pm on 3/18. Astute readers will notice that this is the second location we have announced this week.
Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) had a track yesterday on Embedded Linux and video of the talks are on YouTube:
The video is a recording of the entire day of Room 104 so refer to the Friday schedule for information on the individual talks:
We want you to make the next Hackaday live event great. This is an Unconference in San Francisco on Saturday, March 18th and it depends completely on you. Get signed up now! You’re in Control of the Hackaday Unconference An unconference is a live event where you decide the topic, guide the discussion, and generally make it an…
via San Francisco Tapped for Hackaday Unconference on March 18th — Hackaday
The 2017 Open Hardware Summit is the annual gathering of the OSHWA organization and open hardware community. We are a 501c3 not for profit. Our goal of the Open Hardware Summit and Community is to create an inclusive welcoming environment to empower people in all stages of discovering open source.
Tickets are on sale now through Eventbrite:
The Summit is seeking submissions for talks from individuals and groups working with open hardware and related areas. Topics of interest for the summit include, but are not limited to:
For the 4th year, the Summit is offering up to ten Open Hardware Fellowships to members of the community which includes a $500 travel stipend:
The Ada Lovelace Fellowship was founded in 2013 prior to the annual Open Hardware Summit at MIT by Summit Chair Addie Wagenknecht and OSHWA Director Alicia Gibb as a way to encourage women, LGTBA+ and/or other minorities in open technology and culture to actively participate and foster a more diverse community within open source.
Do you like Open Source? Join Hackaday and Tindie at the largest community-run Open Source conference in North America. We’ll be at the Southern California Linux Expo next week, and we want to see you there. What’s happening at SCALE this year? Amateur radio license exams, a PGP signing party, Bad Voltage Live and The Spazmatics, and…
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KiCad project leader Wayne Stambaugh talked at FOSDEM 2017 about KiCad’s current status and future roadmap:
Wayne’s slides are available on Google Drive:
Tomasz Wlostowski of CERN talks about the SPICE integration that was added to KiCad in 2016:
Maciej Sumiński walked through the KiCad source code:
PDF of the slides is available for download:
The Open Source Hardware Association announced today that the Open Hardware Summit 2017 will be in Denver on October 5th!
We hope to see you all there!
KiCad is the premiere open source electronics design automation suite. It’s used by professionals and amateurs alike to design circuits and layout out printed circuit boards. In recent years we’ve seen some incredible features added to KiCad like an improved 3D viewer and push-and-shove routing. This Friday at 10 am PST, join in a Hack…
via Friday Hack Chat: KiCad EDA Suite with Wayne Stambaugh — Hackaday
Hackaday will discuss the road map and status of KiCad with project leader Wayne Stambaugh:
Friday, January 20, 2017 10:00 am PDT – 10:30 am PDT
OSH Park 