Star Simpson, creator of Circuit Classics, gave this excellent talk at Hackaday Supercon:
Over the last decade or so, the cost to produce a handful of custom PCBs has dropped through the floor. Now, you don’t have to use software tied to one fab house – all you have to do is drop an Eagle or KiCad file onto an order form and hit ‘submit’.
Alan Yates of Valve talked at Hackaday Supercon about the research and development of the hardware in the HTC Vive virtual reality system:
[Alan Yates] is a hacker’s engineer. His job at Valve has been to help them figure out the hardware that makes virtual reality (VR) a real reality. And he invented a device that’s clever enough that it really should work, but difficult enough that it wasn’t straightforward how to make it work
The first meeting of Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago is Tuesday, December 6th, with Chris Gammell of The Amp Hour and Contextual Electronics. Our Drew Fustini will be there along with Andrew Sowa and many more:
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/235937326/
The Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) is new annual conference for those building and using Open Source Hardware (OSHW) for scientific research:
The GOSH movement seeks to reduce barriers between diverse creators and users of scientific tools to support the pursuit and growth of knowledge.
GOSH 2016 Day 1 part 1: Grand Challenges
You can apply to attend GOSH 2017, 22-25 March 2017 at the Innovation Centre at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile:
ORCONF 2016 was held earlier this month in Bologna, Italy:
ORCONF is an open source digital design and embedded systems conference, covering areas of electronics from the transistor level up to Linux user space and beyond. Expect presentations and discussion on free and open source IP projects, implementations on FPGA and in silicon, verification, EDA tools, licensing and embedded software, to name a few.
Begun as the annual OpenRISC developers and users conference, it has become a broad open source digital design-oriented event and is supported by FOSSi – the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation.
Elkim Roa spoke about OnChip, an Open Source silicon microcontroller, designed by his research group at UIS (Universidad Industrial de Santander):
The slides are available as PDF on GitHub:
OnChipUIS has several repos on GitHub related to the project including:
mriscv: A 32-bit Microcontroller featuring a RISC-V core
We’re big fans of podcasts about electronics and embedded systems like The Amp Hour, embedded.fm and The Spark Gap podcast. (Please let us know in the comments of other shows we should check out)
In the latest Spark Gap episode, Karl and Corey talk about their trip to Portland for the 2016 Open Hardware Summit:
We also enjoyed when Karl and Corey were joined by James Lewis of Kemet Electronics to talk about capacitors.
One of our favorite hardware hackers, Joe Grand, has shared slides and hardware designs from his recent B-Sides PDX talk:
Data exfiltration from a device is usually achieved over the network, via hardware implant, or by manipulating the characteristics of an internal electronic component. Optical covert channels transmit data using visible light in a method undetectable to the human eye.
Joe demonstrates using an optical receiver to capture data transmitted through a LED:
joegrand has shared the receiver boards on OSH Park:
digital version using Everlight PLR135/T9 Fiber Optic Receiver
analog version based on Maxim Integrated’s AN1117 application note:
Hackaday was in Portland last weekend for the Open Hardware Summit. I did a brief recap earlier this week but this post has been on my mind the entire time. The night before the summit, OSH Park (the Purveyors of Perfect Purple PCBs which we all know and love) hosted a Bring-A-Hack at their headquarters. [Laen]…
via Look What Showed Up For Bring-A-Hack At OSH Park — Hackaday
October is Open Source Hardware month! Join with one of these upcoming events:
Date: 10/18/2016 6:30pm
Details: David from IFTTT is away this month. Let’s meetup at the TechShop at the 2nd Floor Conference Room. More details: https://www.meetup.com/urbanagtech/events/234473382/
Venue: Tech Shop
Location: 926 Howard street, San Francisco, CA
Date: October 5, 12, 19, & 26, 6-8pm
Details: Parts & Crafts — a makerspace for kids and adults — will be working to document all their existing open hardware projects — including the One Lightsaber Per Child project — & invite the public to help, learn more, and use their space to document their own open hardware. Public Lab will be hosting “upgrade your DIY spectrometer” documentation events on the 12th and 19th.
Venue: Parts & Crafts/Somerville Tool Library
Location: 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143
Date: 10/22/2016, 1-4pm
Details: Toni Klopfenstein and Alicia Gibb are hosting a Documentation Day at SparkFun Electronics. Get some photography tips and bring the project you want to open source the most!
Venue: SparkFun Electronics
Location: 6333 Dry Creek Parkway, Niwot CO, 80544
Date: 10/25/2016 5:30-9:00
Details: Michael Weinberg and Joel Murphy will be hosting a Documentation Day in New York. Details: shpws.me/MNb8
Venue: Fat Cat Fab Lab
Location: 224 W. 4th St., 2nd floor
Date: 10/29-31/2016
Details: e-hal.org.br/en
Venue: PUC-SP, Campus Conceição
Location:São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Date: 10/29-30/2016
Details: Addie Wagenknecht will be hosting a Documentation Day in Berlin. Details to follow.
Venue: TBD
Location: TBD
[see previous blog post for morning sessions]
Video recordings of Session 3 and Session 4 of Open Hardware Summit 2016 in Portland:
Alicia Gibb and Michael Weinberg
[Session 3: seek to 0 hr 16 min]
Note – the recording is missing these talks:
Eric Pan
[Session 4: starts at the beginning]
Aaron Baker and Andrew Greenberg
[Session 4: seek to 0 hr 19 min]
David Perry
[Session 4: seek to 0 hr 35 min]
Rianne Trujillo
[Session 4: seek to 0 hr 51 min]
Luka Mustafa
[Session 4: seek to 1 hr 5 min]
Related post:
OSH Park 