Here is the exciting schedule for the Open Hardware Summit on March 13th in NYC:
Be sure to buy tickets before they are sold out!
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Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Berlin on Feb. 20th
If you are near Berlin next Thursday, February 20th, then check out this social gathering of electronics enthusiasts:
Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Berlin
We will be returning to the Lovelite bar this time.
Please bring your latest project with you! Anything you’re working on, electrical, mechanical or software works! We want to see the stuff that you’re interested in!
Lovelite will open at 6pm and we will officially start at 7pm.
https://www.meetup.com/3HBerlin/events/268451851/
Follow Drew Fustini (@pdp7) for updates!
International Hackerspaces Open Day 2020 in March
Every last Saturday of March there is International Open Hackerspace Day!
What could you do?
- make a press release and spread this around your (local) newspapers, websites etc. (include nice hires pic with people on it)
- explain the word ‘hacker’ and maker (some people have still a negative / criminal interpretation of hackers)
- show people around your space and explain what a hackerspace is.
- give an workshop eg soldering, programming, arduino
- give a ‘lecture’ about privacy, IoT (and lack of security), open source software.
- any more ideas? Add them here.
Participating spaces are:
Netherlands:
Brazil
- LHC – Laboratório Hacker de Campinas Campinas-SP
Bulgaria
Check hackerspaces.org see to more as they are added!
Teardown 2020: hardware hacking con in Portland this June
Teardown 2020, the hardware hacking conference organized by Crowd Supply, will be June 19-21 at PCC Cascade in beautiful Portland, Oregon!
Teardown 2020
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.
Helen Leigh wrote a great Hackaday post about what happened at Teardown 2019!
Junebug Chipsat dev board
Brad Denby designed this chipsat dev board for low-power, embedded computing in space that is one of the winners of the Take Flight with Feather contest:
Junebug
Chipsat development board for low-power, embedded computing in space
Junebug is a cutting-edge addition to the Feather ecosystem. It acts as a development board for chipsats – an emerging class of space system. It offers unique support for batteryless, intermittent computing. The FPU, DSP instructions, and storage space allow advanced sensor data processing with ML. Junebug is easy to manufacture, with parts selected to allow hand-assembly.
The schematic, PCB design, Gerber and Drill files, bill of materials, and other files are provided in the linked GitHub repository.
Winners of the Take Flight with Feather Contest
Congratulations to Joey Castillo for winning the Take Flight with Feather contest with the The Open Book by Oddly Specific Objects:
Hackaday: Winners of the Take Flight with Feather Contest
It’s hard to beat the fidelity and durability of printed text on paper. But the e-paper display gets pretty close, and if you couple it will great design and dependable features, you might just prefer an e-reader over a bookshelf full of paperbacks. What if the deal is sweetened by making it Open Hardware? The Open Book Project rises to that challenge and has just been named the winner of the Take Flight with Feather contest.
This e-reader will now find its way into the wild, with a small manufacturing run to be put into stock by Digi-Key who sponsored this contest. Let’s take a closer look at the Open Book, as well as the five other top entries.
You may remember seeing the Open Book back in October when Tom Nardi looked in on early testing for the board. It was prototyped using the Adafruit Feather, which of course was the main requirement of the contest. The controller is now built into the board for standalone functionality with the Feather header providing an opportunity for expansion.
The screen is 4.2″ with a resolution of 300×400. It reads files from a microSD card and uses seven buttons on the front of the board for user input. A dedicated flash chip stores language files with the character sets of your choice. The small LiPo cell can be charged via the USB port, and of course e-paper helps greatly in reducing the power consumption of the reader.
You’ll find a few extras on the back. There’s a headphone jack for listening to audio books, and get this, a built-in microphone and a TensorFlow-trained model allow for voice control! There are STEMMA headers to add your own hardware options, and designs for laser-cut and 3D-printed enclosures.
and checkout Joey on Adafruit Show n Tell last night!
Normal schedule during Lunar New Year 2020
Happy Lunar New Year!
We would like to let our customers know that all OSH Park boards are manufactured in the United States, and we will be operating on a normal schedule during Lunar New Year:
Shipping Information and Turnaround Times
There are two periods of time to think about when making your order:
- Fabrication time between when you place your order and when we receive boards from the fab.
- Shipping time between when we ship and when the post office delivers your order to you.
All PCBs ship from Lake Oswego, Oregon, and are fully manufactured in the United States.
Open Hardware Summit tickets on sale!
Join us for the Open Hardware Summit on March 13th in New York City! It will be the 10th anniversary and Sophi Kravitz will be giving a keynote. More speakers will be announced soon!
Buy tickets on Eventbrite
The 2020 Open Hardware Summit will be held Friday, March 13th 2020 at Tishman Auditorium at NYU School of Law, New York located at 63 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003.
The Open Hardware Summit is the annual conference of the 501c3 Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA). We aim to foster technological knowledge and encourage research that is accessible, collaborative and respects user freedom. OSHWA is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity and donations and sponsorships to OSHWA and the Summit are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Types of ticket:
- Early Bird Backer – Help others get to the Summit. This ticket price funds the Ada Lovelace travel grants.The early bird ticket will be available only for first few weeks of the tickets launch.
- Early Bird Standard – This will give you access to the Open Hardware Summit event. The early bird ticket will be available only for first few weeks of the tickets launch.
- Backer- Help others get to the Summit. This ticket price funds the Ada Lovelace travel grants.
- Standard – The standard ticket gives you access to the Open Hardware Summit event.
- Hardship – Are you a student, starving artists or just low on funds? We still want you to be able to attend the Summit. This ticket is for those who cannot afford standard admission.
- Standard + OSHWA membership! – This will give you access to the Open Hardware Summit event on 13th March along with a year long subscription of OSHWA (Open Source Hardware Association) membership.
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Hardware Happy Hour Chicago on January 23rd
I will happen to be back in Chicago during the next Hardware Happy Hour on January 23rd, and I am looking forward to seeing all the projects people are working!
Hardware Happy Hour Chicago
Some people will be in town for ORD camp so the January Meetup of Hardware Happy Hour Chicago will be on a Thursday this time to allow for people visiting to attend. As always bring projects, hack, and apparently giant LED signs.
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/267275376/
Hackaday Belgrade: Call for Proposals
Join Hackaday in Belgrade, Serbia on May 9th, 2020 for the Hackaday Belgrade conference!
The biennial hardware conference is just seventeen weeks from now. Early Bird tickets will go on sale shortly, but beginning right now you can hack your way into the conference by submitting a talk proposal. Accepted speakers receive free admission, plus everyone who submits a quality talk proposal will be given priority when tickets go on sale.
Yes, I’m talking to you. Hackaday strives to include first-time speakers in the slate of presenters at our conferences. We’re looking for unique, cutting-edge, whimsical, crazy, formidable, or world-changing topics revolving around hardware creation. From learning new tools or techniques to fabrication adventures, from code-wrangling that firmware project to pulling off an art installation, and from forgotten hardware history to the impossible made possible on your own workbench, we need to hear your stories!
That project for which you went into the deep weeds and worked your way back out again? Everyone at a Hackaday conference wants to hear about it and in the greatest detail possible. After all, we’re your fellow hackers. In fact, you should probably bring the hardware along for the ride.
WE NEED YOU
None of this happens in a vacuum. This is the third Hackaday Belgrade conference, which have now settled into a tick-tock cadence of even-numbered years. The first two both sold out, this one will as well, and the result is always an action-packed, nearly 24-hour marathon sprint of talks, workshops, and hardware hacking. But the only reason this works is because amazing people just like you make it a priority in their life to be there.
OSH Park 