Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago is Wednesday, October 10th

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The next Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago is Wednesday, October 10th, at Haymarket Pub!

https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/255180311/

This group is based upon the idea that you are interested in hanging out and discussing hardware. Please bring a piece of hardware to show off or talk about. Are you interested in hardware, but you haven’t built anything yet? Show off software you have built! Or come prepared to talk about the projects you want to build.

There are no organized talks, it’s literally a show and tell at a bar or restaurant. In case you missed it two paragraphs ago, bring hardware. Seriously, just bring anything to talk about 🙂

Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago is Wednesday, October 10th

Kipp Bradford on the Importance of Boring Projects, Medical Tech, and Sci Fi Novels

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If someone suggests you spend time working on boring projects, would you take that advice? In this case, I think Kipp Bradford is spot on. We sat down together at the Hackaday Superconference last fall and talked about medical device engineering, the infrastructure in your home, applying Sci-Fi to engineering, and yes, we spoke about…

via Kipp Bradford on the Importance of Boring Projects, Medical Tech, and Sci Fi Novels — Hackaday

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Inductance in PCB Layout: The Good, the Bad, and the Fugly

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When current flows through a conductor it becomes an inductor, when there is an inductor there is an electromagnetic field (EM). This can cause a variety of issues during PCB layout if you don’t plan properly, and sometimes we get burned even when we think we… 1,079 more words

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Live from Artisan’s Asylum!

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@Alex Camilo , @AVR , @Jimmie Rodgers , @Andrew Sowa and Drew Fustini are all at Artisan’s  Asylum tonight and the badge firmware is coming together quite nicely!

Thanks so much to Artisan’s Asylum for giving us space to bring this badge project to completion!

Live from Artisan’s Asylum!

A History of Badgelife, Def Con’s Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards

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Daniel Oberhaus writes on Motherboard about #badgelife:
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I hadn’t been at Def Con for more than five minutes before I was mobbed by hackers asking to see my conference badge. I had just left the press registration room at one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, but the attendees lurking outside the door weren’t concerned about my journalistic cred. Instead, they were all trying to solve an elaborate puzzle that implicated every attendee—and as I soon found out, I was one of the few people who could help them solve it.
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Over the course of a weekend in Las Vegas at this year’s Def Con I spoke with dozens of people making and collecting hardware badges in an attempt to understand what compels attendees to drain their bank accounts on circuit boards and race through the labyrinthian halls of Caesar’s Palace in a mad scavenger hunt for rare badges. To an outsider, these hackers seem to have succumbed to madness, but now I know better. This is no badge sickness—it’s badge life.

A History of Badgelife, Def Con’s Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards