Hackaday Belgrade: Call for Proposals

January 8, 2020January 7, 2020 fustinibelgrade, conference, hackadayLeave a comment

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.

via Hackaday Belgrade: Call for Proposals — Hackaday

Learn to code KiCad at FOSDEM 2020

January 7, 2020January 7, 2020 fustinibelgium, brussels, conference, FOSDEM, kicadLeave a comment

FOSDEM 2020 is a free event on Februrary 1st and 2nd for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels:

The Friday before FOSDEM, January 31st, will be an event for those that want to learn about KiCad development from project leaders like Wayne Stambaugh and Seth Hillbrand:

Learn to Code KiCad at FOSDEM 2020

Are you looking to write code that improves KiCad?

On Friday, Jan 31 (the day before FOSDEM), we’ll be hosting a Learn to Code KiCad session in Brussels, BE. I will be there as will Wayne and possibly a few other of the lead development team. We’ll help you understand how the various KiCad components fit together and work with you to get your favorite feature from idea to committed code.

What you need:

1) An identified bug report (or multiple) that you’d like to address. This can be either a legitimate bug or a wishlist feature that is triaged in our system.
2) A laptop with your development environment
3) A launchpad account
4) A compiling version of KiCad
5) A working knowledge of C++ coding

What we’ll provide:

1) Space, power outlet, wifi
2) Coffee
3) A short introduction to the structure of KiCad and how the parts work together
4) Up to 8 hours of development time with others who share your interests
5) Clarifying insights to your KiCad coding questions

At the end of the day, you should be able to get at least 1 and possibly multiple bug report fixes under your belt and into the code base!

If you’re coming to FOSDEM 2020 and would like to participate, please e-mail me directly (off-list to preserve people’s inboxes). Send me your name/contact info and the list of 1 or more launchpad bugs you’d like to work on during the day. I’ll add you to our shared sheet (to deconflict bugs people are addressing) and get you all of the relevant information for the meeting

Here is a talk that Seth gave at KiCon 2019 which talks about their development community:

and also the KiCad developer panel:

Latch-Up 2020

December 9, 2019 fustiniconference, risc-vLeave a comment

The next Latch-Up Conference will be in Cambridge, MA (USA) on April 11th-12th, 2020.

The event is organized by the Free and Open Source Silicon (FOSSi) Foundation and is a weekend of presentations and networking for the open source digital design community, much like ORConf in Europe.

Follow @LatchUpConf on Twitter for updates.

Videos of the 2019 conference are in the Latch-Up 2019 playlist on the FOSSi Foundation’s YouTube channel:

Superconference Submission Deadline Extended

September 4, 2018 fustiniconference, hackaday, pasadena, superconLeave a comment

Who among us doesn’t procrastinate from time to time? We can’t count the number of times that we’ve taken advantage of the Post Office staying open until midnight on April 15th. And when the 15th falls on a weekend? Two glorious additional days to put off the inevitable!

If you’ve been sitting on submitting your talk or workshop proposal to the 2018 Hackaday Superconference, we’ve got the next best thing for you: we’re extending the deadline until 5 pm PDT on September 10th.

The Hackaday Superconference is a singularity of hardware hackers: more of the best people in the same space at the same time than anywhere else. And that means that your ideas and experiences will be shared with the people most likely to appreciate them. From heroic hacks to creative robotics or untold hardware histories, if there’s a crowd who’ll appreciate how a serial console saved your bacon, it’s this one.

And if you give a talk or workshop, you get in free. But it’s more than that — there’s a different experience of a convention, even a tight-knit and friendly one like Hackaday’s Supercon, when you’re on the other side of the curtain. Come join us! We’d love to hear what you’ve got to say. And now you’ve got a little more time to tell us.

(If you want to get in the old-fashioned way, tickets are still available, but they won’t be once we announce the slate of speakers. You’ve been warned.)

via Superconference Submission Deadline Extended

Teardown 2018 session videos

August 3, 2018July 25, 2018 fustiniconference, crowd supply, portland, teardownLeave a comment

Teardown: Portland 2018 session videos

Between the talks, workshops, presentations, demos, and installations at Teardown 2018, there was a lot of intense information to absorb at once. Luckily, we were able to record some of the speakers doing their thing so attendees could reflect back and those who weren’t able to come physically are still able to participate. Videos are embedded in the sessions page. Here are shortcuts to each video:

Belgrade Badge Hacks

July 27, 2018July 25, 2018 fustinibadgelife, belgrade, conference, hackadayLeave a comment

We’re still coming off the Hackaday Belgrade conference right now. If you were there, you know it was the greatest hardware conference ever. If you weren’t there, you missed out. Sorry. (Make sure you get in on the Hackaday Superconference in November.)

One of the many highlights of the Belgrade conference was, of course, the badge. The 2018 Hackaday Belgrade Badge is a masterpiece of hardware with a 55-key keyboard, RGB TFT LED, speaker, and a BASIC interpreter.

This badge is a masterpiece of electronic design by Voja Antonic. Just to take one small example from the design, check out the placement of the buttons. Think the slightly rotated buttons that make up the keyboard is only a stylistic choice? It’s not; by carefully rotating each button, the legs of each switch can fit in between each other. It’s brilliant.

via Belgrade Badge Hacks — Hackaday

Hackaday Superconference: Tickets and Proposal

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 fustiniconference, hackadayLeave a comment

Get your tickets now for the 2018 Hackaday Superconference. Join us November 2nd-4th in Pasadena, California! This is the ultimate hardware conference. Hackers, designers, and engineers from all over the world converge — from the greenest beginners to those who have made history with their designs. This is the Hackaday community, these are your people,…

via Hackaday Superconference: Tickets and Proposals — Hackaday

Teardown hardware hacking con starts today in Portland

May 11, 2018May 11, 2018 fustinibunnie, conference, crowd supply, FPGA, hardware hacking, hebocon, oregon, portland, reverse engineering, robots, workshopLeave a comment

Teardown hardware hacking con starts today in Portland! Follow @oshpark on Twitter for updates and look for our Drew Fustini in purple. Check out the sessions page to see all the exciting people that will be presenting and running workshops!

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Recent Updates

Bring Your Electronic Waste to Teardown!

Hebocon Robot Sumo Call for Participation

Nadya Peek, OSH Park, Early Bird Passes, and CFP Extension

Andrew “bunnie” Huang to keynote Teardown

Just the Facts


Who?	Anyone interested in hardware: engineers, designers, artists, students, teachers…
What?	A three-day line up of talks, workshops, demos, installations, and puzzles
When?	Friday – Sunday, May 11 – 13, 2018
Where?	Beautiful Portland, Oregon on the campus of the Pacific Northwest College of Art
Why?	Shipping great hardware to you is rewarding, but we miss seeing you in person
How?	With lots of help from our friends, including our partner, Make+Think+Code @ PNCA

Schedule

Teardown runs from the afternoon of Friday, May 11, 2018 through the night of Sunday, May 13, 2018. We encourage all participants to attend the entire time – plan to arrive Friday around noon and leave Monday morning. Below is the preliminary schedule.

Friday, May 11, 2018

Registration opens at 11:30 AM.

Time	Title	Presenter	Type	Room
12:30-10PM	Attendee Led Event	You	Event	Hammer Board Room
12:30-2:30PM	Klaxberger Gearheads E-recycling	Shawn Price	Workshop	Atrium
12:30-2:30PM	Modular Hardware for 3D Printing (part 1)	Jesse Jenkins	Talk	MTC Shop
12:30-2:30PM	Transfer Secret Messages Through Light with OpticSpy and Tomu	Joe Grand and Sean Cross	Workshop	MTC Classroom
2:30-3PM	Welcome and Kickoff	Josh Lifton	Talk	Mediatheque
3-4PM	Do-it-Yourself Artificial Intelligence	Alasdair Allan	Talk	Mediatheque
4-6PM	Breadboard to PCB	Monica Houston	Workshop	Room 511
4-6PM	Hacking with RISC-V	Drew Barbier and Meadhbh Hamrick	Workshop	Room 514
4-4:30PM	Santa Cruz to Seattle with 2.5 Tons of Electron Microscope: A How To	Adam McCombs	Talk	Room 510
4:30-5PM	PLM: Hardware’s Source Control Management	Jake Janovetz	Talk	Room 510
5-6PM	Beginner Circuit Board Design with KiCad	Ken Olsen	Talk	Room 510
6-7PM	Dinner (on your own)		Event
7-8PM	Hebocon Robot Sumo	Adrian Choy	Event	Mediatheque
8-10PM	Construction DJ Set	Nadya Peek	Event	Mediatheque

Saturday, May 12, 2018

Time	Title	Presenter	Type	Room
8:30-9AM	Breakfast (provided)		Event	Atrium
9-10AM	Open Source Space: what’s happening, including OreSat, Oregon’s first CubeSat	Andrew Greenberg	Talk	Mediatheque
10-noon	Rapid Prototyping and Linux Kernel Development with the PocketBeagle® Platform	Robert Nelson	Workshop	MTC Classroom
10-11AM	Applications of the Software Defined Radio	Danny Webster	Talk	Room 511
10-11AM	Proto-pasta Filament: How Hardware Access Fuels Material Innovation	Alexander Dick	Talk	Room 514
11-11:30AM	Embedded Hardware Development with Rust	Jacob Creedon	Talk	Room 511
11-11:30AM	Hexabitz: Modularity from Nature to Electronics	Asaad Kaadan	Talk	Room 514
11:30-noon	Bits to Atoms, the Making of ‘Be Still, My Low Poly Heart’	Ben Purdy	Talk	Room 511
11:30-noon	Open Pitch Sessions	Josh Lifton	Event	Room 514
12-1PM	Lunch (provided)		Event	Atrium
1-2PM	Bunnie’s Keynote	Andrew “bunnie” Huang	Talk	Mediatheque
2-10PM	Attendee Led Event	You	Event	Room 513
2-4PM	WTFPGA (part 1)	Joe FitzPatrick	Workshop	MTC Classroom
2-2:30PM	Creating Conference Badges	Jay Margalus	Talk	Room 511
2-2:30PM	Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Open Source Electronics	Andrew Greenberg	Talk	Room 514
2:30-3PM	Futel: A Technology So Advanced We Leave It Out On The Street All Night	Karl Anderson	Talk	Room 511
2:30-3PM	Transforming New Product Development with Open Hardware	Stephano Cetola	Talk	Room 514
3-3:30PM	DFM with your CM: How to save time and money	Andy LaFrazia	Talk	Room 511
3-3:30PM	Signet: An Implementation Walkthrough, Hacking Possibilities, and Future Development	Neils Nesse	Talk	Room 514
3:30-4PM	Hacking Appliances and Prototyping Next-Generation Technology with Netduino and Xamarin	Bryan Costanich	Talk	Room 511
3:30-4PM	Making Open Source Schematics Not Suck	Andrew Greenberg	Talk	Room 514
4-4:15PM	Snacks (provided)		Event	Atrium
4:15-6:15PM	WTFPGA (part 2)	Joe FitzPatrick	Workshop	MTC Classroom
4:15-5:15PM	Programming for the Eye: Understanding Graphics and Light	Zach Archer	Talk	Room 511
4:15-5:15PM	Quick Enclosure Design with Fusion 360	Kevin Schneider	Talk	Room 514
5:15-6:15PM	Eating Rabbits: A Guide to Using Python to Conquer FPGA Video Systems	Tim ‘mithro’ Ansell	Talk	Room 511
5:15 – 6:15	KiCad: Designing With Complex Shapes	Andrew Sowa	Talk	Room 514
6:15 – 7:15	Dinner (on your own)		Event
7:15-10PM	Roof with a View		Event	Autodesk – 221 SE Ankeny St
9-10PM	Glow Up Your LEGO with Open Source Electronics	Rachel Hellenga	Workshop	Autodesk – 221 SE Ankeny St

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Time	Title	Presenter	Type	Room
8:30-9AM	Breakfast (provided)		Event	Atrium
9AM-10PM	Attendee Led Event	You	Event	Hammer Board Room
9-9:30AM	How to Think About Security for Your Hardware Project	Joe FitzPatrick	Talk	Mediatheque
9:30-10AM	Dr. Frankendrive or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Recover Data	Nik Lyons	Talk	Mediatheque
10-11AM	PCB Portrait Workshop	Andrew Sowa	Workshop	MTC Classroom
10-10:30AM	Firmware: Hardware’s Sneaky Passenger	Chau Doan	Talk	Room 510
10-10:30AM	Searching for the Light: Using OpticSpy to Receive Optical Transmissions	Joe Grand	Talk	Room 511
10:30-11AM	How to Build a BOM: Sourcing and Open Source	Nadya Peek	Talk	Room 510
10:30-11AM	How to Make Your Own Designs Hackable	Greg Peek	Talk	Room 511
11-noon	More Than Music with MIDI, Tiny Computers, and JavaScript	George Mandis	Talk	Room 510
11-11:30AM	Learning Electronics and Software: The Cheesy Way	Alvaro Prieto	Talk	Room 511
11:30-noon	Hacking Health: Open Source Hardware and Medical Devices	Ashwin K Whitchurch	Talk	Room 511
12-1PM	Lunch (provided)		Event	Atrium
1-3PM	A Definitive Guide to Building Production Hardware in EAGLE	Matt Berggren	Workshop	MTC Classroom
1-3PM	MicroPython on the ESP8266	Thomas Hudson	Workshop	Room 513
1-3PM	Signet Development Workshop	Neils Nesse	Workshop	Room 514
2:30-3PM	Design and Reverse Engineering: Playing on Both Sides of the Field	Jeremy Hong	Talk	Room 511
3-4PM	State of the Crowd	Josh Lifton	Talk	Mediatheque
4-4:15PM	Snacks (provided)		Event	Atrium
4:15-6:15PM	More Than Music with MIDI, Tiny Computers, and JavaScript (Workshop)	George Mandis	Workshop	Room 514
4:15-6:15PM	HeartyPatch Workshop	Ashwin K Whitchurch	Workshop	MTC Classroom
4:15-6:15PM	Modular Hardware for 3D Printing (part 2)	Jesse Jenkins	Workshop	MTC Shop
4:15-6:15PM	Open Pitch Session/Lightning Talks	Josh Lifton	Event	Mediatheque
6:15-7:15PM	Dinner (on your own)		Event
7:15-10:00PM	Closing Party		Event	TBA

Ongoing Demos and Installations

Title	Presenter	Room
Monolith Synth with LED Visualization	Paul Stoffregen	Atrium
The Little Purple Painting with the Little OLED Screen	Daniel Block	Atrium
Just Intonation Keyboard	Jim Snow	Atrium
Mustache Mayhem	Joe Grand	Atrium
Futel Public Telephone	Karl Anderson	Atrium
You’re Awesome	Kat Miller	Atrium
Be Still, My Low Poly Heart	Ben Purdy	Atrium

Schedule for Teardown hardware con in Portland

May 8, 2018May 8, 2018 fustiniconference, portland, teardown, workshopLeave a comment

Teardown hardware con starts this Friday, May 11th, in Portland, Oregon. The schedule has been posted and there are lots of great speakers and workshops:

Teardown runs from the afternoon of Friday, May 11, 2018 through the night of Sunday, May 13, 2018. We encourage all participants to attend the entire time – plan to arrive Friday around noon and leave Monday morning. Below is the preliminary schedule.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2018

Hackaday Belgrade Schedule Announced

May 1, 2018May 1, 2018 fustinibelgrade, conference, europe, hackadayLeave a comment

Hackaday Belgrade is the best conference focused on hardware creation that you can find anywhere in Europe. Taking place in Belgrade, Serbia on May 26th, the schedule is packed with talks, workshops, and a hacker village that is hackathon, entertainment, and the demoscene rolled into one.

More than just an event, this is about the culture of Hackaday. These are your people, you need to make room in your life to come to Belgrade because you don’t want to miss this!

via Hackaday Belgrade Schedule Announced — Hackaday