Teardown 2020, the hardware hacking conference organized by Crowd Supply, will be June 19-21 at PCC Cascade in beautiful Portland, Oregon!
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!
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!
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.
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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.
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:
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++ codingWhat 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 questionsAt 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:
Videos of the 2019 conference are in the Latch-Up 2019 playlist on the FOSSi Foundation’s YouTube channel:
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.)
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:
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
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! 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!
| 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 |
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.
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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