Meanwhile at Ctrl-H PDX hackerspace:
Anyone in the hackerspace lately may have noticed our @DC503 #badgelife projects taking shape. If you’re headed to @defcon and want to get your hands on this one, or get one of these around your hands, check out http://503.party . See you in Vegas!
Didn’t get enough hardware hacking fun at Teardown this past weekend? Dorkbot PDX is 7:00pm TONIGHT (Monday, May 14th) at Ctrl-H PDX hackerspace!
The address for Ctrl-H is:
7608 N Interstate
Portland, OR 97217
Check out the Meetup event page for more information and look for our Drew Fustini in purple!
https://www.meetup.com/CTRL-H/events/wfktgpyxhbsb/
Part hackathon, part geek social, these biweekly meetings are a time for you to come join others for insight, inspiration or just insanity.
Bring your toys for others to see, or come see what others have been painstakingly chipping away at in their spare time.
Whether it’s code or chips, hacking of all sorts is encouraged. But we also like to hear your crazy ideas, so please come join us and bring your willingness to share your brilliance.
We’ll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.
p.s. This event is open to everyone, dork or robot. No ^H membership is required to attend.
CrowdSupply is organizing a new hardware con named Teardown in Portland on the weekend of May 11th – 13th:
A party for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware
Teardown is an event put on by Crowd Supply in association with Make+Think+Code @ PNCA. You can think of Teardown as live-action Crowd Supply, but with fewer cardboard boxes and packing peanuts. We’ll be bringing together hardware aficionados from around the world to celebrate, inspect, create, and, of course, tear down hardware.
There will be long-time Crowd Supply creators and backers, as well as people we’re meeting for the first time. There will be hardware, art, food, drink, puzzles, workshops, tutorials, talks, music, field trips, and friends. Most of all, there will be ideas and projects to explore and inspire. We hope you’ll be there too!
Latest update: Andrew “bunnie” Huang to keynote Teardown
Please considering submitting a proposal like a talk, workshop, demo or installation:
There is a new PDX Raspberry Pi and Arduino meetup organized by hosted by Mitch Bayersdorfer coming to Portland on Saturday, April 7th:
https://www.meetup.com/PDX-Raspberry-Pi-and-Arduino-Meetup/events/248456808/
• What we’ll do:
Part social and part build time, this meet-up is for those
• What to bring
Computer. Raspberry Pi and/or Arduinos if you have them. Projects that you want to share. Items for the “parts luck” swap bin.
• Important to know
The shop where this is held only has space heaters – so please dress warmly on colder days. On very cold days, we will forego building and have a social in a heated space, if we can’t find an alternative spot.
Hackaday World Create Day is this Saturday, March 17th, in many cities around the world including Portland at Ctrl-H PDX Hackerspace:
https://www.meetup.com/CTRL-H/events/248584864/
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:
[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:
Friday was the 2016 Open Hardware Summit, a yearly gathering of people who believe in the power of open design. The use of the term “summit” rather than “conference” is telling. This gathering brings together a critical mass of people running hardware companies that adhere to the ideal of “open”, but this isn’t at the exclusion…
via The People, Talks, and Swag of Open Hardware Summit — Hackaday
Portland Science Hack Day at XOXO Outpost kicks off tonight after the Open Hardware Summit! Opening Lightning Talks start at 7:15 pm:
Here are my slides on Open Source Hardware and Science [PDF]:
Slides are also shared on SlideShare
OSH Park 