Hey Portland! Hardware Happy Hour is tonight, February 18th, at the Bye and Bye on Alberta. It’s an informal way to socialize, show off your projects, and talk about the world of hardware. From beginner to expert, all are welcome!
Can’t make it tonight? It’s a monthly a event so signup to the meetup page to find out about the next one.
Teardown is amazing annual June event in Portland for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware. The call for proposals closes on Wednesday, January 15th:
Teardown 2025 is a great opportunity to spread your ideas, show off your work, solicit feedback, enrich the hardware community, and foster collaborations. Previous events have featured amazing talks and workshops on a wide range of hardware topics — FPGAs, DIY AI, KiCad, firmware, BOMs, covert blinkenlights, the DMCA, security, RISC-V, prototyping, and so much more. Installations and demonstrations have included circuit sculptures, modular synths, DIY satellite receivers, retro gaming computers, robotic arms, and electronic jewelry.
Talks, workshops, installations, demos and space to hack – check out last year’s line up
Who?
Anyone interested in hardware: engineers, designers, artists, educators or enthusiasts
The Teardown 2024 scheduleis packed with two tracks of talks and two tracks of workshops. There will will also be dozens of demos and art installations, too.
You can get hands on with a Focused Ion Beam (FIB) microscope and explore the nano world with Adam McCombs in the Microscopy Village on Friday afternoon. We are excited to hear the latest about KiCad from project leader Wayne Stambaugh on Saturday. Hardware hacking legend Joe Grand will kick off Sunday with an introduction introduction to fault injection.
Put your surface mount soldering skills to the ultimate test! Begin with the manageable 1206 package and take on increasingly tiny components, each step pushing your abilities further. This SMD project is powered by a CR2032 coin cell and an Attiny85 SOIC, offering a perfect blend of challenge and excitement. Brace yourself for the ultimate trial: hand soldering a 0201 package, a feat so intricate it will have you questioning your sanity. Are you ready to show off your skills and conquer this soldering adventure
Teardown, an awesome event for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware, returns to Portland this June.
When?
Friday 21st June to Sunday 23rd June 2024
Where?
Beautiful Portland, Oregon at Lloyd Center Mall
What?
Talks, workshops, installations, demos and space to hack – check out last year’s line up
Who?
Anyone interested in hardware: engineers, designers, artists, educators or enthusiasts
Teardown is about the practice and the art of hardware: prototyping, manufacturing, hacking, testing, creating, disassembling, experimenting, and circumventing, all while having fun. Leave the marketing glitz and talk of venture capital at the door and come prepared learn, teach, and be inspired.
Subsidized tickets for low-income attendees are available. If you would like to attend and feel you qualify, please email [email protected] for more information.
Free tickets are available for a limited number of volunteers who work at least two 4-hour shifts. Please email [email protected] if you would like to volunteer, including any schedule constraints.
A limited number of free tickets are also available for members of hackerspaces or makerspaces who want to come and represent their communities. Please email [email protected] with details about your space.
A limited number of full-price tickets will be available for sale at the door. Payment must be via credit card: cash is not accepted.
Have an idea for a talk, workshop, demo, or installation? We’re looking for a broad range of topics, participants, skill levels, and formats. Submit your Teardown proposal! Accepted proposals get free ticket(s).
Our friends at Crowd Supply are hosting a Hacker Holiday Party at their Northeast Portland office this Friday evening, December 8th:
Friday Dec 8 2023 06:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Crowd Supply 55 NE Farragut St #2 Portland, OR 97211 United States of America
Crowd Supply is hosting a Hacker Holiday Party at our Northeast Portland office. Join us for an evening of festive drinks, delicious pizza and lots of seasonally-appropriate nerding out.
As well as drinks, snacks and pizza, we will have table space and power available if you have any projects you want to show off. We will also bring out our sticker swap box and community notice boards, so if you have stickers, postcards, flyers or similar please feel free to bring them along.
How to find us
We are on the top floor of the big red building on NE Farragut St. You’ll see our Crowd Supply sign on the street. Go up the ramp by the sign and straight ahead. Google will try to make you turn off NE Farragut St and go round the corner to the train tracks below. Google is a liar.
You can cycle all the way north on Williams to get to our office, or the closest Max stop is N Lombard TC. Alternatively, there is plenty of on street parking.
Teardown 2023 begins today in Portland! It’s an awesome 3 day conference for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware organized by Crowd Supply. Check out the schedule of talks, workshops, demos, and installations which will be updated in real time throughout the event. We hope to see you there!
Who?
Anyone interested in hardware: engineers, designers, artists, students, teachers…
What?
A three-day line up of talks, workshops, demos, and installations – see schedule
When?
Friday – Sunday, June 23 – 25, 2023
Where?
Beautiful Portland, Oregon on the campus of Portland State University
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, CETI
Three current projects at Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) funnel into one ambitious goal: building a liquid fuel rocket capable of soaring to the edge of space—100 kilometers above Earth’s surface.
Tool boxes, red countdown timers, clocks set to different time zones, a workbench with satellite components and a wall of rockets surround an oval conference table. The PSAS room—located in the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science building—is a cross between an engineer’s workshop and NASA control room. PSAS members utilize the space to work on a new carbon fiber airframe, a liquid fuel rocket engine and Oregon’s first satellite as they compete in Base 11—a collegiate space race where the first team to launch a liquid fuel rocket to the edge of space wins a million dollars.
Each PSAS rocket is called a launch vehicle (LV) and is given a numeric value for every new iteration. The current rocket is LV 3.1.
“LV0 was just an off the shelf rocket kit that Andrew [Greenberg]—our faculty advisor—and a couple other people started PSAS with,” said PSAS member Jean-Pierre Pillay. “After that it went to LV1 and then LV2, LV2.1, LV2.1.3 as small iterations are made.”
The final project of the three that are funneling into the liquid fuel rocket is OreSat—the first satellite built in Oregon.
“It’s a tiny cubesat, about 10-by-10-by-20 centimeters, which is what’s called a 2U cubesat,” said David Lay, electrical systems intern for OreSat and electrical engineering lead for PSAS. “’U’ is a standard unit that’s defined by the cubesat standard.”
The plan is for OreSat to be passed along from PSAS to NASA in January 2021 then flown up to the International Space Station (ISS) in April of the same year, where it will be ejected from one of the space station’s airlocks.
Andrew Greenberg, faculty advisor for PSAS, explained in an interview that “the electronic systems that [they] built for the rockets are very satellite-like” with batteries, processors and communications gears which led to the creation of OreSat.
A primary mission of OreSat is STEM outreach. High school students are able to build hand-held ground stations that can interact with the tiny satellite’s camera.
“What they do is point it up and when we do a fly by overhead with our satellite we turn the satellite towards them and we downlink a live video feed of them from space,” Lay explained. “So we call it the 400 kilometer selfie-stick.”
LV 3.1 is our next rocket to be launched! Get involving by joining the RCS team Thursdays at 5, Airframe team Thursday at 6:40, or the Recovery team Sundays at 4. Check out our website for the links to join the virtual meetings! pic.twitter.com/nfOaeNJTmx
Part virtual hackathon, part virtual geek social, these virtual biweekly meetings are a time for you to virtually join others for insight, inspiration or just insanity.
Bring your virtual toys for others to see, or log on to 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 online and bring your willingness to share your brilliance.
p.s. This event is open to everyone, dork or robot. No ^H membership is required to attend. All are welcome. That means you!
We’re meeting on jit.si as well as mozilla hubs, link here: https://kik.to/HY
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