Call for Proposals for Teardown 2020 in Portland is now on Crowd Supply:
This year’s call for proposals is now open. Have an idea for a talk, workshop, demo, or installation? Share it with the world! Proposals are due by May 1, 2020.
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Teardown 2020: hardware hacking con in Portland this June
Teardown 2020, the hardware hacking conference organized by Crowd Supply, will be June 19-21 at PCC Cascade in beautiful Portland, Oregon!
Teardown 2020
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!
Teardown 2019 comes to Portland in June
Hardware hacking con Teardown will return to Portland this June:
Teardown 2019
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, June 21 – 23, 2019 (call for proposals open now) 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
What to Expect
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.
Recap of Last Year’s Teardown
If you want to hear more about what Teardown 2018 was like, take a look back at our retrospectiveor talk to your coolest hardware friend.
Portland Mini Maker Faire this weekend (Sept 15th-16th)
This weekend, September 15th – 16th, is Portland Mini Maker Faire at OMSI!
Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these “makers” to show hobbies, experiments, projects.
When: Saturday & Sunday, September 15 & 16, 2018, 9:30am-5:30pm
Where: OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR
Tickets: $16/adult (14-62); $10/youth (3-13); $10/senior (63+) OMSI members receive 50% off. (discount applied at checkout)
For Saturday tickets click here.
For Sunday tickets click here.
Teardown 2018 session videos
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:
Kicad: Designing With Complex Shapes
KiCad presentation by Andrew Sowa at Teardown 2018:
Kicad: Designing With Complex Shapes
While most PCBs can be simple rectangles, sometimes the design requires more complex geometry. EDA tools don’t always make this simple, so we will go over a few KiCad tips to make it easier. In this talk you will learn how to import unique board shapes from Fusion 360, create arbitrary fill zones using images, and embed high-frequency RF filters. We will use multiple software packages to enhance KiCad’s performance beyond its obvious use.
Dorkbot PDX is tonight at Crtl-H PDX hackerspace
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!
DorkbotPDX
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.
Teardown hardware hacking con starts today in Portland
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!
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
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.
Teardown hardware con in Portland next week
Teardown is new hardware con happening in Portland on May 11th – 13th:
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!
OSH Park 