Collaborate Disseminate
Making hardware is hard. This is doubly true when you’re developing a niche hardware device that might have a total production run in the hundreds of units instead of something …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Carrie Sundra Discusses Manufacturing on a Shoestring Budget
If you build your own devices or hack on devices that someone else has built, you know the feeling of opening a serial terminal and seeing a stream of sensor …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: [Alex Whittemore] On Treating Your Sensor Data Well
Boomboxes are one of those status symbols that define the 1980s and part of the 1990s, being both a miracle of integration and the best way to share your love …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Joe Grand and the Thinnest Boombox
Are you, by any chance, wondering about giving yourself wings? You should listen to [Liz McFarland] sharing her experience building a Wonder Woman suit, and not just any – the …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: [Liz McFarland] Builds Golden Wings, Shows You How
How do you approach your robot designs? Maybe, you do it from a ‘oh, I have these cool parts’ position, or from a ‘I want to make a platform on …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: [Jorvon Moss] Gives His Robots A Soul
During the 1990s, music was almost invariably stored on CDs or cassette tapes. When the new millennium came around, physical formats became obsolete as music moved first to MP3 files, …read more Continue reading 2022 Supercon: Jac and Ralf Explore the Secrets of the Digital Compact Cassette
Not that long ago, rolling your own printed circuit boards was difficult, time-consuming and expensive. But thanks to an army of cheap, online manufacturing services as well as high-quality free …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Matt Venn’s Tiny Tapeout Brings Chip Design to the Masses
How do you figure out what is in a moving body of water over a mile wide? For those in charge of assessing the water quality of the Delaware river, …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: All Aboard the SS MAPR with Sherry Chen
Sometimes the journey itself is the destination. This one started when [Samy] was 10 and his mom bought a computer. He logged on to IRC to talk with people about …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Samy Kamkar’s Glowing Breath
After being licensed as a ham radio operator since the early 2000s, you tend to start thinking about combining your love for the radio with other talents. In a 20-minute …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Mooneer Salem Goes Ham with an ESP32