Collaborate Disseminate
If you had to guess, what do you think it would take to build an ocean-going buoy that could not only survive on its own without human intervention for more …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: Exploring the Ocean with Open Source Hardware
Tattoos. Body paint. Henna. All these are popular kinds of body art with varying histories and cultural connotations, many going back centuries or even longer. They all have something in …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: Rethinking Body Art With LEDs
Printed circuit boards were once so simple. One or two layers of copper etched on a rectangular fiberglass substrate, with a few holes drilled in key locations so components could …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: A New World of Full-Color PCBs
Last week I completed the SAO flower badge redrawing task, making a complete KiCad project. Most of the SAO petals are already released as KiCad projects, except for the Petal …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024 SAO Petal KiCad Redrawing Project
We just got home from Supercon and well, it was super. It was great to see everyone, and meet a whole bunch of new folks to boot! The talks were …read more Continue reading The Badge Hacks of Supercon
This year we challenged the Hackaday community to develop Shitty Simple Supercon Add-Ons (SAO) that did more than just blink a few LEDs. The SAO standard includes I2C data and …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: Badge Add-On Winners
The 2024 Hackaday Supercon is on in Pasadena, but if you couldn’t make it to sunny California this year, don’t worry. We’ve got a live stream of the main stage …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: Streaming Live
Out of curiosity, I redrew the Supercon Vectorscope badge schematics in KiCad last year. As you might suspect, going from PCB to schematic is opposite to the normal design flow …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024 Flower SAO Badge Redrawing in KiCad
If you’re hear a rushing noise, don’t be alarmed — that’s just the rapidly approaching 2024 Hackaday Supercon. As hard as it is to believe, a whole year has gone …read more Continue reading 2024 Supercon: Last Minute Announcements
We’ve been hinting at it for a few months now, running a series of articles on SAOs, then a Supercon Add-On Challenge. We even let on that the badge would …read more Continue reading The 2024 Hackaday Supercon SAO Badge Reveal