Come one, come all, this is the megapost about the Hackaday Superconference. Join us in Pasadena on November 2-4 for the hardware conference you cannot miss. Get your ticket quickly as they will sell out!
These Are Your People
You get excited about cool hardware. We do too. This not the case at most conferences. Come to Supercon because these are your people. Experience the most excellent “Hacker Village” vibe, a siren song tempting you to skip the organized talks as you get sucked into fascinating conversations at every turn. Load up that hardware hack you’ve been putting off and come work on it in great company!
Amazing Talks
Look at this jaw-dropping slate of speakers ready to knock your socks off on everything relating to hardware creation. Each day last week we published announcements of the talks and those details are all up on the Superconference web page. What more is there to say but thank you to all these great people who are putting the finishing touches on their presentations!
Workshop Tickets Now On Sale
Supercon workshop tickets sell out right away. Due to popular demand (and a huge number of great proposals from presenters) we have added to the number of workshops this year. Details of each workshop are found on the ticket description, get your workshop ticket before they’re gone!
- An Introduction To Animatronics Featuring Tentacle Mechanisms
- Building Wi-Fi Connected Devices With Arduino
- The Coolest Workshop
- Designing Expressive Modular Wearable Hardware
- Full Stack Product Development with Autodesk Eagle and Fusion 360
- Environmental Robotics Bioblitz!
- Introduction To Lora Sensor Networking
- Logic Noise: Breadboard Your Own Primitive Synthesizer
- Prototyping IoT Applications Using the AVR-IoT WG Development Board
- Small Scale CNC/Robotics Workshop (Build A CNC Badge!)
- WTFpga, Introduction To Fpga
- Weird Synth Making
- Wireless Based IoT ESP32 Sensor Design with New IoT Design Tools
Hardware Badge
Everyone through the door with a valid Superconference ticket will get one of these amazing badges! Shown here is a prototype, the production badges will have black solder mask instead of red. Brand new for Supercon is the hardware hacking add-on board that will come with all badges for easy addition of your custom circuits.
This is the newest revision of the Basic Badge. It has a full QWERTY keyboard, beautiful color screen, and a speaker with 3-voice audio. There’s an interpreter and editor so that you can write your own programs in the BASIC programming language and store sixteen programs of up to 16 kb in size. It runs CP/M so you can play Zork on it (loaded by default) or use a serial to USB to load your own programs. This is just the tip of the iceberg and the design (Voja Antonic: Hardware, Jaromir Sukuba: Software) was wildly popular at the Hackaday Belgrade conference in May. Head over to that project page and learn as much as you can to prepare for a week of badge hacking! More info coming soon.
We know you want to get your hands on one and we’ve had a lot of people ask if we will mail them one if they buy a ticket. Unfortunately, no. You need to show up at Supercon. We’re happy to receive donated chips from Microchip (this runs a PIC32) and a portion of the assembly cost was donated by Macrofab. All of are parts are on hand (30,000 switches!) and the production run is about to begin. If we somehow have overrun we will sell any extras on Tindie… but the way the tickets are going we can make no promises.
Well Fed and Well Watered
Amazing people, engaging talks, cool workshops, and jaw-dropping hardware badge… the only other thing you need is a full belly and we have that covered. The food at Supercon is delicious and plentiful, and it’s included in the price of admission. So are the drinks.
Friday we’ll have finger food and drinks for the evening kick-off party. Come early on Saturday and Sunday for breakfast. Lunch will be provided both days as well. Saturday is huge party with refreshments to celebrate the conclusion of the 2018 Hackaday Prize, and there’s even an unofficial after party on Sunday.
Supercon is an experience, a little piece of hacker’s paradise in the middle of Pasadena.
Party with Hackaday
Let’s face it, the entire weekend will feel like a party. But as the talks and workshops wrap up each day we’ll transform into true party mode. On both Friday and Saturday we will have live sets from Hackaday favorites like Rich Hogben and DJ Jackalope. Interactive hacks, demos, and games will be on hand. Badge hacking will of course continue, and we’re sure spontaneous hijinks will come to life (ask last year’s attendees about this in the comments below).
This is your conference. The Hackaday community is filled with incredible people and the atmosphere at Supercon celebrates that aspect of everyone who makes the pilgrimage to this, the Ultimate Hardware Conference. To miss this is to miss something truly unique and really special. We can’t wait to see you all in November!
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