Alun Morris, an electronics hobbist for fifty years, love minimalism.
After a career in computer and general digital design Alun rediscovered the fun via
Arduino when he wanted to make a Tesla coil winder.
github.com/alunmorris
Andy Geppert's formal education is in mechanical engineering, with a day job that allows him to practice intertwining a range of disciplines with electronics and firmware. In his spare time, he enjoys designing mechatronic gadgets for learning, and sharing a passion for aviation with those around him.
Sera Evcimen, a mechanical engineer by trade, is the Founder of Pratik, a boutique hands-on consultancy dedicated to partnering with hardtech startups to help scale their hardware systems and companies. Alongside her company, Sera is the host of her hardtech startup podcast, The Builder Circle, and gives workshops and seminars to hardware founders worldwide.
Anders Nielsen, a retro computing hardware recycling enthusiast,
likes to teach still relevant concepts. Anders goes back to teaching the basics on his
Youtube channel, address decoding, bitbanging I2C, 7400 logic, with an emphasis on using
old stuff to create useful things today.
abnielsen.com/ www.youtube.com/@AndersNielsenAA
Daniel Dakhno enjoys hacking everything with a transistor. His
projects are in hardware, software, and remotely make soap bubbles!
daniel.nullco.de/
Bunnie Huang is best known for his work hacking the Microsoft Xbox, and for his efforts in designing and manufacturing open source hardware. His projects include the chumby (app-playing alarm clock), chibitronics (peel-and-stick electronics for craft), Novena (DIY laptop), and Precursor (trustable mobile device). He received his PhD in EE from MIT in 2002, and currently lives in Singapore where he runs a private product design studio, Kosagi. His current research interest is in facilitating trust in technology.
Francis Stokes is a software engineer living in the Netherlands with a never-ending list of projects. He runs the Low Byte Productions YouTube channel, where he makes in-depth videos about low level programming.
Erik Bosman is a postdoc at VUSec doing security research on the border of hardware and software. In his free time he likes to experiment with electronics. Since 2014 he has been building light sculptures, mostly in the shape polyhedra, and creating software to show animations on them. mastodon.social/@brainsmoke hackaday.io/project/163204-folded-pcb-led-ball
Niklas Roy is an artist, inventor, and educator, based in Berlin. With his work, Niklas aims to explore the intersection of art, science, and technology. His hands-on, DIY approach to engineering, constructing, and coding has resulted in numerous installations and machines that have been exhibited worldwide. https://www.niklasroy.com/
Giovanni Salinas is the Senior Product Development Engineer at Supplyframe DesignLab in Pasadena, California. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Design and an M.S. in Engineering Technology. Giovanni has designed and developed hundreds of products, including consumer electronics, kitchenware, and urban furniture for various global markets.
Pierre [Muth] Freyermuth, a professional Java developer for a fundamental physics lab, has been an electronic technician since 2000. He loves absurd electronics and hacks, especially if it implies glowing neon, he also works with small mid-range PIC micro-controllers for hobby. www.pierremuth.comhackaday.io/projects/hacker/45569
Daniel Büchele is a professional software engineer who previously working at Facebook, now at Figma. IN his free time he tinkers with all things NFC which led to building an entirely decentralized NFC-based payment system for a music festival, including custom hardware development for the payment terminals.
Boekenwuurm is a purple-loving physicist, who spends her free time in hackerspaces. She wants to make cool things for hackers to enjoy. She hangs out at Hackalot, the hackerspace in Eindhoven, that she helped build. Her latest endeavor is a summer camp in the Netherlands.
Rehana Al-Soltane is an interdisciplinary technologist blending wearable technology with integrated electronics. She has been in the makerspace scene since she was a child taking apart car engines with her dad, while at MIT she studied digital fabrication and open-source PCB design. She has taught computer science, machine learning and robotics to students worldwide, and is currently an AI learning manager.
David Cuartielles is a Telecommunications Engineer and Doctor in Design. He has devoted the last 25 years to experimenting with different educational models from his position as educator at Malmö University. His projects have reached millions of students at universities and schools all over the world. Currently leads the Interaction Design Masters programme centred in the creation of interactive artifacts and platforms. David is co-founder of Arduino and has been involve in hardware, software, and documentation design. At the time of writing, he leads the unit dedicated to pursuing relevant research projects. David has been awarded with the European Open-Source Award in Skills and Education, the Ashoka Foundation Fellowship, the STINT Foundation Fellowship, the SER Engineering Prize, and the Sant Carles Medal of the Arts among others.
Matt Venn is a science & technology communicator and electronic
engineer. He has been involved with open source silicon for the last 4 years and has
sent 20 chips for manufacture. He has helped over 500 people learn the tools on his Zero
to ASIC course, and created the Tiny Tapeout shuttle service that has manufactured over
1000 designs since 2022.
https://zerotoasiccourse.com
https://tinytapeout.com
In this workshop you will create a design and send it to be manufactured on
an open source ASIC!
You will learn:
The basics of how
semiconductors are designed and made,
The basics of digital logic,
How to build and
simulate a simple digital design,
How to create the GDS files for manufacture at the
Skywater foundry.
The physical chip and
devkit PCB are sold separately and are available to purchase during or after the workshop.
Participants will need a laptop and a GitHub account. A mouse is strongly
advised.
Mitch Altman is a hacker and inventor, known for inventing TV-B-Gone, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He co-founded a successful Silicon Valley startup and did pioneering work in Virtual Reality. He is an author and teacher, and goes around the world giving talks and workshops, promoting hackerspaces, open source hardware, and mentoring others. He co-founded the Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, and founded Cornfield Electronics.
Graham Booth is a tech educator working at the intersection of software engineering education and hands-on hardware experimentation. He manages FabLabNK, a collaborative makerspace within the tuition-free coding school 42 Berlin, which aims to foster a community where code, hardware, and creativity converge. Graham's expertise spans embedded systems, PCB design, and digital fabrication, enabling him to guide coding students and maker-members from Workish.berlin in realizing diverse projects. He also hosts SynthLab, a weekly gathering for audio hardware enthusiasts.
Urs Schmidt has been a versatile craftsman for years, with a formal background in landscape architecture. He began his career in film, focusing on set construction, set dressing, and prop making. In 2020, he transitioned to coding as a self-taught web developer, a move that ultimately led him to his true passion: hacking electronics, robotics, and making. His favorite projects involve transforming discarded trash from the streets into something entirely new—hacking its original purpose through the creative use of ICs and microcontrollers.
Want to build a cool noise-making device, leverage the I2C
proto-petal badge add-on from your hackaday swag bag AND get to grips with low-cost
open-hardware RISC-V microcontrollers?
In this workshop we'll do all
three.
It goes like this: solder a motor circuit to your proto petal, add your choice
of a few sonically-resonating-items to be actuated by the motor, program the onboard
microcontroller from one of our pre-configured laptops, then go join the
badge-orchestra!
Tech-wise, we will be making use of cnlohr's CH32V00fun
library and (time-permitting) the Pico's coordinating capabilities to
rhythmically sequence up to 6 add-ons. Your final device will be able to operate from the main
conference badge or independently.
