Can you are feeling the nip of fall within the air? That may solely imply one factor: Supercon is simply across the nook. The subsequent few weeks are going to deliver a blitz of Supercon-related reveals, and we’re beginning off with a giant one: the workshops.
Supercon is the Final {Hardware} Convention, and you could be there to attend a workshop. Each workshop and common admission tickets are on sale now! Don’t wait — they promote out quick.
Kody Kinzie
Meshtastic for Newbies: Solder Your Personal Cat-Themed LoRa Climate Station!
For those who’ve needed to create off-grid, encrypted mesh networks that may span over 100 miles, this class will function a newbie’s information to Meshtastic. We’ll be soldering and establishing our personal customized cat-themed Meshtastic climate station nodes!
Seth Hillbrand
Stage Up Your Board Recreation with KiCad
This workshop will educate you how one can use KiCad with different frequent open-source instruments, together with Inkscape and FreeCAD, to degree up your board sport. We’ll make a wonderful PCB-based board sport. You’ll study strategies for higher circuit structure, artwork switch, case becoming, and 3D modeling.
Pat Deegan
Tiny Tapeout
On this workshop, contributors will get the chance to design and manufacture their very own design on an ASIC! Members will study the fundamentals of digital logic, the fundamentals of how semiconductors are designed and made, how one can use a web based digital design instrument to construct and simulate a easy design, and how one can create the GDS recordsdata for manufacture on the open-source Sky130 PDK. Members may have the choice to submit their designs for manufacturing on the following shuttle as a part of the Tiny Tapeout venture.
Estefannie and Bob Hickman
Bling It On: Programming Your Personal Generative Artwork Matrix
On this intermediate-level maker workshop, you’ll study the basics of generative algorithms and apply them utilizing both Circuit Python or C++ to create a dynamic show that may pull information over WiFi from a number of APIs and use the info to visualise some generative artwork. The outcomes shall be stunning and sensible, and attendees will go away with an incredible 130 mm x 130 mm LED matrix.
Shawn Hymel
Introduction to Embedded Rust
Rust curious? This hands-on workshop will introduce you to this fascinating (comparatively) new language and the way you need to use it to develop firmware in your numerous microcontroller initiatives. We’ll cowl the fundamentals of Rust’s possession mannequin, blink an LED (as you do), and skim from an I2C sensor. (Shawn’s workshop is sponsored by DigiKey.)
November is simply across the nook. Get your tickets now and we’ll see you at Supercon!
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