#teardown2024 — Public Fediverse posts

For #Teardown2024, I used art from that year's t-shirts to create an SMD solder challenge board. The OG design made by MakersBox was a perfect fit for the escalator artwork, which I converted into PCB layers and printed by @oshpark. The component sizes went from 1206 to 0201, which is comically small and not meant to be soldered by hand. Regardless, some folks were able to achieve a full build! #oshpark

Had a blast showing off #Openterface #MiniKVM at #Teardown2024 event last month! 🎉 Big thanks to @crowdsupply for hosting and to everyone who stopped by our demo table. It was great meeting so many curious minds and tech enthusiasts. Here are some snaps from the event! 📸👾

Tomatoes (and one precocious strawberry) are just starting to come in from the many plants in our garden. While the harvest is still manageable, I was inspired to lay them out in a histogram (tomatogram?) copied from @alpenglow's clever #teardown2024 talk.

Okay here are some non wiggly photos from @crowdsupply #teardown2024

There's @jasoncoon and @geekmomprojects (in the shadowy corner) setting up.

@AlieGG under her arrangement of Jason's technocircles.

@benhencke and @LaserMistress's Synthia (which I just found out was their doing) and @icymakes's out of focus butterfly in the back.

And if anyone knows who did that Mandelbrot thing let me know and I'll tag them.

Even more (and slightly closer to properly exposed) Wigglygrams from #teardown2024.

@strangeparts and @adistuder are the only ones in these who I know are on Mastodon.

Some more wigglegrams from #teardown2024.

There was barely enough light for my plastic fixed-shutter Nishika, so I've decided to lean into the grittiness.

I probably wouldn't have spent hours pulling images out of the noise if I didn't like the people in them so much.

@ishotjr @jasoncoon @LaserMistress @charlyn

Feeling inspired after #Teardown2024, gonna do a little schematic and hopefully PCB design with #KiCad, and since one of my goals is to demystify this kind of stuff and make it less intimidating, gonna practice explaining what I'm doing, assuming no pre-existing knowledge.

So if you're curious about how electronics stuff comes into existence, come along and let me know how I'm doing, especially if you don't know anything about it yet! #pcb #circuitdesign #makers #livestream #owncast

https://stream.cincodenada.com/

Inspired by the retro-computing table at #Teardown2024, I made an optical "punch card reader" (okay, it's a scantron scanner).

I'm using 4x6 index cards since my printer can print on them.

Uses a Pololu reflectance sensor array.

More like scantron than punchcard, but still a fun little project!

@helenleigh @geekmomprojects @jasoncoon @charlyn @LaserMistress Here's the first batch of wiggly photos from #teardown2024

Overall, @crowdsupply #Teardown2024 takes the cake for best hacker con I’ve been to so far. It’s like all the best parts of my college experience packed into 3 days. The people I get to hang with and call friends are the very best, I haven’t stayed up laughing until 2am for a very long time. I already miss you all! Thx to @geekmomprojects and @jasoncoon for the photos, and everyone else for making it so much fun. @ishotjr @ArchiteuthisFlux @chipperdoodles @charlyn @icymakes @wizard

And that was the end of #Teardown2024 , except it wasn’t! Queue the afterparty and extracurricular events!

Celebrating the end of responsibilities and a job terrifically well done by @helenleigh - thank you for heading up such a glorious event. @alexlynd and @bit_bash in supporting roles on the ice!

A 🧵 about the last 2 days of @crowdsupply #Teardown2024 which was just ER. MEH. GERD. amounts of fun! Adding posts as quick as I can thumb-type. :)

First up - @charlyn ‘s amazing LED jewelry display. I think the whirling ring is my favorite. There were so many thoughtful details in both her designs and her displays, it was super cool to hear how she put it all together. Will post a video at the end, as those take a while to upload.

Bonus pics from some of the #teardown2024 after parties, featuring @alpenglow and @AlieGG 💖

We ate, drank and did cool things together every evening after the event, including a two day puzzle hunt, a hacker space garden party with tacos, a roof top reception with dumplings and drinks at several cute and quirky local bars.

Shot Through the Heart: An Introduction to Fault Injection (@crowd_supply #Teardown2024) slides are up! https://grandideastudio.com/portfolio/security/intro-to-fault-injection/

Decompressing at the airport while waiting for my flight home from #teardown2024. It was an absolutely wonderful weekend. Well paced, with great conversations, presentations, social gatherings and exhibitions. Kudos to @crowdsupply and in particular @helenleigh for talking the time to consider the innumerable details that went into making it a welcoming and engaging event. While waiting for my flight, I'm going to try to post some new (non-chronological) images from the weekend.

I never imagined that I would ever get x-ray images of a printed circuit board that I designed! This is my 1" F128 with @adafruit QT Py onboard. I have 24 more images like this that I need to figure out how to perspective correct and stitch together.
Thank you so much to Ken from Chippie for capturing these at @crowdsupply #TearDown2024!
Contact Chippie for all of your hardware side channel analysis needs: https://www.chippie.io
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What a weekend! Thanks to everyone who joined us at #Teardown2024. Keep the conversation going and catch up with the folks you met this weekend by joining our Discord community: https://discord.gg/RRsHCW9H6X

Big fomo for #teardown2024
Sad I had to cancel my trip. The vibes seem off the charts.
If I can only do one NA trip next year it will be 100% for Teardown.

Almost forgot! Here's my third and final #ootd for #teardown2024, a nod to the euro hacker culture I came up in 🇪🇺

Socks with sandals are cool now, deal with it 🕶️

Hackers on ice #teardown2024

And that's a wrap on #teardown2024! Thanks to everyone who came and made it so special. It was the biggest Teardown ever. I'm so glad you all enjoyed my offbeat venue choice, the eclectic local food menu, and our programming.

Plus now I get to say I've skated on the same ice skating rink as Tonya Harding ⛸️

See you all back in the mall next year for #teardown2025 :D

#Teardown2024 is overrrrrrr 🤘😭🤘

massive thanks to the @crowdsupply crew and especially @helenleigh for an absolutely incredible event! 💖✨

In a closing session of #Teardown2024, @[email protected] walks through the experience of switching to KiCad (for good.)

Welcome to the right side Ben!

HealthyPi Move is an (open source) wearable patient monitor from ProtoCentral. Here, Ashwin Whitchurch explains the sensors at #teardown2024. Available for pre-order: https://www.crowdsupply.com/protocentral/healthypi-move

Ayesha shares her experience in using Pretty Circuit Boards (PCBs) as a STEM outreach tool.

“If you don’t like LEDs, go touch grass.” #teardown2024

I am so completely and delightfully overwhelmed with how amazing day one of @crowdsupply #teardown2024 has been. So many wonderful and inspiring conversations, workshops and presentations. Finally met in person people I've only interacted with online. Thank you all. Looking forward to day 2!
@strangeparts @mohitbhoite #arduboy @wizard @geekmomprojects @highenergybeams @charlyn @LaserMistress @ArchiteuthisFlux

#Teardown2024 begins today in #Portland and Darcy has designed and kitted an exciting SMD soldering challenge! https://blog.oshpark.com/2024/06/21/challenge-your-soldering-skills-at-teardown-2024/#OSHPark #PDX #Soldering #SurfaceMount #PCBart

We were excited to see Kevin Bates at Hardware Happy Hour #Portland last night and we are looking forward to the #Arduboy story at #Teardown2024 tomorrow https://crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2024/short-talk/the-arduboy-story #PDX #HardwareHacking cc @helenleigh @crowdsupply