Open Hardware Miniconf (LCA 2021)
2021-02-18
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who it's for
embedded developers, firmware engineers, open hardware designers, fpga engineers, electronics hobbyists, makerspace organisers
topics
MicroPython on ESP32; wifi badge automatic updates; mqtt-backed device telemetry; neopixel and RGB panels; FastLED and SmartMatrix use; SymbiFlow FPGA toolchain; QuickFeather fpga board; complete open-hardware computer; injection-moulded case tooling; pogo-pin test jig and flashing
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Swagbadge 101: Software and the Aiko framework | Nicola Nye, Andy Gelme | 47m |
Overview of the actual build and software: a Wi‑Fi badge (shipped as a few hundred units) built on a LOLIN Lite ESP32 running MicroPython with the Aiko… | ||
| I can stop adding more LEDs anytime I want, I just choose not to | Marc Merlin | 17m |
Starts with a single tri‑color LED and ends with 49152 pixels driven by a Raspberry Pi; projects hit 1538 then 12,288 pixels on ESP8266/ESP32 before scaling to… | ||
| Hacking Hardware for Hugs and Profit! | Leon Wright | 21m |
Conference badge starts as a hacked ESP8266/ESP32 with IR and VL6180X time‑of‑flight sensors to detect embraces, tuning the detection window to about 700–1000… | ||
| Swagbadge 101: Hardware and SAOs | John Spencer | 46m |
Conference badge is a tiny MicroPython-capable dev board built around an ESP32 Lolin32 at $3 with only five main components: two 0.96" I2C OLEDs, two buttons… | ||
| Open Source FPGA Tooling, Our Journey from Resistance to Adoption | Tim Saxe, Brian Faith | 42m |
Company moves its FPGA toolchain from proprietary to SymbiFlow and open source repos and demonstrates a working QuickFeather board running qorc-sdk that loads… | ||
| We made a beautiful complete open-hardware computer, including keyboard and injection-moulded case | Paul Gardner-Stephen | 48m |
A complete, community‑designed open‑hardware MEGA65 is built end‑to‑end: custom motherboard (Xilinx Artix‑7 100T→200T, Intel/MAX10 co‑FPGA), 100+ developer… | ||
| Makerspace Adelaide | Robyn Willison | 15m |
Makerspace Adelaide shows four dedicated zones: Textiles with sewing, overlockers and leatherwork; Digital fabrication with donated Trotec laser cutter… | ||
| Swagbadge test jig and software & OHMC wrap-up | Jonathan Oxer, Andy Gelme | 22m |
Testing workflow for nearly 300 shipped badges focuses on concrete yields and fixes: raw OLEDs show 8.7% OLED failure rate so every display and each… | ||
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