Somehow I completely missed when #teardown2025 talks went live - here's mine on navigating battery regulations. Bonus butts in one of my slides. 😏 Also, the CFP for Teardown 2026 ends on the 15th so get your proposal in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwUG...
#Teardown2025 was our best year ever. I helped with so many wonderful workshops and taught a workshop myself, using my EMF Explorer Badge soldering board to explore electromagnetic frequencies. Thanks to all the epic folks who taught workshops and attendees who helped make it a success.
My talk from @crowdsupply.bsky.social Teardown 2025 on conference badges has been released. I'm excited to share it with y'all. #electronics #teardown2025
Ep. 2 of #DayGlowShow streams live July 10 at noon Pacific (7pm UTC)!
@ishotjr.bsky.social and I dig into #PicoCalc – a #microcontroller dev platform based on #RaspberryPi Pico. Plus, reflections on #Teardown2025 🛠️✨
▶️ YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPp7...
▶️ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/events/73484...
three stickers, one is on holo material is rectangular and says "you can just make a circuit board and no one can stop you", another is on round pink holo material and says "do or diy trying" and features a skull, hammer, bent wrench, and soldering iron, the last is on rectangular holo material and says "let's make some motherfucking bacon" with a cartoon line drawing of a very cute pig.
Stickers! At #teardown2025 @clomads.bsky.social and I coerced a bunch of people into buying a $10 thermal label printer, and now I have a repo up for the sticker designs I was giving out. 1/2
Check out my #Teardown2025 talk! How I turned a DIY tool into a global open hardware product with 3,000+ users & $315K raised on Crowd Supply in just one year, with no big team or budget. If you're planning to crowdfund your own hardware, this might help. youtu.be/UeLW7RyTq3Y?... #Openterface
I was talking to someone at #teardown2025 about an online split keyboard generator that i said i'd look up and share but i cannot for the life of me remember who! so for whoever you are: ryanis.cool/dactyl/#manu...
Still coming down from the high and recovering from @crowdsupply.bsky.social #teardown2025! It's the best hacker con, so many cool things but it's the amazing people that make it so great. Thanks to @helenleigh.bsky.social and the entire Crowd Supply team for making it so welcoming & inclusive.
A table with various art and technology projects.
It was our first time at Teardown. Thanks to all the amazing people who came by. It was so great to meet new friends and connect over art and tech. Thanks a bunch, #TearDown2025
I still need to upload #teardown2025 my talk slides, definitely going to, just been recovering from the trip!
Alex's sketchbook, with black pen + blue/green/yellow marker, held above the iconic PDX carpet. Panel 1: “Gremlin charge across the rainy bridge (for puzzle hunt clues)” – Deranged-looking Alex with big boots, skeleton overalls, and massive backpack, doing exactly that, with more chill team members in the distance. Panel 2: “Yelling about manicure kit as hardware tools… repeatedly…” – Beady-eyed Alex pointing emphatically down at the 2 clippers (for wire cutting & stripping), small scissors, file, tweezers, and metal spudger, secured with elastic in their little case. Panel 3: “Jabberwocky-off at Autodesk roof party” – the back of Alex flailing in the foreground; Morgan reciting in the background. “OH FRABJOUS DAY etc.” Panel 4: Slide says “Acoustic vests and bracelets”; label says “Fully crumpling after reading this as ‘acoustic breasts’ during my talk” – podium in the foreground, with a balled-up Alex behind it on the floor.
On the way home & discovered it's #MakeATerribleComicDay ! So here are a few cartoon-character highlights from #Teardown2025...
1 – Puzzle hunt gremlin charge!
2 – I LOVE my travel HW kit (cheap manicure tools).
3 – 2+ *other* nerds have Jabberwocky memorized?!
4 – Fetal position during my talk 🙃
black and white low res photos of faces
black and white low res photos of faces
black and white low res photos of faces
black and white low res photos of faces
I had a great time @crowdsupply.bsky.social #teardown2025 . Thanks to everyone who told me you liked my battery talk or panel words of DEFINITELY NOT ADVICE 😜. I can’t believe it’s already over! I was terrible at taking pictures except for these - faces from Sat night that turned into stickers.
Laser cut box holding a receipt printer with four input buttons. Printer has an ongoing narrative with multiple choices on display. Paper scroll reads: The Choosatron Deluxe Adventure Matrix v1.0.8 by Jerry Belich - choosatron.com @j3rrytron - jerrytron.com 1. Inking Tattoo 2. Bones and What They Mean 3. Eyes That Watch 4. A Very, Very, VERY Scary House
I got to play a game on Jerry Belich's Choosatron with story by @cyborgurl.bsky.social on a thermal printer at #teardown2025 and it was delightful.
had a blast at my very first #Teardown2025 ! Thank you @crowdsupply.bsky.social, especially @helenleigh.bsky.social and Darcy Neal, for making me feel that I belong to this community from the first second! You all rock 🎸
faddha with boards & gadgets & wires & such @ teardown 2025z
me at #teardown2025, with some breadboard and jumpers and gadgets and boards stuff, very happy. thank you @crowdsupply.bsky.social and #teardown2025 for such a fun weekend.
Heading out from #teardown2025 now after an often hilarious off the record talk on manufacturing. Got to meet @joegrand.bsky.social at lunch and reminisce about the SCSISide homebrew for the Atari 2600 among other stuff. Great event!
Attending @crowdsupply.bsky.social #Teardown2025 today? Make sure to check out Portland State Aerospace Society and OreSat - it's all open source hardware! www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por... #OpenHardware #OpenSource #PDX #Portland #Aerospace #Cubesat #OSHW
Baby oscilloscope! 💖
Ben Hencke brought their tiny SAOScope to the #Teardown2025 party at #PDX #hackersapce Ctrl-H last night! It can do 1 Ms/s at 12 bit. The knobs work including trigger! #Portland #Badgelife
It's time for Kingpin! @joegrand.bsky.social is talking now about his Life of Badges! #teardown2025 #portland #pdx #badgelife
Another fun day at #teardown2025. Had lunch with Arduboy creator Kevin Bates, then saw my buddy @mightyohm.bsky.social talk about useful tools for EE work you might not expect.
Good name for a tech group/collective/project from a phrase by @alexglow.bsky.social at #Teardown2025: Overlapping Nerds.
Was talking to a guy yesterday at #Teardown2025 about cyberpunk since he saw my author's copy of The Big Book of Cyberpunk. He said he gets depressed reading dystopian stories. I said I feel the same way when I read the news.
@alexglow.bsky.social now on stage at @crowdsupply.bsky.social #Teardown2025 talking about mind altering gadgets 🤖🧠💖
www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por... #portland #hardware #diy #pdx
Help the #Zephyr Project by letting Kate Stewart of the @linuxfoundation.org know about devices running #ZephyrRTOS
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #OpenSource #Teardown2025 @crowdsupply.bsky.social
Kate Stewart of the @linuxfoundation.org kicks off Day 2 of @crowdsupply.bsky.social #teardown2025 in #portland. www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por... #pdx #hardware #Embedded #IoT #Zephry #OpenSource
Slide: "EEG Wearables". Points: "Read your brainwaves"; "Self-regulation". And a pic of a model wearing my (minimal) EEG-controlled wings for Hot Couture 2013 at The Crucible, with a dramatic pose!
My @crowdsupply.bsky.social #Teardown2025 talk (Mind-Altering Gadgetry / Nootropic Devices) is today at 11:30am on Track 1!
Recordings should be up in about a week :D
@kwiens.bsky.social, @fixtheworld.bsky.social great talk at @crowdsupply.bsky.social’s #Teardown2025!
I have a Slack workspace: "AOMaker". The domain needs a web page: "mailto:fekerr+bsky250620@aomaker.org".
join.slack.com/t/alohaormak...
The intent is to promote STEAM, makers, etc., and be a "parent-friendly" zone which is a higher bar than "kids-safe".
Adjacent: #teardown2025 for the win!
Slides from by #teardown2025 talk are posted at slides.com/unwiredben/c... which includes the videos I couldn't show from the PDF used live. It doesn't have my commentary on the different badges or the useful conversation with audience members that I had after.
