The Teardown Sessions are a series of livestreamed interviews and hands-on learning sessions with Crowd Supply creators, staff, and special guests.
We go live on YouTube regularly. Join us to ask questions and get the chance to win a box of mystery hardware and cool swag.
Find all our past Teardown Sessions on our YouTube playlist, or watch recent episodes below.
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In this Teardown Session, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh talks with Zeke Wheeler (KJ7NLL) about satellite tracking and ham radio
In this session, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh talks with Zoltan Doczi, a Senior RF Engineer at Decent Labs. Decent Labs are of the creators of Spacewalker LNA 434 MHz, a device that was developed to combat real-world satellite reception difficulties. In urban environments, it’s often difficult to receive PocketSat and CubeSat signals amidst strong DVB-T, TETRA, FM, and LTE signals from densely packed transmitter towers.
In this episode, we speak to the team behind LimeSDR XTRX and LimeNET Micro 2.0 Developer Edition.
In this episode, we speak with Aleksa Bjelogrlic, creator of ThunderScope, the open source software defined oscilloscope.
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions, we're speaking to Carl Laufer from RTL-SDR. They are running a Crowd Supply campaign for Discovery Dish, a system for weather and Inmarsat satellite reception, and hydrogen line radio astronomy for RTL-SDR users. The Discovery Dish aims to be the start of an ecosystem of hardware designed to get users set up with satellite reception, including a planned companion light-duty antenna rotator.
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions, we're speaking to Majenta Strongheart who is the director of @supplyframedesignlab, host of The BOM podcast, and wrangler of The Hackaday Prize, the global hardware design challenge focused on widespread and impactful innovation. This year, the Hackaday prize is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a range of challenges, from education to, well, saving the world.
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions, we are catching up with Sid Drmay (@webspookie), who is the Community Coordinator for OSHWA and Summit Fellowship Chair at the Open Hardware Summit 2023. The summit will be held at NYU in New York City on Friday April 28th and Saturday April 29th.
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions, we are catching up with the team behind Ukama, decentralized cellular internet pioneers. Join us live to ask questions.
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions we are catching up with Nick Poole, creator of BeanCounter. Join us live to ask questions.
This week finds Helen and the Crowd Supply team at Hackaday's Supercon event in Pasadena, California.
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions we are chatting with Darian Johnson, founder of Phambili and creator of Newt.
In this episode of Crowd Supply's Teardown Sessions we are celebrating Open Hardware Month by talking with Lee Cyborg and Claire Cassidy from the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA).
On the next episode of the Teardown Sessions we will be talking with Colin O'Flynn, renowned embedded security expert and creator of ChipWhisperer-Husky.
In this week's episode of the Teardown Sessions, we are going live from our Open Hack Day at the CETI Lab in Portland State University. Join us live to ask our special guest xobs (Sean Cross) your questions and see his latest hardware creations.
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh chats with the team at Screaming Circuits, a local (to Oregon) circuit board manufacturer established in 2003. We also get to go on a detailed tour of Screaming Circuits' facilities. This is a must-watch episode for anyone interested in PCB manufacturing.
This week, host Helen Leigh chats with creator Robin Reiter about his Pixel Pump project, currently funding on Crowd Supply. Pixel Pump is an open-source, manual pick-and-place machine for PCB artisans. They cover far-ranging topics about print farms, the joys of designing your own packaging, and using MicroPython in a product.
In this session, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh welcomes back Sensor Watch creator Joey Castillo. (Sensor Watch is an open hardware smart watch that re-uses the case from a ubiquitous classic, the Casio F-91W wristwatch.)
Join Host Helen Leigh for a tour through the world of FPGAs with her guide, Ryan Cousins from Snickerdoodle.
Nick Poole is a Professional Maker and Technologist in Wytheville, VA and an engineer at SparkFun.
Join host Helen Leigh as she sits down with engineer-diplomat-author Anne Barela. They'll geek out about microcontrollers, CircuitPython and MicroPython and building an open source ecosystem.
In this week's episode of the Teardown Sessions, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh talks with Eugene Pomazov from StereoPi, an open source stereoscopic camera based on Raspberry Pi.
This week's episode of the Teardown Sessions takes a look at open source space exploration as members of the Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS) join host Helen Leigh for an in-depth look at Oregon’s first satellite into outer space.
In this week's episode of the Teardown Sessions, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh talks with Alex D. of Protopasta, a Portland-based 3D printer filament company.
In this week's episode of the Teardown Sessions, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh talks with Connor Nishijima of Lixie Labs, the creators of Pixie Chroma.
In this week's episode of the Teardown Sessions, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh talks with Joey Castillo, the creator of Sensor Watch, the hackable ARM Cortex M0+ upgrade for a classic Casio wristwatch.
In this week's episode of the Teardown Sessions, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh talks with Michael Altfield, the creator of BusKill, a USB kill cord for your laptop.
In this week's Teardown Session, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh chats with Darian Johnson (hacker and creator of the Newt project) about Memory-in-Pixel (MiP) displays, open source hardware, and turning your weekend maker projects into a crowdfunding campaign.
Join us for a special episode of The Teardown Sessions as we chat with iconic hardware hackers bunnie and xobs, creators of Novena, Precursor and the *omu form factor family.
This week's Teardown Session comes live from San Francisco, as Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh meets up with Alvaro Prieto to talk about hardware hacking, reverse engineering, and the hardware community in SF and the Bay Area.
This episode of the Teardown Sessions is all about us! Take a peek behind the scenes at Crowd Supply with Josh, Darcy and Helen.
Join Helen and this week's guest, security educator Joe Fitzpatrick, as they talk about hardware security and hardware hacking.
This week, the Teardown Sessions' Helen Leigh goes on a field trip to the Cyber City Circuits PnP electronics assembly line and chats with Joey Castillo, who is working with the CCC folks to make his open hardware Sensor Watch project. Joey's project, an open hardware smart watch, re-uses a classic, and ubiquitous, Casio LCD wristwatch and is launching on Crowd Supply soon.
This week, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh sits down with Ben Hencke, LED wizard and creator of the much beloved LED controller, Pixelblaze. Pixelblaze is a Wi-Fi-enabled, live-codable LED controller with a web-based development environment.
This week, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh sits down with Ben Hencke, LED wizard and creator of the much beloved LED controller, Pixelblaze. Pixelblaze is a Wi-Fi-enabled, live-codable LED controller with a web-based development environment. Ben and Helen discuss wide-ranging topics, from manufacturing and design to live-coding with the Pixelblaze IDE.
Straithe will be sharing knowledge about technical documentation, pull request etiquette, social media engagement, and building community in open hardware.
Join Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh as she chats with Straithe, open source technical community manager at Great Scott Gadgets. They discuss the difficulties (and possibilities) of running a business centered around open source hardware, plus they look at the ways Great Scott Gadgets has built a loyal community around their range of devices. Straithe will be sharing knowledge about technical documentation, pull request etiquette, social media engagement, and building community in open hardware.
Helen Leigh chats with Alicia Gibb, hardware hacker and open source hardware advocate at OSHWA, and Javier Serrano, who leads a team of electronics designers and Linux kernel developers at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Join them as they discuss open hardware best practices, open source hardware movements around the world, and the importance of open hardware for open science and indeed, science and engineering generally.
Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh chats with Timon Skerutsch (a.k.a. Timonsku), the engineer who made the Piunora. Join them as they discuss hardware design, open source hardware, manufacturing issues, and figuring out how to deal with CE certification as an independent hardware designer.
Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh chats with Timon Skerutsch (a.k.a. Timonsku), the engineer who made the Piunora. Join them as they discuss hardware design, open source hardware, manufacturing issues, and figuring out how to deal with CE certification as an independent hardware designer. We'll also hear about some of Timon's other awesome projects, including A Damn Linux Tablet, which won "Best Design" in 2019's Hackaday Prize contest.
Join Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh as she chats with Lukas F. Hartmann, CEO of MNT Research and lead designer of the open source hardware laptop, MNT Reform (https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform).
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh chats with Lukas F. Hartmann, CEO of MNT Research and lead designer of the open source hardware laptop, MNT Reform. Listen in as they discuss DIY computers, beautiful documentation, the FOSS community in Berlin, and how to deliver a large, complex crowdfunding campaign.
Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh chats with David Zovko of e-Radionica and takes a tour of their production space -a hacker's paradise. Join them as they discuss e-paper, DIY displays, reverse engineering, e-waste, DIY PCB manufacture, and building a company with open source hardware.
Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh chats with David Zovko of e-Radionica and takes a tour of their production space -- a hacker's paradise! Join them as they discuss e-paper, DIY displays, reverse engineering, e-waste, DIY PCB manufacture, and building a company with open source hardware.
Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh unboxes and assembles a Watchy while chatting with Wailun of SQFMI.
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh unboxes and assembles a Watchy while chatting with Wailun of SQFMI. Join them as they discuss smart watches, e-paper, DIY displays, PCB design and how he successfully raised $220,000+ by crowdfunding his open source hardware designs.
Hardware capture the flag puzzles, artistic PCBs and #badgelife with Uri Shaked from Wokwi and Helen Leigh from Crowd Supply.
In this episode of the Teardown Sessions we talk with with Uri Shaked from Wokwi about hardware capture the flag puzzles, artistic PCBs and #badgelife. Uri Is the creator of The Skull, a Capture the Flag (CTF) riddle that invites you to explore the internals of the AVR architecture.
The chip shortage and supply chain issues are affecting engineers, makers and hackers all over the world. Piotr Esden from 1BitSquared and Helen Leigh from Crowd Supply talk about how how we got here, what's likely to happen next and what we can do about it.
The chip shortage and supply chain issues are affecting engineers, makers and hackers all over the world. In this episode of the Teardown Sessions, Piotr Esden from 1BitSquared and Helen Leigh from Crowd Supply talk about how how we got here, what’s likely to happen next and what we can do about it.
In this episode of The Teardown Sessions from Crowd Supply, we're unboxing and building Leon Anavi's open source fume extractor, which was successfully funded on Crowd Supply.
In this episode of The Teardown Sessions from Crowd Supply, we're unboxing and building Leon Anavi's open source fume extractor, which was successfully funded on Crowd Supply.
In this episode of The Teardown Sessions from Crowd Supply, we unboxed and built Leon Anavi's open source fume extractor, which was successfully funded on Crowd Supply.