Schedule

Workshop start and end times are approximate and subject to change.

Prologue

Wednesday, June 19 - 6:30 PM
Hardware Happy Hour Portland - Teardown 2024
Hardware Happy Hour is an informal way to socialize, show off your projects, and talk about the world of hardware. Join us for drinks, hacks, and snacks to celebrate the start of Teardown 2024.

Thursday, June 20 - 12:00 PM
Pre-registration for Teardown
The Teardown venue will be open for pre-registration from Thursday at noon. There will be no programming but the workshop and seating areas will be open, so you are welcome to come along, hang out and hack.

Thursday, June 20 - 7:30 PM
Cyberpunk Movie Night at OMSI: Hackers
To help celebrate Teardown's kick off, OMSI (Portland's awesome Science Museum) are putting on a special screening of Hackers. "Hack the Planet" on the biggest screen in Oregon!

Friday, June 21, 2024

Talk Track 1

Talk Track 2

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

1:00 PM

1:30 PM

2:00 PM

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

5:30 PM

6:00 PM

6:30 PM

7:00 PM

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

8:30 PM

Registration and breakfast
Coffee with donuts, fruit and snacks. VG + GF options available from Gluten Free Gem.

Welcome
Joshua Lifton, Helen Leigh

Einstein Made Google Maps Work
Nathan Seidle

Making E-Ink Go Fast
Wenting Zhang

From Game Design to Hardware Innovation
Jayson Margalus

Teardown SMD Soldering Challenge! (Round One)
Workshop
Workshop 1
Darcy Neal

Anwaar Faceplate design with KiCad and Krita
Workshop
Bulbul Yousif

3000 Smartwatches to Madness
Arthur Hazleden

Lunch
Tamales with chips and salsa from Tamale Boy. GF. VG available.

Introducing Serberus, a multi-headed embedded hardware interface tool
Patrick Kiley

Slicing, dicing, patterning, and imaging at the nano scale with a beam of gallium: hands-on workshop at Microscopy Village
Workshop
Microscopy Village
Adam McCombs

Build a Jumperless Probe then Poke Stuff
Workshop
Kevin Cappuccio

Using 3D Printed Parts for Production
Carrie Sundra

Solving Puzzles with the Nordic Thingy:91
Workshop
Pete Skeggs

The Arduboy Story
Kevin Bates

Building a Simple Command-Line Interface
Nathan Jones

Break

Stop using the wrong capacitors!
James Lewis

Making IoT devices on ESP32 with Matter and Thread
Workshop
John Duksta

Starting a maker business
Michael Graham

Die Rebonding Workshop
Workshop
Ken, Alex Kissinger

Responsive and Glowing PCB Wedding Invitations
Leanna Pancoast

Incremental hardware builds and design for agile manufacturing
Mehrdad Majzoobi

Open-Source Wireless Sensor Network
David Burnett, Natalie Kashoro

Post-Synthesis: Adventures in using FPGAs for Eurorack
Eric Schlappi

Making Puppy Buttons
Peter Griffin

Reception at Autodesk
Autodesk, 221 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR 97214
Dumplings and red bean buns from Shanghai's Best and summer rolls, spring rolls and crispy prawns from Thai Peacock. VG + GF options available.

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Talk Track 1

Talk Track 2

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

1:00 PM

1:30 PM

2:00 PM

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

5:30 PM

6:00 PM

6:30 PM

7:00 PM

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

8:30 PM

9:00 PM

9:30 PM

Registration and breakfast
Coffee, bagels and schmears from Spielman Bagels. VG + GF options available.

Welcome
Joshua Lifton, Helen Leigh

Space themed free-formed circuit sculptures
Mohit Bhoite

Unleashing the Power of uSDR: Native Apps, Web Platforms, and Beyond with M.2 SDR
Workshop
Andrew Avtushenko, Ivan Kolesnikov

Custom cheap, easy and safe badges - without starting from scratch
Workshop
Joseph FitzPatrick

Accounting for Making Objects
Joey Castillo

Prototype to Product with MicroPython: Faster and Happier Embedded Systems Development
Ned Konz

Affordable, Portable, Orbital Desktop Satellite Tracker
Zeke Wheeler

Dont Panic! Debugging hardware
Mieszko Kruger

Lunch
Sri Lankan curry rice buffet from Mirisata. VG & GF. Mild options available.

KiCad Project Status
Wayne Stambaugh

Today's 3D Printers: What They Can Do And How They Work
Kaleb

Retro Computing with the Hackaday Supercon badge "Voja4"
Workshop
Nathan Jones

Make Electronics Accessible - Teach Workshops!
Workshop
Carrie Sundra

WLCSP without going blind or getting buried
Greg Steiert

Developing an Open Source Linux Tablet
Avinadad Mendez

Break

OpenFlume: Designing an Accessible Flow Tank
Eli Silver

Radio Direction Finding with a KrakenSDR
Workshop
Syed, Carl L

Machine Agency
Nadya Peek

Build a $5 FPGA loader
Workshop
Greg Steiert

Wireless Hacking on a $5 Budget (with Microcontrollers)
Alex Lynd

Crunch time: Everything you wanted know about wires, contacts and crimping but were afraid to ask.
Sen Hastings

Managing Open Source Hardware Communities
Straithe

Resin Casting Crash Course
SynapticRewrite

CTRL-H hackerspace hangout
PDX Hackerspace, 7608 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR 97217
On Saturday night we head to CTRL-H, our favorite Portland hackerspace, for food, drinks and conversation. We'll be eating tacos and tacquitos from Tamale Boy. VG & GF options available.

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Talk Track 1

Talk Track 2

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

1:00 PM

1:30 PM

2:00 PM

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

5:30 PM

6:00 PM

6:30 PM

7:00 PM

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

8:30 PM

9:00 PM

9:30 PM

Registration and breakfast
Coffee, pastries and snacks

Welcome
Joshua Lifton, Helen Leigh

Shot Through the Heart: An Introduction to Fault Injection
Joe Grand

Designing the Arduino Engineering Kit
paul cox

Making Chips with Open Tools and TinyTapeout
Pat Deegan

Knitscape: colorwork knitting with a manual knitting machine
Workshop
Nadya Peek, Hannah Twigg-Smith

IoT Development with Nordic
Johnny Nguyen

Pretty PCBs for STEAM: Adding Art into Electronics
Ayesha Wilson

Mistakes
Joshua Lifton

Self-organized: Jumperless Pro Discussion Part Two!
Workshop
Kevin Cappuccio

Lunch
Pizza from Pizza Kat. VG & GF available.

Teardown SMD Soldering Challenge! (Round Two)
Workshop
Darcy Neal

From Making an Open Source Patient Monitor to Making it Wearable: The HealthyPi Story
Ashwin Whitchurch

Jumping into wireless with the ESP32, featuring Python and Arduino coding
Duane Benson

Self-organised skill sharing and BOF sessions (part deux)
Workshop
Helen Leigh

How I Switched From Eagle To KiCad With No Surprises Whatsoever
Benjamin Hencke

So long and thanks...
Closing remarks from Helen and Josh

After party at arcade game bar Ground Kontrol
Ground Kontrol Arcade & Bar, 115 NW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97209
On Sunday afternoon we head to Ground Kontrol, an futuristic 2-story arcade serving beer and light meals. Vintage and modern video games, pinball machines, and console games await you. Ground Kontrol is all-ages until 5pm, and 21+ only after 5pm.

Epilogue

Monday, June 24 - 10:30 AM
Protopasta tour
Protopasta are opening the doors to their factory to us on the Monday after Teardown. Go see how 3D printing filament is made, including some really cool specialist filaments: conductive carbon, metals, wood composites and even scented PLA.

Monday, June 24 - 3:00 PM
3D print farm tour
The Corvallis3D print farm in Beaverton will be opening the doors to their space to us on Monday after Teardown. Great opportunity to see how a print farm operates!