Schedule

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

Prologue

Friday, July 24, 2026

Ganymede Track

Callisto Track

Io: Workshops

Europa: Skill sharing

9:00 AM

9:30 AM

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
A light breakfast: pastries, fruit, oatmeal, granola bars, coffee, tea and juice.

Welcome
Joshua Lifton, Helen Leigh

What $10 Fake AirPods and a $30 Chip Decap Reveal About China’s Semiconductors
Masakazu Takasu

Experimental Archaeology: the MP/M-80 Operating System
Thomas Jennings

Making 3D Images (Lenticulars) and 3D Cameras
Workshop
Josh Martin, Cyril Engmann

The Evolution of Handheld Game Displays
Ken St. Cyr

Debugging Hardware & Using Oscilloscopes
Breakout session
Dr. Andy Haas, Joshua Wise, Edward Ivory, Ned Konz, Thaís aka barbie

Listening to Electromagnetic Fields
Darcy Neal

Rewiring Hardware from Your Phone
Peter Griffin

Lunch
Sandwiches and curry buns from Oyetsupan. GF and VG options from Gluten Free Gem.

3D Printing
Breakout session
Drew Runner, Kaleb (Cyberdeck Artisan), Mary, Blair Subbaraman

Dents and Dings from Dragging and Dropping
Greg Steiert

Creating Up to Date Hardware for Out of Date Tech
Ian Scott

How Hardware Gets Hacked: Authenticated Exchanges
Workshop
Nathan Jones

Curing Unplugged Probe Syndrome
Nicholas Mann

Pitch Your Project: Open Mic
Joshua Lifton

Afternoon Break
Snacks and tea

Powered Flowers for BedazzLED Wearables
Workshop
Debra Ansell, Claire Cassidy

Open Manufacturing 2026: A Teardown of the New Production Paradigm
Eric Pan

Soldering & Hand Assembly
Breakout session
Darcy Neal, Edward Ivory

GNU/Linux Loves All: Violin and Python
Timmy James Barnett

Copying Pastes: Exploratory 3D Printing
Blair Subbaraman

How to Make a Game for the Apricot PC
Chip Black

Puzzle Hunt 1
Joshua Lifton
Team up to find clues and solve hidden puzzles.

Wonderlove food carts
Join us at Wonderlove, a food cart pod with a bar, tables, games and a view

Saturday, July 25, 2026

Ganymede Track

Callisto Track

Io: Workshops

Europa: Skill sharing

9:30 AM

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

10:00 PM

Registration and breakfast day two
A light breakfast: pastries, fruit, oatmeal, granola bars, coffee, tea and juice.

SkoBot: Preserving Indigenous Cultures
Danielle Boyer

Embedded Toolchains
Keith Packard

Beyond the Print - Applications for 3D Printing
Kaleb (Cyberdeck Artisan)

Chips & Open Silicon
Breakout session
Nathan Jones, Pat Deegan

Making Programmable Mist Makers: Mist as a Creative Medium
Workshop
David Yang, shuang cai

Open Source and Robotics
Katherine Scott

Write a Wireshark Dissector! Then Dream Bigger.
Joshua Wise

Lunch day two
Lebanese hand pies, veggies, dips and pita from Hoda's.

Scientific Data Acquisition & Controls
James Logan

WTF Are Negative Frequencies? And other SDR odditites
Charles McManis

Design a Wireless Battery Fuel Gauge with Nordic + Seeed!
Workshop
Johnny Nguyen, Jinger Zeng

PCBs & KiCad
Breakout session
Darcy Neal, Edward Ivory, GC

Your Device Shipped - Now What?
Zachary Greenberg

Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net
Cursed Silicon

Turning a Hacker Project into a Real Product
Billy Wang, Kevin Peng

Afternoon Break Day Two
Snacks and tea

Declarative Hardware Architectures Using Nix
Tristan Ross

Repairing Hardware
Breakout session
Kyle Wiens, Alex Theodore, Adrian León

Feel the Difference: A Haptic Petting Zoo
Workshop
Dillon Simeone

Recycling Via Code Execution
Aleks Nikolic

USB-C Power All the Things: Off-Grid & at Home
Chloe Madison

Nothing is Safe: An Introduction to Hardware (In)Security
Nathan Jones

Puzzle Hunt 2
Joshua Lifton
Team up to find clues and solve hidden puzzles.

CTRL-H Hackerspace Hangout
On Saturday night we head to our favorite Portland hackerspace CTRL-H for a taco bar from Tamale Boy, drinks and conversation.

Sunday, July 26, 2026

Ganymede Track

Callisto Track

Io: Workshops

Europa: Skill sharing

9:30 AM

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 day three
A light breakfast: pastries, fruit, oatmeal, granola bars, coffee, tea and juice.

Firmware Security vs. Open source... Why not both?
Joseph FitzPatrick

LEDs & Blinkenlights
Breakout session

No Net? No Problem - Regional Communication with LoRA and Meshtastic
Daryll Strauss

Tiny Tapeout
Workshop
Pat Deegan

AlpenClose - Shutting Down a Business
Carrie Sundra

Industrial Automation Design Patterns
Michael Graham

Biohackers: an off-the-record panel
Alex Glow, Johno Whitaker, Anna Tonkonogui, Dezmond Goff

Music Machines
Helen Leigh

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

Sound & Music
Breakout session

Hacking Your Hackerspace
Moheeb Zara

Hardware Security and Open Source: an off-the-record panel
Karl Koscher, Joseph FitzPatrick, Morgan Whitlow, Thaís aka barbie

Tales from the Frontline of the Right to Repair Fight
Kyle Wiens

So long and thanks...
Joshua Lifton, Helen Leigh
Goodbye and thank you

Closing Celebrations
We're converting the roof garden into a bar to bid farewell to Teardown 2026

Live show: Sound Hackers
Helen Leigh, Jesse Mejía

SnowW: Live Electronic Music + Robotics
Xiao Xue (SnowW)
A hybrid organism performing—sound, motion, and AI co-creating in a live embodied system.

John Niekrasz
John Niekrasz
A percussive performance using sensory technologies.

Sea Moss
Noa Ver (Sea Moss), Zach D’Agostino (Sea Moss)
DIY electronics, drums and vocals. Experimental music you can dance to.

Until next time
Helen Leigh, Jesse Mejía
Farewell for now, Sound Hackers. Enjoy the bar until it runs dry, eat the pizza until it runs out and remember: hack the planet and be excellent to each other.

Demos Attended

Europa: Prototyping and Skill Sharing Area

Electronics Prototyping Lab
Europa: Prototyping and Skill Sharing Area
Edward Ivory

Europa: Prototyping and Skill Sharing Area

The 3D Printing Underground
Europa: Prototyping and Skill Sharing Area
Drew Runner, Kaleb (Cyberdeck Artisan), Mary

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 15 + 16

Portland State Aerospace Society (PSAS)
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 15 + 16
Jacob Lutz

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 17 + 18

Framework
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 17 + 18
Jamila Wang

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 19

Q8botOne by ZeroWire Robotics
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 19
Yufeng Wu

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 20

Low-cost FPGA add-on boards for existing microcontroller platforms
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 20
Nicklaus Thompson

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 20

QuadRF: Real-Time RF Augmented Reality and Open-Source Phased Arrays
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 20
Roy Gross

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 22

Free Software Foundation booth
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 22
Membership Coordinator

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 23

VDBX.io - PwrTool 500, PwrTop 18, & Other Power Solutions
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 23
Chloe Madison, Tim Gregory

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 24

More and more power from USB-C!
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 24
Louis Law

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 25

Openterface: Super Handy KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse) Tools
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 25
Billy Wang, Kevin Peng

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 26

Haasoscope Pro 2 GHz Scope / KiCad Routing Tools
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 26
Dr. Andy Haas

Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 27

AUTEUR
Jupiter NEXT - Atrium - Table 27
Matt Pasker

Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 132

Bridging Oceans with SlimeVR
Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 132
PlatinumVsReality

Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 134

Seeed Studio
Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 134
Eric Pan, Jinger Zeng

Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 136

Altera Retro Arcade Lounge
Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 136
Greg Steiert

Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 136 (Altera Arcade)

Picocomputer 6502
Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 136 (Altera Arcade)
David Turnbull / Rumbledethumps

Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 138

PDX Hackers Hospitality and Demo Suite
Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 138
Joseph FitzPatrick

Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 138 (PDX Hackers)

Striker: human-sized drumming mech
Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 138 (PDX Hackers)
Valeriy Novytskyy

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 01

Introducing SurplusGizmos
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 01
SurplusGizmos

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 03 + 04

Basilica of Beige
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 03 + 04
Jared Boone

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 06

Dead Mouse Synth & Trash-Built Amp: Instruments From E-Waste
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 06
Ruixiang Han

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 09

Humanity's Last Keyboard
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 09
Seth Raphael

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 11 + 12

Mycelial Melodies
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 11 + 12
Amped Atelier (Sahrye Cohen & Hal Rodriguez)

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 13

Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 13
Cursed Silicon

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 7

Stringman
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 7
Nathaniel Nifong

Installations Unattended

Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 29

Quiet Storm
Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 29
Jesse Mejía

Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 30

Mosaichord expressive keyboard instrument and Harmonic Strobe Tuner
Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 30
Jim Snow

Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 31

Xenharmonic Keyboards
Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 31
Timmy James Barnett

Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 32

Synthia - Light Piano
Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 32
Benjamin Hencke

Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 33

Sea Anemone
Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 33
Genevieve Hildebrand-Chupp

Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 34

Oscillara
Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 34
Therese Gietler

Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 36

Kaleidoscopic Comfort
Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 36
Janet Hansen

Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 37

Radiolarian
Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 37
Becca Priddy

Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 38

Digital Mirror
Jupiter NEXT - Bunker - Space 38
Sean Niesen

Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 136 (Altera Arcade)

RetroPie Arcade
Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Room 136 (Altera Arcade)
Nathan Jones

Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Window 133

Open Boards Guide
Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Window 133
David Groom

Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Window 135

Window of Dreams
Jupiter Original - DreamTENT - Window 135
Carrie Sundra

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 02

Retro computing, workstation style
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 02
Rob Scott

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 05

Dancing MIDI worms
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 05
Vincent Sloan

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 08

Power Solutions for Disaster Resilience
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 08
Pete Lee & Nick Bell

Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 14

flagday (a particular kind of perceptiveness)
Jupiter Original - The Studio - Table 14
María Dolores A. Matienzo