WORLDTECH2026 Hackaday Supercon: All the Speakers!
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Ames Evans Blinkenlights That Remember: The Unsigned Firmware on your PC’s RAM The RGB glow on your sick gaming PC comes from somewhere, and that somewhere is a microcontroller controlled by a program and a kernel module that the manufacturer ships. Supercon is just about a week away, and there are still a few tickets left , so grab them now before it’s too late.
And the talks are just half the fun. Adriel Bustamante Rover Tracks: A Retrospective on the Open Source Rover and What’s Next The Open Source Rover has taken on a new life ever since the v2 release three years ago.
This talk covers practical considerations to design boards with the final device in mind, account for the differences between CAD models and real hardware, and create enclosures specifically for FDM 3D printing. During this talk, you will learn all about how banks utilize embedded electronics to either track or paint bank robbers.
Using equipment purchased from auctions, MakeItHackin and Danner Cronise will cover the electronics hidden in stacks of cash, the various equipment inside banks to trigger a remote detonation, and how these electronics have evolved over the decades. Can these protective measures be foiled… find out during this exclusive Supercon talk.
Ashleigh Pomerant No Refresh Button: The Case For (and Against) Putting a Browser on Your Device A user interface running in Chrome on a Raspberry Pi looks like any other web app from the outside. Underneath, most of the usual assumptions start to fall apart.
This talk covers what actually changes when you ship on a device instead of a server: hardware owns the state, WebSockets (Python library) replace REST because screen updates are often triggered by hardware sensors, and both memory and CPU (the general-purpose processor at the centre of a computer) limits become a real constraint. It also covers why the trade is usually still worth making.