I wish I could go to GalaxyCon Columbus but I just can’t make it make sense for me 😔 I’m too anxious about flying and I’m not sure my car would survive the trip and also driving to Ohio in December sounds like a terrible idea?? @izzycanyon miss everyone so much 😭
I’m still actively trying to justify Supercon in July so maybe I will see some @izzycanyon friends there 🥺 even though Con isn’t booked (yet???) (fingers crossed???)
I'm seeing an interesting trend between #hackaday#supercon and #shmoocon. When called out on their disgracefully gross single tone white cis male speaker lineups, they each responded with "we tried reaching out to other types of people (let me guess, a few white women), and they refused us".
This seems to clear their conscience and resolve it for them.
ahem YOU HAVE NOT MADE AN ENVIRONMENT GOOD FOLKS WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN.
Finally sorting all the swag I received from amazing makers last weekend at #SuperCon!
I hope to have time to assemble and play with some of it this weekend.
If anyone has something I gave them last weekend at #SuperCon (or any other time) I'd love to see it!
If it's damaged, or it's something you're not going to get around to assembling or enjoying, please let me know! I can help fix it, send you a prepaid return shipping label, help find a new home for it, etc.
New Patreon post! Always open source and free writing, no paywall. This is my #Supercon retrospective, in which I mostly give a lot of personal experience and focus on talking about oppression in tech quite a bit.
DEEPLY sorry about the preview image/text if you are getting that. Patreon won't let me change it and it's crappy. I swear the article itself is much better!
Finally, I shot a quick video of my #supercon2023 badge hack while waiting at the airport. I hand-soldered 280 WS2812B-1010 LEDs during #supercon in a resin printed diffuser frame. Maybe not my best idea because it took 1.5 days to solder them together, but I had awesome people around me who kept me motivated. And finally it worked. Thank you all for your great feedback during the con. #hackaday
So I'm recovered enough to request this: if you received jewelry or stickers or anything valuable from me at #Supercon this weekend, please, in any way that is comfortable, give me credit. Verbally, tagging, grassroots, professionally, anything! I've got a linktree in my bio.
I am not novice in any way but I am still making myself known in this scene (hella isolation), and I will be job hunting soon, so it means a whole lot to me to be mentioned and credited 🥰
Here's a direct link to the #hackaday#supercon badge hacking demo I did, but it's worth watching the whole video to see all the amazing projects people came up with.
At #supercon I was checking continuity while soldering, but couldn't hear the beeps well. @maketvee found it quite amusing that I held the multimeter to my ear with my shoulder. His image and captions are pretty funny, but he may also have inadvertently launched my new career as an LED hotline operator!
I've been at #supercon this weekend, posting short vids for Hackster.io :) Check 'em out at (at) hacksterio on IG, TikTok, YouTube, or Twi/X (I know) ✨
Here's one I shot yesterday – an anonymous friend showed me the thinnest #Arduino I've ever seen!! It's based on an #STM32 and can be sewn or woven into textiles. >> https://github.com/FiberCircuits
Making progress with my @hackaday#SuperCon badge hack. Of course you know what I had to do. 😁
This is all just drawn manually. I hope in the future to do all of this with the signal generator and actual VectorScope.
Hey! Are you someone who’s worked with Atmel QTouch? Are you at @hackaday#Supercon? Find me in the alley; I have a badge hack that I’d very much like to get working, but QTouch has me flummoxed.
Preparing for the Supercon presentation of my portable Vectrex... I feel like on a high level I have interesting stuff to tell, but I'm at the point of presentation building where I go 'this is a mess, no one is gonna like this' to the point of me wanting to throw my laptop out of the window and live my days out with the Amish. I know it'll pass and I'll make it work somehow, but oof, it's no fun. At least I have a 3d print running for a 2nd prototype case, that makes it feel like even if I'm not doing anything productive, something productive still is happening.