November marked our inaugural Hackaday Superconference, something we’ve been wanting to do for a very long time. Hackaday already has a massive and vibrant online community, but until now, we haven’t asked people to come together for a hardware conference that spans a full weekend. The Supercon is Hackaday incarnate, and hundreds of very cool people showed up for a few dozen talks, amazing workshops, and a lot more.
Over the past month, we’ve been putting together a compilation of everything that happened at the first Hackaday Superconference. This includes videos of all the talks, relevant asides, and posts for everything that happened over a two-day conference. Even if you couldn’t make it out to our first con, this great material that should be shared by all.
Below is a YouTube playlist of all the talks. If you’re looking for eight hours to kill over the holiday weekend, well, there you have it. After the break is the complete conference indexed by day and speaker, with links to the talk and accompanying Hackaday post.
We’d like to thank everyone who came out to the first Hackaday Supercon, with a huge shout-out to the speakers, workshop organizers, and volunteers. It couldn’t have happened without the full support of the Hackaday community. That’s good, because we’re going to be doing this again next year.
Saturday, November 14th, 2015
- Shanni R. PrutchiPost | Video
Construction of an Entangled Photon Source for Experimenting with Quantum Technologies - Jonathan BeriPost | Video
I like to move it, move it: a pragmatic guide to making your world move with motors! - Dustin FreemanPost | Video
The Practical Experience of Designing a Theatre Experience around iBeacons - Zach FredinPost | Video
You Can Take Your Hardware Idea Through Pilot-Scale Production With Minimal Prior Experience And Not Very Much Money, So You Should Do It NOW!! - Rory AronsonPost | Video
Why great documentation is vital to open-source projects - Kate ReedPost | Video
The Creative Process In Action - Radu MotisanPost | Video
Global environmental surveillance network - Oscar VermeulenPost | Video
PiDP-8: Experiences developing an electronics kit - Minas LiarokapisPost | Video
OpenBionics: Revolutionizing Prosthetics with Open-Source Dissemination - Reinier van der LeePost | Video
The Vinduino Project - Jeroen DomburgPost | Video
Implementing the Tamagotchi Singularity - Grant ImaharaPost | Video
Fireside Chat with Chris Gammell and Sophi Kravitz - 2015 Hackaday Prize EventPost | Video
The Hackaday Prize Awards Ceremony with Judges
Sunday, November 15th, 2015
- Danielle ApplestonePost | Video
Founding a hardware startup: what I wish I’d known! - Alvaro PrietoPost | Video
Lessons in Making Laser Shooting Robots - Luke IsemanPost | Video
Starting a Hardware Startup - Mike SzczysPost | Video
Hackaday’s Editorial Vision - Sarah PetkusPost | Video
NoodleFeet: Building a Robot as Art - David PrutchiPost | Video
Construction of Imaging Polarimetric Cameras for Humanitarian Demining - Neil MovvaPost | Video
Adding (wearable) Haptic Feedback to Your Project - Noah FeehanPost | Video
Making in Public - Antti LukatsPost | Video
Programmable Logic: Past, Present and Future - Kay IgwePost | Video
Brain Gaming - Nick SayerPost | Video
DFM: Building 10^n isn’t the same as building one
Nice to have it all on single place, thanks for this collection.
This was a great Christmas present! I can’t wait to unwrap it over the next few days!
Full Disclosure: I get excited when [Benchoff] says “we’re going to be doing this again”
I love all of these talks, but just one thing for the upcoming supercon, almost all of these talks above has some ‘preparation’ time before the speaker actually begin his/her slide. It seems that the speakers didn’t know how to use the remote and having some problems when starting the slide. I want a seamless one. But overall I really enjoyed these, thanks to supplyframes for supplying these..
In all the presentations I’ve seen so far, I’ve also noticed that when the speaker is referring to the slide, the video shows the speaker rather than the slide. Not seeing what they are referring to as they are speaking about it makes the presentation harder to understand.
Consider showing the slide full frame, with the speaker in a window in a corner or side. Switch to the speaker on the stage full frame sparingly (<25%).
There's a reason university course videos emphasize the slide rather than the speaker.
Not to look a gift horse in the mouth…. but is there any way to get the Lightning talks?
Agreed–some of the stuff that got announced was somewhat time sensitive! Would be great to see.