Hackaday Europe is on again for 2024, and we couldn’t be more excited! If you’re a European hacker, and have always wanted to join us up for Supercon in the states, here’s your chance to do so without having to set sail across the oceans. It’s great to be able to get together with our continental crew.
Just like last time, we’ll be meeting up in Berlin at Motionlab, Bouchestrasse 12 for a weekend of talks and workshops. On paper, the event runs April 13th and 14th, but if you’re in town on Friday the 12th, we’ll be going out for drinks and socializing beforehand. Saturday starts up at 9 AM and is going to be full of presentations, with food throughout and our own mix of hacking and music running until 2 AM. Sunday starts up a little bit later with brunch and as many lightning talks as we can fit into the afternoon.
And as always, we want you to bring a project or two along to show and tell. Half the fun of an event like this, where everyone is on the same wavelength, is the mutual inspiration that lurks in nearly every random conversation. It’s like Hackaday, but in real life!
So without further ado: get your tickets right here! We have a limited number of early-bird tickets at $70, and then the remainder will go on sale for $142 (plus whatever fees).
Call for Participation
So who is going to be speaking at Hackaday Europe? You could be! We’re also opening up the Call for Participation right now, both for talks and for workshops. Whether you’ve presented your work live before or not, you’re not likely to find a more appreciative audience for epic hacks, creative constructions, or you own tales of hardware, firmware, or software derring-do.
Workshop space is limited, but if you want to teach a group of ten or so people your favorite techniques or build up a swarm of small robots, we’d love to hear from you.
All presenters get in free, of course, and we’ll give you an early-bird price even if we can’t fit you into the schedule. So firm up what you’d like to share, and get your proposal in before Feb 22.
The Badge
Part of the fun of an event like this is sharing what you’re working on with a rare like-minded crowd. True story: we came into last year’s Hackaday Berlin event with a raw idea for our own Superconference badge, that we needed to have done by November. Talks with [Schneider] about the lovely badge for the Chaos Communications Camp inspired us to use those sweet round screens, and a chat with [Stefan Holzapfel] convinced us of the possibility to run an audio DAC at DC.
So it’s fitting that we’ll be bringing the Vectorscope badge to Berlin, with some new graphics of course. If you didn’t catch it at Supercon, it’s a emulation of an old-timey X-Y mode oscilloscope and a DAC to drive it in software. Folks had a great time hacking it at Supercon, and you will too. It’s analog, it’s digital, and it’s got room for a lot of art. We’d love to see what you bring to it!
Thanks and See You Soon!
Of course, we can’t put on an event like this without help from our fantastic sponsors, so we’d like to say thanks to DigiKey for sponsoring not only the stateside Superconference, but also Hackaday Europe 2024. And as always, thanks to Supplyframe for making it all possible.
April is coming up fast, so get your proposals in and order your tickets now! We can’t wait to see you all.
Booked! We’ll see with Freddruppel for a talk :D
Booked!
I hope the pre-party happens somewhere close U/S-Bahn this time. :)
I’m completely surprised about the location :)
Oh, Europe has a large population in a (relatively) small place.
A much better venue than Siberia or central Australia.
there were talks about it being in München or a different southern Germany city, but apparently the plans kept changing and the venues got booked by someone else. So since the last time the motion lab worked well enough as a location, I always had the feeling that my home town Berlin would be the successful plan D in the end.
This will be in the weekend following Embedded World 2024 in Nurnberg, Germany.
More specifically, the day after! If you’re done with Embedded World on Thursday, that gives you time to catch a train and hang out with us on Friday night.
Did I get this right? CfP submissions work only with a google account? (just a clarification question)
I only see it when logged in
thanks for verification. On the plus side: spares me the decision.
I’m looking into exactly why Google wants you to have an account to fill in the form.
This is new, and it’s intrusive. (And I wish it were surprising.)
For getting an early bird ticket, you had to be a very early bird….
Just submitted my application for a talk :) !
Been there, experienced that.
A much better summary than I could ever write.
The experience isn’t worth the regular admission, imho.
And early-bird tickets are gone without even knowing anything about the program.
But I’D really like to get one of these badges. If someone wants to sell one, drop me a line.
Spoiler alert: just a personal point of view…
I would love to assist, even participate, but 150€ for 2 days entrance? Really? Yeah nope..guys, it’s Europe, not usa….to compare, it’s the budget for plane and accommodation for a week in Morocco, Tunisia or canarie island (not in the best resort or airline company but still )….
If you’re participating, it’s free. Submit a talk proposal!
(Even if we don’t pick it, we’ll get you an early-bird.)
We may also need some volunteers, but I can’t say for sure yet.
I’m hoping for the volunteer angle. I’ve already tried to bribe my way to an early bird with Controllinos. I suppose I could give a talk on the absolute horror show that resulted in me having so many Controllinos, I2c sensors, pumps, fans, DIN rail power supplies, Phoenix connectors dosing motors, and oh so much more. Majority was trashed. I salvaged as much as I could.
Dang. I really wish I could go there, but distance and life will get in the way. Do you guys know if I can buy the badge? I would love to thinker with it anyways!
Those that are coming, the badge will be the same Vectorscope that was made for Supercon.
Which means not only can you get started early with your badge hacking, but you can modify and print one of my fine badge enclosures before you come out to the show!
They are available on Github here!
https://github.com/softegg/supercon-2023-badge-enclosure
Use BASIC-2 for the smallest shape, or BASIC-2-Hacking if you want to include the expansion board in the case.
Where is the pre party? I’d like to go.