During this year’s Hackaday Supercon, the Supplyframe DesignLab will be playing host to a unique exhibit that catalogs the evolution of display technology. That means showcasing the best and most interesting examples they can find, from the vintage to the ultra-modern. Where are all these wonderful toys coming from, you might ask? Why, the Hackaday community, of course.
This is a rare chance to show off your prized gadgetry to a captive audience of hackers and makers. Whether it’s a custom display you’ve created or some gonzo piece of hardware you’ve been holding onto for years, now’s the time to haul it out. However, there are only a few days left to submit your display for potential inclusion, so if you’ve got something you want the Hackaday community to see, make sure you fill out the form before the September 16th deadline. That’s Monday, if you were wondering.
The folks at the DesignLab tell us they’ve already got some very cool pieces of hardware lined up, many of which readers will recognize from these pages. We’re eager to get up close and personal with some of these incredible creations we’ve covered over the years, and we’re willing to bet many of the Supercon attendees will, too.
While we don’t want to give away too much, here’s a quick look at a couple of the displays currently slated for exhibition:
The More the Merrier
While there are some truly gorgeous examples lined up for the November exhibit, there are still a few gaps in the collection we’d love to see addressed. If you’ve got any of the following that you’d like to show off, please don’t hesitate to get in touch:
- Unique LCDs (I.E. Tiger handhelds)
- Vintage Displays
- CRTs (All Types)
- Plasma Displays
- Nixie Clocks/Displays
- Anything Custom Built
- Video Synthesizers
For some of those, like CRTs, submissions would ideally come from the Southern California area. But in general, submissions from all over the globe are welcome.
If you’ve been holding off on submitting because you’re worried somebody else has sent in for the same thing, don’t be. Showing different permutations of a particular display technology is a bit part of the exhibit — we’d rather have too many Nixie clocks to choose from than not enough.
Whatever you’d like to show off, just make sure you submit it before the end of the weekend!
Who knows, I might have a unique display among my stuff, but I have walked past it so many times that it appears normal.
I’d really like to get my LED sign board working though…
Hi, Kino here. I’m curating and building the exhibit. What may be mundane to you may be new to someone else, and seeing this exhibit will be open throughout the month of November and will also be free and open to anyone (non electronic nerds included), the opportunity to see a diverse range of displays all in one place is really more the point than to show off things completely unique. One of my favorite submissions so far is a simple custom LED display from a dishwasher. Completely normal by any standard, but in the context of an exhibit next to a bunch of sophisticated and unique tech, it’s stands out for it’s simplistic and elegant function. In short, don’t hesitate to submit! Everything is welcome!