How to Make Your Own Designs Hackable
Channel: Crowd Supply
Date: 2018-05-14

Greg Peek

Too often, we assume our first design will be perfect when designing custom PCBs for our projects. Unfortunately, this assumption often leads to a frustrating experience while debugging the board, and may lead to a series of board revisions before the board is usable. Learn design, documentation, and layout techniques to make your hardware designs easier to debug and quicker to rework, and increase your chances of the first version working and the second version being perfect.

A party for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware

Teardown is an event put on by Crowd Supply in association with Make+Think+Code @ PNCA. You can think of Teardown as live-action Crowd Supply, but with fewer cardboard boxes and packing peanuts. We’ll be bringing together hardware aficionados from around the world to celebrate, inspect, create, and, of course, tear down hardware. There will be long-time Crowd Supply creators and backers, as well as people we’re meeting for the first time. There will be hardware, art, food, drink, puzzles, workshops, tutorials, talks, music, field trips, and friends. Most of all, there will be ideas and projects to explore and inspire. We hope you’ll be there too!

Teardown is about the practice of hardware: prototyping, manufacturing, testing, disassembling, and circumventing, all while having fun. Leave the marketing glitz and talk of venture capital at the door and come prepared to learn and teach.

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