The Amp Hour

Stories from Supercon 2019

Nov 18, 2019 · 1 hr 37 min · Episode 467 · 78.8 MB
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This week, Chris recorded the show with 3 different guests at the Hackaday Superconference. This is an annual hardware conference with about 500 attendees in Pasadena, CA.

Guests on this week’s show:

The conversations focused around the conference badge and its differentiating feature from many other electronic conference badges: It was all implemented on a Lattice ECP5 FPGA using RISC V cores and was in a GameBoy form factor. Most interestingly, it was all done using the Symbiflow open source toolchain. We called out other guests we've had on the show before while recording: Contributed after the show aired: Matt Venn sent in links about the PicoRV32 and a reminder of the Symbiotic EDA youtube channel. Read more about the conference badge on Hackaday.