hardhack will be at FrOSCon http://www.froscon.org/ in Sankt Augustin, Germany on August 21 and 22, 2010, and will include hands-on hardware workshops and demos. Do you have a hardware-based workshop or demo and would like to be included in the FrOSCon hardhack demo area? Drop us a line by June 20th, 2010 to mail@hardhack.org with the following information:

* workshop/demo title
* workshop/demo description
* workshop/demo time requirement (please estimate as well as you can)
* your contact info: email, website, cellphone number
* approximate parts cost for participants (kits or other materials you will provide)
* required and suggested materials for participants to bring (examples: laptop, usb/serial adaptor, hackable stuff)
* any questions you may have

Travel costs may or may not be reimbursed, depending on need and the ability to secure sponsorship for hardhack workshops. Please include your needs in your submission. We look forward to hardware hacking with you!

we would like to extend a huge thank you to our workshop leaders and volunteers for hardhack at SIGINT a few weeks ago on May 22, 23 and 24 in Cologne, Germany. you were all exemplary and awesome, and hardhack salutes you!

hardhack will be all hands-on workshops and/or demos. what does that mean? that means that there will be no powerpoint presentations, no blah blah, only hands-on workshops or demonstrations. there will be no video projectors, so if you require that for your workshop, please rethink and prepare printed or digital handouts to convey the information you need to share.

example topics for hands-on workshops or demos at hardhack (these are not limiting, be creative!): building hardware from a kit you designed, reverse engineering existing hardware, wearables, washable circuitry, building sensors from scratch, 3d printing, diy manufacturing, reversing firmware on existing hardware, open source hardware, fun with embedded device firmware, blinky stuff, robotics, audio hardware, vehicle modding, circuit design, or anything fun your brain can output for a hardhack workshop.

the due date for workshop/demo submissions is April 15th, 2010. submit your workshop/demo to mail att hardhack dott org with the following info:

* workshop/demo title
* workshop/demo description
* workshop/demo time requirement (please estimate as well as you can)
* your contact info: email, website, cellphone number
* approximate parts cost for participants (kits or other materials you will provide)
* required and suggested materials for participants to bring (examples: laptop, usb/serial adaptor, hackable stuff)
* any questions you may have

once workshops are accepted, there will be a sign up list for each workshop to determine which ones make the cut. this reduces the empty / too-full workshop syndrome and allow for a maximum of hardware hacking! hardhack will be a sub-conference of SIGINT this year, and all entry costs for participants will apply. travel costs for persons giving workshops at hardhack can not be covered, but the entry cost to SIGINT will be covered. the call for workshops for hardhack is separate from the call for papers for SIGINT, you are free to apply to both if you like. selling kits for your workshop is fine, but please keep the costs fair and transparent from the beginning. hardhack will have the space for about 200 participants, sign ups for workshop participation will go online as soon as each workshop is approved.

any questions? mail att hardhack dott org.

big news this year, hardhack will move from berlin to cologne and become a subconference of the ccc’s SIGINT 2010. this weekend i will release the hardhack call for workshops, and in the meantime if you want to participate in SIGINT with a talk instead of a hands-on hardware workshop, please see SIGINT’s Call For Papers.

hardhack will have an entire floor at SIGINT, what is traditionally a hackcenter at a CCC conference, and this year will be reserved just for hardhack’s hands-on workshops. sign ups will be a bit different this year, and i will release more information this week about how this will work. in the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, fire up your soldering irons! hardhack 2010 will be May 22, 23, and 24, 2010 at Komed Im Mediapark, Im Mediapark 7, 50670 Cologne, Germany.

there were quite a few cameras clicking away during hardhack, here are just some of the photos from the event:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/hardhack

http://fbz.smugmug.com/gallery/8226249_BZaGd/7/548467345_7vb5G

http://picasaweb.google.com/derpassi/Hardhack09

omg omg omg! welcome to all you heise.de readers! thanks ragni for an awesome article about our little hands-on event! wow.

hardhack schedule day 2 (may 29th):

and here are both days as an ics file.

you can sign up or un-sign up for workshops at hardhack.mixxt.org

SCHEDULE

==Thursday May 28th==  doors open at 11:00

Workshop 1: Hacking MIDI (wesen) 6 hrs start 13h – 20h with break

Workshop 2: RFID sniffer (marc boon) 3-4 Hours 13h – 17h

Workshop 7: Fritzing Part 1    4 hours 13h – 17h

Workshop 4: VGA basics (arjan) 3 hours min – 1 day max 18h – 21h (can go to 23h)

Demo 2: Laser Microphone (andrea+daniele) 2-3 hrs 20h – 23h

Workshop 9: Propellurino (christoph) 6 hrs 17h-23h

==Friday May 29th== doors open 10:00

Workshop 3: RFIDuino (marc boon) 3-4 Hours 11h-15h

Workshop 6: Interactive FPGA hacking using VHDL and Forth (hans) 3-4 hrs 11h – 15h

Workshop 8: Fritzing Part 2 4 hours 11h – 15h

Demo 1: bio-inspired sensor systems: POL compass (verena) 2-3 hrs 15h – 18h

Workshop 5: Power in Wearables (mikest) 3 hours 15h – 18h

Workshop 10: Build your own MSP430 Flash Emulation Tool (goodspeed) 3 hrs 15h – 18h

i am so happy that all of you are as into hardware as i am! just a quick note to say i will start putting the workshops into a sort of a schedule later today. there are some workshops that can only be on friday and some that are over two days, so those can’t change days. i will slot the times loosely, but be sure to drop me a note after i post the schedule if there is a conflict for what you wanted to hack on.

for those of you who have the following, i highly recommend you bring them with you:
- a soldering iron
- wire strippers
- helping hands or circuit chip holder
- solder
- small screwdrivers
- other info that is in the individual workshop list for what you might need

there will be wifi (wlan) on site, courtesy of the c-base.

also, i’m looking for a couple of volunteers to help document the workshops with photos and notes and put them up in the hardhack blog. contact me if you want to help out with documentation: fbz att hardhack dott org

some of the workshops and demos for hardhack 2009 are now online, so go sign-up:

http://hardhack.mixxt.org/networks/events/index

more workshops and demos will go up soon!