Stories from Supercon 2019

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:

• Jereon "Sprite_tm" Domburg
• Syvain "tnt" Munaut
• Matt Venn

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:

• Sprite's first appearance (359)
• Clifford Wolf (Yosys, PicoRV32) on TAH (374)
• Clifford Wolf and Dave Shah talking with Piotr Esden-Tempski at CCCongress (423)

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.