Supercon Tickets, Tiny Games, and a Tiny PC

Show us your tiniest game, and you could win a $150 DigiKey gift card! [Get your parts today!]( [3602421454791242043.png] Wednesday, August 14, 2024 [Tiny PC Brings Nostalgia To Your Desk >>]( Get Your Supercon Tickets! That's right, [tickets are on sale now!]( Join us November 1st through 3rd in sunny Pasadena, CA for three days of talks, workshops, demos, and the best sort of shenanigans you can imagine. [Whether this is your first time or your fifth, we can't wait to see you there](. Never been? Here's what it's like in a nutshell: Friday is chill-out day. Come and get your badge and your bagels and start hacking and/or socializing, eat some food, listen to music, and catch a workshop or two. [Enter the 2024 Tiny Games Challenge today!]( Talks start on Saturday, and so does the soldering contest. Sunday is more talks plus [Lightning Talks]( which are your seven minutes of fame to tell us what you've been up to. We'll wrap up Sunday evening with everyone's favorite, the badge hacking demo! Don't forget that in the meantime, we're running a new contest -- [the 2024 Tiny Games Challenge!]( We know that big fun comes in small packages, so show us your tiniest game, whether that means tiny size, tiny code, or tiny BOM. Of course there are prizes to be had! The top three entries will each receive a $150 DigiKey gift card. You have until September 10th to enter, so [head on over to Hackaday.IO and get started](. As always, we've got some Honorable Mention categories as well to give some love to as many projects as possible. Those categories are: One-Dimensional, The Classics, The Controls, Pocket Arcade, and Fancy!, so [check out the contest page for all the details](. Need some inspiration? Below are some of the awesome entries we've seen so far. Highlights from the IO POPULAR BITS [project thumbnail]( [Zero-D PONG Is Totally a Thing Now]( If 1D PONG is a strip of LEDs, then 0D PONG takes the POV from the short side and watches the LED get brighter as it moves closer and dimmer as it moves away. Is this the most minimalist project in the contest thus far? Only time will tell! [project thumbnail]( [Save the Stranded Puppies of Moon Base P]( Can you help? Move your lander across the rough moon terrain, avoiding stray meteors as you go. Make it safely to Moon Base P and save the puppies before you run out of fuel! This tiny game doesn't take much more than an ESP32-C3, a display, and a single button. [project thumbnail]( [Connect Four Uses Only Three Components]( Sometimes you have to stand on the shoulders of giants to see your way to making tiny games. Building on [Joern Weise]'s game which uses an ESP32 and a TFT, [mircemk] added a buzzer and a bunch of sounds that make gameplay more realistic. Hack Chat LIVE CHAT WITH LEADING EXPERTS EVERY WEDNESDAY You Should Host a Hack Chat! If you've been thinking about hosting a Hack Chat, here's your chance. Do you work in an interesting field that people would love to hear about? Do you have a cool project you're working on? Or maybe there's just something you'd like to discuss? Then host a Hack Chat! Check out [our FAQ]( for all the details. And if there's someone you're just dying to see on the Hack Chat, let us know and we'll try to make it happen. [Send us your ideas](mailto:tips@hackaday.com?subject=Hack Chat Tip) and we'll see what we can do. Featured Projects POPULAR BITS [2D Racing Simulator Does It With a Couple of 9G Servos]( [Talking Game of the Goose Is Also a Good and Cheap Playground]( [Tiny Tapeout PONG Fits Into a Single Tile Of a Chip Die]( [Tiny 2048 Game Uses LEDs To Represent the Numbers]( Live Events MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS [East Coast RepRap Festival - Sept 28-29]( Billed as 17,000 square feet of fun, the best part of the East Coast RepRap Festival sounds like the 3D Printed Derby. Yeah, as in a Pinewood Derby, but with 3D-printed cars. Get your tickets today! [Maker Faire Bay Area - Oct 18-20]( This is your chance to make, inquire, and learn in the place where it all started. Friday is Field Trip Day, with General Admission days on Saturday and Sunday. Come for the amazing robots and builds, and stay for the cutting-edge technologies. [The Hackaday Superconference - Nov 1-3]( Supercon is by far the most awesome hardware hacker con of the year, and if you love Hackaday, you definitely want to be there. Honestly, just the crowd that Supercon brings together is reason enough to attend, but then you throw in the talks, the badge-hacking, the food, and the miscellaneous shenanigans... it's an event you really don't want to miss. [twitter]( [facebook]( [instagram]( [Terms of Use]( [Privacy Policy]( [Hackaday.io]( [Hackaday.com]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Hackaday · 61 South Fair Oaks Avenue · Suite 200 · Pasadena, CA 91105 · USA