The EHSM team proudly present... highlights from the schedule of the Exceptionally Hard and Soft Meeting! [Berlin Dec 28-30 http://ehsm.eu]
Day#1 10:45 - 13:00 Keynote Speech: Will Jack - "I built myself a nuclear fusion reactor when I was 16" Will Jack is a 17 year old high school student from the US who enjoys nothing more than building nuclear fusion reactors in his basement. He will present his work on the Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) fusion reactors that he has built, speaking not only about the theory behind them, but how he developed them, his current work, and his goals for the future as well. This keynote speech is not about cloud computing. Day#1 10:30 - 11:45 Bionerd23 - Radioactivity is in the air for you and me An anonymous woman who goes by the handle of "bionerd23" will give you a very comprehensive, bottom-up view of man-made and natural nuclear radiation and how you can detect it. Mind you - when we say "comprehensive", this means things like building yourself ion chambers for detecting radiation, and studying and operating a small-scale homemade fusion reactor. Have a look at her excellent videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/bionerd23 Day#1 17:30 - 18:00 Evangelia Gousiou - The CERN Open Hardware License Last year, CERN launched a new open hardware license. Evangelia Gousiou will tell you about this endeavour which was created to govern the use, copying, modification and distribution of hardware design documentation and the manufacture and distribution of products in the spirit of knowledge and technology dissemination. Day#2 10:00 - 11:15 Ben Krasnow - Homebuilt X-ray backscatter imaging system (airport body scanner) Ben Krasnow, "Hacker Extraordinaire" at video game company Valve, built an X- ray backscatter imaging system from parts found on eBay. This system works by scanning a very thin beam of X-rays across the target, and measures the amount of backscatter for a given beam position. He might also talk about Raman spectroscopy and other hacks, stay tuned. Day#3 12:30 - 13:00 Aleksander Zawada - DIY triodes and other vacuum tubes Aleksander runs "Prywatna Wytwórnia Lamp" (PWL), a one-man DIY vacuum tube laboratory in Warsaw. The name translates to "Private Tube Manufacturer" - a pun on PWLR ("National Tube Manufacturer"), the first Polish tube manufacturer after WWII. There, he makes not only triodes, but also canal ray tubes, a RGB magic eye, several Crookes tubes, Geiger tubes, and many other incredibly amazing devices. This is serious stuff - he starts with raw materials like glass, metal and phosphor powders. Day#3 18:15 - 19:30 Jasper Nance - Microsecond High Speed Photography and Scanning Electron Microscope She will present these projects from the perspective of using community resources, specifically those from Heatsync Labs, Arizona's first hackerspace. This includes materials, people, expertise, and crowdsourcing to scrounge and hack together technologically challenging endeavours. The projects are not an end in themselves, but rather serve as hackable platforms for both community and educational outreach to teach skills and develop new and hackable ways of doing difficult and expensive tasks. For a quick glimpse at Jasper's projects, be sure to check her impressive photo portfolio. Day#3 15:45 - 17:00 Harald Welte - Osmocom Harald Welte will present the Osmocom project he founded. In particular, there will be OsmocomBB, a free software GSM stack evolved enough to actually make phone calls and send SMS (plus all the possible explorations of the GSM system), and OsmoSDR, a small-size, low-cost software defined radio device. Haven't got enough? Read our complete schedule that we just published here: http://ehsm.eu/schedule.html Liked what you saw? Your ticket awaits you here: http://ehsm.eu/tickets.html Online pre-sale ends December 16th, and tickets at the door will be more expensive. EHSM will be held at TU Berlin from December 28th to 30th. Help us spread the word about EHSM: post http://ehsm.eu to your social media channels, forward this email to your friends and colleagues, write blog posts... See you in Berlin! - the EHSM team http://ehsm.eu _______________________________________________ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #milkymist@Freenode
