Posts tagged linuxconfau

The Hugs Strike Back!

Another year, another amazing Linux Conf AU! Based on feedback from LCA2017, I was definitely going to iterate on the hug detector. In that time the ESP32 platform has begun to mature and because I like challenges, decided to use a board I received days prior to leaving for the conference and really only flashed with blink.

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Come on; do you want your mods to live forever?

At the Linux Conf Au Games and Foss Mini Conference, @ducky_tape and @The_McJones gave me an opportunity to talk on my experiences archiving over 11,000 mods for Kerbal Space Program. It was also captured by the awesome LCA AV Team, which you can watch here!

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Hacking your Conference badge for Hugs & Profit

Last week was Linux Conf AU 2017, which is a community run Free and Open Source Software conference that is in a different A/NZ city every year. This year I’d managed to attend the Open Hardware MiniConf and was inspired to build something during the conference. I’m not sure how it occurred to me to build a ‘Hug Detector’ into my Conference badge, but it did and after talking about it with some fellow delegates, the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.

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