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Hackaday Supercon 2026 Speaker Lineup Announced

The Hackaday Supercon, a hardware conference, will take place from November 6-8 in Pasadena, California. The event will feature speakers, workshops, and other activities. This year's venue is the Art Center campus.

Addison Vogt will discuss over-engineering a CD shelf, detailing how software, electronics, and motors were integrated into a compact, expandable I2C-based distributed system.

Cyril Engmann presents "Minus," an open-source HDMI device that blocks streaming ads in real-time using on-device machine learning, processing frames on a single-board computer without cloud reliance.

Doug Goodwin's talk, "When Faster Isn’t Better: How Displays Cheat Time," will explore how modern displays create the illusion of continuous motion and an experiment demonstrating its perceptual effects.

Eleanor Mazzarella shares the design process for a wearable speedometer for a child, featuring GPS, a seven-segment display, and LEDs, discussing CAD, firmware, and GPS challenges.

Estefannie De la Garza and Justin Andarza will host a fireside chat on alternative controllers and experimental game design, emphasizing the artistic and social aspects of physical-digital interactivity.

Jim Scarletta will detail the process of running DOOM on an FPGA using open-source tools, covering the creation of a soft-logic computer with RISC-V core, SDRAM, and HDMI, including optimization challenges.

Charles Lohr and Evan Fletcher will explain how they compressed the "Bad Apple" music video and firmware into a 65kB binary for a low-cost microcontroller, discussing various compression strategies and trade-offs.

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