Hackaday Newsletter 0x9A

Conference talks: long and detailed, or short and sweet? [HACKADAY]() VCF East 2024 Was Bigger and Better Than Ever [Read Article Now»]( The Long and the Short of It By [Elliot Williams]( Last weekend was Hackaday Europe 2024, and it was great. Besides having some time to catch up with everyone, see some fun new badge hacks, and of course all the projects that folks brought along, I also had time to attend most all of the talks. And the talks were split into two distinct sections: long-format talks on Saturday and a two-hour session of seven-minute lightning talks on Sunday. I don’t know if it’s our short attention spans, or the wide range of topics in a short period of time, but a number of people came up after the fact and said that they really appreciated the short-but-sweet format. One heretic even went so far as to suggest that we only have lightning talks in the future. Well, we’ve done that before – the Hackaday Unconferences. One year, we even [ran three of them simultaneously](! I was at [Hackaday’s London Unconference]( the year later, and it was a blast. But I absolutely appreciate the longer talks too. Sometimes, you just have to give a speaker free rein to dig really deeply into a topic. When the scope of the project warrants it, there’s just no substitute for letting someone tell the whole story. So I see a place for both! If you were at Hackaday Europe, or any other conference with a lightning talks track, what do you think? Long or short? Or a good mix? From the Blog --------------------------------------------------------------- [Human-Interfacing Devices: HID over I2C]( By [Arya Voronova]( USB isn't the only way to hook up a keyboard or touchpad. Meet HID over I2C. [Read more »]( [Microsoft Killed My Favorite Keyboard, And I’m Mad About It]( By [Lewin Day]( Many of us spend hours at a keyboard. When MS dropped Lewin's favorite model, it hurt. [Read more »]( [Remembering Peter Higgs and the Gravity of His Contributions to Physics]( By [Maya Posch]( Peter Higgs passed last week, and Maya takes us on a tour of his contributions to science. [Read more »]( [Hackaday Podcast]( [Hackaday Podcast Episode 267: Metal Casting, Plasma Cutting, and a Spicy 555]( By [Hackaday Editors]() What happened last week on Hackaday? The Podcast will get you up to speed. [Read more »]( If You Missed It --------------------------------------------------------------- [The BBC Micro, Lovingly Simulated in VR]( [Analyzing the Code From The Terminator’s HUD]( [Still Up and Coming: Non-Planar FDM 3D Printing With 3 or 6 Axes]( [Recycling Wires for Breadboarding]( [More Microwave Metal Casting]( [A ROG Ally Battery Mod You Ought To Try]( [Hackaday]() NEVER MISS A HACK [Share]( [Share]( [Share]( [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 preferences]( Hackaday.com · 61 S Fair Oaks Ave Ste 200 · Pasadena, CA 91105-2270 · USA