hardware hacking, IoT, and facilitation
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The theme for Kernelcon 2026 is OFF GRID. To bring that to life, we deployed a solar array of 12 × 315W panels feeding an inverter and battery system in the Hardware Hacking Village. This setup powers (most) everything in HHV, including attendee laptops, our on-site LLM/AI server, and supporting…
The Hardware Hacking Village is back for Kernelcon 2026. This year, we’re taking it off the grid. We are powered by satellite internet, LTE/5G, local AI and questionable decisions! If you’ve ever wanted to: 🔧 What You Can Do Everything in the village is hands-on. No slides. No lectures. You…
Thanks to BruCON and all the BruCON attendees for the fantastic event and the questions after we finished delivering our talk. There was a question around recommended tools to “get started” with doing similar work. There is no need to buy exactly what is linked — products listed for example…
In the Hardware Hacking Village at Kernelcon, we had a network “PewPew” map running. It’s based on Organic IP Visualizer: https://github.com/USU-Security/oip, which I saw at Shmoocon when i presented there in January 2025. The instructions for compiling and installing are solid, i was running this on an Intel N97 MiniPC…
Slides are HERE!
Kernelcon Hardware Hacking Village: Race to the Finish Line! Buckle up, hackers! Kernelcon’s Hardware Hacking Village is hitting the ground running with our “Race Condition” theme. This year, we’re not just talking about software bugs – we’re pushing the limits of hardware and firmware, exploring the vulnerabilities that arise when…
Slide deck is HERE!
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Kernelcon 2023 (www.kernelcon.org) is done! It was a mad rush finishing documentation/project guides but things (mostly) went off without a hitch. Reminder that all guides for projects are here: PROJECTS! By far, the most popular project this year was the homebrew LED light strip — participants flash a microcontroller and…
#hackspace meetup success! Several people came to our monthly meetup on 2/24, our first meetup with a hardware project. This guide was used to complete the firmware flashing and assembly/soldering. Please note it’s a work-in-progress for a future formal workshop and edits/improvements are being made regularly. Some people had never…
