Hardware Hack Days- University of Toronto

This 2-day event is an opportunity to understand the digital world beyond Facebook and Google. At Hardware Hackdays, Matt Venn will show you how to build your own silicon chip using open-source tools and design kits. John Cohn and Hack Club connect you to printed circuit board (PCB) technology, from setting up cloud-driven design software, to creating a custom PCB design and submitting it for fabrication.

Agenda at a Glance!

Build your own silicon chip! Tiny Tapeout Hack Day with Matt Venn (UW October 18th; UT October 19th)

Matt from Tiny Tapeout follows a real-world chip design flow from hardware description to fabrication. He covers the basics of semiconductors, CMOS circuits, and how to build and test a system on a chip. If designing a chip seems elusive, this is THE workshop that gets it done. Watch Matt Venn’s 3-minute youtube video explaining Tiny Tapeout.

Four weeks after the event, your designs are sent for fabrication (at no cost to you). You will be able to test your chip on your own laptop 8 months later.

Build your own PCB! (UW October 19th; UT October 18th)

Design your own printed circuit board (PCB) at this Hack Day, and get a grant of up to $140 from project OnBoard and Hack Club to have it manufactured! Students are designing and building projects like Lidar sensors for a robot and rasberry-pi picos with the knowledge and skills gained through OnBoard grants.

John Cohn and Theo Loke will lead you through the design process in just a few hours. Your PCB, populated with components after fabrication, will be shipped to you 1 week after submission by mail.

Hope to see you there! Click on the registration link to join us. Registration is free for high-school students and teachers, but pre-registration is required.

SPONSORS: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, CMC Microsystems and Fabric, and the University of Waterloo/University of Toronto.

Info: A free pizza lunch is provided. Participants with special dietary needs or allergy concerns should pack and bring their own lunch

Info: A free pizza lunch is provided. Participants with special dietary needs or allergy concerns should pack and bring their own lunch

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MY), 55 Saint George Street, Toronto, Canada