Hardware Hack Days is a 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. 
Day 1: 
Build your own silicon chip!
 
 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. 
Day 2: 
Build 
your own
 Printed Circuit Board
 (PCB)
 
Design your own printed circuit board (PCB) at this Hackday, 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. 
Information Source: CMC Microsystems | eventbrite

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