2026 Hackaday Europe Call For Participation: We Want You!

Here’s the Hackaday Europe 2026 announcement that you’ve all been waiting for. But wait! This year there’s a twist, or rather two. What absolutely hasn’t changed, though, is…

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#HackadayEurope was a blast. Hosted at Motion Labs in Berlin, we showed up early to help solder up all the SAOs as a last-minute assembly party in preparation for everyone's arrival the next day. Attendees got a batch of SAOs to get them started, which paired well with Hackaday's SAO badge design.

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Related and interesting: @boekenwuurm talked about the history of the dutch hacker camps at #HackadayEurope, and that was recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UoctcYa88

Christel Sanders | Europe Berlin 2025

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My highlights from #HackadayEurope last weekend:

- History of the Dutch hacker camps (e.g. predecessors of #why2025): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UoctcYa88
- NFC-based payment system for a festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sE78ekHIJk
- More recyclable or even compostable electronics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG-R48RJ9Iw
- Using IR cameras to look inside microchips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aLW4UEuJ_c
- Neonpixels, old-skool core memory and 6502 processor (perfect to learn microcontrollers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw9w2a9JBvY

Christel Sanders | Europe Berlin 2025

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Is Hackaday Europe every year? 🤔 I want to build a badge add on! I've already got ideas... #hackadayeurope

Did some more hacking on our dismantled EV charger at #HackadayEurope today (while watching a lot of cool presentation).

We tried to get the tangle of charger parts we brought into a functional state (at least let the software think it is functional). So we made a small PCB to emulate a cable and car, faked the kwh meter using python, connected some 230V to the right places, but still kept complaining about a "Phase error". Out of options for today, but happy with the progress we made :-)

Nerding out at Hackaday Berlin 2025! @geekmomprojects I finally got my own bendy dude!

#hackaday #hackadayeurope #hackadayberlin #electronics #pcb #sao

Art LED talk with @brainsmoke at #hackadayeurope