A self-taught chip designer and inventor, Jeri is legendary in the hardware community for squeezing a complete Commodore 64 inside a joystick. She also pioneered DIY semiconductor fabrication, the first person to demonstrate building a transistor using household items.

@JeriEllsworth

Will runs Project F, an FPGA and hardware education site covering graphics pipelines, VGA timing, framebuffers, and RISC-V. His tutorials have helped countless people bridge the gap from software to FPGAs - making him a perfect judge for designs that push display hardware to its limits.

@WillFlux

A legendary hacker with a gift for making hardware do things it was never meant to - Sprite has ported Doom to a Rigol scope, built a Vectrex multi cart, and built the Hackaday FPGA badge - all with the kind of deranged ingenuity that makes him a natural judge for our ASIC demoscene competition.

@sprite_tm