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Three Years In, JawnCon Continues To Grow And Impress

Make no mistake, just getting a hacker con off the ground is a considerable challenge. But the really hard part comes after. To be more than a one-off success story, you’ve got to expand the …

Hackaday

Running @kismetwireless in a box;
SDR 315, 433, 915, and ADSB
WiFi 2.4-7Ghz
BTLE, ZigBee

All in portable box.

This is rev 1 and you can touch and feel it at @jawncon chill out room.

Had a great time at @jawncon, it was wonderful seeing everyone!

Here are some pictures of our booth with contributions from @dialupworld and others. By day 2 there were 9 working payphones, 2 working video phones, a handful of rotary and touchstone tabletop phones, 2 TDDs, the AT&T Sceptre, a WebTV, a Toughbook with a Courier modem, a DisplayPhone, and a UHF repeater with autopatch to take calls over ham radio!

@philtel @jawncon @dialupworld

that is a very impressive set of hardware! #futel would be proud. i have a bunch of questions, especially about some of the terminals there. very cool. 🤓

aside: i was involved with the (sony brand) webtv, kinda tangentially, when it was shipping.

JawnCon starts tomorrow October 10th and we will be working with @philtel to showcase dial-up Internet access via a WebTV and an era-appropriate computer in the chill-out room!

Come check out the interactive exhibits and presentations!

Stick around for the talk “Modem Madness: Recent Experiments with Dial-up Modems” on Saturday afternoon to learn more about Dialup World and similar projects!

Tickets are still available! https://jawncon.org @jawncon

JawnCon

Once upjawn a time, in a university North of Philly, a conference was about to start...

Hack-A-Day wrote a lovely primer for what we have in store for all yoose!

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/07/jawncon-returns-this-weekend/#more-856278

Come check us out! https://jawncon.org

JawnCon Returns This Weekend

For those local to the Philadelphia area, a “jawn” can be nearly anything or anyone — and at least for this weekend, it can even be a hacker con building up steam as it enters its…

Hackaday
@jawncon is gonna be so `fetch()`

Hey! Just a reminder that in a little over a week we will be exhibiting and presenting at @jawncon held at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA October 10-11.

Come use some payphones and other assorted telephony gear! Check out our talk “Modem Madness” on Saturday!

Tickets are still available! https://jawncon.org

JawnCon

Sneak Peek at the @jawncon @[email protected] presenation next week...

The back of the Server Rack is a little warm: