HDDG 28: Optics and FPGAs

Enjoy delicious food (that is unlikely to be pizza) and beverages while listening to fascinating technical talks by these crazy and creative engineers.

Tim 'mithro' Ansell - Creating FPGA Based Hardware
Kelly Peng - AR Glass: Optics, Position Tracking, and Prototyping

HDDG welcomes Tim 'mithro' Ansell (https://twitter.com/mithro). Tim is an Australian open source developer who has recently moved to the Bay Area. Tim created his own HDMI capture hardware (https://hdmi2usb.tv) and tackled the challenge of advancing the open source FPGA toolchain space. Heavily involved with open source hardware in Australia, he wants to make connections with cool hardware hackers and other people doing interesting things in the Bay Area!

Tim's talk is about recording conferences using his own open source FPGA based hardware with the group TimVideos.us. The talk will include a dive into how using Python for FPGA development has enabled a small group of hobbyists to undertake such a massive task!

We also welcome Kelly Peng (https://twitter.com/ZiqiPeng). Kelly is a hardware hacker and founder & electrical/optical engineer of Kura Technology, an augmented reality (AR) glass startup. Her past projects include a deuterium based nuclear fusion reactor, a DIY Raman spectrometer, a DIY structured light camera, and active EEG sensors.

At HDDG, Kelly will discuss making your own low cost glass for Augmented Reality applications. Her talk will cover the optics, position tracking, prototyping, and manufacturing process for creating a low-cost large field of view AR glass. She'll discuss more advanced AR optical design, research in multi depth AR display, and waveguide design while explaining how other AR glass optical/display system work.

After the talks, there will be demos, community announcements, and socializing. If you'd like to give a 2 minute demo/ community announcement, please see the organizers when you arrive to get set up.

A community announcement includes looking for a project partner, a job, offering a project/ job, the announcement of your startup launch, your Crowdfunding pitch, etc.

We're looking forward to seeing you Thursday, March 22, at 6:30p!
~Sophi, Matt, and Alek

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