"So, you want to be an open sourcerer?"
Dustin Richmond (Latch-Up 2023 Pre-Recorded)
UC Santa Cruz Professor Dustin Richmond speaks about open source toolchains and their strengths for teaching the next generation of hardware engineers
UC Advice Talks
Recorded talks from conferences and workshops related to open source hardware.
Tapeout-in-a-Semester: The Organization of Berkeley's Tapeout Course
Jerry Zhao (Latch-Up 2023)
Over the past ~5 years, UC Berkeley has taught a practical project-based course on the tapeout process to undergraduate students. This talk will discuss the structure of the Spring 2022 offering of the course, from the perspective of a course TA.
Yet Another UCSC Professor’s path through Open-Source Hardware
Matt Guthaus (Latch-Up 2023)
This talk discusses one Professor's pathway from a new user to full professor and what they learned about open source software and hardware along the way. A key takeaway is to embrace the community by working together, staying positive, and sharing the mentorship of potential new contributors.
If You Build It, Who Will Come?
Scott Beamer (Latch-Up 2023)
To maximize an open-source hardware project's utility, it is worth understanding its user community and how they use it. In this talk, I will reflect on experiences on how things such as automation, documentation, and support can effect a project's use, and when to recognize the community is different than you expected, and it is time to pivot. These concerns are especially important when the project has limited development resources.
A UCSC Professor's Path Through Open-Source Hardware
Jose Renau (Latch-Up 2023)
Talk about the challenges and opportunities of embracing open-source hardware projects as a University of California professor.