Build Your Own Cyberdeck
Note: In order to have your registration approved, you must venmo Ling the workshop fee @LLNG916
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you'll build a Cyberdeck — a tiny handheld computer that you can modify and customize. We'll start together: an ESP32 microcontroller, a button, and a screen, wired up on a breadboard and running code. Just plug, connect, and watch it come to life.
Once everyone's got a working base, you'll choose your own path:
Magic 8-Ball: ask it anything, press the button, let it decide your fate
Pocket Weather Station: pull live conditions and forecasts onto your screen
Dino Jumper: build the endlessly replayable no-internet dinosaur game
You'll leave with a device you built and programmed yourself — plus the confidence to keep hacking on it.
All parts and tools provided, just bring a laptop, and a USB-C cable if you have one!
No experience required - just curiosity and a willingness to wire things up wrong before you get them right!
Very limited capacity for this one to ensure everyone gets enough time for instruction, and hands-on support!
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Ling is a creative technologist, illustrator, and painter who likes building small things that do surprising stuff. With a background in design, she taught herself hardware hacking from the ground up and mostly spends her days making peculiar doodads and documenting the process