An Out of this World Experience as Crowd Supply Teardown Takes Over Jupiter
Open source hardware crowdfunding platform Crowd Supply’s annual flagship event, Teardown 2026, was the biggest and most ambitious yet. Consisting of talks, workshops, skill shares, demos, installations, and a host of satellite events, this celebration of hardware hacking takes place in Crowd Supply’s home base of Portland, this year shifting from the charming, but soon to be demolished Lloyd Center, to the iconic newly renovated 1960s motor lodge, Jupiter Hotel.
(📷: Tim Trautmann)
After a brief welcome to the event by the hosts, Shenzhen-based hardware researcher Takasu-san kicked things off with What $10 Fake AirPods and a $30 Chip Decap Reveal About China’s Semiconductors,an absolutely riveting tour of the Chinese hardware ecosystem, from someone with over a decade of immersion in it. From here, the event split into two talk tracks, one workshop track, and a skill-sharing/panel track (each named after a moon of Jupiter!). Some of my favourites...
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