About a week ago, Hackaday hosted the Superconference. Dubbed the “greatest gathering of hardware hackers, builders, engineers and enthusiasts on the planet”, it featured talks on subjects ranging from 3D Printing to Security to Augmented Reality (AR). Media outlets jumping on the tech buzzword of the day would undoubtedly have had a field day if they had just copied off the list of talk titles.
While Kitty Yeung and Pat Dooley’s talk introducing Quantum Computing serve to remind us of how little of the potential of computing we have uncovered, it was Mike Harrison’s talk on LEDs that first caught my eye.