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 !!Con 2024
 August 24-25, 2024

 Santa Cruz, California
 and online

 Two days of ten-minute talks about
 the joy, excitement, and surprise of computing

 Let’s make local and accountable tech! (Dawn Walker) • Reverse-engineering a 30-year old synthesizer to perfectly recreate video game music! (Peter Sobot) • Programming with only exceptions! (Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya) • Mitos! Handweaving My Ancestral DNA!!! (Sally Kong) • Let’s run a tiny chess neural network by hand! (Amédée d’Aboville) • The Astrolabe! Using modern digital computing to recreate ancient analog computers (Jes Wolfe) • A brief history of keyboards! (Jesse Chen) • Recreating Sketchpad, the first GUI! (Adam Solove) • Images from a 1970s Typewriter!! (Phil Warren) • bang! bang! he murdered math! {the musical!} (Taylor Troesh) • Huggable Data! Making the Ephemeral Last Longer with Textile Dataviz! (Aldís Elfarsdóttir) • Keyboarding Ain’t Easy?? What Not To Do When Building a Keyboard!! (Liz Frost) • The Perfect Blend!! Reverse engineering a bluetooth protocol for better smoothies! (Ryan Mast) • How to make your own microchip!!! (Omar Rizwan) • Grading your Types? From Bangs to Boxes and Beyond! (Danielle Marshall) • Let’s find random things on the street with full-text search! (Yufeng Zhao) • It wasn’t me, it was the cosmic rays! Blaming physics for our evil actions! (Matías Lang) • It’s alive…. IT’S ALIVE!!! Braitenberg Vehicles! (Have you ever seen an AI like this??!!) (Devon Tao) • Lord Zeus, defender of travelers and of those far from home, please create a function called printBeerInsideLoop with parameter n! (Daniel Temkin) • 88 Files a Second - Running Flappy Bird inside MacOS Finder! (Nolen Royalty) • This is the poem that doesn’t end!! or, the poetics of RNG! (Alicia Guo) • Algorithmically Generated Flower Beds!! (inspired by Ancient & Modern Polychrome Textiles) (Rebecca Ravenoak) • Exploring the Invisible: Adventures in the Electromagnetic Spectrum! (blinry) • Backtraces in the Mirror: Stealing the Secrets of Elves and Dwarves to Perform Mad Science!! (Julian Squires) • Making Chinese Typefaces! with Components!!??!! (Ivan Zhao) • SATisfying Answers to Difficult Questions! (Vaibhav Sagar) • Calculating the Ideal “Sex and the City” Polycule! (Juan Pablo Sarmiento) • How to stop worrying and collect early web Banner Ads! (And make art along the way!) (Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao (as Switcheristic Telecommunications)) • Riveting Insights! Bridge.watch and the State of America’s Infrastructure (Maryanne Wachter) • Domain names! Where do they come from??? (Wesley Aptekar-Cassels) • Mutating Text Toward Better Nonsense?! (Max Kreminski) • It’s skeuomorphin’ time!! The enduring physicality of braille! (Santiago Gepigon III) • Saving Voyager 1! (Bruce Waggoner) • plus unconferencing time, coffee, lunch and more!

 learn more and get tickets: bangbangcon.com
	!!Con 2024
	August 24-25, 2024

	Santa Cruz, California
	and online

	Two days of ten-minute talks about
	the joy, excitement, and surprise of computing

	Let’s make local and accountable tech! (Dawn Walker) • Reverse-engineering a 30-year old synthesizer to perfectly recreate video game music! (Peter Sobot) • Programming with only exceptions! (Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya) • Mitos! Handweaving My Ancestral DNA!!! (Sally Kong) • Let’s run a tiny chess neural network by hand! (Amédée d’Aboville) • The Astrolabe! Using modern digital computing to recreate ancient analog computers (Jes Wolfe) • A brief history of keyboards! (Jesse Chen) • Recreating Sketchpad, the first GUI! (Adam Solove) • Images from a 1970s Typewriter!! (Phil Warren) • bang! bang! he murdered math! {the musical!} (Taylor Troesh) • Huggable Data! Making the Ephemeral Last Longer with Textile Dataviz! (Aldís Elfarsdóttir) • Keyboarding Ain’t Easy?? What Not To Do When Building a Keyboard!! (Liz Frost) • The Perfect Blend!! Reverse engineering a bluetooth protocol for better smoothies! (Ryan Mast) • How to make your own microchip!!! (Omar Rizwan) • Grading your Types? From Bangs to Boxes and Beyond! (Danielle Marshall) • Let’s find random things on the street with full-text search! (Yufeng Zhao) • It wasn’t me, it was the cosmic rays! Blaming physics for our evil actions! (Matías Lang) • It’s alive…. IT’S ALIVE!!! Braitenberg Vehicles! (Have you ever seen an AI like this??!!) (Devon Tao) • Lord Zeus, defender of travelers and of those far from home, please create a function called printBeerInsideLoop with parameter n! (Daniel Temkin) • 88 Files a Second - Running Flappy Bird inside MacOS Finder! (Nolen Royalty) • This is the poem that doesn’t end!! or, the poetics of RNG! (Alicia Guo) • Algorithmically Generated Flower Beds!! (inspired by Ancient & Modern Polychrome Textiles) (Rebecca Ravenoak) • Exploring the Invisible: Adventures in the Electromagnetic Spectrum! (blinry) • Backtraces in the Mirror: Stealing the Secrets of Elves and Dwarves to Perform Mad Science!! (Julian Squires) • Making Chinese Typefaces! with Components!!??!! (Ivan Zhao) • SATisfying Answers to Difficult Questions! (Vaibhav Sagar) • Calculating the Ideal “Sex and the City” Polycule! (Juan Pablo Sarmiento) • How to stop worrying and collect early web Banner Ads! (And make art along the way!) (Richard Lewei Huang and Yufeng Zhao (as Switcheristic Telecommunications)) • Riveting Insights! Bridge.watch and the State of America’s Infrastructure (Maryanne Wachter) • Domain names! Where do they come from??? (Wesley Aptekar-Cassels) • Mutating Text Toward Better Nonsense?! (Max Kreminski) • It’s skeuomorphin’ time!! The enduring physicality of braille! (Santiago Gepigon III) • Saving Voyager 1! (Bruce Waggoner) • plus unconferencing time, coffee, lunch and more!

	learn more and get tickets: bangbangcon.com