Anyone can learn to solder and make cool things with microcontrollers! Come to the Hardware Hacking Area any time during the conference and Mitch will teach you to solder and make any number of fun and intriguing open-source projects, that you can take home with you. TV-B-Gone, Brain Machine, LEDcube, Trippy RGB Waves, and many others. Mitch can also help you with your own projects. Mitch will be joined with the crew of Hardhack!! Hardhack.org is a hands-on hardware event. It will include hands-on workshops and demos showcasing a large variety of open source hardware, hardware kits, and hardware hacking. The workshops includes soldering, firmware hacking, and other open source hardware topics. Our aim is to encourage hands-on exploration of hardware rather than presentations. Kits will be for sale at the event and tools will be provided.