GopherCon Europe 2026 · CIC Berlin · June 17–18, 2026
Hacking with the TinyGo Team
Two days of hands-on hacking with the TinyGo team. Come with your laptop and leave with code running on real hardware - badges, keyboards, robots, sensors, and a LED race track. No previous TinyGo experience required.
What's at the table
During the workshop you can take on as many activities as you like - there is no set order. We work like a lending library: we’ll lend you the hardware you need for each one, just remember to return it when you’re done so the next person can have a go.
NiceBadge
A minimal, hackable conference badge running TinyGo. Programme it with Go to display text, react to buttons, and talk to sensors. Open hardware you can actually keep and extend.
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TinyGo IoT sensor
Looking for the true “parts experience”? Got you covered! We have brought some Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-C3 IoT microcontroller boards for each person to use for the activity. These can be programmed using TinyGo. There are some Grove sensor kits that you can use for the activity.
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TinyGo Keeb
Build and program your own mechanical macropad. Solder the zero-kb02 hardware (12 keys, joystick, rotary encoder, OLED, RGB LEDs) and bring it to life with TinyGo key mappings and animations.
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Parrot Minidrone
We have Parrot Minidrones you can fly with Go code to control them using their built-in Bluetooth API. Ready for takeoff?
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WowWee MiP robot
Along for the ride, we brought a couple of WowWee MiP two-wheeled self-balancing robots that you control using Bluetooth. Ready to roll?
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Sphero Mini robot
You need more robots? Of course you do! We brought a few Sphero Mini ball-shaped robots that you control using Bluetooth. Keep on rolling.
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GopherBadge
The Go-powered conference badge built on the Raspberry Pi RP2040. Features LEDs, buttons, and a display - all programmable in TinyGo from day one.
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Gotto Ninja
A programmable robot platform controlled with Go and TinyGo. Navigate obstacles, react to sensors, and write the logic yourself in real Go code.
Help testing Blockly TinyGo
Blockly lets you build programs by snapping blocks together - no syntax, no semicolons, just logic. Under the hood it generates real TinyGo code that you can copy and flash to your badge or board. We’ve went under a major update lately, help us testing it. The gopher who report more issues win a prize.
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