The LayerOne Demo Party is back again for another year of awesome demos! Demos are a combination of programming challenge, artwork, and music. You’re given specific hardware with any number of restrictions – code size, available memory, processor speed. Your goal is to output audio and video that pushes the limits of what is considered possible with such limited hardware.

2025 Demo Party Categories

• LayerOne Demo Board: Create a fantastic audio/video experience using a LayerOne Demo Board!
• ANSI: Create an awesome 80×23 ANSI art image using the standard 16 colors! (Please use this template!)
• Wildcard: Anything goes! Props given for creative use of hardware or software!

Enter your Demo or ANSI art now! Submit by emailing datagram@layerone.org with [DEMO 2025] in your email title! Please include your .hex file for Demo Boards and you .ans file for ANSI!

Time is running out to save on registration for the conference! Early bird pricing and hotel room discounts ending in about 2 weeks. Don’t wait, book now!
Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Are you lonely?
Need someone to talk to?
Do discussions about volts, amps, watts, ohms, and high voltage excite you?
Are you a social outcast without a hope of ever finding companionship?

If you answered yes to all of these questions, you are probably already a ham. If you answered no to any of them, you probably aren’t a ham….but we can fix that!

Come ruin your social life the right way by taking the amateur radio exams at LayerOne! If you’re looking to upgrade (read: become even more uncool and/or lose your significant other) we can handle that for any amateur radio license class, too!

Sign up at THIS LINK! Testing takes place on Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 18:00 Pacific time in the Lockpicking Village. If you have any questions, head over to our #ham-radio channel on Discord!

Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

The 2025 Call for Papers ends in ONE WEEK! Submit by April 12 to get selected to speak at this year’s conference! Speaking comes with a free badge, a paid honorarium, and the respect and acclaim of your peers. Check out https://www.layerone.org/call-for-papers/ for full details or head to https://forms.gle/EYhbD2vq7feyrj7j6 to directly submit.

Not interested in speaking? Don’t forget to register early to save $$$!
Registration: https://www.layerone.org/registration/
Hotel room rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/pasphhf-920-be59bc06-4341-41b6-a5c8-937355b806a2/

More contest info coming soon, hope to see you in May!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Looking to learn something new? Come to LayerOne 2025 and visit our Lockpicking Village! The lockpicking village is fun for all ages and all skill levels. If you’ve never picked a lock before this is the place to learn how! The Lockpicking Village is open from 10:00 – 17:00 Saturday and Sunday.

Registration for this year’s event is OPEN on our registration page. We do not offer discounts on early bird pricing, so get in while the discounts last! Prices go up as we get closer to the conference.

The Call for Papers is online! Speakers at LayerOne get free entry to the conference, a $200 honorarium, and the praise and acclaim of their peers. Submit a presentation now!

Looking for hotel accommodations? We get a special rate from the conference hotel that is available until May 3rd. Book your hotel room now with this discount link.

Hope to see you in May!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff

Capture the Flag is back! This year’s contest is graciously hosted by the folks over at Qualcomm. The game will use a Jeopardy style board with challenges. This contest is for both beginners and experienced CTFers. Challenges will span many domains including web hacking, system hacking, forensics, reverse engineering, crypto, and more! Registration is open to all, no qualifications necessary.

You can follow the CTF team on social media via @LayerOneCTF or for clues and additional information. You can also find friends and ask questions in the #ctf channel on The LayerOne Discord Server.

If you missed it, registration for the event is OPEN on our registration page. We do not offer discounts on early bird pricing, so get in while the discounts last! Prices go up as we get closer to the conference.

The Call for Papers is online! Speakers at LayerOne get free entry to the conference, a $200 honorarium, and the praise and acclaim of their peers. Submit a presentation now!

Looking for hotel accommodations? We get a special rate from the conference hotel that is available until May 3rd. Book your hotel room now with this discount link.

Hope to see you in May!

Sincerely,
The LayerOne Staff