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We love electronic conference badges here at Hackaday, but it’s undeniable that many of them end up gathering dust after the event. Most of them are usable as development boards …read more Continue reading A New Life For a Conference Badge, Weighing Bees
With few exceptions, electronic event badges are often all but forgotten as soon as the attendee gets back home. They’re a fun novelty for the two or three days they’re …read more Continue reading FREE-WILi Turns DC32 Badge Into Hardware Dev Tool
We’ve been hinting at it for a few months now, running a series of articles on SAOs, then a Supercon Add-On Challenge. We even let on that the badge would …read more Continue reading The 2024 Hackaday Supercon SAO Badge Reveal
There are a lot of fantastic things about Hackaday Supercon, but for me personally, the highlight is always seeing the dizzying array of electronic bits and bobs that folks bring …read more Continue reading An Ode to the SAO
For hackers of a certain age, the warbling of an analog modem remains something of a siren song. Even if you haven’t heard it in decades, the shrill tones and …read more Continue reading The JawnCon 0x1 Badge Dials Up a Simpler Time
One of our favorite parts of Hackaday Supercon is seeing all the incredible badge add-ons folks put together. These expansions are made all the more impressive by the fact that …read more Continue reading Supercon 2024: May the Best Badge Add-Ons Win
With every large event in our circles comes a badge, and Electromagnetic Field 2024 is no exception. We’ve told you about the Tildagon when it was announced, it’s a hexagonal …read more Continue reading Hands-On With The Electromagnetic Field 2024 Badge
Hacker Hotel is a small Dutch hacker event that takes place, as its name suggests, in a hotel. It’s a welcome high point in the damp of a north-west-European winter, …read more Continue reading A Telegraph Interface For the Hacker Hotel 2024 Badge
It’s a problem that faces every designer of an event badge: how to make something that won’t simply become a piece of e-waste once the last attendee has gone home. …read more Continue reading The Electromagnetic Field 2024 Badge Is A Little Different
One effect of the global pandemic was that there were relatively few events in our sphere for a couple of years. This and that other by-product of COVID-19, the chip …read more Continue reading Hacker Hotel 2023 Had A Very Cool Badge