The twin difficulties of the pandemic as well as now the semiconductor shortage have been especially difficult on the designers of event badges, as events have been cancelled as well as uncertain supply problems render their task impossible. When an event goes virtual, exactly how do you even start to create a badge for it? Make the badge as well as depend on sufficient stalwarts getting one? Or perhaps create a badge that’s a elegant handle a prototyping board?
For Hackaday Remoticon 2021, [Thomas Flummer] has created a book handle the second choice by distributing a badge as a set of KiCAD data that can either be bought from a PCB fabulous as a prototyping board or utilized as the canvas for a PCB to utilize whatever elements are to hand. To demonstrate this, he’s created an example badge that’s a MicroMod carrier.
So if you’d like to chase the full Remoticon experience with a badge there should still be sufficient time to buy a set of boards, however to style your own electronics you’ll requirement to get a move on. What you may develop upon it is as much as you, however if you have an ESP32 module lying around you may desire to think about cloning the SHA2017 badge or its successors with the badge.team platform.
We’ve seen Thomas’ work before more than when on these pages, most notably as the guy behind the BornHack badges.