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In the before-times, back when we could have in-person Hackaday Supercons, there was always the problem of the badge. Making a few hundred small electronic thingies, for a smart but broad range of … ...
How Can You Design a Badge with a Budget of 2€ Per Unit Designing a badge for another conference, BIZIT 2015 , was even more challenging. It is being organized by PC Press , our computer ...
Just before DEFCON kicked off, Grand spoke with Ars about this year's badge design and the effort required to put together a real-world electronic quest for about 30,000 friends. Badged for life ...
Badge master Ryan Clarke (above), aka LostboY and LosT, has been designing the Def Con badges since 2012. This year's badge theme plays off the sic-fi cult classic film They Live about a homeless ...
Because of DARPA's AI hacking competition, Def Con's theme this year was "Rise of the Machines."That informed the Terminator-esque skull design, but the conference badge was more than just a bunch ...
The badges include a Near Field Communications (NFC) antennae -- that's what swaps the data when two badges are "bumped." The contact information you collect can then be synced with a conference ...
It's an e-ink display powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040, which you can set up as a cool name tag to show everyone you meet at your next conference. Once you're done, you can probably adapt this ...
We share a common theoretical framework (grounded in learning science), a shared language (technology and instructional design), and a collective set of challenges (all around learning). Each of us ...