Show HN: I made open source, zero power PCB hackathon badges
I love getting cool swag from hackathons and I also love designing PCB's, so when my friend asked me if I would design hackathon badges for a large game jam in singapore, I was absolutely down! The theme of overglade was a "The game jam within a game", pretty cool concept right! High schoolers from around the world were flown out to the event by hackclub after they spent about 70 hours designing their own game. These badges needed to be really cheap and simple, because we were going to manufacture about a hundred in a pretty limited amount of time. I went with a zero-power approach, which means sticking with e-inks, and I decided to include NFC if the organizers wanted to introduce it into the roleplay of the event, and so participants could add their website or github if they so choose! I used an RP2040-based architecture because it's really easy and cheap to get on the first try, and then added an ST25 passive NFC tag which was really simple to configure. The badge is in the shape of
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