Conference Badges I've Known and Loved

Ben Combee
Teardown 2025

Attributes of Badge Evolution

• Processor / System on a Chip (SoC)
• Display
• Communications
• Expansion
• Function vs Hackability

Phreaknic 1999

The Next HOPE (2010)

Photo credit to Laughing Squid (https://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/4800055228/in/photostream/)

SXSW / SparkFun BadgerStick (2013)

Hackaday Supercon 5 (2019)

Adafruit PyBadge (2019)

Open Hardware Summit (2020)

Remoticon 2 (2021)

Photo credit to https://hackaday.io/project/182027-remoticon-2-badge

Pimoroni Badger 2040

Supercon 2022: Voja4

SuperCon 2023: Vectorscope

Supercon 2024: SAO Badge

Open Hardware Summit 2025

Tariffs
Innovation
Outsourcing

BadgeHacking.org
github.com/badgehacking