Take a look at this sexy piece for open hardware. It’s what you’ll be wearing around your neck at the Open Hardware Summit this year. WyoLum teamed up with Repaper for the display and Seeed Studios for the boards.
It’s called the BADGEr and it’s both an Arduino and and Arduino shield. There are several different power options; coin-cell, microUSB, unpopulated barrel jack, or the lanyard terminals if you want to wear the power supply around your neck. You can see the five momentary push buttons see above, but on the back you’ll find the microSD card slot along with a power switch for preserving the coin cell.
Check out the video below for a quick look. In addition to acting as your credentials the conference schedule comes preloaded. And of course, this is an Open Source design so you can dig through schematic, board artwork, and code at the page linked above. Oh, and the first hack has already been pulled off. Here’s the badge reading Crime and Punishment.
Speaking of conference badges, DEF CON starts this week. Hackaday writer [Eric Evenchick] will be there and we hope he has a chance to look in on some of the badge hacking at the event.
That’s just nuts. I love it!
I’d love to get my hands on one of those.
mmmm def con badge. can’t wait.
Between this and Defcon badges, badges are fast becoming an art form!
Does anyone know what display it is and, more importantly to me, how much it costs?
http://www.pervasivedisplays.com/products/panels
About $39 from Adafruit
Now that’s kewl.
This is super cool, thanks for the tip! Somehow I missed the very fact of existence of small 1.4, 2.0 and 2.7″ ePaper displays as well as the whole Repaper project http://repaper.org Gotta go catch up on some ePaper reading now …
If you guys want to play with the same eink LCD, Check out Embedded Artist 2.7in E-Paper
http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/displays/lcd_27_epaper.php
and the eink LCD only
http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/displays/ema027as012.php
Eink isn’t LCD! They (I think Sharp) recently launched bistable LCDs that can hold a picture without needing power, just like Eink does. But they’re still different technologies, different in nature.
The links you mention are for Eink modules, not LCD.
Sharp has the “memory LCD” http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/memorylcd.html
But you need very little power to keep the image on the screen. If you remove power, the image goes away. For the little 1,28″ that would be typically 2uA of current for static image.
Where can I get one, love it
You can get something similar from adafruit: http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/04/05/new-product-repaper-2-0-graphic-eink-development-board-2/
With goodies like these badges, how bloody expensive are tickets to these conventions?
I think around $70
That’s not that much (unfortunately, because i just wanted to start a rant about overürived tickets and handing out stuff that is useless for 95% of visitors)
nevermind then :)
@c3p, the badges are a donation from WyoLum and Seeed Studio and do not effect the ticket price.
I’d love one of these and to go to the summit, too bad the summit is on the other side of the world :(
Um, “check the video below”? I can’t seem to see any? Or is it just me?
Thanks Mike for the great summary.
@Mateusz, I think Mike was referring to JimmieP’s vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a32nMMYxrX4
Sign up for conference here: http://ohs2013.ticketleap.com/tickets/
Last year was by far the best conference I have ever attended.
Great badge! I noticed in the video it also shows your QR code, but that means you need your phone to share these details. It would have been nice if they had added the option to wirelessly (e.g. through BLE or NFC) share your contact details (+ picture) directly onto the other badges, so at the end of the conference, your badge will contain all the people you met.
Great idea James. In fact before we had the EPD at all, that is the direction we were heading. As it turned out we were already so far above the original budget, that we had to strip out everything possible. The QR code allowed us to keep some semblance of the original idea.
damn… DAMN… I want one
Been to all the Summits when they were nearby in NYC. When they chose Boston this year I decided not to go. Darn!