While wandering through CCCamp last weekend, in between episodes of forcing Marmite on the unwary, I ran into the well-known Hackaday.io user [Prof. Fartsparkle]. In a last-minute sprint leading up to the con he built himself the Numberwang badge to join in the colorful after-dark festivities with beautiful board artwork and remarkably enjoyable backlit LED display.
The Numberwang badge itself is a clone of the Adafruit Itsy Bitsy sporting an ATSAMD21G18 CPU and running CircuitPython. It has an LED strip on the reverse shining through the bare FR4 as a diffuser, and the Numberwang effect of selecting random numbers is achieved by a host of random touchable numbers sprinkled across its front. For something he freely admits was a last minute project, we think he’s done a pretty good job!
For those mystified by Numberwang, it is a fictional gameshow from a BBC TV comedy programme that involves contestants answering the quizmaster with random numbers. It joins a rich tradition of such hilarious nonsense, and has as a result become cult television.
If you’re really getting into Numberwang, don’t forget that it’s inspired a programming language.
If you happen to be at CCCamp19 next week. I will be there, wearing this with a little name badge shitty addon.
(has sound)#badgelife pic.twitter.com/ml3S2m2Rhg— Timon | was at #cccamp19 (@timonsku) August 16, 2019
I wish I could pull off last minute projects of this quality. Bravo.
Thanks! Wouldnt have been possible in the time frame without Adafruits schematics to work upon!
That’s numberwang!
Thanks for showing both sides of the PCB, I was afraid you wouldn’t Rotate The Board
That’s Wangernumb!
https://twitter.com/timonsku/status/1168827489990381568?s=09
“600, 3.7, 50,1, 2.22. That’s numberwang!”
The sound playback makes it super awesome IRL.
Was immediately reminded of this other classic spoof gameshow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k-P9QVutBk
1:15 onwards.