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All-attendee bare PCB allocation

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conference badge format

The official Badge Project page says every 2026 attendee received a bare PCB with no components.

Badge
IEEE Rising Stars 2026 Conference Badge Project
Type
conference badge format
Status
official post-event report
Compatibility
IEEE Rising Stars 2026 attendee artifact only; the source explicitly does not establish a populated, powered, programmed, or functional electronic badge for every recipient.
Source
https://ieee-risingstars.org/2026/badge/

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public pre-event firmware-development snapshot

SEAL pre-event IEEE Rising Stars source snapshot

Immutable December 13, 2025 SEAL-Embedded snapshot. Its README calls the work an IEEE Rising Stars Conference networking badge using Raspberry Pi Pico W BLE, and its tree contains `aioble` advertising/scanning source. The official Badge Project page does not identify this repository or link it to a physical 2026 prototype.

Badge: IEEE Rising Stars 2026 Conference Badge Project

Source trail

Evidence Sources

IEEE Rising Stars Conference / Alberto Tam Yong · retrieved 2026-05-15

Badge Project

Primary post-event source stating that all attendees received bare PCBs with no components, about five manually assembled advanced badges were prototyped, and full automated assembly was not achieved. It also documents the manual-assembly constraints, linked schematic/BOM, CircuitPython prototype note, PCBWay sponsorship, and Badge Design Lead credit.

Badge: IEEE Rising Stars 2026 Conference Badge Project

SEAL-Embedded · retrieved 2026-05-15

SEAL Conference-Badge pre-event source snapshot

Immutable December 13, 2025 source snapshot, published before the January conference. Its own README frames the work as an IEEE Rising Stars Conference BLE networking badge targeted at Raspberry Pi Pico W, and the repository contains MicroPython `aioble` source. It is primary development evidence but is not organizer-linked and does not establish that it ran on any of the approximately five advanced 2026 prototypes.

Badge: IEEE Rising Stars 2026 Conference Badge Project