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CR123A chainable LED hardware
A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
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power and expansion
Project details and build logs document two CR123A cells, diode reverse-polarity protection, battery tests, WS2812B failure observations, and boards chainable by VCC, ground, and LED data output.
- Badge
- LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
- Type
- power and expansion
- Status
- source-backed
- Compatibility
- LayerOne 2015 PSoC4 LED badge
- Source
- https://hackaday.io/project/4207/log/18310-building-badges
badge-team project page
Primary Hackaday.io project source for the dual-badge concept, PSoC4/ESP8266/WS2812B blinky badge, VoCore/OpenWRT RT5350F network badge, and production timeline.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
conference archive
Conference archive source for the May 23-24, 2015 Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles LayerOne event context.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
event report
Hackaday coverage from the LayerOne 2015 Hardware Hacking Village corroborating that there were two badges and that each came with different hacking paths.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
hardware notes
Technical source for PSoC routines, UDP-driven RGB output, CR123A battery behavior, level shifting, reverse-polarity protection, ESP8266 caveats, OpenWRT/VoCore setup, USB storage, LuCI, sysupgrade, and telnet/SSH paths.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
official village page
Official HHV page identifying the 2015 Electronic Badge and linking CharlieX's Hackaday.io build details for both badges.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
production log
Project log documenting kits, speaker and staff badges, LED badge assembly, TM-220A pick-and-place work, chainable LED boards, and late production workflow.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
source repo
Public charlie-x repository linked from the Hackaday.io discussion for the PSoC4, ESP8266, and WS2812 badge code trail; GitHub reports The Unlicense for the repository.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
GitHub / charlie-x · retrieved 2026-05-15
Public repository linked from the Hackaday.io discussion for the PSoC4/ESP8266/WS2812 badge source trail; GitHub reports The Unlicense.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
Hackaday · retrieved 2026-05-15
Contemporary Hackaday coverage corroborating that the LayerOne 2015 HHV had two badges and contrasting the OpenWRT networking path with the LED blinky path.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
Hackaday.io / charliex · retrieved 2026-05-15
Production-log source for kit preparation, speaker and staff badge builds, LED badge pick-and-place assembly, chainable boards, and late May 2015 build status.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
Hackaday.io / charliex · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary badge-team project source for the two-badge plan: PSoC4/ESP8266/WS2812B blinky badge plus VoCore/OpenWRT RT5350F Wi-Fi and Ethernet badge.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
Hackaday.io / charliex · retrieved 2026-05-15
Technical project source for PSoC LED routines, UDP RGB drive path, CR123A power behavior, daisy-chain tests, VoCore/OpenWRT configuration, LuCI, USB storage, sysupgrade, and administration workflows.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
InfoconDB · retrieved 2026-05-15
Conference archive source proving the May 23-24, 2015 Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles LayerOne event context.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
LayerOne · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official village source naming the 2015 Electronic Badge and linking CharlieX's Hackaday.io page for full build details for both badges.
Badge: LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges