Avnet FAE Institute 2026 · United States · 2026
Alex Glow's MIT-licensed hardware-experimentation event PCB badge
Alex Glow's public repository describes this as an official PCB-badge commission for Avnet's FAE Institute 2026, and its linked Hackster project calls it a cyber-gem and platform for hardware experimentation. The commit-pinned source archive contains KiCad 9 board files, Gerber outputs, custom footprint libraries, and front/back repository rasters. Public vendor updates identify the July Phoenix FAE Institute's hands-on technical-training context. Together these sources establish a real event-specific hardware design, but not participant-wide issuance, a final manufactured configuration, a source-to-unit mapping, or a delivery ledger.
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The commit-pinned MIT License names Alex Glow as copyright holder, while the linked public repository and project page identify the Avnet FAEI 2026 PCB badge project. This credit does not establish an Avnet employment relationship, final production responsibility, event allocation, or rights to unrelated brand assets.
SourceAlex Glow's public README names the Avnet FAEI 2026 Event Badge and calls the project a commission for Avnet's FAE Institute event. This records event association only, not a verified event-organizer hardware, manufacturing, allocation, sponsorship, or image-rights credit.
SourceIt adds a current embedded-engineering event badge with a named creator and a useful public manufacturing-source trail, while treating the creator's commission statement and pre-event source archive as evidence of a designed event artifact rather than proof of an Avnet-owned release, a universal attendee entitlement, a completed field configuration, or a general firmware platform.
The commit-pinned KiCad board has a CR2032 coin-cell-holder footprint, a through-hole LED footprint, one 6 mm button footprint, a through-hole SPDT slide-switch footprint, a resistor footprint, two footprints labelled `Header_SAO`, 3 mm mounting holes, and unassigned plated through-holes. Its board text describes SAO peripherals, LED experimentation, rear-mounted light through bare substrate, and user expansion. The repository also contains Gerber manufacturing outputs. These design files do not establish the final BOM, assembled component population, board revision used at the event, power limits, electrical test results, or each participant's physical unit.
The reviewed public archive is a KiCad hardware project with no identified microcontroller, firmware, application, binary, runtime, protocol, flashing workflow, or badge-specific event software. The record therefore treats it as a discrete experimentation board rather than inferring a programmable badge, a particular SAO standard, or an event application surface.
Nexperia's public event update says it would attend Avnet FAE Institute 2026 in Phoenix from July 12-17 for hands-on technical training, while a Toradex event listing names an Avnet FAE Institute Showcase in Phoenix on July 14. The source repository's June 15 snapshot predates those July event dates. That timing supports a pre-event design trail, not proof that the public snapshot was the final event unit, an access credential, a participant allocation, or a post-event support commitment.
Source-backed hardware metadata
Structured technical signals seeded from public badge documentation, repositories, schematics, firmware notes, or event evidence. These fields are designed for filtering, API use, repair planning, preservation, and future Companion Gear matching.
Alex Glow's public README identifies an Avnet FAEI 2026 PCB badge commission and links its hardware-experimentation project context.
Signal sourceThe commit-pinned board contains two footprints labelled `Header_SAO`; it does not establish a particular SAO version, wiring standard, or host-compatibility result.
Signal sourceThe commit-pinned board contains a `Batt_CR2032_BOTH` coin-cell-holder footprint; it does not prove a final populated battery or operating budget.
Signal sourceRepair, preservation, and legal lab context
Parts, tools, and supplies that match this badge's documented hardware, protocols, or preservation needs. These are category-level recommendations, not compatibility guarantees.
Headers and connector supplies for SAO repair, add-on testing, and preservation.
This badge has a documented SAO connector. Matched technical signals: SAO.
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I2C adapter supplies for badge add-ons, sensors, and lab documentation.
SAO workflows often use I2C-compatible add-on testing and bench documentation. Matched technical signals: SAO.
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Extension wiring and jumper supplies for testing or displaying SAO add-ons away from the main badge.
Extension wiring is useful for testing and displaying SAO add-ons. Matched technical signals: SAO.
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Battery holders, connectors, and safe replacement supplies for preservation work.
This badge has documented battery or rechargeable power hardware. Matched technical signals: CR2032.
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Anti-static bags and storage supplies for preserving loose badge PCBs and sensitive components.
This is documented as an electronic or hardware artifact where anti-static storage can support preservation. Matched technical signals: Electronic badge.
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Lifecycle
The board source contains a CR2032 holder footprint, a through-hole LED footprint, one 6 mm button, a through-hole SPDT slide switch, and a resistor. The source frames these as an experimentation surface, not a finalized populated circuit, power-budget guarantee, battery-included promise, or validated electrical configuration.
SourceThe board source contains two footprints labelled Header_SAO, 3 mm mounting holes, and unassigned plated through-holes; its own board text says users can customize the badge with their own circuits and mount rear LEDs through bare substrate. It does not establish an SAO version, pinout, voltage, host compatibility, included peripheral, or safe modification procedure.
SourceAlex Glow's June 15 public archive includes a KiCad 9 project, custom footprint library, Gerber CAM outputs, drill files, and job file for the badge. It provides a useful design/fabrication trail but does not prove a completed build run, final bill of materials, assembly process, test result, or event-issued unit.
SourceOperational history
The catalogue records an event-specific hardware badge design without turning a creator's commission statement into proof that every attendee received it, that it was an official access credential, or that any particular physical unit was issued.
The record can describe the documented board design while avoiding a claim that the public files are the exact final build, that every event badge carried the listed footprints, or that the design was manufactured and tested at scale.
The event badge remains image-free rather than publishing a branded repository render or any other visual without complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing provenance.
No power, interface, expansion, battery-life, electrical-safety, or universal peripheral-compatibility claim is inferred from source footprints and exploratory board text.