Why It Mattered
It shows BornHack moving from soldering-kit badge culture into microcontroller programming while keeping the workflow educational and transparent.
BornHack 2017 · Denmark · 2017
BornHack 2017 Badge
Happy Gecko OLED programming badge
BornHack's first deeply programmable badge used a Silicon Labs Happy Gecko MCU, OLED display, buttons, USB, and an example-heavy firmware repository.
EventBornHack 2017
SeriesBornHack
LocationFunen
CountryDenmark
Image Provenance
- Asset
- optimized WebP from official upstream repository render
- Status
- licensed original repository render
- Source
- RENDER/Bornhack Make Tradition Badge 02.png
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
- Attribution
- BornHack badge2017 repository contributors
- Notes
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People
Attribution Gap
No public individual author, designer, firmware, or team credits have been seeded for this badge yet. Add named credits only when a primary badge-team page, repository, talk, or other source identifies the people or team behind the work.
Hardware
EFM32HG322F64G Cortex-M0+ Happy Gecko, 128x64 SSD1306 OLED display, buttons, USB interface, and bootloader-based update flow.
Software & Apps
C firmware using the geckonator library, local builds, USB mass-storage bootloader programming, and an online development path through badge.xil.se.
Lore
The README teaches bare-metal event-loop thinking instead of hiding microcontroller programming behind a thick API.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
Operational history