Why It Mattered
The 2021 badge is a useful counterpoint to increasingly complex badges: it treats expansion and basic electronics as the primary learning object.
BornHack 2021 · Denmark · 2021
BornHack 2021 DIY Badge
Electronics-side DIY expansion badge
A deliberately minimal DIY badge focused on simple electronics, SAO, Qwiic/STEMMA QT, and component-level exploration rather than preloaded compute.
EventBornHack 2021
SeriesBornHack
LocationFunen
CountryDenmark
Image Provenance
- Asset
- optimized WebP from repository render
- Status
- licensed original repository render
- Source
- RENDERS/badge.png
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
- Attribution
- BornHack badge2021 repository contributors
- Notes
- Original 3073x1874 transparent repository render downloaded from the official bornhack/badge2021 repository and kept as the source raster derivative before WebP delivery conversion. The repository LICENSE is CC BY-SA 4.0; this is not a documentary photo, but it is an upstream licensed badge render showing the official front/back DIY badge artwork and source-file markings. The published badge.gallery delivery file is an optimized WebP generated from the rights-cleared local derivative/source with metadata stripped, WebP quality 82, and a maximum side cap of 1600 pixels when the source is larger; upstream source URL, license, and attribution remain unchanged.
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
Prepared areas for SAO v1.69bis, Qwiic/STEMMA QT over I2C, and simple component experiments, with design files released in KiCad nightly format.
Software & Apps
No large onboard app platform; the repository focuses on hardware design files, schematics, and expansion points.
Lore
The README explicitly contrasts it with previous BornHack microprocessor badges and says the focus shifted to simple electronics components.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
hardware expansion
historical
SAO and Qwiic/STEMMA QT
The badge was prepared for SAO and Qwiic/STEMMA QT expansion, shifting the focus toward external modules and simple electronics.
SourceOperational history