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Fri3d Camp 2016 · Belgium · 2016

Fri3d 2016 Badge

Arduino-compatible AVR camp badge with IR play

A custom Fri3d Camp badge derived from Arduino Micro-era hardware, designed for roughly 300 attendees as both a beginner-friendly badge and a reusable Arduino development board.

Fri3d Belgium Arduino AVR IR TV-B-Gone Beginner
Fri3d 2016 Badge badge image
EventFri3d Camp 2016
SeriesFri3d Camp
LocationBelgium
CountryBelgium

Image Provenance

Asset
optimized WebP from project writeup documentary image
Status
licensed original photo
Source
fri3d-badge.jpeg
License
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Attribution
Christophe Van Ginneken / Christophe VG
Notes
Original 1024x200 JPEG downloaded from Christophe VG's Fri3d Badge writeup and preserved in Public/images/source. The page footer states that, except where explicitly stated, content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0; the image is the writeup's Fri3d badge header image and is published locally as a metadata-stripped optimized WebP. This is a real project-documentation image of the Fri3d 2016 badge, not generated content, placeholder art, a social-media copy, or an approximate render. 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

Authors & Credits

Fri3d orga-team credit

Anthony Liekens

Listed in the 2016 badge writeup's Fri3d orga-team credits.

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Fri3d orga-team credit

Christophe VG

Listed in the 2016 badge writeup's Fri3d orga-team credits.

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Fri3d orga-team credit

Dragan

Listed in the 2016 badge writeup's Fri3d orga-team credits.

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Fri3d orga-team credit

Dries Deroeck

Listed in the 2016 badge writeup's Fri3d orga-team credits.

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Fri3d orga-team credit

Maarten

Listed in the 2016 badge writeup's Fri3d orga-team credits.

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Fri3d orga-team credit

Yannick

Listed in the 2016 badge writeup's Fri3d orga-team credits.

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badge project lead, writeup author, image publisher, and design-file publisher

Christophe VG

The public writeup is authored by Christophe VG, publishes the licensed Fri3d badge header image, and links to the archived badge repository.

Source

Why It Mattered

Fri3d 2016 is the missing early anchor for the Belgian Fri3d badge lineage: it shows the camp already treating badges as educational, hackable, open-source artifacts before the later ESP32 Ph0xx and display badges.

Hardware

The public writeup and repository describe an Arduino-compatible AVR badge inspired by the SparkFun Arduino Pro Micro 3.3V/8MHz and Mitch Altman's TV-B-Gone, with micro-USB programming, IR transmitter/receiver behavior, RGB LED feedback, and pins exposed for post-camp Arduino reuse.

Software & Apps

The badge was programmed through the Arduino IDE, shipped with camp-oriented behavior, and preserved a TV-B-Gone-style app path plus an IR interaction surface.

Lore

The designer framed the badge around hackability, beginner access, interactive camp use, open-source design files, and reuse after camp as a normal Arduino-like development board.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

IR software feature historical

TV-B-Gone app path

The 2016 badge was explicitly inspired by Mitch Altman's TV-B-Gone and preserved a TV-B-Gone-style app path in the Arduino badge concept.

Compatibility: Fri3d 2016 Badge

Source
post-camp development path historical

Arduino reuse mode

After camp, the badge could function as a small Arduino-like development board, keeping the badge useful for learning and experiments beyond the event.

Compatibility: Fri3d 2016 Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

documentation completeness note

The surviving public record is strong enough to seed the badge, but the archived repository and writeup do not provide the same polished end-user documentation depth as later Fri3d badge years.

The dossier should stay conservative until photos, final attendee firmware notes, and any workshop pages are recovered.

Confidence
primary writeup and archived repo
Status
historical caveat
Timeframe
post-event archive
Source note
Christophe VG Fri3d Badge writeup and Fri3dBadge2016 GitHub repository.
image provenance upgrade note

The Fri3d 2016 visual now uses an optimized WebP derived from Christophe VG's `fri3d-badge.jpeg` project-writeup header image.

The public badge page, image archive, and API point at a source-page image with exact URL, CC BY-SA 4.0 license basis, attribution, and processing notes while avoiding generated, placeholder, social, or uncleared imagery.

Confidence
project writeup image and page license footer
Status
licensed original replacement applied
Timeframe
current catalogue build
Source note
Christophe VG Fri3d Badge writeup, fri3d-badge.jpeg, page CC BY-SA 4.0 footer, and badge.gallery image policy.

Resources

Fri3d 2016 badge header image image source · Christophe VG writeup header image of the Fri3d 2016 badge, used as the licensed upstream source for the local optimized WebP delivery asset under the page's CC BY-SA 4.0 footer. Fri3d Badge designer writeup project writeup · Primary public writeup for the 2016 Fri3d badge concept, goals, inspiration, team credits, attendee scale, header image, and CC BY-SA 4.0 page license footer. Fri3dBadge2016 design files source · Archived public repository with design files and badge software/source context.

Sources

Christophe VG: Fri3d Badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the 2016 badge goals, Arduino compatibility, inspirations, attendee scale, team, hackability framing, header image, and CC BY-SA 4.0 page-license footer. Christophe VG: fri3d-badge.jpeg Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Exact upstream image source for the Fri3d 2016 WebP hero image; used only after recording page URL, license, attribution, and processing notes. GitHub: Fri3dBadge2016 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Archived source repository for hardware and application files.