Hackaday Belgrade 2016 · Serbia · 2016

Hackaday Belgrade 2016 Badge

PIC badge with LED matrix, IR, and open firmware

A slim open-hardware conference badge designed around a red 8x16 LED matrix, PIC18LF25K50, IR send/receive, USB bootloader, tactile controls, and attendee-written demos.

Hackaday Belgrade PIC18 LED Matrix IR Bootloader Demoscene Open Hardware Serbia

EventHackaday Belgrade 2016

SeriesHackaday Belgrade

LocationBelgrade

CountrySerbia

People

Authors & Credits

badge artwork

Jasmine Brackett

Credited on the Hackaday.io project record.

Source

badge author and hardware/software designer

Voja Antonic

Listed as the project author and primary designer on the Hackaday.io project.

Source

Why It Mattered

It brought serious badge hacking to Hackaday's first European conference and made the badge an explicit demoscene target instead of a passive souvenir.

Hardware

Public sources document a 48 by 176 mm PCB, two Kingbrite 8x8 red LED modules forming an 8x16 display, PIC18LF25K50 USB microcontroller, SCT2024 constant-current sink driver, IR LED and TSOP6240 receiver, five tactile keys plus reset, two AAA batteries, USB Micro-B, ICSP, and optional accelerometer/hacking pads.

Software & Apps

The badge used a Microchip USB bootloader and a small kernel for display refresh, key scanning, brightness, pause/sleep, and optical serial communication; public C framework and firmware files supported custom demos without owning a hardware programmer.

Lore

The intended event ritual was a demoparty: attendees could write code for the badge, push moving messages over an infrared terminal, play with Tetris and accelerometer demos, and show their hacks at the conference.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

software/hardware expansion historical

Demoscene and accelerometer hacks

The badge records preserve Tetris, moving messages, accelerometer readouts, and a planned demoscene contest as first-class badge activity.

Compatibility: Hackaday Belgrade 2016 Badge

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software/radio interaction historical

Infrared terminal and badge-to-badge messaging

The 2016 badge documented 9600 baud optical serial communication and IR terminal messaging between badges and from a universal remote.

Compatibility: Hackaday Belgrade 2016 Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No Hackaday Belgrade 2016 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The Serbia record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and Hackaday Belgrade 2016 badge source trail.

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