Elliot Williams
Author of the Hackaday Vectorscope badge article used as source evidence.
SourceHackaday Europe 2024 · Germany · 2024
Hackaday Europe 2024 Vectorscope Badge
Berlin reuse of the RP2040 analog vectorscope badge
Hackaday Europe 2024 in Berlin reused the 2023 Hackaday Supercon Vectorscope badge: an RP2040/MicroPython analog playground with a round IPS display, ADC/DAC signal path, front controls, joystick, prototyping space, and badge-hack ceremony.
EventHackaday Europe 2024
SeriesHackaday Europe
LocationMotionLab.Berlin
CountryGermany
Image Provenance
- Asset
- optimized WebP from transparent cutout
- Status
- licensed original photo
- Source
- docs/badge_talk_2023/images/image2.png
- License
- MIT License
- Attribution
- Hack-a-Day/Vectorscope repository contributors
- Notes
- Original 1041x1383 repository workbench photo downloaded from Hack-a-Day/Vectorscope, masked around the visible Vectorscope badge, battery holder, and inseparable adjacent workbench context, scaled to the site badge canvas, and preserved as a transparent source cutout before WebP delivery conversion. The upstream repository is MIT licensed; this is a partial documentary hardware photo rather than a studio packshot, and the source frame shows only part of the badge beside cables, notes, and an adapter board. 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
Voja Antonic
Hackaday discussion and lineage context credit Voja Antonic for the Vectorscope badge design.
SourceHackaday
Hackaday is the public event and badge publisher for the Hackaday Europe record.
SourceWhy It Mattered
This record shows a badge crossing the Atlantic event boundary into a European hardware conference, where reuse, workshops, soldering, custom enclosures, and judged badge hacks became part of the Berlin event experience.
Hardware
Hackaday and heise document a Raspberry Pi Pico / RP2040 badge with round IPS display, buttons, 4-way joystick, I2C, speaker, 2xAAA power, four analog inputs, AK4619 ADC/DAC behavior, scope and waveform-generator pins, and through-hole prototyping space.
Software & Apps
The public Vectorscope repository provides MicroPython firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico with GC9A01 display support, RP2040 DMA additions, original MicroPython code/assets, setup notes for Thonny, VSCode/MicroPico, and mpremote, plus hardware files, Gerbers, drill files, BOM, and a work-in-progress KiCad board conversion.
Lore
The Berlin report describes visitors soldering when benches were full, a workshop adding a small synthesizer and photodiode experiments, 3D-printed cases and other hardware hacks, and Saturday-night badge-hack presentations and judging.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
event challenge
historical
Badge-hacking ceremony
The official event schedule included a Saturday-night badge-hacking ceremony, and the heise report describes participants presenting judged badge hacks.
Source
firmware and analog IO
source-backed
Vectorscope analog playground
Hackaday's Vectorscope article and repository frame the badge around MicroPython, oscilloscope-like display behavior, waveform generation, ADC/DAC signal paths, and four analog inputs.
Source
workshop/lifecycle
historical
Soldering, cases, and add-on experiments
The Berlin field report describes busy soldering benches, a workshop adding a synthesizer and photodiode experiments, 3D-printed cases, and participant hardware add-ons.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
missing rights-cleared image
note
No documentary photo of the exact Hackaday Europe badge has been cleared for public reuse.
Original Hackaday Europe or Vectorscope badge photos should be added only after license and attribution are cleared.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy.
reuse lineage caveat
note
The Berlin badge record is a European event reuse of the 2023 Hackaday Supercon Vectorscope badge rather than a newly designed Berlin-only PCB.
badge.gallery should preserve both the European field context and the upstream Vectorscope hardware/firmware lineage without implying a separate 2024 board design.
- Confidence
- event report and upstream repository
- Status
- documented
- Timeframe
- Hackaday Europe 2024
- Source note
- heise Hackaday Europe report, Hackaday Vectorscope article, and Hack-a-Day/Vectorscope repository.
Resources
2023 Supercon Vectorscope badge article
article · Hackaday article introducing the Vectorscope badge hardware, software, and signal-generation concept.
Hackaday Europe 2024 event page
event page · Official Hackaday.io event page for the Berlin conference, including the badge-hacking ceremony in the schedule.
Hackaday Europe Berlin field report
event report · heise report documenting that Hackaday Europe reused the 2023 badge and describing soldering, workshops, cases, add-ons, and judging.
Vectorscope repository
source · Public hardware, firmware, BOM, Gerber, drill, KiCad-conversion, and MicroPython asset repository.
Sources
GitHub: Hack-a-Day/Vectorscope
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary repository for MicroPython firmware, hardware package, BOM, Gerbers, drill files, and board-source status.
Hackaday: 2023 Hackaday Supercon Badge: Welcome to the Vectorscope
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Source for RP2040/Pico, AK4619 ADC/DAC, analog input/output concept, scope and waveform-generator pins, prototyping area, and badge design intent.
Hackaday.io: Hackaday Europe
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for Hackaday Europe 2024 at MotionLab.Berlin and the scheduled badge-hacking ceremony.
heise online: Nachschau: Hackaday Europe in Berlin
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Field-report source for Berlin reuse, soldering/workshop activity, case/add-on culture, and badge-hack presentations.