BP
Named in the official 2024 BadgeLife credit.
SourceSAINTCON 2024 · United States · 2024
SAINTCON 2024 Klippy-Net Wrist Badge
Wrist-mounted ESP32-S3 touchscreen badge with IR tower battles and screw-powered klip-on boards
The SAINTCON 2024 main badge for the October 22-25, 2024 conference at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, presented by the BadgeLife team as a reverse-engineered Klippy-Net Wrist Communicator for the fight against the evil Klippy AI. It was meant to be worn on the wrist with a supplied velcro sweatband or on a lanyard. Its designer, compukidmike, released the outline before the conference so attendees could build klip-on boards that take power from the screws holding them to the badge. His Saintcon2024 repository later added the board files (November 12, 2024) and the firmware source (February 7, 2025). They show an ESP32-S3 board with a 2.8-inch IPS touchscreen, an IR transmitter and receiver, an accelerometer, a 1500 mAh LiPo with a USB-C charger, and MiniBadge connections, running a Tower Battle game against 11 IR towers.
EventSAINTCON 2024
SeriesSAINTCON
LocationUtah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Klipper
Named in the official 2024 BadgeLife credit.
SourceMike's Wife
Named in this form in the official 2024 BadgeLife credit.
SourceRedactd
Named in the official 2024 BadgeLife credit; the firmware's game API host is sc24.redactd.net.
SourceV0rtex
Named in the official 2024 BadgeLife credit.
Sourcecompukidmike
Publisher of the README, board files, and klip-on libraries, who writes in the README of his own design oversight; first name in the official 2024 BadgeLife credit.
SourceDavid Vasquez
Author of the SAINTCON Badge Museum (GitHub PugTechnology); not presented as an organizer or badge designer.
SourceUtahSAINT / SAINTCON
Organizer of SAINTCON 2024 and publisher of the homepage and BadgeLife page preserved on saintcon.zip.
SourceDavid Warkentin
Author of the February 7, 2025 commit that added the badge firmware to the repository.
SourceWhy It Mattered
It fills the main-badge gap between the 2023 MiniBadge collection and the 2025 wrench badge, documents one of the few wrist-worn conference badges with its design files, and shows a badge team publishing an add-on interface (screw power and KiCad footprints) before the event instead of after it.
Hardware
The designer's BOM lists an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module (linked as the N16R2 variant, 16 MB flash and 2 MB PSRAM), a 2.8-inch IPS TFT with capacitive touch on a 40-pin ST7789 LCD connector and a 6-pin touch connector, an Everlight IR12-21C IR LED and a TSOP752xx IR receiver (the BOM links the 38 kHz TSOP75238), a MEMSIC MC3419 accelerometer, a TCA9544A I2C bus switch, a TI BQ24296M charger and power-path controller with USB OTG, a PI5USB30216C USB-C controller, an AP22816 USB load switch, an AP7361C 3.3 V regulator, a TPM8837 motor driver that the BOM describes as driving the CLK pins, two 0603 LEDs, a slide power switch, a JST battery connector for a 1500 mAh 504050 LiPo, and four 4-40 standoffs. The repository also holds Gerbers and KiCad files for a separate top board and for an eight-slot MiniBadge holder. The README says the top screws carry 3V3 and GND for klip-on boards, the screen opening is not centred, every badge comes with a two-slot MiniBadge klip-on wired to I2C, and an eight-slot expansion board with the 20-pin connector hangs on a lanyard and draws power from the USB-C port without I2C. The firmware drives the LCD over an 8-bit i80 parallel bus and the touch panel through a GT911 driver. The BOM gives no quantity, and the repository does not say which board revision shipped.
Software & Apps
The firmware is an ESP-IDF 5.3.1 project for the ESP32-S3 with LVGL 9.2, version 2.6.9 in the published tree. It has home, map, stats, shop, level-up, settings, secret, and Tower Battle pages, a hardware test screen, and an update screen. A tower tracker caches the state of 11 game towers and refreshes it from a game API at sc24.redactd.net every two minutes; the IR code uses NEC-style framing; OTA checks run every two hours; and the MiniBadge code scans the bus every two seconds and toggles the CLK line once a second. The configuration lets the wearer flip the screen for either wrist. The source was published on February 7, 2025, more than three months after the conference, in a single commit by David Warkentin, so badge.gallery has not checked it against the image shipped on badges. David Vasquez's SAINTCON Badge Museum (November 2026) runs this firmware in a browser with a stand-in tower server.
Lore
SAINTCON 2024 ran October 22-25, 2024 at the Utah Valley Convention Center, with trainings on October 21; the official homepage mirror shows the conference sold out. The official BadgeLife community page, brought to you by Compukidmike, Redactd, Klipper, V0rtex, Mike's Wife, and BP, repeats the engineering-drawing and MK Factor press-release story, says the team does not normally release badge information before the conference, and links the GitHub repository. Its FAQ answers whether there is a badge game with Schmaybe. The page also says a MiniBadge was available at the BadgeLife community booth. The 2025 BadgeLife page later called the 2024 Klippy AI story chapter 2.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
add-on interface
designer-published before the conference
Screw-powered klip-on boards
The screws that attach boards to the top of the badge carry 3V3 and GND, so a klip-on board gets power from its mounting screws. The designer published a KiCad symbol and left, right, upper, and lower footprints with the badge outline and keep-out areas, and asked makers to keep the off-centre screen clear in both wrist orientations.
Source
badge game
designer firmware
Tower Battle IR game
The firmware searches for nearby towers, joins a battle, and attacks, tracking 11 towers whose state it refreshes from the game server. The official FAQ only hinted at the game (Schmaybe).
Source
badge interface
designer README
Two-slot MiniBadge klip-on
Every badge was to come with a two-slot MiniBadge klip-on wired to I2C. The README says the badge supports two official game MiniBadges at a time, only in those two slots, and asks custom boards to keep the unusual I2C labelling from the schematic.
Source
community browser emulator
community release (2026-11)
SAINTCON Badge Museum browser emulator
The unofficial SAINTCON Badge Museum runs the original 2024 firmware in a browser with a stand-in tower server.
Source
event MiniBadge
official mirrored page
BadgeLife booth MiniBadge
The official BadgeLife page says a MiniBadge was available at the community booth. Its design and quantity are not documented.
Source
lanyard expansion board
designer README and board files
Eight-slot MiniBadge expansion board
An eight-slot holder with the 20-pin MiniBadge extension connector hangs on a lanyard like earlier badges and takes power from the badge's USB-C port. It has no I2C link to the badge, and the README warns that many lit MiniBadges will drain the battery.
Source
wearable mount
designer README
Velcro wristband
A soft sweatband with the hook side of a velcro strip holds the badge, which carries the loop side, on either wrist. The README says a lanyard option was planned as well.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
firmware release timing and distribution gap
note
The board files were added on November 12, 2024 and the firmware on February 7, 2025, after the conference. The firmware tree is version 2.6.9, and nothing in the repository ties it to the image shipped on badges. The official pages give no badge quantity, allocation rule, or board revision.
Hardware and firmware details describe the published design; parity with shipped badges, production numbers, and distribution scope stay open.
- Confidence
- repository history and official pages
- Status
- post-event source; allocation undocumented
- Timeframe
- October 2024 to February 2025
- Source note
- compukidmike/Saintcon2024 commit history and the mirrored SAINTCON 2024 pages, checked 2026-11-04.
game server dependency
low
The firmware points its tower state, game, and firmware-update requests at sc24.redactd.net. On November 4, 2026 that hostname did not resolve through a public resolver.
Tower Battle and OTA updates cannot work with stock firmware unless someone runs a compatible server; the browser emulator uses a stand-in.
- Confidence
- designer firmware and DNS lookup
- Status
- game API host no longer resolves
- Timeframe
- after SAINTCON 2024
- Source note
- Firmware/components/api/include/api.h in compukidmike/Saintcon2024 and a DNS lookup on 2026-11-04.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No SAINTCON 2024 badge image is published. The repository holds only an engineering-drawing teaser and a press-release graphic, has no licence, and the official BadgeLife page gives no image licence.
The entry stays source-backed and image-free until a rights-cleared photo or an explicitly licensed render is available.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- compukidmike/Saintcon2024 and the mirrored SAINTCON 2024 BadgeLife page, checked 2026-11-04.
off-centre screen opening
low
The README says the screen opening is not centred on the badge, calls it a huge oversight, and says the team was stuck with it. Because the badge can be flipped for either wrist, klip-on makers have to avoid covering the screen in both orientations.
Klip-on boards need the published outline footprints to avoid blocking the display.
- Confidence
- designer README
- Status
- acknowledged by the designer
- Timeframe
- 2024 production
- Source note
- compukidmike/Saintcon2024 README, checked 2026-11-04.
repository licence gap
note
The designer repository publishes the schematic, BOM, Gerbers, KiCad files, klip-on libraries, and firmware but has no licence file.
The files document the hardware and firmware, but reuse, modification, and redistribution rights are unclear.
- Confidence
- GitHub metadata and repository tree
- Status
- no licence file
- Timeframe
- as of 2026-11-04
- Source note
- compukidmike/Saintcon2024 repository metadata, checked 2026-11-04.
Resources
SAINTCON 2024 BadgeLife community (mirror)
official badge page · Mirrored official BadgeLife page crediting Compukidmike, Redactd, Klipper, V0rtex, Mike's Wife, and BP, with the Klippy-Net Wrist Communicator story, the link to the GitHub repository, the badge FAQ, booth hours, and the booth MiniBadge.
SAINTCON 2024 badge firmware
firmware source · ESP-IDF 5.3.1 firmware, version 2.6.9, with LVGL 9.2, GT911 touch, IR, accelerometer, charger, USB-C, MiniBadge, Wi-Fi, OTA, API, and Tower Battle components, published February 7, 2025.
SAINTCON 2024 badge in the browser
community browser emulator · SAINTCON Badge Museum build of the original 2024 firmware with a stand-in tower server. The museum's code is MIT; the badge firmware stays under its author's terms. Not affiliated with SAINTCON or UtahSAINT.
SAINTCON 2024 eight-slot MiniBadge holder files
add-on board design files · Schematic, BOM, Gerbers, and KiCad project for the eight-slot MiniBadge holder that the README describes as a lanyard expansion board.
SAINTCON 2024 klip-on KiCad libraries
add-on design template · Schematic symbol for the screw power connections, left, right, upper, and lower klip-on footprints with the badge outline and keep-out areas, and an example two-slot MiniBadge klip-on board.
SAINTCON 2024 main board files
hardware design files · Schematic PDF, BOM in PDF and XLSX, Gerber archive, and KiCad project archive for the main badge board.
SAINTCON 2024 official site (mirror)
official event archive · SAINTCON's own saintcon.zip mirror of the 2024 site, giving the October 22-25, 2024 dates, the Utah Valley Convention Center venue, the October 21 trainings, and the sold-out notice.
SAINTCON 2024 top board files
hardware design files · Gerber and KiCad project archives for the top board that sits over the main board.
compukidmike/Saintcon2024
designer hardware and firmware repository · Repository created August 21, 2024, with the pre-conference README on wrist mounting, klip-ons, and MiniBadges, the board files added November 12, 2024, and the firmware added February 7, 2025. It states no licence.
Sources
David Vasquez (PugTechnology) / GitHub: SAINTCON Badge Museum
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Secondary community source that names the 2024 badge the Tower Battle wrist badge by compukidmike and runs its original firmware with a stand-in tower server.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON (saintcon.zip): SAINTCON 2024 (official site mirror)
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Primary source for the October 22-25, 2024 dates, the Utah Valley Convention Center venue in Provo, the October 21 trainings, and the sold-out conference. It does not describe the badge.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON (saintcon.zip): BadgeLife Community (SAINTCON 2024, official site mirror)
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Primary source for the BadgeLife team credits, the Klippy-Net Wrist Communicator and Klippy AI framing, the early release of badge information, the link to compukidmike/Saintcon2024, the badge-game FAQ, booth hours, and the booth MiniBadge. It gives no specification, quantity, or allocation.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON via Internet Archive: BadgeLife Community (archived, November 9, 2025)
Retrieved 2026-11-01 · Archived primary source for the 2025 page's account of the Klippy AI storyline, with 2024 as its second chapter.
compukidmike / GitHub: Saintcon 2024
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Primary designer source for the wrist mount with a velcro sweatband and a lanyard option, the 3V3 and GND screws that power klip-ons, the off-centre screen opening, the two-slot I2C MiniBadge klip-on included with every badge, and the eight-slot USB-powered MiniBadge expansion board without I2C.
compukidmike / GitHub: Saintcon Badge 2024 BOM
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Primary designer source for the component list: ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, 2.8-inch IPS touch LCD, IR12-21C IR LED, TSOP752xx receiver, MC3419, TCA9544A, BQ24296M, PI5USB30216C, AP22816, AP7361C, TPM8837 described as driving the CLK pins, and a 1500 mAh LiPo.
compukidmike / GitHub: Saintcon2024 badge firmware
Retrieved 2026-11-04 · Primary source, published February 7, 2025 in a commit by David Warkentin, for the ESP32-S3 target with 16 MB flash, the i80 LCD and GT911 touch configuration, version 2.6.9, the 11-tower tracker, NEC-style IR framing, the sc24.redactd.net API base, the two-hour OTA check, and MiniBadge scanning.