Electromagnetic Field 2022 · United Kingdom · 2022

TiDAL

EMF 2022 badge

The EMF 2022 badge, renamed TiDAL, with MicroPython app development and a software repository for badge apps and API proxy services.

EventElectromagnetic Field 2022

SeriesElectromagnetic Field

LocationEastnor Castle Deer Park

CountryUnited Kingdom

People

Authors & Credits

Barstats app author

James Harrison

Listed as the author of the Barstats TiDAL Hatchery entry.

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Doom! app author

Phlash

Listed as the author of the Doom! TiDAL Hatchery entry.

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Euclidean Tides app author

Giles Greenway

Listed as the author of the Euclidean Tides TiDAL Hatchery entry.

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TiDAL 3D app author

Mat Booth

Listed as the author of the TiDAL 3D Hatchery entry.

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neopixel_rave app author

chris

Listed as the author of the neopixel_rave TiDAL Hatchery entry.

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Why It Mattered

TiDAL continued the EMF Python badge line and became the immediate predecessor context for Tildagon's reusable-platform rethink.

Hardware

Public developer docs group TiDAL with EMF 2024's Tildagon as the badge-hacking path for 2022 and 2024.

Software & Apps

Developer docs describe TiDAL app repositories and API proxy services, with users able to write and publish their own apps.

Lore

Community coverage includes running a custom Doom port while preserving MicroPython functionality.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

GPIO music hardware app historical

Euclidean Tides

Giles Greenway's Euclidean Tides uses the badge GPIO header and TRS sockets to produce Euclidean rhythms; without external wiring it still works as a blinkenlicht.

Compatibility: TiDAL GPIO header and external rhythm/audio hardware

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LED hardware app in progress

neopixel_rave

Chris's neopixel_rave drives WS2812/NeoPixels from TiDAL, with Hatchery notes about torch-LED data wiring, level-shifting constraints, and external 5V/power-bank needs.

Compatibility: TiDAL with external WS2812/NeoPixel strip

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app-store ecosystem historical

The EMF 2022 Hatchery API still lists TiDAL categories across event, game, graphics, hardware, utility, data, silly, unusable, and adult apps, preserving the badge as an app ecosystem rather than a one-off PCB.

Compatibility: TiDAL MicroPython app runtime

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event service app in progress

Barstats

James Harrison's Barstats is an event-related Hatchery app, documenting that TiDAL apps included live camp-service integrations as well as graphics and games.

Compatibility: TiDAL and EMF 2022 event data/services

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game app post-event

Doom!

Phlash's Doom port reached revision 8 in 2024; the Hatchery notes basic play, menus and demo levels, while warning that it overwrites the unused OTA partition and cannot ship the WAD through Hatchery because of upload size.

Compatibility: TiDAL with Doom binary and WAD assets

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graphics app historical

TiDAL 3D

Mat Booth's TiDAL 3D renderer loads Wavefront OBJ/MTL models and uses custom firmware with native framebuffer and 3D math routines for performance.

Compatibility: TiDAL with custom firmware branch

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software add-on ecosystem historical

TiDAL apps and custom ports

Developer docs and community writeups show TiDAL apps and experiments such as a custom Doom port while preserving MicroPython functionality.

Compatibility: TiDAL / EMF 2022

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

custom firmware caveat moderate

The TiDAL 3D Hatchery entry says the app requires a custom firmware build with extra framebuffer routines and a native 3D maths module.

Not every app-store entry runs on a stock badge; some represent firmware forks and deeper platform modifications.

Confidence: live Hatchery app metadata
Status: documented caveat
Timeframe: TiDAL 3D revision 2
Source note: EMF 2022 Hatchery TiDAL 3D metadata.

firmware/storage caveat moderate

The Doom! Hatchery entry warns that running the app overwrites the unused OTA partition and that Hatchery could not host the compressed DOOM1.WAD because it was too large.

Some TiDAL apps changed device storage/update assumptions and required manual asset handling, so app-store links need per-app risk notes.

Confidence: live Hatchery app metadata
Status: documented caveat
Timeframe: Doom revision 8, 2024
Source note: EMF 2022 Hatchery Doom! metadata.

app-store caveat note

The TiDAL Hatchery still exposes app status labels such as working, in progress, unknown, and unusable, so individual app entries should be treated as living or historical software records rather than guaranteed polished releases.

The compendium records representative apps but keeps status and caveat language visible for users who may revive old TiDAL hardware.

Confidence: live Hatchery API
Status: historical
Timeframe: post-event app lifecycle
Source note: EMF 2022 Hatchery category and app-search API responses.

missing rights-cleared image note

No TiDAL 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 United Kingdom 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 EMF TiDAL source trail.

Resources

Barstats Hatchery entry app-store entry · TiDAL Hatchery entry for James Harrison's event bar-statistics app. Doom! Hatchery entry app-store entry · TiDAL Hatchery entry for Phlash's Doom port. EMF badge developer docs official docs · Developer docs for TiDAL and Tildagon. Euclidean Tides Hatchery entry app-store entry · TiDAL Hatchery entry for Giles Greenway's GPIO rhythm generator. TiDAL 3D Hatchery entry app-store entry · TiDAL Hatchery entry for Mat Booth's 3D renderer. TiDAL Hatchery API app-store API · Badge.Team Hatchery instance for EMF 2022 TiDAL apps. TiDAL Hatchery categories app-store API · Live category listing for TiDAL Hatchery apps. TiDAL developer docs official docs · EMF developer documentation for the TiDAL badge. neopixel_rave Hatchery entry app-store entry · TiDAL Hatchery entry for Chris's WS2812/NeoPixel hardware experiment.

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