Avnet FAE Institute

Avnet FAE Institute 2026

Name: Avnet FAE Institute 2026
Location: Phoenix, Arizona

The July 12-17, 2026 Avnet FAE Institute professional embedded-engineering event in Phoenix. Public vendor updates describe hands-on technical training and a July 14 Avnet FAE Institute Showcase; Alex Glow's public pre-event source archive identifies a commissioned PCB badge for the event, without establishing participant-wide allocation, final production, or a rights-cleared local image.

Phoenix, Arizona · United States · 2026

Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge

Alex Glow's public repository describes this as an official PCB-badge commission for Avnet's FAE Institute 2026, and its linked Hackster project calls it a cyber-gem and platform for hardware experimentation. The commit-pinned source archive contains KiCad 9 board files, Gerber outputs, custom footprint libraries, and front/back repository rasters. Public vendor updates identify the July Phoenix FAE Institute's hands-on technical-training context. Together these sources establish a real event-specific hardware design, but not participant-wide issuance, a final manufactured configuration, a source-to-unit mapping, or a delivery ledger.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge KiCad design source

documented discrete hardware surface

CR2032 LED, button, and slide-switch experiment path

The board source contains a CR2032 holder footprint, a through-hole LED footprint, one 6 mm button, a through-hole SPDT slide switch, and a resistor. The source frames these as an experimentation surface, not a finalized populated circuit, power-budget guarantee, battery-included promise, or validated electrical configuration.

Compatibility: Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge source board; assembly and behavior unconfirmed

Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge KiCad design source

hardware experimentation interface

SAO-labelled headers and through-hole expansion surface

The board source contains two footprints labelled Header_SAO, 3 mm mounting holes, and unassigned plated through-holes; its own board text says users can customize the badge with their own circuits and mount rear LEDs through bare substrate. It does not establish an SAO version, pinout, voltage, host compatibility, included peripheral, or safe modification procedure.

Compatibility: Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge source board; interface standard and electrical compatibility unconfirmed

Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge public pre-event source snapshot

hardware source and manufacturing trail

Creator-published KiCad 9 and Gerber archive

Alex Glow's June 15 public archive includes a KiCad 9 project, custom footprint library, Gerber CAM outputs, drill files, and job file for the badge. It provides a useful design/fabrication trail but does not prove a completed build run, final bill of materials, assembly process, test result, or event-issued unit.

Compatibility: Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge source design; final event-unit parity unconfirmed

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge note

event association, allocation, and credential boundary · creator-published commission statement plus vendor event context · event-specific design documented; recipient scope unrecovered

Alex Glow's public project source identifies a commission for Avnet FAE Institute 2026, while vendor updates establish the Phoenix event and technical-training context. Reviewed sources do not identify the commissioning terms, Avnet ownership of the repository, attendee eligibility, ticket inclusion, quantity, price, pickup, shipping, access-control role, participant receipt, or a completed allocation ledger.

The catalogue records an event-specific hardware badge design without turning a creator's commission statement into proof that every attendee received it, that it was an official access credential, or that any particular physical unit was issued.

Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge note

hardware source, production, and component-parity boundary · commit-pinned KiCad and Gerber source review · design and manufacturing files public; final unit unverified

The source archive publishes a KiCad board, custom footprints, and Gerbers, but the reviewed tree does not provide a final schematic, bill of materials, assembly instructions, manufacturer, order record, panel/assembly data, inspection log, final revision manifest, production count, component substitutions, or unit-by-unit build trace. The source snapshot predates the July event.

The record can describe the documented board design while avoiding a claim that the public files are the exact final build, that every event badge carried the listed footprints, or that the design was manufactured and tested at scale.

Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge note

missing rights-cleared image · repository media and licence-scope review · needs selected, attributable, cleared original

The public repository includes front/back badge rasters and a top-level MIT license, but it does not separately identify a selected raster or a factual documentary photo with an image-specific reuse basis, provenance statement, and cleared treatment for the Avnet/FAEI-branded artwork/assets. The catalogue therefore does not copy those source images locally.

The event badge remains image-free rather than publishing a branded repository render or any other visual without complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing provenance.

Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge note

power, interface, and electrical-safety boundary · KiCad component and board-text review · experimentation surfaces documented; operating constraints unreleased

The board declares CR2032, LED, button, slide-switch, SAO-labelled header, mounting, and through-hole expansion surfaces, but sources do not establish populated polarity/orientation, battery inclusion, current draw, voltage range, resistor value, LED specification, SAO version or pinout, connector load, protection, short-circuit behavior, thermal performance, test results, assembly guidance, user warnings, or safe modification instructions.

No power, interface, expansion, battery-life, electrical-safety, or universal peripheral-compatibility claim is inferred from source footprints and exploratory board text.

Resources

Avnet FAEI 2026 KiCad board source PCB design source · Commit-pinned KiCad 9 board source for the CR2032 holder, LED, button, slide-switch, resistor, SAO-labelled headers, mounting holes, and expansion-through-hole design surface. It is not a final assembled-unit or safety-validation record. Avnet FAEI 2026 README creator documentation · Commit-pinned README identifying the project as an Avnet FAEI 2026 event badge, linking the project page, and pointing to the KiCad project plus front/back repository images. PCB Badge for Avnet FAEI 2026 creator-linked project page · Alex Glow's linked Hackster project describes the badge as a cyber-gem and a platform for hardware experimentation. It is creator-published project context, not an Avnet allocation or final-production record. Avnet FAEI 2026 Gerber archive manufacturing source · Commit-pinned repository tree holding CAM Gerbers, drill files, job file, and the source ZIP. It supports a manufacturable design trail without proving that this exact revision was fabricated, assembled, or issued at the event. alexglow/26-06-FAEIBadge source archive public hardware-source repository · Commit-pinned public source archive whose description and README identify an Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB badge commission. It contains KiCad project material, a custom footprint library, Gerbers, and repository images, but no unit-level production or handoff ledger. Avnet FAEI 2026 MIT license source license · Commit-pinned MIT License naming Alex Glow as copyright holder for the public repository source. It supports source access but does not independently identify a selected branded raster or documentary photo as a cleared local hero image. Avnet FAE Institute Showcase 2026 listing vendor event calendar · Toradex's public event listing names an Avnet FAE Institute Showcase in Phoenix on July 14, 2026. It corroborates the dated Phoenix technical-event context but does not describe the badge. Avnet FAE Institute 2026 vendor event update vendor event context · Nexperia's public company update names Avnet FAE Institute 2026 in Phoenix, July 12-17, and frames it as hands-on technical training for engineers and field application experts. It establishes event context, not badge allocation, source ownership, or production.

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