CypherCon
The March 30-31, 2017 Milwaukee CypherCon edition whose official history records 525 attendees, the Game of Life / Hacker Glider theme, the TYMKRS Cube badge, and the badge-creator panel.
Discovery World, Milwaukee, Wisconsin · United States · 2017
The CypherCon 2.0 Cube was a three-dimensional electronic badge by TYMKRS, assembled from cube-edge PCBs with LEDs, microprocessors, buses, USB, battery charging, mesh-network behavior, text-adventure firmware, and a badge-to-badge programming premise.
Lifecycle
Connecting a terminal over USB exposed a text adventure about scavenging parts to rebuild a relay-based computer in a missile silo.
After the relay-computer game path, the badge became an emulator for a vintage time-sharing operating system where attendees could write code.
Hackaday frames the Cube as a mesh network of badges and says code written inside the emulated environment could be deployed to other badges.
Hackaday describes the badge as a cube constructed from PCBs soldered along their edges, with a run of over 400 units assembled by hand.
Operational history
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article or video imagery without a clear catalogue reuse basis.