Fri3d Camp

Fri3d Camp 2016

The first documented Fri3d custom badge year, built as an Arduino-compatible AVR learning and IR interaction platform for attendees.

Belgium · Belgium · 2016

Fri3d 2016 Badge

A custom Fri3d Camp badge derived from Arduino Micro-era hardware, designed for roughly 300 attendees as both a beginner-friendly badge and a reusable Arduino development board.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

Fri3d 2016 Badge historical

IR software feature

TV-B-Gone app path

The 2016 badge was explicitly inspired by Mitch Altman's TV-B-Gone and preserved a TV-B-Gone-style app path in the Arduino badge concept.

Compatibility: Fri3d 2016 Badge

Fri3d 2016 Badge historical

post-camp development path

Arduino reuse mode

After camp, the badge could function as a small Arduino-like development board, keeping the badge useful for learning and experiments beyond the event.

Compatibility: Fri3d 2016 Badge

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

Fri3d 2016 Badge note

documentation completeness · primary writeup and archived repo · historical caveat

The surviving public record is strong enough to seed the badge, but the archived repository and writeup do not provide the same polished end-user documentation depth as later Fri3d badge years.

The dossier should stay conservative until photos, final attendee firmware notes, and any workshop pages are recovered.

Fri3d 2016 Badge note

image provenance upgrade · project writeup image and page license footer · licensed original replacement applied

The Fri3d 2016 visual now uses an optimized WebP derived from Christophe VG's `fri3d-badge.jpeg` project-writeup header image.

The public badge page, image archive, and API point at a source-page image with exact URL, CC BY-SA 4.0 license basis, attribution, and processing notes while avoiding generated, placeholder, social, or uncleared imagery.

Resources

Fri3d 2016 badge header image image source · Christophe VG writeup header image of the Fri3d 2016 badge, used as the licensed upstream source for the local optimized WebP delivery asset under the page's CC BY-SA 4.0 footer. Fri3d Badge designer writeup project writeup · Primary public writeup for the 2016 Fri3d badge concept, goals, inspiration, team credits, attendee scale, header image, and CC BY-SA 4.0 page license footer. Fri3dBadge2016 design files source · Archived public repository with design files and badge software/source context.

Sources

Christophe VG: Fri3d Badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the 2016 badge goals, Arduino compatibility, inspirations, attendee scale, team, hackability framing, header image, and CC BY-SA 4.0 page-license footer. Christophe VG: fri3d-badge.jpeg Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Exact upstream image source for the Fri3d 2016 WebP hero image; used only after recording page URL, license, attribution, and processing notes. GitHub: Fri3dBadge2016 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Archived source repository for hardware and application files.