Hackaday Belgrade

Hackaday Belgrade 2018

The retro-computing badge year: a PIC32 handheld with BASIC, CP/M/Z80 emulation, keyboard, color display, speaker, expansion header, and a strong badge-hacking ceremony culture.

Belgrade · Serbia · 2018

Hackaday Belgrade 2018 Badge

A battery-powered retro-computing badge with 55-key keyboard, 320x240 RGB TFT LCD, PIC32MX370F512H, external flash, speaker, BASIC interpreter, CP/M/Z80 emulation, and expansion-header hacking.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

Hackaday Belgrade 2018 Badge historical

demoscene software platform

Hackaday BASIC, CP/M, and Z80 emulation

The 2018 badge software turned the device into a BASIC and CP/M/Z80 playground for demoscene entries, games, music, serial experiments, keyboard apps, color-display work, and flash-storage hacks.

Compatibility: Hackaday Belgrade 2018 Badge

Hackaday Belgrade 2018 Badge historical

hardware/software add-on

Expansion-header serial modem and radio chat

Post-event hacks used the expansion-header serial pins with a NodeMCU to create a WiFi/BBS modem and badge radio chat path.

Compatibility: Hackaday Belgrade 2018 Badge

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

Hackaday Belgrade 2018 Badge note

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement

No documentary photo of the exact historical PCB has been cleared for public reuse.

Original Hackaday.io or event photos should be added only after license and attribution are cleared.

Hackaday Belgrade 2018 Badge note

source-lineage caveat · primary project docs · documented

The 2018 Belgrade badge evolved directly into the 2018 Hackaday Superconference badge, so searches often mix the European event artifact with a later US conference badge.

The compendium keeps the Belgrade event page separate while linking firmware lineage through the shared BASIC badge repository.

Resources

Belgrade badge hacks article · Hackaday coverage of post-distribution badge hacks, demoscene entries, BBS modem work, and multiplayer serial games. Badge radio chat project page · NodeMCU-based serial radio chat and BBS modem badge hack. Hackaday Belgrade 2018 badge project project page · Primary project page with hardware, firmware, BASIC, CP/M/Z80, expansion, credits, and license context. Hackaday BASIC firmware source · Firmware repository for the BASIC badge line.

Sources

Hackaday: Belgrade Badge Hacks Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary source for demoscene, modem, multiplayer-game, and firmware-lore examples. Hackaday.io: Badge for Hackaday Conference 2018 in Belgrade Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for hardware specs, firmware behavior, license, credits, and project goals. Hackaday.io: Hackaday Belgrade Badge Radio Chat Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Source for ESP8266/NodeMCU serial radio chat and BBS modem hack.