Hackaday Europe
The March 15-16, 2025 Berlin Hackaday Europe edition at MotionLab, with public sources documenting a Supercon 8 SAO badge reuse, revamped Europe firmware, bundled SAOs, and a Saturday-night badge-hacking ceremony.
MotionLab.Berlin · Germany · 2025
Hackaday Europe 2025 reused the Supercon 8 Simple Add-On badge concept in Berlin: an SAO-focused badge with I2C/GPIO exposure, MicroPython lineage, revamped Europe firmware, Supercon contest-winner add-ons, and badge-hacking ceremony context.
Lifecycle
Hackaday's speaker announcement says the four winning Supercon SAO contest entries were being put into the Hackaday Europe 2025 schwag bag.
The ticket preview lists the Supercon touch wheel, LED spiral, and CH32V003 prototyping boards as included with the Europe badge/add-on bag.
The official Hackaday schedule placed the Badge Hacking Ceremony on Saturday night from 22:00 to 24:00.
Hackaday's January 2025 preview says the Europe badge would use revamped firmware compared with the Supercon setup.
Hackaday states that the badge could flash the CH32V003-style add-ons through the SAO port.
Operational history
Software claims stay limited to the announced revamped firmware, MicroPython lineage, SAO-port flashing statement, and upstream public repository workflow.
The badge stays image-free rather than copying Hackaday article media, repository photos, screenshots, social media, or generated approximations.
Repository photos and renders are retained as evidence only unless a separate explicit image license or permission basis is recovered.
The record should remain tied to Hackaday Europe 2025 while preserving the upstream 2024 Supercon hardware/software lineage.