Hackaday Superconference
The Pasadena Hackaday Superconference edition whose Mike Harrison-designed official badge was a digital camera platform with PIC32, OV9650 camera, OLED screen, MicroSD storage, accelerometer, bootloader, and expansion hardware.
Supplyframe DesignLab and Los Angeles College of Music, Pasadena, California · United States · 2017
The 2017 Hackaday Superconference badge was an official Mike Harrison camera badge with a PIC32MX170F256D, OV9650 camera module, 128x128 color OLED, MicroSD storage, accelerometer, buttons, bootloader, white LED illuminator, prototyping area, and expansion header.
Lifecycle
The badge's camera was not decorative: Supercon included a film-festival category for movies and media produced with the badge camera.
Post-event coverage documented camera, printer, charging, VR, thermal, time-lapse, and 3D-printer projects built around the official badge.
The firmware template exposed camera, accelerometer, button, OLED, timing, and filesystem helpers so attendee applications could reuse the stock badge services.
The quick-start workflow let attendees copy compiled HEX files to MicroSD and use the onboard bootloader, with PICkit programming as a fallback path.
The badge exposed I2C, UART, GPIO, ISP, TTL232, and prototyping surfaces for shields, sensors, and direct hardware experiments.
Operational history
Surviving-badge hacking and firmware flashing should respect the documented power and flash-write constraints.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying public photos or using generated placeholder imagery.
The record treats the badge as a living event platform and avoids implying that every public firmware artifact represented a fully settled pre-production state.