Hackaday Superconference
The fifth Hackaday Superconference, where the official badge became a Game Boy-shaped ECP5 FPGA platform running a RISC-V soft core with cartridges, HDMI, SAO, PMOD, and open toolchain workflows.
Supplyframe DesignLab and Los Angeles College of Music, Pasadena, California · United States · 2019
The 2019 Hackaday Superconference badge put a Lattice ECP5 FPGA, RISC-V soft-core SoC, color LCD, eight buttons, cartridge slot, HDMI, SAO headers, PMOD footprint, and mass-storage app workflow into a Game Boy-like handheld.
Lifecycle
Post-event coverage records custom cartridges, enclosures, C demos, color-palette animation, splash screens, and a Linux-on-badge SDRAM cartridge project shown through the ceremony and hack list.
The public repository lets badge hackers modify the FPGA SoC, bootloader, Initial Program Loader, SDK, example apps, and peripheral blocks instead of only writing firmware on a fixed MCU.
The 40-pin cartridge slot and prototype cartridges with onboard flash let attendees build removable hardware and software modules for the badge.
The PCB repository publishes hardware artwork and errata under a CC BY-SA 3.0 statement attributed to Sprite_tm / Jeroen Domburg.
Operational history
The badge is a serious open FPGA platform, but catalogue readers should not treat the public PCB as a frictionless reference design without reading the errata.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying Hackaday article photos, Hackaday.io images, or repository assets without a complete image provenance record.