Hackaday Superconference
The Pasadena Hackaday Supercon edition whose Vectorscope badge combined RP2040/MicroPython control, a round display, analog ADC/DAC signal paths, prototyping area, and a public badge-hacking ceremony.
Pasadena, California · United States · 2023
An analog-inspired Hackaday Supercon badge that combined a fake-phosphor vectorscope display, programmable waveform generator, AK4619 ADC/DAC path, Raspberry Pi Pico/RP2040 control, MicroPython, joystick and buttons, and a through-hole prototyping area.
Lifecycle
Hackaday documented a Sunday badge-hacking ceremony after roughly 78 hours of hacking, with categories for badge-only Vectorscope work and Vectorscope plus external hardware.
MicroPython, front-panel buttons, joystick control, filesystem access, and mpremote/Thonny/VSCode workflows let attendees write and store custom vector demos on the badge.
The badge exposed waveform-generator outputs, scope inputs, and through-hole prototyping space for filters, curve tracers, oscillators, analog video experiments, and external signal hacks.
Operational history
The original North American Vectorscope record now has a rights-cleared physical-badge image with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes while avoiding generated or placeholder imagery.
The compendium keeps separate records for the US origin event and the Berlin reuse so country and event-history pages remain accurate.
