IEEE Rising Stars
IEEE Rising Stars 2026
The completed January 2-4, 2026 IEEE engineering-and-technology conference at the Luxor in Las Vegas. Its official post-event badge page documents a 2026 badge project: all attendees received a bare, unpopulated PCB, while approximately five manually assembled advanced units were prototyped. The source makes the attendee-versus-prototype split explicit and does not support a claim that all attendees received a working electronic badge.
Luxor Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada · United States · 2026
assembly documentation
The project page describes an automated-assembly-oriented design and manual population using solder paste, a stencil, reflow, manual pick-and-place, and post-assembly rework, with exposed-pad and 0.5 mm fine-pitch assembly constraints.
Compatibility: Project-design guidance only; it is not a verified assembly instruction, safety certification, yield report, production workflow, or support commitment for every builder.
conference badge format
The official Badge Project page says every 2026 attendee received a bare PCB with no components.
Compatibility: IEEE Rising Stars 2026 attendee artifact only; the source explicitly does not establish a populated, powered, programmed, or functional electronic badge for every recipient.
limited prototype batch
The organizer's post-event account says only about five manually assembled advanced badges were prototyped after the planned automated-assembly path did not result in a fully assembled badge for every attendee.
Compatibility: IEEE Rising Stars 2026 advanced prototype subset; no recipient roster, exact count, final configuration, or attendee-wide distribution is established.
pre-event public firmware-development source
A December 13 SEAL-Embedded snapshot frames a Raspberry Pi Pico W BLE interest-matching project as an IEEE Rising Stars Conference badge and includes `aioble` advertising/scanning code. A later repository README describes an ESP32 redesign, not an event-unit release.
Compatibility: Development-source context only. The official Badge Project page neither links this repository nor assigns its Pico W or ESP32 branches to the five advanced prototypes, any bare attendee PCB, or a completed event deployment.
2025-to-2026 badge boundary · official historical context · distinct years and allocation models documented
The record uses the historical account for lineage context only and does not transfer prior-year specifications into the 2026 entry.
SEAL development-source linkage boundary · self-described public project source plus unlinked organizer record · pre-event source exists; physical-prototype assignment unverified
The public source is available as a separately scoped development trail, but this record does not assign its Pico W code, later ESP32 code, BLE behavior, components, or authorship to a specific physical 2026 prototype or all-attendee bare PCB.
attendee allocation and configuration boundary · official post-event report · bare-PCB attendee allocation and limited advanced prototypes documented
The catalogue keeps the universal bare PCB and limited populated-prototype claims separate instead of presenting the five advanced units as the standard attendee badge.
firmware and technical archive gap · official project page · schematic/BOM links visible; organizer-linked code publication remains incomplete
The dossier distinguishes an accessible development-source trail from a complete reproducible event-unit release.
manual assembly complexity caveat · official badge-design note · advanced manual builds described as challenging
The catalogue preserves the primary assembly warning without presenting the project as beginner-friendly, reliably hand-buildable, safe to assemble, or proven across a finished production run.
missing rights-cleared image · policy decision · open
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page images, schematic screenshots, social posts, conference media, or generated approximations.