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BornHack

The Danish outdoor hacker camp with smaller-run open hardware badges and strong workshop culture.

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Lineage Notes

The Danish outdoor hacker camp with smaller-run open hardware badges and strong workshop culture.

Use the badge cards below for sourced hardware, software, lore, issues, add-ons, and author credits.

Badges

Seeded records

BornHack 2016 · 2016

BornHack 2016 Badge

Initial Commit soldering-kit badge

A hacker-friendly solder-it-yourself badge kit combining a nametag, flashlight, Joule Thief circuit, AA battery, and prototyping area.

BornHack 2017 · 2017

BornHack 2017 Badge

Happy Gecko OLED programming badge

BornHack's first deeply programmable badge used a Silicon Labs Happy Gecko MCU, OLED display, buttons, USB, and an example-heavy firmware repository.

BornHack 2018 · 2018

BornHack 2018 Badge

Happy Gecko plus Bluetooth badge

A Happy Gecko-based BornHack badge that added a Nordic nRF51 Bluetooth-capable microcontroller and a breakout-board branch for hardware add-ons.

BornHack 2019 · 2019

BornHack 2019 Badge

Color screen, MicroSD, and IR badge

A Happy Gecko badge with 240x240 color display, MicroSD card reader, basic infrared communication, and a C firmware codebase split into modules.

BornHack 2020 · 2020

BornHack 2020 Badge

CircuitPython LED-matrix IR badge

A SAMD21 CircuitPython badge with a charlieplexed LED matrix, IR badge-to-badge communication, navigation buttons, SAO header, and exposed pads.

BornHack 2021 · 2021

BornHack 2021 DIY Badge

Electronics-side DIY expansion badge

A deliberately minimal DIY badge focused on simple electronics, SAO, Qwiic/STEMMA QT, and component-level exploration rather than preloaded compute.

BornHack 2022 · 2022

BornHack 2022 Game On

RP2040 CircuitPython gaming badge

A game-controller-shaped BornHack badge built around RP2040, CircuitPython, a color LCD, and expansion connectors.

BornHack 2023 · 2023

BornHack 2023 NFC Badges

NFC reader and tag badge pair

A two-badge NFC year: one tag badge using NXP NTAG I2C Plus and one RP2040 reader badge using NXP PN7150 with card-emulation capability.

BornHack 2024 · 2024

BornHack 2024 Badge

ESP32-C3 POV badge

An ESP32-C3-oriented BornHack badge with public firmware links, POV hardware files, Rust examples, workshop firmware, and a 3D-printable case branch.

BornHack 2025 · 2025

BornHack 2025 Circle Badge

LoRa and Meshtastic badge

A circular ESP32-C3 badge focused on LoRa, Meshtastic, WiFi, BLE, RGB LEDs, external antenna use, and expansion connectors.

BornHack 2026 · 2026

BornHack 2026 Badge

Planned nRF52840, SX1262 LoRa, BLE, and NFC badge

A future BornHack badge entry currently documented by Badge.Team through sponsor credits and a concise hardware-feature list.