Series
North American open-hardware conference lineage in Pasadena and the remote pandemic years, represented here by source-backed 2016 LED-matrix, 2017 camera, 2018 retrocomputer, 2019 FPGA/RISC-V, 2020 and 2021 Remoticon DIY badge-template records, 2022 Voja4 front-panel computer, 2023 Vectorscope, 2024 Supercon 8 SAO, 2025 Communicator Badge, and the 2026 tenth-anniversary planned-badge teaser moving talks to the ArtCenter South Campus.
North American open-hardware conference lineage in Pasadena and the remote pandemic years, represented here by source-backed 2016 LED-matrix, 2017 camera, 2018 retrocomputer, 2019 FPGA/RISC-V, 2020 and 2021 Remoticon DIY badge-template records, 2022 Voja4 front-panel computer, 2023 Vectorscope, 2024 Supercon 8 SAO, 2025 Communicator Badge, and the 2026 tenth-anniversary planned-badge teaser moving talks to the ArtCenter South Campus.
Badges
PIC18 LED-matrix badge with IR and accelerometer
The 2016 Hackaday Superconference badge, also documented as the Supercon II badge, was a Voja Antonic-designed open hardware badge with a red 8x16 LED matrix, PIC18LF25K50/PIC18F25K50-class MCU, integral LIS3 accelerometer, infrared communication, USB bootloader, five tactile controls, and expansion pads.
PIC32 camera badge with OLED and MicroSD
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.
BASIC and CP/M handheld computer badge
The 2018 Hackaday Superconference badge was a battery-powered handheld retrocomputer with a 320x240 color display, mini QWERTY keyboard, speaker, flash storage, expansion header, BASIC interpreter, and Z80 CP/M emulator.
ECP5 RISC-V badge in a Game Boy form factor
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.
Community KiCad/OSH Park badge template for the virtual event
Thomas Flummer's 2020 Remoticon badge was an unofficial CC BY-SA 4.0 KiCad PCB template released for the virtual Hackaday Remoticon, combining decorative Remoticon artwork, prototyping area, a MakersBox SMD challenge circuit, Feather-mounting pads, Gerbers, and an OSH Park shared-project path.
KiCad badge canvas with MicroMod carrier variant
Thomas Flummer's Remoticon.2 badge project published a KiCad badge canvas for the 2021 virtual Remoticon, giving builders a Remoticon.2-shaped PCB with open prototyping space plus uploaded KiCad, artwork, Gerber, and MicroMod carrier-board files.
Front-panel 4-bit computer badge with 272 LEDs
The 2022 Hackaday Supercon 6 badge, also documented as Voja4, was a front-panel-style 4-bit computer badge designed by Voja Antonic and implemented on a PIC24FJ256GA704 with 272 LEDs, direct button programming, serial save/load, internal flash storage, SAO serial expansion, and a public assembler/emulator/tooling archive.
RP2040 analog vectorscope and waveform badge
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.
Six-port Pico W SAO hub
The Supercon 8 official badge used a Raspberry Pi Pico W and six SAO ports as an I2C playground, bundling touchwheel, LED petal matrix, blank protoboard, and CH32V003 I2C proto-petal add-ons with MicroPython examples.
ESP32-S3 LoRa mesh communicator badge
The 2025 Hackaday Supercon Communicator Badge is a handheld mesh-chat badge with ESP32-S3, 8 MB PSRAM, 16 MB flash, a wide LCD, custom Solder Party keyboard, SX1262 LoRa radio, SMA antenna path, LiPo charging, SAO v2 connector, LVGL MicroPython firmware, public hardware files, and user-app examples.
Planned tenth-anniversary Supercon badge; design unrevealed
Hackaday's official August 13, 2026 ticket announcement says Supercon Ten admission includes a sweet hackable badge, and the September 12, 2026 newsletter adds that the badge is going to be bigger this year but that this is all organizers can say at this time. The July call for proposals schedules a Friday badge-hacking day and a Sunday badge-hack showcase. No controller, board, display, radio, firmware, or artwork has been published, so this is an organizer-confirmed planned badge rather than a revealed design.