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Hackaday Superconference

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, and 2025 Communicator Badge records.

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Lineage Notes

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, and 2025 Communicator Badge records.

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

Badges

Seeded records

Hackaday Supercon 2016 · 2016

Hackaday Supercon 2016 LED Matrix Badge

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.

Hackaday Supercon 2017 · 2017

Hackaday Supercon 2017 Camera Badge

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.

Hackaday Supercon 2018 · 2018

Hackaday Supercon 2018 Retrocomputer Badge

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.

Hackaday Supercon 2019 · 2019

Hackaday Supercon 2019 FPGA Badge

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.

Hackaday Remoticon 2020 Unofficial Badge badge image

Hackaday Remoticon 2020 · 2020

Hackaday Remoticon 2020 Unofficial Badge

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.

Hackaday Remoticon.2 · 2021

Hackaday Remoticon.2 DIY Badge

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.

Hackaday Supercon 2022 · 2022

Hackaday Supercon 2022 Voja4 Badge

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.

Hackaday Supercon 2023 Vectorscope Badge badge image

Hackaday Supercon 2023 · 2023

Hackaday Supercon 2023 Vectorscope Badge

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.

Hackaday Supercon 2024 · 2024

Hackaday Supercon 2024 SAO Badge

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.

Hackaday Supercon 2025 Communicator Badge badge image

Hackaday Supercon 2025 · 2025

Hackaday Supercon 2025 Communicator Badge

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.