SAINTCON 2024 Klippy-Net Wrist Badge
Wrist-mounted ESP32-S3 touchscreen badge with IR tower battles and screw-powered klip-on boards
The SAINTCON 2024 main badge for the October 22-25, 2024 conference at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, presented by the BadgeLife team as a reverse-engineered Klippy-Net Wrist Communicator for the fight against the evil Klippy AI. It was meant to be worn on the wrist with a supplied velcro sweatband or on a lanyard. Its designer, compukidmike, released the outline before the conference so attendees could build klip-on boards that take power from the screws holding them to the badge. His Saintcon2024 repository later added the board files (November 12, 2024) and the firmware source (February 7, 2025). They show an ESP32-S3 board with a 2.8-inch IPS touchscreen, an IR transmitter and receiver, an accelerometer, a 1500 mAh LiPo with a USB-C charger, and MiniBadge connections, running a Tower Battle game against 11 IR towers.