SAINTCON 2026 Planned Electronic Badge
Professor Plum's RP2350 round-display badge with eight MiniBadge sockets
The SAINTCON 2026 main badge for the October 27-30, 2026 conference in Provo. Official pages state that it has MiniBadge sockets on the standard 2.54 mm grid, the sponsor prospectus distinguishes Electronic Badge and Non-Electronic sponsor-ticket types, and badge pickup opened on October 26. The official planning committee page credits Professor Plum with badge design and production, and his MIT-licensed SAINTCON-BADGE-2026 repository publishes the KiCad project, rev. 0.6 Gerbers, and the Wayfarer firmware source. It shows a custom Raspberry Pi RP2350A board with 16 MB of flash, a 360x360 round ST77916 LCD, nine WS2812C LEDs, a five-way joystick with A and B buttons, an AA battery holder behind a TPS63031 buck-boost converter, and eight MiniBadge footprints, plus the Pico W docking stations of the badge game. The conference ended on October 30, and the edition is marked completed; badge counts and allocation remain unpublished.