Difference between revisions of "Projects:Badge"

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About

We want to make an awesome badge.

We have an irc channel at #sha2017-badge on freenode and a mailing list at badge@lists.sha2017.org

Current team members:

• realitygaps
• the_Jinx
• Einstein
• Kartoffel
• puckipedia
• Underhand

Our current brainstorms and meeting notes are at https://pad.ijhack.nl/p/shabadge. Technical specs (subject to change): https://pad.sha2017.org/p/badge-technical.

We will continue having meetings online on the irc channel once every couple of weeks for the moment.

Badge functions

The idea is that everyone gets a badge that is primarily useful during the event, and also fun and easy to tinker with. Every badge will connect to legacy WiFi (so it's smart to bring a laptop that can do 5GHz). The badge will be able to display information like a talk schedule, fahrplan, angel shifts.

In list form:

• Provide information during the event
• Talk schedule + fahrplan
• Angel shift information (optionally 2-way with REST API over WiFi)
• Information on places (tracks, villages) you're near

Bonus stuff (not a priority, but a 'would be nice'):

• Control LEDs or devices in villages you're near

Vacancies

None at the moment.

Hardware

The badge will be a creditcard-ish sized PCB with on it:

• A ~2" e-paper display
• An ESP WiFi module
• At least up/down/left/right/select buttons for input
• A decent-sized battery to last at least a day
• Power regulator
• A USB->TTL chip for programming
• ('would be nice') Proper badge clip instead of a lanyard
• ('would be nice') a pager motor for notifications

At the moment we're trying to keep the budget for the badge below €15, which is still quite a lot of money. Sponsoring might help reduce this amount.

Roadmap

• Proof of concept by september
• PCB prototype ordered by 13 september
• (more prototype runs)
• February 2017: Start mass production (design / parts finalized before this time)