HACKADAY SUPERCONFERENCE BADGE, Manual

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1. INTRODUCTION
Hackaday Superconference Badge is a special goft for every conference visitor. It also acts as a
hacking tool, so that everyone gets a chance to display their creativity and programming skills
during the conference. Hacking will be mainly through software, but hardware hacking is also
possible.
To program an embedded system, you normally need programmer hardware, but not in this
case - you don't need any hardware to flash your own code in MCU program memory. The
badge comes with a pre-programmed bootloader, so all you need is a USB Micro-B cable.
To keep the badge "alive" during the conference and before the hacking event, it comes with a
couple of pre-programmed applications, mainly to demonstrate some of the possibilities of the
hardware. By default, there is a Tetris game, a moving message display and an accelerometer
demo. There will be a special computer with infrared interface at the venue, which anyone can
use to load a custom message to their own badge. We encourage everyone to keep their badge
in Display mode with their own message, so that we can all enjoy the scene of hundreds of
personal moving messages running around.
We will also be hosting a challenge event. This time, the task will consist of four independent
tasks, with the special fifth task which will use all previous results to complete the final result.
Every visitor is challenged to try to solve the problem during the conference, and the first one
who gets the "Congratulations" message on their badge, will win a prize.