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Badger me.please
Posted: 30 Apr 2022 08:13 PM PDT
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Ive often thought that hams should do more with badges, like they do at
DEFCON and other hacker conferences. I had some ideas of designing my own,
but then I found out about the Pimoroni Badger.
The Badger is a very cool, hackable, programmable badge with an e-ink
display, with a Raspberry Pi RP2040 processor. Its programmable with microPython, and in my case, Im using the Thonny Python development environment on my iMac.
The e-ink display is a 296 x 128 display, and Pimoroni makes available a
python program that does an incredible job of converting .png files to
1-bit grayscale images. Here are a couple of images I created for the
Badger:
My hair is mostly gray now, so they grayscale picture here doesnt look too
bad.
It even does QR codes!
Im planning on bringing this to Dayton with me. A friend of mine has
3D-printed a holder for this which lets me power this from 3 coin cells.
This should be fun!
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