He Built 1,750 Programmable Badges for Canada's Biggest Hackathon—and Hackers Turned Them Into Among Us
Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon
At Hack the North, attendees received a custom PCB badge with a screen, buttons, and wireless—fully programmable. The author shares the eight-month journey from concept to 1,750 units, including four hardware revisions, part selection mishaps, and a last-minute connector fix. The badges became a platform: hackers built games like Among Us and used a Lua runtime to write their own apps.
On the Saturday, a team walked up to me holding four of them. They’d turned them into a working game of Among Us.