Getting to know the Tildagon

It's (roughly) the mid-point between EMFcamps. Let's tend to that fire burning in our hearts by talking about the badge.

In 2024 they decided to do a really cool thing; make the event badge reusable, creating a stable platform for people to learn, and build projects upon. I love this idea, because I personally hadn't had much success with the badges. The 2014 badge was my first ever, iirc, event badge, from any event. I was made up just getting it working. Which it did, occasionally. I actually wrote a little app for the 2016 badge, at camp. But never got to making use of the hardware. (I also never fixed the neopixel.) 2018 I failed to obtain a badge. 2020, well, yeah. The 2022 badge only had a USB-C plug connection, and I didn't have a USB-C socket, so I couldn't do anything with it. 2024 decided to flip the script, with the Tildagon. The idea is a pair of boards; the base board being the main platform, paired to a faceplate, with the screen, LEDs, themed artwork, etc, that will be updated for each event.


( Badge )

Tildagon, in operation
Photo by chebe

( Hexpansions )

( Case )