![]() ![]() Around 350 people came from all the countries of the northwest of the continent to the comfort and hospitality of the Westcord Hotel de Veluwe in the eastern Netherlands, to experience a hacker camp with all the convenience and luxury of a resort hotel rather than a muddy field. More of that exotic cruise ship lifestyle.īut one of the best antidotes to February weather in the European hacker community was Hacker Hotel 2020. It’s not a place to spend a lot of time if you are a land-lubber, so to cross it twice in a few weeks must mean there is something very much worth seeing on its other side. The North Sea in a winter storm is a spectacular sight, one of foam-crested waves and squalls driven on the gale. Continue reading “Hacker Hotel 2023 Had A Very Cool Badge” → Posted in cons, Hackaday Columns Tagged badge, badgelife, Hacker Hotel Thus here we’ll concentrate on the badge hardware and production, and mention the puzzles only in passing. I love the design both from an artistic and technical viewpoint, but have to admit that the puzzle aspect isn’t really my thing. The sum is to create a puzzle game intended to entertain the visitor, take them round the venue, and find clues to an eventual solution. The artwork comes form the same artist whose work graced both the previous Hacker Hotel badge and the MCH2022 badge, and the rear of the PCB makes full use of all layers to create a mystical puzzle. It’s pretty obvious from the start that it has data and address lines of a 4-bit computer, and as well as these there is an evident serial port and a USB socket. It’s divided into two parts, the top third which carries the circuitry and the lower two thirds of which as a row of buttons and LEDs. The brains of the operation is an RP2040, and it’s powered by a CR2032 coin cell in a holder. The badge takes the form of a rectangular PCB with all parts on the top side. A Puzzle, A 4-Bit Computer, And An Artwork We were lucky enough to receive probably the last of these delayed badges in mid February, as we made the journey to the central part of the Netherlands to Hacker Hotel 2023. This and that other by-product of COVID-19, the chip shortage, meant that over the past year we’ve been treated to several event badges that should have appeared in 2020 or 2021, but didn’t due to those cancelled events. One effect of the global pandemic was that there were relatively few events in our sphere for a couple of years. ![]()
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