There was a talk about how this badge was built (non-comercially); it was only possible with most of the chips sponsored and a few people doing pretty much nothing else for months.
Re:Hackable Electronic Badge
by ChuckMcM on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @03:41PM
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This came across my inbox and I think it is one of the IoT applications that actually makes some sense. That Parallax made it a product seems like the next step.
My guess would be that something like this would be really good way for an Atmel or ST Micro to "sponsor" the embedded systems conference as well.
There was a talk about how this badge was built (non-comercially); it was only possible with most of the chips sponsored and a few people doing pretty much nothing else for months.
Which, to my knowledge, is the first time a conference has handed out badges that were actually useful afterwards. Pretty awesome.
And here's the talk: https://media.ccc.de/browse/conferences/camp2015/camp2015-68...
My guess would be that something like this would be really good way for an Atmel or ST Micro to "sponsor" the embedded systems conference as well.