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From Hashdays Badge

Nice to meet you! I'm Roman Wueest. Here's a picture of me:

I created the badges for the hashdays 2010 and 2011 conference. I designed the circuit board, programmed the ATmega168 microcontroller in Assembler and did the reflow soldering as well. I have to thank my wife Nicole, as well as my brothers Benni and Candid for the help in soldering and completing the badges.

Together, the four of us did the soldering of the aprox 220 badges in about 10 evenings. (About 20 pcs per hour on the SMD components, and additional time to attach the LCD and Battery holders...)

The first idea for the 2010 badge was over a year earlier than the conference. The design went then through a couple of prototype versions. Availability of parts we wanted crossed our early prototype plans a couple of times.

Also the design for the 2011 badge started already in January.

The badge code for both badges was done in Assembler, because I had a lot of routines already at hand from earlier projects. It took at least a couple of workweeks to get the code for hashdays up and running.

Thanks for reading, and hope you enjoy your badge as much as we did making it! If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact me!

Roman