ZAM Badge 2024
Überblick
Bei der Planung des VULCA-Treffens kam die Idee eines Badge als Konferenzpräsent und Lötübung auf. Die Idee besteht darin, die folgende Grafik zu nehmen und diese in eine Leiterplatte mit blinkenden LEDs hinter dem Auge und den Buchstaben umzuwandeln.
Projekt-Metadaten
ZAM-Badge-24 GitHub Repository
Jochen Hunger jochen.hunger@betreiberverein.de
Steve Mayze smayze@yahoo.com
Logbuch / Schritte
Tag 1 Zusammenarbeit
I turned graphics into PCBs before but I was further inspired by Working with artists to design beautiful boards at KiCon Europe 2024. The first thing was to come up with the concept. Given the original graphic, I outlined a possible arrangement of the PCB layers.
Based n this, Jochen then proposed what he was thinking. This would turn out to be fairly straight forward to develop into a PCB. The idea as too have the head and letters all in the same colour (the solder mask) and then have the area behind the eyes and around the letters free so that they blinking LED would shine through.
I embellished this a bit further with my thoughts on where the components could be placed.
Tag 2. Erstellen des Designs
Once I had KiCad available I proceeded to turn the SVG of the graphic into a PCB. To achieve this, the layer feature of Inkscape was invaluable.
Once the layers are exported and verified, the layout of the board can begin. First of all, a simple circuit is created to defined the required parts. We don't have a lot of time for this project to try things out. So I opted to have space for three LEDs thought I believe only two will be required.
Tag 3. Montage und Prüfung
Bauteile
- 3mm LED
- 5mm LED
- CR2032 Knopfzellhalter
- Schalter