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Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon

Nick Ficara tells how Hack the North's cardstock name tag became 1,750 programmable circuit-board badges with a screen, buttons and radio, walking through EVT, DVT and PVT prototypes, part-selection errors, flipped ICs, supply chain and the production run, with open-source hardware, firmware and a WebAssembly emulator.

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