Screaming Circuits and Sunstone Circuits Unveil Open Hardware Summit "You Do You" Lapel Pin Badge
PIC-powered and motion-sensing, the You Do You Lapel Pin will be just one of the goodies on offer at the 10th Open Hardware Summit.
Screaming Circuits has released details of the You Do You (YDY) Lapel Pin, a compact open source badge which will be making an appearance in attendees' goodie bags at the Open Hardware Summit in New York this March.
"Hey —— you're the inventor, the entrepreneur, the innovator. Some of you want to solder your boards and some of you don't," Screaming Circuits' Duane Benson explains of the compact badge's name. "We're an electronics manufacturer and we support you either way. If you are building your own, you do you. If you need us to build them, we'll do us."
Designed in partnership with Sunstone Circuits, the YDY lapel pin measures just 1.3x1.6" and takes its power from a single CR2023 coin cell. The brains of the device comes courtesy of a Microchip PIC18F46K22 microcontroller, while an NXP MMA8452 MEMS-based accelerometer provides an input. Finally, the top of the badge is covered in 0402 surface-mount LEDs — arranged, naturally, to spell out "YDY."
"It's perfect for the shy person wishing to avoid eye contact. Simply clip it to your lapel. When you go to shake someone's hand, the MMA8452 will register the movement, causing the YDY LEDs to light up and distract the handshakeee, diverting their gaze from your eyes to your lapel," Benson jokes. "Extra shy people may clip it to their shoelaces for even greater gaze avertment."
The YDY Lapel Pin will be joined in the goodie bags for the 10th Open Hardware Summit, of which Hackster is a proud sponsor and taking place on March 13th, 2020 in the New York University School of Law, by a range of other designs - including a clever nRF52840-powered watch-format wearable designed by OSH Park. More information on the event is available on the official website; Benson, meanwhile, advises those who will not be attending to keep an eye on the Screaming Circuits blog for links to design files and assembly instructions in order to build their own.