Decided to model a #hexpansion idea this afternoon.

It’s a holder for some #StarTrek rank pips.

The height is accurate to the 2026 STEP file, meaning the top should be flush with the top of the badge. Will confirm when I actually have my badge haha

I’m not selling any of these, however if anyone is interested in making their own I can pop the .3mf file up somewhere

#emf #emfcamp #emfcamp26 #emfcamp2026 #tildagon #openscad #bambulabs #p1s

The 2026 EMF Badge Arrives, With An Add-On. As Expected, It’s Familiar

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/06/02/the-2026-emf-badge-arrives-with-an-add-on-as-expected-its-familiar/

Last year at #WHY2025 I sat under the right canopy at the right time. The EMF badge people approached Arturo182 to design a keeboard hexpansion, which he sadly had to decline. But I sat there saying:

"maybe I can design something" 👉👈

Two prototypes, one job termination and a new friend @sodoku (who wrote the firmware) later and we somehow ended up here: an official hexpansion for you to get for EMF camp.

 ORDER NOW

https://blog.emfcamp.org/2026/05/28/tildagon-2026-spaceagon/

#EMF2026 #EMF26 #tildagon #hexpansion

I made a USB Serial Keyboard driver for #Tildagon - run this, and the same terminal you use to get a tildagon repl (mpremote or minicom, eg) will now type keystrokes to the badge firmware as if you have the official tildagon keyboard instead of a thinkpad.

this is going to break soon, because lol, but here it is right now if you want to try:

https://apps.badge.emfcamp.org/apps/43302244/

Oh no. #emfcamp is coming up and I dropped my #tildagon badge onto one of my #hexpansion, ripping off the hexpansion connector, a trace and pad and several small components. 😱

The first re-usable badge and I trash the one part that is supposed to stay the same over the years..

Managed to #pcbrepair most of it though, 👍 by glueing the trace and pad back into place and redo everything else with solder paste. Verified electrical connectivity.

Now I just have to wait for the replacement parts. 😅

RE: https://chaos.social/@sammachin/116668141083383336

This reminds me to update my #tildagon and check that any apps I made are still working.

It probably would have been nice to build something related to the Mastodon API this year, but I guess I’ll leave it to someone else.

(side note, I was debugging something with WLED light sync this week and ended up building a trivial cheerlights to WLED UDP rebroadcast script, in Python)

Hurrah, #spaceagon front panel for #tildagon ordered, along with a handy (?) keyboard #hexpansion

It’s #emfcamp season!