I just realized we’ve been so focused on getting them out on the Twitterverse that we haven’t posted an updated view of the final badges here.
With the green prototypes, we found we couldn’t flow most colors through the substrate perfectly, because all of the “cool” colors were too close to the green solder mask, and basically made large green clouds behind the board. Nice effect, but we wanted more flexibility.
We thought it would work better with black, allowing us to take advantage of the RGBs on the second board, but we weren’t expecting it to look THIS good. Kevin’s working hard on visual effects, and the challenge games, and implementing a Vagus breathing exercise (what happens in vagus stays in vagus) assistant to help you de-stress during and after the con. I don’t think that’s been done on an indie badge before, LOL. There’ll be a separate article on that later. Or you could just google it.
The badge will come with a custom lanyard and a little bit of swag. Hopefully we’ll find time to add an instruction manual. We’ve got the anti-static bags, the shipping boxes, and all the swag. We’re just waiting for the lanyards and the final firmware. We will definitely have some at the con*, but we’ll have more ready to ship within a couple weeks after the con, unless miracles happen and heaven and earth and international shipping bend to our will. Stranger things have happened. Stay tuned. Follow us on twitter @dc540_nova for the latest updates. Join the Discord if you want to hang out with us. We’re usually online Monday evenings, although this Monday we’ll be a bit distracted soldering a bunch of stuff.
[*Assuming the con still happens. From this viewpoint, it appears things are heating up in the west. My plan is to go if I can, i.e., if the con isn’t cancelled, if travel isn’t disrupted, and if restrictions don’t make it impossible. If plans get disrupted, ours or yours, everyone who ordered badges for hand delivery can have them shipped, we’ll figure it out.]
Also, Kevin created a stellar hype video to get your blood pumping (before we slow it down again with the Vagus breathing exercises).