Marc's Public Blog - Arduino Hacking

In 2021 I got my first SAO Conference Badge from Linux.conf.au (clickme for more) That LCA board had 4 SAO ports and came with 2 little cute penguins that I hacked a bit:

one of them was then in charge of running a neopixel necklace

I got a few spare SAOs to attach to my heavily hacked LCA badge :)

Anyway, back to Pasadena Hackaday Supercon 2024, they gave us a 6 SAO badge also running a micropython chip:

attendees nicely donated a few extra SAOs to me, which I wrote code for

even got an SAO extender :)

I had to solder it from parts at the after party in the pub

Oh, and has homework, I got a micro-SAO (Yo Dawg) with SMD Soldering to do at home (click me) [*SMD*/209*]

Back to the conf SAO and code I wrote, here is the result:

Micropython Code:

Main repo:

This was loads of fun, thanks to the organizers!