The BSides Indore Badge

The Story

I was asked by Aditya Rai, founder of BSides Indore to brainstorm a badge for their inaugural BSides conference. Aditya had some of his design ideas in mind so that's naturally where we started.

The front side was going to feature a robot artwork.

Jumping quickly into initial tests brought us the realisation that there needed a lot of tweaking to get the best UV Print.

At the same time, we were hit by an unreasonably detailed urge to make this badge unique by putting a different artwork on the backside and matching the component placements on both sides but still keeping the PCB single-sided.

And so the backside spaceship artwork took its shape in the silkscreen method.

Some tricky placement of components was made to complete our schematics.

The BSIDES INDORE text as well as the robot eye would glow from the front side so those portions were kept translucent as bare epoxy. Two electrolytic capacitors fit in nicely on the spaceship exhaust on the backside.

Pushing gerbers to fabrication gave very promising results.

The boards are then UV Printed with our artwork on the front side.

The badge is ready after hand soldering all SMD LEDs upside down as well as the rest of the components.

The Working

After inserting 2 CR2032 Coin Cells, turning on the switch glows the Robot eye and blinks the text BSIDES & INDORE alternatively.