Smokey Bear as an alien: only you can prevent abduction
SAINTCON MiniBadges
Every year I make a handful of SAINTCON minibadges — small
PCBs that plug into the conference badge and mostly exist to blink at people.
They’re all designed in KiCad, so instead of posting a
flat render, each badge below is embedded live: pan and zoom the real board with
KiCanvas, and spin the exported 3D model around with
<model-viewer>.
2026
Van Gogh as PCB art, with the back LED shining through the mask
Trogdor the Burninator as seen on, "Homestarrunner.net! It's dot com!", Strong Bad Email #58 - Dragon.
Sam and Quorra reaching for the identity disc at the film's end
Exposed-trace Wolverine — also a UVU t-shirt
2025
A long-time fan's symbiote remix, and my first minibadge
Bare traces on black, to match the 1959 black-and-white original
A custom spin on the UVU logo in bare, gold-plated traces