As part of my first introduction to working with Arduinos, I worked to add more light patterns to the blinky lights plugin on the 2014 SAINTCON badge.
The SAINTCON badge was provided as a conference badge to the SAINTCON conference in 2014 (pretty explanatory name).
As a High school student attending the conference, I didn't have much experience with Arduinos or the programming language that was used to control them.
Part of the excitement of this trip to SAINTCON was getting to dive into new parts of technology and learning how things work. Starting with the soldering of the badge itself, all attendees of the conference needed to assemble their badge themselves if they wanted it to work.
Once the badge was assembled, the conference provided a basic Arduino sketch to get it to light up and show off your soldering skills.
And for those that really enjoyed the soldering aspect of the conference, there was an additional plugin for the badge called the Blinky Lights addon.
This addon plugged into the front the badge and added an array of 9 RGB LEDs.
The addon added in some logic to work the LEDs, but left the pattern design up to the main badge board.
The base mother board only had a few starting patterns on it to show off the lights.
As an intrigued high schooler, I thought it would be a great first step into the field of microcontroller programming to add some more patterns to this addon.
As a high school student with only about a year of programming experience, and in php no less.
The final project is not without it's bugs and could use some TLC and comments. But overall it turned out ok.
Checkout the repo Here
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