Badgy - IoT Badge

Name: Badgy - IoT Badge
SKU: 11217
Price: 29.99 USD
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 4.11 (19 reviews)

(19 Reviews)

IoT Swiss Army Badge with e-ink + ESP8266 + Arduino + Python

Designed by SQFMI in United States of America

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IoT Swiss Army Badge with e-ink + ESP8266 + Arduino + Python

Badgy is a rechargeable IoT badge with an e-ink display and WiFi connectivity. If you are looking for Watchy E-Paper Watch, click here. Ideal For badge/name tag weather forecast news feed & notific…

Ideal For

badge/name tag
weather forecast
news feed & notifications
game scoreboard
smart home dashboard/remote
Spotify remote
WiFi deauther
anything that you can do with an e-ink display + WiFi

Hardware Features

2.9" 296x128 E-Ink Display
WiFi Connectivity
USB Charging + Indicator LED
Compatible with Rechargeable Coin Cell Battery (LIR2450) or Standard LiPo w/ JST-PH header breakout
5-way Tactile Switch for User Input
Compact Design 3.9cm x 9.6cm (~ 1.5" x 3.8")
Lightweight 29g (~ 1.0oz)
Battery Life
- Deep Sleep ~35 days
- Light use ~21 hours
- Heavy use ~5 hours
- w/ 1000mah battery ~1 year
Badgy Rev 2A
- Built-in USB-Serial Adapter - Upload your new sketch directly over USB or through OTA
- Auto upload circuitry - no reset/flash buttons required
- ADC to measure battery voltage (optional voltage divider jumper pad)
- Support for more E-Paper screens (optional jumper pad)
NEW in Badgy Rev 2B
- Built-in USB-Serial Adapter. Replaced the CH340 with the more reliable Silicon Labs CP2104
- The CP2104 fixes the battery issued in Rev 2A, as described here

Software Features

Arduino Compatible
MicroPython Compatible
WiFi-Manager
Toggle WiFi On/Off, Deep Sleep Modes
Over-The-Air updates

What You Get

Fully Assembled Badgy - Ready To Use (Battery not included, can be purchased separately online)

Documentation

Visit http://badgy.sqfmi.com for instructions, latest firmware, and additional documentation.

We also accept orders for custom designs and firmware, please inquire for further details

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.26)

Documentation: (3.68)

Shipping: (4.32)

Communication: (4.16)

Yuval | May 19, 2020

great product - created my own dynamic badge for conferences

Added QR codes, dynamic content etc. very easily.
only problem, is that due to covid-19 there are no conferences to show it off in :-(

George | Nov. 7, 2019

What a useful little device!

I've seen it on the web and thought this is a great idea. When I got my hands on it I loved it! Construction is good and documentation is amazing. For a first timer with arduino I found it very easy to program it with the provided examples. It takes some effort to resize / crop the images to fit the little screen but other than that is easy to get the device working per your desire.

Because is fragile keep in mind that some kind of case / cover / mount will need to be 3D printed to protect it.

Jack | Oct. 21, 2019

Easy all-in-one solution

I really like how easy it is to get the badge operational with interactive components like the directional switch and the wifi. I love the OTA update feature for programming from a Chromebook. It seems durable for what it is, but I recommend a case especially protecting the e-ink display. It's great that the e-ink display maintains state without power. I wish I could figure out how to add LEDs to it. I also wish it had a LiPo adapter. Finally, I wish I could figure out how to make the e-ink refresh faster.

Neale | Oct. 21, 2019

Love it

My new favorite toy. Well constructed, works as advertised, we're now going to see about buying several hundred of them for our event :)

Patrick | Aug. 10, 2019

Nice device, but badly soldered

Unfortunately the USB connector was not soldered propperly and ripped of after the 3rd usage. :(
You can clearly see that the lead below didn't even melt.

Nicholas | Aug. 1, 2019

Works great

Really love the badge and the capabilities of it. I've been playing around with some custom code but overall plan to use this as a simple name badge I can update on the fly. My other two cents on this badge are the designer should offer a case or at least the 3d stl files to make a case AND shipping is not from the United States as stated on the Badgy page. My badge came to me from SQFMI in Hong Kong with a customs value of $1.28 USD 8 days after I placed the order.

I will probably buy another one of these for my wife in the near future.

Dominic | July 18, 2019

Cool product - fast shipping

It is indeed more than a little misleading that this seller says they ship from the USA when they indeed ship from Hong Kong. With that said the item actually showed up in a few days. All the documentation on the the badgy github. I only wish there were more examples to play with.

good product!

Brad | July 16, 2019

DOA. Doesn't power up off battery power

Received unit and installed a fresh battery. Does not power on. Googled and came across the plethora of power issues folks have had with these where they work over USB only. Tried USB, and it powered up. Useless for me if it doesn't run off battery though, so into the junk drawer it goes. Sad, looked like a cool little badge.

Response from SQFMI | July 19, 2019

Hi Brad,

Sorry to hear about your bad experience. As discussed, you must use a LIR2450 rechargeable coin cell with Badgy for it to work. Regular coin cells (CR2450, CR2032, etc.) are under voltage and not rechargeable.

Peter | May 20, 2019

Badgy is a great all-in-one deal

If you're comfortable with the Arduino IDE and you want an all-in-one solution for e-ink with Wifi, Badgy is the nicest looking, cheapest and most fully featured product you'll find.

I've programmed Arduinos of various kinds for pet projects, so getting to grips with Badgy was pretty easy. There's no comprehensive guide or documentation for Badgy so you'll want to examine the examples in the Badgy GitHub repository, and it won't hurt looking at the Adafruit GFX docs and ESP8266 Arduino examples. It can also help if you know some server-side programming language basics so you can aggregate and prepare data from several sources on your server and deliver one concise JSON response instead of wading through an extensive REST API on Badgy if you don't need crazy interactivity with your data.

All in all I'm very happy with Badgy and I've already bought more after I determined that this is a good platform and I've got a number of ideas for it.

Shogo | May 10, 2019

A very good product.

I think I will have a lot of fun with this product.
If you know how to use the Arduino IDE, I think you will have no problems. Just following the instructions on github and running the example works just fine.

Shipment to Japan worked just fine.

Kevin | Oct. 23, 2018

Inaccurate shipping information but great product

The Badgy itself seems to be really nicely designed, there's plenty of example code on their github repo and it was quite easy to get started.

My only issue was with the Badgy being shipped from Hong Kong, rather than the USA as was stated in the listing. This meant that I got charged about an extra $13 in customs fees, since here in Sweden there's no tax exemption for small items from there any more.

I sent a message to Squaro to point this out and suggest that they update their listing but never got any reply.

Steven | Oct. 23, 2018

Works fine, but I'd hold off until they fix the battery

The only documentation is really with the examples, so it's lucky they work fine. (There's no real hand-holding here.) But you do have to read through the source to figure out how to upload sketches to the device etc.

However, you can't run if off battery, which is the primary reason for buying it, so wait until this issue is fixed: https://github.com/sqfmi/badgy/issues/20

Jean-Philippe | Aug. 30, 2018

A very Good Product

Badgy is VERY good !
- It's not so expensive
- I'm so happy to receive a piece of hardware that works out of the box without underground skills
- All the samples works, it's easy to create it's own code and upload it a modern way :-)
- There is large / small font, graphics works, ...

What could be improved ?
- Battery life (Arduino sucks at that): 2 HTTP request / day = 30day for 150mAh. There is a connector for a real battery creator should provide a board with battery 1500mAh instead of coin cell (without soldering)
- A 3DPrint case (I made one)
- A front LED
- Don't know if the button wake up the deep sleep (I don't think)

The result in few hours:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/7Jupc3YJT8ts3xFy8

Jack | Aug. 28, 2018

Great Product With Potential

Received my 2 Badgy’s with fast shipping, being a Github illiterate newbie I am having a bit of a struggle to understand the best place to start. Hopefully I will work it out as I have some good projects I want to use them on. Will buy more as they are very compact and suited to what I want to do :-)

Dave | Aug. 28, 2018

What a great package for the price

E-Ink, ESP8266, low power, OTA, documentation all packaged together for a great price. Shipping to Canada was reasonable and arrived fast. Go for it!

Marco | Aug. 11, 2018

Awesome product, awesome team

This is my first review on Tindie, for this product I have to write something. I bought a number of things from tindie, but this badge is one of the coolest. When I received it had some issue, but after contacting the team, they were able to help me out. The respond was super fast and were able to help be out.

I just have to highlight that communications with them were great and fast. I would definitely buy from them again.

Thank you,

Adrian | Aug. 11, 2018

Have an USB-to-serial adapter ready!

First time I work with e-ink display and ESP8266 deep-sleep. The "hourlyQuote" example application (github.com/sqfmi/badgytree/master/examples) nicely demonstrates Badgy's capabilities. Shipment was fast and email support by the developers responsive.

The github examples supplied by SQFMI include binaries. They compiled well on Arduino IDE, but on Eclipse (I use sloeber 4.2) some 3rd party libraries kicked up syntax errors.

The USB-interface provides power for operation without LiIon and for LiIon chaging, but lacks USB upload capability. The developers suggest OTA upload and support it in their example applications. For OTA upload you will have to use a separate WiFi device with browser (e.g. PC or mobile) in order to configure your access point's IP and password into the ESP8266's EEPROM. Only during this configuration process the ESP8266 acts as the AP (SSID "BADGY-AP") and HTML server vis-a-vis the PC's or mobile's browser. When configured, Badgy is a station on your access point and will automatically connect based on IP and password stored in ESP's EEPROM.

OTA is much faster than USB upload. However when developing your own application or modifying the examples, you will sooner or later either forget to include the OTA support code in the application or a bug will block the application (it happened to me during the first hour of tinkering with the hourlyQuote's code ;-). In both cases you will have to fall back on wire-based serial (FTDI) upload to restore OTA capability. So you better have an FTDI (USB to serial) converter ready right from the start. Connecting RX, TX, 0 and GND is sufficient if you supply power via USB or LiIon. Upgrading the USB interface with an on-board USB-powered (!) FTDI (e.g. using the ubiquitous CH340) would be nice.

Geoff | Aug. 9, 2018

Badgy is a great product!

Badgy is great fun.
This is my first play with e-paper, I am very impressed by the contrast on Badgy.
Like all the ESP## OTA updates is a fantastic way to upload new sketches!!!!
The only question I have, and I know it doesn't really matter, but which ESP8266 board in the Arduino IDE is the best selection ?
Keep up the good work
Regards
Geoff

Response from SQFMI | Aug. 9, 2018

Thank you Geoff!

You can use the "NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module)" board selection. Let us know if you have any other questions, and check out our GitHub for documentation and more code samples :)

Jose | July 30, 2018

Badgy IoT Badge

The badge arrived much earlier than anticipated which was great. The description and actual documentation could be well improved. I have a little coding experience so already this is a challenge for me. Anyone who gets the badge and the documentation doesn't provide a good starting point. Connect it to power, then turn the switch to "On", then press the joystick up and hold until the Badge prompts you to connect it to a wifi source. Overall a great badge and I look forward to tinkering with it.

Response from SQFMI | Aug. 8, 2018

Thank you for your support and feedback! We'll continue to improve/update our documentation and code samples for Badgy!

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IoT Swiss Army Badge with e-ink + ESP8266 + Arduino + Python

Ideal For

Hardware Features

Software Features

What You Get

Documentation

We also accept orders for custom designs and firmware, please inquire for further details

Rates to

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

great product - created my own dynamic badge for conferences

What a useful little device!

Easy all-in-one solution

Love it

Nice device, but badly soldered

Works great

Cool product - fast shipping

DOA. Doesn't power up off battery power

Response from SQFMI | July 19, 2019

Badgy is a great all-in-one deal

A very good product.

Inaccurate shipping information but great product

Works fine, but I'd hold off until they fix the battery

A very Good Product

Great Product With Potential

What a great package for the price

Awesome product, awesome team

Have an USB-to-serial adapter ready!

Badgy is a great product!

Response from SQFMI | Aug. 9, 2018

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Response from SQFMI | Aug. 8, 2018

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