Beyond those worries, other scholars have suggested that those who can’t afford a conference fee upward of $100 shouldn’t be blocked from attendance. Other conferences, of course, have name badges.

The badges include a Near Field Communications (NFC) antennae -- that's what swaps the data when two badges are "bumped." The contact information you collect can then be synced with a conference ...

It's an e-ink display powered by a Raspberry Pi RP2040, which you can set up as a cool name tag to show everyone you meet at your next conference. Once you're done, you can probably adapt this ...

We’ve regularly written about conferences and ways to improve one’s experience at them, but, as far as I can tell, we’ve never written about their most common feature: name tags or badges ...

This is the year the badges get badges, and it’s never been a better time to get started designing your own PCB. It’s the demoscene for hardware, and now it’s open to everybody.

But the same can’t be said for most of our beloved conference badges. Wanting to explore the concept a bit, [Ayan Pahwa] set out to create his own MQTT-connected badge that he’s calling ...

3 - Badges As Advertising: If you pay enough to sponsor a conference you get to put your company’s name all over the conference badge. If the badge is big enough you can put your URL as well. 4 - ...