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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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.

In case you haven’t heard, the best hardware conference in the world was last weekend. The Hackaday Superconference was three days of hardware hacking, soldering irons, and an epic hardware badge.

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 ...

Reporter Brian Whitley spent some time over at the annual Crimes Against Children conference in Dallas today: To stop crimes against children, it takes a lot of adult communication. That's the ...

When a civilian normally encounters a law enforcement officer, it’s usually easy to identify them. Most wear a lapel pin with their last name and a badge with a number on it.