I know it is slightly off topic but I am really curious...
How can the conference do this? Conferences are notoriously costly between the venue and the vendors, How is it that a $256 a ticket conference can afford to have a badge like this?
I know I couldn't make this badge for less than $40 a piece. I can't even find a screen like that for less than $30 unless you buy in the thousands.
Is there some trick to being able to do this stuff cheaply that I am not aware of?
In addition to low costs, often electronic badges are sponsored by a company. Like the DEF CON 20 badges being partially sponsored by Parallax, who made the CPU on the badges.
How can the conference do this? Conferences are notoriously costly between the venue and the vendors, How is it that a $256 a ticket conference can afford to have a badge like this?
I know I couldn't make this badge for less than $40 a piece. I can't even find a screen like that for less than $30 unless you buy in the thousands.
Is there some trick to being able to do this stuff cheaply that I am not aware of?
Edit: The description of the build on https://hackaday.io/project/27427-camera-badge-for-supercon-... is pretty awesome. It links to the LCD screens.... which indeed look like they are $40.