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ESP32-C3 Badge

Electronics / PCB — Jul 2026

A business card that lights up. A custom ESP32-C3 board with a 36-pixel display, designed and sent to fab in a day.

Render of the badge PCB: a 6 by 6 LED grid, an ESP32-C3 module and two buttons

Hack Club Fallout IRL, one-day build

What I did

  1. Designed a custom PCB in KiCad around an ESP32-C3, with 36 NeoPixels as a low-res display and two input buttons.
  2. Ordered from JLCPCB with a placement file for assembly.

Stack

  • KiCad
  • ESP32-C3
  • NeoPixel
  • JLCPCB

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esia@mit.edu