How we made the Supabase Select 2026 badge

Supabase Select is our developer conference, and this year it took place in San Francisco on October 2. Every attendee received a programmable badge they can keep hacking on long after the conference. During the conference it was an animated name tag with the schedule and a couple of games on it. Since then, people have turned it into a live flight tracker, an arcade game about dead tuples, and a language model that runs entirely on the badge. Here’s how we went about building the badges, and some ideas to push it even further. Our first iteration was a board with a Raspberry Pi Pico, a screen, and a battery, attached so you could pull them apart and use them as a starter kit once the conference was over. It was…