I realise I’ve been writing right here on the Tindie weblog for some time now! A lot in order that I now stay up for new merchandise from particular makers, none extra so than Bradán Lane. Bradán has for quite a few years produced the eChallengeCoin collection, which has been a spectacular set of coin-sized boards which have contained fairly astonishing puzzles, video games and textual content adventures that includes the superb Sara Cladlow character, a social contractor with a penchant for safety investigations. This yr it’s the Explorer Badge and it’s barely totally different
You’ll discover that this yr’s badge isn’t referred to as an “eChallengeCoin” over on the product web page Bradán describes that they wished to create a tool which might perform as this yr’s problem but additionally be a platform for STEM/STEAM studying with a extra superior characteristic set and {hardware} choices. The Explorer badge has a text-based Sara Cladlow sport, “Sara and the Darkish Labyrinth” onboard, however is a Python and CircuitPython growth board in its personal proper with heaps of extra {hardware}. Behind the wonderful ePaper show, there are Neopixels, contact sensors, IR obtain and transmit, a speaker driver and extra.
LiPo is charging on board, however it is advisable provide your individual LiPo cell. The absolutely assembled Explorer Badge additionally comes with a sensible branded lanyard which additionally doubles as a USB C – USB A and lightening connector multi function. We stay up for seeing folks taking part in with these out within the wild.
