Tindie Weblog | Protoboard Hexpansion

As an attendee of Electro Magnetic Discipline 2024, I did certainly pay money for a Tildagon, the most recent EMF badge. It’s an attention-grabbing gadget that goals to be extra future-proof than only a “one-off” convention badge. The massive hexagonal predominant badge has on every face of the hexagon a port and screw mounts so as to add “Hexpansions” that are group contributed add on boards. I noticed, traded and picked up a number of Hexpansions on the occasion however puzzled once I may see the primary ones hitting Tindie! This morning I noticed the Protoboard Hexpansion. 

The Protoboard Hexpansion breaks out all of the Tildagon Hexpansion pins to pin headers on a 2.54mm pitch and neatly creates energy rails on the edges of the board with 10 on either side. The 20 particular Hexpansion pins together with the GPIO are damaged out into two rows of ten pins marked by a silkscreen border after which there are 110 free pin pads on your “hexperiments”, sorry couldn’t resist the pun! The board additionally options two M2 mount holes which align with the chunky M2 threaded posts on the Tildagon badge making for a extremely strong add-on firmly linked.

It’s nice to see Hexpansions beginning to seem outdoors of the EMF occasion and it’s precisely what the badge workforce needed to attain, a badge that doesn’t simply sit in a drawer after an occasion – that it continues to be hacked on and tinkered with. As a bonus, right here is my Tildagon badge because it was on the finish of EMF 2024, the battery life did very nicely contemplating how a lot stuff I had hooked up!