Notes from the devday

#Feature List

##Base badge features

• Battery level/alert
• Time
• Light
• Does useful things after event
• Name display in "hanging" mode
• Switch to schedule mode when inverted
• Schedule
• Must support an arbitrary number of stages
• Shows "my schedule" if you have flagged talks on the website
• Talk name, people talking, time, location, short talk description
• Alerts
• Arbitrary text
• Alerts are queued so we can send more than one and people can see them all

##Nice to have features

• Daily treasure hunt game
• Avatar
• Weather alerts
• Actual weather forecast
• "App store"
• Locally loadable "apps" over mass storage
• Metrics reported from badge (temp, batt, pedometer mode)
• Bar query

#Things we need#

• RSSI of all incoming packets
• Fixed packet size
• ARF?
• Fast mode change for channel hopping

#Current research

##Matt

• Radio channel switching
• Screen updates in RTOS
• Power consumption

##Mark

• Mass storage
• Microcode loading/exec from ram?
• Microcode writing OTA
• Gzip

##Bob

• IR/Buzzer testing
• Robot shield prototype
• Case/screen shield

##Drrk

• Pedometer mode/IMU

##Jonty

• Micropython prodding
• Pimoroni case manufacturing
• Message encryption
• Broadcast auth

#In progress

##Jonty

• Talking to PCB fab
• Talking to Atmel about CPU sponsor, maybe via beaglebone
• Talking to Pimoroni about case sponsorship
• Not yet contacted Repaper about screen death

##Matt

• Talking to Arrow ASAP

##Mark

• To contact densitron

#To be documented

• Radio protocol