For this year’s annual Umbel SXSW Interactive panel sessions and party, Umbel Labs enabled team members to build their own conference badges at Umbel’s onsite makerspace.
Troy Lanier
With SXSW fast approaching, Umbel Labs has begun our yearly tradition of building badge bling. For last year’s panels and opening night party, we laser-cut shapes out of acrylic and then illuminated the acrylic with electroluminescent panel. This year we are building 8×8 LED…
This month we offered a project that taught basic soldering skills, how to work with LEDs and how to power a device off of a USB port.
In addition to our hack nights, Umbel hosts special build nights and workshops. Our October workshop centered around programming skulls to talk. The events are hosted in Umbel Labs, our internal makerspace, where we prototype data-related software, hardware and visualization ideas for the next…