Thanks to the SAO Wall, there's always an incredible array of badge add-ons to check out at Supercon. Things have only improved since we started putting an SAO header on the badge in 2019.

I end up going home with several SAOs every year, some of which were created by the community specifically for Hackaday staff (thanks, BTW). But I always feel bad that I never have one of my own to give back in trade. So this year, I've decided to do something about it.

Since I've never made an SAO before, the wise thing would be to start small. But where's the fun in that? I'm going to start on the deep end, and risk a proper drowning. I went back and forth between a few different ideas, but I think it's only fitting that my first SAO is based on something that's really inspired me over the last couple of years: the cyberdeck.

Messing around in OpenSCAD, I've come up with a basic cyberdeck shape that's scaled around the common 0.91 inch 128x32 SSD1306 OLED display. My idea is drive the display with an ATtiny85, and have it show random cyberpunk things. Really like the idea of scrolling the first chapter of Gibson's Neuromancer, but I know the storage on the 85 is going to be limiting in that regard.