At the start of 2026, we released three new wearable boards under the heading of Badgeware! This squad of Raspberry Pi RP2350 powered wearable tech is made up of...
Badger 2350 — a 2.7 inch 264 x 176 e-paper display.
Tufty 2350 — a 2.8 inch 320 x 240 full-colour IPS display.
Blinky 2350 — a 3.6 inch, 872 pixel brilliant white LED display.
All of which feature the powerful RP2350, clocked at 250MHz, 16MB of flash storage, 8MB of PSRAM, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.2 (via the official Raspberry Pi RM2) and a generous 1,000mAh battery with onboard charging.
These boards have been out in the world for a few months now and we wanted to share what the community has built upon our exciting new range.
If you've got a cool project that you want us to hear about, drop Les an email!
We've set up a new GitHub repository to help folks share their Badgeware apps with others. Send us a pull request and submit your cool Badgeware project today!
Yes, it Runs Doom!
Doom, originally for your 386 PC back in the 1990s, has been ported to everything. DNS, earbuds and even your PC BIOS. Now we can add Tufty 2350 to that list thanks to Charlie Birks' project.
... and what was the first thing I did? 😆
— Charlie Birks (@charlie.daft.games) 30 January 2026 at 20:52
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The project is based upon RP2040 Doom and uses the shareware version of the game. Now you can rip and tear your way through the labyrinth of hell from the comfort of your Tufty 2350. You can download the UF2 file and flash it to your Tufty 2350 for a quick game of demon slaying. Just remember to backup your projects before flashing the file, as it will wipe any files in the flash storage.
Playing Nintendo on the Tufty 2350
The Badgeware project is much more than “My name is …” and this great project from Lalo Morales (aka Lalopenguin on YouTube) crams a working Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) into a Tufty 2350.
Tufty Nes is a fun way to get a full NES emulator hanging around your neck!
Your games are stored as ROMs (dumps of the game cartridges) which are embedded into the firmware. No additional storage is required. A ROM selection menu provides access to a plethora of classic games. We’d happily sit down and play The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros 3 on this. Your controller is a QwSTPad I2C gamepad. Our own version of this pad features in the STEM Kit version of Tufty 2350.
In the video, Morales can be seen playing Bartman (Bart Simpson's super hero alter ego), Paperboy, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This is quite the feat given that Morales is holding both the Tufty 2350 and the gamepad while playing through a camera lens.
This project is a fork of Ilya Maslennikov’s Pico-Nes emulator, tweaked to run on the RP2350.
Rickrolled by a Blinky 2350
Lalo Morales has also hacked together a project on the Blinky 2350, another Badgeware board but instead of an IPS or e-paper display, Blinky 2350 has a 3.6 inch display made up of 872 brilliant white LEDs.
Morales' project sees the classic "Rickroll" meme brought to the platform as a dancing silhouette. Not sure what a Rickroll is? It is a basic "bait and switch" prank. You click on a link thinking you will get something cool, instead you get the classic 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You up" performed by Rick Astley. The prank originated in 2007 and is credited in reviving Astley's career. Right now, there are nearly 1.8 billion views (to be exact there are 1,760,681,674 views) of the music video.
Let Tufty 2350 Choose Your Lunch
In the United Kingdom, chain bakery Greggs is a well known feature of the high street. They are famous for sausage rolls (non-UK readers think of sausage meat in flaky pastry) but they also sell a range of savoury treats. The problem is, which one do you grab for your lunch?
I created this project to learn how Tufty 2350 and Badgeware worked. It rotates through a series of images, all of which are tasty Greggs products, and when you press B, it stops and picks the pastry for your lunch. Show it to the member of staff and receive a randomly selected savoury snack.
We've got an entire website dedicated to Badgeware. Go grab yourself a board and use our learning resources to get the best from Badger, Tufty and Blinky. Head over and take a look!