Don't be afraid of your badge. Let's recapture the joy you felt the first time you managed to make a computer do something interesting. Who am I? I have a complete set of EMF badges, but I always found the notion of writing something for a badge intimidating. But in early 2025, I started messing with the Tildagon at home, and it's a lot of fun, and way less overwhelming than I had anticipated, and I'd like to share some of that. Who is this for? People who: - (Used to) enjoy writing code - Know a bit of Python, but have never had the opportunity to apply that to something like the Tildagon - Would like to find out how short the path to Making Their Tildagon Do Something Fun is What we'll learn I have built a little suite of Tildagon libs, and an app skeleton. In this workshop we'll walk through setting these things up, and together we can Build And Deploy Our First App. And then maybe look at some of the things that have tripped me up along the way (relative imports, micropython limitations, &c), and how we can make our apps testable. And then have some time for questions and discussion. This workshop feels like something I would have appreciated during previous EMFs, and I don't think I can be the only one.