n8n Zero to Hero · Level 1: The Automation Playground · Episode 10
Level 1 Boss Project: Digital Name Tag Machine
Every Level 1 skill, combined into one finished badge for your robot — plus a brand new year calculation.
What this episode is about
This is it — the Level 1 finale. We reopen the exact workflow built across Episodes 3 through 9 and add one last node: a Name Tag, pulling the robot's name and codename by node name, its remaining power, and its skills, all combined into one polished badge with a single expression. Then we add one brand new thing: a joinYear field and a bit of simple arithmetic to calculate how many years the robot's been active — the same addition and subtraction from Episode 6, just pointed at a date instead of a battery. We label it with a sticky note, export it as JSON, and that download is this level's official badge machine.
What you'll learn
- Combining data from multiple earlier nodes into one final, readable output
- Reviewing every Level 1 skill in one build: fields, data types, expressions, node references, debugging, and export
- Adding a joinYear field and calculating years active with simple subtraction
- Labeling the finished workflow with a sticky note so it's easy to read later
- Exporting the finished badge machine as a JSON file to download and share