Add-on dossier
A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
Cryptax's write-up records USB enumeration as a MicroPython board, a Raspberry Pi Pico W / RP2040 MicroPython banner, and a MicroPython REPL used to inspect files.
Badge context
Technical CTF write-up documenting observed badge hardware, RP2040/MicroPython behavior, USB serial access, Wi-Fi AP, web challenge pages, filesystem files, and encrypted flag database.
Official current site for the BSides Kristiansand lineage, current Noroff Kristiansand campus context, and 2025 archive navigation.
Official recordings page listing Caleb Davis's BSides Kristiansand 2025 talk, The making of a Sykt Badge, with embedded video.
Noroff report for the June 6, 2025 first BSides Kristiansand event at Noroff's campus and the SolaSec electronic duck badge with seven LED CTF challenges.
Source trail
Official current site source for the Norwegian Security BSides lineage, Kristiansand campus context, and 2025 archive navigation.
Primary official source preserving Caleb Davis's The making of a Sykt Badge recording in the BSides Kristiansand 2025 programme archive.
Attendee technical source for RP2040/MicroPython evidence, front LEDs, USB connector, exposed pins, battery holder, button, Morse-code markings, USB ACM serial access, Wi-Fi AP, embedded web server, challenge pages, REPL, filesystem, and encrypted flag database behavior.
Post-event source for the June 6, 2025 first BSides Kristiansand conference at Noroff, the custom SolaSec electronic duck badge, seven LED challenge indicators, CTF platform framing, and Kyle Shockley / Caleb Davis credit.