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BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl Badge officially documented

badge challenge

A one-byte EEPROM state byte at address 0 gates three hidden bonus LED animations, each unlocked by winning one of three single-player games (Stop The Light, Follow The Sequence, Find The Sequence), with matching two-player variants.

Badge: BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl Badge
Type: badge challenge
Status: officially documented
Compatibility: BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl Badge
Source: https://github.com/punk-security/bsides-leeds-2026-badge

Badge context

Related Resources

official event page

BSides Leeds 2026 official site

Official BSides Leeds source for the June 13, 2026 seventh edition at Cloth Hall Court, Quebec Street, Leeds, United Kingdom.

Badge: BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl Badge

source repository

bsides-leeds-2026-badge repository

punk-security repository for the BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl badge, with firmware.ino, BOM.csv, and prebuilt firmware images, but no LICENSE file and no hardware design files.

Badge: BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl Badge

Source trail

Evidence Sources

BSides Leeds · retrieved 2026-05-15

BSides Leeds 2026

Primary official source for the June 13, 2026 seventh edition, Cloth Hall Court Leeds venue, and United Kingdom Security BSides context.

Badge: BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl Badge

GitHub / punk-security · retrieved 2026-05-15

bsides-leeds-2026-badge

Primary repository source for the ATtiny814-SSF microcontroller, eighteen SK6812 RGB LEDs, six capacitive touch pads, two CR2032 holders, the EEPROM-gated game-unlock challenge, and the absence of a license file.

Badge: BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl Badge