Add-on dossier
A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
Grand Idea Studio hosted a badge-hacking contest for obscure or mischievous badge hacks, including synthesizer control, TV-B-Goon, multicolor LEDs, flame effects, and Morse-code firmware.
Badge context
VICE/Motherboard history placing the DEF CON 14 badge in the origin story of DEF CON badgelife.
Flickr source for Eliot Phillips / RobotSkirts' CC BY-NC 2.0 documentary photo titled DefCon 14 2006.
Primary designer page with hardware, production, role-color, contest, documentation, source-code, and hack details.
Joe Grand's DEF CON 14 slide deck covering badge conception, specification, PIC firmware, production, and contest context.
Source trail
CC BY-NC 2.0 original photo source by Eliot Phillips / RobotSkirts showing the DEF CON 14 badge; used for image provenance, not as a hardware-spec source.
Primary slide source for specifications, 6,055-unit quantity, cost target, feature set, firmware states, and production process.
Primary source for first-DEF CON-electronic-badge claim, PIC10F202 hardware, LED modes, production quantity, role-color variants, and contest lore.
Secondary history source for DEF CON 14 as the first electronic badge and the broader badgelife context.