Add-on dossier
A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
Microchip adapted a bootloader so the badge appeared as a HackABadge USB disk where attendees could drag compiled HEX files for flashing.
Badge context
Designer-authored Hackaday article for Belgrade reuse, integrated LIS3 accelerometer, expansion pads, IR UART, USB bootloader, schematic, C framework, and MPLAB/Xpress workflow.
Hackaday source for hidden puzzle layers, gravity simulation, moving-message display, Tetris clone, infrared protocol, prize framing, and badge-hacking award categories.
Hackaday reveal source for the 8x16 LED matrix, four user buttons, reset and wake controls, IR communications, accelerometer, PIC18LF25K50, two AAA cells, USB programming, and Voja Antonic design credit.
Hackaday.io event-community page for Pasadena November 5-6 chat, badge-hacking discussion, schedule files, and linked firmware repository.
Hackaday event source for November 5-6, 2016 Pasadena context, Supplyframe DesignLab and Los Angeles College of Music venue, hardware badge, hacking competition, and crypto challenge.
Post-event Hackaday source for badge-hacking presentations, winners, $256 awards, crypto challenge recognition, display-matrix hacks, and hardware/firmware project context.
PDF manual source for Pasadena 2016 badge operation, hardware list, MCU, LED matrix, infrared, controls, USB bootloader, and hacking workflow.
Primary Hackaday.io project source for Voja Antonic's Supercon II badge, Belgrade lineage, LED matrix, accelerometer, expansion, Microchip bootloader, files, manual, Gerbers, and challenge firmware.
Hackaday retrospective source for open files, firmware, manual availability, Voja Antonic's design-talk context, and the badge as exposed-PCB design reference.
Public Hack-a-Day source repository for the badge hacking C framework, memory map, animation example, Makefile, compiled example HEX, schematic image, and MIT license.
Source trail
Source repository for the MPLAB X badge-hacking template, kernel function map, display/button/timing/accelerometer examples, USB bootloader instructions, and MIT source license.
Designer-authored source for hardware deltas from Belgrade, integrated LIS3 accelerometer, IR UART, expansion pads, USB mass-storage bootloader, schematic, C framework, and programming workflow.
Event source for Pasadena 2016 venue, dates, electronic hardware badge, hacking competition, and crypto challenge context.
Hardware source for 8x16 LED matrix, controls, IR, accelerometer, PIC18LF25K50, two AAA cells, USB programming, and Voja Antonic attribution.
Post-event source for badge-hacking award presentations, winning hack categories, crypto challenge recognition, and community project evidence.
Puzzle source for gravity simulation, moving-message display, Tetris clone, IR protocol, hidden challenge layers, and hacking award categories.
Primary project source for Supercon II naming, Pasadena event target, Voja Antonic and Dusan Petrovic team credits, Belgrade lineage, LED matrix, accelerometer, expansion port, Microchip bootloader, BOM, files, and manual.
Manual source for the 2016 Pasadena badge hardware, operation, USB bootloader, and attendee hacking workflow.