Add-on dossier
A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
LayerOne's Hardware Hacking Village page says both attendee and speaker badges were electronic and had to be assembled in the village.
Badge context
Official source stating that the 2026 attendee and speaker badges were electronic and had to be assembled in the Hardware Hacking Village, with soldering and rework support.
Official post-event source for the completed LayerOne 2026 event, its three-button keyboard badge with blinkies and self-printed UV-resin art layer, named design and art credits, and the hand-repair response to an electrical issue.
Official badge page currently saying that 2026 badge information is forthcoming; it does not yet publish a 2026 source, binary, build, or flashing archive.
Official venue source for the May 23-24, 2026 Pasadena Hilton conference context.
Source trail
Primary official source for attendee and speaker electronic-badge status, required in-village assembly, hardware-hacking and surface-mount support, and the deliberately unrevealing 2026 badge section.
Primary official post-event source for the completed 2026 conference, the three-button keyboard form, blinkies, self-printed UV-resin artwork layer, KRS/mmca/charliex design credit, charliex badge-art credit, and riverside/Holly hand-repair credit.
Official 2026 badge-status source checked on 2026-08-03; it says badge information is forthcoming and exposes no 2026 source, binary, build, or flashing details.
Official source for the May 23-24, 2026 Pasadena Hilton location and date context.