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A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
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CTF page
Official CTF page tying RomHack Camp to on-site finals and training-camp CTF context.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
bill of materials
Bill of materials with LCSC part numbers for the AW9523, FM8002A, TP4056, TPS61023, AP2112K, USB-C, microSD, headphone jack, U.FL connectors, and tactile switches.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
community firmware
MIT-licensed MicroPython 1.29 companion and console firmware by Silvio De Pasquale, published October 12-14, 2026: launcher, Walkman music player, games, LED studio, NFC tool, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth tools, name tag, synth, and a Mac-fed dashboard, keeping the stock Retro-Go emulators in their own partitions. Not an organizer release.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
community hardware reference
Pin map and quirks checked on a real badge: ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 N16R8, AW9523B at 0x58, ES8156 at 0x08, 22 WS2812-type LEDs behind a 74AHCT1G126 buffer, Ci522 with a PCB-coil antenna and parallel U.FL, Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector, debug header, and key wiring.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
lineage reference
Historical RHC22 badge page used as the previous source-backed RomHack Camp badge anchor.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
official closing talk
Cyber Saiyan's October 4, 2026 closing session material; the slides report October 2-4, 2026, 550 attendees, target reached, and thank the staff, volunteers, attendees, and sponsors. They do not mention the badge or a badge count.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
official event page
Public event page for the October 2-4, 2026 RomHack Camp at Flaminio Village and its unique hardware badge / collectible challenge. The September 28, 2026 recheck found a CAMP IS SOLD OUT banner; the 2026 design was published separately on GitHub and badge.romhack.io on September 29-30. The October 15, 2026 recheck found the page post-event: RomHack Camp 2026 is over, three days of talks, workshops, CTF, communities and a lot of good chaos at Flaminio Village, with thanks to everyone who came, spoke, volunteered, and played, and with a Camp 2026 Badge link to badge.romhack.io next to the Camp 2022 Badge page.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
official hardware and firmware repository
Cyber Saiyan organization repository created September 16, 2026 and filled in from September 25 to 30 with the README hardware table, Tactility and Retro-Go firmware trees, a combined build script, microSD layout, and the hardware/ folder (schematic PDF, Gerbers, BOM, pick-and-place). The October 4, 2026 recheck found firmware tags 0.2 and 0.3 published on October 1 and 0.4 on October 2, 2026, the camp's opening day, plus an open pull request from October 3 adding FLAC playback to the music player.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
official participant FAQ
Official participant FAQ source for the Flaminio Village setting, future badge-detail timing, hardware-badge inclusion, and collectible challenge wording. The September 28, 2026 recheck found the Cyber Saiyan on-site stand listing The Camp electronic badge among its purchasable items, card-only, which documents an on-site purchase channel without stating price, stock, or ticket inclusion.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
official post-event talk archive
Cyber Saiyan repository created October 10, 2026 collecting slides, code, and materials from RomHack Camp 2026 talks and workshops dated October 2-4, including the Meethack NFC Cyber Car Wash CTF and the opening and closing sessions.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
official setup and web flasher
Official badge.romhack.io site describing the Walkman WM-22-inspired ESP32-S3 badge and its features, a five-step setup (connect the screen, connect the battery, USB-C, bootloader mode, flash), a Web Serial esptool flasher for firmware 0.1.1, demo Tactility apps, and a Cyber Trivia link.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
schematic
Schematic PDF added on September 30, 2026. The LICENSE covers the two firmware trees only; no hardware licence is stated.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
setup-site source
Astro source for badge.romhack.io, with firmware 0.0.1 to 0.1.1 updates on September 27-28, 2026 and demo app uploads on September 29.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
Cyber Saiyan · retrieved 2026-10-01
Official setup site on the romhack.io domain naming the Sony Walkman WM-22 inspiration, the feature list (ESP32-S3, 2.4-inch TFT, stereo audio and speaker, LiPo, USB-C, microSD, NFC reader, buttons, camp agenda, camp map, retro games, Cyber Trivia), the self-assembly steps, and the firmware 0.1.1 web flasher.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
Cyber Saiyan / GitHub · retrieved 2026-10-15
Primary organizer post-event archive for the held camp: talk and workshop material dated October 2-4, 2026 and the opening and closing slides. The closing slides report 550 attendees; neither slide deck mentions the badge, a badge count, or field issues.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
Cyber Saiyan / GitHub · retrieved 2026-10-04
Primary organizer source for the hardware table (ESP32-S3 16 MB/8 MB, ILI9341 2.4-inch, AW9523B, ES8156 and FM8002A, 22 RGB LEDs, Ci522 NFC, microSD, Wi-Fi/BLE), the Tactility and Retro-Go firmware, and the build and flash workflow. The hardware files were last changed on September 30, 2026; the October 4 recheck found further firmware releases 0.2 to 0.4 on October 1-2 (the last on the camp's opening day) with Retro-Go button-mapping, VU-meter LED, and TagQuest accent changes. The October 15 recheck found only an October 10 README change adding a Setup your badge link, with no statement about the number of badges handed out.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
Cyber Saiyan / GitHub · retrieved 2026-10-01
Licence statement splitting firmware/tactility (GPL-3.0 and Apache-2.0 parts) from firmware/retro-go (GPL-2.0, zlib Lynx core) and noting the bundled Doom shareware WAD remains id Software / ZeniMax material. It does not license the hardware files or images.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
Cyber Saiyan / GitHub · retrieved 2026-10-01
Primary hardware source for the schematic, Gerbers, BOM, and pick-and-place, added in a September 30, 2026 commit. They document the design, not a production count or attendee allocation.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
RomHack · retrieved 2026-10-15
Primary official source for the October 2-4, 2026 RomHack Camp dates, Flaminio Village context, and announced badge/challenge claim. The September 28, 2026 recheck found the sold-out banner; the October 15, 2026 recheck found the post-event statement that RomHack Camp 2026 is over, with a Camp 2026 Badge link to badge.romhack.io, which is the basis for marking the edition completed.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
RomHack · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary current source for the on-site CTF finals and challenge context.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
RomHack · retrieved 2026-09-28
Official FAQ source confirming that badge details are pre-event and expected closer to the camp, while preserving the hardware-badge and collectible-challenge language. The September 28, 2026 recheck additionally found the Cyber Saiyan stand listing The Camp electronic badge as a card-only on-site purchase item.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
Silvio De Pasquale / GitHub · retrieved 2026-10-17
Secondary first-hand post-camp source: a community firmware author describes the board as handed out at RomHack Camp, says every detail was checked on a real badge, and adds the Qwiic/STEMMA QT port, the PCB-coil NFC antenna, the Traboda brand on the PCB, and an AW9523B burst-read quirk. It does not give a badge count.
Badge: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge