Add-on dossier
Show-badge lineage context
A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
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event report
Hackaday coverage source for the Arduino-compatible badge, bag-of-components distribution, HHV assembly workflow, FTDI header, challenge secrets, and blinky-board add-on context.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
first-hand badge write-up
Josh Datko first-hand source for the SAINTCON 2014 badge, Arduino-clone framing, FTDI programming, HHV soldering context, hidden source-code secret, blinky expansion board, and designer/support credits.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
partner repost
SparkFun repost/context source for the October 20-23, 2014 Ogden event window and badge-hacking narrative.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
retrospective partner context
Cisco's 2015 write-up frames SAINTCON show badges as a two-year program, used here only as lineage context rather than as a source for unrecovered 2014 electronics details.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
Cisco · retrieved 2026-05-15
Retrospective SAINTCON show-badge lineage context; not used to infer unrecovered 2014 component or firmware details beyond the existence of prior-year show-badge activity.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
Hackaday · retrieved 2026-05-15
Secondary coverage source corroborating Arduino-compatibility, FTDI header, bag-of-components distribution, HHV soldering, blinky board, and hidden challenge behavior.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
Josh Datko / Datko.net · retrieved 2026-05-15
First-hand badge source for the Arduino-compatible SAINTCON 2014 badge, FTDI programming, hidden Hacker Challenge code, blinky board, and named contributors.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
SparkFun News · retrieved 2026-05-15
SparkFun repost/context source for the October 20-23, 2014 Ogden event and badge-hacking write-up trail.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge