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Pug Pet community firmware
A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
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alternative firmware
David Vasquez's unofficial pixel pug is fed, played with in Treat Catch, taken on walkies, petted, and put to nap. It installs into the spare ota_1 slot, leaves the original firmware in ota_0 with a Boot stock firmware menu entry to switch back, and stores its save in the NFC tag's EEPROM, so a phone tap shows the pug's name, food, and fun levels.
- Badge
- SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
- Type
- alternative firmware
- Status
- community release (2026-11-01)
- Compatibility
- SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge over USB with ESP-IDF 5.5.1; the author recommends a full flash backup first, which holds the badge's Wi-Fi settings and should stay private.
- Source
- https://github.com/PugTechnology/saintcon25-pug-pet
archived official badge page
Internet Archive capture from November 9, 2025 of the official BadgeLife community page, crediting compukidmike, redactd, v0rtex, BP, and Mike's Wife and describing the badge game, the Klippy AI storyline, the wrench design hint, support, and a booth MiniBadge.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
archived official event page
Internet Archive capture from November 3, 2025 of the official homepage, reading Goodbye, and Thank You from SAINTCON 25 above the October 21-24, 2025 dates and the Utah Valley Convention Center venue.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
community alternative firmware
Unofficial MIT-licensed PlatformIO firmware published October 31, 2026 that tracks 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi access points or Bluetooth LE transmitters by RSSI, with a display HUD, a 20-LED signal meter, and a serial CLI. The README marks it as work in progress and developed with AI assistance.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
community alternative firmware
Unofficial MIT-licensed ESP-IDF 5.5.1 pet game by David Vasquez, published November 1, 2026. It installs into the badge's spare ota_1 app slot beside the original firmware, keeps saves in the ST25DV NFC EEPROM, and also builds for the browser.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
community browser emulator
SAINTCON Badge Museum build of compukidmike's original 2025 firmware compiled to WebAssembly from a pinned commit, with the pug pet as a second mode. The museum's code is MIT; the badge firmware stays under its author's terms. Not affiliated with SAINTCON or UtahSAINT.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
designer hardware and firmware repository
Repository created October 27, 2025, with the badge and Nut board files and firmware, a README describing the wrench badge and Nut game, and an AfterCon Nut sketch added November 12, 2025. It states no licence.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
firmware source
ESP-IDF badge firmware, version 0.2.1, with LVGL interface, badge game, faction and Nut tables, API client, OTA, NFC, MiniBadge, battery, secure-element, and Dawn Accord components.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
game station firmware
ESP-IDF firmware, version 1.2.0, for the ESP32-C3 Nut stations with PTX105R NFC reader, MCP23x17 expander, rotary input, and LED components.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
game station hardware
Schematic, Gerbers, and KiCad files for the NFC Nut game stations, plus STL files for the printed nut, base, ring, and button.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
hardware design files
Schematic PDF, final BOM PDF, Gerber archive, and KiCad project archive for the wrench badge.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
post-event station sketch
Arduino sketch added November 12, 2025 that turns a Nut into a Bluetooth LE keyboard named SC25Nut for volume and play/pause control.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
BrainVirus / GitHub · retrieved 2026-11-01
Secondary community source for an unofficial fox-hunting firmware; it corroborates the ESP32-S3, the five-way control, and the 20-LED layout but is not used as a primary hardware source.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
David Vasquez (PugTechnology) / GitHub · retrieved 2026-11-02
Secondary community source for an unofficial pet firmware. It corroborates the ESP32-S3, the ota_0 and ota_1 app slots with the original firmware in ota_0, the ST25DV NFC EEPROM, and the ATECC608B, and says the pet never writes NVS, the storage partition, or eFuses.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON via Internet Archive · retrieved 2026-11-01
Archived primary source for the BadgeLife team credits, the collaborative badge game, the Klippy AI storyline chapters of 2023 and 2024, the wrench design hint, the solder-bridge support note, and the booth MiniBadge. It gives no hardware specification, quantity, or allocation.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON via Internet Archive · retrieved 2026-11-01
Archived primary source for the October 21-24, 2025 dates, the Utah Valley Convention Center venue in Provo, and the post-event Goodbye, and Thank You from SAINTCON 25 notice. It does not describe the badge.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
compukidmike / GitHub · retrieved 2026-11-01
Primary designer source for the 50 mm wrench shape with a 10 mm lanyard hole, the NFC tag in the jaw, the Nut stations writing one-time codes that the badge checked in with the game server for points or node unlocks, and the published board files and firmware.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
compukidmike / GitHub · retrieved 2026-11-01
Primary designer source for the component list: ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, 2.0-inch ST7789 LCD, 20 WS2812B-2020 LEDs, ST25DV04K NFC tag, ATECC608B, four-way navigation switch, slide switch, USB-C, two-AA holder, XC9148 boost converter, AZ1117-3.3, A3910, and three MiniBadge footprints.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
compukidmike / GitHub · retrieved 2026-11-01
Primary designer source for the ESP32-C3 Nut station firmware, its NFC reader and expander components, six LEDs, and rotary and button inputs.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge
compukidmike / GitHub · retrieved 2026-11-01
Primary designer source for the ESP32-S3 target with 16 MB flash and PSRAM, the GPIO map, the six factions and Nut types, the sc25.redactd.dev API base, the two-hour OTA check, MiniBadge scanning, and the Dawn Accord resistor and trace checks.
Badge: SAINTCON 2025 Wrench Badge