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SAINTCON 2026 Planned Electronic Badge community release v1.0.0 (2026-10-28)

alternative firmware

redactd's unofficial firmware turns the badge into a GIF player: D-pad left and right switch GIFs, up and down set screen brightness, the centre press pauses, A cycles the LED mode (ambient, rain, off), and B sets LED brightness. GIFs are copied onto a USB drive named SC26GIFS.

Badge
SAINTCON 2026 Planned Electronic Badge
Type
alternative firmware
Status
community release v1.0.0 (2026-10-28)
Compatibility
SAINTCON 2026 main badge (RP2350A). Flashing replaces the original firmware; the repository gives no restore image.
Source
https://github.com/im-redactd/saintcon26-gif-player

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community alternative firmware

im-redactd/saintcon26-gif-player

Unofficial MIT-licensed Pico SDK firmware for the SC26 badge by redactd, created October 28, 2026. It plays GIFs on the round display, matches the nine RGB LEDs to the picture, exposes a 15 MB GIF drive over USB mass storage, and has a USB serial console. Not a SAINTCON release.

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community hardware notes

SC26 badge hardware notes

Community hardware document with a GPIO map recovered from the badge's original firmware: RP2350A with 16 MB flash, Sitronix ST77916 360x360 round LCD over 4-bit QSPI, nine WS2812 LEDs, a single LED, five-way D-pad plus A and B, a 1 KB I2C EEPROM, and a dock-connector UART. It lists what was confirmed on real hardware and what is still unknown.

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official MiniBadge build guide

SAINTCON 2026 MiniBadge Assembly Guide

Official 285-page PDF, v1.0 dated October 22, 2026 and announced in the comms log on October 23. It gives difficulty, rarity, parts, board house, and how-to-get notes for every MiniBadge known for 2026: 4 official, 21 sponsor, 18 community, 6 event, 14 contest, 2 award, 208 personal, 3 badge-accessory, and 4 other entries. Several entries say they plug into your SAINTCON badge. It does not describe the main badge itself.

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official event page

SAINTCON 2026 official event page

Official current source for the October 27-30, 2026 Utah Valley Convention Center event, current production phase, and broader attendee context. The September 28, 2026 recheck found main registration sold out since its July 15 opening with a standby waitlist, and the site's phase tracker listing badges and swag in production under pre-launch operations alongside a badge-fabrication-bay teaser.

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official teaser log

SAINTCON 26 Comms Log

Official in-universe comms log reviewed on September 29, 2026. Four badge-fabrication-bay intercepts (June 13, July 10, July 27, and August 23, 2026) tease a close-up component photo, a badge proof showing wings and a rocket passing a ringed planet, and a twelve-image transmission; a September 8 entry rumours a MiniBadge bingo game, and a September 22 A-Maze-ing Phase 2 entry offers the Jupigotchi MiniBadge to the top 50 solvers. The October 15, 2026 recheck found an October 2 store-catalogue notice listing shirts, badges, lock tools, and more for in-person purchase only at the convention-center café, an October 2 Intercept 007 saying whatever they are building is made to connect to something (the first intercept with motion and audio), an October 11 Intercept 008 crane-assembly construction test, and an October 14 Octopus Game recruitment dispatch. The October 24, 2026 recheck adds an October 22 scoreboards notice, the October 23 MiniBadge Assembly Guide notice, and October 24 floor maps. The teasers publish no MCU, schematic, firmware, or image licence.

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Source trail

Evidence Sources

UtahSAINT / SAINTCON · retrieved 2026-10-15

Comms Log · SAINTCON 26

Primary official teaser source for the badge-fabrication-bay intercepts through Intercept 008 (October 11, 2026), the October 2 in-person store notice that lists badges among purchasable items without saying which, including the July 27, 2026 badge proof described as wings and a rocket climbing past a ringed planet and stars, and for the Jupigotchi MiniBadge puzzle prize. It is narrative teaser evidence for artwork direction and a prize MiniBadge only, not a final hardware specification, production count, or image-reuse grant.

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UtahSAINT / SAINTCON · retrieved 2026-09-28

SAINTCON 2026 official event page

Primary source for the October 27-30, 2026 Utah Valley Convention Center event, current badge-production phase, and attendee context. The September 28, 2026 recheck found registration sold out since July 15 and the phase tracker placing badges and swag in production, with trainings and family-night registration still open.

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UtahSAINT / SAINTCON MiniBadge community · retrieved 2026-10-24

SAINTCON 2026 MiniBadge Assembly Guide v1.0

Primary official source for the 2026 MiniBadge set, retrieved as a 21,175,129-byte PDF (SHA-256 62027f7418282e1b16cf4b137bc186a91cdbb51864d6a1d39b0f8125b26386c4). It credits Jup1t3r with the SAINTCON 2026 Official, Family Night Official, and OFFICIAL H.A.C.K MiniBadges. The SAINTCON 2026 Official MiniBadge is a beginner 1206 LED and resistor kit included with the registration packet. The H.A.C.K set is v-cut into letters and comes in the registration packet or is found around the con. The Jupigotchi is a fully assembled ATtiny MiniBadge with very limited supply. Rarity bands are self-reported estimates, and the guide says nothing about the main badge's electronics.

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redactd / GitHub · retrieved 2026-10-28

SC26 badge hardware

Secondary first-hand community source for the main-badge hardware: RP2350A (QFN-60) with 16 MB flash, a Sitronix ST77916 360x360 round LCD, nine WS2812 LEDs, a single LED, a five-way D-pad with A and B buttons, a 1 KB I2C EEPROM, and a dock-connector UART. It says the GPIO map was recovered from the badge's original firmware because no schematics are published, and that the display, LEDs, and four D-pad directions were confirmed on real hardware. The repository is named saintcon26-gif-player and calls the board the SC26 badge; it is not an organizer document.

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