Lifecycle
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
The repository documents the Attribution Game clue/card workflow plus a Trick-or-Treat variant where attendees trade digital candy and cash it in for real candy.
SourceThe public team record credits challenge work, making puzzle content part of the badge's event role even though technical details remain sparse.
SourceThe talk and schedule context preserve the badge as a HackerHotel challenge surface, even though component-level firmware and app-store records remain open.
SourceE-ALE documented a NZD 20 on-site kit price at LCA after ARM sponsorship reduced the original hardware cost.
SourceThe badge could display the conference schedule, live Hacker Challenge score, and current location zone within the venue.
SourceInteractive panels were used for CTF signup, answer submission, attendee Sched-profile display, nicknames, profile pictures, and XP points.
SourceThe event page says ticket and sponsorship revenue is reinvested into venue, food, swag, and participant experience, giving the badge a documented role in the participant bundle.
SourceThe CFP, current sponsor page, and Humanitix listing identify the July 27-28, 2026 Amora/Hilton Adelaide event as the third BSides Adelaide and anchor CTF, village, hardware, embedded, IoT, and RF topic context without making badge-implementation claims.
SourceThe same first-hand wrap-up frames OzSecCon as a Melbourne physical-security conference with locksport, tamper-evident bypass, and key-impressioning activity.
SourceThe official RVAsec 6 layout placed badges from HackRVA in the James River Terrace area.
SourceThe ticket-prices page describes a non-profit shared-cost model where registered participants could contribute a corrected price on departure based on real attendance data, with a small price-calculation script linked.
SourceHITCON placed card readers and mini-games at booths and scattered around the venue, letting attendees activate interactions with their badge.
SourceThe 2024 activity system used the PCB badge as an attendee score surface across HITCON activities and games.
SourceAttendees could unlock badge LEDs by solving the board puzzle or completing sponsor booth challenges, with all LEDs unlocked leading to a HITCON lottery chance.
SourceTom Dalby's HAB Flash app used Tildagon as a HABVille navigation and tracking tool, sending location to a physical receipt printer during EMF 2024.
SourceThe official Zer0Con 2025 page places the event at Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul and frames the conference as a closed vulnerability-research community.
SourceThe official Zer0Con 2026 page places the event at Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul and frames the conference as a closed vulnerability-research community.
SourceThe official Quicket page places the Redacted-themed event at Lagoon Beach Hotel & Spa on December 6, 2025 and offers swag-bag plus swag-ticket context without publishing badge design details.
SourceThe official pocket guide lists registration check-in during the Human/Human+ conference days, grounding the badge-and-lanyard artifact in on-site attendee operations.
SourceThe official Zer0Con 2024 archive places the event at Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul and marks all reserved seats sold.
SourceThe official challenge page tells attendees to inspect the badge and other neck-worn materials for clues, while keeping the 2026 challenge intentionally vague and hint-free.
SourceThe challenge expanded beyond the skull PCB into lanyard data, room keys, standee glyphs, DEF CON media-server files, conference CD material, and program equations.
SourcePublic writeups and attendee recaps describe DEF CON 23 key-card material as part of the noir-themed badge challenge trail.
SourceThe Disobey 2019 badge firmware contained pointers used as part of the event's hacker puzzle competition.
SourceThe 2026 activities guide describes venue kiosks, SCAN mode, crank-built charge, printed clues, tasks, and LED animation rewards.
SourceJames Harrison's Barstats is an event-related Hatchery app, documenting that TiDAL apps included live camp-service integrations as well as graphics and games.
SourceThe current Hardware Village page says session details, workshop bookings, and tool guidance are still being prepared, so no final badge-session schedule is claimed.
SourceThe CfP names Camp++ FRAB as the submission system and describes technical talks and workshops, establishing software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe CfP names Camp++ FRAB as the submission system and describes technical talks and workshops, establishing software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe CfP names Camp++ FRAB as the submission system and describes technical talks and workshops, establishing software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe CfP names Camp++ FRAB as the submission system and describes technical talks and workshops, establishing software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe CfP names the Camp++ Pretalx submission system and the event page links schedule and recordings, establishing the software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe CfP names Camp++ Pretalx as the submission system and describes technical lectures and workshops, establishing software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe CfP names Camp++ Pretalx as the submission system and describes technical lectures and workshops, establishing software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe CfP names Camp++ Pretalx as the submission system and describes technical lectures and workshops, establishing software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe CfP names the Camp++ Pretalx submission system, establishing software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe CfP lists Camp++ Pretalx as the submission system, establishing the software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe CfP lists a Camp++ Pretalx submission system marked as coming soon, establishing the software-adjacent event infrastructure without implying badge firmware.
SourceThe official page says the CTF source became public, but this catalogue keeps that as event context because the source trail does not tie the CTF repository to badge firmware or badge hardware.
SourceThe official schedule and wiki describe a Badge Clinic where attendees could get help with assembly, features, repairs, hacking, and historical badge questions.
SourceThe guide points builders to Hardware Hacking Village equipment and personnel, and the event page says attendees could put their badge together there for the duration of the conference.
SourceThe official r2con schedule included NighterMan's badge talk covering prototyping, design, debugging, assembly, encountered problems, manufacturing, and tools.
SourceFriday Hacks #287 framed the badge as an electronic-badge production story for over 1,000 units, spanning artwork, electronics/code, assembly, and programming.
SourceThe badge was designed around CactusCon 11's Nightmare House theme and home-automation interaction rather than a generic blinky-only board.
SourceThe badge is documented as updating the schedule, showing the venue map, and reminding attendees about talks and workshops.
SourceThe current official venue and FAQ pages place BSides Tampa 2026 at the USF Marshall Student Center, 4103 USF Cedar Circle, Tampa, with participant check-in and registration context.
SourceThe MiniBadge standard documents extender pins introduced for the 2019 Enigma badge and warns that unverified I2C hardware may be treated like a MiniBadge.
SourceThe badge used a bottom connector for minibadge holder boards, I2C port expanders, individual minibadge power control, and chaining of up to eight boards.
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