Lifecycle
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
The attendee report lists Electronic Badge Assembly as one of the BSides Tampa 2018 activities for the more-than-750-attendee event.
SourceThe repository says a companion activity flyer was given out on the day. This preserves high-level printed-material context without publishing its contents, codes, procedure, participant count, completion data, prize outcome, or a current playable or supported activity.
SourceThe TechFrontiers builder account says attendees could choose red, purple, green, or blue Ghost boards, while PACMAN boards were reserved for the organization. It does not establish quantities, exact recipient ledger, final color inventory, or every physical-board variant.
SourceThe official archive says there would be a special-edition electronic badge for the 10th year anniversary of HITB in the Netherlands.
SourceThe maker archive says attendees could use venue treasure chests to unlock additional LED modes and preserves companion source/model material. It establishes the source-described event interaction, not a chest count, deployment record, device configuration, challenge value, participant result, prize outcome, or current playable service.
SourceThe creator announcement directed attendees to spot clues around the convention and visit the Arts & Entertainment booth to participate in the badge challenge.
SourceThe 2024 Hardware Challenge Village description ties the badge to a competitive badge CTF contest and hands-on electronics tinkering.
SourceThe official Hackaday schedule placed the Badge Hacking Ceremony on Saturday night from 22:00 to 24:00.
SourceThe official schedule data lists a Saturday 22:00 Badge Hacking Ceremony before the Hackaday Europe party.
SourceThe official CHCon 2018 event page says CTF, badge, and locksport challenges would run throughout the main event.
SourceSupercon ran badge-hacking awards for blinky, deadbug, over-the-top, and crypto-solving work, with public presentations and prize recognition after the event.
SourceHackaday announced a Saturday-night badge-hacking ceremony for attendees to show what they made with the Berlin Voja4 badge.
SourceThe official event schedule included a Saturday-night badge-hacking ceremony, and the heise report describes participants presenting judged badge hacks.
SourcePost-event coverage records custom cartridges, enclosures, C demos, color-palette animation, splash screens, and a Linux-on-badge SDRAM cartridge project shown through the ceremony and hack list.
SourcePost-event coverage documented camera, printer, charging, VR, thermal, time-lapse, and 3D-printer projects built around the official badge.
SourceThe 2009 contest drew 32 official entries, with Zoz's anti-surveillance system, Team Hack the Badge's sound-fearing blimp, and 501d3r Guy's multifunction dialer/voice amplifier taking the top three places.
SourceThe 2007 contest drew seven official entries, including Team Slackers' pGina single sign-on generator and Team Osogato's winning hardware/firmware line-level meter.
SourceGrand Idea Studio hosted a badge-hacking contest for obscure or mischievous badge hacks, including synthesizer control, TV-B-Goon, multicolor LEDs, flame effects, and Morse-code firmware.
SourceThe official CHCon 2019 about page says the CTF included cyber, physical, and electronic challenges across both main-event days.
SourceThe 2025 Hardware Challenge Village description frames the badge activity around electronic tinkering, programming, and competitive CTF play.
SourceThe Supercon 8 Add On Contest pushed entrants toward functional SAOs using I2C, GPIO, sensors, displays, radios, and other active peripherals.
SourceHackaday reports a Konami-code sequence, hidden behavior, and a Grand Challenge for hacked badges during the event.
SourceThe challenge required collecting musical faceplate measures across multiple badge colors and using the combined melody to unlock later phone, URL, and friend-code stages.
SourceThe badge and surrounding event materials carried clues, hints, mini-puzzles, easter eggs, and the start of a weekend challenge rather than firmware or electronics.
SourceChallenge writeups document suit symbols, 3-bit binary values, pi/e/Gray-code/LFSR ordering, program text, floor graphics, and badge comparisons feeding the badge-contest solution path.
SourceThe badge was a required tool for DEF CON's largest contest, connecting cryptology, social engineering, programming, and attendee interaction to the official entry badge.
SourceZoom, Intigriti, HackerOne, and CTF.ae challenge legs each produced binary flags that could be entered into the badge.
SourceHackaday documented a Sunday badge-hacking ceremony after roughly 78 hours of hacking, with categories for badge-only Vectorscope work and Vectorscope plus external hardware.
SourceThe pre-event CTF announcement says all challenges would be on-premise, purchase would not be necessary to compete, and five CHV badges would be available specifically to CTF participants. The scheduled event dates have elapsed, but final allocation and CTF operation remain unreported.
SourceRVAsec layout and CTF sources place badge hacking and badge-challenge material in the 2018 CTF conference flow.
SourceThe official RVAsec 13 layout places badge hacking in the event context.
SourceThe same official sources place the badge experience alongside a Capture The Flag competition, technical talks, hands-on workshops, and networking, but do not yet expose badge-specific challenge mechanics.
SourceThe GPN17 challenge page collected badge-hacking tasks, scoring, and prize context for attendees during the event.
SourceThe official page documents a second CTF firmware path and a flashing station near the CTF area, with source release promised after the event.
SourceThe official badge page and registration manual tie the badge to Hacker Challenge participation and document pairing the badge with the challenge server.
SourceThe registration guide says Hackers Challenge registration prompted for a badge ID and that the badge could show the current game score from the last 30 seconds.
SourceAttendees visited a Hut 6 station with a teleprinter-style receipt printer to receive intercepted messages for Enigma decoding.
SourceLayerOne's HHV challenge list tied the badge to Open Sauce badge work, ESP32 BluTag JTAG, RP2040 timing-attack exercises, and a custom shadetree companion-hardware target.
SourceThe official post says participants could start the CTF when registration opened on February 6, 2026 at 16:45, with the competition ending on February 13 at 17:00 or when three participants solved every flag.
SourceThe competition rules solicit hardware mods, 3D models, apps, games, and standalone firmware for the badge, and list public hardware-mod submissions.
SourceThe official schedule says BSidesPDX 101 covered CTF, contests and events, badges, and more, and the speaker page says the panel discussed the thing around attendees' necks.
SourceThe official schedule says BSidesPDX 101 covered CTF, contests and events, badges, and more on Friday morning.
SourceThe official post-event page reports the April 2, 2026 IUT de Saint-Pierre conference, about 80 participants, more than 10 CTF teams, keynotes, and conference sessions.
SourceThe official BSidesPDX schedule places Electronic Taxidermy: Badger Hacking in the workshop track with Michael Leibowitz on October 16, 2015.
SourceEkoparty's official page identifies EKO 22 as the October 7-9, 2026 CEC Buenos Aires conference, and an October 12 attendee writeup confirms it took place; this is event context, not a completed badge-delivery record.
SourceHackfest's official history describes 2019 as the pre-pandemic record edition with 1600 participants at the Plaza.
SourceThe Calagator listing says Security BSides Portland had PCB badges, T-shirts, and bags to give away, with donors receiving them first.
SourceThe badge sat in a broader hands-on event environment with soldering, hardware/chip-off, IoT, car-hacking, wireless, AI, open-source, and maker activities.
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