Lifecycle
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
The 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. It establishes planned software-adjacent infrastructure without implying badge firmware, a completed programme, or an event outcome.
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.
SourcePunk Security's own event listing says it was BSides Newcastle's 2025 badge sponsor, and its public repository calls the artifact the Space Badge for BSides Newcastle 2025. This establishes a maker/sponsor event association without claiming the event organizer owned the archive or that every attendee received a unit.
SourcePunk Security's own event listing identifies it as CSIDES 2025 badge sponsor, and its public repository identifies the Crab Badge for the event. This establishes a maker/sponsor event association without claiming the event organizer owned the archive or that every attendee received a unit.
SourcePunk Security's own event listing says it was BSides Bournemouth's 2025 badge sponsor and identifies Punk BSides skull badges, while its public repository identifies the Skull Badge for the event. This establishes a maker/sponsor event association without claiming the event organizer owned the archive or that every attendee received a unit.
SourcePunk Security's own event listing says it was BSides Exeter's 2025 badge sponsor, and its public repository identifies the Pirate Ship Badge for the event. This establishes a maker/sponsor event association without claiming the event organizer owned the archive or that every attendee received a unit.
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 organizer ticket listing advertises a $30 optional BSidesFW 2026 e-badge add-on for the June 6 event. This establishes the offer and price snapshot, not order count, payment, manufacture, inventory, pickup, shipping, physical receipt, replacement, or attendee-wide distribution.
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.
SourceFirstBuild's public repository identifies a DefCon 34 washer/dryer badge and a FirstBuild / GE Appliances context, while DEF CON's own event source separately identifies the Baochip Human badge. Separately, a public Reddit author says they will give away 100 badges from a stated GE Appliances IoT Village booth. No reviewed official organizer source confirms that booth arrangement, and the sources do not say this washer/dryer project is a Human badge, is included with registration, grants admission, is issued by DEF CON, or has completed event availability.
SourceThe repository says parts to complete the badges were sold on the day and raised more than £300 for Mind. This preserves the narrow maker-reported fundraiser account without claiming an organizer-run campaign, exact purchaser count, exact parts-to-unit mapping, individual donation outcome, completed assembly total, or final badge allocation.
SourceThe official BSides Maine account calls the main attendee badge a hackable lighthouse with a pulsing beacon.
SourceThe IEEE club-partner listing gives a January 10, 2026 on-site registration, final-round hackathon, prize-giving, and 3 PM-8 PM Information Security Conference schedule. This corroborates the event setting for the ticket package, but does not prove individual attendance, badge distribution, credential use, or a post-event technical artifact.
SourceHackNWA promoted a CTF, ASMb1337, Solder Village, and Badge/Hardware Hacking activities for the conference. The sources do not identify the VIP Assembled Badge as their subject, interface, prerequisite, prize, or device platform.
SourceThe public 2023 event listing says Circuit Board Medics would help participants solder and transform their conference badge, while the contemporaneous BSidesGVL announcement says the badges could become Wi-Fi analyzers and the team would be on hand with soldering stations.
SourceThe official BSides Kristiansand article describes a custom, hackable electronic badge created by SolaSec in the shape of the Kristiansand city shield.
SourceThe board's J1 20-pin edge connector lets attendees slot in their own hardware; no pinout for it is published.
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.
SourceThe overview records add-on-pack paths for an Arduino MKRZero header, IR transceiver, audio codec, IMU, external flash, and PSRAM.
SourceThe official badge page and README document twelve minibadge spots, included female minibadge headers, and expanded minibadge support for the 2018 event.
SourceThe badge acts as an SAOv3 host over I2C with boot-time and hot-plug discovery and optional LED mirroring; attaching a Hack@UCF SAO permanently unlocks a colour-crossfade headlight mode and a gold scanner idle. The SAOv3 host library submodule was not yet public at the September 30 push.
SourceThe project file list exposes artwork archives, KiCad PCB material, Gerbers, and paste files for builders who wanted the shared visual identity.
SourceForum follow-up documented a 3x5 badge size and a practical color-copy plus lamination path for making the extra forum badge before or during the event.
SourceThe project linked an OSH Park shared board so remote participants could order boards rather than receive a centrally distributed official badge.
SourceCH405 Labs provides an MC-0o00 hardware-test binary that walks through display, button, and buzzer checks with user confirmation for pass/fail states.
SourceA WaveShare RP2040-Zero running picorvd-for-badges, wired as an SAO-header probe powered by the badge, flashes firmware.bin over SWIO and triggers the badge self-test; the README says these programmer SAOs programmed the attendees' badges in the Soldering Village and gives build instructions.
SourceThe production logs credit a Christophe-designed script that scanned for new USB ports and programmed multiple badges, supporting the 650-board test and assembly flow.
SourceThe badge exposes differential receiver and injector circuits, switched voltage references from 0 V through 4 V, high-impedance mode, and operation up to 5 MHz.
SourceThe badge docs expose voltage-glitch and crowbar controls, setup commands, trigger workflows, and target-voltage tuning through the GLiTCh BadgE CLI.
SourceThe recommended build includes a buzzer, and the RF-detector behavior can use audible alerts when signal detection warrants it.
SourceThe Ph0xx logs record a Fri3d Camp weather-balloon launch carrying a Ph0xx with the Air Jewel to measure air quality; the dust sensor stopped working at very low external temperature.
SourceThe official badge page lists RS485/Modbus RTU, CAN/CAN FD, 10BASE-T1S with an onboard physical-termination switch, and 10BASE-T1L as the field-interface set for OT, ICS, and automotive research.
SourceJawnCon describes settling on pulsed infrared laser marking for the front labels, with about 45 seconds per badge and explicit open-air laser PPE warnings.
SourceThe README and firmware document `/leds` and `/leds/` routes for status, all/none/blink/chase/twinkle modes, individual LED state, and RGB color updates.
SourceThe writeup documents avrdude dumping, EEPROM fields, inverted serial signaling, 38400 8N1 framing, and a 0xAF 0xFA packet prefix.
SourceThe official page names FreeWili Porpoise Purpose Firmware, USB serial terminal access, and OneWili API support for Rust, C/C++, Python, rThon, and WASM; it does not link a firmware/source archive or license.
SourceHackaday's Vectorscope article and repository frame the badge around MicroPython, oscilloscope-like display behavior, waveform generation, ADC/DAC signal paths, and four analog inputs.
SourceThe repository provides MicroPython application source and firmware documentation that describes compiled C modules and CTF challenge support. No reviewed release, tag, post-event guide, or device record verifies the production image or an owner-support path for 2026 units.
SourceThe designer archive describes its Bop It firmware and says at least two people hacked badges Saturday night and showed four new games Sunday. The independent attendee README calls the original a Bop It-style game and documents a replacement project. The record preserves the outcome at a high level without reproducing game, programming, or modification instructions.
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