Lifecycle
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
The village description says the kit included a PCB, components, and more, with the built circuit powering up through a battery and switch.
SourceThe official abstract framed the badge around electronics, microcontrollers, LEDs, embedded devices, and practical hardware-hacking education.
SourceTeam r0ket brought RGB flame m0dules to 28C3 as a purchasable hardware extension for the badge.
SourceThe repository preserves the KiCad project, board files, schematic, generated Gerbers, and position files needed to study or reproduce the badge PCB.
SourceThe official badge page lists public Best Hardware Mod submissions, including 3D-printable battery holder and case approaches for carrying or protecting the badge.
SourceSecurity Fest hosted a soldering village so attendees could solder their own LEDs in chosen colours and personalize the badge.
SourceRaspberry Pi's article and the PamirAI user guide identify the badge around a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 platform intended to run local, private, interactive edge AI.
SourceThe Hackbat README documents the ESP32-C3 WROOM module as the badge core, with 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, BLE 5.0, and Arduino IDE or ESP-IDF programming paths.
SourceThe workshop page describes the supplied hardware as an ESP32 badge board, and the board README documents an ESP32-S3 demo board for Aranya Embedded.
SourceThe official page lists Heltec Wireless Tracker V1.1 hardware with ESP32-S3FN8, SX1262 915 MHz LoRa, UC6580 GPS, TFT display, user button, RGB LED, buzzer, and 450 mAh battery.
SourceVillage-sold Differential Destroyer boards were documented as Pico 2-compatible and bundled with a Pico 2 flashed with current firmware.
SourceThe README and firmware document a Raspberry Pi Pico / RP2040-class badge with two AAA batteries, TFT display, buttons, LEDs, DAC drive, current/voltage monitoring, and electrode output hardware.
SourceDEF CON described the DC32 badge as the first RP2350 board, while Raspberry Pi sources document the badge as powered by RP2350.
SourceFREE-WILi documents the badge around a Raspberry Pi RP2350A controller and ESP32-C6 Wi-Fi interface, with standard USB bootloader update support.
SourceThe RTFM BOM documents an STM32F412RET6 badge with a 0.96 inch OLED, ST7735 128x160 TFT, APA-102C LEDs, USB-C, BlackBerry Q10 keyboard, and coin-cell holder.
SourceThe 2026 prospectus offers an Electronic Badge item covering electronic badge design and build for 500 delegates, and BSides Brisbane's public update thanks BLARGE for the electronic badge.
SourceThe PCB repository publishes hardware artwork and errata under a CC BY-SA 3.0 statement attributed to Sprite_tm / Jeroen Domburg.
SourceThe repository preserves Eagle board/schematic files, generated Gerbers, LCD and RJ45 component documentation, and graphics assets for the historical badge archive.
SourceThe official badge page links a public PCB design repository that preserves KiCad project files, schematic, board layout, Gerbers, BOM, and manufacturing PDFs.
SourceThe repository preserves KiCad project files and Gerbers so builders could fork or fabricate the unofficial Remoticon board.
SourceThe repository preserves KiCad schematic/PCB/project files plus PCBWay render, BOM, placement, Gerber/drill, flashing binary, and flashing instruction artifacts.
SourceThe Hackaday.io project published the badge as a KiCad design with regular 0.1 inch pad-grid space intended for user-added circuitry.
SourceThe repository preserves Eagle board, schematic, and library files for the DC503 2018 Banglet hardware design.
SourceThe public repository preserves a KiCad schematic, BOM, placement CSV, and fabrication ZIP for the 2024 badge.
SourceThe BUSSide was developed to detect I2C, SPI, UART, and JTAG pinouts, dump I2C EEPROMs and SPI flash, and auto-detect UART settings for an interactive console.
SourceHackaday and the project files describe a MicroMod carrier-board variant, with later logs showing hand-soldered spacers, joysticks, USB through-hole pins, screen, and a RISC-V MicroMod module.
SourceThe HW101 page says the village would have enough badges for everyone attending the conference and that participants could take home a custom badge after soldering it.
SourceHackaday reports a 10 EUR workshop kit for soldering electrode pads to a sacrificial USB-C cable, including a demo where pads on the temples sensed left/right eye movement.
SourceThe activity guide identified R1, R2, and C2 as the 555 astable timing parts and encouraged attendees to change oscillation speed.
SourceThe page documents diffuser installation, slide-switch direction changes, and an optional MPU6050 module, making hardware modification part of the badge record.
SourcePost-event hacks used the expansion-header serial pins with a NodeMCU to create a WiFi/BBS modem and badge radio chat path.
SourceEEPROM-equipped hexpansions can carry metadata plus a LittleFS filesystem containing an app.py, allowing hardware add-ons to ship their own badge-side behavior.
SourceThe Telegraph badge documentation links SAO designs, Qwiic expansion, ESP32-C6 firmware, CH32V003 co-processor firmware, hardware files, and a 3D printable case.
SourceThe badge's FPGA and RP2040/ESP32 split enabled deeper hardware experiments beyond ordinary app loading.
SourcePublic writeups and later community experiments connected rad1o to HackRF/PortaPack-style standalone SDR usage beyond the official camp firmware and documented SMA mod path.
SourceThe talk describes a memory-stick-sized ARM7 meshing node design, USB power/reprogramming, RP-SMA antenna, and GCC ARM toolchain support for custom firmware.
SourceTeam Robotmad's BadgeBot is published as a Tildagon App Directory app for the Hex Drive hexpansion, extending the same hardware ecosystem already visible through HexManager.
SourceTeam Robotmad's HexManager app is a 2026 app-store release for managing hexpansion EEPROMs, making Tildagon's hardware add-on lifecycle visible as badge-side software.
SourceThe host guide documents a Python probe and GNU Radio examples for streaming samples from the HFSDR USB device.
SourceThe host README and firmware document HID writes that stage data in RAM and commit it into flash for later keyboard/macro output.
SourceOfficial attendee communications say black lanyards meant photos were allowed while blue lanyards meant the wearer did not want photos or video taken.
SourceThe official 2024 prospectus says BSides Melbourne badges carry preferred pronouns, photo permissions, and interaction preferences.
SourceThe hardware list includes an NFC tag, making identity and near-field interaction part of the badge surface.
SourceThe official wiki says each attendee received one Shadybucks wristband at registration and activated it at Shadytel.
SourceThe official social trail framed the badge as more than a pass and as a collectible experience intended for every attendee, while not exposing final circuit details.
SourceThe current official FAQ says every participant gets access to all tracks plus a BSides Tampa shirt, badge, lanyard, and happy-hour access.
SourceThe Wikimedia Commons documentary photo shows a physical BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard artifact, now published as a cropped WebP derivative with CC BY-SA provenance.
SourcePurplecon's official diary says attendees received a lanyard with the official purplecon badge, a glow-in-the-dark star.
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