Lifecycle
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
Village-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 companion hardware repository includes KiCad project/schematic/PCB material, Gerber and production directories, board variants, position data, acrylic DXF/SVG files, and manufacturing-oriented archives. Recent commits include board bug fixes and acrylic SVG work. GitLab shows no detected license, and the source does not establish a final approved BOM, build instructions, production completion, or safe redistribution/assembly permission.
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. The prospectus is not a final recipient or assembly ledger.
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 official hardware tree supplies KiCad board/schematic files plus JLCPCB BOM, CPL, and Gerber material, with dock and SAO design directories. It documents the released project design without proving that every recipient board was populated or flashed identically.
SourceAlex Glow's June 15 public archive includes a KiCad 9 project, custom footprint library, Gerber CAM outputs, drill files, and job file for the badge. It provides a useful design/fabrication trail but does not prove a completed build run, final bill of materials, assembly process, test result, or event-issued unit.
SourceThe repository README identifies KiCad 10 and the archive exposes native PCB and schematic files. The open source tree is valuable documentation, but it is not a substitute for a reconciled physical production revision, assembly record, electrical-safety assessment, or delivery ledger.
SourceThe commit-pinned Garoa hardware tree preserves KiCad, BOM, and Gerber material for the platform. Its cross-year source history does not map a particular tree state to every distributed 2026 board.
SourceThe archive contains native KiCad PCB and schematic files plus footprint and asset directories. The catalogue links that research value without representing the current archive as a guaranteed exact production package, a ready-to-manufacture record, or a safety-validated build.
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.
SourceHolding the button while powering on prints Entering Sentinel Watch Mode on the console and switches the LEDs to a separate watch routine instead of the normal animation modes.
SourceThe team says the custom firmware includes a default RV32I core. This is recorded as high-level source context only, without operational FPGA configuration, programming, debugging, execution, or security claims.
SourceThe maker says the SAO was created for DEFCON 33, then separately says a few leftover units can be pre-ordered for pickup at DEF CON 34 or BSidesLV. The live page showed $15, five sold, zero remaining, and a free Saturday August 8 BadgeLife Village pickup label. This documents a later leftover listing, not a record of original 2025 distribution, sale, recipient allocation, or completed 2026 handoff.
SourceThe official product page identifies SAO Many SAOs as a DEFCON 33 badge, while the July 2026 roster explicitly calls it Update to Existing. This preserves the later maker listing without creating a second DEF CON 34 artifact. Neither source proves the original DEF CON 33 handoff, a 2026 new board, event authorization, purchase, pickup, shipment, or delivery.
SourceRed Team Summit's official history calls the 2025 Redmond artifact the first Red Team Summit with an electronic badge. The statement confirms an event-specific electronic badge but does not describe its design, allocation, or use.
SourcePunk Security's historical timeline identifies it as BSides Cheltenham's badge sponsor with UFO badges, while its source archive identifies the UFO Badge for BSides Cheltenham 2024. The timeline's rendered early-2023 timestamp conflicts with that explicit 2024 repository identity, so the record preserves both sources without inventing an exact event date, organizer confirmation, or universal allocation.
Sourceredactd's listing introduces Dante's Inferno just in time for DefCon 32. This establishes a maker-stated independent 2024 event association, not DEF CON issuance, registration inclusion, a Human-badge replacement, admission, organizer endorsement, quantity, or completed handoff.
SourceThe DEF CON 33 Creator Events List schedules a Friday BadgeLife Community Table 1 Badge Drop naming Submarine Badge, FrogStar Badge, and FightDystopia Badge, with Jeff “BigTaro” Geisperger named as creator. This establishes a publicly scheduled 2025 FightDystopia activity, not attendance, inventory, sale, recipient allocation, completed handoff, organizer issuance, or admission function.
SourceThe DEF CON 33 Creator Events List schedules a Friday BadgeLife Community Table 1 Badge Drop that names the Submarine Badge, FrogStar Badge, and FightDystopia Badge, with Jeff “BigTaro” Geisperger named as creator. This establishes a publicly scheduled 2025 FrogStar activity, not the number made, attendance, sale, handoff, recipient allocation, completed distribution, organizer issuance, or admission function.
SourceThe recovered DEF CON 33 schedule lists a 10:30-10:59 PDT BadgeLife Community Masonic33 Badge drop credited to Heal-Hak4Kidz. This establishes published 2025 creator activity, not organizer issuance, attendance entitlement, confirmed stock, completed handoff, recipient allocation, or admission function.
SourceThe DEF CON 33 Creator Events List schedules a Friday BadgeLife Community Table 1 Badge Drop naming Submarine Badge, FrogStar Badge, and FightDystopia Badge, with Jeff “BigTaro” Geisperger named as creator. This establishes a publicly scheduled 2025 Submarine activity, not attendance, inventory, sale, recipient allocation, completed handoff, organizer issuance, or admission function.
SourceThe Hacker Couture DEFCON 33 Product List names a Gunslinger-B-Gone Badge by BigTaro at $140. This establishes a published 2025 DEF CON vendor-list association, not a BadgeLife drop, organizer-issued item, attendance entitlement, confirmed stock, completed purchase, handoff, or attendee allocation.
SourceThe official shop displayed free pickup at DEF CON, U.S. shipping priced at $20–$30 plus tax, and contact-based global shipping, with order caps. The current page now hides ordering and displays a no-payment second-run interest form because all first-run inventory is sold out. These past/current storefront terms do not prove buyer handoff, event pickup, shipment receipt, future rates, or a completed second run.
SourceHak4Kidz Lab's live same-name Tindie listing calls v2.2 an upgrade from a 2019 v1 and says it was made for DC31; it currently displays $30. The roster's current DEF CON 34 row instead says new and approximately $35 at Hacker Warehouse. The sources do not say whether those sales paths use identical stock, components, finish, packaging, installation parts, price, or revision.
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