Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
historical product-lineage record
MakeItHackin's live $30 Tindie listing, repository, and tutorial describe a differently named Tricorder SAO, including separate rechargeable-battery and badge-powered forms. The current roster calls its $125 artifact an Original Series Tricorder badge with various sensors. The sources provide no formal revision, parts, behavior, price, or stock mapping between the two products.
Compatibility: Original Series Tricorder Badge (DEF CON 34)
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historical public fabrication reference
NilbinSec's DC32 repository lists two 470-ohm resistors, three flashing RGB LEDs, one cloudy red LED, and a 2×3 shrouded SAO header, with Gerber files and assembly orientation notes. It supplies a traceable older design surface but does not prove that every planned 2026 unit uses the same PCB, component values, LED speed/colors, header, finish, or behavior.
Compatibility: NilbinSec Power Glove Re-release SAO (DEF CON 34); historical NilbinSec DC32 Power Glove source
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historical-platform boundary
HITCON separately describes a Badge Quest for 2024 or 2025 PCB badges flashed with event firmware. That older-board activity is retained as historical context rather than evidence that the 2026 NTAG215 attendee badge is a PCB, has a controller, or receives the same firmware.
Compatibility: HITCON 2024/2025 PCB badges only; not assigned to the 2026 NTAG215 attendee badge
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host CAN tooling
`chv_badgetools` provides `chv-candump`, `chv-cansend`, automatic USB-port discovery, and a `python-can` interface plugin for the DEF CON 34 CTF badge.
Compatibility: Car Hacking Village DEF CON 34 CAN-FD CTF Badge
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host integration
The repository documents a Python MCP server and Claude skill plus a local web control panel and HTTP API that send JSON/event commands over the badge's UART connection.
Compatibility: Robotic Hacking Community DEF CON 34 AI-Connected Badge
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host software
The host guide documents a Python probe and GNU Radio examples for streaming samples from the HFSDR USB device.
Compatibility: DEF CON Singapore 2026 HFSDR Badge
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host tooling
The host README and firmware document HID writes that stage data in RAM and commit it into flash for later keyboard/macro output.
Compatibility: LayerOne 2023 PIC HID Badge
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host-linked pre-event power and collection statement
A WomenCon update preserved through an IQSEC-linked public profile says attendees needed to bring their own AAA batteries to turn on the badge screens and that registration distribution of shirts and kits started at 08:30. It names neither battery count or specification nor display technology, kit inventory, pickup verification, assembly, electrical safety, replacement, or individual handoff result.
Compatibility: WomenCon 2026 Digital Morpher Badge
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identity and consent signal
Official attendee communications say black lanyards meant photos were allowed while blue lanyards meant the wearer did not want photos or video taken.
Compatibility: BSides Melbourne 2023 Identity Badge
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identity and consent signal
The official 2024 prospectus says BSides Melbourne badges carry preferred pronouns, photo permissions, and interaction preferences.
Compatibility: BSides Melbourne 2024 Identity Badge
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identity and interaction feature
The hardware list includes an NFC tag, making identity and near-field interaction part of the badge surface.
Compatibility: MuHack Badge
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identity and payment artifact
The official wiki says each attendee received one Shadybucks wristband at registration and activated it at Shadytel.
Compatibility: ToorCamp 2024 Shadybucks Wristband
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identity artifact
The 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.
Compatibility: BSides Agra 2025 IOTSRG Badge
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identity artifact
The current official FAQ says every participant gets access to all tracks plus a BSides Tampa shirt, badge, lanyard, and happy-hour access.
Compatibility: BSides Tampa 2026 Badge Challenge
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identity artifact
The 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.
Compatibility: BSides Tampa 2018 Badge
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identity artifact
Purplecon's official diary says attendees received a lanyard with the official purplecon badge, a glow-in-the-dark star.
Compatibility: Purplecon 2018 Glow Star Badge
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identity artifact
The Commons description identifies the photographed object as the badge issued at the tenth Hackers On Planet Earth conference.
Compatibility: HOPE X Badge
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identity artifact
The sponsor brief lists printing, lanyards, and badges among supporter-fundable expenses for the 2026 event.
Compatibility: BSides Adelaide 2026 Identity Lanyard Badge
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identity artifact
DEF CON forum feedback describes the standard DEF CON 25 badge as a rubber or plastic admission artifact rather than a powered electronics platform.
Compatibility: DEF CON 25 Badge
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identity artifact
The official WAHCKon 2013 ticket page says the standard ticket included a WAHCKon 2013 badge.
Compatibility: WAHCKon 2013 Standard Badge
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identity artifact
The official terms require every person on the conference floor to have a visible badge at all times and prohibit access by unbadged guests.
Compatibility: x33fcon 2026 Conference Badge
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identity artifact / admission
The official event and first-timer pages say students with a valid student ID attend free with a paper badge and no electronic badge.
Compatibility: cackalackycon 2026 student admission; the public wording does not establish a general-attendee paper-badge allocation.
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identity artifact material
The official badge page says the Kawaiicon 3 badge was laser etched and cut from recycled paper with a wildflower seed mixture.
Compatibility: Kawaiicon 2025 Seed-Paper Badge
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identity artifact tier
Humanitix ticketing lists standard conference badge inclusion and a limited VIP Edition with a special VIP badge, and the page now marks the event passed. The sources do not map the VIP tier to a different Clock Module configuration.
Compatibility: BSides Brisbane 2026 Clock Module Badge and separate VIP ticket tier
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identity credential
UnknownCon's 2026 pass copy includes a lanyard plus official badge with the free conference pass, without identifying the electronic-badge recipient pool or final allocation.
Compatibility: Unknown Security Conference 2026 Pwn Llama Badge
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identity credential
The H2HC 2024 artifact is documented as the first edition of the Hacker ID Card, a CR80-size personalized card project.
Compatibility: H2HC 2024 Hacker ID Card
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identity credential
The 8.8 Reloaded VIP sector package included a special badge, swag kit, apparel, meet-and-greet, party, raffle, and surprise prizes.
Compatibility: 8.8 Reloaded 2024 VIP Special Badge
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identity display
The badge used a persistent low-power 128x32 display and role-colored variants for human, vendor, speaker, contest, goon, press, and uber-style identities.
Compatibility: DEF CON 18 Badge
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identity minibadge
The assembly guide documents the People Badge with attendee, staff, volunteer, and speaker status color variants and says everyone gets an attendee badge.
Compatibility: SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadges
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identity minibadge
The archived page lists attendee, staff, committee, VIP, and speaker MiniBadges, including attendee badges in registration materials and VIP badges handed out by Jup1t3r.
Compatibility: SAINTCON 2021 in-person registration
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identity template
JoeSchmuck posted a PSD/JPG forum-avatar badge template with blank space for a username or nickname and invited forum members to use or modify it.
Compatibility: DEF CON 12 Forum Badge
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identity workflow
The official schedule told attendees they could walk in at doors-open, grab their badge, and collect coffee from a sponsor.
Compatibility: CrikeyCon VII 2021 Identity and Connect Badge
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identity workflow
The official schedule told attendees to pick up their badge during Friday preregistration to make Saturday morning registration easier.
Compatibility: CrikeyCon IX 2024 Identity and Accessibility Badge
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identity workflow
The official 2020 schedule lists Friday early conference registrations from 4pm to 6pm and Saturday registrations opening at 8am.
Compatibility: BSides Melbourne 2020 Lanyard and Registration Artifact
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identity workflow
The official Kiwicon 7 news feed directed in-town attendees to Friday early pickup for tickets and merch after documenting badge assembly during conference week.
Compatibility: Kiwicon 7 Badge
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identity workflow
The events page says Friday pre-registration at Events on Oxlade let attendees collect their badge early and meet attendees, speakers, and crew.
Compatibility: CrikeyCon VII 2021 Identity and Connect Badge
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identity workflow
The official CrikeyCon 2017 schedule told attendees they could pre-register, collect their badge, and meet delegates before the conference.
Compatibility: CrikeyCon 2017 Identity and Speaker Badge
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identity workflow
The official CrikeyCon V archive told attendees to collect their badge early at the Friday welcome event while meeting attendees, speakers, and crew.
Compatibility: CrikeyCon V 2018 Identity and Speaker Badge
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identity workflow
The official archive documented pre-registration as a chance to collect the CrikeyCon VI badge early before the conference.
Compatibility: CrikeyCon VI 2019 Identity and Support Badge
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identity workflow
The CrikeyCon X schedule told attendees to pick up badges early at the Friday pre-registration event so they could enter the Saturday conference faster.
Compatibility: CrikeyCon X 2025 Identity Badge
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identity workflow
The MOS & BOO wrap-up says their talk made them VIPs and gave them special speaker badges at OzSecCon 2018.
Compatibility: OzSecCon 2018 Speaker Badge
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identity workflow
The Kiwicon X ticket-pickup notice said attendees had to wear their Kiwicon X badge and lanyard visibly at all times in the venue.
Compatibility: Kiwicon X Badge and Lanyard
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identity workflow
The official Kiwicon 9 page instructed attendees to wear their badge visibly while inside the venue.
Compatibility: Kiwicon 9 Badge and Lanyard
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identity-badge production workflow
The volunteer page documents taking a badge sheet from the printer, laminating it, cutting it, making a hole, and attaching it to a lanyard before issuing it to an attendee.
Compatibility: GPN20 on-site badge issuing
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identity-credential personalization
The organizer says that on the event day an attendee may write any handle or name on their badge. The short FAQ statement does not identify the badge's medium, layout, writing method, whether a blank field is supplied, eligibility, pickup process, or individual completed use.
Compatibility: Hack Glasgow 2026 attendee identity artifact; final form, allocation, and individual handoff unverified
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identity/access artifact
The FAQ says every participant was asked to wear the camp wristband, enforcement began during the event, and wristbands were available at the infodesk from July 27, 2016.
Compatibility: HaxoGreen 2016 attendee identity artifacts
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identity/access artifact
The FAQ says every participant was asked to wear the camp wristband, with enforcement beginning during the event and pickup at the infodesk.
Compatibility: HaxoGreen 2018 attendee identity artifacts
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identity/access artifact
The 2024 FAQ says every participant was asked to wear the camp wristband, with pickup handled at the infodesk.
Compatibility: HaxoGreen 2024 attendee identity artifacts
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