Lifecycle
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
The badge incorporated an SMD soldering challenge circuit credited to MakersBox, turning part of the board into a small assembly exercise.
SourceThe 2025 soldering-village writeup documents an add-on challenge with eight LEDs, polarity/defect debugging, VCC and pin behavior, SAO table context, scrambled code recovery, and final flag submission.
SourceThe badge became an electronic cocktail rendition after attendees soldered RGB flashing LEDs and coin-cell power onto the custom PCB.
SourceNolaCon's badge page says the badge had been a conference Learn to Solder centerpiece for the past three years and presents Patches as the 2025 continuation.
SourceTony Goacher's TGSTL app turns a SparkFun sound detector into a Tildagon sound-to-light path, tying the app store to a physical sensor hexpansion.
SourceThe main Badge.Team page links Codeberg homes for Cyber Ægg hardware and firmware, with the hardware docs identifying KiCad files and the software summary pointing at Rust/Embassy firmware work.
SourceThe public repository preserves firmware, Gerbers, SPI tooling, troubleshooting notes, a flash-image archive, and Apache-2.0 license metadata after the CTF window.
SourceThe 2024 badge released KiCad, firmware, web configuration, production data, and a programming-jig model, with CERN-OHL-P-2.0 hardware and MIT firmware licensing.
SourceThe Hackover archive preserved firmware and schematic git clone commands after the event, including a note that KiCad-free users could find schematic PDFs under plots/schematics.
SourceThe official CFP says accepted talks or events receive a speaker/event-host badge granting free access to BSides Canberra.
SourceThe CrikeyCon 2017 CFP promised accepted presenters, trainers, and event holders a special speaker badge.
SourceThe CrikeyCon V call-for-presentations, training, and events/workshops sections each promised accepted participants a special speaker badge.
SourceThe participation-call sections promised accepted speakers, trainers, and event/workshop holders a special speaker badge in addition to the regular attendee badge.
SourceThe CFP lists a VIP badge as part of the NotPinkCon speaker benefits package, alongside travel, accommodation, dinner, and parties.
SourceThe first-hand writeup describes DerbyCon's black badge as the event's lifetime-ticket equivalent and frames this build as the Legacy Black Badge artifact.
SourceThe Lado B attachment page preserves a separate special badge-art variant in the 2021 set.
SourceThe ROOTCON 13 sponsor prospectus sold an RC13 Badge value-added opportunity for sponsor logo placement on the badge.
SourceThe ROOTCON 11 partnership kit sold logo placement on the official ROOTCON 11 electronic badge as an add-on available to elite sponsors.
SourceThe sponsor category records badges designed by or for sponsors, including Arctic Wolf, Check Point, CompuNet, UETN, and Valcom entries with sponsor-booth acquisition framing.
SourceThe official sponsors page lists a dedicated Badge Sponsor category for Nullcon Goa 2018, naming NCC Group in that slot.
SourceThe official BSides Agra social trail announced IOTSRG as Badge Sponsor for the 2025 event.
SourceThe same official sponsors page lists a separate Lanyard Sponsor category, naming HackerOne, so the record keeps badge and lanyard artifact evidence linked but distinct.
SourceThe official 2025 sponsor page lists one dedicated Badge Sponsor slot for the event.
SourceThe current 2026 sponsor page marks lanyards as sponsorship claimed in the conference-items inventory.
SourceThe repository README documents rotary-encoder controls for FM audio output and cycling LED modes when the device is used without a PC.
SourceThe badge manual documents calibration plus steering and wobble modes that affect perceived left/right balance through conductive electrode pads.
SourceAn onboard STM32F042 acted as USB/serial interface and I2C ADC bridge, with ESP_Kwai library support and STM firmware material in the repository.
SourceThe FAQ asks visitors to bring a reusable lanyard or donate lanyards so the event can reduce waste while still issuing wearable badges.
SourceNullcon Goa 2014 scheduled a dedicated Hardware Badge 101 session about the badge design, uses, idea evolution, and production problems.
SourceDEF CON's August 7, 2025 news notice says attendees in the cash line were receiving paper badges because the main badge shipment was delayed.
SourceA maker writeup documents a simple BSides Ballarat 2026 SAO board with a six-pin pass-through connector and a WS2812B addressable RGB LED driven from pin 5.
SourceThe Rust repository documents badge examples including Breakout, Skyroads, Snake, Space Shooter, demoscene, shader, vector demo, display tests, LED bars, microphone, name-tag, scrolling, vibration, and async task-switch examples.
SourceThe MIT-licensed disobey2026badge crate and repository expose Rust APIs for the ST7789 display, nine GPIO buttons, WS2812 LEDs, display backlight, and vibration motor.
SourceThe official registration update says CactusCon had a free tier and an option to purchase an electronic badge.
SourceThe same notes say there was no cost to get in but attendees had to pay in order to get a badge.
SourceThe attendee writeup says CactusCon 2017 could be attended free or with a $45 package that included a badge, shirt, and swag.
SourceThe official 2026 site lists an EBADGE+ ticket tier including lanyard and electronic badge alongside two-day conference/workshop access.
SourceThe official RC17 conference overview lists Badge, Lanyard + other swags for Human and Human+ ticket tiers.
SourceHumanitix described the conference badge as an electronic badge worthy of the Fellowship within the event's Middle-earth themed ticketing copy.
SourceThe ROOTCON 12 quick guide says registration included an official ROOTCON badge alongside two-day conference access, meals, free trainings, electronic certificate request, and swag.
SourceThe official BSides Perth 2026 page says the weekend participant ticket includes conference swag made up of a t-shirt, badge, and stickers.
SourceHumanitix says BSides Canberra 2026 general and student entry include a t-shirt and electronic badge, but no shipped hardware details are public yet.
SourceThe Humanitix ticketing page lists a cool badge with Standard Ticket access and again as part of the VIP Edition inclusions.
SourceThe official page lists MiniBadge trading hours from Tuesday through Friday, with Monday closed, making trading an explicit conference activity rather than an inferred side event.
SourceThe official training page says all components and tools required to create a standard conference badge were supplied during the one-day workshop.
SourceThe E-ALE LCA2019 pages document Raspberry Pi Zero WH lab use and a Floral Bonnet purchase requirement for hands-on seminar work.
SourceThe LCA2019 E-ALE schedule used the board across a three-day sequence covering walkthrough, GPIO/libgpiod, SPI/spidev, I2C/i2cdev, IoT/cloud, and security topics.
SourceThe Raw Hex tutorial repository preserves example code used alongside the HIDIOT documentation flow.
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