Lifecycle
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
Ninja Networks built the DC17 badge as the electronic invitation artifact for its DEF CON-adjacent party at the Artisan Hotel.
SourceBadge Pirates documents an unofficial Pirate badge variant plus a counterfeit-badge challenge triggered after badge imagery leaked before the event.
SourceGrand Idea Studio says the fully designed but unpopulated circuitry supported an MMA7260QT triple-axis accelerometer and an MC13191FC 2.4 GHz RF transceiver for motion and ZigBee-class experiments.
SourceHackaday documented direct programming through tactile front-panel buttons and 272 LEDs that showed CPU state, data memory, opcodes, operands, and execution progress.
SourceThe workshop page calls out a large RGB notification LED and a large tactile button as the board's attendee-facing interaction surface.
SourceThe CAD-OuterBoard tree preserves attendee, Mafia, speaker, staff, and generic outer-board KiCad variants.
SourceThe project documents twin 1 Mbps CAN buses, two transceivers, external CAN headers, MITM or dual-logging breakout, and CAN-side badge focus.
SourceThe official CHV page documents the 2024 main badge with an RP2040, four CAN networks, a dry CAN connector, and four SAO connectors, while the public board tree preserves KiCad and production files.
SourceSecOps describes Hackable BCPen and CPen badges and explicitly invites BSides Goa 2024 booth visitors to claim a free exam through the badge trail.
SourceThe HTX Public Safety Village page ties the village to AI and IoT public-safety challenges and says top HTX CTF finalists unlocked limited-edition DEF CON Singapore Public Safety Village swag.
Sourcepikesley's Hat Village app is listed as the official app of Hat Village at EMF 2026, showing that Tildagon app distribution is already carrying future village-specific software.
SourceThe official 2025 schedule says the village hosted a competitive CTF using a badge designed specifically for the Hardware Challenge Village.
SourceThe official 2024 schedule says the Hardware Challenge Village used a specially designed village badge for HCV.
SourceHTX's launch report image metadata identifies a Public Safety Village badge featuring illuminated icons of emergency vehicles; no component or firmware details are public.
SourceThe official schedule says each Hardware Village participant would receive a pre-assembled badge, with limited badges available while supplies lasted.
SourceThe hardware village combined soldering, hardware talks, a hardware CTF, networking, and badge activity across the Seasides 2026 conference.
SourceThe source frames the device as a precision tool for exploring vulnerabilities and improving embedded-system security.
SourceThe v0j4 project describes the badge as a PIC24 implementation of a 4-bit virtual machine with small instructions, visible registers and stack state, GPIO, and program slots.
SourceThe official RC15 sponsorship overview lists Human Badge benefits marked Virtual Only in sponsor packages.
SourceThe Maker Village archive links an off-the-shelf virtual badge in Tinkercad so remote participants could inspect or simulate the project.
SourceThe same guide pairs the paid Survival Kit with two days of conference access via ROOTCON Discord and a digital certificate of attendance by request.
SourceThe report documents six surface-mount buttons and 16 RGB LEDs on the main badge face.
Source`main.c` maps 12 LED bits to AVR ports and the README describes words and patterns displayed through persistence of vision while the fidget spinner turns.
SourceThe Hackster materials list names 224 Adafruit 0805 LEDs, four 74HC595 shift registers, and sixteen 2N3904 transistors for the visual badge surface.
SourceThe project description names a 5x4 WS2812B LED array, and the development log says the design uses 20 LEDs rather than the earlier 25-LED expectation.
SourceThe README names WS2812B/SK6812 LEDs, while the firmware maps RC3 as the WS2812 output and cycles color-wheel and slow-fade LED effects.
SourceThe teardown documents four upper and four lower LEDs used for binary output, followed by a Morse-code light sequence.
SourceThe badge exposed top LEDs, bottom LEDs, and a four-zone LCD backlight through pattern callbacks and `NC.ledTop`, `NC.ledBottom`, and `NC.backlight` APIs.
SourceThe CADLAB README describes a 39x9, 351-LED matrix as the badge's main display surface.
SourceThe kit included a PCB, eight WS2812B addressable LEDs, eight 100 nF capacitors, a lanyard, and bottom-center VCC/data/GND LED-string pads.
SourceThe schematic labels top, left, right, and center LED groups with ten LEDs total, while the firmware drives three three-LED arms plus a center LED.
SourceTen green and ten blue LEDs illuminate the front-side circuit artwork through the PCB, while the assembly guide documents reversed LED mounting and soldering risks.
SourceRIOT OS board documentation lists 16 WS2812B LEDs, while the 37C3 workshop source describes the badge as having many RGB LED lights.
SourceHackaday describes the WarGames-inspired display surface as a dozen colored LEDs plus eight RGB LEDs.
SourceThe badge used reverse-mount RGB LEDs behind the THOTCON letters, single-color reverse-mount LEDs near capacitive buttons, and an IS32FL3731 driver for animation without heavy CPU load.
SourceThe public sources identify an ST7789 240x320 TFT display and six LEDs as the badge's main visual surfaces.
SourceThe BOM and wiring chart document seven LEDs with 220 ohm resistors mapped across Arduino digital pins D2 through D8.
SourceNodeWatch hardware specs list a 240x240 colour LCD, two-zone touch controller, GPS/Glonass receiver, accelerometer, compass, heart-rate sensor, flash, buzzer, and waterproof watch enclosure.
SourceThe parts list and wiring notes document a flexible 8x8 WS2812 LED matrix connected to 5 V, ground, and Arduino A3/digital 21 for mouth and banner output.
SourceThe sketch README says A0 is the only data pin and goes straight to the NeoPixel strip; the main firmware defines NeoPixel output on A0 with 12 LEDs.
SourceThe repository describes pairing through the WebUSB UI, setting frequency and gain, pairing again, and then observing the waterfall.
SourceThe 2022 challenge used URL reconstruction, repeated bird-image clues, and substitution solving after the sticker entry point.
SourceThe 2021 challenge used web pages, source comments, dawn-chorus audio, image EXIF data, and substitution solving after the sticker entry point.
SourceThe logs describe a web tool from an Area 3001 member that let attendees define LED-eye animations and generate Arduino code for Ph0xx.
SourceThe badge page lists support for an ESP32 board to add wireless capability beyond the RP2040 base badge.
SourceThe trinket ran a customized mesh chat protocol over BLE, with the challenge requiring reverse engineering to gain access to an administrative system broadcasting over the protocol.
SourceHugQuest includes WANNAHUG transmission, infected-state persistence, a displayed ransom-style HUG-token prompt, and an unlock command requiring HUG tokens.
SourceThe firmware advertises 503WAGON and exposes a BLE service and writable characteristic UUID 0503 that updates the on-screen banner text.
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