Lifecycle
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
The README describes hidden party modes on BLEUART, while the BLEUART interaction sketch exposes list, rainbow, patriot, and off commands.
SourceThe project says the ESP8266 worked before the conference and exposed GPIO connections to the PSoC4 so the chips could interact and the PSoC4 could reset the Wi-Fi module.
SourceThe official workshop slides documented guided hacking paths for attendees working with the flexible-PCB badge and related hardware.
SourceThe public workshop repository gives attendees a hands-on Bangle.js development path for the NodeConf EU 2019 watch.
SourceThe villages material describes enhancing the NorthSec badge with blinking electronic parts during soldering-village activity.
SourceThe official schedule lists Open Hardware assembly time plus DingoCar machine-learning and visual-perception sessions in Room 8.
SourceThe official linux.conf.au 2019 miniconfs page anchors the Donkey Car work inside the Monday Open Hardware Miniconf and its beginner-to-advanced hardware/software framing.
SourceThe Activity Team booth provided NFC card readers so attendees could learn about common ID-card operation and inspect the contents inside their badge.
SourceThe build PDF walks attendees through fluxing pads, placing the STM32 processor, reflowing LEDs, resistors, capacitors, and installing the CR2032 holder.
SourceThe RuxBadge instruction sheet documents two-sided SMD assembly around an STM32F030K6T6, IR receiver/emitter, eight green LEDs, passives, headers, jumper, and dual CR2032 holders.
SourceThe tutorial documents neopixels, motor H-bridges, reflection sensor input, exposed headers, and a kicker servo, with exercises for lights, wheels, servo motion, sensor detection, and touch inputs.
SourceThe 2015 electronics workshop built a battery-powered Arduino pendant with an 8x8 LED matrix and noted that it could be combined with the 2015 electronic badge.
SourceHackaday reports that Russell Handorf and Mike Kershaw used the badge as a simple low-part-count reference design during their hardware design workshop.
SourceAttendees were expected to compile, configure, deploy, and modify an Aranya distributed wireless messaging application on the workshop board.
SourceThe soldering village kept a silicon glue gun available to improve light diffusion, and the writeup says almost everyone opted to use it.
SourceThe SimpleSolder guide sent attendees who completed the beginner LED flasher toward the more advanced and useful Ruxcon 2016 Hardware Hacking Village badge.
SourceThe official Tuesday schedule lists a kit assembly session before the ESP32, IoTuz hardware, ESP-IDF, MicroPython, and IoTuz demo talks.
SourceThe Hardware Hacking Village offered badge firmware reflashing opportunities and discussions with the hardware badge makers.
SourceHITCON documented programmer and FTDI support at the activity desk for attendees working with the PCB badge.
SourceAttendees were encouraged to solder LEDs either normally or reverse-mounted; reverse mounting dispersed light better on both sides of the PCB.
SourceThe official social trail documented a soldering village led by Rishabh Soni, Prathmesh Dharkar, and Kunal Rajour as part of the BSides Agra 2025 hands-on programme.
SourceThe event archive says Badge Village helped attendees get started reprogramming the special-edition badge and hacking it to do more.
SourceAVTOKYO's event programme listed a Hackerware.io hardware soldering village where beginners could buy a kit at the booth and solder all parts onto the badge.
SourceAttendees personalized the badge at the conference by soldering their own 1206 SMD challenge LEDs with hardware-village support.
SourceThe SINCON hardware village used the badge for a soldering activity with tiny SMD LEDs mounted upside down, pairing hardware work with the software CTF.
SourceThe official VULNCON page describes an IoTSRG-hosted one-day badge-building village for participants to craft an electronic badge from scratch.
SourceParticipants assembled the cars, manually drove them around the track to collect training data, and then attempted autonomous driving after model training.
SourceThe official description covers classic soldering, Surface Mount Technology, supplied tools, morning instruction, afternoon badge assembly, final tweaks, testing, and Q&A.
SourceThe official wiki walks attendees through solder-bridge removal, LCD connector placement, ATmega88 socketing, IR parts, USB contact soldering, jumpers, and final display insertion.
SourceAttendee writeups place badge soldering and SMD practice inside the event hardware-hacking area, with help and conversation around PCBs and badges.
SourceThe Berlin field report describes busy soldering benches, a workshop adding a synthesizer and photodiode experiments, 3D-printed cases, and participant hardware add-ons.
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