Lifecycle
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
The README documents the badge microphone, special microphone driver, and AudioStreaming example with netcat/aplay receiver notes.
SourceThe named TGSTL sound-to-light module records the performative side of Tildagon expansion culture: audio-reactive light hardware built for the badge edge.
SourceThe live DC801 page lists the badge at $120, says local-pickup scheduling emails were planned for July 20, targets remote shipping by July 27, and warns that orders placed after July 23 may arrive after DEFCON. These are seller terms and targets, not proof of inventory, payment, manufacture, shipment, pickup, arrival, refund, replacement, support, or event-time handoff.
SourceThe organizer said there would be no additional circuit-board badges after the initial event order. That records intended scarcity context only; it does not establish order count, sales, manufacturing quantity, stock, ticket cutoff outcome, fulfilment, or recipient delivery.
SourceThe official Uber Badge page says badge-challenge victories are one path to a one-of-a-kind Uber Badge with lifetime BSides Tampa admission, but the current registry does not list a 2026 awardee.
SourceThe server tree records the PHP/MySQL workflow around badge enrollment, nicknames, alcohol-sensor data, and schedule JSON generated from BruCON's Sched export.
SourceThe official page links the WWHF 2025 badge CTF to Meta CTF and says challenges could be solved from badge behavior or firmware.
SourceThe documented hardware includes IR transmitter/receiver and an SAO connector alongside the main badge controls and lights.
SourceThe board exposes seven WS2812B RGB LEDs and a button set using IO0 plus a PCA9535 I2C expander for six additional controls.
SourceThe README says physical pin 2 controls badge aRGB LEDs and external LED expansion pads, while physical pin 3 controls the built-in buzzer.
SourceThe README identifies a 74HC595 plus nine single-color LEDs, one RGB wing, and dual USB CDC roles. No schematic, PCB, wiring, electrical limits, display, button map, or final component-population documentation was recovered.
SourceThe Espressif component package exposes badge-specific control of Hack&Roll 2026 LEDs and buttons through the built-in GPIO expander.
SourceOfficial registration pairs the NaClCON Badge with Pirate Pieces of Eight CTF access, and the official opening schedule lists a CTF and Badge Intro. The sources do not publish a per-badge challenge mapping, scoring mechanism, reward, or final results.
Sourcemmca's Hackaday.io log documents an official blinking LayerOne logo add-on for the 2018 L1 badge and its 3.3 V, GPIO2, and ground connector path.
SourceThe first-hand write-up documents a custom blinky board by Luke Jenkins and Klint Holmes that extended the badge-hacking experience.
SourceThe DOOM SAO log documents an ATSAMD21G18A add-on with ST7789 display, USB-C, serial terminal, bus sniffers, virtual EEPROM identity, and SAO 1.69bis logical integration with DC27 badges.
SourceHackaday frames the ESP32CAM eye add-on as the camera and face-recognition surface for the Voight-Kampff human-or-replicant test.
SourceThe repository includes a separate KiCad add-on project, and the README notes the add-on location on the badge front side.
SourceThe hardware tree and release assets preserve a Metro add-on with silkscreen/edge SVGs, source artwork, `Metro.hex`, and a Metro add-on BOM CSV.
SourceThe repository preserves a separate Add_On_Bugcon_2025 tree with PY32F002AA15M footprint/source material, KiCad files, decorative artwork, and firmware/libraries.
SourceThe article shows a hobby-servo eye add-on as one of the mechanical extensions for the badge's add-on header.
SourceThe official speaker page describes Ox-Vox as an add-on for that year's unreleased BSides PDX badge, tying the badge to a pre-release add-on hacking workflow.
SourceThe official badge page and manual preserve MiniBadge support, official MiniBadge and unofficial MiniBadge pages, and visible add-on presentation through the attendee badge.
SourceThe firmware used the integral accelerometer for gravity-style simulations and input mechanics that sat behind the public puzzle and demo behavior.
SourceThe badge exposed an onboard BASIC interpreter with badge-specific commands for display, LED, audio, GPIO, serial, and program storage experiments.
SourceThe MIT-licensed firmware exposes a Doom port running on the ESP32-S3 badge.
SourceAfter WiFi connection, the badge connected to an MQTT server, subscribed to an event topic, and displayed current talk details on the OLED.
SourceThe badge exposed unlockable games including two-player Pong and Rock/Paper/Scissors/Lizard/Spock badge-to-badge interaction.
SourceReleased client code implemented a half-duplex RF broadcast chat system for badges using RFCat, 868 MHz operation, sync words, modulation settings, queues, and retransmission.
SourceA challenge-unlocked Warbadging mode scanned up to 30 nearby WiFi networks and displayed signal strength, ESSID, encryption type, and channel coverage.
SourceThe badge boot flow displayed the conference title, scanned wireless networks, waited for a programmed network, connected, and displayed IP and network details.
SourceThe badge implemented a Minecraft Java Edition 1.21.4 server on the ESP32-C3, with in-world levers mapped back to the 24 physical RGB LEDs.
SourceA later challenge stage used badge networking and elevated shell access to start the Minecraft server and solve the in-world lever puzzle.
SourceThe making-of post documents a colour GameOn-derived firmware with menu, single-player game, raycaster, voxel landscape, high-score JSON/WiFi workflow, setup screens, achievements, and debug screens.
SourceThe badge page describes social-game firmware for badge-to-badge duels and asks miniapp authors to submit pull requests so apps can be built into shared firmware.
SourceThe badge runs a MicroPython environment for attendee apps and experimentation on the ESP32-S3.
SourceThe attributed Glyph README describes the distributed Blinky 2350 as running badgeware MicroPython with an app launcher. This records an independently documented runtime surface, not an official Workday statement about included apps, event firmware, participant configuration, or support.
SourceThe badge's camera was not decorative: Supercon included a film-festival category for movies and media produced with the badge camera.
SourceThe repository and store page say the badge ships with BLE apps, Wi-Fi apps, and a digital-pet app as ready-to-use examples for the event.
SourceThe repository documents Doom Maze, Dino Run, Hackermon, and Star Invaders as bundled badge games with button controls.
SourceThe public app tree includes menu, settings, schedule, Tetris, analog clock, battery monitor, system monitor, and other badge applications.
SourceThe 36C3 badge intentionally shipped without a controller so attendees could attach Arduinos, FPGAs, Feather boards, or other battery-powered controller choices.
SourceThe badge used a 16-bit PIC24FJ256GA704 to simulate a 4-bit educational processor with visible registers, flags, ALU, stack, memory state, and instruction execution.
SourceThe official page says BSides Tallinn 2022 provided each participant a special badge in the legacy theme.
SourceThe AVTOKYO badge used a Pina Colada cocktail-glass shape with transparent non-masked PCB areas to celebrate the conference's no drink, no hack motto.
SourceThe CODE BLUE badge used a scary face with transparent unmasked PCB areas and visible tracks like veins, matching the blue/black conference color treatment.
SourceThe official ROOTCON 15 Artwork/badges directory lists rc15_badges.png as the public badge artwork file.
SourceThe first-hand writeup says the badge indicated information such as build status, last commit, and GitHub stars.
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