Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
Badge ecosystems keep moving after handout: apps, hexpansions, SAOs, antennas, cases, repair parts, firmware updates, and post-event hardware experiments.
variant design archive
The source archive says three badge types were completed and publishes named Gerber archives for Albat, HaruulZangi, and Humun. This preserves the documented multi-variant design trail without assigning a particular unit, role, or feature set to an attendee or assuming each archive exactly matches final delivered production.
Compatibility: MNSEC2025BADGE source archive only; final revision and unit distribution not established
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vehicle-hacking interface
The project documents twin 1 Mbps CAN buses, two transceivers, external CAN headers, MITM or dual-logging breakout, and CAN-side badge focus.
Compatibility: LayerOne 2017 CAN Bus Badge
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vehicle-network badge platform
The 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.
Compatibility: Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge
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vehicle-network interface
Car Hacking Village's official badge announcement lists DB9 CAN 2.0/CAN FD support for the DEF CON 34 badge.
Compatibility: Car Hacking Village DEF CON 34 CAN-FD CTF Badge
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vendor booth badge
SecOps describes Hackable BCPen and CPen badges and explicitly invites BSides Goa 2024 booth visitors to claim a free exam through the badge trail.
Compatibility: BSides Goa 2024 SecOps Hackable Badge
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village activity
The 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.
Compatibility: DEF CON Singapore 2026 Public Safety Village Badge
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village app
pikesley'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.
Compatibility: Tildagon OS and EMF 2026 village context
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village badge
The official 2025 schedule says the village hosted a competitive CTF using a badge designed specifically for the Hardware Challenge Village.
Compatibility: BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
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village badge
The official 2024 schedule says the Hardware Challenge Village used a specially designed village badge for HCV.
Compatibility: BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
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village badge artifact
HTX's launch report image metadata identifies a Public Safety Village badge featuring illuminated icons of emergency vehicles; no component or firmware details are public.
Compatibility: DEF CON Singapore 2026 Public Safety Village Badge
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village badge distribution
The official schedule says each Hardware Village participant would receive a pre-assembled badge, with limited badges available while supplies lasted.
Compatibility: BSidesSF 2022 Hardware Village Badge
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village programme
The hardware village combined soldering, hardware talks, a hardware CTF, networking, and badge activity across the Seasides 2026 conference.
Compatibility: Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge
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village training context
The source frames the device as a precision tool for exploring vulnerabilities and improving embedded-system security.
Compatibility: HITBSecConf2024 Bangkok Badge Village Device
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virtual CPU
The 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.
Compatibility: Voja4 / v0j4 badge lineage
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virtual badge allocation
The official RC15 sponsorship overview lists Human Badge benefits marked Virtual Only in sponsor packages.
Compatibility: ROOTCON 15 Virtual Human Badge
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virtual build asset
The Maker Village archive links an off-the-shelf virtual badge in Tinkercad so remote participants could inspect or simulate the project.
Compatibility: The Diana Initiative 2020 Off-the-Shelf Virtual Badge
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virtual-event access artifact
The same guide pairs the paid Survival Kit with two days of conference access via ROOTCON Discord and a digital certificate of attendance by request.
Compatibility: ROOTCON 14 Recovery Mode
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visual and input surface
The report documents six surface-mount buttons and 16 RGB LEDs on the main badge face.
Compatibility: LayerOne 2019 Voight-Kampff Badge
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visual badge surface
`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.
Compatibility: LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner Badge
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visual badge surface
The Hackster materials list names 224 Adafruit 0805 LEDs, four 74HC595 shift registers, and sixteen 2N3904 transistors for the visual badge surface.
Compatibility: DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
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visual badge surface
The 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.
Compatibility: LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
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visual badge surface
The README names WS2812B/SK6812 LEDs, while the firmware maps RC3 as the WS2812 output and cycles color-wheel and slow-fade LED effects.
Compatibility: LayerOne 2023 PIC HID Badge
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visual challenge
The teardown documents four upper and four lower LEDs used for binary output, followed by a Morse-code light sequence.
Compatibility: Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge
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visual extension
The badge exposed top LEDs, bottom LEDs, and a four-zone LCD backlight through pattern callbacks and `NC.ledTop`, `NC.ledBottom`, and `NC.backlight` APIs.
Compatibility: NodeConf EU 2018 Badge
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visual hardware
The CADLAB README describes a 39x9, 351-LED matrix as the badge's main display surface.
Compatibility: Pixels Camp 2019 PCB Badge
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visual hardware
The kit included a PCB, eight WS2812B addressable LEDs, eight 100 nF capacitors, a lanyard, and bottom-center VCC/data/GND LED-string pads.
Compatibility: Unofficial 36C3 Badge
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visual hardware
The 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.
Compatibility: SEC Youth Challenge 2023 Flux Decoder Badge
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visual hardware
Ten 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.
Compatibility: 35C3 Labitat Indie Badge
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visual hardware
RIOT OS board documentation lists 16 WS2812B LEDs, while the 37C3 workshop source describes the badge as having many RGB LED lights.
Compatibility: HiP Berlin 2022 Badge
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visual interface
Hackaday describes the WarGames-inspired display surface as a dozen colored LEDs plus eight RGB LEDs.
Compatibility: WOPR Summit 0x00 Badge
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visual interface
The 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.
Compatibility: THOTCON 0xB Badge
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visual interface
The public sources identify an ST7789 240x320 TFT display and six LEDs as the badge's main visual surfaces.
Compatibility: THOTCON 0xD Badge
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visual interface
The BOM and wiring chart document seven LEDs with 220 ohm resistors mapped across Arduino digital pins D2 through D8.
Compatibility: The Diana Initiative 2020 Off-the-Shelf Virtual Badge
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wearable IO
NodeWatch 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.
Compatibility: NodeConf EU 2019 NodeWatch
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wearable display
The 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.
Compatibility: BSidesPDX 2020 Presenter LED Mask
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wearable lighting
The 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.
Compatibility: DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
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web interface
The repository describes pairing through the WebUSB UI, setting frequency and gain, pairing again, and then observing the waterfall.
Compatibility: DEF CON Singapore 2026 HFSDR Badge
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web puzzle path
The 2022 challenge used URL reconstruction, repeated bird-image clues, and substitution solving after the sticker entry point.
Compatibility: Kākācon 2022 Sticker Badge Challenge
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web puzzle path
The 2021 challenge used web pages, source comments, dawn-chorus audio, image EXIF data, and substitution solving after the sticker entry point.
Compatibility: Kākācon 2021 Sticker Badge Challenge
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web-to-Arduino animation tool
The logs describe a web tool from an Area 3001 member that let attendees define LED-eye animations and generate Arduino code for Ph0xx.
Compatibility: Fri3d 2018 Ph0xx
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wireless add-on path
The badge page lists support for an ESP32 board to add wireless capability beyond the RP2040 base badge.
Compatibility: MuHack Badge
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wireless challenge
The 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.
Compatibility: DEF CON Singapore 2026 TISC ESP32 Trinket
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wireless game mechanic
HugQuest includes WANNAHUG transmission, infected-state persistence, a displayed ransom-style HUG-token prompt, and an unlock command requiring HUG tokens.
Compatibility: DC503 5ohBEE Pager
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wireless interaction
The firmware advertises 503WAGON and exposes a BLE service and writable characteristic UUID 0503 that updates the on-screen banner text.
Compatibility: DC503 Wagon Party Badge
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wireless interaction
The README describes hidden party modes on BLEUART, while the BLEUART interaction sketch exposes list, rainbow, patriot, and off commands.
Compatibility: DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
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wireless interface
The 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.
Compatibility: LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
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workshop
The official workshop slides documented guided hacking paths for attendees working with the flexible-PCB badge and related hardware.
Compatibility: DEFCON China 1.0 Badge
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workshop
The public workshop repository gives attendees a hands-on Bangle.js development path for the NodeConf EU 2019 watch.
Compatibility: NodeConf EU 2019 NodeWatch
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