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44CON 2016 · United Kingdom · 2016

44CON 2016 HIDIOT 0.7 Badge

Unreleased USB HID prototype board

The 44CON 2016 badge was the unreleased HIDIOT 0.7 board, a USB Human Interface Device Input/Output Toolkit prototype that attendees could build, program through the Arduino IDE as a Digispark-compatible device, and use for HID payload experiments.

44CON United Kingdom HIDIOT Raw Hex USB HID Digispark Micronucleus Arduino IDE V-USB Soldering Workshop Prototype
Event44CON 2016
Series44CON
LocationLondon
CountryUnited Kingdom

People

Authors & Credits

44CON badge guide author

Steve Lord

The 44CON post metadata identifies the author as stevelord.

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HIDIOT assembly video credit

Akos Rajtmar

44CON thanks Akos Rajtmar for the HIDIOT assembly video in the 2016 guide.

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HIDIOT project owner

Raw Hex

The Raw Hex GitHub organization preserves the HIDIOT hardware and software repositories.

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Why It Mattered

HIDIOT adds a UK security-conference badge lineage centered on USB HID education and offensive/defensive hardware learning. The 2016 edition is especially useful because the official 44CON source names the prototype state, distribution scale, soldering-workshop subset, safety caveats, and post-event software path.

Hardware

44CON describes about 500 HIDIOT 0.7 boards at the event, fewer than 150 fully functioning boards from the badge soldering workshop, a non-standard USB PCB connector, one user-programmable PB1 LED, and Digispark-compatible hardware. The HIDIOT hardware repository preserves Eagle board and schematic files for the later 1.0 hardware line.

Software & Apps

The official onboarding post documents programming the built badge with the Arduino IDE, Digistump AVR Boards support, the Digispark default 16.5 MHz target, the Micronucleus programmer/bootloader, DigiKeyboard examples, V-USB context, and keyboard/mouse HID payload experiments.

Lore

44CON framed the unreleased badge as '0day hardware': the hardware was close to final, but the software stack was still maturing. Attendees could keep using Digispark mode and later reprogram toward the HIDIOT 1.0 stack.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

firmware/toolchain path historical

Digispark-compatible Arduino workflow

44CON instructed attendees to install Digistump AVR Boards, select the Digispark default 16.5 MHz target, use Micronucleus, and upload sketches through the Arduino IDE.

Compatibility: 44CON 2016 HIDIOT 0.7 Badge

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on-site assembly historical

Badge soldering workshop

44CON states that fewer than 150 attendees left the soldering workshop with fully functioning HIDIOT 0.7 boards from the roughly 500 distributed boards.

Compatibility: 44CON 2016 HIDIOT 0.7 Badge

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payload software historical

DigiKeyboard HID payload examples

The 2016 guide demonstrates DigiKeyboard-style USB keyboard payloads and points toward deeper V-USB work until the HIDIOT 1.0 software stack matured.

Compatibility: 44CON 2016 HIDIOT 0.7 Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

Resources

44CON 2016 schedule official schedule · Sched archive for the September 14-16, 2016 London event context. Getting Started With Your HIDIOT Badge official badge guide · 44CON post for the 2016 HIDIOT 0.7 badge, including distribution scale, soldering workshop context, Digispark programming, and safety caveats. HIDIOT hardware repository hardware source · Raw Hex repository preserving HIDIOT Eagle board and schematic files, plus hardware reuse and trademark notes. HIDIOT software repository software source · Raw Hex HID I/O Toolkit software stack repository for Arduino integration.

Sources

44CON: Getting Started With Your HIDIOT Badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the 2016 44CON badge being a HIDIOT 0.7 board, the roughly 500-board / fewer-than-150-built context, Digispark compatibility, Arduino IDE workflow, Micronucleus bootloader, V-USB note, non-standard USB connector, and hardware-safety warning. GitHub / rawhex: hidiot_hardware Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary hardware repository for HIDIOT schematic and board files plus later 1.0 hardware context. GitHub / rawhex: hidiot Retrieved 2026-05-15 · GPL-3.0 Raw Hex HIDIOT software-stack repository for Arduino integration. Sched: 44CON 2016 Schedule Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule archive for the September 14-16, 2016 London event metadata.