44CON 2017 · United Kingdom · 2017

44CON 2017 HIDIOT 1.0 Badge

Raw Hex USB HID hardware badge

The 44CON 2017 brochure documents the conference badge as a Raw Hex HIDIOT 1.0 44CON edition, a build-it-yourself USB HID board programmed through the Arduino IDE and supported by HIDIOT documentation, assembly help, and a Hackster project competition.

44CON United Kingdom HIDIOT Raw Hex USB HID Arduino IDE Digispark Hardware Badge Soldering Hackster

Event44CON 2017

Series44CON

LocationLondon

CountryUnited Kingdom

People

Authors & Credits

HIDIOT 1.0 badge provider

Raw Hex

The 2017 brochure states that the badge was a HIDIOT 1.0 badge from Raw Hex.

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event organiser and brochure publisher

44CON

44CON published the official 2017 event brochure and badge instructions.

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Why It Mattered

The 2017 badge shows HIDIOT graduating from the 2016 prototype into the named 1.0 badge line: still hands-on, still USB-HID focused, but now paired with docs, parts kits, assembly space, and a project-submission path.

Hardware

The brochure describes the HIDIOT as an Arduino-like board built from components up, with two buttons and arbitrary USB HID payload use. The public HIDIOT hardware repository preserves Eagle schematic and board files for HIDIOT 1.0 final hardware and notes Digispark as the preferred framework.

Software & Apps

The 2017 badge was programmed with the Arduino IDE and HIDIOT docs. Public Raw Hex repositories preserve a GPL-3.0 HID I/O Toolkit software stack and GPL-2.0 tutorial code for the documentation examples.

Lore

44CON's brochure explicitly connects the 2017 badge to the prior year's HIDIOT prototype PCB and calls the new hardware a shiny 44CON edition HIDIOT 1.0, with a badge assembly area and project contest for attendees.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

on-site assembly historical

Badge assembly area

The 2017 brochure directed attendees to a badge assembly area after buying the parts needed to build the badge from the front desk.

Compatibility: 44CON 2017 HIDIOT 1.0 Badge

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post-build challenge historical

Hackster HIDIOT project competition

The brochure promoted a HIDIOT Hackster project-submission path with a prize for the best attendee project.

Compatibility: 44CON 2017 HIDIOT 1.0 Badge

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tutorial code historical

Raw Hex tutorial examples

The Raw Hex tutorial repository preserves example code used alongside the HIDIOT documentation flow.

Compatibility: 44CON 2017 HIDIOT 1.0 Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

hardware-repository license boundary note

The public HIDIOT hardware repository exposes board, schematic, and PNG files but no repository license metadata, and its README includes trademark and documentation-use constraints.

The catalogue links the hardware archive for evidence but does not copy media or imply broad reuse rights beyond what the source states.

Confidence: public repository review
Status: needs explicit license clarification
Timeframe: post-event archive
Source note: rawhex/hidiot_hardware README and GitHub metadata.

missing rights-cleared image note

No original documentary HIDIOT 1.0 44CON edition photo or official upstream raster render has been cleared with source URL, reusable license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The badge remains image-free until an explicitly reusable 44CON 2017 artifact photo or render is recovered.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy.

parts-kit and assembly dependency note

The 2017 brochure told attendees to buy the parts needed to build the badge from the front desk and use the assembly workshop area, so the badge experience depended on component kits and hands-on soldering.

The record models the badge as a build-it-yourself hardware artifact rather than a fully passive giveaway.

Confidence: official brochure
Status: historical
Timeframe: 44CON 2017
Source note: 44CON 2017 brochure.

Resources

44CON 2017 brochure PDF official brochure · Official brochure section documenting the 2017 HIDIOT 1.0 badge from Raw Hex. 44CON 2017 brochure post official event post · 44CON post linking the official 2017 event brochure. 44CON 2017 schedule official schedule · Sched archive for the September 13-15, 2017 London event context. HIDIOT tutorials repository tutorial source · GPL-2.0 Raw Hex tutorial code repository for HIDIOT documentation examples.

Sources

44CON: 44CON 2017 Brochure Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the 2017 badge being a Raw Hex HIDIOT 1.0 44CON edition, its Arduino-like build-it-yourself framing, two buttons, arbitrary USB HID payload use, documentation, assembly area, parts-kit flow, and Hackster project competition. 44CON: 44CON 2017 Brochure Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official post linking the event brochure. GitHub / rawhex: hidiot-tutorials Retrieved 2026-05-15 · GPL-2.0 tutorial-code repository for HIDIOT documentation examples. Sched: 44CON 2017 Schedule Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule archive for the September 13-15, 2017 London event metadata.