DEF CON 34 · United States · 2026
Independent RP2040-Zero firmware project; physical build and event handoff unverified
MadmanTimmy3241's public repository describes itself as DEF CON 34 'Agency' SAO badge firmware for a Waveshare RP2040-Zero, and its commit-pinned source header calls the sketch DEF CON 34 "Agency" badge - V2. The public Arduino/C++ tree contains current display, scrolling, button, switch, buzzer, and infrared source paths, while dated first-person commit messages report staged local hardware smoke, display, input, and buzzer testing. The source header simultaneously says handshake, infrared, and logging logic is not wired up yet. This is sufficient to retain a distinct, independent pre-event event-labelled firmware-project record, not proof of a completed board, an event badge run, a compatible SAO, a delivered unit, DEF CON authorization, admission use, or a reusable image.
People
This is the public GitHub account name shown as the repository and commit publisher. It does not identify a real-world person, assign sole design, firmware, artwork, manufacturing, or event authorship, establish event affiliation, prove a physical artifact, or grant reuse rights.
SourceThis record keeps a concrete, current DEF CON 34-labelled RP2040 source trail visible without silently promoting code into a shipped conference artifact. It preserves both sides of the evidence: the publisher's staged local-test claims and the source's explicit statement that key interaction paths remain unfinished. It also prevents an unsupported merge with the separately sourced Agency Wand maker line, whose ATtiny1616 project, creator trail, marketplace context, and documentation do not name this repository.
The repository description names a Waveshare RP2040-Zero. Its commit-pinned source selects display code paths and defines source-level input, silent-switch, piezo-buzzer, and infrared surfaces. Dated commit messages state that local boot, display, input, switch, and buzzer stages were tested on hardware; those are first-person repository claims only. The reviewed public material does not provide a factual assembled-unit photo, PCB, schematic, BOM, Gerber, power or battery design, component configuration, exact display selection, enclosure, fabrication record, production test, electrical-safety result, SAO connector/interface specification, host-compatibility matrix, distribution record, or evidence that any event unit exists.
The public Arduino/C++ source contains a main sketch and supporting display, input, buzzer, scrolling, configuration, and infrared files. Its header says handshake, infrared, and logging logic is not wired up yet, so their end-to-end behavior, data handling, and event use remain unverified. The repository has no identified tag, release, packaged binary, reproducible build record, source-to-unit mapping, recovery or rollback package, integrity/signing statement, security or privacy review, support commitment, warranty, or explicit license. This catalogue links the source without reproducing pin assignments, control sequences, infrared behavior, or modification instructions.
The source uses the Agency name and V2 label in its DEF CON 34 repository description and code header. The available record does not identify a maker's real-world name, a sales or handoff trail, a DEF CON or village relationship, or a connection to the existing Agency Wand (DEF CON 34) record. The two records are therefore intentionally kept distinct rather than treated as variants, a shared team, a shared source release, or a common product line.
Source-backed hardware metadata
Structured technical signals seeded from public badge documentation, repositories, schematics, firmware notes, or event evidence. These fields are designed for filtering, API use, repair planning, preservation, and future Companion Gear matching.
MadmanTimmy3241's repository calls this DEF CON 34 Agency SAO badge firmware for a Waveshare RP2040-Zero, and its commit-pinned source contains display, input, buzzer, and incomplete infrared code paths. This classifies a source-documented electronic add-on project, not a confirmed physical unit, compatible SAO, event release, or attendee artifact.
Signal sourceThe repository description identifies a Waveshare RP2040-Zero. The taxonomy records the RP2040 family without asserting a board revision, physical configuration, installed firmware, power design, or final event-unit population.
Signal sourceRepair, preservation, and legal lab context
Parts, tools, and supplies that match this badge's documented hardware, protocols, or preservation needs. These are category-level recommendations, not compatibility guarantees.
Debug probes for ARM/RISC-V badge development, recovery, and documentation.
Debug probes can support authorized recovery, firmware work, and documentation for microcontroller badges. Matched technical signals: RP2040.
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USB serial adapters for logs, recovery, and firmware documentation workflows.
This badge has a documented microcontroller platform where serial logs or flashing workflows may be relevant. Matched technical signals: RP2040.
Vendor link · selected for technical relevance
Anti-static bags and storage supplies for preserving loose badge PCBs and sensitive components.
This is documented as an electronic or hardware artifact where anti-static storage can support preservation. Matched technical signals: Electronic badge.
Vendor link · selected for technical relevance
Lifecycle
Operational history
The catalogue preserves an exact event label without inventing official status, availability, ownership, attendee access, or a relationship to another Agency-themed record.
The listed source remains useful as a development snapshot while users are warned not to infer functional infrared/game behavior, safe operation, data handling, or a supported release.
The badge remains image-free and the code is linked as evidence rather than treated as a license grant, image-reuse permission, or complete open-hardware release.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
Readers can discover the exact source project and its limited publisher-reported hardware work without mistaking either for a completed, compatible, safe, manufactured, or distributed event artifact.