Voja Antonic
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SourceBalCCon2k16 · Serbia · 2016
BalCCon 2016 Badge
PIC badge with IR sync, TV-B-Gone, and password manager
BalCCon's first official badge combined synchronized LED patterns, IR badge-to-badge recognition, a TV-B-Gone mode, and a USB HID password manager.
EventBalCCon2k16
SeriesBalCCon
LocationNovi Sad
CountrySerbia
People
Authors & Credits
Why It Mattered
It is a strong South-East European badgelife record: not just a blinking PCB, but a multi-mode object that mixed social interaction, IR mischief, and practical security tooling.
Hardware
Public docs describe a Microchip PIC18(L)F25K50, 12 red/green/blue LEDs, one central RGB LED, IR LED and TSOP6240 receiver at 940 nm/40 KHz, USB HID behavior, and a 5-pin ICSP programming port.
Software & Apps
Firmware behavior includes random LED badge mode, IR synchronization, TV-B-Gone code transmission, generated password slots, random number output, and open-source assembly/PCB materials referenced from Voja Antonic.
Lore
The surviving project record frames 2016 as BalCCon's first official badge year, with the badge presented as a practical multi-mode artifact rather than a simple souvenir PCB.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
infrared software mode
historical
IR badge recognition and TV-B-Gone
The 2016 badge used IR for badge recognition/synchronization and TV-B-Gone-style code transmission.
Source
software utility
historical
USB HID password manager
The 2016 badge could act as a USB HID keyboard for generated passwords and random-number output.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
missing rights-cleared image
note
No BalCCon 2016 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The Serbia record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and BalCCon 2016 badge source trail.
source-depth caveat
note
The 2016 badge has strong project documentation, but the compendium still needs cleared original photos and any surviving official archive mirrors.
The current record is sourceable but publishes no image until licensed photos are cleared.
- Confidence
- project docs and article
- Status
- needs original media recovery
- Timeframe
- post-event archive
- Source note
- Hackaday.io and Hackaday article.