BSides Adelaide 2024 · Australia · 2024

BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge

First Adelaide Wombat CTF badge with MS51FB9AE, LEDs, micro-USB, and soldering village

BSides Adelaide 2024's first Wombat badge is preserved through creator-published Hackerware and Hackster sources as a full-colour UV-printed CTF hardware badge with Nuvoton MS51FB9AE controller, CH340G USB serial, RGB LED, six challenge LEDs, CR2032 power, and attendee LED soldering.

BSides Adelaide Australia Adelaide MS51FB9AE CH340G CTF Badge Soldering Village CR2032 UV Printed PCB Oceania

EventBSides Adelaide 2024

SeriesBSides Adelaide

LocationLot Fourteen, Adelaide

CountryAustralia

People

Authors & Credits

badge designer and project publisher

Abhinav SP / Hackerware

Project-owner writeup author and Hackerware founder credited on the 2024 Wombat badge source trail.

Source

event and badge collaborator

BSides Adelaide

Official publisher of the event context for the inaugural Adelaide edition and collaborator named in the Wombat badge writeup.

Source

Why It Mattered

It adds South Australia to the Oceania map with a modern regional BSides badge that joins art-PCB production, hands-on soldering, hardware village participation, and CTF progress feedback without relying on unlicensed event photos.

Hardware

The source trail documents a custom PCB, MS51FB9AE Nuvoton microcontroller, CH340G USB-to-serial bridge, micro-USB connector, PTH RGB LED, six 1206 SMD LEDs, passives, 12 MHz crystal, CR2032 holder, and slide switch. The soldering PDF says most components shipped pre-soldered and attendees only needed to solder the 1206 SMD LEDs.

Software & Apps

The public writeup describes correct CTF flags unlocking LEDs with animations and persistent flag memory after the USB cable is disconnected. This pass does not recover or claim a public firmware repository.

Lore

The badge was built around the conference mascot artwork and used the hardware village to let attendees choose LED colours and personalize the physical badge while solving CTF challenges.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge challenge source-backed

USB CTF flag unlocks

The 2024 badge used micro-USB CTF interaction, correct flags, persistent progress, and LED animations to show unlocked challenge state.

Compatibility: BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge

Source

hardware architecture source-backed

MS51FB9AE CTF badge core

The 2024 Wombat badge combined a custom PCB, MS51FB9AE Nuvoton microcontroller, CH340G USB serial, micro-USB, RGB LED, six challenge LEDs, CR2032 holder, and slide switch.

Compatibility: BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge

Source

workshop village source-backed

Hardware-village LED soldering

Attendees personalized the badge at the conference by soldering their own 1206 SMD challenge LEDs with hardware-village support.

Compatibility: BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No local BSides Adelaide 2024 badge image is published because the recovered Hackerware, Hackster, and event-page images have not been paired with explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes for catalogue publication.

The entry stays source-backed and image-free rather than copying project photos, event gallery images, or using generated artwork.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy, Hackerware badge page, Hackster writeup, and BSides Adelaide event pages.

source-code archive gap note

The recovered sources document hardware components, soldering, USB CTF interaction, and LED progress behavior, but this pass did not recover a public firmware, schematic, PCB, BOM, or gerber archive.

The dossier records the verified badge behavior while avoiding unsupported pinout, firmware, protocol, or source-release claims.

Confidence: source-backed but incomplete
Status: needs public firmware or schematic recovery
Timeframe: 2024 badge archive pass
Source note: Hackster Wombat badge writeup, Hackerware badge page, and soldering tutorial PDF.

Resources

BSides Adelaide 2024 archive event archive · Official previous-event page preserving 2024 BSides Adelaide material and event context. BSides Adelaide FAQ event context · Official FAQ source describing BSides Adelaide as a hands-on community cybersecurity conference and identifying the 2024 edition as the first BSides Adelaide. BSides Adelaide Wombat Badge badge page · Hackerware badge page describing the full-colour UV-printed CTF badge crafted for BSides Adelaide and linking build/CTF material. The FALKEN Wombat Badge badge writeup · Project-owner Hackster source for the 2024 badge concept, MS51FB9AE/CH340G hardware, LED layout, CTF behavior, and hardware village soldering. Wombat badge soldering tutorial build guide PDF · Soldering PDF documenting pre-soldered components, 1206 SMD LED placement, polarity, CR2032 power, micro-USB warning, and CTF LED progress.

Sources

BSides Adelaide: FAQs Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event-context source for the hands-on BSides Adelaide format and statement that 2024 was the first BSides Adelaide edition. Hackerware: The BSides Adelaide Wombat Badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge page source for the full-colour UV-printed CTF badge made for BSides Adelaide and linked soldering/CTF material. Hackerwares: The BSides Adelaide Wombat Badge Soldering Tutorial Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary build-guide source for pre-soldered components, 1206 SMD LED soldering, LED polarity, CR2032 use, and micro-USB power warning. Hackster.io / Abhinav SP: The FALKEN Wombat Badge | BSides Adelaide Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source for the 2024 Wombat badge hardware components, cyborg-art concept, CTF LEDs, micro-USB interaction, flag persistence, and soldering village.