BSides Greenville 2023 · United States · 2023
Documented conference-badge-to-Wi-Fi-analyzer soldering activity
A public BSides Greenville 2023 event listing says the Circuit Board Medics Soldering Village would help participants solder and transform a conference badge. A contemporaneous BSidesGVL announcement says the conference badges could become Wi-Fi analyzers and identifies Circuit Board Medics as the team that designed the badges. A public attendee report after the event says that its author made a Wi-Fi analyzer at BSidesGVL. Together, these sources establish a real event-linked badge-conversion activity without identifying the original board or the resulting analyzer's components.
People
The contemporaneous BSidesGVL announcement says Circuit Board Medics designed the badges and would operate soldering stations to help attendees make Wi-Fi analyzers. This records the stated design/activity role without inferring individual authorship, manufacturing responsibility, technical release ownership, final unit configuration, or image-reuse authority.
SourceIt preserves a distinct South Carolina Security BSides artifact at the level the sources support. The record documents a completed, attendee-reported hands-on badge conversion while making no leap from a Wi-Fi-analyzer label to a particular PCB, radio, firmware, credential role, or recipient-wide allocation.
The sources establish a conference badge that could be transformed through Circuit Board Medics-led soldering into a Wi-Fi analyzer. They do not identify whether the starting badge was a PCB, card, kit, or other medium; whether the conversion added components or modified an existing board; or any controller, radio, antenna, display, LEDs, sensors, battery, power path, connector, dimensions, artwork, schematic, BOM, Gerbers, production quantity, or final hardware revision.
No reviewed source identifies analyzer firmware, an operating system, a mobile or web application, a data-capture workflow, radio mode, source repository, licence, build, flashing process, update path, configuration, privacy behavior, or final deployed software. The Wi-Fi-analyzer wording establishes a stated activity outcome, not a particular scanning, packet-capture, security-testing, or software capability.
BSides Greenville 2023 was held on October 28 at the Fluor Corporation campus in Greenville, South Carolina. Its public event listing advertised the Circuit Board Medics Soldering Village and a conference-badge transformation. The contemporaneous BSidesGVL announcement names Circuit Board Medics, and a public attendee report later says that the attendee made a Wi-Fi analyzer. The available sources do not state how many badges were supplied, who received or completed one, whether any analyzer worked beyond the attendee report, or whether the badge was an admission credential.
Lifecycle
The public 2023 event listing says Circuit Board Medics would help participants solder and transform their conference badge, while the contemporaneous BSidesGVL announcement says the badges could become Wi-Fi analyzers and the team would be on hand with soldering stations.
SourceA public attendee activity message says the attendee made a Wi-Fi analyzer at BSidesGVL, corroborating that the advertised conversion occurred for at least one reported participant.
SourceOperational history
The record remains a source-backed event artifact rather than an unsupported universal-attendee, access-control, or electronic-hardware claim.
The compendium records the physical badge-conversion activity without inventing a circuit, analyzer implementation, radio behavior, data-collection practice, safe build procedure, or reproducible technical design.
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.
The entry distinguishes a corroborated reported build from a comprehensive post-event technical, manufacturing, fulfillment, or image-provenance record.