punk-security
UK organization that built the Artie the Owl badge and published the firmware and BOM repository; known for a portfolio of BSides and Cyberfest conference badges. No individual designers are publicly listed.
SourceBSides Leeds 2026 · United Kingdom · 2026
BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl Badge
UK ATtiny814 LED owl with EEPROM-gated game unlocks
An official UK BSides Leeds 2026 badge documented by the punk-security repository as an ATtiny814 Artie the Owl board with eighteen SK6812 addressable RGB side-emitting LEDs, six capacitive touch pads, two CR2032 coin cells, and three single-player games whose one-byte EEPROM unlock gates hidden bonus LED animations, for the June 13, 2026 seventh edition at Cloth Hall Court in Leeds.
EventBSides Leeds 2026
SeriesBSides Leeds
LocationCloth Hall Court, Quebec Street, Leeds
CountryUnited Kingdom
People
Authors & Credits
BSides Leeds
Official publisher of the 2026 seventh BSides Leeds edition at Cloth Hall Court, Leeds.
SourceWhy It Mattered
It adds the Leeds Security BSides lineage to the United Kingdom badge map with a verified firmware-level challenge surface, while marking that the repository carries no license and no rights-cleared image, so the catalogue records the hardware and challenge without claiming redistribution rights or publishing an image.
Hardware
The repository BOM documents an ATtiny814-SSF microcontroller, eighteen SK6812SIDE-A-S addressable RGB side-emitting LEDs arranged nine per eye, six capacitive touch pads, a tactile wake button, two MY-2032-05 CR2032 coin-cell holders, and a six-pin programming header. No SAO connector, wireless radio, or hardware design files are present in the repository.
Software & Apps
The firmware.ino source, built on SpenceKonde's MegaTinyCore, implements a one-byte EEPROM state byte at address 0 whose bits 0, 1, and 2 gate hidden bonus animations. Three single player games (Stop The Light, Follow The Sequence, Find The Sequence) each clear one bit to unlock Police, Nuclear York-Rose, and DevSecOps Infinity modes, with matching two-player variants, plus Knight Rider, breath, spin, looping-eye, and a nine-minute countdown timer mode. The repository carries no license file, so the firmware is treated as all-rights-reserved rather than redistributable.
Lore
BSides Leeds is the Leeds Security BSides chapter, and the 2026 seventh edition ran June 13 at Cloth Hall Court on Quebec Street in Leeds. The badge was built by punk-security, a UK team known for a portfolio of BSides and Cyberfest conference badges, and the owl mascot is named Artie. No individual badge designers are publicly listed in the organization or repository.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
badge challenge
officially documented
EEPROM-gated game unlocks
A one-byte EEPROM state byte at address 0 gates three hidden bonus LED animations, each unlocked by winning one of three single-player games (Stop The Light, Follow The Sequence, Find The Sequence), with matching two-player variants.
Source
badge utility
officially documented
Nine-minute countdown timer
The firmware includes a nine-minute countdown timer mode usable as a practical con timer, alongside Knight Rider, breath, spin, and looping-eye animation modes.
Source
display and input
officially documented
Artie the Owl eighteen-LED matrix
The BOM documents eighteen SK6812 addressable RGB side-emitting LEDs arranged nine per eye and six capacitive touch pads on the ATtiny814 board.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
license gap
note
The punk-security repository carries no LICENSE file, no license header in firmware.ino, and no license badge in the GitHub sidebar, so the firmware is treated as all-rights-reserved rather than redistributable.
The catalogue records the verified hardware and challenge surface without claiming redistribution rights over the firmware or any derivative.
- Confidence
- repository inspection
- Status
- no license file
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- punk-security/bsides-leeds-2026-badge repository file tree and firmware.ino.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No BSides Leeds 2026 badge image is published because the repository contains no image assets and no reusable original badge photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes has been recovered.
The United Kingdom record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository diagrams, blog images, 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 punk-security/bsides-leeds-2026-badge repository.
Resources
BSides Leeds 2026 official site
official event page · Official BSides Leeds source for the June 13, 2026 seventh edition at Cloth Hall Court, Quebec Street, Leeds, United Kingdom.
bsides-leeds-2026-badge repository
source repository · punk-security repository for the BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl badge, with firmware.ino, BOM.csv, and prebuilt firmware images, but no LICENSE file and no hardware design files.
Sources
BSides Leeds: BSides Leeds 2026
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the June 13, 2026 seventh edition, Cloth Hall Court Leeds venue, and United Kingdom Security BSides context.
GitHub / punk-security: bsides-leeds-2026-badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary repository source for the ATtiny814-SSF microcontroller, eighteen SK6812 RGB LEDs, six capacitive touch pads, two CR2032 holders, the EEPROM-gated game-unlock challenge, and the absence of a license file.