BSides Newcastle 2025 · United Kingdom · 2025
ATtiny412, NeoPixel, and Morse-code game PCB badge
A completed BSides Newcastle 2025 electronic PCB badge created by the event's badge sponsor, Punk Security. Punk Security's public repository identifies it as the Space Badge, preserves board, schematic, EasyEDA, Gerber, artwork, firmware, and venue-sign material, and describes a Morse-code game using signs placed around the venue. Its README names an ATtiny412, one button, CR2032 holder, and 5050 NeoPixel. The sources do not establish a production quantity, attendee allocation, individual handoff, final unit-by-unit configuration, safety validation, or reusable image provenance.
People
BSides Newcastle's official site establishes the completed 2025 security conference and participant count. This preserves event context only, not badge design, manufacture, distribution, image-rights, or source-archive ownership.
SourcePunk Security's event listing identifies it as 2025 badge sponsor, and its public repository identifies the Space Badge and preserves its source material. This credit reflects the publicly named sponsor/maker/archive roles without assigning attendee allocation, safety, event-organizer authority, or image rights.
SourceIt fills an unseeded, completed United Kingdom Security BSides artifact with both official event confirmation and a sponsor/maker-published hardware-and-firmware archive. The record separates the evidence of a real sponsor badge from the unsupported assumption that it was a universal admission credential or that every one of the 200 checked-in attendees received the same unit.
The public repository describes a standard PCB-badge build with an ATtiny412 microcontroller, one surface-mount button, a CR2032 battery clip, and one 5050 NeoPixel addressable LED. It also preserves EAGLE board and schematic files, an EasyEDA project, and Gerber material. The sources do not establish the final component substitutions, battery brand or state, electrical limits, power budget, production revision, assembly quality, or safety outcome for every physical unit.
Punk Security's archive preserves a firmware sketch for the badge's Morse-code game and related guide/sign material. The record does not reproduce flashing, configuration, or modification directions and does not claim a tagged release, signed binary, deployment inventory, support policy, or all-unit firmware parity.
BSides Newcastle describes the September 27, 2025 event as a completed intergalactic-themed community security conference with 200 checked-in participants. Punk Security's own event listing identifies it as badge sponsor, and its post-event announcement says the code, design files, and Gerbers were open-sourced. The repository says its satellite form was traced from the Angel of the North and that Morse-code signs were placed around the venue for players.
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.
Punk Security's public repository identifies the Space Badge as the electronic BSides Newcastle 2025 badge. It does not establish attendee-wide allocation, final unit parity, or image rights.
Signal sourceThe repository's parts list names one 5050 NeoPixel addressable LED. The signal does not establish LED package substitutions, current budget, brightness, power behavior, or final-unit parity.
Signal sourceThe repository's parts list names a CR2032 surface-mount battery clip. It does not establish battery brand, capacity, polarity protection, power budget, runtime, electrical safety, or final-unit parity.
Signal sourceThe public firmware is an Arduino sketch using the MegaTinyCore interface for the ATtiny4x2 family. This records a source-bounded software lineage, not a supported or safe reconfiguration procedure.
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.
Battery holders, connectors, and safe replacement supplies for preservation work.
This badge has documented battery or rechargeable power hardware. Matched technical signals: CR2032.
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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.
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Lifecycle
The repository says signs with player codes were placed around the venue and preserves the signs plus Morse-code guide material. It establishes the source-described game context, not an event-wide participation result, challenge completion record, prize outcome, or current playable service.
SourcePunk Security's own event listing says it was BSides Newcastle's 2025 badge sponsor, and its public repository calls the artifact the Space Badge for BSides Newcastle 2025. This establishes a maker/sponsor event association without claiming the event organizer owned the archive or that every attendee received a unit.
SourceThe repository says the space-badge satellite was traced using the Angel of the North and preserves EAGLE, EasyEDA, and Gerber source material. This records the documented artistic/PCB form without claiming that every delivered unit used a final identical board, art revision, or assembly quality.
SourcePunk Security's public repository preserves board, schematic, EasyEDA, Gerber, artwork, firmware, manual, and sign material, and its public post says those source materials were opened after the event. The archive is linked for provenance without presenting it as a licensed derivative-work, manufacturing, flashing, or safety guide.
SourceOperational history
The catalogue records the documented badge interaction without claiming a completed CTF, universal player participation, or any individual outcome.
The catalogue records a completed event-associated electronic badge without turning sponsorship or attendance totals into a universal allocation claim.
The record preserves a source-backed hardware outline without treating public project material as a fabrication, repair, electrical-safety, or universal final-unit specification.
The catalogue links source evidence without presenting it as a supported, reproducible, current, or safe modification workflow.
The United Kingdom record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
Source files and public project material are cited as evidence, but no local image, artwork, source file, or brand asset is copied or treated as licensed for reuse.