BSides NOLA 2026 · United States · 2026

BSides NOLA 2026 Rougarou Circuit Board Badge

Custom PCB badge with pre-sale allocation; electronics undocumented

BSides NOLA's 2026 event listing advertised a custom PCB badge from Fox Pick and a pre-sale package with a guaranteed PCB badge. A post-event attendee account describes leaving with a Rougarou circuit-board badge, confirming a physical board artifact while leaving the badge's components, behavior, and final allocation unresolved.

BSides NOLA United States Louisiana New Orleans Rougarou PCB Badge Circuit Board Identity Artifact Electronics Undocumented North America

EventBSides NOLA 2026

SeriesBSides NOLA

LocationInterContinental New Orleans, 444 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, Louisiana

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

custom PCB badge attribution

Fox Pick

Named by the BSides Global event listing as the source of the 2026 custom PCB badge; the reviewed source does not provide a fuller board-design credit or technical archive.

Source

event and official-site publisher

BSidesNOLA

Official publisher of the NOLABSides 2026 pre-sale site and organizer updates used for event and badge-package context.

Source

Why It Mattered

It adds a completed 2026 Louisiana Security BSides artifact from event, organizer, and attendee evidence without turning the phrase custom PCB badge into an invented electronic-device specification. The dossier keeps the physical board, Rougarou theme, and named Fox Pick attribution discoverable while showing exactly where the public technical trail stops.

Hardware

The BSides Global event listing calls it a custom PCB badge from Fox Pick and says a pre-sale ticket included a guaranteed PCB badge. A post-event attendee calls the received artifact a Rougarou circuit-board badge. No reviewed source identifies a microcontroller, LEDs, display, radio, battery, connector, PCB dimensions/layers, component list, schematic, BOM, production files, power behavior, or whether the physical board was electronically active.

Software & Apps

No firmware, application, repository, schematic, Gerber, programming method, challenge, protocol, payload, or software license has been recovered for the 2026 Rougarou badge. The NOLABSides site used the marketing phrase digital badge for early orders, but it does not document software or establish electronic behavior, so the record treats the verified PCB/circuit-board form as the full current evidence.

Lore

BSides NOLA held its May 12, 2026 edition at the InterContinental New Orleans under a Rougarou theme. The official event listing announces the custom PCB badge alongside the theme and names Fox Pick; a post-event attendee account supplies the narrow physical-description corroboration. No rights-cleared badge image, detailed post-event badge walkthrough, or named board-design documentation has been published in the reviewed sources.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

ticket badge package source-backed

Pre-sale PCB badge package

The BSides Global event listing says the 2026 pre-sale package included a guaranteed PCB badge along with a T-shirt, swag bag, coffee, lunch, and happy hour.

Compatibility: BSides NOLA 2026 Rougarou Circuit Board Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

allocation and provenance boundary note

The event listing advertises a guaranteed PCB badge in its pre-sale package, while the reviewed post-event public trail does not publish a final allocation count, recipient roster, variant inventory, production run, board-designer statement, or delivery report.

The catalogue records a pre-sale package and observed attendee artifact without claiming universal distribution, exact production scope, or a named board designer beyond the event listing's Fox Pick attribution.

Confidence: event listing and attendee account
Status: needs final organizer recap
Timeframe: 2026 post-event source pass
Source note: BSides Global event listing and post-event BSidesNOLA / attendee public sources.

hardware and software specification gap note

Public sources establish a custom PCB/circuit-board badge but do not identify any electronic components, active behavior, power source, board dimensions, schematic, BOM, Gerbers, firmware, programming method, or challenge implementation.

The record preserves the verified physical PCB form while withholding an electronic-device, firmware, component, or challenge claim until Fox Pick, BSidesNOLA, or another primary archive provides it.

Confidence: primary and first-hand source trail
Status: needs badge-team documentation
Timeframe: 2026 post-event source pass
Source note: BSides Global event listing, NOLABSides site, BSidesNOLA organizer updates, and Liz Gore attendee account.

missing rights-cleared image note

No BSides NOLA 2026 badge image is published because the official site, BSides Global event listing, organizer social page, and attendee post do not pair a specific badge image with source URL, reusable license or explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The Louisiana record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event media, social-media photos, ticketing graphics, screenshots, placeholders, or generated approximations.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and reviewed BSides NOLA sources.

Resources

BSides NOLA 2026 event listing BSides Global event listing · BSides Global listing for the completed May 12, 2026 InterContinental New Orleans edition, naming a custom PCB badge from Fox Pick and a guaranteed PCB badge in the pre-sale package. BSides NOLA official site official event site · Official NOLABSides site for 2026 pre-sales, including its early-order digital-badge wording and TicketLeap handoff; it does not provide a technical badge specification. BSidesNOLA organizer page organizer social page · Organizer-operated page whose post-event updates describe BSidesNOLA 2026 as a success and direct readers to the next edition; it corroborates completion but does not publish badge hardware detail. Rougarou circuit-board badge attendee account first-hand attendee account · Post-event attendee account stating that the author left BSidesNOLA with a Rougarou circuit-board badge; it corroborates a physical artifact but is not image-reuse permission or a technical specification.

Sources

BSides Global Community: BSides NOLA Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event-listing source for the completed May 12, 2026 InterContinental New Orleans edition, its Rougarou framing, the custom PCB badge attribution to Fox Pick, and the guaranteed pre-sale PCB badge wording. BSidesNOLA: NOLABSides Main Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official site source for the 2026 pre-sale period and the early-order digital-badge wording; it does not specify hardware, software, or a reuse license for event media. BSidesNOLA: BSidesNOLA organizer updates Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Organizer-operated post-event source confirming that BSidesNOLA 2026 took place successfully and is now followed by 2027 ticketing; it does not document final badge hardware or allocation. Liz Gore / LinkedIn: Liz Gore: BSidesNOLA Rougarou circuit board badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand attendee corroboration that a physical Rougarou circuit-board badge was received at BSidesNOLA 2026. The post and its image are evidence only, not a reusable image license or a component-level technical source.