PCBWay
Badge Pirates identifies PCBWay as the full-assembly vendor for the 250 BSidesKC 2025 ESP32 touchscreen badges.
SourceBSidesKC 2025 · United States · 2025
BSidesKC 2025 Badge
Badge Pirates ESP32 touchscreen conference badge
The BSidesKC 2025 badge was a Badge Pirates fully electronic conference badge documented through public production and fulfillment updates: 250 fully assembled ESP32 badges from PCBWay with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, customs delays, tariff impact, and post-event pickup or shipping handling.
EventBSidesKC 2025
SeriesBSidesKC
LocationKansas City, Missouri
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Badge Pirates
Badge Pirates published the BSidesKC 2025 tariff and shipping updates used for the badge's hardware, production, customs, and fulfillment evidence.
SourceBSides Global
BSides Global lists BSidesKC as an April 25-26, 2025 Kansas City, USA event.
SourceWhy It Mattered
It extends the Kansas City Security BSides lineage beyond the rights-cleared 2019 badge with a later regional-con production run whose public trail captures modern small-batch badge manufacturing, international assembly logistics, customs classification, tariff exposure, and attendee fulfillment accountability.
Hardware
Badge Pirates describes the 2025 batch as 250 fully electronic badges built around an ESP32, with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, and full PCBWay assembly. This pass did not recover a schematic, BOM, Gerbers, firmware repository, enclosure files, battery details, or component-level board photos with reusable image rights.
Software & Apps
No public firmware, application source, challenge binary, scoreboard, badge API, or walkthrough was recovered in this pass. The record therefore documents the hardware platform and production evidence without inferring badge-game behavior or local software features.
Lore
Badge Pirates first posted a 2025 shipping update saying the badges were still held at U.S. Customs, then published a tariff writeup after receiving most of the shipment. The later production note records customs scrutiny, opened packaging, and roughly $1,000 in tariffs on a roughly $5,000 order, turning the badge into a useful case study for conference badge logistics as well as electronics.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
fulfillment process
badge-maker documented
Pickup or shipping fulfillment path
The Badge Pirates shipping update says badge purchasers would be emailed after customs clearance and could choose pickup at later events or mailed delivery.
Source
production batch
badge-maker documented
250 fully assembled ESP32 badges
Badge Pirates documents a batch of 250 fully electronic badges built around ESP32 boards with touch screens, Wi-Fi, and SD card slots.
Source
production constraint
badge-maker documented
Tariff and customs production lesson
The tariff writeup records customs scrutiny, opened packaging, delayed delivery, and roughly a 20 percent tariff hit on the production order.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
fulfillment caveat
note
Badge Pirates said the badges were held at U.S. Customs after the event and that purchasers would be contacted for pickup or shipping once the badges cleared.
The record presents the badge as a real post-event delivery effort with documented logistics friction instead of implying frictionless on-site distribution.
- Confidence
- badge-maker fulfillment update
- Status
- documented
- Timeframe
- April-May 2025 delivery period
- Source note
- Badge Pirates BSidesKC 2025 shipping update and tariff writeup.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No BSidesKC 2025 badge image is published because the recovered Badge Pirates posts expose production and fulfillment evidence but no reusable physical badge photo or full upstream raster render with complete license, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog art, screenshots, social photos, or generated approximations.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and Badge Pirates 2025 BSidesKC posts.
technical-source gap
note
The public sources prove an ESP32 touchscreen badge batch with Wi-Fi, SD card slots, PCBWay assembly, and customs/tariff logistics, but this pass did not recover the schematic, BOM, Gerbers, firmware, challenge files, battery details, or full component placement record.
The catalogue records the verified badge platform and production run while avoiding unsupported firmware, challenge, and component claims.
- Confidence
- badge-maker production source with limited archive depth
- Status
- needs schematic, BOM, firmware, and repository recovery
- Timeframe
- current BSidesKC 2025 pass
- Source note
- Badge Pirates tariff and shipping updates.
Resources
BSidesKC 2025 BSides Global listing
event metadata · BSides Global event listing for the April 25-26, 2025 BSidesKC event tagged Kansas City and USA.
BSidesKC 2025 badge shipping update
fulfillment update · Badge Pirates update documenting BSidesKC 2025 badge orders, U.S. Customs hold status, and planned pickup or shipping choices for badge purchasers.
BSidesKC 2025 tariff writeup
badge-maker production writeup · Badge Pirates production source documenting 250 fully assembled ESP32 electronic badges from PCBWay with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, customs scrutiny, and tariff impact.
Sources
BSides Global: BSidesKC
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event source for the April 25-26, 2025 Kansas City, USA BSidesKC listing.
Badge Pirates: Bsideskc badge shipping update
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary fulfillment source for BSidesKC 2025 badge orders, customs hold status, and pickup or shipping plan.
Badge Pirates: BSidesKC Tariff Woahs
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary production source for the 250 fully assembled ESP32 badges, 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, PCBWay assembly, customs inspection, and tariff impact.