BSidesROC 2019 · United States · 2019

BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge

Reprogrammable ATTINY85 badge with dual SAO ports

The BSidesROC 2019 badge is preserved through the official event archive and badge page, which describe a fully working reprogrammable electronic badge, about 200 assembled units, PCB fallback for attendees without the assembled option, and a best-hacked-badge contest.

BSidesROC BSides Rochester United States New York Rochester Security BSides ATTINY85 Shitty Add-On SAO Reprogrammable Badge Hacking North America

EventBSidesROC 2019

SeriesBSidesROC

LocationRIT Inn, Henrietta, New York

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

SAO standard reference

Shitty Add-Ons / Hackaday.io

The official BSidesROC badge page links the Hackaday.io Shitty Add-Ons project as the reference for the badge's two SAO ports.

Source

event and badge-page publisher

BSidesROC

Official publisher of the 2019 event archive, badge page, and volunteer call used for this source-backed badge record.

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website source publisher

BSidesROC GitHub organization

The public BSidesROC.github.io repository preserves the Markdown source trail for the official badge page; no repository media is reused as a catalogue image.

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Why It Mattered

It adds a Rochester Security BSides hardware lineage to the North American pass and keeps a useful distribution boundary intact: the badge was real electronics, but the official page also says assembly quantity was limited and non-assembled PCBs were part of the attendee experience.

Hardware

The official badge page documents an ATTINY85 microcontroller, two Shitty Add-Ons ports on the top corners with no rotation, data pins connected to ATTINY85 pins 2 and 0, an Amphenol ICC 20021321-00008C4LF programming port, an Amphenol FCI 20021221-00008C4LF male programming connector, 1.27 mm pitch, about 200 assembled badges, and PCB fallback for attendees who did not sign up for a fully assembled badge. No LEDs, power source, enclosure, schematic, BOM, Gerbers, firmware, or production files are claimed here because those details were not recovered.

Software & Apps

The official badge page says the badge was reprogrammable and that a best hacked badge contest would award prizes. No public badge firmware, challenge code, bootloader note, flashing guide, or hardware repository was recovered in this pass; the cited GitHub repository is the public website source, not a badge firmware or schematic archive.

Lore

The official archive places the seventh BSidesROC at the RIT Inn on March 23, 2019, and the volunteer call lists conference setup, registration, CTF Proctor, and Badge wrangler roles. The badge page's tight lead-time note explains the limited assembled run while still preserving the event's badge-hacking contest intent.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge contest source-backed

Best hacked badge contest

BSidesROC announced a contest for best hacked badge with prizes awarded, tying the reprogrammable badge to on-site modification rather than only event identity.

Compatibility: BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge

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distribution boundary source-backed

About 200 assembled badges

The official badge page says short lead times limited the assembled run to about 200 badges, while attendees who did not sign up for the assembled option still received a PCB.

Compatibility: BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge

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hardware expansion source-backed

Dual Shitty Add-On ports

The badge page documents two Shitty Add-Ons ports on the top corners of the badge and says the ports had no rotation.

Compatibility: BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge

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programming interface source-backed

ATTINY85 programming connector path

The official page identifies the ATTINY85 pin mapping for SAO data pins and names the Amphenol programming-port and male-connector parts with 1.27 mm pitch.

Compatibility: BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

distribution-scope caveat note

The official badge page says only about 200 fully assembled badges were available because of lead times, and that attendees who did not sign up for the assembled badge would receive a PCB.

The catalogue records the electronic badge without implying that every attendee received a fully assembled programmed unit.

Confidence: official source
Status: documented
Timeframe: BSidesROC 2019 registration and badge assembly
Source note: BSidesROC 2019 badge page.

missing rights-cleared image note

No BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

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.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and BSidesROC 2019 official archive, badge page, volunteer page, and site repository source trail.

page-media rights boundary note

No BSidesROC 2019 badge image is published because the recovered official page and website repository did not provide a rights-cleared badge photo or official raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The record remains image-free rather than copying page media, repository assets, screenshots, social photos, or generated approximations without complete provenance.

Confidence: source-backed but no reusable image basis
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: BSidesROC 2019 badge page, BSidesROC.github.io repository metadata, and badge.gallery image policy.

technical-source gap note

The official source documents ATTINY85, SAO ports, programming connector parts, reprogrammability, and contest framing, but this pass did not recover a schematic, BOM, Gerbers, firmware repository, flashing guide, badge challenge source, or final production file archive.

Hardware and software claims remain limited to the official badge-page text and avoid unsupported electronics or firmware behavior.

Confidence: official source but incomplete
Status: needs badge-team archive
Timeframe: current North America pass
Source note: BSidesROC 2019 badge page and public website-source repository.

Resources

BSidesROC 2019 badge markdown source source markdown · Repository-backed Markdown source for the official badge page text used to corroborate the live page. BSidesROC 2019 badge page official badge page · Primary badge page for the reprogrammable electronic badge, about 200 assembled units, PCB fallback, ATTINY85 details, dual SAO ports, programming connector, and best hacked badge contest. BSidesROC 2019 official archive official event archive · Official archive page preserving Security B-Sides Rochester event context, seventh-year framing, RIT Inn venue, and March 23, 2019 date. BSidesROC 2019 volunteer call official operations page · Official volunteer page listing March 22-23 setup and event roles including CTF Proctor and Badge wrangler.

Sources

BSidesROC: Security B-Sides Rochester 2019 archive Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for March 23, 2019 RIT Inn event context and the Badge Hacking navigation entry. BSidesROC: BSidesRoc.Badge manual page Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge source documenting the fully working reprogrammable electronic badge, about 200 assembled units, PCB fallback, dual Shitty Add-Ons ports, ATTINY85 pins, programming connectors, and best hacked badge contest. BSidesROC: BSidesROC 2019 volunteer call Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official operations source listing CTF Proctor and Badge wrangler roles around the March 22-23, 2019 setup and conference dates.