BuddoBot and Hackerwares
The official BSidesSF 2024 schedule says the Hardware Challenge Village and specially designed HCV badge were brought by BuddoBot and Hackerwares.
SourceBSidesSF 2024 · United States · 2024
BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
Specially designed HCV badge CTF artifact
The BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village badge is a source-backed village badge used for electronics tinkering and a competitive badge CTF contest at City View at Metreon, with attendee-report evidence for a screen, joystick, battery or USB-C power, and badge-to-badge clue exchange.
EventBSidesSF 2024
SeriesBSidesSF
LocationCity View at Metreon, San Francisco, California
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Why It Mattered
It records a modern BSides village badge where the official archive proves a specially designed Hardware Challenge Village badge and attendee evidence preserves how its puzzle surface was actually used during the event.
Hardware
The official BSidesSF 2024 Sched archive identifies a specially designed village badge for HCV. A Veritas attendee report describes an integrated-circuit badge with a four-line LED screen, joystick, battery or USB-C power, and badge-to-badge clue exchange. The current public source trail still does not publish component identifiers, schematic, BOM, firmware, PCB files, production notes, or badge-photo licensing.
Software & Apps
The official archive ties the badge to competitive CTF challenge play and electronics tinkering, while the attendee report describes pre-installed clues, badge connection for clue exchange, and puzzle/cipher/game/hack challenge behavior. This pass did not recover the badge CTF source, firmware image, post-event writeup, or challenge solution archive.
Lore
The Hardware Challenge Village ran across both conference days in Participation Hall and was brought by BuddoBot and Hackerwares, with village sponsors listed on the official schedule. The record stays image-free until a reusable original photo or official raster render is found.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
challenge behavior
attendee-reported
Pre-installed clue and badge-to-badge exchange
The same attendee report says each badge arrived with one pre-installed clue and could connect to other badges so participants could exchange clues while solving puzzles, ciphers, games, and hacks.
Source
event challenge
source-backed
Badge CTF contest
The 2024 Hardware Challenge Village description ties the badge to a competitive badge CTF contest and hands-on electronics tinkering.
Source
hardware interface
attendee-reported
Four-line screen and joystick interface
A Veritas attendee report describes the 2024 HCV badge as an integrated-circuit electronic badge with a four-line LED screen and joystick, powered by battery or USB-C.
Source
village badge
source-backed
Specially designed HCV badge
The official 2024 schedule says the Hardware Challenge Village used a specially designed village badge for HCV.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
missing rights-cleared image
note
No BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village badge image is published because no source paired the badge media with reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event-page graphics, sponsor avatars, social photos, or screenshots.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and BSidesSF 2024 Sched archive.
technical-source caveat
note
The official schedule proves a specially designed HCV badge and badge CTF contest, and a Veritas attendee report documents the screen, joystick, USB-C/battery power, and clue-exchange behavior, but no source recovered here publishes component identifiers, schematics, firmware, PCB files, production notes, or challenge source.
The catalogue can describe observed user-facing badge behavior while leaving schematic, firmware, and manufacturing details for a later badge-team archive.
- Confidence
- official source plus attendee report but incomplete archive
- Status
- needs badge-team archive
- Timeframe
- 2024 badge archive pass
- Source note
- BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village schedule description and Veritas attendee report.
Resources
BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village
official schedule archive · Official BSidesSF 2024 Sched archive source for the Hardware Challenge Village, specially designed HCV badge, electronics tinkering, badge CTF contest, BuddoBot and Hackerwares attribution, and City View at Metreon context.
Veritas BSidesSF 2024 HCV attendee report
attendee report · Secondary attendee report documenting the 2024 electronic HCV badge's screen, joystick, battery or USB-C power, pre-installed clues, and badge-to-badge clue exchange.
Sources
BSidesSF / Sched: Hardware Challenge Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official schedule source for the BSidesSF 2024 specially designed HCV badge, electronics tinkering, competitive badge CTF contest, date, venue, and BuddoBot / Hackerwares attribution.
Veritas: Part 2: Best sessions from BSides SF 2024
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Attendee-report source for the integrated-circuit electronic badge, four-line LED screen, joystick, battery or USB-C power, pre-installed clues, badge connection for clue exchange, and puzzle/cipher/game/hack challenge framing.