Pacific Hackers and Hackerwares
The official BSidesSF 2025 schedule says the Hardware Challenge Village badge CTF was brought by Pacific Hackers and Hackerwares.
SourceBSidesSF 2025 · United States · 2025
BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
Pacific Hackers and Hackerwares HCV badge
The BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village badge is a source-backed badge designed specifically for the village's electronic tinkering, programming, and competitive CTF challenge.
EventBSidesSF 2025
SeriesBSidesSF
LocationCity View at Metreon, San Francisco, California
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Why It Mattered
It extends the San Francisco Hardware Challenge Village lineage into 2025 with official schedule evidence and preserves the village-specific badge context without overclaiming attendee-wide distribution or unsupported hardware details.
Hardware
The official BSidesSF 2025 Sched archive says the village would host a competitive CTF challenge using a badge designed specifically for the Hardware Challenge Village. It does not publish component names, schematic, BOM, PCB files, firmware, production count, or final badge photos with reusable rights.
Software & Apps
The public source proves electronic tinkering, programming, and badge CTF context, but no firmware repository, badge app, challenge source, scoreboard archive, or post-event solution writeup was recovered in this pass.
Lore
The Hardware Challenge Village ran in Participant Hall at City View at Metreon across both BSidesSF 2025 conference days and was brought by Pacific Hackers and Hackerwares. The badge is modeled as a village CTF artifact, not a universal admission credential.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
event challenge
source-backed
Electronic tinkering and programming village
The 2025 Hardware Challenge Village description frames the badge activity around electronic tinkering, programming, and competitive CTF play.
Source
village badge
source-backed
Hardware Challenge Village badge
The official 2025 schedule says the village hosted a competitive CTF using a badge designed specifically for the Hardware Challenge Village.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
missing rights-cleared image
note
No BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village badge image is published because no public source recovered in this pass provided complete reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than publishing uncleared or synthetic visuals.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and BSidesSF 2025 Sched archive.
technical-source caveat
note
The official schedule proves a badge designed specifically for the Hardware Challenge Village CTF, but does not publish component identifiers, schematics, firmware, PCB files, production notes, challenge source, or scoreboard archive.
The catalogue records the verified village badge and leaves hardware/software archaeology for a later source recovery pass.
- Confidence
- official source but incomplete
- Status
- needs badge-team archive
- Timeframe
- 2025 badge archive pass
- Source note
- BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village schedule description.