BugCON 2024 · Mexico · 2024

BugCON 2024 Badge

Official Electronic Cats ESP32-C6 community and VIP badge

BugCON 2024's official Electronic Cats badge was an open-hardware ESP32-C6 badge line with community and VIP variants, USB serial workflow, displays, LEDs, battery power, firmware directories, KiCad hardware trees, and CERN-OHL hardware licensing.

BugCON Mexico Electronic Cats ESP32-C6 OLED GC9A01 CircuitPython Open Hardware North America LATAM

EventBugCON 2024

SeriesBugCON

LocationMexico City

CountryMexico

People

Authors & Credits

badge designer and repository publisher

Electronic Cats

The repository says the badge was designed by Electronic Cats and preserves the official BugCON 2024 badge source.

Source

event and badge partner

BugCON Team

The repository thanks the BugCON Team and links the official BugCON site.

Source

Why It Mattered

It adds Mexico to the worldwide compendium with a modern Latin American hacker-conference badge whose official repository preserves both attendee-facing startup instructions and production hardware sources.

Hardware

The Community badge variant is documented with ESP32-C6, two AA batteries, USB, a 128x32 0.91-inch I2C SSD1306 OLED, and LEDs. The VIP variant is documented with ESP32-C6, two AA batteries, USB, a 1.28-inch GC9A01 circular TFT LCD, and LEDs.

Software & Apps

The repository tells attendees to connect over USB serial at 115200 baud, includes separate firmware directories for Community and VIP variants, points Community firmware builders to the project developer guide, and frames VIP firmware development through CircuitPython and Thonny.

Lore

BugCON's 2024 CFP frames the Mexico City event as a technical security conference from one of Mexico's long-running hacking communities; the badge repository thanks the BugCON Team and Electronic Cats and preserves the shipped badge as an open hardware project.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge variant source-backed

Community ESP32-C6 OLED badge

The community variant used ESP32-C6 hardware with USB, two AA batteries, LEDs, and a 128x32 0.91-inch I2C SSD1306 OLED.

Compatibility: BugCON 2024 Badge

Source

badge variant source-backed

VIP ESP32-C6 circular-display badge

The VIP variant used ESP32-C6 hardware with USB, two AA batteries, LEDs, and a 1.28-inch GC9A01 circular TFT LCD.

Compatibility: BugCON 2024 Badge

Source

firmware lifecycle archived source

Community and VIP firmware split

The firmware tree preserves separate Community and VIP directories, with Community firmware build guidance and VIP development framed around CircuitPython and Thonny.

Compatibility: BugCON 2024 Badge

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firmware workflow source-backed

115200 baud serial startup

The repository startup path tells attendees to connect the badge over USB and open the serial port at 115200 baud to see badge text.

Compatibility: BugCON 2024 Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

license scope caveat note

The repository README states the hardware is released under CERN Open Hardware Licence v1.2, while the license text itself says software and firmware are outside that license unless explicitly expressed.

The compendium can cite the open-hardware release while avoiding assumptions that all firmware, screenshots, photos, or repository media share the same reuse terms.

Confidence: primary repository
Status: documented
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: BugCON 2024 repository README and LICENSE_HARDWARE.md.

missing rights-cleared image note

No local BugCON 2024 badge photo has been added because the repository's image/media reuse scope has not been paired with an exact source URL, attribution string, and processing notes for a selected raster.

The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository or web imagery without complete provenance.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and ElectronicCats badge-bugcon-2024 repository.

Resources

Badge BugCON 2024 repository source · Official Electronic Cats repository documenting the BugCON 2024 badge, community and VIP variants, serial startup workflow, firmware paths, credits, and hardware-license statement. BugCON 2024 CFP event page · Official event source for Mexico City dates, conference background since 2008, technical security focus, and Mexican hacking-community context. BugCON 2024 firmware tree firmware source · Repository firmware tree with separate Community and VIP firmware directories. BugCON 2024 hardware license license · Repository hardware license file using CERN Open Hardware Licence v1.2 for hardware documentation. BugCON 2024 hardware tree hardware source · Repository hardware tree with Community and Speaker/VIP KiCad design directories and KiBot configuration files.

Sources

BugCON: Call For Papers - BugCON Security Conference 2024 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for Mexico City event context, long-running BugCON background, and technical security-conference framing. Electronic Cats / GitHub: CERN Open Hardware Licence v1.2 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary license source for hardware documentation reuse scope and software/firmware exclusion caveat. GitHub: ElectronicCats/badge-bugcon-2024 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge source for ESP32-C6 community/VIP variants, display differences, serial workflow, firmware paths, credits, and hardware-license statement. GitHub: BugCON 2024 hardware tree Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary hardware-source tree for Community and Speaker/VIP badge design files.