CactusCon 13 · United States · 2025

CactusCon 13 Badge

Badge Pirates CC13 ESP32-S3 badge archive

The CactusCon 13 badge is preserved through Badge Pirates' public CactusCon13 repository, which publishes KiCad CAD files, Gerber output, outer-board variants, 3D-print assets, ESP32-S3 reference material, and a MIT-licensed source archive for the 2025 CactusCon badge.

CactusCon United States Arizona Mesa Badge Pirates ESP32-S3 WROOM TFT Touch Rotary Encoder USB Serial MicroSD Buzzer 14500 KiCad MIT North America

EventCactusCon 13

SeriesCactusCon

LocationMesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

badge design and source archive publisher

Badge Pirates

Repository publisher for the CactusCon 13 badge CAD, outer-board variants, 3D-print files, documentation, reference material, and license record.

Source

event publisher

CactusCon

Event lineage credit for CactusCon 13, currently anchored here through InfoconDB because a stable old official page was not recovered in this pass.

Source

Why It Mattered

It documents the immediate predecessor to CC14 using public design files rather than screenshots or social media, including the role-specific outer-board archive that hints at attendee, speaker, staff, and Mafia variants.

Hardware

The CC13 CAD archive exposes Project-CC13 KiCad files, schematic sheets for LEDs, MAX17048 fuel gauge, MicroSD, power, rotary encoder, screens, and USB connections, a STEP export, Gerbers, an ESP32-S3 pinout reference, and separate outer-board KiCad projects for attendee, Mafia, speaker, and staff variants. Public KiCad comments identify an ESP32-S3 WROOM N16-class badge core, SPI TFT with touch, two input buttons, one rotary dial, USB-to-serial programming, MicroSD, buzzer, LiPo charging, dual 14500 battery holders, and fuel-gauge hardware.

Software & Apps

No standalone final firmware, badge-game source, OTA backend, or challenge archive was recovered from the public CactusCon13 repository in this pass. The record stays scoped to the public hardware/manufacturing archive and does not infer software behavior.

Lore

InfoconDB records CactusCon 13 as a February 14-15, 2025 Mesa Convention Center event. The repository's role-specific outer-board files make the badge lineage useful for preserving how the 2025 badge varied across event roles without publishing any unclear badge photo.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge interface source-backed

SPI TFT touch, buttons, and rotary dial

The Project-CC13 board comments identify an SPI TFT with touch, two input buttons, and one rotary dial.

Compatibility: CactusCon 13 Badge

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firmware workflow source-backed

USB serial, MicroSD, and buzzer path

The CC13 archive comments document USB-to-serial programming, MicroSD, and buzzer hardware context.

Compatibility: CactusCon 13 Badge

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hardware architecture source-backed

ESP32-S3 WROOM N16 badge core

The CC13 KiCad archive comments identify an ESP32-S3 WROOM N16-class badge core with Wi-Fi/Bluetooth LE context.

Compatibility: CactusCon 13 Badge

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manufacturing archive source-backed

Gerber and MIT-licensed CAD archive

Badge Pirates publishes CC13 Gerbers, KiCad sources, documentation outputs, and an MIT repository license.

Compatibility: CactusCon 13 Badge

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mechanical source source-backed

3D-print and STEP archive

The public repository includes 3d_Prints model/STL material and a Project-CC13 STEP export for mechanical reference.

Compatibility: CactusCon 13 Badge

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power architecture source-backed

Dual 14500 power and fuel gauge

The CC13 KiCad comments identify LiPo charging, dual 14500 battery holders, and fuel-gauge hardware.

Compatibility: CactusCon 13 Badge

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variant archive source-backed

Role-specific outer boards

The CAD-OuterBoard tree preserves attendee, Mafia, speaker, staff, and generic outer-board KiCad variants.

Compatibility: CactusCon 13 Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

documentation-depth caveat note

The CactusCon13 repository lacks a descriptive README in the inspected public tree, so hardware claims are tied to directory names, KiCad comments, and repository metadata rather than a narrative badge-maker writeup.

The record remains useful for source discovery while preserving the limits of the public documentation.

Confidence: repository tree inspection
Status: documented
Timeframe: current CactusCon 13 pass
Source note: BadgePiratesLLC/CactusCon13 repository metadata and top-level tree.

missing rights-cleared image note

No CactusCon 13 badge image is published because the available repository, website-gallery, event-page, or rendered assets have not been selected with complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying gallery, board-output, screenshot, social, or generated media.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and BadgePiratesLLC/CactusCon13 repository.

software-source caveat note

The CactusCon13 repository exposes CAD, outer-board, documentation, reference, and 3D-print material, but this pass did not recover standalone final firmware, event-game source, OTA service code, or challenge archive.

The catalogue records verified hardware/manufacturing evidence while avoiding unsupported claims about badge software behavior.

Confidence: repository tree inspection
Status: needs firmware archive recovery
Timeframe: current CactusCon 13 pass
Source note: BadgePiratesLLC/CactusCon13 repository tree.

Resources

CactusCon 13 3D-print archive mechanical source · Repository 3d_Prints tree preserving model and STL material for the CC13 badge archive. CactusCon 13 Gerbers manufacturing output · Repository Gerber archive preserving Project-CC13 production output. CactusCon 13 InfoconDB record event metadata · InfoconDB source for the February 14-15, 2025 Mesa Convention Center CactusCon 13 event context. CactusCon 13 KiCad CAD tree hardware source · Repository CAD tree with Project-CC13 KiCad files, schematic sheets, STEP export, ESP32-S3 reference material, and Gerber outputs. CactusCon 13 documentation outputs hardware source · Repository DOCS tree preserving ESP32-S3 pinout reference and Badge Pirates drawing-sheet files. CactusCon 13 license license · MIT license source for the public repository archive. CactusCon 13 outer-board archive hardware source · Repository outer-board KiCad tree preserving attendee, Mafia, speaker, staff, and general role-board variants. CactusCon13 repository source repo · Badge Pirates public repository preserving the CactusCon 13 badge archive under an MIT license.

Sources

GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: BadgePiratesLLC/CactusCon13 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for CactusCon 13 KiCad, outer-board, 3D-print, documentation, reference, and license material. GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 13 CAD and outer-board archive Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Hardware source for Project-CC13 KiCad files, schematic sheets, Gerbers, STEP export, and role-board variants. GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 13 LICENSE Retrieved 2026-05-15 · MIT license source for the public CactusCon13 repository archive. InfoconDB: CactusCon 13 (2025) Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for CactusCon 13 dates and Mesa Convention Center venue.