CarolinaCon Online 2021 · United States · 2021

CarolinaCon Online 2021 Badge Kit

Merch-bundle electronic badge kit for the online con

CarolinaCon Online 2021 offered a merch bundle with a CarolinaCon Online T-shirt, sticker, and a kit containing all parts needed to make that year's badge; after orders closed, the organizers began bulk-ordering shirts and badge supplies for shipment.

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EventCarolinaCon Online 2021

SeriesCarolinaCon

LocationVirtual / online

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

event and merch-bundle publisher

CarolinaCon Group / 49th Security Division

The official CarolinaCon Online 2021 pages identify The CarolinaCon Group and 49th Security Division as event publishers and preserve the badge-kit merch-bundle trail.

Source

Why It Mattered

It preserves the pandemic-era CarolinaCon badge lineage without treating the online CTF itself as a badge. The record captures how a small North Carolina hacker conference kept physical badge culture alive through a shipped kit rather than an on-site Hardware Hacking Village.

Hardware

The archived official home page states that the bundle included a kit with all parts needed to make the year's badge. It does not publish a component list, schematic, PCB files, battery details, firmware archive, or final assembly guide in the recovered page trail.

Software & Apps

No badge firmware, firmware repository, embedded challenge code, or hardware CTF behavior is claimed. The separate official announcement that the CTF source became public is recorded only as event context and not as evidence of badge software.

Lore

The official page says CarolinaCon Online 2021 was over, thanked speakers, CTF participants, and livestream viewers, and said organizers had started bulk ordering shirts and badge supplies for the closed merch bundle with shipping to follow.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

event software context source-backed boundary

Public CTF source boundary

The official page says the CTF source became public, but this catalogue keeps that as event context because the source trail does not tie the CTF repository to badge firmware or badge hardware.

Compatibility: CarolinaCon Online 2021 event context

Source

fulfillment workflow historical

Bulk badge-supplies ordering

After the bundle closed, organizers said they had begun bulk ordering shirts and badge supplies and hoped to ship bundles soon.

Compatibility: CarolinaCon Online 2021 merch bundle

Source

merch-bundle badge kit source-backed

All-parts shipped badge kit

The official page says the merch bundle included a kit with all parts needed to make the year's badge.

Compatibility: CarolinaCon Online 2021 Badge Kit

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

CTF boundary note

The official page also announces public CTF challenge source, but does not connect those CTF files to badge hardware or badge firmware.

The catalogue avoids merging the online CTF archive into the badge record without source-backed badge integration evidence.

Confidence: official source separation
Status: documented
Timeframe: 2021 online event
Source note: CarolinaCon Online 2021 official page.

missing rights-cleared image note

No CarolinaCon Online 2021 Badge Kit 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 CarolinaCon Online 2021 official site and schedule source trail.

technical-source caveat note

The recovered official page proves an all-parts badge kit in the merch bundle, but no component list, schematic, PCB artwork, firmware, battery details, assembly guide, or challenge writeup was recovered.

The record stays narrow and does not invent electronics beyond the official badge-kit language.

Confidence: official source but incomplete
Status: needs artifact archive
Timeframe: current CarolinaCon Online 2021 pass
Source note: CarolinaCon Online 2021 official page and schedule.

Resources

CarolinaCon Online 2021 home page official event page · Official archived page for CarolinaCon Online 2021, including merch-bundle badge-kit language, badge-supplies bulk-order update, CTF source boundary, and online event context. CarolinaCon Online 2021 schedule official schedule · Official schedule source anchoring the April 23-25, 2021 online event window.

Sources

CarolinaCon: CarolinaCon Online 2021 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the merch bundle with all parts needed to make the year's badge, later badge-supplies bulk-order update, online CTF context, and shipping note. CarolinaCon: CarolinaCon Online 2021 schedule Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule source for April 23-25, 2021 timing used to anchor the event edition.