CypherCon
Official publisher of the 2026 Digital / Circuit ticket language and event registration materials. The recovered sources do not name a board designer, engineer, manufacturer, firmware author, or image-reuse authority.
SourceCypherCon 9 (2026) · United States · 2026
CypherCon 2026 Digital / Circuit Badge
Official interactive PCB ticket-tier artifact; final build remains unarchived
CypherCon 9's official 2026 registration listing describes its Digital / Circuit Badge ticket tier as an interactive circuit-board PCB badge. The official FAQ distinguishes that general digital/PCB/electronic tier from limited Extreme/Ultimate and Analog ticket forms, while a public organizer-account timeline mirror records the April event opening and wrap. Those sources establish a real completed-event ticket artifact, not a component-level board specification or an individual fulfillment record.
EventCypherCon 9 (2026)
SeriesCypherCon
LocationBaird Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Why It Mattered
It refreshes the existing Milwaukee CypherCon lineage with exact 2026 organizer wording and keeps an electronic ticket tier separate from both the premium Electronic/upgraded PCB tier and the deliberately non-electronic plastic pass. The record preserves the source-backed artifact without treating marketing language, an organizer repost, or the passed event dates as proof of final hardware, tier parity, or universal handoff.
Hardware
The official registration listing calls the Digital / Circuit Badge an interactive circuit-board PCB badge. A third-party public mirror of CypherCon's organizer account preserves an organizer repost that says unspecified CypherCon badges had been programmed, tested, and packaged before the event. Neither source identifies a microcontroller, display, LEDs, sensors, radio, battery, charging circuit, connectors, board dimensions, materials, artwork, component list, schematic, PCB files, manufacturer, revision, or maps the repost to this specific ticket tier.
Software & Apps
No public CypherCon 2026 badge firmware, source repository, binary, app, challenge implementation, protocol, flashing path, software license, version, or user documentation was recovered. The official word interactive and the organizer-reposted programmed/tested/packaged statement are retained as high-level source language only; they do not establish behavior, a released software stack, or a particular delivered build.
Lore
CypherCon 9 ran April 1-2, 2026 at Milwaukee's Baird Center. Its FAQ says ticket purchase was recorded and merchandise was redeemed at the event rather than mailed; the same FAQ says electronic badges generally could not be shipped for attendees unable to pick them up without prior arrangement. The public organizer-account timeline mirror records an opening-ceremony post and a later wrap message, but does not publish ticket-tier counts, a recipient list, badge design credit, or proof of individual collection.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
official ticket-tier artifact announcement
official 2026 listing; final handoff unverified
Digital / Circuit Badge ticket-tier statement
CypherCon's registration listing says the 2026 Digital / Circuit Badge tier includes an interactive circuit-board PCB badge and a premium printed physical program, alongside listed conference access. This records the organizer's tier wording, not a final board identity, component set, completed purchase, recipient identity, final program, or technical behavior.
Source
post-event social timeline corroboration
third-party mirror of organizer account; tier mapping unavailable
Organizer-account badge-preparation repost
The public timeline mirror preserves CypherCon's repost of a message saying CypherCon badges were programmed, tested, and packaged before the event, and records opening and wrap messages for CypherCon 9. The repost does not identify a device, badge tier, firmware, test criteria, quantity, production entity, or successful attendee handoff.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
hardware, firmware, and interaction-specification gap
note
The official listing calls the Digital / Circuit Badge an interactive circuit-board PCB badge, and an organizer-account repost says unspecified CypherCon badges were programmed, tested, and packaged. No recovered source provides component identities, schematic, BOM, PCB files, power design, physical dimensions, firmware, application, protocol, challenge, source/binary release, license, test criteria, or accessibility documentation, and the repost is not mapped to this tier.
The catalogue preserves the exact ticket and timeline language without presenting the record as a documented electronic architecture, released software project, safety statement, or reproducible hardware build.
- Confidence
- official ticket-tier wording and limited social corroboration
- Status
- interactive PCB claim retained; technical archive unrecovered
- Timeframe
- 2026 post-event source pass
- Source note
- CypherCon 2026 registration and FAQ plus the public CypherCon-account timeline mirror.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No CypherCon 2026 Digital / Circuit Badge 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 CypherCon 2026 official registration, FAQ, and public organizer-account timeline mirror.
ticket, fulfillment, and tier-relationship boundary
note
The FAQ describes in-person redemption and the public timeline mirror says CypherCon 9 started and later wrapped, but no recovered source publishes Digital / Circuit Badge inventory, buyer or recipient scope, final production count, pickup completion, shipment, replacement, support, final board image, or whether it shared any hardware with the Extreme tier. The FAQ's general electronic-badge shipping caveat is not an individual delivery record.
This is a documented completed-event ticket artifact, not a claim that every purchaser received a particular board or that the three ticket forms had a known technical relationship.
- Confidence
- official registration/FAQ and public timeline mirror
- Status
- event completion corroborated; individual handoff unverified
- Timeframe
- as reviewed 2026-08-04
- Source note
- CypherCon 2026 registration and FAQ plus the public CypherCon-account timeline mirror.
Resources
CypherCon 2026 FAQ
official event and ticket-form FAQ · Primary organizer FAQ for the April 1-2, 2026 Baird Center event, the three ticket-form categories, in-person redemption statement, and general electronic-badge shipping caveat. It does not prove a particular ticket holder's purchase, pickup, or final badge configuration.
CypherCon 2026 registration
official registration listing · Primary organizer listing that describes the 2026 Digital / Circuit Badge as an interactive circuit-board PCB badge, the Extreme Badge as a premium electronic/upgraded-PCB offer, and the Analog / Plastic Entry Pass as a lanyard and physical plastic pass. It does not identify final hardware, distinct tier variants, or completed handoff.
CypherCon public account timeline mirror
third-party public social-timeline mirror · Public mirror preserving CypherCon-account posts that CypherCon 9 had officially started and later wrapped, plus an organizer repost saying unspecified CypherCon badges were programmed, tested, and packaged. It corroborates event completion and a high-level badge-preparation statement, but it is not an official archive, does not identify a ticket tier or technical design, and grants no image reuse rights.
Sources
CypherCon: CypherCon 2026 registration
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary organizer source for the Digital / Circuit Badge's interactive circuit-board PCB wording, its ticket-tier context, and the separately named Extreme and Analog / Plastic forms. It is a ticket description rather than a hardware, firmware, image-license, or fulfillment archive.
CypherCon: CypherCon FAQ
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary organizer source for the April 1-2, 2026 Milwaukee Baird Center setting, ticket-category distinction, in-person redemption statement, and general electronic-badge shipping caveat. It does not identify a Digital / Circuit Badge revision or recipient.
TwStalker / mirrored CypherCon public account: CypherCon public account timeline mirror
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Third-party public mirror preserving CypherCon posts that the 2026 event started and later wrapped, plus an organizer repost of a badge-preparation statement. It corroborates event completion and that high-level preparation claim only; it is not an official source repository, technical specification, delivery ledger, or image-reuse license.