DEF CON 34 · United States · 2026
Sold-out RP2040, LoRa, NFC, and LED community-event badge preorder
DEFCON Furs' official 2026 site and Hack Your Lives donation-store listing identify a distinct 2026 #badgelife badge for the DEF CON 34 period. The currently sold-out listing describes an assembled badge plus a blank PCB, an RP2040, LoRa radio, NFC, 48 RGB LEDs, MicroPython, touch points, and an SAO 1.69bis interface. It says paid orders will be assembled and shipped by September 30, while blanks were offered for in-person DEF CON pickup. Those are organizer-published preorder and planned-fulfillment statements, not proof that every order shipped, that each unit has the described final configuration, or that a specific recipient collected one.
People
The official 2026 DEFCON Furs site and schedules establish the source-published badge preorder, pickup, and event-space context. This does not assign individual electrical, firmware, artwork, manufacturing, fulfillment, or image-rights authorship.
SourceThe reviewed donation-store listing identifies Hack Your Lives as the programme context for DEFCON Furs and publishes the current badge offer. This records source publication only, not final manufacture, fulfillment, technical authorship, or image-reuse authority.
SourceIt adds a current, organizer-published DEF CON community-badge record with a defined electronics and event-space boundary while keeping an expired preorder and future shipment commitment distinct from a completed manufacturing or fulfillment ledger.
The official listing says the planned 2026 badge has an RP2040 processor, LoRa radio, NFC, 48 RGB LEDs, touch points, and a Shitty Add-On V1.69bis interface; it also offers an assembled badge with an additional blank PCB. The source does not identify the radio band or configuration, NFC part/protocol, LED part or layout, touch implementation, board revision, schematic, BOM, power source, charging, antenna, dimensions, enclosure, component substitutions, electrical limits, manufacturing test, safety validation, or final unit parity.
The listing says the planned badge uses MicroPython and that software and a parts list will be posted publicly on GitHub soon. No reviewed 2026 public repository, firmware image, source license, build instructions, application behavior, radio configuration, NFC data model, update path, recovery process, privacy policy, or security review is inferred before that promised publication appears.
DEFCON Furs describes itself as a Hack Your Lives programme organizing events and parties during DEF CON for information-security community members interested in furry fandom. Its official 2026 schedule described DEFCON Furs badge pickup and said that badge was required for the group's 2026 event space; the donation listing separately says it does not grant DEF CON admission. The past-dated schedule and sold-out preorder establish event association and stated access terms, not a completed pickup, every venue-access decision, or a DEF CON-issued credential.
Lifecycle
Hack Your Lives' current listing is sold out and says each assembled-badge order includes an additional blank PCB offered for in-person DEF CON 2026 pickup; uncollected blanks would ship with the assembled order. It says paid orders will be assembled and shipped by September 30. These seller statements do not establish paid-order count, completed assembly, shipment, delivery, pickup, replacement, refund, or that every order receives an identical final unit.
SourceThe official Furry Village schedule says a DEFCON Furs badge was required for the group's 2026 event space, while the store says the badge does not get someone into DEF CON. Those published statements distinguish the community-event access claim from DEF CON admission; they do not disclose a technical access mechanism, prove an individual access result, or establish an ongoing credential.
SourceOperational history
The catalogue records the published DEFCON Furs event-space boundary without inventing a technical access-control system or a record of individual access.
The record makes the organizer-published design intent discoverable without converting sales copy into a finalized, safe, interoperable, privacy-reviewed, or source-released device.
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.
The catalogue retains the current sold-out preorder and stated fulfillment window without calling it a shipped badge, a completed recipient allocation, a DEF CON Human badge, or a DEF CON admission credential.