HackNWA 2026: Holiday in Scambodia · United States · 2026
Ticket-listed badge offering; specifications undisclosed
HackNWA's official 2026 conference page and organizer-linked Eventbrite registration establish the completed April 17 Bentonville event and its CTF / ASMb1337 hardware-hacking context. The current registration page marks sales ended. A contemporaneous ticket-listing capture records a separate USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge category alongside USD 55 General Admission. Together these sources support a real time-specific badge offering, but do not establish whether the item was an electronic device, a PCB kit, a conventional physical credential, or another kind of assembled artifact, nor whether it was produced, collected, or delivered.
People
HackNWA publishes the reviewed event page and is identified as the organizer on the linked Eventbrite registration page. This records an organizer/source-publisher role only; it does not establish badge design, manufacture, artwork, technical authorship, fulfillment, or image-reuse authority.
SourceIt is a useful current example of why the compendium models ticket-listed identity artifacts conservatively: an event's hardware-hacking activity and the word assembled do not justify inventing a PCB, electronics, firmware, challenge behavior, or completed attendee handoff.
No artifact-level hardware description has been recovered. The ticket category calls the item a VIP Assembled Badge, while HackNWA's official event material advertises ASMb1337 and hardware-hacking activities generally. Neither source identifies a board, controller, LEDs, display, battery, connector, material, dimensions, artwork, QR/RFID/NFC, schematic, BOM, assembly instructions, quantity, or final physical form, and the activity context is not evidence that the ticket-listed badge was electronic.
No badge firmware, application, challenge mapping, source code, binary, programming guide, software license, credential behavior, or post-event operational record has been recovered. The conference advertised a CTF and hardware-hacking activity, but the reviewed sources do not connect either to the VIP Assembled Badge ticket category.
HackNWA presented its April 17, 2026 Bentonville edition as Holiday in Scambodia with two talks tracks, a CTF, ASMb1337, a hardware-hacking village, exhibits, and an afterparty. Its current organizer-linked Eventbrite page preserves the completed event but no longer exposes ticket-class details. The only recovered exact VIP wording and USD 109 price comes from a contemporaneous third-party ticket listing; it establishes an advertised tier, not a manufacturing, pickup, redemption, or recipient record.
Lifecycle
HackNWA promoted a CTF, ASMb1337, Solder Village, and Badge/Hardware Hacking activities for the conference. The sources do not identify the VIP Assembled Badge as their subject, interface, prerequisite, prize, or device platform.
SourceThe official organizer-linked Eventbrite page now labels the event completed and sales ended. It preserves event context but not ticket-class details, sales count, purchaser list, pickup terms, receipt data, replacement policy, or fulfillment record.
SourceThe contemporaneous listing names a USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge category alongside USD 55 General Admission. It does not say what the badge was assembled from, whether it was electronic, whether it contained a kit or credential, how many were offered, or whether purchases were fulfilled.
SourceOperational history
The record remains an explicitly ticket-listed identity artifact rather than inventing electronics, software, CTF integration, or a finished construction from a tier name.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event graphics, social media, ticketing images, screenshots, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The catalogue uses the secondary listing narrowly for its captured ticket wording and price while preserving the absence of a primary artifact specification, maker attribution, delivery record, and reusable image authority.
The catalogue records a concrete advertised ticket tier without treating it as proof of completed production, distribution, inclusion with every attendee, or individual possession.