Hackover 2013 · Germany · 2013

Hackover 2013 Badge

ARM, 2.4 GHz, LCD, USB, and button badge

A source-backed Hackover 2013 badge record: the event blog described an assembled and flashed badge PCB for every attendee, with ARM processor, 2.4 GHz radio, 6.5 Kpx LCD, USB, and buttons.

Hackover Germany ARM 2.4 GHz LCD USB Buttons Open Hardware C3H

EventHackover 2013

SeriesHackover

LocationBürgerschule, Hannover

CountryGermany

People

Attribution Gap

No public individual author, designer, firmware, or team credits have been seeded for this badge yet. Add named credits only when a primary badge-team page, repository, talk, or other source identifies the people or team behind the work.

Why It Mattered

Hackover is a smaller German event outside the dominant CCC Camp and GPN records, and the 2013 posts show a deliberate move from a previous optional kit PCB to a fully assembled, hackable badge for all ticket holders.

Hardware

The public Hackover 2013 development post lists ARM processor, 2.4 GHz radio, LCD with 6.5 Kpx, USB, and buttons. Later archive posts preserve the firmware and schematic git clone URLs, with schematics also noted as PDF plots.

Software & Apps

A post-event Hackover archive post points badge hackers at the public firmware git clone URL and notes that documentation was not yet complete. The current dossier keeps firmware details conservative because the live git redirect requires authentication.

Lore

Hackover framed the badge as part of the ticket package, alongside food and the event mug. The 2013 development post explicitly says every attendee should receive an assembled and flashed PCB so beginners could enjoy the device from the start.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

radio interaction surface historical

2.4 GHz radio badge surface

The 2013 development post lists 2.4 GHz radio as one of the headline badge features, placing Hackover in the same radio-badge experimentation era as other early European badges.

Compatibility: Hackover 2013 badge

Source

source-code lifecycle historical

Firmware and schematics archive path

The Hackover archive preserved firmware and schematic git clone commands after the event, including a note that KiCad-free users could find schematic PDFs under plots/schematics.

Compatibility: Hackover 2013 badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

assembled-for-beginners design choice note

Hackover explicitly changed from the previous year's optional assembled Invader-style board toward giving every attendee an assembled and flashed PCB.

This is useful lore for European badge culture: the organizers optimized for immediate on-site play and beginners, not only for people already comfortable with microcontroller programming.

Confidence: primary development post
Status: historical
Timeframe: pre-event design
Source note: Hackover badge development post on hackover.de/page/9/.

missing rights-cleared image note

No Hackover 2013 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 Germany 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 Hackover 2013 source trail.

source-depth caveat note

The Hackover blog and archive support the event, ticket, feature-list, firmware, and schematic-link facts, but the current live git redirect requires authentication and has not been mirrored into this dossier.

The first-pass record avoids unsourced chip-level, firmware-feature, and designer-credit claims until the repositories or original media are recovered.

Confidence: primary blog and archive posts
Status: needs git archive recovery
Timeframe: post-event archive
Source note: Hackover 2013 blog page and Hannover Hackover archive.

Resources

Hackover 2013 registration post event announcement · Hackover post announcing registration and confirming that the ticket included an assembled badge PCB. Hackover 2014 CCC announcement event context · CCC Event Blog context describing Hackover's Hannover setting and the return of a microcontroller-and-display badge. Hackover badge development post event blog · Hackover development post listing ARM processor, 2.4 GHz radio, LCD, USB, and buttons. Hackover badge firmware archive source archive · Archived Hackover post preserving firmware and schematic git clone URLs for badge hackers.

Sources

CCC Event Blog: Hackover 2014 vom 24.-26.10. Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Supporting source for Hackover venue, C3H context, and the microcontroller/display badge tradition. Hackover: 100 Jahre Hackover Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for Hackover 2013 ticket contents, including the assembled badge PCB. Hackover: Die Badge-Entwicklung schreitet voran Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the 2013 badge feature list: ARM processor, 2.4 GHz radio, LCD, USB, and buttons. Hackover archive: Badge-Firmware Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Archive source for firmware and schematic clone URLs and post-event hacker documentation caveat.