Kiwicon Heavy Industries
Official publisher of the Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking training page and standard badge build description.
SourceKiwicon 2038AD · New Zealand · 2018
Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking Training Badge
One-day soldering and Arduino conference-badge workshop artifact
Kiwicon 2038's official Intro to Badge Hacking training page documents a one-day workshop where attendees built and hacked their own conference badge from supplied electrical components and tools.
EventKiwicon 2038AD
SeriesKiwicon
LocationMichael Fowler Centre, Wellington
CountryNew Zealand
People
Authors & Credits
Why It Mattered
It preserves New Zealand badge culture beyond the main credential by capturing an event-run training badge path that taught circuit components, soldering, IC programming, Arduino IDE workflow, and collaborative feature development.
Hardware
The official training page proves a standard electrical conference badge build with supplied components and tools, but it does not identify the exact PCB, microcontroller, display, battery, sensors, or schematic.
Software & Apps
The page says participants programmed the badge using the Arduino IDE and were encouraged to share code, develop ideas, and create new features with others at the conference.
Lore
The training ran on Wednesday the 14th before the main Kiwicon 2038AD conference, with paid and free ticket slots. It framed badge hacking as an accessible path into hardware hacking.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
firmware training
source-backed
Arduino IDE programming workflow
Participants learned IC programming and used the Arduino IDE, then shared code and developed new badge features with others at the conference.
Source
training artifact
source-backed
Supplied electrical badge kit
The official training page says all components and tools required to create a standard conference badge were supplied during the one-day workshop.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
hardware-detail caveat
note
The official source documents supplied electrical components, tools, soldering, IC programming, and Arduino IDE use, but not the exact PCB, chip, battery, display, schematic, or firmware.
The record avoids inventing component-level details until a workshop handout, schematic, or first-hand writeup is recovered.
- Confidence
- source-backed but incomplete
- Status
- needs public schematic or participant notes
- Timeframe
- 2018 training archive pass
- Source note
- Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking page.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No Kiwicon 2038 training badge image is published because no reusable original photo with complete source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes has been recovered.
The training-badge record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery or using generated art.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and Kiwicon training page.
training-artifact classification
note
The official page proves a badge created in a training workshop, not necessarily the main attendee credential or a public mass-distributed badge.
The compendium keeps the artifact in the Kiwicon lineage while distinguishing a classroom build from a con-wide badge issue.
- Confidence
- official source
- Status
- documented
- Timeframe
- 2018 Kiwicon training pass
- Source note
- Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking page.