NolaCon badge maker
The official badge page's maker note frames Patches as part of the Voodoo Heart badge series and documents the cross-year continuity.
SourceNolaCon 2025 · United States · 2025
NolaCon 2025 Patches Badge
Voodoo Heart electronic badge and Learn to Solder artifact
NolaCon 2025's Patches badge continued the conference's Learn to Solder badge tradition, with the official badge page presenting Patches as a customizable Voodoo Heart-series character whose limbs, LEDs, and personal flair could make each build unique.
EventNolaCon 2025
SeriesNolaCon
LocationHyatt Centric French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
NolaCon
NolaCon published the 2025 Patches badge story, Learn to Solder framing, and official conference context used for this record.
SourceWhy It Mattered
It fills a New Orleans regional hacker-conference gap with primary-source badge evidence and preserves a different North American badge pattern: a narrative electronic badge series where soldering, customization, and multi-year storyline continuity matter as much as component specifications.
Hardware
The official badge page identifies Patches as the 2025 NolaCon badge, says the NolaCon badge had been a Learn to Solder centerpiece for the past three years, and describes attendee customization through limbs, LEDs, and personal flair. Public sources in this pass do not publish a schematic, BOM, controller, LED count, battery type, firmware repository, or production count.
Software & Apps
No badge firmware, app, challenge binary, or source repository was recovered for Patches. The record therefore limits software claims to the official badge-story and soldering context rather than inventing microcontroller behavior.
Lore
The official story presents Patches as a New Orleans voodoo doll with missing arms and legs, a glowing heart, and interchangeable limb adventures. The badge maker frames Patches as part of the Voodoo Heart badge series and says the 2025 badge combines with last year's badge and next year's final piece.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
badge customization
officially documented
Customizable Patches build
The official page invites attendees to make each Patches badge unique with interchangeable limbs, LED choices, and personal flair.
Source
multi-year badge continuity
officially documented
Voodoo Heart series continuity
The badge maker frames Patches as part of the Voodoo Heart badge series and says it combines with last year's badge and next year's final piece.
Source
soldering workflow
officially documented
Learn to Solder badge tradition
NolaCon's badge page says the badge had been a conference Learn to Solder centerpiece for the past three years and presents Patches as the 2025 continuation.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
missing rights-cleared image
note
No NolaCon 2025 Patches badge image is published because the official badge page, schedule, sponsor PDF, and surrounding event media do not pair a specific physical badge photo or full official raster render with reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official site media, screenshots, social photos, event graphics, generated art, or placeholders.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and NolaCon 2025 source review.
technical-source gap
note
The official badge page proves Patches, soldering tradition, customization, and Voodoo Heart continuity, but this pass did not recover a schematic, BOM, controller, firmware repository, badge guide, battery details, LED count, production count, or complete challenge archive.
The catalogue records the verified 2025 badge artifact and avoids inventing unsupported electronics or firmware behavior.
- Confidence
- official source but incomplete
- Status
- needs badge-team archive
- Timeframe
- current North America pass
- Source note
- NolaCon badge page, talks archive, sponsor pack, and badge.gallery inclusion policy.
Resources
NolaCon 2025 sponsor pack
official event context · Official PDF source used for 2025 event context, sponsor/audience framing, and venue/date corroboration; not used as badge-image permission.
NolaCon 2025 talks archive
official schedule · Official 2025 talks page anchoring the source-backed conference edition and surrounding New Orleans hacker-conference program context.
NolaCon badge story
official badge page · Primary official badge source for the Patches name, Learn to Solder tradition, missing-limbs story, customizable limbs/LEDs/personal flair, and Voodoo Heart multi-year continuity.
Sources
NolaCon: Badge Story (2025): Patches
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge page documenting Patches, the Learn to Solder tradition, customizable limbs/LEDs/personal flair, and Voodoo Heart badge-series continuity.
NolaCon: NolaCon 2025 talks
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule source for NolaCon 2025 conference context around the badge record.
NolaCon: NolaCon sponsor pack 2025
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official PDF source for the 2025 event context, venue/date corroboration, and sponsor-facing conference framing; not an image-rights source.