Nullcon Goa 2014 · India · 2014

Nullcon Goa 2014 Hardware Badge

Indian hardware-hacking conference badge

A conservative Nullcon Goa 2014 hardware-badge record tied to the official Nullcon Hardware Badge 101 (Desi Jugaad) talk, which covered electronics, microcontrollers, LEDs, the design of the 2014 hardware badge, what could be done with it, and production problems.

Nullcon India Goa Hardware Badge Microcontroller LED Embedded Desi Jugaad South Asia Asia

EventNullcon Goa 2014

SeriesNullcon

LocationGoa

CountryIndia

People

Authors & Credits

Hardware Badge 101 co-presenter

Umesh

Official Goa 2014 speaker page and Hackers of India archive list Umesh as co-presenter of Nullcon Hardware Badge 101.

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Nullcon Hardware Badge 2014 creator and talk presenter

Amey Gat

Official Nullcon 2015 speaker bio identifies Amey Gat as creator of Nullcon Hardware Badge 2014; the Goa 2014 page lists Amey as a Hardware Badge 101 presenter.

Source

event archive and schedule publisher

Nullcon

Official publisher of the Goa 2014 archive, conference schedule, and speaker page used for this record.

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talk archive publisher

Hackers of India

Publisher of the markdown talk archive preserving the Null Hardware Badge 101 abstract, date, resources, and conference metadata.

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Why It Mattered

It adds India and South Asia to the worldwide compendium with a source-backed security-conference badge that explicitly linked local hardware and embedded hacking culture to a conference artifact.

Hardware

The official speaker page and Hackers of India archive describe the badge at a safe level as a Nullcon 2014 hardware badge involving electronics, microcontrollers, LEDs, embedded-device learning, design evolution, and production constraints. Component-level claims are intentionally withheld until the original slides or video are audited in detail.

Software & Apps

The recovered sources say the talk covered what could be done using the badge, but this pass does not claim firmware commands, chip-specific tooling, or shipped application behavior without a primary technical transcript or design archive.

Lore

Nullcon's official schedule placed the talk in the Goa 2014 conference programme as Nullcon Hardware Badge 101 by Amey and Umesh, with the Desi Jugaad framing. A later Nullcon speaker bio identifies Amey Gat as creator of the Nullcon Hardware Badge 2014.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

hardware learning source-backed

Microcontroller and LED learning surface

The official abstract framed the badge around electronics, microcontrollers, LEDs, embedded devices, and practical hardware-hacking education.

Compatibility: Nullcon Goa 2014 Hardware Badge

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production story source-backed

Desi Jugaad production lessons

The talk title and abstract preserve local production lore around how the idea evolved and what problems occurred while creating the badges.

Compatibility: Nullcon Goa 2014 Hardware Badge

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talk and workshop context source-backed

Hardware Badge 101 talk track

Nullcon Goa 2014 scheduled a dedicated Hardware Badge 101 session about the badge design, uses, idea evolution, and production problems.

Compatibility: Nullcon Goa 2014 Hardware Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

component-detail caveat note

Current sources prove the Nullcon 2014 hardware badge, the talk, the presenters, and Amey Gat's creator credit, but this pass does not rely on unverified component-level summaries for chip, firmware, schematic, or BOM claims.

The record keeps the hardware description conservative until the original presentation or video is audited for exact technical detail.

Confidence: source-backed but incomplete
Status: needs slide or video audit
Timeframe: 2014 badge archive pass
Source note: Nullcon schedule, official speaker page, Nullcon 2015 speaker bio, and Hackers of India archive.

missing rights-cleared image note

No local Nullcon Goa 2014 badge photo has been added because the recovered speaker-profile and archive pages have not been paired with explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes for any exact badge image.

The Indian entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event or profile imagery without a complete provenance record.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy, Nullcon archive pages, and Hackers of India talk archive.

Resources

Amey Gat Nullcon 2015 bio speaker bio · Later official Nullcon bio identifying Amey Gat as creator of the Nullcon Hardware Badge 2014. Amey and Umesh speaker page speaker page · Official speaker page preserving the talk abstract, Desi Jugaad title, and presenter bios for the hardware badge talk. Null Hardware Badge 101 archive talk archive · Hackers of India markdown archive for the 2014 talk, including date, conference, presentation link, video link, tags, and abstract. Nullcon Goa 2014 archive event archive · Official Nullcon archive page for the Goa 2014 conference edition. Nullcon Goa 2014 schedule event schedule · Official schedule page listing Nullcon Hardware Badge 101 by Amey and Umesh in the conference programme.

Sources

Hackers of India: Null Hardware Badge 101 (Desi Jugaad) Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Talk-archive source for the 2014 date, Nullcon conference, presenters, presentation material, video link, tags, and abstract. Nullcon: Nullcon Goa 2014 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for Goa 2014 context. Nullcon: Nullcon Goa 2014 Schedule Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary schedule source for the Nullcon Hardware Badge 101 session and conference-program placement. Nullcon: Amey & Umesh Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary talk abstract and speaker-bio source for electronics, microcontrollers, LEDs, embedded hacking in India, badge design, badge use, idea evolution, and production-problem scope. Nullcon: Amey Gat & Swapnil Wadwalkar Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary later speaker-bio source naming Amey Gat as creator of Nullcon Hardware Badge 2014.