OFFZONE 2026 · Russia · 2026

OFFZONE 2026 Badge

Moscow STM32 serial-console badge

An OFFZONE 2026 conference badge documented through a first-hand attendee toolkit: an STM32 board with a USB Virtual COM Port exposing a built-in serial console with led, echo, and mini-game commands, four addressable LEDs driven by an official bytecode format distributed with the badge docs, and animation sequences verified byte-for-byte on real 2026 hardware.

OFFZONE BI.ZONE Moscow Russia Electronic Badge STM32 Serial Console LED Bytecode Attendee Badge Europe No Image

EventOFFZONE 2026

SeriesOFFZONE

LocationGOELRO, Moscow

CountryRussia

People

Authors & Credits

attendee toolkit author

d8rt8v

First-hand attendee who documented the badge's serial console behavior and LED bytecode format and published the customizer toolkit.

Source

event organizer

BI.ZONE / OFFZONE

Organizer of the OFFZONE conference series and publisher of the 2026 recap; not asserted as badge designer or manufacturer.

Source

Why It Mattered

It opens Russian hacker-conference coverage with a narrowly evidenced electronic badge record, keeping the organizer's own pages, production scope, and distribution claims strictly out of the dossier until official material appears.

Hardware

The attendee toolkit describes an STM32 badge board with a USB Virtual COM Port and four LEDs, and documents a serial console with prompt-sync quirks, a one-second settle window, and CR-only line endings. The LED bytecode mirrors the official led_instr.h macro definitions distributed with the badge docs, including RGB and HSV set, animate, and blink opcodes with frame-tick timing. No schematic, BOM, board photo rights, production count, or organizer hardware statement was recovered.

Software & Apps

The attendee toolkit publishes a Python LED-animation compiler that talks to the badge's built-in console without flashing, and its format reference documents the observed runtime behavior of the badge's bytecode player. No organizer firmware source, console firmware archive, badge-game server, or app was published in this pass.

Lore

OFFZONE 2026 ran August 20-21, 2026 at the GOELRO venue in Moscow, and the official conference site's 2026 recap reports roughly 3000 participants and more than 130 speakers; the site itself never mentions the badge. The first-hand toolkit's observation that official macro definitions shipped with the badge docs indicates organizers distributed at least informal badge documentation to attendees.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No OFFZONE 2026 badge image is published because no rights-cleared badge photo, official render, or reusable artifact image has been recovered.

The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying site media or attendee diagrams.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and the OFFZONE site plus attendee toolkit.

single-source artifact boundary note

The badge is documented only through a first-hand attendee toolkit; the official OFFZONE site never mentions it, and no organizer archive, schematic, photo rights, production count, or allocation statement was recovered.

The catalogue records the observed badge console and LED system without asserting organizer design intent, quantities, ticket-class scope, or any official firmware release.

Confidence: first-hand attendee toolkit plus official event page
Status: organizer badge statement outstanding
Timeframe: 2026 post-event pass
Source note: OFFZONE official site and d8rt8v offzone-led-customizer, checked 2026-09-26.

Resources

Badge LED bytecode format technical reference · Format reference documenting the LED bytecode that mirrors the official led_instr.h macros distributed with the badge docs, verified byte-for-byte on real 2026 hardware, including RGB/HSV opcodes and frame-tick timing. OFFZONE 2026 LED customizer attendee toolkit · First-hand attendee toolkit that drives the badge's built-in serial console over its USB Virtual COM Port, handling prompt sync, the one-second settle window, and CR-only line endings, and compiling animations to the badge's LED bytecode. OFFZONE official site official event page · Official conference site anchoring the August 20-21, 2026 GOELRO Moscow edition and its 2026 recap of roughly 3000 participants and 130+ speakers; the site does not mention the badge.

Sources

BI.ZONE / OFFZONE: OFFZONE Retrieved 2026-09-26 · Primary official source for the international practical-cybersecurity conference, its August 20-21, 2026 GOELRO Moscow dates, and the 2026 recap figures; no badge statement appears on the site. d8rt8v / GitHub: offzone-led-customizer Retrieved 2026-09-26 · Primary artifact source for the STM32 badge board, its USB Virtual COM Port console with led, echo, and mini-game commands, four LEDs, and the official led_instr.h-derived bytecode format.