DEF CON 34 · United States · 2026
Independent planned sensor-described Original Series Tricorder badge sale at DEF CON 34
MakeItHackin's public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response lists a new Original Series Tricorder badge, says it will be available on-site at DEF CON through Hacker Warehouse for approximately $125, and describes it as celebrating 60 years of Star Trek with various sensors. The source field for the current badge is still marked TBD. The same maker's public Tricorder SAO repository, tutorial, and live $30 Tindie listing document a differently named 2025 Tricorder SAO with separate badge-powered and rechargeable-battery forms. Those historical sources establish a related public maker lineage, but they do not map their electronics, LEDs, battery/USB-C details, form factor, price, or distribution to the current $125 Original Series Tricorder badge. This is a source-backed planned independent sensor-described event artifact, not proof of a completed sale, disclosed sensor suite, electronic design, final hardware/firmware, historical-SAO parity, official DEF CON issuance or admission, reusable-image permission, or Star Trek rights-holder authorization.
People
The public current-event roster identifies MakeItHackin for the Original Series Tricorder badge, and its public GitHub, Tindie, and YouTube sources publish a separately named historical Tricorder SAO trail. This records source-publisher context only, not sole hardware/art/firmware authorship, manufacture, current stock, completed sale, DEF CON organizer status, third-party rights, or image-reuse authority.
SourceIt keeps the public current badge announcement visible while making the central evidence boundary impossible to miss: a source-named $125 sensor-described badge is not automatically the same object as the maker's older $30 Tricorder SAO. That avoids the most tempting kind of badgelife data error—backfilling a new event record with plausible but unproven electronics from a related product.
The current maker roster says only that the planned Original Series Tricorder badge features various sensors. It does not identify a sensor type, count, function, controller, LED/display/audio surface, radio, battery/power source, charging, USB, connector, pinout, dimensions, materials, PCB, schematic, BOM, Gerbers, assembly, test procedure, compatibility, electrical limits, safety guidance, or certification. A separately named historical Tricorder SAO listing describes rechargeable lithium-ion/USB-C and badge-powered forms with LED sequences, scanning LEDs, and side-emitting LEDs, but no reviewed source says those details apply to this current badge. They therefore remain lineage context rather than current-badge specifications.
No reviewed current source publishes a sensor interface, firmware, binary, application, calibration workflow, data collection/storage/transmission behavior, programming interface, source repository, build process, release/tag, update/recovery path, security model, privacy policy, support policy, or software/hardware/documentation licence for the Original Series Tricorder badge. The same-maker historical Tricorder SAO repository supplies a user-facing 2025 documentation page and media, not a source-backed software archive or a mapping to the current $125 badge.
MakeItHackin frames the planned badge as an Original Series Tricorder celebration of 60 years of Star Trek. Its public row also names Hacker Warehouse as an on-site current-event sales channel, while the older Tricorder SAO sources show separate MakeItHackin product/tutorial context. These are maker-published theme, sales-channel, and historical-product statements only; they do not establish an event-exclusive run, completed retail arrangement, DEF CON sponsorship, a relationship with Hacker Warehouse beyond the roster wording, authorship allocation, franchise affiliation or permission, or media-reuse rights.
Lifecycle
MakeItHackin's live $30 Tindie listing, repository, and tutorial describe a differently named Tricorder SAO, including separate rechargeable-battery and badge-powered forms. The current roster calls its $125 artifact an Original Series Tricorder badge with various sensors. The sources provide no formal revision, parts, behavior, price, or stock mapping between the two products.
SourceMakeItHackin's public roster says the Original Series Tricorder badge will be available on-site at DEF CON through Hacker Warehouse for approximately $125. DEF CON 34 had not yet begun in this source pass, so the statement does not establish venue inventory, booth location, units, payment terms, event-exclusive configuration, completed sale, buyer allocation, pickup, fulfillment, replacement, support, or a relationship beyond the maker's own sales-channel wording.
SourceOperational history
The dossier preserves source-published terminology and creative context without asserting ownership, franchise relationship, sponsorship, endorsement, sole authorship, or permission to reuse artwork, photos, or video.
Readers can follow the useful same-maker historical context without treating it as an undocumented specification for the new DEF CON 34 badge.
The catalogue does not present a proposed sensor badge as a released software project, a programmable device, a privacy-reviewed tracker, a reproducible build, or a legal reuse grant.
The catalogue tracks a public independent event association without presenting a maker sale as official conference hardware, a registration benefit, an access credential, organizer endorsement, or a completed sales relationship.
The planned record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying marketplace photos, repository media, video frames, social previews, screenshots, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The catalogue records an announced acquisition path rather than a completed sale, guaranteed stock, organizer-provided benefit, or delivered item.
The record avoids inventing a sensor suite, electronic design, power path, safety state, accessibility behavior, or data-collection capability from the badge name or historical product association.