Jason Taylor
Listed under that title on the official OzSec 2026 leadership list. The badge talk lists a speaker named Jason without a surname.
SourceOzSec 2026 · United States · 2026
OzSec 2026 Conagotchi Badge
ESP32-S3 virtual-pet badge with a round display and Bluetooth Chi trading
The Conagotchi, the OzSec 2026 conference badge for the October 23-24, 2026 Wichita conference at the Hyatt Regency. The official site is themed after it, schedules a badge-crew talk called Conagotchi: From Concept to Completion, names Raxis as badge sponsor, and tells attendees to bring a USB data cable for their badge. A community Rust firmware published during the conference describes the stock badge as an ESP32-S3 board with a round GC9A01 display, eight RGB LEDs, five buttons, infrared, and MicroPython firmware that trades Chi with other badges over Bluetooth LE.
EventOzSec 2026
SeriesOzSec
LocationHyatt Regency Wichita, 400 W Waterman St, Wichita, Kansas
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Raxis
Listed as Badge Sponsor on the official OzSec 2026 site.
SourceChief Pixel Chef
Handle listed with Jason, Angle, and Daniel on Conagotchi: From Concept to Completion and on the official leadership list.
SourceJohn Vishnefske
Author of the alternative Rust firmware and design notes that document the stock hardware and trading protocol; not presented as official badge firmware.
SourceOzSec
Organizer of the Wichita conference and publisher of the Conagotchi-themed official site, schedule, and speaker pages.
SourceWhy It Mattered
It extends the OzSec badge lineage, whose OzSecICT GitHub organization also holds firmware repositories for the 2023 and 2024 badges and the 2025 CRASHANDBURN archive, and it shows a virtual-pet badge whose stock trading protocol was documented and extended by an attendee within a day of the conference opening.
Hardware
OzSec has not published a schematic, BOM, or board files for 2026. John Vishnefske's community firmware design notes, which say their pin table comes from the stock firmware's config.py and the board silkscreen, list an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module with 8 MB flash and no PSRAM, a 240x240 GC9A01 round SPI display, a chain of eight WS2812B LEDs, a red alert LED and a green raffle LED, five buttons (BOOT, START, SELECT, LEFT, RIGHT), a 38 kHz infrared transmitter and receiver, a link UART, and USB-Serial-JTAG on the native USB pins. The notes mention a removable battery but not its type or capacity. These are a third party's readings of one badge, not an organizer specification.
Software & Apps
The same notes describe the stock image as MicroPython 1.27 with a littlefs filesystem and a separate DOOM partition. Stock badges trade Chi over Bluetooth LE using lobby advertisements under manufacturer ID 0x5A4F and, when a radio key is present on the badge, sign packets with a truncated HMAC-SHA256 tag. OzSec has not published the stock firmware source. The community Rust firmware (v0.1.0, October 24, 2026) keeps the stock files, radio key, and DOOM partition, adds an animated pet, contacts, a GATT service, synchronised LED patterns, and a host tool, and can restore the stock image.
Lore
The OzSec 2026 website is styled as a Tamagotchi-like handheld, with a stylesheet headed CONAGOTCHI, OzSec 2026 Tamagotchi Design System. The speakers page says the badge creation crew had worked on the badge for the past year; the talk is credited to Jason, Chief Pixel Chef, Angle, and Daniel. The official site has not yet posted a wrap-up, attendance figure, or badge count.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
alternative firmware
community release v0.1.0
Community Rust firmware
John Vishnefske's Rust firmware keeps stock Chi trading, adds contacts, a pet screen, a GATT service, LED sync across badges running it, Wi-Fi and BLE scans, and a host tool; its adopt command backs up the stock image first and restore puts it back. Some stock-interop features were still marked pending in the design notes on October 26, 2026.
Source
badge-to-badge interaction
community-documented stock behaviour
Bluetooth LE Chi trading
Stock badges advertise in a lobby under manufacturer ID 0x5A4F and trade Chi with nearby badges; with a radio key present, packets carry a 3-byte truncated HMAC-SHA256 tag.
Source
stock firmware extra
community-documented
DOOM partition
The stock flash image includes a separate DOOM partition next to the MicroPython firmware and filesystem; the community firmware README says DOOM stays on the badge after reflashing.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
hardware source provenance
note
The hardware and stock-firmware details come from a community developer's reading of one badge's firmware configuration and silkscreen. OzSec has not published a schematic, BOM, board files, or stock firmware source for 2026; its OzSecICT GitHub organization has no 2026 badge repository yet.
Component details are attributed to the community notes. Battery type, board revision, enclosure, and production variants stay open.
- Confidence
- secondary first-hand community notes
- Status
- official design files unpublished
- Timeframe
- as of 2026-10-26
- Source note
- jvishnefske/conagotchi design notes and github.com/OzSecICT, checked 2026-10-26.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No OzSec 2026 Conagotchi image is published. The official site shows no badge photo with a reuse licence, and the community firmware repository's badge photo comes without a licence file.
The record stays image-free instead of copying event, social-media, or repository photos.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- OzSec 2026 official site, jvishnefske/conagotchi, and badge.gallery image policy, checked 2026-10-26.
post-event status and distribution gap
note
The October 23-24 dates have passed and a community developer was testing a stock badge on October 23, but the official site still shows Buy Tickets Now and has no wrap-up. It does not say how many badges were made, whether every ticket included one, or how they were handed out.
The edition is not marked completed, and the record makes no claim about badge count or allocation.
- Confidence
- official site and community firmware notes
- Status
- event dates passed; no wrap-up
- Timeframe
- post-event as of 2026-10-26
- Source note
- ozsecurity.org and jvishnefske/conagotchi design notes, checked 2026-10-26.
Resources
Conagotchi community firmware v0.1.0
community firmware release · First release, published October 24, 2026, with a merged flash image and SHA-256 checksum. Not an OzSec release.
Conagotchi discovery firmware design notes
community hardware and protocol notes · Design notes with the GPIO table taken from the stock firmware's config.py and the board silkscreen, the stock image layout (MicroPython 1.27, littlefs, DOOM partition), the Chi trading protocol, and hardware checks dated October 23 and 24, 2026.
Conagotchi: From Concept to Completion
official badge talk listing · Friday, October 23, 2026, Session 3 (1:30-2:15 PM, Redbud B): a joint talk by Jason, Chief Pixel Chef, Angle, and Daniel on bringing the Conagotchi badge to life, from concept to completion. No recording or slides have been published.
OzSec 2026 official site
official event page · Official site for the October 23-24, 2026 conference at the Hyatt Regency Wichita. Its FAQ tells attendees to bring a laptop and a USB data cable for connecting to their badge, the sponsor list names Raxis as Badge Sponsor and Arista as Lanyard Sponsor, the leadership list names Jason Taylor as Badge President / Honorary Chair, and the page loads a Conagotchi stylesheet. On October 26, 2026 it still showed Buy Tickets Now and no wrap-up.
OzSec 2026 speakers
official speaker page · Speaker entry for the Conagotchi talk: your badge creation crew has been hard at work the past year preparing to bring you this year's badge.
jvishnefske/conagotchi
community alternative firmware · Alternative Rust firmware for the Conagotchi by John Vishnefske, created October 24, 2026. It trades Chi with stock badges, saves contacts, shows an animated pet, adds a Bluetooth LE GATT service and synchronised LED patterns, and is driven by the badgectl host tool over the USB debug link. Its README says the stock files, radio key, and DOOM stay on the badge. The repository has no licence file.
Sources
John Vishnefske / GitHub: Conagotchi Discovery Firmware: Design
Retrieved 2026-10-26 · Secondary first-hand source for the hardware and stock-firmware details: ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 with 8 MB flash and no PSRAM, GC9A01 240x240 display, eight WS2812B LEDs, red alert and green raffle LEDs, five buttons, 38 kHz infrared, link UART, and the Bluetooth LE Chi trading protocol, read from the stock firmware and silkscreen of one badge. It names the badge as the OzSec 2026 Conagotchi and records hardware tests on October 23, 2026, the first conference day. It is not an organizer document.
OzSec: OzSec 2026
Retrieved 2026-10-26 · Primary official source for the October 23-24, 2026 dates, the Hyatt Regency Wichita venue, the instruction to bring a USB data cable for the badge, the Raxis badge sponsorship, the Badge President listing, and the Conagotchi site theme. It has no post-event wrap-up.
OzSec: OzSec 2026 schedule
Retrieved 2026-10-26 · Primary official source for the Conagotchi name and the badge talk, its time, room, and listed speakers.
OzSec: OzSec 2026 speakers
Retrieved 2026-10-26 · Primary official source saying the badge creation crew worked on this year's badge for the past year.