Pwnterrey 2026 · Mexico · 2026
Official open-hardware headless ESP32-C5 wireless-security badge with public KiCad and C5 firmware sources
Electronic Cats' public badge-pwnterrey-2026 repository describes itself as the official Pwnterrey 2026 badge and publishes a native KiCad hardware project plus a CERN Open Hardware Licence v1.2 file. Pwnterrey's official site places the free cybersecurity conference in Monterrey on May 29, 2026; Bishop Fox separately corroborates the date and Rincón Tostitos By Jardín 85 venue. The source documents a portable headless ESP32-C5 RISC-V badge with USB-C serial context, NFC tag-emulation circuitry, and GPS material. Electronic Cats' companion repository calls itself official Pwnterrey 2026 firmware and preserves an ESP32-C5 Marauder-derived source and build trail. These sources establish a real official event badge and public design and firmware references, but not a production quantity, registration-tier allocation, final assembled configuration, completed recipient handoff, final signed release, safe operational use, or reusable badge-image right.
People
Electronic Cats publishes the repository explicitly described as the official Pwnterrey 2026 badge, including the native KiCad design archive. The reviewed sources do not supply an individual contribution ledger, manufacturing record, or image-reuse grant.
SourcePwnterrey's official site identifies the Monterrey 2026 cybersecurity event, while Electronic Cats' repository explicitly names the badge as official for that edition. This records event context, not hardware authorship, production responsibility, attendee allocation, or media-reuse authority.
SourceThe companion firmware repository's root MIT text credits Just Call Me Koko. The narrow credit preserves that source-named upstream attribution without assigning Pwnterrey badge hardware authorship, final firmware ownership, production responsibility, or image rights.
SourceThis Mexican post-event open-hardware badge dossier adds a source-backed Monterrey conference artifact with native KiCad and ESP32-C5 material. It keeps an explicit official-repository label distinct from unverified attendee allocation, production completion, final firmware parity, radio performance, safe operation, and image-reuse terms.
The published KiCad project identifies an ESP32-C5-WROOM-1-N4, an NT3H2111W0FHK NFC tag chip, USB-C connectivity, GPS footprints and labels, and schematic, PCB, and project sources. The README calls it a portable headless ESP32-C5 RISC-V device using a serial CLI and lists Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth Low Energy context. The reviewed sources do not establish a BOM, PCBA, battery or charging design, antenna or final RF implementation, final revision, completed units, test results, certifications, safety details, or that every published element appeared in each assembled badge.
Electronic Cats' companion repository calls itself the official Pwnterrey 2026 firmware and retains ESP32-C5, headless, Marauder-derived source and build material. Its root MIT text credits Just Call Me Koko, while the reviewed sources do not establish the license scope of every later modification, a reviewed release tag, a signed production binary, or parity between public files and distributed hardware. The materials indicate high-level wireless and NFC security-testing functions only within owner-authorized, lawful, and privacy-respecting work; this record supplies no operational instructions and makes no claim of safe default use.
Pwnterrey's official site presents the May 29, 2026 Monterrey edition as a free cybersecurity event, while Electronic Cats explicitly labels the public repository Badge Oficial de Pwnterrey 2026. Bishop Fox independently lists the date and Rincón Tostitos By Jardín 85 venue. None of the reviewed sources confirms inclusion with admission, recipient count, registration tier, price, pickup, delivery, credential role, final handoff, or a fully documented post-event outcome.
Lifecycle
Electronic Cats' companion repository calls itself official Pwnterrey 2026 firmware and retains ESP32-C5 headless Marauder-derived source, documentation, and build material. Its root MIT text credits Just Call Me Koko; this record does not equate that upstream text or visible build artifacts with a final signed event binary, production configuration, safety review, or generalized authorization to operate wireless functions.
SourceThe repository provides CERN Open Hardware Licence v1.2 text for the hardware documentation. The licence file is treated as a hardware-documentation basis only, not an automatic licence for firmware, photos, readme graphics, logos, event branding, or trademarks.
SourceElectronic Cats describes its public hardware repository as the official Pwnterrey 2026 badge, while Pwnterrey's official site documents the free May 29 Monterrey cybersecurity-event context. Neither reviewed source confirms admission inclusion, recipient eligibility, quantity, price, pickup, delivery, completed handoff, or a credential function.
SourceThe hardware repository exposes native KiCad schematic, PCB, project, footprint, and related automation material. Public source availability does not by itself establish a complete BOM, fabrication readiness, tested manufacturing output, production run, firmware parity, or reuse rights for every non-hardware asset.
SourceThe published KiCad source identifies an NT3H2111W0FHK NFC tag chip and GPS footprints and labels. This preserves the design-level evidence without asserting a fitted GPS receiver, a particular NFC configuration, field performance, data practice, authorized use case, or final assembled configuration.
SourceThe badge README describes a portable headless ESP32-C5 RISC-V device with USB-C and serial CLI context, while the KiCad source identifies the ESP32-C5-WROOM-1-N4 module value. The sources do not establish a final production revision, exact USB behavior, antenna, radio configuration, test result, or operation of every assembled unit.
SourceOperational history
The catalogue preserves the official design and event association without presenting the badge as universally issued, sold, delivered, accepted, or used as an admission credential.
The catalogue records public software provenance without representing a visible build artifact as the final event firmware, an audited release, a complete source history, or an authorized deployment.
Published design references are not treated as a build recipe, electrical-safety endorsement, radio-performance claim, certification claim, or proof that every public component was fitted to every event unit.
The record links source and license material while leaving media publication, firmware-modification scope, branding, and trademark reuse outside the stated hardware-documentation basis.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository graphics, event visuals, screenshots, social-media images, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The dossier contains no operational instructions and does not treat source-described wireless, NFC, or GPS capabilities as permission to test third-party systems, collect data, evade privacy expectations, or operate outside lawful owner-authorized work.