Recon Village Team
The official Badge Life metadata names Recon Village Team as author and Recon Village as publisher for the DEF CON badge archive.
SourceRecon Village at DEF CON 25 · United States · 2017
Recon Village DC25 The Original Badge
First Recon Village spy-silhouette badge
Recon Village's first Badge Life entry was The Original, a DEF CON 25 electronic badge with the village's spy-silhouette design, die-cut shape, hardwear.io lanyard, and foundation-of-tradition framing.
SeriesRecon Village
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 25
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Why It Mattered
It anchors Recon Village's DEF CON badge lineage at the point where OSINT and reconnaissance themes became a recurring physical village artifact rather than only a schedule or booth presence.
Hardware
The official Badge Life archive identifies the 2017 Recon Village badge as an electronic badge, first badge, original spy design, die-cut badge shape, hardwear.io lanyard, and foundation of the badge tradition. It does not publish component identifiers, schematic, firmware, PCB files, battery details, or production quantity.
Software & Apps
No public firmware, challenge binary, protocol documentation, or software repository was recovered for this badge in this pass.
Lore
The official page describes the badge as a piece of history and says the iconic spy silhouette became synonymous with Recon Village.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
badge design
officially documented
Original spy silhouette
The official archive identifies The Original as the first Recon Village badge and foundation of the village badge tradition.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
missing rights-cleared image
note
No Recon Village DC25 badge image is published because the official Badge Life page and site footer do not provide explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page imagery, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and Recon Village Badge Life all-rights-reserved footer.
technical-source gap
note
The official page proves the electronic badge lineage, spy silhouette, die-cut shape, hardwear.io lanyard, and first-badge framing, but no schematic, firmware, BOM, controller, battery, or production files were recovered.
The catalogue records the verified artifact without inventing component-level electronics or source-release status.
- Confidence
- official archive with limited hardware depth
- Status
- needs deeper archive recovery
- Timeframe
- current Recon Village pass
- Source note
- Recon Village Badge Life page.