Recon Village at DEF CON 26 · United States · 2018

Recon Village DC26 The Dual Design Badge

Spy and skull Recon Village badge variants

Recon Village's DEF CON 26 badge entry, The Dual Design, used two official visual variants: a classic spy silhouette and a detailed skull design in a black-and-white aesthetic.

Recon Village DEF CON United States Las Vegas DEF CON 26 Electronic Badge Spy Silhouette Skull Badge Badge Variant North America

EventRecon Village at DEF CON 26

SeriesRecon Village

LocationLas Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 26

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

official badge archive publisher

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.

Source

Why It Mattered

The record preserves the early shape of Recon Village's badgelife identity, including explicit variant evidence, while avoiding unsupported electronics or firmware claims beyond the official archive.

Hardware

The Badge Life archive identifies two design variants, a spy silhouette design, detailed skull artwork, black and white aesthetic, and electronic-badge lineage. It does not publish controller, power, schematic, firmware, bill of materials, or production files.

Software & Apps

No public firmware, app, badge challenge, protocol, or repository was recovered for this badge in this pass.

Lore

Recon Village's official archive frames the 2018 badge around duality and says both designs showcased the village branding.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge variants officially documented

Dual spy and skull variants

The DEF CON 26 entry documented two badge designs: the classic spy silhouette and a detailed skull variant.

Compatibility: Recon Village DC26 The Dual Design Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No Recon Village DC26 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 two design variants, spy silhouette, skull artwork, and black-and-white aesthetic, 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.

Resources

Recon Village Badge Life official badge archive · Official Recon Village source for the DEF CON 26 The Dual Design badge, spy-silhouette and skull variants, black/white aesthetic, and image-rights boundary.

Sources

Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 26 The Dual Design badge, two variants, spy-silhouette design, skull artwork, and black-and-white aesthetic.