Recon Village at DEF CON 27 · United States · 2019

Recon Village DC27 The Skull Badge

Steampunk Recon LED-eye badge

Recon Village's DEF CON 27 badge entry, The Skull Badge, was a steampunk-recon skull-shaped PCB design with mechanical artwork, LED eye illumination, and a CREW staff variant.

Recon Village DEF CON United States Las Vegas DEF CON 27 Electronic Badge Skull Badge LED Eye Staff Badge Steampunk North America

EventRecon Village at DEF CON 27

SeriesRecon Village

LocationLas Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 27

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

It extends the Recon Village line from silhouette identity into role-marked, theme-heavy badgelife design and preserves the staff-variant evidence from the official village archive.

Hardware

The official page documents a skull-shaped PCB, steampunk mechanical design, LED eye illumination, and Crew variant availability. No public source reviewed here publishes a component list, schematic, PCB source, firmware, battery detail, or production package.

Software & Apps

No public badge firmware, challenge source, app, or interface documentation was recovered for this badge in this pass.

Lore

Recon Village's official page names the theme as Steampunk Recon and describes a glowing LED eye plus CREW designation for staff members.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge design officially documented

LED-eye skull PCB

The DEF CON 27 entry documents a skull-shaped PCB with steampunk mechanical design and LED eye illumination.

Compatibility: Recon Village DC27 The Skull Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No Recon Village DC27 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 skull-shaped PCB, steampunk mechanical design, LED eye illumination, and CREW variant, 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 27 The Skull Badge, skull-shaped PCB, LED eye, CREW variant, and image-rights boundary.

Sources

Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 27 The Skull Badge, steampunk-recon theme, skull-shaped PCB, LED eye, and CREW variant.