Recon Village at DEF CON 32 · United States · 2024

Recon Village DC32 The Recon Soldier Badge

Multi-layer tactical recon badge

Recon Village's DEF CON 32 badge entry, The Recon Soldier, was a tactical-recon multi-layer PCB badge with red and blue LED eyes, 3D assembled design, and military helmet artwork.

Recon Village DEF CON United States Las Vegas DEF CON 32 Electronic Badge Multi-layer PCB LED Eyes Tactical Recon North America

EventRecon Village at DEF CON 32

SeriesRecon Village

LocationLas Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 32

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 records another official DEF CON village badge line for 2024 and preserves the mechanical/multi-layer construction evidence without claiming unrecovered schematics or firmware.

Hardware

The official Badge Life archive documents multi-layer PCB construction, red and blue LED eyes, 3D assembled design, and military helmet design. It does not publish controller, power system, schematic, BOM, firmware, Gerbers, or production package.

Software & Apps

No public firmware, challenge source, app behavior, or serial/radio interface was recovered for this badge in this pass.

Lore

The official page names the theme Tactical Recon and says the badge represented the tactical nature of reconnaissance with a military-inspired design.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge construction officially documented

Multi-layer Recon Soldier build

The DEF CON 32 entry documents multi-layer PCB construction, a 3D assembled design, and red and blue LED eyes.

Compatibility: Recon Village DC32 The Recon Soldier Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No Recon Village DC32 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 multi-layer PCB construction, red and blue LED eyes, 3D assembled design, and military helmet design, 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 32 The Recon Soldier badge, multi-layer PCB construction, red and blue LED eyes, 3D assembled design, and image-rights boundary.

Sources

Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 32 The Recon Soldier badge, tactical-recon theme, multi-layer PCB construction, red and blue LED eyes, and 3D assembled design.