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 33 · United States · 2025
Recon Village DC33 The Cyber Owl Badge
Cyber Vigilance owl badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 33 badge entry, The Cyber Owl, was a cyberpunk owl electronic badge with intricate mechanical detail, metallic blue-gray finish, and glowing pink LED eyes.
SeriesRecon Village
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 33
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Why It Mattered
It brings the Recon Village line current through DEF CON 33 with an official source-backed 2025 village badge while preserving the difference between visual feature evidence and a full hardware release.
Hardware
The official Badge Life archive documents the cyberpunk aesthetic, glowing pink LED eyes, detailed mechanical artwork, metallic blue-gray finish, and electronic-badge lineage. It does not publish MCU, schematic, BOM, firmware, PCB source, battery, challenge protocol, or production quantity.
Software & Apps
No public firmware, challenge source, app, interface documentation, or badge repository was recovered for this badge in this pass.
Lore
The official page names the theme Cyber Vigilance and says the owl represents wisdom and vigilance, key traits in reconnaissance and OSINT work.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
badge design
officially documented
Cyber Owl LED eyes
The DEF CON 33 entry documents a cyberpunk owl design with glowing pink LED eyes, detailed mechanical artwork, and metallic blue-gray finish.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
missing rights-cleared image
note
No Recon Village DC33 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 cyberpunk owl design, glowing pink LED eyes, detailed mechanical artwork, and metallic blue-gray finish, but no schematic, firmware, BOM, controller, battery, challenge protocol, 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.