Paul Bruggeman
The post is attributed to Paul Bruggeman and describes the badge build.
SourceRV4sec 2015 · United States · 2015
RV4sec 2015 Badge
Hand-built HackRVA PCB badge with IR, LCD, audio, and USB
The RV4sec 2015 badge is documented by HackRVA's official build post as a hand-built electronic badge with custom PCB assembly, surface-mount components, IR, audio, micro USB, LCD, and an optional reset-header development path.
EventRV4sec 2015
SeriesRVAsec
LocationRichmond, Virginia
CountryUnited States
People
Authors & Credits
Morgan
The build post credits Morgan in the design work.
SourcePaul
The build post credits Paul in the design work.
SourceHackRVA
The build post documents HackRVA as the badge builder.
SourceWhy It Mattered
The source captures the labor and fabrication side of a regional hacker-conference badge: panelized boards, solder-paste stencil workflow, hand assembly, reflow, through-hole finishing, testing, and sponsor-backed production.
Hardware
The build post documents IR receiver and transmitter parts, micro USB, a speaker, an LCD, a coin-cell/battery holder, buttons, a reset option through unpopulated surface-mount pads, and the badge-team's surface-mount production workflow.
Software & Apps
The public 2015 source trail is mostly build/process oriented. It does not expose a complete firmware repository in this pass, so the record treats software claims conservatively and keeps the reset-header option as a hacking/development surface.
Lore
HackRVA framed the 2015 badge as a multi-person, sponsor-backed badge build with late assembly work, logo engraving, soldering parties, hand inspection, and final badge batches moving to the conference.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
badge hacking surface
source-backed
Reset-header development option
The 2015 build post documents unpopulated surface-mount pads and a reset-header option for connecting into the board.
Source
production workflow
source-backed
Hand-built surface-mount production
The official post documents panelized boards, solder-paste stencil work, reflow, inspection, through-hole soldering, and testing.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
firmware-source gap
note
The 2015 source trail proves hardware and fabrication but does not expose a complete event firmware repository in this pass.
Software behavior is kept conservative until firmware or attendee documentation surfaces.
- Confidence
- source-limited
- Status
- unrecovered
- Timeframe
- RVAsec 2015
- Source note
- 2015 HackRVA build post.
missing rights-cleared image
note
The build post includes badge photos, but this pass did not recover reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes for publication in the catalogue.
The record remains image-free rather than copying article media.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- HackRVA/RVAsec source audit.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No RV4sec 2015 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and RVAsec 2015 badge source trail.
Resources
HackRVA badge build post
project-owner build post · HackRVA build post documenting 2015 badge fabrication, components, assembly, soldering, testing, and badge-team credits.
RVAsec badge archive
official badge archive · Official RVAsec badge archive tying the 2015 build post into the RVAsec badge lineage.