SAINTCON 2022 · United States · 2022

SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection

Official, sponsor, community, and personal MiniBadge assembly-guide set

The SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Assembly Guide preserves a broad MiniBadge ecosystem: official community and status badges, sponsor badges, personal/trading badges, acquisition notes, rarity/difficulty labels, and assembly instructions for through-hole, SMD, RFID, motorized, and programmed badge variants.

SAINTCON United States Utah Provo MiniBadge BadgeLife Soldering Community Badge Sponsor Badge Trading Badge RFID SMD North America

EventSAINTCON 2022

SeriesSAINTCON

LocationUtah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

Hardware Hacking MiniBadge designer

hamster

The 2022 assembly guide credits hamster for the Hardware Hacking badge and describes its soldering and analog-circuit teaching role.

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HomeLabs MiniBadge designers

bfcoder, klipper, v0rtex, yukia

The 2022 assembly guide credits this group for the HomeLabs CAT6 MiniBadge and also lists them with Jup1t3r on the broader HomeLabs MiniBadge.

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InfoBooth MiniBadge designer

SHIFTY

The 2022 assembly guide credits SHIFTY for the InfoBooth badge and other listed MiniBadge work.

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Learn 2 Solder MiniBadge designer

r0gu3bull3t

The 2022 assembly guide credits r0gu3bull3t for the Learn 2 Solder badge tied to a presentation/class path.

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MiniBadge designer

Jup1t3r

The 2022 assembly guide credits Jup1t3r on many official MiniBadges, including People, AppSec, Circuit Assembly, HACK letters, Hak-in-the-Box, Healthcare, IoT, RFID/NFC, Scavenger Hunt, and SMD Challenge entries.

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MiniBadge designer

Zevlag

The 2022 assembly guide credits Zevlag on the Hackers Challenge badge and other personal MiniBadge entries.

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event archive and MiniBadge guide publisher

UtahSAINT / SAINTCON

The 2022 archive and linked PDF establish the event dates, venue context, MiniBadge categories, and assembly-guide source trail.

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Why It Mattered

It fills the post-Enigma SAINTCON lineage with a mature event-within-event BadgeLife record, showing how the Provo conference used MiniBadges as attendee identity, community-booth participation, sponsor interaction, soldering practice, challenge rewards, and peer-to-peer trading artifacts.

Hardware

The guide documents two-position MiniBadge headers, LED/resistor builds, through-hole and SMD soldering variants, reverse-mount LEDs, hot-glue strain relief, RFID tag stickers, a HomeLabs CAT6 Ethernet cable tester, SMD challenge boards, motor/fan parts, and at least one ATTiny programming workflow for the Clue Dice badge. It treats the collection as many small badge PCBs rather than one uniform attendee-badge circuit.

Software & Apps

No central firmware archive was recovered in this pass. The assembly guide is mostly hardware and acquisition documentation, but it does mention ATTiny programming for the Clue Dice MiniBadge and presentation/class support for Learn 2 Solder; this record avoids inferring unrecovered source code or runtime behavior.

Lore

The guide defines official MiniBadges as conference-designed artifacts acquired through participation and exploration, while sponsor badges are made by or for sponsors and personal badges are brought for trading or networking. It also documents People Badge status colors, community-booth pickup paths, Hackers Challenge interactions, and sponsor or personal exchange routes.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

assembly ecosystem officially documented

Mixed assembly techniques

The guide covers LED orientation, two-position headers, through-hole and SMD soldering, reverse-mount LEDs, RFID sticker placement, motor/fan parts, hot glue, cable-test behavior, and ATTiny programming for selected MiniBadges.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge builds

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challenge rewards officially documented

Hackers Challenge and game MiniBadges

The guide includes Hackers Challenge, HACK-letter, Scavenger Hunt, and other game-adjacent MiniBadges with acquisition paths tied to game masters, challenge completion, or BadgeLife community interaction.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2022 Hackers Challenge

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community participation officially documented

Community booth MiniBadges

The guide lists AppSec, Circuit Assembly, Hardware Hacking, Healthcare, HomeLabs, IoT, Lockpicking, RFID/NFC, Scavenger Hunt, SMD Challenge, and Learn 2 Solder style badges acquired through community areas, booths, challenges, or presentations.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2022 community areas

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identity minibadge officially documented

People status MiniBadge

The assembly guide documents the People Badge with attendee, staff, volunteer, and speaker status color variants and says everyone gets an attendee badge.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadges

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peer trading ecosystem officially documented

Personal and trading MiniBadges

The personal category explains that creators brought their own badges for trading or networking and that those badges were not directly supported by conference staff.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2022 personal badge trading

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sponsor artifact officially documented

Sponsor MiniBadges

The sponsor category records badges designed by or for sponsors, including Arctic Wolf, Check Point, CompuNet, UETN, and Valcom entries with sponsor-booth acquisition framing.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2022 sponsor booths

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

collection-boundary caveat note

The 2022 assembly guide covers official, sponsor, and personal MiniBadges, so this record is a documented collection entry rather than a claim that every listed PCB was a universal conference-issued attendee badge.

The catalogue preserves the MiniBadge ecosystem while keeping acquisition routes, creator roles, and support boundaries separate from main-badge distribution claims.

Confidence: official guide category definitions
Status: documented
Timeframe: SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge collection
Source note: MiniBadges-of-2022 assembly guide official, sponsor, and personal category definitions.

firmware-source gap note

The guide provides assembly and acquisition documentation but this pass did not recover a central firmware repository, schematic archive, BOM archive, manufacturing files, or complete per-MiniBadge source release.

The record describes verified assembly and interaction evidence without inventing unrecovered firmware behavior or treating every MiniBadge as source-open hardware.

Confidence: official guide but incomplete source recovery
Status: needs badge-team archive
Timeframe: current SAINTCON 2022 pass
Source note: SAINTCON 2022 archive, MiniBadges-of-2022 assembly guide, and MiniBadge standard source trail.

missing rights-cleared image note

No SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection 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 SAINTCON 2022 official archive, MiniBadges-of-2022 assembly guide, and MiniBadge standard repository source trail.

Resources

MiniBadge standard add-on specification · Public MiniBadge hardware standard repository linked from the SAINTCON 2022 archive footer and used as source context for the two-position MiniBadge ecosystem. MiniBadges of 2022 assembly guide assembly guide · Archived official PDF source for the SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Assembly Guide, including official, sponsor, and personal MiniBadge categories, names, designers, acquisition notes, difficulty/rarity labels, and assembly instructions. SAINTCON 2022 archive official event archive · Official archive mirror source for October 25-28, 2022 event timing, Utah Valley Convention Center venue context, archive provenance, and MiniBadge-development links.

Sources

GitHub / lukejenkins: lukejenkins/minibadge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public MiniBadge standard source linked from the 2022 archive footer and used only for add-on specification context. UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: MiniBadges-of-2022-v2.pdf Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Assembly Guide, official/sponsor/personal category definitions, community and status MiniBadge names, creator credits, acquisition routes, difficulty/rarity labels, and assembly instructions. UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON 2022 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive mirror source for October 25-28, 2022 dates, Utah Valley Convention Center venue context, event-site provenance, and MiniBadge-development links.