SAINTCON 2023 · United States · 2023

SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge Collection

Community, event, contest, and personal MiniBadges documented by the 2023 data export

SAINTCON 2023 is represented here by its public MiniBadge ecosystem: the official 2023 FAQ documents MiniBadge popularity and attendee trading, while the community MiniBadge Wiki export preserves year-specific personal, event, community, and contest badge records.

SAINTCON United States Utah Provo MiniBadge BadgeLife Trading Badge Community Badge Contest Badge LED Badge I2C North America

EventSAINTCON 2023

SeriesSAINTCON

LocationUtah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

2023 MiniBadge designer

DistinctM1nd

The 2023 data export includes DistinctM1nd-attributed personal MiniBadge records.

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2023 MiniBadge designer

Jup1t3r

The 2023 data export credits Jup1t3r across multiple event, community, and personal MiniBadge entries.

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2023 MiniBadge designer

Kingbob

The 2023 data export includes Kingbob-attributed personal MiniBadge records.

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2023 MiniBadge designer

SHIFTY

The 2023 data export credits SHIFTY on selected MiniBadge entries and broader community badge activity.

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MiniBadge concept origin credit

zZq

The official FAQ identifies zZq as the original brain-child of the MiniBadge concept shared with the UtahSAINT community.

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community catalogue publishers

MiniBadge Wiki contributors

The public MiniBadge Wiki data export provides the 2023 names, categories, acquisition notes, and designer fields used for the collection record.

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event and FAQ publisher

UtahSAINT / SAINTCON

The official 2023 site and FAQ establish the event dates, venue, MiniBadge definition, zZq origin credit, MiniBadge scale, and attendee-trading estimate.

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Why It Mattered

It fills the gap between the 2022 assembly-guide collection and the 2024 trading-page collection, showing that SAINTCON's BadgeLife surface had become a large community exchange with event, community, contest, and personal artifacts rather than only an official main badge.

Hardware

The official FAQ describes MiniBadges as small electronic circuit-board components that usually plug into the SAINTCON conference badge for power and sometimes more. The 2023 data export includes LED/resistor soldering badges, custom edge cuts, large multi-slot MiniBadges with custom extenders, event and community badges, contest badges, and beginner through intermediate assembly notes.

Software & Apps

No central 2023 firmware repository was recovered in this pass. The public MiniBadge standard documents the shared connector and I2C communication model, but this record only claims software or protocol behavior at the ecosystem level and does not infer per-MiniBadge firmware beyond the standard and data-export notes.

Lore

The official FAQ credits zZq with the original MiniBadge concept, says yearly MiniBadge counts average well over 17,000, and says roughly 8-10% of attendees bring their own MiniBadges to trade. The 2023 export preserves concrete examples such as RFID Rocket, Minibadge Community Badge, Hallway Talks, LAN Party, Hardware Hacking, Fox Hunt, and other event, community, contest, and personal designs.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

add-on specification source-backed

MiniBadge connector and I2C standard context

The public MiniBadge standard supplies the shared connector and I2C protocol context for SAINTCON MiniBadges, but this record does not claim every 2023 entry implemented active I2C behavior.

Compatibility: SAINTCON MiniBadge ecosystem

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assembly ecosystem documented

Beginner to intermediate assembly trail

The 2023 data includes through-hole and surface-mount difficulty notes, parts lists, LED/resistor builds, and acquisition guidance, while the official FAQ encourages newcomers to learn MiniBadge design.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge builders

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badge culture officially documented

High-scale MiniBadge trading culture

The official FAQ says average yearly MiniBadge volume is well over 17,000 and that roughly 8-10 percent of attendees bring their own MiniBadges to trade.

Compatibility: SAINTCON MiniBadge ecosystem

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community badge collection documented

2023 event and community MiniBadges

The 2023 data export includes event and community entries such as RFID Rocket, Minibadge Community Badge, LAN Party, Hardware Hacking, Fox Hunt, The Keep, and Hallway Talks.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge collection

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contest artifact documented

2023 contest and challenge MiniBadges

The 2023 data export lists contest-category entries including Lockpick Village, Tamper Evidence, and Hackers Challenge records, preserving acquisition routes tied to challenge activity.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2023 contests

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peer trading ecosystem documented

2023 personal trading badges

The export includes personal and community-designed badges such as Cryptid Minibadge Expansion Board, SAO Adapter, Delicate Arch, Infinity, and other designer-attributed entries.

Compatibility: SAINTCON 2023 personal MiniBadges

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

collection-boundary caveat note

The 2023 public evidence supports a MiniBadge ecosystem with official, community, contest, and personal entries, not a single uniform attendee-issued main badge or a claim that every listed board was organizer-built.

The catalogue preserves the verified trading and collection surface while keeping per-board authorship, acquisition, electronics, and support boundaries narrow.

Confidence: official FAQ plus community data export
Status: documented
Timeframe: SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge collection
Source note: SAINTCON 2023 FAQ and MiniBadge Wiki 2023 data export.

missing rights-cleared image note

No SAINTCON 2023 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 2023 official site and FAQ, MiniBadge Wiki 2023 data export, and MiniBadge standard repository source trail.

source and media boundary note

The recovered public trail proves the event context, MiniBadge culture, and year-specific data export, but this pass did not recover a central 2023 build guide, official per-badge source archive, final schematic set, complete BOM set, firmware archive, or reusable image permission for wiki/page media.

The record keeps hardware claims to official FAQ language, community data-export fields, and the MiniBadge standard instead of inventing missing per-badge technical detail.

Confidence: official event source plus community catalogue but incomplete archive
Status: needs badge-team archive
Timeframe: current SAINTCON 2023 pass
Source note: SAINTCON 2023 official site, FAQ, MiniBadge Wiki export, MiniBadge standard README, and badge.gallery image policy.

Resources

MiniBadge Wiki community catalogue · Public community catalogue context for SAINTCON MiniBadge records; cited as supporting evidence and not as image permission. MiniBadge Wiki 2023 data export community data export · Public year-specific data export preserving 2023 MiniBadge names, categories, designers, acquisition paths, assembly difficulty, and descriptive notes. SAINTCON 2023 FAQ official FAQ · Official FAQ source for MiniBadge definition, zZq origin credit, 17,000-plus yearly MiniBadge scale, and 8-10 percent attendee trading estimate. SAINTCON 2023 official site official event archive · Official mirror source for SAINTCON 2023 dates, Utah Valley Convention Center venue, Provo, Utah location, and event context.

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MiniBadge Wiki: MiniBadge Wiki 2023 export Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Community data source for 2023 MiniBadge names, category taxonomy, designers, acquisition paths, and assembly metadata. MiniBadge Wiki: MiniBadge Wiki Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public community catalogue source for browsing and contextualizing the 2023 data export; no image reuse claim is derived from this page. UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: FAQ Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for SAINTCON MiniBadge definition, origin credit, yearly scale, attendee-trading participation estimate, and beginner-designer encouragement. UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON Main Page Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for October 24-27, 2023 dates, Utah Valley Convention Center venue, and Provo, Utah context.