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Seasides 2026 Hardware Village Badge

Goa soldering-village badge with hidden challenge

A conservative Seasides 2026 Hardware Hacking Village badge record from official Seasides and HW101 pages documenting a drop-in soldering village where attendees could build a custom badge and pursue a hidden hardware/firmware challenge.

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EventSeasides 2026

SeriesSeasides

LocationInternational Centre Goa, Goa

CountryIndia

People

Authors & Credits

Hardware Hacking Village publisher

HW101

Publisher of the Seasides 2026 Hardware Hacking Village page documenting the soldering badge and hidden badge challenge.

Source

badge village organizers

The Seasides Hardware Hacking Village team

The HW101 page presents the hardware village team as organizers of the soldering village, hardware talks, CTF, and badge challenge.

Source

event publisher

Seasides

Official publisher of the 2026 conference page and village links used for event context.

Source

Why It Mattered

It adds a current Indian hacker-conference badge trail with explicit public evidence for an attendee-facing hardware village badge, while avoiding unsupported claims about components, firmware, or final physical artwork.

Hardware

The official HW101 page says the village supplied soldering equipment, components, and badges, had enough badges for everyone attending the conference, let participants take home a custom badge, and included a hidden hardware/firmware challenge. The public page does not name the PCB, MCU, battery, sensors, connectors, display, or final badge artwork.

Software & Apps

The recovered public sources mention a hidden hardware/firmware badge challenge requiring reverse-engineering skills, but no firmware image, source repository, protocol, puzzle files, or writeup is claimed for this record.

Lore

Seasides' official 2026 site links the Hardware Hacking Village as one of the conference security villages, and the HW101 page frames the badge as part of a three-day hardware-security experience in Goa with soldering, hardware talks, CTF activity, and badge-challenge prizes.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge challenge source-backed

Hidden hardware and firmware challenge

The source describes a hidden hardware/firmware challenge using reverse-engineering skills, with prizes for successful solvers.

Compatibility: Seasides 2026 Hardware Village Badge

Source

hardware village badge source-backed

Conference-attendee soldering badge

The HW101 page says the village would have enough badges for everyone attending the conference and that participants could take home a custom badge after soldering it.

Compatibility: Seasides 2026 Hardware Village Badge

Source

village programme source-backed

Hardware Hacking Village track

The hardware village combined soldering, hardware talks, a hardware CTF, networking, and badge activity across the Seasides 2026 conference.

Compatibility: Seasides 2026 Hardware Village Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

distribution-scope caveat note

The source says enough badges were available for everyone attending the conference, but this pass does not recover a post-event fulfillment count, final production run, or attendee pickup report.

The record preserves the public distribution statement while leaving final shipped-quantity confirmation for follow-up.

Confidence: official source but narrow
Status: documented
Timeframe: Seasides 2026 event pass
Source note: HW101 Seasides 2026 Hardware Hacking Village page.

missing rights-cleared image note

No Seasides 2026 Hardware Village badge image is published because the recovered official village page and conference page do not grant explicit reusable image rights for a specific badge photo or render.

The record stays image-free rather than copying page imagery, screenshots, social photos, or generated badge art.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy, Seasides 2026 site, and HW101 Hardware Hacking Village page.

technical-source gap note

The public source proves a soldering badge and hidden hardware/firmware challenge, but does not expose the badge's schematic, BOM, PCB files, firmware, challenge binaries, or exact component list.

The catalogue keeps the hardware description at the level supported by public sources until a badge-team archive or post-event writeup appears.

Confidence: source-backed but incomplete
Status: needs hardware archive
Timeframe: Seasides 2026 event pass
Source note: HW101 Seasides 2026 Hardware Hacking Village page.

Resources

Seasides 2026 Hardware Hacking Village official village page · Primary badge source documenting the soldering village, custom badge, enough badges for attendees, take-home badge activity, hidden hardware/firmware challenge, and hardware village programme. Seasides Conference 2026 official event page · Official Seasides site for the February 19-21, 2026 International Centre Goa event, free cybersecurity conference framing, and village links.

Sources

HW101: Hardware Hacking Village at Seasides 2026 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge-source page for the soldering badge, enough badges for everyone attending, take-home badge activity, hidden hardware/firmware challenge, hardware talks, CTF context, and prize framing. Seasides: Seasides Conference 2026 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event-context source for the February 19-21, 2026 Goa conference, International Centre Goa venue, free conference framing, and Hardware Hacking Village link.