SecretCon 2026 · United States · 2026
Official interactive PCB ticket-tier badge; post-event delivery remains unverified
An official SecretCon 2026 Digital / Circuit Badge ticket-tier artifact advertised as an interactive circuit-board PCB badge for the June 4-5 St. Paul, Minnesota conference. The registration listing says the tier included a printed physical program and admission to talks, hands-on hubs, exhibitors, contests, and the official party; it separately describes a higher Extreme Badge tier with collectible electronic and upgraded-PCB wording, without establishing whether the physical boards were different.
People
Official publisher of the 2026 Digital / Circuit Badge and Extreme Badge ticket-tier descriptions and the associated conference registration flow. No individual badge designer, engineer, manufacturer, or image-reuse authority is named in the recovered sources.
SourcePublic GitHub handle publishing the commit-pinned community README. This is a narrow repository-publisher credit, not a claim of legal identity, badge design, hardware or firmware authorship, event-organizer role, distribution responsibility, endorsement, or image-reuse authority.
SourceIt adds a Minnesota hacker-conference lineage using a precise first-party ticket-tier record rather than inventing electronics from the word badge. The event has passed, but the recovered official sources do not prove a final build, participant pickup, fulfillment, board relationship between tiers, or reusable image, so the entry remains deliberately narrow.
The organizer's Digital / Circuit Badge listing calls the artifact an interactive circuit-board PCB badge. No official 2026 source recovered in this pass identifies a microcontroller, display, LEDs, sensors, radio, battery, charging circuit, connectors, dimensions, board art, component list, schematic, PCB files, manufacturing partner, or final physical variant. The separate Extreme Badge's collectible-electronic and upgraded-PCB wording does not establish a second board or a hardware specification.
No SecretCon 2026 badge firmware, app, challenge implementation, repository, binary, flashing path, protocol, software license, or interaction behavior was recovered. The word interactive is recorded as organizer marketing language only; it does not support an inferred runtime, interface, game, network, or programming claim.
SecretCon describes itself as Minnesota's hacker and cybersecurity conference. Its official FAQ preserves the June 4-5, 2026 event at the InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront and says ticket holders could redeem and pick up badges and pre-ordered merchandising at registration. The registration listing remained the artifact evidence recovered after the event, but no post-event report confirms actual pickup, recipient scope, production count, or final badge configuration.
Lifecycle
The same 2026 registration listing describes the higher Extreme Badge tier with unique collectible electronic-badge and exclusive upgraded-PCB language. It does not say whether that tier used a distinct board, a modification of the Digital / Circuit Badge, a non-electronic collectable, a final production configuration, or a completed delivery.
SourceSecretCon's FAQ says ticket holders may redeem and pick up their badge and/or pre-ordered merchandising at the registration desk during the event. It does not identify a specific ticket tier, verify a successful pickup, state an inventory, describe handoff controls, or prove the final physical Digital / Circuit Badge.
SourceSecretCon's registration listing says the 2026 Digital / Circuit Badge tier includes an interactive circuit-board PCB badge and a printed physical program, alongside listed conference-access benefits. This records the organizer's ticket-tier description, not a final board identity, component set, completed purchase, delivered program, attendance record, or technical behavior.
SourceThe public repository calls the devices owl badges of the SecretCon 26 convention, and its commit-pinned README says it exists for SecretCon 26 attendees. This is a narrow community post-event signal, not an organizer-defined artifact name, a ticket-tier map, a delivery count, a hardware or firmware specification, a use recommendation, or evidence of completed handoff for any individual.
SourceOperational history
The catalogue records the organizer ticket description and narrow community terminology without presenting either as a documented electronic architecture, programmed feature set, safety statement, or reusable hardware design.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying ticket-site images, conference media, screenshots, placeholders, or generated approximations.
This remains an official advertised ticket-tier artifact record with a bounded community post-event signal, not a claim that every buyer received a particular board, that owl badges map to a specific tier, that tiers were technically distinct, or that fulfillment succeeded.