SteelCon
The official SteelCon history page documents the 2018 floppy disk badge object.
SourceSteelCon 2018 · United Kingdom · 2018
SteelCon 2018 Floppy Disk Badge
Retro-gaming attendee object badge
A non-electronic SteelCon attendee badge where floppy disks were used as the badge object for a year with a retro gaming area and orange shirts.
EventSteelCon 2018
SeriesSteelCon
LocationSheffield
CountryUnited Kingdom
People
Authors & Credits
Why It Mattered
SteelCon broadens the compendium beyond PCB fetishism: European badge culture also includes playful identity objects that mark attendance, theme a conference, and become collectibles even without firmware.
Hardware
The source supports floppy disks as badges for 2018. No electronic badge hardware, firmware, sensor, or radio claims are made for this record.
Software & Apps
No badge software is documented. This is an object/identity badge record, not an electronic CTF or app platform.
Lore
SteelCon's own timeline says the decision to use disks as badges was obvious once the event had a retro gaming area, pairing floppy disks with orange shirts for the 2018 identity set.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
Operational history
Issues & Camp Impact
missing rights-cleared image
note
No SteelCon 2018 Floppy Disk 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 Kingdom 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 SteelCon 2018 badge source trail.
non-electronic badge caveat
note
The record is a conference identity-object badge, not an electronic PCB badge.
The compendium includes it because the official event history calls the disks badges; hardware/software fields remain conservative so readers do not infer electronics.
- Confidence
- official timeline
- Status
- historical
- Timeframe
- 2018 attendee artifact
- Source note
- SteelCon badges and shirts timeline.
source-depth caveat
note
The official timeline documents the object and rationale but does not expose individual artifact photos, designer names, or attendee stories in text.
The first-pass record should be upgraded only when licensed original photos or more detailed archives are recovered.
- Confidence
- single official timeline
- Status
- needs photo and attendee-source recovery
- Timeframe
- post-event archive
- Source note
- SteelCon badges and shirts timeline.