DEF CON 33 · United States · 2025
Independent electronic badge and Pirate Flag SAO bundle with a scheduled DC33 BadgeLife drop
BigTaro's Tindie listing calls this the Submarine Badge & Pirate SAO and describes a $150 Defcon-pickup preorder. It frames the electronic artifact as an interactive underwater world with CTF package deliveries in DEF-SEA, pirate battles, underwater cults, Atlantis, hardware/software puzzles, and soldering challenges. The source says it has a super-bright round display, more than six buttons, one SAO port, exposed extra GPIO, a fully-programmable claim, an exclusive Pirate Flag SAO bundle, stickers, and an interaction with Gunslinger-B-Gone. BigTaro's own Submarine page supplies a live dashboard-like maker surface, and the DEF CON 33 Creator Events List independently schedules a Friday BadgeLife Community Table 1 drop naming Submarine alongside FrogStar and FightDystopia. These sources establish a real independent electronic-badge bundle and a scheduled 2025 event activity, not an official DEF CON credential, confirmed attendance or handout outcome, production count, electrical design, firmware source release, or reusable-image rights.
People
The DEF CON 33 Creator Events List names Jeff “BigTaro” Geisperger for the scheduled Submarine Badge/FrogStar Badge/FightDystopia Badge drop. BigTaro's public store profile separately says Jeff is also known as BigTaro. This credit records only the named public maker/event-presenter association, not sole authorship, manufacture, organizer status, or image-reuse authority.
SourceThe Submarine Tindie listing says the badge was designed by BigTaro's Badges. This records the source-named design/seller identity without inferring individual contributor roles, manufacturing, DEF CON issuance, or image-reuse permission.
SourceSubmarine is a distinct BigTaro artifact with a clear bundle boundary: the badge and Pirate Flag SAO are sold together, while Gunslinger-B-Gone is a separately named interaction. The record makes those relationships navigable without inventing the interface, protocol, puzzle system, components, or an official conference role from high-level seller prose.
The maker describes a super-bright round display, more than six buttons, one SAO port, exposed extra GPIO, a bundled Pirate Flag SAO, and a fully-programmable badge. It does not identify a microcontroller, display controller or resolution, LED count/part/current, memory, radio, IR, storage, battery, charging or power path, voltage/current limits, GPIO mapping, SAO pinout/orientation, electrical protection, schematic, BOM, PCB/Gerbers, dimensions, materials, assembly, test results, safety guidance, or compliance evidence.
The listing says Submarine is fully programmable and has hardware/software puzzles, soldering challenges, a CTF, package deliveries, pirate battles, and an interaction with Gunslinger-B-Gone. No reviewed source publishes firmware code or binary, a repository, license, toolchain, flash/recovery path, game rules, CTF inventory, solution/reset path, score service, network/protocol details, user-data handling, accessibility information, update policy, or security testing.
The maker's undersea world is called DEF-SEA and includes inhabitants, pirate battles, mysterious underwater cults, and a hidden Atlantis. The listing also packages an exclusive Pirate Flag SAO and says it can interact with BigTaro's Gunslinger-B-Gone. The DEF CON 33 schedule records the artifact in a published BadgeLife Community drop by Jeff “BigTaro” Geisperger; that supports an independent event association, not organizer issuance, admission, a completed distribution, or confirmation that all story/game content was available at the drop.
Lifecycle
The seller says Submarine interacts with BigTaro's Gunslinger-B-Gone for extra fun. It does not say whether that interaction is electrical, infrared, radio, software, physical, optional, bilateral, safe, interoperable across revisions, or available at the scheduled drop.
SourceThe DEF CON 33 Creator Events List schedules a Friday BadgeLife Community Table 1 Badge Drop naming Submarine Badge, FrogStar Badge, and FightDystopia Badge, with Jeff “BigTaro” Geisperger named as creator. This establishes a publicly scheduled 2025 Submarine activity, not attendance, inventory, sale, recipient allocation, completed handoff, organizer issuance, or admission function.
SourceThe listing says the badge comes bundled with an exclusive Pirate Flag SAO and stickers. It does not publish the SAO's components, pinout, power draw, host compatibility, circuit, firmware, license, standalone availability, final delivery, or image-reuse permission.
SourceThe seller describes an underwater world where CTF challenges deliver packages to DEF-SEA inhabitants, potentially with other players, plus pirate battles, underwater cults, and a hidden Atlantis. No source provides rules, release timing, solution path, challenge inventory, player count, score validation, server/network behavior, content provenance, archive, or accessibility information.
SourceThe seller lists a super-bright round display, over six buttons, a SAO port, extra exposed GPIO, and a fully-programmable claim. It does not state controller, display details, pinout, power budget, voltage/current limits, electrical protection, GPIO function, programming interface, SAO compatibility, circuit, schematic, BOM, PCB files, or testing.
SourceThe product page says Submarine includes hardware and software puzzles plus a few soldering challenges. It does not list a component kit, soldering steps, temperature/safety guidance, challenge prerequisites, tooling, board revisions, troubleshooting, reset path, solution policy, or completed event-support record.
SourceOperational history
The catalogue preserves the named bundle and cross-badge relationship without inventing an interface standard or claiming every companion unit will work together.
Readers can understand the advertised interaction surface without assuming open source, completed service availability, reproducible behavior, or a verified security model.
The catalogue retains the seller's named surfaces without representing the kit as an electrically complete design, general compatibility guarantee, or safety validation.
The catalogue classifies Submarine as an independent BadgeLife artifact associated with DEF CON 33, not as an organizer-issued conference credential or admission item.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying maker-page, storefront, social-media, screenshot, placeholder, or generated imagery.
The catalogue records source-provided seller terms without treating a planned pickup or retail price as a proven completed distribution.
The DEF CON 33 attachment rests on a documented scheduled activity without turning it into a universal attendee distribution or completed event-outcome claim.