TROOPERS23 · Germany · 2023

TROOPERS23 Badge

Badge.Team retro-adventure conference badge

A Badge.Team-powered TROOPERS23 electronic badge with a public retrospective PDF, open hardware repository, firmware repository, and companion SAO hardware repository.

TROOPERS Germany Badge.Team Firmware SAO Shitty Addon Retro Adventure Open Hardware

EventTROOPERS23

SeriesTROOPERS

LocationHeidelberg

CountryGermany

People

Authors & Credits

TROOPERS23 hardware repository publisher

Jeff (@jeffmakes)

The public hardware repository is hosted under Jeff's GitHub account.

Source

firmware repository publisher

Badge.Team

The public TROOPERS23 firmware repository is hosted under the Badge.Team GitHub organization.

Source

Why It Mattered

TROOPERS23 fills an important gap between the minimal TROOPERS22 record and the better-documented modern Badge.Team style: it has official post-event badge storytelling plus public implementation repositories.

Hardware

TROOPERS23's badge design is anchored by a public hardware repository, and a companion SAO add-on board is documented in a separate SAO repository. Component-level claims should continue to track the published schematics and BOM rather than be copied from memory.

Software & Apps

TROOPERS23's badge has a source-backed firmware trail in the Badge.Team ecosystem, given by the public badgeteam/troopers-2023-firmware repository, making it stronger than a mere event-page sighting.

Lore

The official TROOPERS23 badge retrospective frames the badge as a conference artifact with its own story, while the separate hardware, firmware, and SAO repositories make it useful for future badge teams studying how Badge.Team-era conference badges were assembled.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

hardware add-on historical

TROOPERS23 SAO

The separate tr23-sao-hw repository documents a companion SAO board for the TROOPERS23 badge.

Compatibility: TROOPERS23 Badge

Source

platform lifecycle historical firmware

Badge.Team firmware track

The public Badge.Team firmware repository gives the badge a recoverable software trail instead of leaving the dossier at a hardware-only record.

Compatibility: TROOPERS23 Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No reusable original TROOPERS23 badge photo has been cleared in this pass.

The catalogue publishes the record without a badge image until an original licensed photo can replace it.

Confidence: project image provenance
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: Project image provenance.

repository-depth caveat note

The current dossier establishes the badge, firmware, and SAO repositories, but detailed component-level claims should be added only after reviewing schematics, BOM files, and firmware internals.

This keeps the record useful without turning repository existence into unverified hardware-spec prose.

Confidence: public repositories and official retrospective
Status: needs schematic-level review
Timeframe: post-event archive
Source note: TROOPERS23 hardware, firmware, and SAO repositories.

Resources

TROOPERS23 SAO hardware hardware add-on source · Public companion SAO hardware repository for the TROOPERS23 badge ecosystem. TROOPERS23 badge hardware hardware source · Public GitHub repository for the TROOPERS23 badge hardware design. TROOPERS23 badge retrospective official retrospective · Official badge-team PDF retrospective for the TROOPERS23 badge story and post-event context. TROOPERS23 event page event page · Official TROOPERS23 event page for conference context. TROOPERS23 firmware firmware source · Badge.Team firmware repository for the TROOPERS23 badge.

Sources

GitHub: tr23-badge-hw Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public hardware-design repository for the TROOPERS23 badge. GitHub: troopers-2023-firmware Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public Badge.Team firmware repository for the TROOPERS23 badge. TROOPERS: TROOPERS23 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event context for TROOPERS23. TROOPERS: TR23 Badge Retrospective Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official retrospective source for badge story, lore, and post-event framing.