VULNCON 2025 · India · 2025

VULNCON 2025 Solder & Spark Badge

Indian hands-on electronic badge village kit

A conservative VULNCON 2025 Solder & Spark Badge Village record for the official IoTSRG-hosted activity where participants built an electronic badge from a kit with PCB, components, soldering tools, battery, switch, and testing time.

VULNCON India Bengaluru Solder & Spark IoTSRG Badge Village PCB SMT Soldering South Asia Asia

EventVULNCON 2025

SeriesVULNCON

LocationNational Science Seminar Complex, IISc, Bengaluru

CountryIndia

People

Authors & Credits

Solder & Spark Badge Village lead

Karthik Ekanathan

Named by the official VULNCON page as one of the two village leads and described as a soldering and PCB analysis practitioner.

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Solder & Spark Badge Village lead

Mohammed Saqeeb Shariff

Named by the official VULNCON page as one of the two village leads and described as an IoTSRG core team member and Null Bangalore chapter leader.

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badge village host crew

IoTSRG

The official village page says the Soldering a Badge Village was hosted by the IoTSRG crew.

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event and village-page publisher

VULNCON

Official publisher of the VULNCON 2025 schedule, venue, and Solder & Spark Badge Village pages used for this record.

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Why It Mattered

It extends the Indian and South Asian badge trail beyond older Nullcon material with a current public source-backed workshop badge, while keeping the scope limited to a village kit rather than a universal attendee badge.

Hardware

The official VULNCON village page says participants would craft an electronic badge from scratch, learn classic soldering and Surface Mount Technology, assemble a circuit that powers up with a battery and switch, and use a badge kit loaded with a PCB, components, and supporting tools such as soldering irons, solder paste, tweezers, and flux.

Software & Apps

No firmware, microcontroller, repository, serial interface, badge app, CTF firmware, or challenge source is claimed for this record because the recovered public pages describe assembly, testing, and Q&A rather than programmable badge behavior.

Lore

The official VULNCON 2025 schedule places Solder & Spark Badge Village in the June 14, 2025 village track, led by Mohammed Saqeeb Shariff and Karthik Ekanathan. The badge is modeled as a hands-on village artifact, not as proof that every VULNCON attendee received the same badge.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

hardware kit source-backed

PCB and component badge kit

The village description says the kit included a PCB, components, and more, with the built circuit powering up through a battery and switch.

Compatibility: VULNCON 2025 Solder & Spark Badge

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workshop village source-backed

IoTSRG Solder & Spark Badge Village

The official VULNCON page describes an IoTSRG-hosted one-day badge-building village for participants to craft an electronic badge from scratch.

Compatibility: VULNCON 2025 Solder & Spark Badge

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workshop workflow source-backed

SMT and soldering practice flow

The official description covers classic soldering, Surface Mount Technology, supplied tools, morning instruction, afternoon badge assembly, final tweaks, testing, and Q&A.

Compatibility: VULNCON 2025 Solder & Spark Badge

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Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No VULNCON 2025 Solder & Spark badge image is published because the official page does not grant reusable rights for the page image or speaker photos.

The record remains text-and-source only rather than copying event media, page graphics, screenshots, or generated badge art.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and VULNCON 2025 village page.

village-scope boundary note

The official source proves a Solder & Spark Badge Village kit and workshop activity, but does not prove the same electronic badge was issued to every attendee as a general admission credential.

The catalogue classifies this as a workshop/village badge artifact and avoids a universal conference-badge claim.

Confidence: official source but narrow
Status: documented
Timeframe: VULNCON 2025 event pass
Source note: VULNCON 2025 schedule and Solder & Spark Badge Village page.

Resources

Solder & Spark Badge Village official village page · Primary badge source documenting the IoTSRG-hosted electronic badge-building activity, PCB/component kit, battery and switch circuit, SMT learning, tools, testing, and named village leads. VULNCON 2025 event page official event page · Official event page for the June 14-15, 2025 Bengaluru VULNCON edition, schedule, ticket categories, village track, and conference context. VULNCON 2025 venue page official venue page · Official venue page identifying the National Science Seminar Complex, IISc, Bengaluru 560004, India.

Sources

VULNCON: VULNCON 2025 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event-context source for the June 14-15, 2025 schedule, Bengaluru conference, workshop/village track, and listing of Solder & Spark Badge Village in the day-one programme. VULNCON: Venue Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official venue source for National Science Seminar Complex, IISc, Bengaluru 560004, India. VULNCON: Solder & Spark Badge Village Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge-source page for the electronic badge kit, PCB/components, battery and switch circuit, SMT and soldering workshop scope, IoTSRG host credit, and village leads Mohammed Saqeeb Shariff and Karthik Ekanathan.