DEF CON 34 · United States · 2026
Pre-event ESP32-C3 commemorative badge for Whose Slide's tenth DEF CON year
Whose Slide Is It Anyway?'s maker storefront offers a $75 10 Year Anniversary Badge and says it is limited to 100 units. The listing describes an ESP32-C3, 24 RGB LEDs, three pre-programmed sound effects with corresponding light shows, and a silkscreen replication of its Whose Slide gong artwork. Its public Shopify product payload currently marks the only variant unavailable; that is an availability snapshot, not evidence that all 100 were made, sold, shipped, or collected. The maker says buyers may arrange DEF CON pickup this year or shipment by early August. The current public DC34 contest listing describes 2026 as the contest's tenth year, and the public DC34 BadgeLife index separately lists this artifact. This is a source-backed independent pre-event commemorative badge record, not proof of final production, final firmware/board revision, completed charity distribution, official DEF CON affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
People
The maker storefront publishes the Whose Slide anniversary badge, while the DEF CON Forums page describes the Whose Slide Is It Anyway? contest. This records the public project/store identity without inferring legal organization, DEF CON organizer status, manufacture, or financial stewardship.
SourceThe maker's product page says the badge design was mentored by Mr. BlinkyBling, Blenster. This is retained as a maker-published mentoring credit, not a claim of final hardware authorship, manufacturing, testing, firmware ownership, or event affiliation.
SourceThe maker's product page credits 1DarkOne with custom rear artwork. This records the named art role without treating the listing as a blanket license to reproduce the artwork, product photos, or a final physical badge revision.
SourceThe maker's product story calls Aaron "Bind" Kremin the original Whose Slide gong idea and frames the badge as a ten-year remembrance. This preserves the source's narrow historical/honoree credit without inferring badge engineering, artwork ownership, product approval, or beneficiary authorization.
SourceThis is a rare contemporaneous tenth-anniversary artifact from a long-running DEF CON stage contest, with an unusually specific maker-published feature and provenance story. The record keeps that community history discoverable while preserving the difference between a live product description and a released engineering archive: no sale state becomes a fulfillment report, no design credit becomes a blanket IP license, and no Shopify image becomes a cleared documentary badge image.
The maker's product description names an ESP32-C3 and 24 RGB LEDs. It also says the physical design carries a silkscreen replication of the Whose Slide gong artwork; named collaborators receive a design-mentoring credit and a custom rear-art credit. The sources do not identify the PCB layout, microcontroller variant/module, LED part number or layout, audio circuitry, speaker/transducer, power source, battery/charger, USB/debug path, case/materials, dimensions, antenna/radio configuration, component list, schematic, Gerbers, manufacturing revision, test results, or electrical-safety evidence.
The storefront says the badge has three pre-programmed sound effects with accompanying light shows, including a gong effect. It does not link firmware source or binaries, a repository, build/flash instructions, audio files or audio-rights terms, a versioned release, a configuration/user guide, an update/recovery path, a license, or proof that a particular sold unit carries a particular firmware revision. The sound/light statements are retained as maker-published behavior, not a software-release claim.
Whose Slide Is It Anyway? is presented on DEF CON's forum as a contest where participants improvise short talks from randomly chosen slide decks. The maker's product story traces its gong tradition to the contest's early DEF CON years and credits Aaron “Bind” Kremin as the original gong idea, then describes a full-sized gong surprise at DEF CON 32. The current DC34 contest listing calls 2026 the tenth year of the contest. The independent store says it intends excess proceeds after manufacturing costs to support Bind's family and remaining medical costs, but it does not publish accounting, beneficiary authorization, transfer terms, or a post-event outcome. The badge is therefore not treated as an official DEF CON credential, admission item, or confirmed charitable disbursement.
Lifecycle
The maker says the badge has three pre-programmed sound effects with accompanying light shows, including a gong effect. It does not identify audio hardware, firmware version, sound files, copyright/recording rights, controls, runtime, accessibility, configuration, or final shipped behavior.
SourceThe maker lists an ESP32-C3 and 24 RGB LEDs. The source does not identify the exact module, board revision, LED package/layout, power budget, radio configuration, antenna, electrical characteristics, or test results.
SourceThe product page says it includes a silkscreen replication of the Whose Slide gong artwork, a design mentored by Blenster, and custom rear artwork by 1DarkOne. The source does not provide source-art files, authorship chain, individual reuse permissions, a production-art proof, or a cleared hero-image asset.
SourceThe maker says buyers may select DEF CON pickup this year or shipment by early August, with pickup location/time to follow. The source does not establish a final pickup schedule, venue authorization, customer notice, shipment posting, customs handling, delivery receipt, replacement policy, or a completed handoff.
SourceThe maker's product page says only 100 badges are planned at $75 each. Its public Shopify payload currently marks the single variant unavailable, but emits no inventory quantity. This records a stated limited-run plan and time-sensitive unavailable state, not proof that all 100 units exist, sold, shipped, or reached buyers.
SourceOperational history
The record describes the stated audiovisual/art surface without asserting reproducibility, software availability, audio/art reuse rights, final content, or support scope.
The dossier keeps precise seller-described features without turning them into a complete electrical specification, safety endorsement, repair guide, or RF/compliance claim.
The catalogue classifies it as an independent commemoration associated with DEF CON 34 rather than an official conference credential, admission item, or organizer-issued product.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying Shopify product photos, PCB/back images, gong/Aaron media, screenshots, social posts, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The catalogue records the maker's limited-run and currently-unavailable state without translating it into a sold-out claim or a fulfillment report.
The catalogue preserves the public maker intention without presenting it as a completed charitable transfer, family endorsement, financial audit, tax determination, or quantified benefit.