Kiwicon 9 Badge and Lanyard
Cyberwar is Hell visible venue credential
Kiwicon 9's official site told attendees to wear their badge visibly while in the venue and documented early pickup before the December 10-11, 2015 Wellington conference.
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Cyberwar is Hell visible venue credential
Kiwicon 9's official site told attendees to wear their badge visibly while in the venue and documented early pickup before the December 10-11, 2015 Wellington conference.
PSoC4 blinky badge and VoCore OpenWRT network badge
LayerOne 2015's badge effort produced two electronic badge designs documented by the official Hardware Hacking Village archive and CharlieX's Hackaday.io project: a battery-powered PSoC4, ESP8266, and WS2812B blinky badge plus a VoCore/RT5350F OpenWRT network badge with Wi-Fi and dual Ethernet intent.
Team hardware badge for the Bonsecours CTF
NorthSec's official past-editions page documents the 2015 Bonsecours CTF as a 54-team competition where participants, grouped in teams of eight, each had a hardware badge tied to network, IPv6 workstation, RF-monitoring, smartcard, and related challenge paths.
Electrolab Arduino Micro-compatible kit
A limited NDH2K15 electronic collector badge kit sold through the official Nuit du Hack store, described as Arduino Micro-compatible, USB-compatible, easy to program or hack, and developed by Electrolab.
Hand-built HackRVA PCB badge with IR, LCD, audio, and USB
The RV4sec 2015 badge is documented by HackRVA's official build post as a hand-built electronic badge with custom PCB assembly, surface-mount components, IR, audio, micro USB, LCD, and an optional reset-header development path.
STM32 Hardware Hacking Village badge
Ruxcon 2015's Hardware Hacking Village badge is preserved here as an Australian STM32 badge with public KiCad/Gerber files, schematic material, firmware examples, SMD assembly instructions, CR2032 power, and SWD/OpenOCD programming notes.
Cisco CMX-linked attendee badge with LCD, buttons, schedule, and challenge score
The SAINTCON 2015 badge was a purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled attendee show badge described by Cisco as a conference-scale experiment: roughly 550 participants carried LCD-and-button badges that used Wi-Fi location data for zone awareness, schedule lookup, and live Hacker Challenge score display.
CCCamp 2015 SDR badge
A HackRF-inspired software-defined radio badge that let campers receive, transmit, inspect spectrum, flash evolving firmware, solder RF add-ons, and keep hacking long after camp.
HeatSync Labs solderable PCB badge
The CactusCon 2014 PCB badge is preserved through Eric / Robot Ambassador's first-hand writeup, which describes 300 event badges designed by Erik Wilson, given away at the HeatSync Labs booth, and assembled by attendees with LEDs, resistors, batteries, and acrylic hardware.
Propeller 1 infrared puzzle and contest badge
A Parallax-built official DEF CON badge for DEF CON 22, based on the Propeller 1, infrared transmit/receive hardware, touch-pad buttons, LEDs, full USB programming, exposed I/O, and thirteen attendee-role styles.
Issued physical badge for the tenth HOPE
The HOPE X Badge was the physical badge issued at the tenth Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York City, preserved here through a real CC0 Wikimedia Commons attendee/uploader photograph of the event badge.
Assemble-and-hack Black Badge challenge
A limited collector badge and hardware-hacking challenge from Nuit du Hack 2014, with public challenge rules, writeups, and a Virtualabs repository.
Indian hardware-hacking conference badge
A conservative Nullcon Goa 2014 hardware-badge record tied to the official Nullcon Hardware Badge 101 (Desi Jugaad) talk, which covered electronics, microcontrollers, LEDs, the design of the 2014 hardware badge, what could be done with it, and production problems.
PIC32 badge with LCD, IR, capacitive sliders, and public firmware
The RVAs3c 2014 badge was a redesigned HackRVA electronic badge whose official preview and public firmware source document a PIC32-based platform with LCD, infrared, capacitive sliders, LEDs, speaker, micro USB, and game/application code.
Arduino-clone badge with FTDI header, blinky expansion board, and hidden challenges
The SAINTCON 2014 badge was an Arduino-compatible conference badge designed for attendee soldering and badge hacking, with FTDI programming, LED blinky behavior, a companion blinky expansion board, and hidden Hacker Challenge secrets documented in first-hand and Hackaday coverage.
EMF 2014 schedule and radio badge
An EMF badge built around camp schedules, radio base-station updates, online registration, alerts, torch mode, and practical utilities.
Ticket, checksum, and infrastructure-price camp record
A conservative non-electronic CampZer0 2013 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document the zeroth H.A.C.K. camp at Fort Monostor, ticket registration, no required personal data, pre-event data destruction promise, certificate checksum verification, instructions to bring the ticket either on a device or printed, optional CAcert-assurance photo-ID context, and ticket-price infrastructure lore.
Non-electronic PCB playing-card puzzle badge
A Ryan Clarke-designed DEF CON 21 badge series built as poker-card printed circuit boards: non-powered identity artifacts whose copper, soldermask, silkscreen, inner-layer metal, role variants, and encoded face-card relationships formed a cryptographic and physical badge challenge.
LPC1343 ARM development badge
An open-source H2HC 2013 badge for the 10th Hackers to Hackers Conference in Brazil, built as a USB-enabled ARM Cortex-M3 development board based on the LPC1343 and intended as an experimental next-generation GoodFET platform.
ARM, 2.4 GHz, LCD, USB, and button badge
A source-backed Hackover 2013 badge record: the event blog described an assembled and flashed badge PCB for every attendee, with ARM processor, 2.4 GHz radio, 6.5 Kpx LCD, USB, and buttons.
Official pickup-era identity badge
Kiwicon 7's official site documented badge assembly during conference week and tied the event credential to Friday early pickup before the November 9-10, 2013 Wellington conference.
Dutch camp non-PCB identity artifact
A non-electronic identity-artifact entry for OHM2013, modeled as the camp's patch/hat style rather than as a programmable PCB badge.
HackRVA electronic badge with LEDs, IR, audio, and USB
The RVAsec 2013 badge was a HackRVA-built electronic conference badge documented by official RVAsec and HackRVA sources, with LEDs, infrared badge-to-badge play, a piezo speaker, USB support, and badge-game behavior tied to conference interaction.
EMW2013 LED and IR badge
A small Electromagnetic Wave badge with ATTiny44A, 20 location LEDs, IR receiver/transmitter, unique-ID beacon behavior, coin-cell power, and a ship-wide treasure hunt.
Ticket-included Perth hacker-con identity badge
WAHCKon's official 2013 ticket page says the standard ticket included a WAHCKon 2013 badge, placing the Perth conference in the early Australian hacker-con badge record.
433 MHz mesh-networked South African conference badge
A South African free security-conference badge built around an ATmega328 with Arduino bootloader, Nokia 5110 LCD, 433 MHz AM/OOK transmit and receive modules, LEDs, buttons, and a mesh-style interaction graph.
Propeller multicore IR puzzle and development badge
A Ryan Clarke-designed DEF CON 20 electronic badge manufactured by Parallax around the Propeller P8X32A multicore processor, infrared badge-to-badge communication, eight LEDs, USB programming, many physical variants, and a crypto/social badge challenge.
HackRVA MSP430 badge with Nokia LCD and source archive
The RVAsec 2012 badge is documented by HackRVA's public `rvasec-badge-2012` repository, which preserves Eagle board and schematic files, Gerbers, graphics, component datasheets, and release firmware for a badge built around an MSP430-class controller and Nokia 5110 / PCD8544 LCD behavior.
EMF 2012 radio-enabled badge
The first EMF electronic badge, designed around wireless communication, Arduino-style hacking, and camp game mechanics.
USB-controlled sub-1 GHz RF badge
The ToorCon 14 badge was an open-source sub-1 GHz wireless-transceiver badge from Great Scott Gadgets, controlled over USB from a computer and shipped with atlas's RfCat firmware plus CC Bootloader.
Titanium non-electronic puzzle badge
A Ryan Clarke / 1o57 DEF CON 19 badge that intentionally stepped away from electronics and used a waterjet-cut commercially pure titanium physical artifact as the event credential, puzzle surface, role marker, and social-interaction prompt.
French electronic conference badge
A source-backed French electronic attendee badge from Nuit du Hack 2011, preserved through an attendee report, badge photos, and linked reverse-engineering/programming tutorials.
Nixie-tube hacker conference badge
A source-backed early TROOPERS electronic badge built around a glowing nixie-tube digit, a programming station for badge scores, a Cat-5 LANyard switch, and hidden capacitive-touch and pad-field hack surfaces.
2.4 GHz RF spectrum-analyzer badge
The ToorCon 13 badge was an open-source 2.4 GHz RF spectrum-analyzer badge from Great Scott Gadgets, with 13 LEDs representing the 13 Wi-Fi channels and public Project Ubertooth hardware and firmware archives under the `tc13badge` code name.
CCCamp 2011 electronic badge
A shiny electronic nametag and full-featured microcontroller development board that established the long-lived CCC Camp badge tradition rad1o later built on.
Lithographed aluminum e-paper-style badge
A DEF CON 18 electronic badge built as polished hackable jewelry: lithographed aluminum, a low-power 128x32 Kent Displays cholesteric display, USB connectivity, role variants, and published badge-making materials.