Catalogue
Filter by chip, radio, runtime, camp, or country. Every seeded entry is designed to grow into a sourced dossier.
Bring-your-own-controller WS2812B LED badge
An unofficial 36C3 badge kit made as a bring-your-own-controller blinky platform with a PCB, eight WS2812B addressable LEDs, eight 100 nF capacitors, lanyard, prototyping area, and controller examples using an Adafruit Feather M4 Express with CircuitPython.
ATtiny841 soldering badge with colored and RGB LEDs
The WOPR Summit 0x00 badge was an attendee-assembled electronic badge for the inaugural Atlantic City conference. Hackaday documents a WarGames/WOPR-inspired board with a dozen colored LEDs, eight RGB LEDs, through-hole LEDs and resistors, battery holders, and an ATtiny841 controller, while Russell Handorf's build guide preserves the soldering and staff-flashing workflow.
CCCamp 2019 wearable sensor badge
A wrist-worn CCC Camp badge focused on sensing, health-style signals, BLE, and a Python-friendly app ecosystem.
Unofficial SR-latch PCB badge for Labitat
An unofficial Labitat indie badge for 35C3 using the congress artwork theme, a simple flip-flop memory circuit, reverse-mount LEDs, a two-AA battery holder, and an optional power-only Shitty Add-On footprint.
Unofficial DEF CON 26 ESP32-WROVER Wild West of IoT badge
The AND!XOR DC26 Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 26 badgelife board themed as the Wild West of IoT, built around an ESP32-WROVER module with WiFi/Bluetooth, a color LCD, microSD, IS31FL3736-driven RGB lighting, CP2102N USB serial, LULZCODE scripting, the B.E.N.D.E.R. console challenge, and badge-to-badge networking ambitions.
Kenyan electronic badge archive record
A conservative AfricaHackOn 2018 electronic-badge record anchored to the OPCDE Kenya agenda, which listed a dedicated making-of session for the badge during the Nairobi event.
ESP8266 WiFi badge running the Proteus firmware ecosystem
A Swiss Area41 2018 conference badge with an ESP8266 WiFi chip, display, web-based name configuration, LCD nickname display, Area41 schedule app, WiFi-scanning behavior, button-order Easter eggs, and public Proteus firmware.
NodeMCU-based electronic badge and hardware-interface tool
The BUSSide was the BSides Canberra 2018 electronic badge, issued to 2,000 delegates and documented through official BUSSide pages, CSides talk notes, GitHub Pages documentation, and a public source repository.
Attendee kit badge by Jonathan Singer
The BSides Orlando 2018 badge is preserved as a simple discrete marquee badge given to attendees as a kit, documented by Jonathan Singer's Hackaday.io project record and anchored to the official Security B-Sides Orlando 2018 event site.
Handmade NodeMCU ESP8266 WiFi badge with badge-hack contest context
Contemporary Australian Cyber Security Magazine coverage documents BSides Perth 2018 attendees receiving a cool, unique handmade conference badge using a NodeMCU ESP8266 WiFi SoC, with a badge-hack prize promoted before the event.
Tampa Bay BSides badge/lanyard artifact with electronic assembly context
BSides Tampa 2018 is represented here by a visible event badge/lanyard artifact in a CC BY-SA documentary photo, paired with an attendee report that says more than 750 attendees participated in Electronic Badge Assembly among the event activities.
ATTiny861 LED and SAO badge archive
The BSidesPDX 2018 badge is a source-backed Portland Security BSides badge archive tied to the official BSidesPDX 101 badge panel and the public PDX Badgers KiCad, BOM, LED mapping, and ATTiny861 firmware archive.
Happy Gecko plus Bluetooth badge
A Happy Gecko-based BornHack badge that added a Nordic nRF51 Bluetooth-capable microcontroller and a breakout-board branch for hardware add-ons.
10th-edition electronic badge
BruCON's 10th-edition electronic badge, documented as a schedule, venue-map, reminder, alcohol-sensor, and public ESP-IDF/KiCad badge project.
Christchurch identity tag with source-backed badge-challenge context
CHCon 2018's official site documents identification tags/badges as part of the event materials and says CTF, badge, and locksport challenges would run throughout the main event.
Ticketed paid-badge registration artifact
CactusCon 2018 is seeded as a conservative paid-badge record because contemporaneous Arizona LoCo Team meeting notes say the September 28-29 Mesa Convention Center event required tickets, offered free admission, and let attendees pay to get a badge.
Ticket and certificate checksum camp record
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2018 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document ticket registration, no required personal data, end-of-event ticketing-data destruction, certificate checksum verification, and instructions to bring the ticket to Fort Monostor.
Brisbane pre-registration credential with special speaker-badge evidence
CrikeyCon V is represented by official archive evidence for Friday pre-registration badge collection plus call-for-participation benefits that promised special speaker badges to presenters, trainers, and event or workshop holders.
Bluetooth LE wrist party badge
The DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet is a source-backed wrist-worn party badge documented by the Apache-2.0 `pdxbadgers/2018-banglet` repository and by BSidesPDX 2018's public Making of the Banglet talk listing.
Tymkrs electronic text-adventure badge
A Tymkrs / Toymakers official DEF CON 26 electronic badge with a PIC32MM0256GPM controller, reverse-mounted LEDs, capacitive controls, four-AA battery stack, USB serial interface, badge-to-badge connector, add-on header, and a retro text-adventure badge challenge.
ESP32 fox badge with jewels and robot paths
A fox-shaped ESP32 badge with 5x7 LED eye matrices, touch pads, buzzer, 18650 power, Lego Technic mounting holes, and jewel add-ons.
Bottle-shaped ESP32 BLE and OLED badge
A small-batch H2HC 2018 bottle-shaped PCB badge with an ESP32 WROOM, I2C OLED display, six controllable LEDs, BLE behavior, AAA or USB power, and Arduino IDE source-code notes.
Qihoo360 Unicorn Team electronic badge with Badge Village games
An official HITB Amsterdam electronic badge record for registered conference attendees, with public CommSec Village evidence for Qihoo360 Unicorn Team design, Badge Village hacking support, packet-decoding play, mini-games, hidden challenges, and hardware specs.
Special-edition electronic badge with Badge Village hacking path
A conservative record for the special-edition electronic badge given to HITBSecConf2018 Dubai attendees, documented by the official event archive as a hackable badge with Badge Village support.
Blockchain wallet badge with secure element, e-paper, Wi-Fi, and BLE
HITCON CMT 2018's official events page documents HITCON Wallet as a limited blockchain electronic badge for Royal VIP and Premium Pass holders, with secure-element cold-wallet functionality, electronic paper, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Low Energy. The same official page says holders could join a secret activity during the conference and later use the device as an offline physical wallet for Bitcoin or Ethereum.
Retro-computing BASIC and CP/M badge
A battery-powered retro-computing badge with 55-key keyboard, 320x240 RGB TFT LCD, PIC32MX370F512H, external flash, speaker, BASIC interpreter, CP/M/Z80 emulation, and expansion-header hacking.
BASIC and CP/M handheld computer badge
The 2018 Hackaday Superconference badge was a battery-powered handheld retrocomputer with a 320x240 color display, mini QWERTY keyboard, speaker, flash storage, expansion header, BASIC interpreter, and Z80 CP/M emulator.
USB-serial hardware-hacking CTF badge
A Hacktivity conference badge with USB mini connectivity, FT232R/FT232RL USB UART discovery, a cross-platform 9600 baud serial workflow, boot-time CTF app, UART jumper path to a root shell, and optional RF-module soldering notes.
Non-electronic camp wristband identity record
A conservative non-electronic HaxoGreen 2018 identity record: the official FAQ documents required camp wristbands and infodesk pickup, while the event blog anchors the 2018 camp edition and ticket sale.
Nokia-3310-inspired ESP32 badge
An Italian Hacker Camp badge built around recycled Nokia 3310 shells, ESP32 WiFi hardware, an LCD, keypad, accelerometer, compass, buzzer, NeoPixels, and MicroPython.
Special-edition HITB2018PEK badge with MTK-series hardware notes
A conservative official-archive record for the special-edition HITB2018PEK badge at JD-HITBSecConf2018 Beijing, with Badge Village evidence for secret features, mini-games, hidden challenges, open-source intent, and MTK-series hardware notes.
Official identity badge and afterparty credential
Kiwicon 2038's official site required attendees to wear a Kiwicon2038 badge and lanyard visibly during the conference and to bring the badge to the afterparty.
One-day soldering and Arduino conference-badge workshop artifact
Kiwicon 2038's official Intro to Badge Hacking training page documents a one-day workshop where attendees built and hacked their own conference badge from supplied electrical components and tools.
ESP32 soccer-robot kit for the linux.conf.au Open Hardware Miniconf
linux.conf.au 2018's Open Hardware Miniconf used LoliBot, an ESP32 two-wheel robot kit with MicroPython workshop material, public example software, USB serial setup, WiFi/MQTT configuration, sensors, motors, neopixels, and a front kicker servo.
ESP32-WROOM-32 audio badge with Alexa experiment path
LayerOne 2018's electronic badge was an ESP32-WROOM-32-based audio and network badge documented by the official HHV archive, Hackaday's event report, the linked CharlieX ESP32_Alexa repository, and mmca's public hardware notes.
Pixl.js JavaScript badge with RGB, sensors, and expansion headers
An Apache-2.0 archived NearForm badge for NodeConf EU 2018 in Kilkenny, based on Pixl.js and Espruino with LCD, Bluetooth programming, RGB lighting, vibration motors, light, accelerometer and magnetometer APIs, extension headers, apps, patterns, and attendee name tooling.