Country dossier
Worldwide badge coverage for Argentina, grouped into seeded badges, event editions, add-ons, operational issues, resources, and evidence sources.
Seeded artifacts
Buenos Aires speaker VIP identity badge
A conservative NotPinkCon 2019 record for the VIP badge listed as a speaker benefit in the conference CFP, tied to the Buenos Aires women-led information-security conference rather than an electronic badge lineage.
Official role and competition badge-art variants
A conservative Ekoparty 2021 record for the official badge-artwork set preserved on Ekoparty's own site, covering attendee, speaker, workshop, ACFT first/second/third-place, ICFT player, and Lado B variants.
First limited electronic EKO badge offer
A conservative Ekoparty 2023 record for the first limited electronic badge offer, capped at 500 units and used as a paid support option for a free Buenos Aires hacker conference.
ESP32-C6 LoRa badge
The official Ekoparty 2024 electronic badge documented by Electronic Cats with ESP32-C6 control, RFM95 LoRa radio, OLED display, NeoPixels, USB, buzzer, KiCad hardware files, firmware sources, Badge Connect behavior, and a community Meshtastic variant trail.
Artistic sonic RP2040 badge
An official Ekoparty 2025 electronic badge record for a customizable artistic and sonic badge with RP2040 control, I2S DAC audio, headphone and speaker amplification, rechargeable USB-C power, NeoPixel backlight LEDs, resistive touch sensors, sequencer, sample playback, synth behavior, and effects.
Planned Champion-tier electronic badge
A pre-event Ekoparty 2026 record limited to the current organizer-linked ticket offer: the Champion tier includes an electronic badge for the planned Buenos Aires conference.
Events
The August 30, 2019 Buenos Aires information-security conference whose CFP preserved a speaker VIP badge benefit while making no public electronic-badge claim.
The 2021 Ekoparty edition represented by official Ekoparty media attachments titled as 2021 badge artwork for attendee, speaker, workshop, ACFT placement, ICFT player, and Lado B variants.
The Buenos Aires Ekoparty edition that publicly introduced a limited electronic badge offer of 500 units alongside free conference registration.
The November 13-15, 2024 Buenos Aires Ekoparty edition whose official event page documents the free CEC event and whose public Electronic Cats repository preserves the official electronic badge hardware and firmware.
The 21st Ekoparty Buenos Aires edition whose official badge page documents an artistic, sonic, customizable electronic badge with public hardware and firmware repository.
The planned October 7-9, 2026 EKO 22 Buenos Aires edition at CEC, where the current Champion ticket offer includes an electronic badge but public sources do not yet document shipped badge hardware.
Lifecycle
The community Meshtastic guide maps the badge to a PlatformIO ekoBadge environment with RFM95, OLED, three NeoPixels, keyboard buttons, and speaker pins.
Official attachment pages preserve first, second, and third-place ACFT badge-art variants for the 2021 set.
The ICFT player OP2 attachment page preserves a distinct ICFT player badge-art variant in the 2021 set.
Ekoparty sold a limited 500-unit electronic badge as a paid support option while preserving free entry for the 2023 Buenos Aires conference.
Ekoparty's official page identifies EKO 22 as a planned October 7-9, 2026 CEC Buenos Aires conference; this is event context, not a completed badge-delivery record.
The firmware source tree includes LoRa manager, Llamaneitor, sounds, village modules, and Badge Link screens around the Ekoparty badge experience.
The firmware includes Badge Connect code for discovering nearby badges, storing badge MAC and type data, and showing cross-event badge findings for BSides, DragonJAR, EkoParty, and BugCON lineages.
The repository documents RAW mono 22050 Hz sample export, Python raw-to-header conversion, AMY sample-bank configuration, UF2 flashing, and alternate synth-drum firmware.
The developer guide documents cloning the badge repository, initializing submodules, using ESP-IDF, setting MININO_PATH, building Minino firmware from the eko branch, flashing, monitoring, and creating release builds.
Electronic Cats documents an ESP32-C6 badge platform with RFM95 LoRa radio, OLED display, NeoPixel LEDs, USB, buzzer, KiCad files, and 3D assets.
Four PCB-integrated resistive touch sensors control sample triggering, sequencer behavior, pitch shifting, and filtering through RP2040 ADC readings.
The current organizer-linked ticket page says the Champion tier includes an electronic badge for Ekoparty Buenos Aires 2026.
Ekoparty's official attachment pages preserve attendee, speaker, and workshop badge-art variants for the 2021 set.
The CFP lists a VIP badge as part of the NotPinkCon speaker benefits package, alongside travel, accommodation, dinner, and parties.
The Lado B attachment page preserves a separate special badge-art variant in the 2021 set.
Operational history
The entry is modeled as official role and competition badge artwork instead of being upgraded into an unsupported hardware badge.
The record remains useful as a badge-art lineage entry while leaving event logistics and artifact distribution open for archive recovery.
The safety note belongs in the record because it affects handling of the physical artifact.
The record can document Badge Connect behavior and cross-event lineage while keeping firmware-configuration claims conservative.
The record remains limited to the advertised electronic-badge inclusion until Ekoparty or a credited badge team publishes technical or post-event documentation.
The entry intentionally avoids component-level claims until primary technical documentation is recovered.
The catalogue models the item as a narrow speaker identity artifact and avoids unsupported hardware claims.
The South American entry now has a rights-cleared official upstream raster with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes while avoiding generated or placeholder imagery.
The South American entry now has a rights-cleared official upstream render with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes while avoiding generated or placeholder imagery.
The record ships without imagery rather than using a social-media image, generated image, or uncleared event asset.
The record links to the official sources while avoiding local copies of uncleared event media or generated substitutes.
The planned Argentine record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying ticket artwork, event media, social-media photos, screenshots, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than inventing a speaker badge image or copying event/social media.
The catalogue preserves a current ticket-tier announcement without treating it as a completed or attendee-wide badge distribution.
The record still prefers a future licensed original documentary photo if one appears, but the current image is source-backed upstream material rather than generated, approximate, social-media, or placeholder art.