Country dossier
Worldwide badge coverage for Dominican Republic, grouped into seeded badges, event editions, add-ons, operational issues, resources, and evidence sources.
Seeded artifacts
HackConRD 2024's first official badge was an ATTiny85-based electronic conference badge documented by a public repository and workshop writeup, with lanyard wear, challenge/hidden-feature firmware, serial reprogramming, aRGB LED expansion, buzzer output, and KiCad manufacturing-file evidence.
HackConRD 2026's eBadge was documented by the official HackConRD site, the EBADGE+ ticket tier, the interactive eBadge page, and a public firmware repository that describes an ESP32-C3 badge with ST7789 TFT, CC1101 433 MHz radio, WS2812B LEDs, buzzer, four-button navigation, games, RF friend exchange, fox hunting, learning modules, and persistent profile settings.
Events
The 2024 Dominican Republic HackConRD edition whose official-badge repository and badge-team workshop writeup document the first official HackConRD badge and its ATTiny85, lanyard, challenge, serial, LED, buzzer, firmware, and KiCad manufacturing trail.
The 2026 Dominican Republic HackConRD edition whose official site documents the Republica Dominicana hacker-conference context and EBADGE+ electronic-badge ticket tier, and whose public firmware repository documents an ESP32-C3, CC1101, TFT, WS2812B, games, RF, and profile-persistence badge stack.
Lifecycle
The README documents a CC1101 radio at 433 MHz, Fox Hunting RSSI behavior, and Friends RF peer-to-peer profile exchange with non-volatile history.
The README says physical pin 2 controls badge aRGB LEDs and external LED expansion pads, while physical pin 3 controls the built-in buzzer.
The repository documents Doom Maze, Dino Run, Hackermon, and Star Invaders as bundled badge games with button controls.
The README documents a seven-character nick, BadgeRole profile, LED brightness, RF profile, fox frequency, friends history, challenge state, and high-score keys in NVS.
The badge-team writeup says HackConRD used the conference logo for the first iteration of its official badge, marking the beginning of Badgelife in the HackConRD community.
The documentation maps serial-interface pins and reset-button timing for uploading Arduino IDE code to the badge.
The firmware README documents an ESP32-C3 RISC-V MCU, Adafruit ST7789 240x240 TFT, twelve WS2812B LEDs, passive buzzer, and four navigation buttons.
The public repository preserves a KiCad schematic, BOM, placement CSV, and fabrication ZIP for the 2024 badge.
The README identifies ATTiny85 / ATTiny45/85 Optiboot as the badge controller target and documents Arduino IDE / ATTinyCore setup.
The official 2026 site lists an EBADGE+ ticket tier including lanyard and electronic badge alongside two-day conference/workshop access.
Operational history
The record states first official badge and technical archive details without claiming attendee-wide distribution mechanics or quantity.
The record keeps hardware claims to the official site and firmware repository without inventing a final circuit, board revision, manufacturing run, or image provenance.
The Dominican Republic record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The Dominican Republic record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence for the 2024 badge but does not copy its render, photos, pinout images, screenshots, notebook media, or fabrication archive media into the public image directory.
The firmware repository and official pages are used as evidence, but site photos, animated renders, frames, YouTube thumbnails, and repository images are not copied as catalogue visuals.