Country dossier
Worldwide badge coverage for India, grouped into seeded badges, event editions, add-ons, operational issues, resources, and evidence sources.
Seeded artifacts
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.
Indian conference identity badge with official sponsor and lanyard trail
A conservative Nullcon Goa 2018 badge record from official archive pages documenting March 2-3, 2018 conference registration, Holiday Inn Resort Goa venue context, a dedicated Badge Sponsor, a Lanyard Sponsor, and volunteer instructions requiring the badge to be clearly visible.
Vendor-booth BCPen/CPen challenge badge
A conservative BSides Goa 2024 vendor-booth badge record for SecOps Group's Hackable BCPen and CPen badges, documented on the SecOps Hack the Badge page and tied to the BSides Goa 2024 booth/free-exam challenge trail.
Indian Security BSides badge-sponsor and soldering-village record
A conservative source-backed BSides Agra 2025 badge record from the archived official site and official social trail, documenting an IOTSRG Badge Sponsor role, all-attendee collectible-badge framing, and a hands-on soldering village without asserting an unrecovered final circuit.
Indian hands-on electronic badge village kit
A conservative VULNCON 2025 Solder & Spark Badge Village record for the official IoTSRG-hosted activity where participants built an electronic badge from a kit with PCB, components, soldering tools, battery, switch, and testing time.
Ticket-included Indian conference identity artifact
A conservative Indian BSides Chennai 2026 identity-artifact record from the organizer's ticket page, which listed an Event Badge among the Last Bird ticket inclusions. The official schedule places the event on May 30 at Turyaa Hotel OMR in Chennai; its current ticket page remains a pre-event sales snapshot rather than proof of handoff.
Planned Indian Security BSides identity artifact
A conservative planned Indian BSides Mumbai 2026 identity-artifact record from the organizer's provisional October 3 programme, which schedules badge pickup during morning registration and breakfast. The organizer's pass page identifies admissions and goodies but does not describe a badge entitlement or the credential's form.
Maker-documented ATtiny85 Hardware Village CTF badge soldered in Goa
The official Seasides and HW101 pages establish a Goa Hardware Hacking Village where people soldered take-home badges and worked on a hidden hardware/firmware challenge. A public project-owner archive calls a concrete board the Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge, says that more than 300 participants assembled it live, and publishes its C firmware, schematic, and Gerbers. The archive makes this a source-backed maker-documented instance of the village badge, but the official event pages do not independently name the Roulette design or confirm that every village or conference badge used that exact final configuration.
Events
The Nullcon Goa 2014 edition whose official schedule included the Nullcon Hardware Badge 101 (Desi Jugaad) talk about the design, uses, evolution, and production problems of the 2014 hardware badge.
The March 2-3, 2018 Nullcon Goa conference edition whose official archive, sponsors page, venue page, schedule, and volunteer page document conference registration, a Badge Sponsor, a Lanyard Sponsor, and visible badge requirements for volunteers.
The April 25-27, 2024 Goa Security BSides edition whose official site and ticketing trail provide event context for SecOps Group's Hackable BCPen/CPen booth badge challenge.
The December 13, 2025 Uttar Pradesh Security BSides edition whose archived official site documents the Agra event, workshops and villages, ticket/welcome-kit context, and whose official LinkedIn trail documents IOTSRG as Badge Sponsor and a soldering village.
The June 14-15, 2025 Bengaluru VULNCON edition whose official schedule and village pages document the Solder & Spark Badge Village, a one-day hands-on electronic badge-building activity.
The May 30, 2026 Chennai Security BSides conference at Turyaa Hotel OMR. Official ticket copy lists an Event Badge in the Last Bird package, while current official pages do not identify the credential's physical or technical form or prove delivery.
The planned October 3, 2026 Mumbai Security BSides conference. Its provisional official schedule lists badge pickup during morning registration and breakfast, while the organizer's current pass page does not describe the credential's physical or technical form, ticket eligibility, allocation, or delivery.
The February 19-21, 2026 Seasides conference in Goa whose official site links a Hardware Hacking Village page documenting a soldering badge, enough badges for attendees, and a hidden hardware/firmware badge challenge. A later maker archive calls its ATtiny85 design the Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge and says 300-plus people assembled it live, but the official event pages do not independently name that exact board or final configuration.
Lifecycle
The page documents limited-access and full-access challenges whose solved binary codes are entered through the badge buttons to blink different LED sets and unlock behavior.
The official source describes a hidden hardware/firmware challenge using reverse-engineering skills, with prizes for successful solvers. It does not independently identify the exact Roulette board, its eight-stage maker CTF, or a shared challenge implementation.
SecOps directs badge participants to Vulnmachines to solve the badge hacking challenge and receive the binary codes needed to unlock the badge.
The Hack the Badge page lists LEDs around the circumference, star, and SecOps logo plus buttons for LED control, programming mode, binary 0, and binary 1.
The village description says the kit included a PCB, components, and more, with the built circuit powering up through a battery and switch.
The official abstract framed the badge around electronics, microcontrollers, LEDs, embedded devices, and practical hardware-hacking education.
The HW101 page says the village would have enough badges for everyone attending the conference and that participants could take home a custom badge after soldering it.
The official social trail framed the badge as more than a pass and as a collectible experience intended for every attendee, while not exposing final circuit details.
The README describes an eight-stage embedded CTF, 1,200-baud software UART, EEPROM-backed progression, encoding challenges, and animation unlocks. It does not prove current availability, rules, solution handling, participant scope, service operation, safety review, or firmware parity across all physical event units.
The README identifies an ATtiny85 at an internal 8 MHz oscillator, a 74HC595 shift register, and eight LEDs, with data/clock/control pin mapping and VCC/GND labels. The source does not establish the final event-unit supply, battery, current budget, BOM, board revision, tests, safety evaluation, or compliance.
The official volunteer instructions required volunteers to wear provided volunteer T-shirts during shifts and keep the badge clearly visible.
The organizer's October 3 programme schedules badge pickup during the registration-and-breakfast period. The short schedule entry does not identify badge form, ticket eligibility, pickup mechanics, collection status, or delivery outcome.
Rahul Thareja's public, commit-pinned project calls the design the Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge, says more than 300 people assembled it live, and provides a C firmware, schematic, and Gerber trail. That is strong maker documentation of a real physical artifact, but the official event sources do not independently name the design or confirm the claimed count and unit parity.
The talk title and abstract preserve local production lore around how the idea evolved and what problems occurred while creating the badges.
The official sponsors page lists a dedicated Badge Sponsor category for Nullcon Goa 2018, naming NCC Group in that slot.
The official BSides Agra social trail announced IOTSRG as Badge Sponsor for the 2025 event.
The same official sponsors page lists a separate Lanyard Sponsor category, naming HackerOne, so the record keeps badge and lanyard artifact evidence linked but distinct.
Nullcon Goa 2014 scheduled a dedicated Hardware Badge 101 session about the badge design, uses, idea evolution, and production problems.
The Last Bird ticket page lists an Event Badge alongside talks, village access, lunch and snacks, event swags, and a professional certificate. It does not identify the badge's form, exact ticket allocation, pickup method, or completed recipient delivery.
SecOps describes Hackable BCPen and CPen badges and explicitly invites BSides Goa 2024 booth visitors to claim a free exam through the badge trail.
The hardware village combined soldering, hardware talks, a hardware CTF, networking, and badge activity across the Seasides 2026 conference.
The official social trail documented a soldering village led by Rishabh Soni, Prathmesh Dharkar, and Kunal Rajour as part of the BSides Agra 2025 hands-on programme.
The official VULNCON page describes an IoTSRG-hosted one-day badge-building village for participants to craft an electronic badge from scratch.
The official description covers classic soldering, Surface Mount Technology, supplied tools, morning instruction, afternoon badge assembly, final tweaks, testing, and Q&A.
Operational history
Future maintenance should prefer a restored official page, badge-team repository, or post-event writeup if one appears, and should not weaken the record to the current default-page response.
The record keeps the hardware description conservative until the original presentation or video is audited for exact technical detail.
The record preserves both distribution-related statements without converting them into a confirmed universal issuance count or individual fulfillment history.
The catalogue models the 2018 item as a conference identity/admission artifact and avoids upgrading sponsor and volunteer evidence into unsupported electronics claims.
The record is modeled as an identity artifact rather than an electronic badge or a more specific physical credential that public sources do not identify.
The catalogue can identify a real maker-documented hardware artifact without representing it as an organizer-issued credential, a fully verified all-attendee unit, a specific final manufacturing configuration, or an open/reusable media release.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying site images, sponsor logos, venue photos, or generated badge art.
The India record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The India record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The record remains text-and-source only rather than copying event media, page graphics, screenshots, or generated badge art.
The India record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The Indian entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event or profile imagery without a complete provenance record.
The record stays image-free rather than copying official page imagery, repository photos, screenshots, social media, or generated badge art.
The India record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The record remains text-and-source only rather than copying page media, screenshots, social photos, or generated badge art.
The record is deliberately modeled as a planned generic identity artifact, not an electronic badge or a more specific credential unsupported by the public schedule.
No electronic, software, CTF, radio, power, data-use, or operational claim is inferred from the shared conference context.
No electronic, software, CTF, radio, power, data-use, or operational claim is inferred from common event context.
The catalogue keeps the Agra badge record conservative and avoids converting sponsor/social evidence into unsupported component-level claims.
The hardware and software notes stay at the exact level supported by the public SecOps writeup until a badge-team archive appears.
The catalogue preserves the planned registration cue without treating it as a ticket-wide entitlement, a promised material object, or evidence that anyone has received a badge.
The catalogue preserves the public ticket offer without presenting it as a current sale, attendee-wide entitlement, or proof that a particular person received a badge.
The catalogue classifies this as a vendor-booth challenge badge artifact and avoids overstating event-wide distribution.
The catalogue classifies this as a workshop/village badge artifact and avoids a universal conference-badge claim.