Country dossier
Worldwide badge coverage for Kenya, grouped into seeded badges, event editions, add-ons, operational issues, resources, and evidence sources.
Seeded artifacts
Kenyan ESP8266 OLED MQTT conference badge
A limited-run AfricaHackOn 2017 electronic conference badge built around an ESP8266-01, 0.96-inch 128x64 I2C OLED display, LEDs, resistors, hand-built mounting-board construction, Arduino firmware, WiFi scanning, and MQTT schedule updates.
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.
Completed Nairobi summit registration identity-artifact record
AfricaHackOn’s official Cybersecurity Summit 2026 schedule told attendees at the August 27 registration and welcome to ‘grab your badge & coffee,’ while the organizer’s post-event update confirms the August 27-29 summit concluded. Together, they support a completed-event registration identity-artifact reference, not a documented badge handoff, electronic badge, or specified physical credential.
Events
The fourth AfricaHackOn conference edition in Kenya, where a limited-run ESP8266 electronic badge tested local badge culture for speakers and selected attendees.
The OPCDE Kenya event run with AfricaHackOn in Nairobi, whose public agenda included a making-of session for the AfricaHackOn 2018 electronic conference badge.
The completed August 27-29, 2026 AfricaHackOn Cybersecurity Summit at The Hackhouse in Nairobi. Its official schedule says opening registration and welcome let attendees ‘grab your badge & coffee,’ and the organizer’s post-event update confirms the three-day summit concluded. Neither source establishes a completed badge handoff, material form, or electronic credential.
Lifecycle
The OPCDE Kenya agenda preserved a dedicated session on making the AfricaHackOn 2018 Electronic Conference Badge, anchoring the badge's existence while leaving the technical archive open.
After WiFi connection, the badge connected to an MQTT server, subscribed to an event topic, and displayed current talk details on the OLED.
The badge boot flow displayed the conference title, scanned wireless networks, waited for a programmed network, connected, and displayed IP and network details.
Badge owners could modify firmware through the ESP8266 serial pins, programming switch, Arduino IDE, ESP8266 board support, SSD1306 OLED library, and PubSubClient MQTT library.
The writeup explicitly planned to make badges a mainstay at future AfricaHackOn conferences, move from about 20 selected units to all attendees, and transition to a professional PCB.
Operational history
The entry is classified only as a generic identity artifact and must not be upgraded into a physical-card or electronic-badge record without more public evidence.
The catalogue records a completed-event badge reference without treating it as proof that every registrant received a finished credential.
The Kenyan entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog photography without a full provenance record.
The Kenyan 2018 entry remains image-free rather than copying event-page or social imagery without complete provenance.
The Kenyan record stays image-free rather than copying conference graphics, venue images, social-media material, screenshots, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The record does not imply universal attendee distribution or a polished PCB production batch.
The record is intentionally narrow and should be expanded only if a badge-team writeup, slide deck, code release, or surviving-board documentation is recovered.