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Singapore

Worldwide badge coverage for Singapore, grouped into seeded badges, event editions, add-ons, operational issues, resources, and evidence sources.

8 badge(s) · 6 event(s) · 6 series · 2016-2026

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Seeded artifacts

Badges

2016

X-CTF 2016 Badge

NUS Greyhats' X-CTF 2016 finals used a custom ESP8266 electronic badge documented by the official event page, the badge designer's hardware and firmware writeups, and public hardware and firmware repositories.

2023

SINCON 2023 Khong Guan Building CTF Badge

SINCON 2023's first badge was a Khong Guan Building-inspired interactive CTF badge with a custom single-sided PCB, ABOV A96S174 MCU, CH340G USB-serial bridge, micro-USB, CR2032 holder, 12 MHz crystal, SMD passives, and 1206 LEDs.

Off-By-One 2024 Hardware Badge badge image

2024

Off-By-One 2024 Hardware Badge

Off-By-One Conference 2024 used an Octopus-themed hardware badge with ESP32-S3 and ATmega328P controllers, dual 128x128 GC9A01 round LCDs, IR, WS2812 LEDs, buttons, a user-flashable MicroPython challenge surface, and six published challenge flags.

2025

GreyCTF Summit 2025 GreyBadge

NUS Greyhats' public GreyBadge archive identifies the 2025 GreyCTF badge as GreyMecha/Army, with RP2350-side CircuitPython firmware, KiCad hardware files, an ECP5U_25 FPGA schematic, GC9A01 SPI display, Li-ion power-path circuitry, summit UF2/filesystem releases, and named challenge apps.

2026

DEF CON Singapore 2026 HFSDR Badge

A community HFSDR badge preorder for DEF CON Singapore 2026, documented through Hackin7's r/Defcon preorder post and the linked public rhgndf/hfsdr hardware, firmware, host-software, and WebUSB archive.

2026

DEF CON Singapore 2026 Public Safety Village Badge

HTX's official DEF CON Singapore coverage documents Public Safety Village badges, including a badge image described as featuring illuminated icons of emergency vehicles, alongside the first DEF CON Public Safety Village.

2026

DEF CON Singapore 2026 TISC ESP32 Trinket

A source-backed TISC@DEF CON SG finals challenge artifact: CSIT's official C517 page documents the on-site TISC finals, and a finalist writeup says each of the top-50 finalists received an ESP32 hardware trinket running a customized BLE mesh chat protocol to reverse engineer.

2026

Hack&Roll 2026 Quack & Roll Badge

NUS Hackers' Hack&Roll 2026 introduced the event's first custom PCB badge, documented by the organizer recap, a Friday Hacks making-of talk, and a public MIT-licensed ESP-IDF firmware and component archive.

Events

Camp and Event Editions

X-CTF 2016

X-CTF · NUS School of Computing, Singapore · 2016 · 1 badge(s)

The June 18, 2016 NUS Greyhats student cybersecurity finals in Singapore whose participants received a custom ESP8266 electronic badge with LCD, buttons, LiPo power, and public challenge firmware.

SINCON Reloaded 2023

SINCON · Voco Orchard Singapore, Singapore · 2023 · 1 badge(s)

The Singapore SINCON Reloaded 2023 edition held 5-6 January 2023 at Voco Orchard Singapore, where the first SINCON badge became a Khong Guan Building-shaped interactive CTF badge.

Off-By-One Conference 2024

Off-By-One · M Hotel Singapore · 2024 · 1 badge(s)

The June 26-27, 2024 first Off-By-One Singapore offensive-security conference whose source-backed Octopus hardware badge carried dual screens, ESP32-S3 and ATmega328P controllers, MicroPython challenge apps, and a six-flag badge challenge.

GreyCTF Summit 2025

GreyCTF Summit · NUS School of Computing, COM1 Level 2, Singapore · 2025 · 1 badge(s)

The July 5, 2025 NUS Greyhats cybersecurity summit in Singapore whose public GreyBadge archive documents the GreyMecha/Army badge, setup workflow, KiCad hardware, CircuitPython filesystem, FPGA files, and summit firmware releases.

DEF CON Singapore 2026

DEF CON Singapore · Marina Bay Sands, Singapore · 2026 · 3 badge(s)

The April 28-30, 2026 official DEF CON Singapore conference at Marina Bay Sands, represented here by a source-backed unofficial/community HFSDR badge, HTX Public Safety Village badge artifact, and CSIT TISC finalist ESP32 challenge trinket without treating any of them as a universal admission badge.

Hack&Roll 2026

Hack&Roll · CAPT / RC4, National University of Singapore · 2026 · 1 badge(s)

The January 17-18, 2026 NUS Hackers student hackathon in Singapore whose organizers introduced their first custom PCB badge, later documented through a public ESP-IDF firmware and I/O component archive.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

X-CTF 2016 Badge released

badge challenge software

CTF firmware apps

The firmware repository preserves applet, challenge, Wi-Fi scanner, LCD, and game source modules for the event badge firmware.

X-CTF 2016 Badge source-backed

microcontroller and Wi-Fi

ESP8266 badge core

The hardware writeup and repository document the badge around an ESP8266 module with USB serial programming and Wi-Fi features.

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

event scope caveat · official summit page plus badge repository · documented

The official page frames GreyCTF Summit 2025 as a cybersecurity summit with talks, workshops, booths, and GreyCTF context, while the repository frames the artifact as the GreyCTF 2025 badge. This record treats it as a source-backed Singapore hacker-culture/security badge without overclaiming universal public distribution.

The event and badge are included, but distribution and admission-credential claims remain conservative.

hardware detail caveat · official article but narrow technical detail · needs public technical archive

HTX's launch article proves a Public Safety Village badge artifact and visible illuminated emergency-vehicle icons, but no reviewed public source publishes a MCU, schematic, firmware, BOM, battery, distribution count, or challenge protocol for this badge.

The record documents the verified village badge artifact without inventing electronics, firmware, production, or distribution details.

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement

NUS Hackers published event imagery, but no Hack&Roll 2026 badge image is promoted because this pass did not establish an explicit reusable image license, attribution basis, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.

The Singapore record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event photos or documentation screenshots without a complete image provenance record.

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement

The hardware repository and writeups include real badge imagery, but no image is promoted because this pass did not recover a complete reusable image license, attribution basis, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.

The Singapore record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository photos, sponsor artwork, or blog images without complete image rights.

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy plus repository license check · needs licensed original replacement

No GreyBadge image is published because the repository artwork, README/media, and schematic-embedded images have not been paired with an explicit reusable image license, attribution basis, and processing provenance for badge.gallery publication.

The Singapore record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository artwork, social media, slides, screenshots, or generated badge art.

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement

No HFSDR image is published because the Reddit and repository images, including docs/img/hfsdr.png and art export PNGs, have not been paired with a reusable image license, exact attribution, and processing provenance for badge.gallery publication.

The Singapore record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying social-media previews, repository screenshots, repository artwork, or generated imagery.

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy plus HTX photo credit · needs licensed original replacement

No Public Safety Village badge image is published because the HTX launch article credits the photo to HTX/Dorcas Yang but does not provide explicit reusable image licensing or badge.gallery publication permission.

The record remains image-free rather than copying the HTX article photo, using a documentation screenshot, or substituting generated badge art.

post-event release scope · repository release trail plus first-hand community post · post-event firmware release found; latest rechecked

The HFSDR repository release list still has v1.0 on 2026-04-29 and v1.1 on 2026-05-18 as of the 2026-05-21 recheck, but public sources still do not confirm shipped quantity, every final manufactured-unit revision, or official admission-badge status.

The record is stronger for firmware artifacts but remains classified as community/unofficial unless an official DEF CON source identifies it as the official conference badge.

Resources

Sources