DEF CON 1 Name Tag
A DEF CON 1 pre-electronic name-tag and paper-badge artifact documented by the official 1993 announcement, the official DEF CON I archive page, and the official DEF CON media-server badge photo.
Country dossier
United States
Worldwide badge coverage for United States, grouped into seeded badges, event editions, add-ons, operational issues, resources, and evidence sources.
Seeded artifacts
Badges
DEF CON 2 Human Badge
A DEF CON 2 physical access/identity credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON II archive page, and official DEF CON media-server event photos from the Sahara Hotel and Casino.
DEF CON 3 Human Badge
A DEF CON 3 physical access/identity credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON III archive page, and official DEF CON media-server event photos from the Tropicana Resort & Casino.
DEF CON 4 Human Badge
A DEF CON 4 physical access/identity credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON IV archive page, and official DEF CON media-server event photos from the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino.
DEF CON 5 Human Badge
A DEF CON 5 physical access/identity credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON 5 archive page, and official DEF CON media-server event photos from the Aladdin Hotel & Casino.
DEF CON 6 Human Badge
A DEF CON 6 physical access/identity credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON 6 event page, and official DEF CON media-server photos from the Plaza Hotel & Casino.
DEF CON 8 Human Badge
A DEF CON 8 physical lanyard credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON 8 event page, and official DEF CON media-server event photos from Alexis Park.
DEF CON 9 Human Badge
A DEF CON 9 physical lanyard badge documented by InfoconDB event metadata and official DEF CON media-server event photos from the Alexis Park conference.
DEF CON 10 Human Badge
A DEF CON 10 physical badge artifact documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official program's note about the badge form factor, and official DEF CON media-server badge images.
DEF CON 11 Human Badge
A DEF CON 11 human badge documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official program PDF, and official DEF CON media-server photos explicitly filed as DEF CON 11 badge images.
DEF CON 12 Forum Badge
A community DEF CON 12 forum badge documented by the official forum thread as a printable avatar/nickname template, intended as an extra badge for forum members rather than the official attendee credential.
DEF CON 13 Human Badge
A DEF CON 13 human badge documented by a public-domain Wikimedia Commons original photo and an official pre-conference DEF CON forum note that the 2005 badges were ready before registration.
DEF CON 14 Badge
A Joe Grand-designed skull-shaped PCB badge for DEF CON 14, built around active electronics, open hackable circuitry, two blue LEDs, one button, seven soldermask role variants, and an official badge-hacking contest.
DEF CON 15 Badge
A Joe Grand / Grand Idea Studio electronic badge for DEF CON 15, built around a Freescale MC9S08QG8, a 5-by-19 matrix of 95 LEDs, capacitive touch controls, customizable vertically scrolling text, persistence-of-vision behavior, and another official badge-hacking contest.
DEF CON 16 Badge
A DEF CON 16 electronic badge built as a hackable Freescale-based platform with SD-card storage, infrared file transfer, TV-B-Gone behavior, role-color variants, one-button state control, and published source, schematics, and development resources.
DEF CON 17 Badge
A Joe Grand / Grand Idea Studio electronic badge for DEF CON 17, built around a Freescale MC56F8006 16-bit digital signal controller, an amplified MEMS microphone, an RGB LED, wired multi-badge communication, and a static serial bootloader.
Ninja Networks DC17 Party Badge
Ninja Networks' 2009 DEF CON party invitation was an electronic badge built for DEF CON 17, documented by a primary DEF CON forum post plus a technical archive with Creative Commons Attribution schematic/Gerber docs, public-domain badge code, and a BOM.
DEF CON 18 Badge
A DEF CON 18 electronic badge built as polished hackable jewelry: lithographed aluminum, a low-power 128x32 Kent Displays cholesteric display, USB connectivity, role variants, and published badge-making materials.
DEF CON 19 Badge
A Ryan Clarke / 1o57 DEF CON 19 badge that intentionally stepped away from electronics and used a waterjet-cut commercially pure titanium physical artifact as the event credential, puzzle surface, role marker, and social-interaction prompt.
ToorCon 13 Spectrum Analyzer Badge
The ToorCon 13 badge was an open-source 2.4 GHz RF spectrum-analyzer badge from Great Scott Gadgets, with 13 LEDs representing the 13 Wi-Fi channels and public Project Ubertooth hardware and firmware archives under the `tc13badge` code name.
DEF CON 20 Badge
A Ryan Clarke-designed DEF CON 20 electronic badge manufactured by Parallax around the Propeller P8X32A multicore processor, infrared badge-to-badge communication, eight LEDs, USB programming, many physical variants, and a crypto/social badge challenge.
RVAsec 2012 Badge
The RVAsec 2012 badge is documented by HackRVA's public `rvasec-badge-2012` repository, which preserves Eagle board and schematic files, Gerbers, graphics, component datasheets, and release firmware for a badge built around an MSP430-class controller and Nokia 5110 / PCD8544 LCD behavior.
ToorCon 14 RfCat Badge
The ToorCon 14 badge was an open-source sub-1 GHz wireless-transceiver badge from Great Scott Gadgets, controlled over USB from a computer and shipped with atlas's RfCat firmware plus CC Bootloader.
DEF CON 21 Badge
A Ryan Clarke-designed DEF CON 21 badge series built as poker-card printed circuit boards: non-powered identity artifacts whose copper, soldermask, silkscreen, inner-layer metal, role variants, and encoded face-card relationships formed a cryptographic and physical badge challenge.
RVAsec 2013 Badge
The RVAsec 2013 badge was a HackRVA-built electronic conference badge documented by official RVAsec and HackRVA sources, with LEDs, infrared badge-to-badge play, a piezo speaker, USB support, and badge-game behavior tied to conference interaction.
CactusCon 2014 PCB Badge
The CactusCon 2014 PCB badge is preserved through Eric / Robot Ambassador's first-hand writeup, which describes 300 event badges designed by Erik Wilson, given away at the HeatSync Labs booth, and assembled by attendees with LEDs, resistors, batteries, and acrylic hardware.
DEF CON 22 Badge
A Parallax-built official DEF CON badge for DEF CON 22, based on the Propeller 1, infrared transmit/receive hardware, touch-pad buttons, LEDs, full USB programming, exposed I/O, and thirteen attendee-role styles.
HOPE X Badge
The HOPE X Badge was the physical badge issued at the tenth Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York City, preserved here through a real CC0 Wikimedia Commons attendee/uploader photograph of the event badge.
RVAs3c 2014 Badge
The RVAs3c 2014 badge was a redesigned HackRVA electronic badge whose official preview and public firmware source document a PIC32-based platform with LCD, infrared, capacitive sliders, LEDs, speaker, micro USB, and game/application code.
SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
The SAINTCON 2014 badge was an Arduino-compatible conference badge designed for attendee soldering and badge hacking, with FTDI programming, LED blinky behavior, a companion blinky expansion board, and hidden Hacker Challenge secrets documented in first-hand and Hackaday coverage.
BSidesPDX 2015 Badger Badge
The BSidesPDX 2015 Badger badge is a conservative source-backed badge-hacking board record tied to the official Electronic Taxidermy: Badger Hacking workshop and the public PDX Badgers 2015 PCB and firmware repositories.
DEF CON 23 Badge
A Ryan Clarke / 1o57-designed DEF CON 23 badge issued as an actual playable 7-inch vinyl record, with role-colored editions, printed mystery alphabets, inner-groove markings, lanyard ciphers, record audio, and a noir-themed badge challenge.
LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
LayerOne 2015's badge effort produced two electronic badge designs documented by the official Hardware Hacking Village archive and CharlieX's Hackaday.io project: a battery-powered PSoC4, ESP8266, and WS2812B blinky badge plus a VoCore/RT5350F OpenWRT network badge with Wi-Fi and dual Ethernet intent.
RV4sec 2015 Badge
The RV4sec 2015 badge is documented by HackRVA's official build post as a hand-built electronic badge with custom PCB assembly, surface-mount components, IR, audio, micro USB, LCD, and an optional reset-header development path.
SAINTCON 2015 Wi-Fi Show Badge
The SAINTCON 2015 badge was a purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled attendee show badge described by Cisco as a conference-scale experiment: roughly 550 participants carried LCD-and-button badges that used Wi-Fi location data for zone awareness, schedule lookup, and live Hacker Challenge score display.
AND!XOR DC24 Bender Badge
The AND!XOR DC24 Bender Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 24 badgelife badge with a Bender-shaped PCB, STM32F103 controller, OLED screen, RGB LEDs, RFM69W 433 MHz radio, USB serial terminal behavior, games, GPIO breakouts, and a public post-event hardware/software archive.
BSidesPDX 2016 ATTiny85 Badge
The BSidesPDX 2016 badge is a source-backed Portland Security BSides PCB badge record tied to Calagator's event listing, official BSidesPDX 2016 schedule and speaker pages, and the public PDX Badgers ATTiny85 Eagle board, schematic, BOM, and Arduino firmware archive.
CarolinaCon 12 Electronic Kit Badge
CarolinaCon 12 included an easy-to-assemble electronic kit badge in the price of admission, with a 555 timer, LED, photoresistor, resistors, capacitor, AAA battery holder, wire, protoboard space, and Hardware Hacking Village support.
DEF CON 24 Badge
A Ryan Clarke / 1o57 DEF CON 24 electronic skull badge with a mini processor, buttons, LED eyes, printed codes, hidden-trace/silkscreen text, serial strings, lanyard data, conference-media files, and a badge challenge that used the Konami Code as an early visible hook.
Hackaday Supercon 2016 LED Matrix Badge
The 2016 Hackaday Superconference badge, also documented as the Supercon II badge, was a Voja Antonic-designed open hardware badge with a red 8x16 LED matrix, PIC18LF25K50/PIC18F25K50-class MCU, integral LIS3 accelerometer, infrared communication, USB bootloader, five tactile controls, and expansion pads.
LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
LayerOne 2016's electronic conference badge returned to the PSoC4, ESP8266, and WS2812B platform as a single LED badge with Wi-Fi working before the event, a mini prototyping area, exposed rails and I/O, and public build logs from CharlieX.
RVA5sec 2016 Badge
The RVA5sec 2016 badge is documented by HackRVA's official interview as a hand-built custom-firmware electronic badge with reused/improved hardware, standard USB reflashing, low-frequency serial-transmission experimentation, and CTF challenge hooks.
SAINTCON 2016 ESP8266 LED Badge
The SAINTCON 2016 badge was an electronic kit badge built around a D1 Mini ESP8266 development board, MAX7219 LED driver, and two 4-digit LED modules, with public assembly, flashing, and Hackers Challenge registration documentation.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
The AND!XOR DC25 Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 25 badgelife board built around a Rigado BMD-300 / Nordic nRF52 module, color TFT, WS2812B LEDs, sensors, microSD, BLE smartphone integration, TCLish scripting, BYOB bling, CHIP8/SCHIP games, and a badge-to-badge BOTNET game.
BSidesPDX 2017 BMD-300 Badge
The BSidesPDX 2017 badge is a source-backed Portland Security BSides badge archive tied to the official schedule's badge context, Rob Rehrig's Ox-Vox add-on talk, and the public PDX Badgers Eagle board, schematic, and BOM repository for a BMD-300/OLED/CR2032 design.
CactusCon 2017 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Scanner Badge
The CactusCon 2017 badge is preserved through a first-hand attendee writeup that describes paying for the badge package, soldering and troubleshooting the board at the Phoenix-area event, and using it as a tiny Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanner.
CypherCon 2017 Cube Badge
The CypherCon 2.0 Cube was a three-dimensional electronic badge by TYMKRS, assembled from cube-edge PCBs with LEDs, microprocessors, buses, USB, battery charging, mesh-network behavior, text-adventure firmware, and a badge-to-badge programming premise.
DC503 Wagon Party Badge
The DC503 Wagon Party badge is a source-backed party badge documented by the no-visible-license `pdxbadgers/wagonparty` repository, whose README calls the target a badge and whose firmware advertises a `503WAGON` BLE device with OLED game modes.
DEF CON 25 Badge
A DEF CON 25 official admission badge recorded in DEF CON feedback as a rubber or plastic identity badge, not an electronic puzzle board, paired historically with an unusually large wave of unofficial DEF CON 25 hardware badges and badge-maker coordination.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
The DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge was a special electronic black-badge award artifact made for DerbyCon 2017, using an Atmel XMEGA core, a large LED-heavy PCB, laser-cut acrylic, custom STL work, and first-hand published build notes.
Hackaday Supercon 2017 Camera Badge
The 2017 Hackaday Superconference badge was an official Mike Harrison camera badge with a PIC32MX170F256D, OV9650 camera module, 128x128 color OLED, MicroSD storage, accelerometer, buttons, bootloader, white LED illuminator, prototyping area, and expansion header.
LayerOne 2017 CAN Bus Badge
LayerOne 2017's electronic badge was a CAN-bus-focused STM32F4 conference badge with a TFT display, storage, USB device and host behavior, external CAN headers, audio output, rechargeable battery planning, PC-side CAN tooling, and J2534-adjacent software work.
Recon Village DC25 The Original Badge
Recon Village's first Badge Life entry was The Original, a DEF CON 25 electronic badge with the village's spy-silhouette design, die-cut shape, hardwear.io lanyard, and foundation-of-tradition framing.
RVAsec 2017 Badge
The RVAsec 2017 badge record is intentionally conservative: official RVAsec sources place HackRVA badge distribution in the 2017 layout and sponsor trail, and InfoconDB preserves a Badge Intro item, but this pass did not recover final component, firmware, schematic, or complete attendee-guide evidence.
SAINTCON 2017 Raspberry Pi Badge
The SAINTCON 2017 badge was an electronic conference badge built around a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a custom SAINTCON board with a 2.8-inch TFT display, SNES-style buttons, battery power, MiniBadge expansion, Hacker Challenge registration, and a post-conference RetroPie conversion path.
THOTCON 0x8 Badge
The THOTCON 0x8 badge was a Chicago electronic conference badge built around an ATmega32u4, four RGB NeoPixel LEDs, three potentiometers, micro USB, two CR2032 coin-cell holders, and tesserHack stock firmware for an 8x8x8 maze game.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
The AND!XOR DC26 Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 26 badgelife board themed as the Wild West of IoT, built around an ESP32-WROVER module with WiFi/Bluetooth, a color LCD, microSD, IS31FL3736-driven RGB lighting, CP2102N USB serial, LULZCODE scripting, the B.E.N.D.E.R. console challenge, and badge-to-badge networking ambitions.
BSides Orlando 2018 Discrete Marquee Badge
The BSides Orlando 2018 badge is preserved as a simple discrete marquee badge given to attendees as a kit, documented by Jonathan Singer's Hackaday.io project record and anchored to the official Security B-Sides Orlando 2018 event site.
BSides Tampa 2018 Badge
BSides Tampa 2018 is represented here by a visible event badge/lanyard artifact in a CC BY-SA documentary photo, paired with an attendee report that says more than 750 attendees participated in Electronic Badge Assembly among the event activities.
BSidesPDX 2018 ATTiny861 Badge
The BSidesPDX 2018 badge is a source-backed Portland Security BSides badge archive tied to the official BSidesPDX 101 badge panel and the public PDX Badgers KiCad, BOM, LED mapping, and ATTiny861 firmware archive.
CactusCon 2018 Paid Badge
CactusCon 2018 is seeded as a conservative paid-badge record because contemporaneous Arizona LoCo Team meeting notes say the September 28-29 Mesa Convention Center event required tickets, offered free admission, and let attendees pay to get a badge.
DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
The DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet is a source-backed wrist-worn party badge documented by the Apache-2.0 `pdxbadgers/2018-banglet` repository and by BSidesPDX 2018's public Making of the Banglet talk listing.
DEF CON 26 Badge
A Tymkrs / Toymakers official DEF CON 26 electronic badge with a PIC32MM0256GPM controller, reverse-mounted LEDs, capacitive controls, four-AA battery stack, USB serial interface, badge-to-badge connector, add-on header, and a retro text-adventure badge challenge.
Hackaday Supercon 2018 Retrocomputer Badge
The 2018 Hackaday Superconference badge was a battery-powered handheld retrocomputer with a 320x240 color display, mini QWERTY keyboard, speaker, flash storage, expansion header, BASIC interpreter, and Z80 CP/M emulator.
LayerOne 2018 ESP32 Alexa Badge
LayerOne 2018's electronic badge was an ESP32-WROOM-32-based audio and network badge documented by the official HHV archive, Hackaday's event report, the linked CharlieX ESP32_Alexa repository, and mmca's public hardware notes.
Recon Village DC26 The Dual Design Badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 26 badge entry, The Dual Design, used two official visual variants: a classic spy silhouette and a detailed skull design in a black-and-white aesthetic.
RVAsec 2018 Badge
HackRVA's 2018 recap and badge wiki document more than 300 RVAsec electronic hardware badges with badge games, puzzles, two-channel audio behavior, challenge content, and badge-hacking competition context.
SAINTCON 2018 ESP32 Badge
The SAINTCON 2018 ESP32 Badge was an electronic conference badge built around a LOLIN D32 / ESP32 module running MicroPython, an 8x32 LED matrix, three buttons, a rechargeable battery, Wi-Fi configuration behavior, Hacker Challenge score display, and twelve minibadge spots.
ShmooCon 2018 WiFi Rocket Badge
The ShmooCon XIV badge is preserved here as a battery-powered WiFi signal-strength meter from the 2018 Washington, DC conference, with corroborating public notes for an ESP8266 core, serially addressable LEDs, and an injection-molded rocket enclosure.
ToorCamp 2018 Badge
ToorCamp 2018's badge is preserved as a Great Scott Gadgets and OSH Park sponsored electronic jar of fireflies: a soldering-station badge kit built around an MSP430G2211, six green through-hole LEDs, CR2032 power, and open design/firmware files.
ToorCon 20 Official Badge
The ToorCon San Diego 20 badge is preserved here as a 400-kit official-badge request that folded MakersBox's SMD Challenge into a larger 8-bit-art conference badge with hidden codes, eight SMD LEDs, and an ATtiny84.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
The AND!XOR DC27 Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 27 badgelife board built around a Rigado BMD-340 / Nordic nRF52840 core with an IS31FL3741 LED matrix, light pipes, glow-in-the-dark capacitive touch, USB-C, FT2232H hardware-hacking bridge, SWD/Tag-Connect programming paths, SAO 1.69bis support, BOTNET mesh behavior, and B.E.N.D.E.R. v2.0 challenges.
BSides Las Vegas 2019 Participant Badge
BSides Las Vegas 2019 is represented here by its official participant/admission badge system: badges were required for entry, walk-in badges were no longer available, and attendees secured badges through room-block, donor, sponsor, volunteer, speaker, student, local, or related conference paths.
BSidesKC 2019 Conference Badge
The BSidesKC 2019 conference badge was a Badge Pirates ESP8266 badge with Wi-Fi behavior, reverse-mount LEDs, participant/speaker/organizer/volunteer/sponsor/pirate variants, a related Jr Hacker badge, and a rights-cleared repository photo served locally as optimized WebP.
BSidesPDX 2019 Multnomah Badge
The BSidesPDX 2019 Multnomah badge is a source-backed Portland Security BSides badge archive tied to the official schedule's badges-and-contests context and the public PDX Badgers KiCad, BOM, and firmware repository.
BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge
The BSidesROC 2019 badge is preserved through the official event archive and badge page, which describe a fully working reprogrammable electronic badge, about 200 assembled units, PCB fallback for attendees without the assembled option, and a best-hacked-badge contest.
CactusCon 8 Electronic Badge
CactusCon 8 is seeded as a conservative ticket-type badge record because official registration pages for the December 2019 Mesa event say CactusCon attendees received either a printed badge or an electronic badge depending on ticket type.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
The 5ohBEE is a source-backed 2019 503 Party pager and game artifact documented by the Apache-2.0 `pdxbadgers/5ohBEE-2019` repository as a SMART Response XE-based pager project.
DEF CON 27 Badge
A Grand Idea Studio DEF CON 27 badge built around NXP hardware with a KL27 ARM Cortex-M0+ controller, NFMI communication, quartz or crystal face details, role-specific badge identity, public firmware and schematics, and a conference-wide interaction game.
Hackaday Supercon 2019 FPGA Badge
The 2019 Hackaday Superconference badge put a Lattice ECP5 FPGA, RISC-V soft-core SoC, color LCD, eight buttons, cartridge slot, HDMI, SAO headers, PMOD footprint, and mass-storage app workflow into a Game Boy-like handheld.
Kernelcon 2019 K Badge
Kernelcon's 2019 K-shaped badge was an electronic badge controlled by an ATtiny85, powered by three CR2032 cells, and fitted with five APA102 addressable RGB LEDs plus a button-driven mode system and CTF clues.
LayerOne 2019 Voight-Kampff Badge
LayerOne 2019's electronic badge used a Blade Runner / Voight-Kampff theme around a small ATtiny2313 LED-and-button badge, with Hackaday documenting optional add-on boards including an ESP32CAM eye/face-recognition module for the badge's test-of-humanity behavior.
Queercon 16 Q Badge
The Queercon 16 Q Badge was an electronic DEF CON-adjacent social badge with a custom membrane keyboard, 2.9-inch e-paper display, RGB lighting, Bluetooth-capable TI CC2640R2 controller, Holtek LED driver, AA battery power, RJ12 6P6C badge-to-badge connector, and ARG mechanics across Q, C, and Handler badge roles.
Recon Village DC27 The Skull Badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 27 badge entry, The Skull Badge, was a steampunk-recon skull-shaped PCB design with mechanical artwork, LED eye illumination, and a CREW staff variant.
RVAsec 2019 Badge
HackRVA's RVAsec 8 badge post documents the 2019 conference badge as a custom Arduino-compatible layout with games, Badge Monsters, Maze, base-station Laser Tag, a scoreboard plan, and a public Dustin Firebaugh C-interpreter repository.
SAINTCON 2019 Enigma Badge
The SAINTCON 2019 Enigma Badge was a two-board electronic conference badge shaped as a segment of an Enigma rotor, combining a curved RGB LED matrix, lampboard LEDs, 26 buttons, plugboard wiring, minibadge-holder support, and badge-to-badge connectors for a cooperative ring challenge.
THOTCON 0xA / Infinity Badge
The THOTCON 0xA / Infinity badge was a Chicago electronic conference badge produced with DePaul's Idea Realization Lab for the May 3-4, 2019 event. DePaul Newsline reported a six-month, 1,700-unit custom circuit-board badge build; the public Poplicola repository documents a SparkFun ESP32 Thing Dev base, five capacitive touch pads, six LEDs, speaker output, microphone input, stock-firmware restore commands, and Arduino examples.
WOPR Summit 0x00 Badge
The WOPR Summit 0x00 badge was an attendee-assembled electronic badge for the inaugural Atlantic City conference. Hackaday documents a WarGames/WOPR-inspired board with a dozen colored LEDs, eight RGB LEDs, through-hole LEDs and resistors, battery holders, and an ATtiny841 controller, while Russell Handorf's build guide preserves the soldering and staff-flashing workflow.
AND!XOR DC28 Badge
The AND!XOR DC28 Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 28 Safe Mode badgelife board shipped through pandemic-era proxy drops, with an STM32F412RET6 MCU, 0.96 inch OLED, ST7735 128x160 TFT, APA-102C LEDs, BlackBerry Q10 keyboard, USB-C, Keystone 1020 battery holder, MyBASIC hardware scripting, and an embedded BENDERPISS CTF text adventure.
BSidesPDX 2020 Presenter LED Mask
A source-backed BSidesPDX 2020 presenter wearable artifact documented by the public PDX Badgers `2020-mask` repository, built as a voice-reactive LED face-mask project for the all-digital conference year rather than a conventional attendee badge.
DEF CON 28 Safe Mode Badge
A LosT / 1o57-designed DEF CON 28 Safe Mode support badge built as an audio cassette in a jewel case, with puzzle material spread across the A/B tape audio, lanyard characters, printed liner notes, media-server contents, and DEF CON forum solving space.
Hackaday Remoticon 2020 Unofficial Badge
Thomas Flummer's 2020 Remoticon badge was an unofficial CC BY-SA 4.0 KiCad PCB template released for the virtual Hackaday Remoticon, combining decorative Remoticon artwork, prototyping area, a MakersBox SMD challenge circuit, Feather-mounting pads, Gerbers, and an OSH Park shared-project path.
Kernelcon 2020 Hack-Master Badge
The Kernelcon 2020 Hack-Master badge was a dual-PCB electronic badge with an ATmega328P-AU, three-AAA power, nine APA102 RGB LEDs, a backlit custom image reel, serial-port game plans, EEPROM mode storage, and ICSP pogo-pin programming.
RVAsec 2020 Badge
The RVAsec 2020 badge is seeded from HackRVA's public firmware repository. The source tree documents a real badge software target with LCD display code, buttons, IR packet handling, menus, badge apps, audio/image asset playback, LED control, USB bootloader tooling, and a small C-like interpreter.
SAINTCON 2020 Badge and MiniBadge Kit
SAINTCON 2020 is represented here by its virtual-edition shipped badge package. The official archive identifies 2020 as a virtual SAINTCON year, InfoconDB supplies the October 27-30 dates, and first-hand DC540 coverage documents a physical badge package with the badge itself, an included MiniBadge, a coupon for a custom MiniBadge, and Hackers Challenge CTF badge context.
The Diana Initiative 2020 Off-the-Shelf Virtual Badge
The Diana Initiative 2020 off-the-shelf virtual badge was a self-built Arduino Nano and breadboard-badge workshop artifact for the online conference. Sched documents the August 22, 2020 `Basic Arduino coding using virtual Badge` Village Workshop, while TechGirlMN's archive preserves the Tinkercad virtual badge, hardware BOM, wiring notes, and Arduino Create firmware examples.
CarolinaCon Online 2021 Badge Kit
CarolinaCon Online 2021 offered a merch bundle with a CarolinaCon Online T-shirt, sticker, and a kit containing all parts needed to make that year's badge; after orders closed, the organizers began bulk-ordering shirts and badge supplies for shipment.
DEF CON 29 Badge
An MK Factor official DEF CON 29 electronic badge built around Raspberry Pi's RP2040, a 1.8-inch LCD, six-button D-pad surface, SAO connectors, USB-C, speaker, coin-cell plus USB power behavior, UF2 firmware updates, HID macro-pad mode, and a New Normal challenge path.
Hackaday Remoticon.2 DIY Badge
Thomas Flummer's Remoticon.2 badge project published a KiCad badge canvas for the 2021 virtual Remoticon, giving builders a Remoticon.2-shaped PCB with open prototyping space plus uploaded KiCad, artwork, Gerber, and MicroMod carrier-board files.
Kernelcon 2021 Hacker HotKey
Kernelcon 2021's Hacker HotKey was a customizable hotkey stream-deck badge configured for Hack Live voting, challenge sabotage, hint, and website-launch behavior, with public Arduino Leonardo firmware examples.
RVAsec 2021 Badge
The RVAsec 2021 badge record is intentionally narrow: InfoconDB preserves a Badge Intro session at the November 4-5, 2021 Omni Richmond event, and HackRVA's current badge page describes an annual electronic badge lineage with schedules, games, surprises, sponsorship, and limited badge availability.
SAINTCON 2021 MiniBadge Collection
SAINTCON 2021 is represented here by its archived MiniBadge collection page, which documents in-person registration/status MiniBadges, community and challenge MiniBadges, soldering and puzzle badges, sponsor or booth-distributed badges, and a separate unofficial badge section.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
The THOTCON 0xB badge was a rescheduled-2021 Chicago electronic conference badge in a retro controller / circus-ticket form factor. Rob Rehrig's first-hand writeup documents an ESP32 main controller, reverse-mount RGB and single-color LEDs driven by an IS32FL3731 LED driver, capacitive touch buttons, piezo buzzer, accelerometer, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi node behavior, IRC remote connectivity, and serial interface.
BSidesSF 2022 Hardware Village Badge
The BSidesSF 2022 Hardware Village badge is a source-backed pre-assembled badge distributed in limited quantities to village participants for Arduino-programmable rubber-ducky experiments.
CarolinaCon Online 2 Conference PCB Badge
CarolinaCon Online 2's official pages advertised a merch bundle containing a CarolinaCon T-shirt, shot glass, sticker, and Conference PCB Badge, with pre-orders closing on the last day of the April 29-May 1, 2022 online conference.
DEF CON 30 Badge
An MK Factor official DEF CON 30 musical badge with Raspberry Pi Pico/RP2040-class hardware, a playable keyboard, display, speaker, audio input/output behavior, boot-mode and mass-storage update paths, and a music-and-pop-culture badge challenge spread across nine badge variants.
Hackaday Supercon 2022 Voja4 Badge
The 2022 Hackaday Supercon 6 badge, also documented as Voja4, was a front-panel-style 4-bit computer badge designed by Voja Antonic and implemented on a PIC24FJ256GA704 with 272 LEDs, direct button programming, serial save/load, internal flash storage, SAO serial expansion, and a public assembler/emulator/tooling archive.
Kernelcon 2022 Watch Badge
Kernelcon's 2022 Watch Badge is preserved through its public firmware repository, which documents the kernelcon_watch_v4 firmware, generic ESP8266 core targeting, Arduino IDE build path, hard-coded Wi-Fi configuration, and deauther-software lineage.
Recon Village DC30 The Radar Badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 30 badge entry, The Radar Badge, was a circular radar-themed badge with a world-map overlay, teal and emerald styling, compass markings, and coordinate markings.
RVAsec 2022 Badge
HackRVA's public RVAsec 2022 repository documents badge firmware for hardware and simulator targets, with RP2040/Pico SDK build flow, LCD display, three-color LED, D-pad, IR transmit/receive, rotary encoder, UF2 flashing, CLI startup path, and app/game framework.
SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection
The SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Assembly Guide preserves a broad MiniBadge ecosystem: official community and status badges, sponsor badges, personal/trading badges, acquisition notes, rarity/difficulty labels, and assembly instructions for through-hole, SMD, RFID, motorized, and programmed badge variants.
ToorCamp 2022 Spider Badge
ToorCamp 2022's badge is documented by an official badge-talk session and assembly PDF as an OlyMEGA-built soldering badge: four LEDs forming spider eyes, a photocell, potentiometer, MOSFET, slide switch, resistors, and a battery holder whose circuit lights the eyes in darkness.
CactusCon 11 Badge
The CactusCon 11 badge was an ESP32-S2 WROOM electronic conference badge by Badge Pirates and the CactusCon team, built around the event's Nightmare House theme, IoT interaction, LEDs, buttons, optional OLED support, GPIO expansion, and USB serial access.
DEF CON 31 Badge
A Mar Williams / spuxo official DEF CON 31 physical badge produced for a deliberately non-electronic year, with the public pre-con badge news centered on a customization-friendly SAO slot and media-server add-on design assets.
Hackaday Supercon 2023 Vectorscope Badge
An analog-inspired Hackaday Supercon badge that combined a fake-phosphor vectorscope display, programmable waveform generator, AK4619 ADC/DAC path, Raspberry Pi Pico/RP2040 control, MicroPython, joystick and buttons, and a through-hole prototyping area.
Kernelcon 2023 1337 kHz Radio Badge
Kernelcon's 2023 1337 kHz badge was an old-school analog AM radio badge based on the TA7642 radio IC, a 1.5 V design, small transistor amplifier, headphone output, RF gain knob, and hacker-playground prototyping area.
LayerOne 2023 PIC HID Badge
LayerOne 2023's electronic badge was a PIC16F1455 USB HID and keyboard badge with WS2812B/SK6812-style addressable LEDs, DFU update workflow, writable flash-backed macro behavior, and a badge-competition path around a partial RubberDucky 2.0 script interpreter.
Recon Village DC31 The Spy Silhouette Badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 31 badge entry, The Spy Silhouette, returned to the fedora silhouette with die-cut shape, LED illumination, a speaker-badge variant, and custom Recon Village lanyard.
RVAsec 2023 Badge
The RVAsec 2023 badge is backed by official RVAsec package language for limited HackRVA electronic badges and HackRVA's public firmware repository. The repository documents LCD display, three-color LED, D-pad, IR Tx/Rx, rotary encoder, audio output, micro-USB UF2 flashing, SDL simulator support, and a broad app/game tree.
SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge Collection
SAINTCON 2023 is represented here by its public MiniBadge ecosystem: the official 2023 FAQ documents MiniBadge popularity and attendee trading, while the community MiniBadge Wiki export preserves year-specific personal, event, community, and contest badge records.
SEC Youth Challenge 2023 Flux Decoder Badge
The Flux Decoder was a Social Engineering Community Youth Challenge badge for DEF CON 31, preserved through a public repository with KiCad board files, schematic material, and Arduino-style firmware for an ATtiny1614-powered flux-capacitor LED badge.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
The THOTCON 0xC badge was a Chicago electronic conference badge built around a Contra-inspired, conference-wide laser-tag game and a custom injection-molded clear polycarbonate housing. Rob Rehrig's first-hand writeup documents the badge theme, enclosure work, IR receiver/emitter layout, TIR lens work, Xometry manufacturing path, and roughly 2,000-badge production scale.
AvengerCon VIII 8-8-8 Badge
The AvengerCon VIII 8-8-8 badge was the conference's first electronic badge, documented by U.S. Army public-affairs coverage as a scavenger-hunt badge where attendees collected codes to light LEDs or hacked the badge to bypass the contest.
BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus Badge
The BSidesPDX 2024 badge is a source-backed OpenTaxus badge customized for Portland's Security BSides event, documented by the official Badge Talk page and the PDX Badgers public repository with RP2040-class hardware, OLED display, five-way d-pad, infrared trading, NeoPixels, AA or USB-C power, CircuitPython, and event-game code.
BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
The BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village badge is a source-backed village badge used for electronics tinkering and a competitive badge CTF contest at City View at Metreon, with attendee-report evidence for a screen, joystick, battery or USB-C power, and badge-to-badge clue exchange.
CactusCon 12 Badge
The CactusCon 12 badge is preserved through Badge Pirates' public CactusCon-12 repository, which includes KiCad CAD files, Gerbers, BOM exports, QA code, art assets, reference documents, and ProjectNeoRogue front/back raster outputs for the 2024 CactusCon badge.
Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge
Car Hacking Village's DEF CON 32 badge ecosystem centered on a main RP2040 badge with CAN-network surfaces, four CHV SAO connectors, public board and firmware repositories, public CTF challenge notes, and IOActive's separately documented key-fob badge / SAO build.
DEF CON 32 Badge
An official DEF CON 32 electronic badge built around Raspberry Pi RP2350 silicon, a handheld-game-style interface, LEDs, firmware archives, and a DEF CON 32 badge game whose GB Studio project files were published after the event.
GrrCON 2024 BadgeBuddy
BadgeBuddy was an unofficial GrrCON 2024 electronic badge built for roughly thirty friends, using an ESP8266 WiFi module, an 8x8 LED matrix, battery power, proximity scanning for other BadgeBuddy SSIDs, and a public code/wiring archive.
Hackaday Supercon 2024 SAO Badge
The Supercon 8 official badge used a Raspberry Pi Pico W and six SAO ports as an I2C playground, bundling touchwheel, LED petal matrix, blank protoboard, and CH32V003 I2C proto-petal add-ons with MicroPython examples.
Hackbat DEF CON 32 Badge
The Hackbat Badge is an unofficial DEF CON 32 badgelife board documented by the Hackbat project page and GPL-3.0 GitHub repository, with ESP32-C3 Wi-Fi/BLE, OLED display, WS2812 LEDs, six buttons, AA-cell case support, and production files.
HOPE XV Electronic Badge
The HOPE XV Electronic Badge was issued to in-person attendees as an ESP32-C3 badge with purple attendee boards, black pro boards, case variants, 16 WS2812-class RGB LEDs, buttons, IR blast behavior, vibration feedback, open hardware files, and MicroPython hacking notes.
JawnCon 0x1 Modem Badge
The JawnCon 0x1 modem badge was a wearable miniature Hayes SmartModem homage for the October 2024 Philadelphia-area hacker con. JawnCon's official write-up says it used RetroWiFiModem to simulate the AT command set and drive the LEDs, with a PCB carrying an ESP radio, level shifter, and vintage red LED front; Hackaday covered it as an ESP8266-powered Wi-Fi modem badge for early-Internet services.
Kernelcon 2024 [a]nalyze [i]nternet Badge
Kernelcon's 2024 [a]nalyze [i]nternet badge was an analog LAN cable-tester badge built without a microcontroller, using a 555 timer, 4017 decade counter, RJ45 path, diode network, head LEDs, and a detachable remote.
LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner Badge
The LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner Badge was an electronic fidget-spinner conference badge that displayed words and patterns through a 12-LED persistence-of-vision strip while spinning.
Recon Village DC32 The Recon Soldier Badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 32 badge entry, The Recon Soldier, was a tactical-recon multi-layer PCB badge with red and blue LED eyes, 3D assembled design, and military helmet artwork.
RVAsec 2024 Badge
The RVAsec 2024 badge record combines official RVAsec package/layout evidence for limited HackRVA electronic badges and badge-hacking context with HackRVA's public firmware and emulator repository. The source tree documents LCD, three-color LED, D-pad, IR, rotary encoder, audio output, SDL simulator, and expanded games/apps.
SAINTCON 2024 MiniBadge Trading Collection
SAINTCON's 2024 MiniBadge Trading page documents an official trading area and a public build-guide link covering submitted MiniBadges that attendees designed and brought to the conference, including official MiniBadges.
ToorCamp 2024 Shadybucks Wristband
ToorCamp 2024's source-backed badge artifact is modeled here as the Shadybucks wristband / Shady Tag flow: each attendee received a wristband at registration, activated Shadybucks at Shadytel, registered a Shady Tag handle, and used the badge or wristband trail as an entry point into the Euphoria CTF.
Aerospace Village DC33 ADS-B Badge
Aerospace Village's DEF CON 33 badge record documents the DC32 ADS-B badge hardware returning for DC33 with new software, Winglet OS 2.0 release artifacts, DC33 SAO support, and an ADS-B accessory ecosystem.
Aerospace Village DC33 Aranya ESP32 Badge Board
Aerospace Village's DEF CON 33 workshop schedule documented a SpiderOak Aranya hands-on workshop where up to 20 attendees received free ESP32 badge-board hardware, flashed a distributed wireless messaging application, and kept the board afterward.
AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
The AvengerCon IX electronic badge carried a built-in four-challenge CTF, coin-cell blink behavior, BAT CON battery jumper, micro-USB connection, CP2102 USB-to-UART serial path, and post-event unlock codes published by the official badge page.
BIC Village DC33 BIC Pick Badge
Blacks In Cybersecurity's official BIC Pick page documents a DEF CON 33 village badge designed as a red, green, and gold Afro pick celebrating the five-year anniversary of the BIC Village.
Biohacking Village DC33 Distiller BHV Badge
Biohacking Village's DEF CON 33 Distiller BHV badge was a CM5-based medical-AI badge built with SolaSec and PamirAI, combining local voice/chat interaction, e-ink UI, physical buttons, colored LEDs, battery power, and public BHV software branches.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 Badge
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 had an electronic conference badge documented by a first-hand badge-team writeup and a public organization repository, with ESP32-WROVER hardware, dual SPI display headers, seven WS2812B LEDs, accelerometer, buzzer, LiPo charging, MicroPython firmware, and badge CTF challenge apps.
BSidesKC 2025 Badge
The BSidesKC 2025 badge was a Badge Pirates fully electronic conference badge documented through public production and fulfillment updates: 250 fully assembled ESP32 badges from PCBWay with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, customs delays, tariff impact, and post-event pickup or shipping handling.
BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
The BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village badge is a source-backed badge designed specifically for the village's electronic tinkering, programming, and competitive CTF challenge.
BSidesSLC 2025 E-Badge
The BSidesSLC 2025 E-Badge is a source-backed electronic event badge built on the LilyGO T-Deck S3 and advertised by BSidesSLC with keyboard, trackball, 25 LEDs, ESP32-S3, LoRa support, Meshtastic readiness, and customization potential.
Bug Bounty Village DC33 BBV Badge
Bug Bounty Village's BBV Badge 2025 was a DEF CON 33 village challenge badge with four buttons, four corresponding LEDs, and a reward path for attendees who lit all four LEDs.
CactusCon 13 Badge
The CactusCon 13 badge is preserved through Badge Pirates' public CactusCon13 repository, which publishes KiCad CAD files, Gerber output, outer-board variants, 3D-print assets, ESP32-S3 reference material, and a MIT-licensed source archive for the 2025 CactusCon badge.
DEF CON 33 Badge
An official DEF CON 33 non-electronic physical badge by Mar Williams, built around layered art, 3D image interactions, lenses, clue spotting around the con, and an Arts & Entertainment booth badge challenge.
Hackaday Supercon 2025 Communicator Badge
The 2025 Hackaday Supercon Communicator Badge is a handheld mesh-chat badge with ESP32-S3, 8 MB PSRAM, 16 MB flash, a wide LCD, custom Solder Party keyboard, SX1262 LoRa radio, SMA antenna path, LiPo charging, SAO v2 connector, LVGL MicroPython firmware, public hardware files, and user-app examples.
ICS Village DC33 FREE-WILi Badge
The ICS Village Badge for DEF CON 33 was a FREE-WILi and Intrepid Control Systems sponsored hands-on industrial-control-security badge tool with RP2350A control, ESP32-C6 Wi-Fi, sensors, GUI support, USB API, WASM scripting, and Build-A-Badge customization software.
Kernelcon 2025 Race Condition Badge
Kernelcon's 2025 Race Condition badge was a Raspberry Pi Pico electronic badge with a TM1637-driven seven-segment display, three-AAA power, seven addressable RGB LEDs, buzzer, track-racing modes, reaction test, synthesizer, achievements, and CTF flag unlocks.
La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge
Electronic Cats' public La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge repository documents a village badge with OLED display, nRF24L01 radio, two-AAA power, Shitty Addon connector, KiCad hardware files, firmware sources, and a released VillaHacker.hex binary.
LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE
LayerOne 2025's GLiTCh BadgE was a conference electronic badge and hardware-hacking platform centered on an RP2040, iCE40 FPGA, voltage glitching, crowbar control, SWD, AVRISP, analog monitoring, multiple USB modes, and CLI-driven experiments.
Lonely Hackers Club DC33 Meshtastic Badge
Lonely Hackers Club's Meshtastic Badge 2025 was a limited 50-unit community badge offered for DEF CON 33 pickup, built around a Heltec Wireless Tracker V1.1 LoRa radio board, preconfigured LHC channel behavior, and attendee pairing workflows.
Maritime Hacking Village DC33 Differential Destroyer
The Differential Destroyer was Maritime Hacking Village's official DEF CON 33 badge, published as an OSHWA-certified open hardware platform for maritime bus work, scripting, signal interaction, and experimental voltage glitching.
NilbinSec DC33 Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots
NilbinSec's Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots was a DEF CON 33 badgelife release announced in the DEF CON #Badge Life forum, sold as a limited full-size badge set through RENXCHANGE, and listed in the DC33 community schedule as a badge drop.
NolaCon 2025 Patches Badge
NolaCon 2025's Patches badge continued the conference's Learn to Solder badge tradition, with the official badge page presenting Patches as a customizable Voodoo Heart-series character whose limbs, LEDs, and personal flair could make each build unique.
PhreakNIC 26 Electronic Shelf Label Badge
PhreakNIC 26's official electronic badge reused dead-battery ZBD 55c-RB electronic shelf labels as 3D-printed pager-styled badges with static 240x96 one-bit displays, QR-code-backed attendee customization, and on-site reflashing.
Rabbit-Labs The Pirates' Plunder Badge
Rabbit-Labs and The Pirates' Plunder Badge was an independent DEF CON 33 collaboration badge that debuted at the Rabbit-Labs vendor booth, with public firmware options, an ESP32-S3-N16R8, two CC1101 433 MHz radios, an OLED, joystick controls, SDIO storage, and 32 WS2812B / NeoPixel LEDs.
Recon Village DC33 The Cyber Owl Badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 33 badge entry, The Cyber Owl, was a cyberpunk owl electronic badge with intricate mechanical detail, metallic blue-gray finish, and glowing pink LED eyes.
RVAsec 2025 Badge
The RVAsec 2025 badge is seeded from the official RVAsec 14 registration page, which listed a guaranteed hotel package with a custom RVAsec challenge coin and a Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge while supplies lasted. No public 2025 hardware repository, firmware tree, schematic, BOM, or final badge photo provenance was recovered in this pass.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
The Tipsy Badge was an independent DEF CON 33 electronic badge by seeess, sold at the Hacker Warehouse vendor booth, with public CC BY-NC 4.0 repository documentation, firmware, a badge photo, 2xAAA power, RP2040 control, TFT display, buttons, LEDs, SAO port, custom photo storage, and galvanic vestibular stimulation modes.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
The THOTCON 0xD badge was a Fourfold-built electronic conference badge for the May 30-31, 2025 Chicago event, documented as a 2,000-unit ESP32 touch-wheel badge with ST7789 TFT display, buzzer, six LEDs, LiPo power, add-on header, games, visual effects, and challenge hooks.
Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge
The Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 e-badge was the conference's electronic badge and badge CTF artifact. The official WWHF e-badge page identifies Antisyphon Training as the badge sponsor, Meta CTF as the scoreboard/challenge partner, multiple challenges solvable from badge behavior or firmware, and Ray Feltch, David Fletcher, and Rick Wisser as badge-team contacts.
BSides San Diego 2026 Cyberpunk Bunny Badge
BSides San Diego 2026 handed attendees a Cyberpunk Bunny electronic badge: an ESP32-powered portable CTF with cryptography challenges, wireless hacking, hidden secrets, an accelerometer-driven oracle, BLE co-op behavior, and an ultimate hidden flag path.
BSides Tampa 2026 Badge Challenge
BSides Tampa 2026 is represented here by official attendee-badge and badge-challenge sources: the current FAQ says every participant gets a badge and lanyard, the badge-challenge page tells attendees that their badge is part of the puzzle, and the Uber Badge page records the lifetime-admission award path for badge-challenge winners.
CactusCon 14 Badge
The CactusCon 14 badge is preserved through Badge Pirates' public CC14 repository, which publishes KiCad design files, schematic PDF, interactive BOM, Gerbers, STEP exports, 3D-printable enclosure parts, and art assets for the 2026 CactusCon conference badge.
DEF CON 34 Badge
DEF CON's official preregistration copy guarantees an onsite DEF CON 34 Human badge, and the official media server publishes DC34 SAO electrical and mechanical specifications that make the 2026 badge a source-backed planned electronic-badge record.
Kernelcon 2026 Off Grid Badge
Kernelcon's 2026 Off Grid badge is an ESP32 weather-prediction and quest badge with BME280 temperature, humidity, and pressure sensing, twenty addressable RGB LEDs, AAA and hand-crank power modes, BLE/proximity scanning, and MicroPython firmware.
PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
A conservative pre-event record for Tyler Crumpton's public plan to bring an even cooler MK.II electronic shelf-label badge to PhreakNIC 27, currently scheduled for November 6-7, 2026.
RVAsec 2026 Badge
The planned RVAsec 2026 badge is seeded from current official RVAsec 15 registration/package material listing a limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge. Because the event is scheduled for June 9-10, 2026, this record is pre-event and does not claim shipped hardware, final firmware, production quantity, or attendee distribution outcomes.
SECCON 2026 PCB Badge
SECCON 2026 is represented by an official pre-event ticket source that says eligible passes include a PCB badge with CTFs and features, limited to the first 180 registrants.
Events
Camp and Event Editions
DEF CON 1
The July 9-11, 1993 first DEF CON edition represented here by official announcement and media-archive evidence of pre-electronic name-tag and paper-badge artifacts.
DEF CON 2
The July 22-24, 1994 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of pre-electronic printed chest credentials.
DEF CON 3
The August 4-6, 1995 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of pre-electronic colored waist credentials.
DEF CON 4
The July 26-28, 1996 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of a pre-electronic chest identity credential.
DEF CON 5
The July 11-13, 1997 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of a pre-electronic hanging identity credential.
DEF CON 6
The July 31-August 2, 1998 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of pre-electronic lanyard and waist credentials.
DEF CON 8
The July 28-30, 2000 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of a pre-electronic lanyard identity badge.
DEF CON 9
The July 13-15, 2001 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of a pre-electronic lanyard identity badge.
DEF CON 10
The August 2-4, 2002 DEF CON tenth-anniversary edition represented here by an official-program and media-archive pre-electronic physical badge artifact.
DEF CON 11
The August 1-3, 2003 DEF CON edition represented here by an official-media-archive photographed pre-electronic human badge.
DEF CON 12
The July 30-August 1, 2004 DEF CON edition represented here by a source-backed unofficial forum-badge identity artifact; the main official badge remains source-limited in this pass.
DEF CON 13
The July 29-31, 2005 DEF CON edition represented here by a public-domain photographed human badge from the final pre-electronic-badge era.
DEF CON 14
The 2006 DEF CON edition whose Joe Grand-designed PCB badge introduced active electronics, open circuitry, colored attendee-role variants, and a badge-hacking contest to DEF CON.
DEF CON 15
The 2007 DEF CON edition whose Joe Grand / Grand Idea Studio badge used an MC9S08QG8, a 95-LED matrix, capacitive sensors, optional accelerometer and RF footprints, customizable scrolling text, and another badge-hacking contest.
DEF CON 16
The 2008 DEF CON edition whose Joe Grand badge combined SD-card file transfer, infrared exchange, TV-B-Gone behavior, role-color variants, and a hackable Freescale reference platform.
DEF CON 17
The July 30-August 2, 2009 DEF CON edition whose Joe Grand / Grand Idea Studio badge used a Freescale MC56F8006 digital signal controller, MEMS microphone, RGB LED, wired badge-to-badge interface, bootloader, role-shape puzzle pieces, and a 32-entry badge-hacking contest.
Ninja Party at DEF CON 17
The 2009 Ninja Networks DEF CON party edition whose electronic invitation badge was built in a 500-unit hand-assembly sprint and later published with schematic, Gerber, BOM, and public-domain firmware archives.
DEF CON 18
The 2010 DEF CON edition whose lithographed-aluminum badge used a low-power Kent Displays cholesteric display, USB, role variants, and a polished hackable-jewelry form factor.
DEF CON 19
The August 4-7, 2011 DEF CON edition whose Ryan Clarke / 1o57 badge deliberately moved away from electronics into a commercially pure titanium physical puzzle, interaction, and conference-participation artifact.
ToorCon San Diego 13
The October 7-9, 2011 ToorCon San Diego 13 edition whose public conference metadata and Great Scott Gadgets badge page document an RF spectrum-analyzer badge tied to Project Ubertooth.
DEF CON 20
The 2012 DEF CON edition whose Ryan Clarke-designed Parallax Propeller badge mixed IR badge-to-badge communication, many physical badge styles, firmware releases, VGA/PS2 expansion, and a crypto/social badge challenge.
RVAsec 2012
The June 15-16, 2012 RVAsec edition whose HackRVA repository preserves the RVAsec Badge 2012 hardware, Gerbers, documentation, graphics, and release firmware source.
ToorCon San Diego 14
The October 19-21, 2012 ToorCon San Diego 14 edition whose public conference metadata and Great Scott Gadgets badge page document a USB-controlled sub-1 GHz RfCat badge.
DEF CON 21
The 2013 DEF CON edition whose Ryan Clarke-designed playing-card PCB badges intentionally blurred non-electronic identity art, circuit-board construction, continuity testing, role variants, and a cryptographic badge challenge.
RVAsec 2013
The May 31-June 1, 2013 RVAsec edition whose official registration update and later badge-team interview document electronic HackRVA badges with LEDs, infrared interaction, audio, USB, and badge-game behavior.
CactusCon 2014
The April 2014 Arizona hacker/security conference edition whose public attendee-maker writeup preserves a 300-piece PCB badge giveaway with HeatSync Labs soldering-booth context.
DEF CON 22
The 2014 DEF CON edition whose Parallax-built Propeller 1 badge used infrared, touch pads, LEDs, full I/O access, role variants, C code releases, and badge-contest mechanics.
HOPE X
The tenth Hackers On Planet Earth conference, held July 18-20, 2014 in New York City, represented by a CC0-documented physical admission badge issued at the event.
RVAs3c 2014
The 2014 RVAsec edition whose official preview and firmware-release post document a redesigned HackRVA electronic badge with public firmware, bootloader goals, games, LCD, IR, capacitive sliders, LEDs, speaker, micro USB, and PIC32 hardware.
SAINTCON 2014
The October 20-23, 2014 SAINTCON edition in Ogden, Utah, whose first-hand attendee/project-owner write-up, SparkFun repost, and Hackaday coverage document an Arduino-compatible conference badge designed for soldering, hacking, and hidden Hacker Challenge secrets.
BSidesPDX 2015
The October 16, 2015 Portland Security BSides edition whose official schedule lists the Electronic Taxidermy: Badger Hacking workshop with Michael Leibowitz and whose PDX Badgers repositories preserve the public Badger PCB and firmware archive.
DEF CON 23
The 2015 DEF CON edition whose official Ryan Clarke / 1o57 badge went fully analog as a playable 7-inch vinyl record with lanyard ciphers, groove clues, role colors, audio clues, and a noir badge challenge.
LayerOne 2015
The May 23-24, 2015 LayerOne edition whose official Hardware Hacking Village archive and CharlieX Hackaday.io project document two electronic badges: a PSoC4/ESP8266/WS2812B blinky badge and a VoCore/OpenWRT RT5350F network badge.
RV4sec 2015
The June 4-5, 2015 RVAsec edition whose official badge-build post documents HackRVA's hand-built PCB badge process, surface-mount assembly, IR/audio/USB/LCD components, and reset-header development option.
SAINTCON 2015
The October 27-30, 2015 SAINTCON edition in Ogden, Utah, whose official archive records the Weber State University venue and whose Cisco partner write-up documents purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled attendee show badges with LCD screen, buttons, schedule, live Hacker Challenge score, and CMX zone awareness.
BSidesPDX 2016
The October 14-15, 2016 Portland Security BSides edition at Oregon Convention Center, corroborated by Calagator event metadata for PCB badge giveaway language while official BSidesPDX pages preserve the schedule, speakers, workshops, contests, and hardware-security context. PDX Badgers preserves the public ATTiny85 Eagle board/schematic/BOM/firmware archive.
CarolinaCon 12
The March 4-6, 2016 Raleigh CarolinaCon edition whose official site and badge PDF document an admission-included electronic kit badge assembled in the Hardware Hacking Village.
DEF CON 24
The 2016 DEF CON edition whose Ryan Clarke / 1o57 electronic skull badge used buttons, LED eyes, a mini processor, printed codes, serial strings, lanyard data, conference-media files, and Konami-code red herrings in the badge challenge.
Hackaday Supercon 2016
The second Hackaday Superconference edition whose Voja Antonic-designed Supercon II badge evolved the Belgrade LED-matrix badge into a Pasadena electronic badge with accelerometer, infrared, USB mass-storage bootloader, expansion pads, firmware framework, and badge-hacking contests.
LayerOne 2016
The May 28-29, 2016 LayerOne edition whose official Hardware Hacking Village archive and CharlieX Hackaday.io project document a PSoC4, ESP8266, and WS2812B electronic conference badge.
RVA5sec 2016
The 2016 RVAsec edition whose official HackRVA interview documents the fifth-conference badge line, hand-built custom firmware badges, reused/improved hardware, USB reflashing, CTF challenges, and more than 350 initially quality-checked boards.
SAINTCON 2016
The October 11-14, 2016 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official archive and public badge documentation record a D1 Mini ESP8266 electronic badge kit with MAX7219 LED driver, two 4-digit LED modules, Lua/NodeMCU flashing, and Hackers Challenge registration.
BSidesPDX 2017
The October 20-21, 2017 Portland Security BSides edition at Oregon Convention Center whose official schedule included BSidesPDX 101 badge context and Rob Rehrig's Ox-Vox talk about an add-on for that year's unreleased BSides PDX badge, while PDX Badgers preserves the public BMD-300 Eagle board/schematic/BOM archive.
CactusCon 2017
The September 29-30, 2017 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose public attendee writeup preserves a soldered Wi-Fi/Bluetooth scanner badge built around a WemOS board.
CypherCon 2.0
The March 30-31, 2017 Milwaukee CypherCon edition whose official history records 525 attendees, the Game of Life / Hacker Glider theme, the TYMKRS Cube badge, and the badge-creator panel.
DC503 Wagon Party 2017
The 2017 DC503 Wagon Party badge archive whose public PDX Badgers repository preserves reprogramming notes, nRF52832 Arduino setup, SSD1306 OLED firmware, BLE banner control, and game-mode source code.
DEF CON 25
The 2017 DEF CON edition whose official badge was documented by attendee feedback as a rubber or plastic identity artifact without a badge challenge, while the wider event became a milestone year for unofficial badgelife hardware.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy
The September 22-24, 2017 DerbyCon Legacy edition whose public conference metadata and first-hand maker writeup document a special electronic Legacy Black Badge award artifact.
Hackaday Supercon 2017
The Pasadena Hackaday Superconference edition whose Mike Harrison-designed official badge was a digital camera platform with PIC32, OV9650 camera, OLED screen, MicroSD storage, accelerometer, bootloader, and expansion hardware.
LayerOne 2017
The May 26-28, 2017 LayerOne edition whose official Hardware Hacking Village archive and badge-team project page document a CAN-bus-focused STM32F4 electronic conference badge.
Recon Village at DEF CON 25
The 2017 Recon Village badge-lineage start documented by the official Badge Life archive as The Original spy-silhouette electronic badge with a hardwear.io lanyard.
RVAsec 2017
The 2017 RVAsec edition whose official layout, sponsor, and InfoconDB trail document HackRVA badge distribution, badge-intro content, CTF-room context, and source-depth limits for the public badge record.
SAINTCON 2017
The October 10-13, 2017 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official archive and badge page documented a Raspberry Pi Zero W electronic badge, a custom TFT/button board, MiniBadges, and Hacker Challenge integration.
THOTCON 0x8
The May 4-5, 2017 Chicago THOTCON edition whose official schedule documents badge pickup at check-in and whose public badge-hacking record preserves the 0x8 electronic tesserHack badge.
BSides Orlando 2018
The Central Florida Security BSides edition whose official site anchors the 2018 event and whose project-owner Hackaday.io record documents a simple discrete marquee badge kit given to attendees.
BSides Tampa 2018
The 2018 Tampa Bay Security BSides edition whose public attendee report records more than 750 attendees and electronic badge assembly activity, while a CC BY-SA documentary photo preserves a visible BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard artifact.
BSidesPDX 2018
The October 26-27, 2018 Portland Security BSides edition at Oregon Convention Center whose official schedule included BSidesPDX 101 covering CTF, contests, events, badges, and more, while PDX Badgers preserves a public ATTiny861 KiCad/BOM/firmware badge archive.
CactusCon 2018
The September 28-29, 2018 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose contemporaneous local meeting notes document a ticketed event with a paid badge option but no recovered badge hardware archive.
DC503 at DEF CON 26
The 2018 DC503 DEF CON 26 party-badge edition whose public PDX Badgers repository preserves the VIP Banglet wrist badge hardware, firmware sketches, 3D-print files, Apache-2.0 license, and credited Portland badge-team authors.
DEF CON 26
The 2018 DEF CON edition whose Tymkrs / Toymakers official electronic badge used a PIC32MM, LEDs, capacitive controls, USB serial text adventure, badge-to-badge connector, add-on header, and firmware-update trail.
Hackaday Supercon 2018
The Pasadena Hackaday Superconference edition whose official badge reused the Hackaday Belgrade retrocomputer badge lineage with BASIC, CP/M, a color display, keyboard, speaker, flash storage, AA power, and expansion hardware.
LayerOne 2018
The May 25-27, 2018 LayerOne Pasadena edition whose official Hardware Hacking Village archive, Hackaday event report, CharlieX repository, and mmca hardware notes document an ESP32-WROOM-32 audio/network conference badge.
Recon Village at DEF CON 26
The 2018 Recon Village badge edition documented by the official Badge Life archive as The Dual Design, with spy-silhouette and skull variants.
RVAsec 2018
The June 7-8, 2018 RVAsec edition whose HackRVA recap, public badge wiki, official layout, and CTF page document more than 300 electronic hardware badges with games, puzzles, two-channel audio, and badge-hacking challenge context.
SAINTCON 2018
The September 25-28, 2018 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official archive and badge page documented an attendee electronic badge designed by compukidmike with expanded minibadge support and I2C interactivity.
ShmooCon XIV
The January 19-21, 2018 ShmooCon XIV edition at the Washington Hilton, whose public conference record and attendee write-up preserve a battery-powered WiFi signal-strength meter badge with last-minute reflashing and parts-shipping caveats.
ToorCamp 2018
The June 20-24, 2018 ToorCamp outdoor hacker camp at Doe Bay Resort & Spa, whose Great Scott Gadgets badge archive preserves an MSP430-based electronic jar-of-fireflies badge with open hardware, firmware, BOM, assembly photos, and a BSD-licensed repository photo.
ToorCon San Diego 20
The September 10-16, 2018 ToorCon San Diego 20 edition whose public conference metadata and Hackaday.io badge-builder log preserve a 400-kit official-badge request with SMD Challenge hardware, 8-bit art, and hidden codes.
503 Party 2019
The 2019 503 Party badge/pager archive whose public PDX Badgers repository preserves the 5ohBEE SMART Response XE pager setup, RF firmware sketches, HugQuest game behavior, repository license, and source credits.
BSides Las Vegas 2019
The August 6-7, 2019 BSides Las Vegas edition whose official archive and registration pages document a capacity-managed admission badge model with no walk-in badges.
BSidesKC 2019
The April 26-27, 2019 Kansas City Security BSides edition at Plexpod Westport, whose Badge Pirates source trail documents the ESP8266 conference badge, kids badge, Wi-Fi exploration game, and badge variants.
BSidesPDX 2019
The October 25-26, 2019 Portland Security BSides edition at Oregon Convention Center whose official schedule included BSidesPDX 101 covering CTF, contests, events, badges, and more, while PDX Badgers preserves a public Multnomah KiCad/BOM/firmware badge archive.
BSidesROC 2019
The March 23, 2019 Rochester Security B-Sides edition at the RIT Inn whose official archive and badge page document a reprogrammable ATTINY85 electronic badge, PCB fallback, SAO ports, and best-hacked-badge contest.
CactusCon 8
The December 6-7, 2019 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose official registration sources distinguish printed-badge and electronic-badge ticket types without exposing hardware, firmware, or image reuse rights.
DEF CON 27
The 2019 DEF CON edition whose Grand Idea Studio crystal badge used NXP silicon, KL27 ARM firmware, NFMI communication, badge-type roles, and a conference-wide interaction game.
Hackaday Supercon 2019
The fifth Hackaday Superconference, where the official badge became a Game Boy-shaped ECP5 FPGA platform running a RISC-V soft core with cartridges, HDMI, SAO, PMOD, and open toolchain workflows.
Kernelcon 2019
The April 5-6, 2019 inaugural Kernelcon in Omaha, where public badge sources document a limited electronic K-shaped badge with ATtiny85, APA102 LEDs, and CTF behavior.
LayerOne 2019
The May 24-26, 2019 LayerOne Pasadena edition whose official Hardware Hacking Village archive, Hackaday report, and CharlieX repository document a Blade Runner / Voight-Kampff electronic conference badge and add-on kits.
Queercon 16
The DEF CON 27-adjacent Queercon edition whose Q and C badge system used distinct electronic attendee artifacts, custom keyboard hardware, badge-to-badge token exchange, handler missions, and a shared ARG progress station.
Recon Village at DEF CON 27
The 2019 Recon Village badge edition documented by the official Badge Life archive as The Skull Badge, a steampunk-recon skull with an LED eye and staff CREW variant.
RVAsec 2019
The May 22-23, 2019 RVAsec edition whose HackRVA post and GitHub interpreter repository document the eighth RVAsec electronic badge, its Arduino-compatible custom layout, games, base-station laser-tag behavior, and badge C interpreter.
SAINTCON 2019
The October 22-25, 2019 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official archive and organizer letter documented the Enigma theme, badge distribution, minibadges, Hardware Hacking Community support, and event badge challenge.
THOTCON 0xA / Infinity
The May 3-4, 2019 Chicago THOTCON edition whose DePaul Newsline coverage, InfoconDB schedule, badge-hacking workshop record, and public Poplicola repository preserve the 0xA / Infinity electronic badge.
WOPR Summit 0x00
The inaugural 2019 Atlantic City WOPR Summit edition whose public Hackaday coverage and first-hand Russell Handorf build guide preserve the 0x00 soldering badge, badge-hacking area, and hardware-design workshop context.
BSidesPDX 2020
The October 23-24, 2020 all-digital Portland Security BSides edition whose official pages preserve the online schedule, speaker list, and virtual venue context, while PDX Badgers preserves a talking LED mask repository described as a BSides 2020 presenter artifact.
DEF CON 28 Safe Mode
The 2020 remote Safe Mode edition whose official support badge was a LosT / 1o57 cassette-tape puzzle artifact spanning the tape, lanyard, printed liner notes, audio contents, and forum/media-server collaboration.
Hackaday Remoticon 2020
The November 6-8, 2020 virtual Remoticon edition whose official Hackaday.io start page documents a distributed hardware-creation event and whose discussion thread explicitly pushed badge work into unofficial community builds.
Kernelcon 2020 Virtual
The March 25-28, 2020 Kernelcon virtual edition whose Hack-Master badge was documented through public repository, talk, and ZonkSec writeup sources after the conference moved online.
RVAsec 2020
The pandemic-era RVAsec 2020 badge archive whose HackRVA firmware repository documents LCD, buttons, IR, LED, audio, USB bootloader tooling, app framework, and interpreter behavior while distribution and final event context remain caveated.
SAINTCON 2020
The October 27-30, 2020 virtual SAINTCON edition whose official archive identifies 2020 as virtual, InfoconDB records the dates, and first-hand DC540 coverage documents a shipped badge package with a badge, included MiniBadge, custom-MiniBadge coupon, and Hackers Challenge CTF badge context.
The Diana Initiative 2020
The August 21-22, 2020 online Diana Initiative edition whose Sched archive documents a virtual conference and a `Basic Arduino coding using virtual Badge` Village Workshop by @TechGirlMN, while TechGirlMN's Maker Village archive preserves the off-the-shelf Arduino badge build materials.
CarolinaCon Online 2021
The April 23-25, 2021 online CarolinaCon edition whose official site documents a merch bundle with an all-parts badge kit and later bulk ordering of badge supplies.
DEF CON 29
The 2021 hybrid DEF CON edition whose official MK Factor electronic badge used a Raspberry Pi RP2040, LCD, D-pad, macro-pad HID behavior, USB-C, SAO connectors, speaker, firmware updates, and a New Normal badge challenge.
Hackaday Remoticon.2
The 2021 Remoticon.2 virtual edition represented here by Thomas Flummer's Hackaday.io DIY KiCad badge template and Hackaday coverage rather than a centrally issued attendee badge.
KernelCon 2021: Hack Live Virtual
The April 30, 2021 Hack Live virtual Kernelcon event, whose public pages and repository document the customizable Hacker HotKey stream-deck badge.
RVAsec 2021
The November 4-5, 2021 RVAsec edition whose InfoconDB schedule preserves Badge Intro context and whose current HackRVA badge page supports the ongoing electronic-badge lineage while year-specific hardware files remain unrecovered.
SAINTCON 2021
The October 18-22, 2021 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official archive, MiniBadges page, venue page, and Sched listing document an in-person MiniBadge collection with status, community, challenge, sponsor/booth, soldering, puzzle, and unofficial trading records.
THOTCON 0xB
The October 8-9, 2021 rescheduled Chicago THOTCON edition whose official archive, workshop listing, Fourfold portfolio, and Rob Rehrig project writeup preserve the 0xB electronic badge.
BSidesSF 2022
The June 4-5, 2022 San Francisco Security BSides edition whose official Sched archive documents a Hardware Village where limited participants received pre-assembled Arduino-programmable HID badges for harmless rubber-ducky experiments.
CarolinaCon Online 2
The April 29-May 1, 2022 CarolinaCon Online 2 edition whose official pages document a merch bundle with an electronic Conference PCB Badge.
DEF CON 30
The 2022 Hacker Homecoming edition whose MK Factor official musical badge used Raspberry Pi Pico/RP2040-class hardware, a playable keyboard, display, speaker, audio I/O, firmware extraction paths, and a multi-part community badge challenge.
Hackaday Supercon 2022
The November 4-6, 2022 return-to-Pasadena Hackaday Supercon 6 edition whose official badge was Voja Antonic's Voja4 front-panel 4-bit computer running on a PIC24FJ256GA704 with 272 LEDs, button programming, serial save/load, manuals, assembler, emulator, firmware, and SAO/IO expansion.
Kernelcon 2022
The March 30-April 2, 2022 Omaha Kernelcon edition whose public badge repository preserves the ESP8266 watch-badge firmware and flashing workflow.
Recon Village at DEF CON 30
The 2022 Recon Village badge edition documented by the official Badge Life archive as The Radar Badge, a circular radar and world-map themed badge.
RVAsec 2022
The RVAsec 2022 edition whose public HackRVA firmware repository documents an RP2040/Pico-oriented badge software stack, LCD, three-color LED, D-pad, IR, rotary encoder, UF2 flashing, simulator, CLI, and badge app framework.
SAINTCON 2022
The October 25-28, 2022 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official archive and MiniBadges-of-2022 assembly guide document official, sponsor, and personal MiniBadge categories, acquisition paths, assembly instructions, and community-booth badge activity.
ToorCamp 2022
The July 13-17, 2022 ToorCamp outdoor hacker camp at Doe Bay Resort & Spa, whose official schedule and assembly PDF document a Rich Gonzales / OlyMEGA badge with light-sensing LED spider-eyes and attendee assembly guidance.
CactusCon 11
The January 27-28, 2023 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose official event page anchors the Mesa event and whose Badge Pirates writeup documents the ESP32-S2 CactusCon 11 badge.
DEF CON 31
The 2023 DEF CON edition whose Mar Williams / spuxo official physical badge returned the mainline to a non-electronic format while exposing an SAO customization chamber and public add-on design assets.
Hackaday Supercon 2023
The Pasadena Hackaday Supercon edition whose Vectorscope badge combined RP2040/MicroPython control, a round display, analog ADC/DAC signal paths, prototyping area, and a public badge-hacking ceremony.
Kernelcon 2023
The April 12-15, 2023 Omaha Kernelcon edition whose official badge site documents the analog 1337 kHz AM radio badge and hardware-hacking playground.
LayerOne 2023
The May 27-28, 2023 LayerOne return-to-in-person edition whose official conference post, Hardware Hacking Village page, and public repository document the PIC16F1455 USB HID electronic badge.
Recon Village at DEF CON 31
The 2023 Recon Village badge edition documented by the official Badge Life archive as The Spy Silhouette with speaker-badge and lanyard context.
RVAsec 2023
The RVAsec 2023 edition whose official hotel-package wording and HackRVA repository document limited electronic badges, Raspberry Pi Pico-style flashing, LCD, three-color LED, D-pad, IR, rotary encoder, audio output, SDL simulator, and app/game firmware.
SAINTCON 2023
The October 24-27, 2023 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official FAQ and community data trail document MiniBadge culture, attendee trading, and a year-specific community MiniBadge data export.
SEC Youth Challenge at DEF CON 31
The Social Engineering Community Youth Challenge edition at DEF CON 31, documented by DEF CON forum and schedule sources as a youth-focused puzzle event in the Social Engineering Community Village and paired here with the public Flux Decoder badge repository.
THOTCON 0xC
The May 19-20, 2023 Chicago THOTCON edition whose official schedule documents badge pickup and badge-required party entry, while Rob Rehrig's first-hand maker writeup and Fourfold's portfolio preserve the 0xC electronic badge.
AvengerCon VIII
The February 28-29, 2024 AvengerCon edition in Augusta whose U.S. Army public-affairs article documents the first AvengerCon electronic badge, the 8-8-8 badge, as a scavenger-hunt and badge-hacking artifact.
BSidesPDX 2024
The October 25-26, 2024 Portland Security BSides edition whose official schedule and speaker page document The Badge Talk, where Joe FitzPatrick presented the customized BSidesPDX badge design, gameplay, and hacking context.
BSidesSF 2024
The May 4-5, 2024 San Francisco Security BSides edition whose official Sched archive documents a Hardware Challenge Village using a specially designed HCV badge for electronics tinkering and badge CTF contest play.
CactusCon 12
The February 16-17, 2024 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose InfoconDB event record anchors the Mesa Convention Center context and whose Badge Pirates repository preserves the CactusCon 12 badge archive.
Car Hacking Village at DEF CON 32
The DEF CON 32 Car Hacking Village edition whose official badge sale page, public CHV repositories, CTF archive, SAO specification, and IOActive key-fob badge build series document a CAN-bus badge ecosystem.
DEF CON 32
The 2024 DEF CON edition whose official electronic badge used Raspberry Pi RP2350 silicon, a handheld-game form factor, firmware/game archives, GB Studio source material, and a public badge patch trail.
GrrCON 2024
The 2024 GrrCON edition in Grand Rapids whose public first-hand BadgeBuddy writeup and GitHub archive document an unofficial ESP8266 friend-distribution badge and companion backpack scoreboard.
Hackaday Supercon 2024
The Supercon 8 edition whose official badge centered on six SAO ports, Raspberry Pi Pico W, MicroPython, I2C experimentation, CH32V003 proto-petals, and a functional SAO contest.
HOPE XV
The 15th Hackers On Planet Earth conference, held July 12-14, 2024, where an ESP32-C3 electronic badge, Badge Clinic, open hardware repository, firmware paths, and MicroPython hacking notes were documented through official HOPE sources.
JawnCon 0x1
The October 11-12, 2024 JawnCon 0x1 edition at Arcadia University's Commons Building, whose official event page and badge write-up document a modem-themed electronic badge for the Philadelphia-area hacker con.
Kernelcon 2024
The April 2-5, 2024 Omaha Kernelcon edition, with the main conference on April 4-5 and an official analog [a]nalyze [i]nternet cable-tester badge.
LayerOne 2024
The May 25-26, 2024 LayerOne Pasadena edition whose official conference post, Hardware Hacking Village page, and public repository documented the POV Spinner electronic conference badge.
Recon Village at DEF CON 32
The 2024 Recon Village badge edition documented by the official Badge Life archive as The Recon Soldier, a multi-layer tactical reconnaissance design with red and blue LED eyes.
RVAsec 2024
The RVAsec 2024 edition whose official package page, layout, and HackRVA repository document limited HackRVA electronic badges, badge hacking context, LCD, three-color LED, D-pad, IR, rotary encoder, audio output, simulator, and game/app firmware.
SAINTCON 2024
The October 22-25, 2024 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official site and MiniBadge trading page documented submitted and official MiniBadges, a public build-guide link, trading-booth hours, and MiniBadge standards.
ToorCamp 2024
The June 26-30, 2024 ToorCamp outdoor hacker camp at Doe Bay Resort & Spa, whose official wiki documents per-attendee Shadybucks wristbands, Shadytel activation, Shady Tag registration, and the Euphoria CTF badge challenge path.
Aerospace Village at DEF CON 33
The DEF CON 33 Aerospace Village edition where the DC32 ADS-B Linux badge hardware returned with new Winglet OS 2.0 software, DC33 SAO support, ADS-B badge accessories, and a SpiderOak Aranya ESP32-S3 workshop badge board.
AvengerCon IX
The 2025 AvengerCon IX edition in Augusta whose official archive and badge page document a conference electronic badge with a built-in four-challenge CTF, CP2102 serial access, coin-cell power, and booth/village unlock-code flow.
Biohacking Village at DEF CON 33
The DEF CON 33 Biohacking Village edition whose public badge page, user guide, and post-event reporting document a Distiller BHV Compute Module 5 badge with local medical-assistant AI, e-ink UI, microphone, buttons, LEDs, and open software branches.
Blacks In Cyber Village at DEF CON 33
The DEF CON 33 Blacks In Cybersecurity Village edition whose official BIC Pick badge page documented a five-year-anniversary Afro-pick commemorative badge, village wearer roles, and on-site DEF CON 33 purchases and trades.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025
The June 7, 2025 Indiana Security BSides edition whose first-hand badge-team writeup documents an attendee badge, badge talk, and CTF challenge path while the public organization repository preserves the badge hardware and firmware archive.
BSidesKC 2025
The April 25-26, 2025 Kansas City Security BSides edition listed by BSides Global, whose Badge Pirates source trail documents a fully electronic ESP32 touchscreen badge order, customs delay, and pickup or shipping fulfillment plan.
BSidesSF 2025
The April 26-27, 2025 San Francisco Security BSides edition whose official Sched archive documents a Hardware Challenge Village hosting a competitive CTF on a badge designed specifically for the village.
BSidesSLC 2025
The April 10-11, 2025 Salt Lake City Security BSides edition whose current official site documents a 2025 E-Badge built on a LilyGO T-Deck S3 with keyboard, trackball, LEDs, ESP32-S3, LoRa, Meshtastic readiness, and later 2026 pickup for remaining stock.
Bug Bounty Village at DEF CON 33
The DEF CON 33 Bug Bounty Village edition whose official BBV Badge 2025 page documented a four-button, four-LED badge challenge tied to Zoom, Intigriti, HackerOne, and CTF.ae challenge inputs.
CactusCon 13
The February 14-15, 2025 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose InfoconDB event record anchors the Mesa Convention Center context and whose Badge Pirates repository preserves the CactusCon 13 badge archive.
DEF CON 33
The 2025 DEF CON edition whose official Mar Williams art badge returned to a non-electronic physical format with layered 3D/lens interactions and an Arts & Entertainment badge challenge.
Hackaday Supercon 2025
The October 31-November 2, 2025 Pasadena Supercon edition whose official Communicator Badge used ESP32-S3, LoRa mesh chat, a custom keyboard, LVGL MicroPython firmware, and public hardware/firmware repositories.
ICS Village at DEF CON 33
The DEF CON 33 ICS Village edition whose FREE-WILi and Intrepid Control Systems sponsored badge tool documented RP2350A, ESP32-C6, sensors, GUI support, USB API, WASM scripting, and Build-A-Badge customization software.
Kernelcon 2025
The April 3-4, 2025 Omaha Kernelcon edition whose official badge site documents the Race Condition Raspberry Pi Pico racing badge and bonus-track activity.
La Villa Hacker 2025
The August 8-10, 2025 Spanish-language hacker-village edition whose official site provides event context and whose Electronic Cats repository documents the La Villa Hacker 2025 badge.
LayerOne 2025
The May 24-25, 2025 LayerOne Pasadena edition whose official event and Hardware Hacking Village pages documented electronic-badge ticketing, HHV badge support, and the GLiTCh BadgE hardware-hacking platform.
Lonely Hackers Club at DEF CON 33
The DEF CON 33 Lonely Hackers Club release window for the limited LHC Meshtastic Badge 2025, with DEF CON pickup, LoRa mesh hardware, preconfigured firmware, and LHC channel context.
Maritime Hacking Village at DEF CON 33
The DEF CON 33 Maritime Hacking Village edition whose official Differential Destroyer badge was OSHWA-certified and published as a Pico 2, maritime-bus, scripting, and voltage-glitching hardware platform.
NolaCon 2025
The May 16-18, 2025 New Orleans hacker conference whose official badge page documented the Patches electronic badge as a Voodoo Heart badge-series continuation and Learn to Solder artifact.
PhreakNIC 26
The November 14-15, 2025 PhreakNIC edition in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, whose official schedule included Tyler Crumpton's electronic shelf-label talk and whose post-event project writeup documents the official PN26 electronic badge.
Rabbit-Labs at DEF CON 33
The DEF CON 33 vendor-booth debut context for the Rabbit-Labs and The Pirates' Plunder collaboration badge, an ESP32-S3 and dual-CC1101 RF badgelife board with public firmware options and pinout notes.
Recon Village at DEF CON 33
The 2025 Recon Village badge edition documented by the official Badge Life archive as The Cyber Owl, a cyberpunk owl design with glowing pink LED eyes.
RVAsec 2025
The June 3-4, 2025 RVAsec 14 edition whose official registration page listed a limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge in the guaranteed hotel package while detailed hardware and firmware sources remain unrecovered.
seeess at DEF CON 33
The DEF CON 33 sales and release context for seeess's Tipsy electronic badge, a community badge sold at the Hacker Warehouse vendor booth with public repository documentation and firmware.
THOTCON 0xD
The May 30-31, 2025 Chicago THOTCON edition whose official site, contests page, Hackaday.io project, and public example repository document an ESP32 touch-wheel electronic badge and badge-hacking contest.
Wild West Hackin' Fest - Deadwood 2025
The October 8-10, 2025 Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood conference at Deadwood Mountain Grand, whose official e-badge page documents the Antisyphon-sponsored electronic badge and MetaCTF badge challenge.
BSides San Diego 2026
The April 4, 2026 America's Finest BSides edition whose official site and badge-challenge page document a Cyberpunk Bunny ESP32 electronic badge with portable CTF, accelerometer, cryptography, BLE co-op, and hidden flag behavior.
BSides Tampa 2026
The May 16, 2026 BSides Tampa edition whose current official pages document USF Marshall Student Center event context, badge-and-lanyard admission materials, an on-site badge challenge, and Uber Badge award-path context.
CactusCon 14
The February 6-7, 2026 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose official site anchors the Mesa event and whose Badge Pirates repository publishes the CactusCon 14 badge hardware design and build archive.
DEF CON 34
The planned August 6-9, 2026 DEF CON edition whose official preregistration copy guarantees an onsite Human badge and whose public media-server badge archive already exposes DC34 electronic SAO electrical and mechanical specifications.
Kernelcon 2026
The April 7-10, 2026 Kernelcon event in Omaha, with the main conference on April 9-10 and an official off-grid ESP32 weather badge with quest and crank-power behavior.
PhreakNIC 27
The planned November 6-7, 2026 PhreakNIC edition, currently seeded only from the public PhreakNIC site and Tyler Crumpton's PN26 project-owner writeup that says a cooler MK.II electronic shelf-label badge is planned for PhreakNIC 27.
RVAsec 2026
The planned June 9-10, 2026 RVAsec 15 edition whose official registration/package pages list a limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge; final shipped hardware, firmware, and image evidence remain future monitoring work.
SECCON 2026
The September 18, 2026 OKC Cybersecurity Conference edition whose official ticket page documents a limited PCB badge with CTFs and features for the first 180 registrants.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
Biohacking Village DC33 Distiller BHV Badge
documented
Local medical-assistant chat workflow
The application repository documents a conversational assistant with local model switching, LLM integration, MCP support, hardware interfaces, and a medical-assistant prompt example.
Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge
source-backed
IOActive key-fob badge / SAO
IOActive's build series documents a key-fob badge / SAO for DEF CON 32 CHV with dsPIC33CK32MP502, CAN transceiver, NeoPixels, touch buttons, IR, 125 kHz RFID receive, and 433 MHz transmit surfaces.
Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge
source-backed
Speedometer SAO challenge
The public CTF archive ties the Speedometer SAO to rock-paper-scissors behavior, CAN messages, firmware reversing, and LCD output used in the challenge.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 Badge
source-backed
Badge challenge applications
The repository includes multiple `badgechal` application files and firmware documentation stating that the custom C modules are required for CTF challenges.
Bug Bounty Village DC33 BBV Badge
historical
CTF.ae onsite and remote leg
The CTF page places the CTF.ae challenge leg online and onsite at the Bug Bounty Village in LVCC room W326, running from August 8 to August 10, 2025.
Rabbit-Labs The Pirates' Plunder Badge
source-backed
32-NeoPixel visual surface
The public pinout and firmware define 32 WS2812B / NeoPixel LEDs on IO21, with firmware files dedicated to pixel behavior.
SAINTCON 2017 Raspberry Pi Badge
source-backed
Raspberry Pi Zero W badge core
The official badge page and manual document a Raspberry Pi Zero W at the center of the badge, paired with a custom SAINTCON board and badge image.
LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
source-backed
VoCore OpenWRT network badge
The second badge is documented around a VoCore/RT5350F module running OpenWRT with Wi-Fi, two Ethernet ports, USB host/storage goals, and heatsink work.
ToorCon 14 RfCat Badge
source-backed
Sub-1 GHz IM-Me radio lineage
The project page says the ToorCon 14 badge used the same radio circuit as the IM-Me, turning IM-Me-style firmware customization into a USB badge workflow.
Rabbit-Labs The Pirates' Plunder Badge
source-backed
Dual CC1101 RF modules
The product page and pinout describe two CC1101 modules, and the firmware maps separate A/B CC1101 SPI and GDO0 pins around a default 433.92 MHz RF workflow.
La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge
source-backed
nRF24L01 radio surface
The top-level README lists NRF24L01 as part of the badge technology stack.
Aerospace Village DC33 ADS-B Badge
source-backed
1090 MHz ADS-B receiver
The badge natively receives and displays nearby aircraft using 1090 MHz ADS-B signals, with an onboard PCB antenna and optional external antenna path.
ToorCon 14 RfCat Badge
source-backed
RfCat interactive Python shell
The badge shipped with RfCat firmware so attendees could connect over micro USB, run `rfcat -r`, and control the sub-1 GHz transceiver from an interactive Python shell.
ToorCon 13 Spectrum Analyzer Badge
source-backed
13-channel 2.4 GHz LED spectrum analyzer
The badge used 13 LEDs to represent the 13 evenly spaced Wi-Fi channels in the 2.4 GHz band, while also detecting Bluetooth, ZigBee, microwave ovens, and other in-band emitters.
Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge
source-backed
Speedometer SAO firmware archive
The public Speedometer SAO firmware repository is MIT-licensed and says it includes CTF problem and notes material built on a display library.
BSides Las Vegas 2019 Participant Badge
source-backed
No-walk-in admission model
The official Join Us page says attendees had to secure a badge ahead of time and that BSidesLV would no longer accept walk-ins for the conference.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
source-backed
1.69bis SAO port and lanyard kit
The hardware list includes one 1.69bis SAO port plus conductive pads, 3.5 mm lead, elastic band, lube, custom lanyard, spare batteries, and battery clip.
DEF CON 34 Badge
pre-event spec
Dual SAO electrical interface
The official DC34 SAO specification documents 3.0 V VDD, 100 mA tested total supply across both SAOs, GPIO pins, I2C devices at 0x3C and 0x19, and mirrored unkeyed 6-pin SAO headers.
ICS Village DC33 FREE-WILi Badge
source-backed
I2C SAO expansion
The badge documentation identifies I2C expansion configured as DEF CON SAO plus USB terminal access for I2C and SAO sensor interfacing.
Aerospace Village DC33 ADS-B Badge
source-backed
SAO I2C/UART/CAN expansion
The badge includes an SAO connector that supports I2C, UART, CAN Bus, and more; the DC33 release explicitly adds Aerospace Village DC33 SAO support.
La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge
source-backed
Shitty Addon connector
The README lists a Shitty Addon connector, making the badge compatible with the wider SAO-style add-on ecosystem.
SAINTCON 2024 MiniBadge Trading Collection
source-backed
I2C MiniBadge message behavior
The MiniBadge standard defines I2C read/write initiation, button, text, score-update, and brightness messages, while warning that microcontrollers need to track state across repeated starts and stops.
SAINTCON 2018 ESP32 Badge
documented
I2C minibadge protocol
The minibadge notes define I2C address coordination plus polling, button, text, pixel, timed-pixel, custom-data, score-update, and brightness-change messages.
Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge
source-backed
CHV CAN SAO connector
The CHV SAO spec provides 3.3 V and ground while replacing normal SAO I2C with CAN TX and CAN RX for vehicle-network add-ons.
SAINTCON 2020 Badge and MiniBadge Kit
source-backed
MiniBadge connector and I2C standard context
The public MiniBadge standard supplies the shared connector and I2C protocol context for SAINTCON MiniBadges, while this 2020 record keeps per-board behavior limited to recovered source evidence.
SAINTCON 2021 MiniBadge Collection
source-backed
MiniBadge connector and I2C standard context
The public MiniBadge standard supplies the shared connector and I2C protocol context for SAINTCON MiniBadges, while this record keeps per-board firmware claims limited to recovered 2021 evidence.
SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge Collection
source-backed
MiniBadge connector and I2C standard context
The public MiniBadge standard supplies the shared connector and I2C protocol context for SAINTCON MiniBadges, but this record does not claim every 2023 entry implemented active I2C behavior.
SAINTCON 2024 MiniBadge Trading Collection
source-backed
MiniBadge connector and voltage standard
The public MiniBadge standard documents +VBATT, 3V3, GND, SDA, SCL, CLK, PROG, and NC pin guidance, including +VBATT voltage caution and do-not-connect rules for reserved pins.
CactusCon 8 Electronic Badge
source-backed
Badge-gated conference access
The official registration pages say the issued badge gave access to all talks and workshops.
DEF CON 28 Safe Mode Badge
historical
Cassette tape badge
The Safe Mode badge was a real cassette tape in a jewel case, with side A/B markings, label art, and audio content that formed part of the challenge.
CarolinaCon 12 Electronic Kit Badge
documented
555 timer light-reactive blinker
The assembly guide documents a 555 timer, photoresistor, capacitor, resistors, LED, AAA battery holder, and wiring; testing confirms the LED blink speed changes with light exposure.
DEF CON 23 Badge
historical
Playable record clue surface
The official badge was a playable vinyl record, making audio playback and record inspection part of the badge-hacking surface instead of firmware or active electronics.
Kernelcon 2023 1337 kHz Radio Badge
source-backed
RF gain and headphone-radio path
The radio badge used RF gain control, a small transistor amp, mono audio sent to both headphone channels, and a hackable AM tuner path.
ToorCamp 2022 Spider Badge
source-backed
Potentiometer darkness threshold
Builders could adjust the potentiometer to control how dark it needed to be before the badge lights turned on.
CarolinaCon Online 2 Conference PCB Badge
source-backed
Electronic badge FAQ framing
The official about page describes the merch bundle as a shirt, electronic badge, and sticker bundle, supporting an electronic-badge classification while leaving component details unknown.
SAINTCON 2021 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
Soldering and puzzle badges
SOLDER LVL2, SOLDER LVL3, SOLDER LVL4, and Puzzle Badge entries document a tiered soldering and puzzle MiniBadge trail designed by Rushan.
SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge Collection
documented
Beginner to intermediate assembly trail
The 2023 data includes through-hole and surface-mount difficulty notes, parts lists, LED/resistor builds, and acquisition guidance, while the official FAQ encourages newcomers to learn MiniBadge design.
SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
Mixed assembly techniques
The guide covers LED orientation, two-position headers, through-hole and SMD soldering, reverse-mount LEDs, RFID sticker placement, motor/fan parts, hot glue, cable-test behavior, and ATTiny programming for selected MiniBadges.
CactusCon 2014 PCB Badge
source-backed
Acrylic, LED, resistor, battery, and lanyard kit
HeatSync Labs brought acrylic backs, coin batteries, LEDs, resistors, and badge lanyards so attendees could solder a working LED badge at the booth.
SAINTCON 2016 ESP8266 LED Badge
documented
Conference-bag badge kit
The assembly guide says attendee conference bags contained the badge PCB, passives, fuses, headers, D1 Mini ESP8266 board, USB battery, and exchange token for HHV display parts.
Ninja Networks DC17 Party Badge
historical
Volunteer soldering sprint
The forum narrative says the team used solder paste, a hotplate, and manual display insertion to finish about 500 functional badges before the party.
WOPR Summit 0x00 Badge
documented
Attendee soldering workflow
Attendees assembled their badges at soldering stations with peer help and minimal official guidance before staff flashed firmware.
ToorCamp 2022 Spider Badge
source-backed
Attendee soldering workflow
The assembly guide steps through resistor, photocell, LED, switch, MOSFET, potentiometer, and battery-holder installation with orientation and test reminders.
SAINTCON 2017 Raspberry Pi Badge
documented
Badge assembly and power kit
The assembly manual documents the LiPo battery, PowerBoost 500C, cable routing, custom board mounting, acrylic shield, screws, standoffs, and lanyard hardware needed to complete the badge.
SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
source-backed
HHV bag-of-components assembly
Hackaday describes attendees receiving a bag of components and assembling the badge in the Hardware Hacking Village soldering environment.
PhreakNIC 26 Electronic Shelf Label Badge
source-backed
QR-backed badge image configurator
A unique 3D-printed QR code on each case led attendees to a configurator for frame selection, name text, size, and position before firmware generation.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
source-backed
Piezo buzzer jingle output
The badge added a piezo buzzer for simple tones, including circus-themed and button-feedback jingles.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
documented
Buzzer and musical tone demos
The public firmware archive includes ToneChaser examples for musical modes while the project writeup documents audio games and badge sound output.
THOTCON 0xA / Infinity Badge
public example
Speaker SoundBoard example
The public archive includes a SoundBoard example mapping sounds to three capacitive touch pads through the XT_DAC_AUDIO library.
BSidesPDX 2020 Presenter LED Mask
source-backed
MAX4466 microphone voice input
The README lists a MAX4466 microphone module, and the firmware samples A0 to choose mouth frames based on detected voice volume.
LayerOne 2018 ESP32 Alexa Badge
source-backed
I2S audio and amplifier path
The event report documents I2S audio hardware, a 2-watt speaker amplifier, and a microphone pre-amplifier for the voice/audio experiment path.
THOTCON 0xA / Infinity Badge
public example
Microphone AudioStreaming example
The README documents the badge microphone, special microphone driver, and AudioStreaming example with netcat/aplay receiver notes.
BSides Tampa 2026 Badge Challenge
source-backed
Uber Badge award path
The official Uber Badge page says badge-challenge victories are one path to a one-of-a-kind Uber Badge with lifetime BSides Tampa admission, but the current registry does not list a 2026 awardee.
Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge
officially documented
Meta CTF badge challenge
The official page links the WWHF 2025 badge CTF to Meta CTF and says challenges could be solved from badge behavior or firmware.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 Badge
source-backed
WS2812B and button interface
The board exposes seven WS2812B RGB LEDs and a button set using IO0 plus a PCA9535 I2C expander for six additional controls.
LayerOne 2018 ESP32 Alexa Badge
source-backed
Blinky Ball SAO add-on
mmca's Hackaday.io log documents an official blinking LayerOne logo add-on for the 2018 L1 badge and its 3.3 V, GPIO2, and ground connector path.
SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
first-hand documented
Blinky expansion board
The first-hand write-up documents a custom blinky board by Luke Jenkins and Klint Holmes that extended the badge-hacking experience.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
source-backed
DOOM SAO and SAO 1.69bis ecosystem
The DOOM SAO log documents an ATSAMD21G18A add-on with ST7789 display, USB-C, serial terminal, bus sniffers, virtual EEPROM identity, and SAO 1.69bis logical integration with DC27 badges.
LayerOne 2019 Voight-Kampff Badge
source-backed
ESP32CAM eye-recognition add-on
Hackaday frames the ESP32CAM eye add-on as the camera and face-recognition surface for the Voight-Kampff human-or-replicant test.
LayerOne 2019 Voight-Kampff Badge
source-backed
Servo eye add-on
The article shows a hobby-servo eye add-on as one of the mechanical extensions for the badge's add-on header.
BSidesPDX 2017 BMD-300 Badge
official schedule
Ox-Vox add-on context
The official speaker page describes Ox-Vox as an add-on for that year's unreleased BSides PDX badge, tying the badge to a pre-release add-on hacking workflow.
SAINTCON 2017 Raspberry Pi Badge
source-backed
MiniBadge add-on ecosystem
The official badge page and manual preserve MiniBadge support, official MiniBadge and unofficial MiniBadge pages, and visible add-on presentation through the attendee badge.
Hackaday Supercon 2016 LED Matrix Badge
historical
Accelerometer gravity simulation
The firmware used the integral accelerometer for gravity-style simulations and input mechanics that sat behind the public puzzle and demo behavior.
BASIC programming environment
The badge exposed an onboard BASIC interpreter with badge-specific commands for display, LED, audio, GPIO, serial, and program storage experiments.
Hackaday Supercon 2017 Camera Badge
historical
Camera capture and film festival
The badge's camera was not decorative: Supercon included a film-festival category for movies and media produced with the badge camera.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 Badge
source-backed
MicroPython app suite
The public app tree includes menu, settings, schedule, Tetris, analog clock, battery monitor, system monitor, and other badge applications.
Hackaday Supercon 2022 Voja4 Badge
source-backed
Voja4 simulated 4-bit CPU
The badge used a 16-bit PIC24FJ256GA704 to simulate a 4-bit educational processor with visible registers, flags, ALU, stack, memory state, and instruction execution.
RVA5sec 2016 Badge
source-backed
Badge CTF challenge hooks
The 2016 interview says the badge focus shifted toward CTF challenges.
BSides San Diego 2026 Cyberpunk Bunny Badge
officially documented
Basic and Advanced crypto CTF tiers
The official guide documents a mystery encrypted message, D-pad decryption-method selection, classic-cipher basics, and advanced Base32, XOR, AES-128, and ChaCha20 challenges.
Kernelcon 2019 K Badge
historical
Binary blink and Docker CTF
The 2019 badge challenges used blinked binary, silkscreen encoding, badge-role variants, SSRF, and a Docker-hosted challenge app.
AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
officially documented
Four-challenge badge CTF
The official badge page says AvengerCon IX's badge carried a small four-challenge CTF contest.
LayerOne 2023 PIC HID Badge
partial archive
RubberDucky 2.0 competition hook
The README says a very partial RubberDucky 2.0 script interpreter is commented out in the code and tied to a single-prize badge competition.
AvengerCon VIII 8-8-8 Badge
source-backed
Scavenger-hunt LED code path
The badge doubled as a scavenger hunt where attendees collected codes to light the LEDs.
Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge
source-backed
Main-badge CTF paths
The public challenge archive documents main-badge CAN enumeration, a physical-inspection flag under the battery pack, random traffic, and a UART Python REPL path.
RVAsec 2018 Badge
source-backed
Badge games and puzzles
HackRVA's recap documents games and puzzles as part of the 2018 hardware badge experience.
SAINTCON 2024 MiniBadge Trading Collection
officially documented
Submitted and official MiniBadges
The official trading page says the build guide covers submitted MiniBadges that people designed and brought to the conference, including all official MiniBadges.
Recon Village DC32 The Recon Soldier Badge
officially documented
Multi-layer Recon Soldier build
The DEF CON 32 entry documents multi-layer PCB construction, a 3D assembled design, and red and blue LED eyes.
BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge
source-backed
Best hacked badge contest
BSidesROC announced a contest for best hacked badge with prizes awarded, tying the reprogrammable badge to on-site modification rather than only event identity.
LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner Badge
source-backed
ATTiny4313 POV spinner core
The Makefile, project files, and flashing command target an ATTiny4313 AVR powering the spinning POV badge firmware.
LayerOne 2019 Voight-Kampff Badge
source-backed
ATtiny2313 badge core
Hackaday describes the base LayerOne 2019 badge as a small ATtiny2313 board rather than an ESP32 badge core.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
source-backed
ATxmega128A4U controller core
The project bill of materials names an Atmel ATxmega128A4U microcontroller as the badge's controller.
LayerOne 2018 ESP32 Alexa Badge
source-backed
ESP32-WROOM-32 badge core
Hackaday identifies the 2018 LayerOne badge around an ESP32-WROOM-32 module with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-capable microcontroller hardware.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 Badge
source-backed
ESP32-WROVER-E-N8R8 core
The hardware specification identifies the ESP32-WROVER-E-N8R8 as the badge controller with 240 MHz dual-core CPU, 8 MB flash, and 8 MB SPI RAM.
GrrCON 2024 BadgeBuddy
source-backed
ESP8266 BadgeBuddy core
The first-hand writeup and public firmware document an ESP8266 badge that advertises `BadgeBuddy` while scanning nearby WiFi networks.
LayerOne 2023 PIC HID Badge
source-backed
PIC16F1455 USB core
The README names a PIC16F1455 badge core, and the firmware configures USB clocking, interrupts, generic HID, and keyboard HID behavior.
LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
source-backed
PSoC4 ESP8266 LED badge
The Hackaday.io project describes a battery-powered blinky badge using PSoC4, ESP8266 Wi-Fi, WS2812B LEDs, I/O ports, and 3.3 V logic with LED level-shifting work.
LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
source-backed
PSoC4 LED badge core
The project description lists PSoC 4 as the controller for the 2016 badge platform.
LayerOne 2017 CAN Bus Badge
source-backed
STM32F4 badge core
The badge-team details page names STM32F446/F405/F415-class LQFP64 support as the controller direction for the 2017 badge.
SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
High-scale MiniBadge trading culture
The official FAQ says average yearly MiniBadge volume is well over 17,000 and that roughly 8-10 percent of attendees bring their own MiniBadges to trade.
NolaCon 2025 Patches Badge
officially documented
Customizable Patches build
The official page invites attendees to make each Patches badge unique with interchangeable limbs, LED choices, and personal flair.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
source-backed
MicroSD Bring Your Own Bling
The BYOB log documents using the microSD card for custom RAW 16-bit 565 bling assets, including ffmpeg conversion and the `/SDCard/BLING/` folder workflow.
Recon Village DC33 The Cyber Owl Badge
officially documented
Cyber Owl LED eyes
The DEF CON 33 entry documents a cyberpunk owl design with glowing pink LED eyes, detailed mechanical artwork, and metallic blue-gray finish.
Recon Village DC27 The Skull Badge
officially documented
LED-eye skull PCB
The DEF CON 27 entry documents a skull-shaped PCB with steampunk mechanical design and LED eye illumination.
Recon Village DC25 The Original Badge
officially documented
Original spy silhouette
The official archive identifies The Original as the first Recon Village badge and foundation of the village badge tradition.
Recon Village DC30 The Radar Badge
officially documented
Radar and world-map theme
The DEF CON 30 entry documents a circular radar design with world-map overlay, compass markings, and coordinate markings.
GrrCON 2024 BadgeBuddy
source-backed
8x8 LED matrix animation
The badge used an 8x8 LED matrix for bouncing-pixel animation and a falling-code pattern once enough nearby BadgeBuddy networks were detected.
SAINTCON 2016 ESP8266 LED Badge
documented
MAX7219 and dual 4-digit LED modules
The HHV exchange path provided a MAX7219 LED driver IC and two 4-digit LED modules, with the BOM and soldering notes documenting sockets, headers, display color options, and resistor selection.
La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge
source-backed
OLED display interface
The README lists an OLED display as the badge's attendee-facing display surface.
Hackaday Supercon 2016 LED Matrix Badge
source-backed
8x16 LED matrix display
The red 128-LED matrix was the main visual surface for animations, gravity simulation, messages, Tetris, challenge feedback, and blinky badge hacks.
DEF CON 15 Badge
source-backed
95-LED scrolling text matrix
The badge used a 5-by-19 LED matrix for user-customizable vertically scrolling text, with a default DEFCON 15 message and separate text-entry and scroll-speed states.
Queercon 16 Q Badge
source-backed
E-paper and RGB light board
The badge combined a 2.9-inch 128x296 eInk screen, six side-view RGB LEDs beside the display, and twelve additional full-color edge LEDs.
THOTCON 0xA / Infinity Badge
source-backed
Six position-mapped LEDs
The README maps six LED outputs to left ear, left eye, left mustache, right ear, right eye, and right mustache positions.
CarolinaCon 12 Electronic Kit Badge
source-backed
Admission-included electronic kit
The official event page says the small electronic badge kit was included with the admission price and contained basic components plus batteries.
BSides Las Vegas 2019 Participant Badge
source-backed
Participant, donor, sponsor, volunteer, and speaker badge paths
The Registration FAQ documents room-block participant badges plus donor, sponsor, volunteer, speaker, student, local, and other badge-allocation paths, with separate on-site badge-type queues.
CactusCon 2014 PCB Badge
source-backed
Three-hundred-board PCB giveaway
The first-hand writeup says 300 CactusCon PCB badges were made and given away at the HeatSync Labs booth.
ToorCamp 2022 Spider Badge
source-backed
Light-sensing spider-eye circuit
The quick guide documents a photocell, potentiometer, MOSFET, resistors, battery holder, and four LEDs used to light the spider eyes based on darkness level.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
source-backed
Add-on header
Hackaday.io documents an exposed add-on header as part of the badge's expansion and badgelife compatibility surface.
LayerOne 2019 Voight-Kampff Badge
source-backed
Five-pin add-on header
Hackaday documents a five-pin add-on header carrying power, PWM, and I2C for the 2019 badge's expansion boards.
LayerOne 2018 ESP32 Alexa Badge
documented
GPIO breakout hacking surface
The event report notes GPIO breakout pads for attendee hacking and experimenting beyond the default badge behavior.
CypherCon 2017 Cube Badge
historical
USB terminal text adventure
Connecting a terminal over USB exposed a text adventure about scavenging parts to rebuild a relay-based computer in a missile silo.
DEF CON 33 Badge
source-backed
Non-electronic physical art format
Public creator material says DC33 was a non-electronic badge year, making optical interaction and material design the documented hack surface instead of firmware.
DEF CON 31 Badge
source-backed
Non-electronic physical badge format
The official call for badge designers stated that DC31 would return to a non-electronic physical badge after two consecutive electronic badge years.
Kernelcon 2025 Race Condition Badge
source-backed
Achievements and CTF flag unlocks
The official about page documents eight achievement levels that unlocked LED patterns and CTF flags.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
source-backed
B.E.N.D.E.R. console challenge
The ARG and retrospective logs describe the Badge Enabled Non Directive Enigma Routine as a serial text-adventure challenge spanning hardware hacking, reverse engineering, cryptography, wireless capture, badge actions, and social collaboration.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
source-backed
B.E.N.D.E.R. v2.0
The walkthrough documents Badge Enabled Non Directive Enigma Routine v2.0 as an embedded text-adventure challenge involving software exploitation, firmware clues, hardware interfaces, crypto, radio, and social steps.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
source-backed
Contra laser-tag badge game
Rehrig describes the 0xC badge theme as Contra and the core functionality as a conference-wide laser-tag game.
DEF CON 32 Badge
archived
GB Studio badge game
The public DEFCON 32 Badge Game repository contains GB Studio project files and graphical assets for the badge's LVCC-themed game.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
source-backed
HugQuest HUG-token game
HugQuest v1.5 stores HUG tokens, supports mining and sending HUGs, tracks names, and displays token state through the SMART Response XE interface.
DC503 Wagon Party Badge
source-backed
Hunter and Bender minigame
The hunt loop moves a hunter sprite, tracks laser direction from input pins, draws a Bender sprite, and increments score on hits.
RVAsec 2019 Badge
source-backed
Laser Tag and base stations
The 2019 badge post documents base-station laser-tag behavior and point collection plans.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
documented
Stroop-effect color game
The README describes a Stroop-effect color game where positive or negative shock reinforcement can be configured before play.
DC503 Wagon Party Badge
source-backed
Wagon animation and mileage mode
The wagon loop draws wagon and mountain sprites, prints the current banner, and increments a displayed score in miles.
BSidesKC 2019 Conference Badge
source-backed
Wi-Fi beacon exploration game
The conference badge game used Wi-Fi beacons scattered around Plexpod Westport for attendee discovery and exploration.
THOTCON 0x8 Badge
historical
tesserHack 8x8x8 maze firmware
Stock firmware challenged attendees to navigate an 8x8x8 maze using the three potentiometers for Z, X, and Y movement.
RVAs3c 2014 Badge
source-backed
IR and LCD game surface
Official preview material documents IR, LCD, LED, audio, and input surfaces intended for badge applications and games.
RVAsec 2019 Badge
source-backed
Badge Monsters and Maze
HackRVA documented Badge Monsters and Maze as 2019 badge activities.
CarolinaCon 12 Electronic Kit Badge
source-backed
Arduino-compatible protoboard expansion
The event page says the badge had enough protoboard area for Arduino Micro or Nano compatible boards, with Arduino Micro compatible boards and boost converters available as donation rewards.
RV4sec 2015 Badge
source-backed
Reset-header development option
The 2015 build post documents unpopulated surface-mount pads and a reset-header option for connecting into the board.
RVA5sec 2016 Badge
source-backed
Standard USB reflashing
HackRVA described standard USB as a way to make post-event reflashing easier.
RVAs3c 2014 Badge
planned/source-backed
USB bootloader goal
The preview describes a bootloader and micro-USB programming path as a goal for post-event hacking.
The Diana Initiative 2020 Off-the-Shelf Virtual Badge
source-backed
Push-button interaction
The build guide lists a button and 10K resistor, and the Arduino examples include button-reading behavior for the workshop badge exercises.
BSides San Diego 2026 Cyberpunk Bunny Badge
officially documented
Shake-triggered hacker oracle
The badge's onboard accelerometer triggers hacker-themed Magic 8-Ball responses when the attendee gives it a firm shake.
Queercon 16 Q Badge
source-backed
Custom membrane keyboard
The Q badge used a full-color custom membrane keyboard with embossed keys, LED windows, and a layout tailored to the conference ARG.
THOTCON 0xA / Infinity Badge
source-backed
Five capacitive touch pads
The README maps five capacitive touch pads to right, up, left, down, and select controls.
Lonely Hackers Club DC33 Meshtastic Badge
documented
Badge pairing and QR reveal
The official page describes pairing with other LHC badges, after which the badge reveals a QR code on the Meshtastic channel.
RVAsec 2013 Badge
source-backed
Infrared badge play
Official sources document IR communication and badge-to-badge game behavior in the 2013 badge lineage.
LayerOne 2023 PIC HID Badge
source-backed
Keyboard HID output
The USB descriptor and keyboard source expose a keyboard HID interface, scan-code conversion, report sending, and button-triggered output including the default `LayerOne 2023` string.
DEF CON 17 Badge
source-backed
Sound-reactive Party mode
In Party mode, the badge's RGB LED reacted to audio input volume and frequency from the onboard amplified MEMS microphone.
DEF CON 15 Badge
source-backed
Capacitive touch and POV modes
Two QT100 capacitive sensors controlled the five operating states, including text display, text entry, scroll-speed selection, persistence-of-vision, and sleep.
Bug Bounty Village DC33 BBV Badge
source-backed
Four-button LED challenge interface
The official badge page says the BBV Badge 2025 has four buttons with four corresponding LEDs, and the visible goal is to light all four LEDs.
Rabbit-Labs The Pirates' Plunder Badge
source-backed
OLED, joystick, and SDIO interface
Rabbit-Labs and repository sources document a 1 inch I2C OLED, five-way directional switch, UART flashing pins, and SD card reader configured for SDIO mode.
Maritime Hacking Village DC33 Differential Destroyer
source-backed
SAO, display, and sensor surface
The badge combines a TFT display, joystick, buttons, NeoPixels, accelerometer, SAO connector, SD card, battery charging, and status LEDs around the maritime protocol circuitry.
BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus Badge
source-backed
128x64 OLED and five-way d-pad
The hardware source documents a 128x64 I2C OLED using SH1106 or SSD1309 plus a five-way d-pad for badge navigation.
SAINTCON 2018 ESP32 Badge
documented
8x32 LED matrix menu
The badge uses an 8x32 LED matrix and three buttons to show SAINTCON, a custom message, Hacker Challenge score, Hacker Challenge ID, brightness, Wi-Fi status/configuration, and minibadge controls.
AND!XOR DC28 Badge
source-backed
BlackBerry Q10 keyboard controls
The RTFM documents SYM/ALT key chords for movement, quit/back, delete, special characters, and Bling Rager mode on the BlackBerry keyboard interface.
CactusCon 2017 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Scanner Badge
source-backed
Bluetooth MAC-address scrolling display
The writeup says the badge's first screen scrolled Bluetooth device MAC addresses.
BSidesPDX 2016 ATTiny85 Badge
source-backed
Capacitive-sense inputs
The firmware imports CapacitiveSensor and defines two capacitive sensors across pins 3/2 and 3/4, with capacitive readings changing the alternate animation resolution.
Biohacking Village DC33 Distiller BHV Badge
documented
E-ink and physical-button user interface
The BHV guide describes a non-touch e-ink main display, left-side up/down buttons, right-side enter button, and e-ink drivers controlled through the microcontroller and Raspberry Pi 5 side.
CactusCon 12 Badge
source-backed
Five buttons, dual rotary dials, and OLED display path
KiCad comments and schematic sheets document five input buttons, two rotary dials, two SPI OLED paths, and an I2C OLED path.
BSidesSLC 2025 E-Badge
source-backed
Keyboard, trackball, and LED interface
The official hardware description lists a keyboard, trackball, and 25 LEDs as attendee-facing interaction surfaces.
SAINTCON 2015 Wi-Fi Show Badge
source-backed
LCD and button interface
The Cisco write-up says the badge included a roughly 2.25 inch LCD screen plus several buttons for attendee interaction.
THOTCON 0x8 Badge
source-backed
LED compass maze feedback
The four RGB LEDs represented open pathways, portals, keys, and wall/death states around the player's current maze position.
BSidesPDX 2017 BMD-300 Badge
source-backed
OLED and navigation interface
The BOM lists an OLED screen and two navigation switches, while the Eagle files expose I2C display/front connector paths and switch wiring.
Hackbat DEF CON 32 Badge
source-backed
OLED and six-button handheld layout
The documentation describes a Game Boy-like badge layout with OLED display and six push buttons for attendee interaction.
SAINTCON 2017 Raspberry Pi Badge
documented
PiTFT and SNES-style controls
Official sources describe a 2.8-inch TFT display plus SNES D-pad and buttons, while the assembly manual documents the PiTFT Plus 320x240 display and button-board hardware.
DEF CON 30 Badge
historical
Playable synthesizer keyboard
The badge operated as a playable musical keyboard and synthesizer with instrument behavior, display, speaker, and challenge mode tied to note entry.
CactusCon 11 Badge
source-backed
RGB LEDs, NeoPixels, red drone LED, and five buttons
The hardware writeup documents two reverse-mount RGB LEDs, three individually addressable RGB NeoPixels, one reverse-mount red LED, and five input buttons.
BSidesPDX 2018 ATTiny861 Badge
source-backed
SAO, SPI, USB, and switch pins
The firmware README maps SAO SDA/SCL, SPI MOSI/MISO/SCK, USB D-/D+, left/right switches, RGB PWM, and row outputs for badge hacking.
CactusCon 14 Badge
source-backed
SPI TFT touch interface and input buttons
The CAD archive and schematic-sheet names preserve screen and control surfaces, including an SPI TFT with touch and input-button hardware context.
CactusCon 13 Badge
source-backed
SPI TFT touch, buttons, and rotary dial
The Project-CC13 board comments identify an SPI TFT with touch, two input buttons, and one rotary dial.
BSidesPDX 2015 Badger Badge
source-backed
Tail, foot, nose, and RGB eye LEDs
The firmware maps monochrome tail, back-foot, front-foot, and nose LEDs plus one RGB eye LED and groups them for badge display modes.
BSidesPDX 2016 ATTiny85 Badge
source-backed
Thirty-six yellow 0603 LEDs
The BOM lists D1-D35 plus DNOSE as 36 yellow 0603 LEDs, while the schematic preserves the LED array around PWM0 and PWM1 control nets.
BSidesPDX 2018 ATTiny861 Badge
source-backed
Twelve icon LEDs and four RGB LEDs
The BOM lists 12 yellow LEDs and four RGB LEDs, while `led_mapping.csv` maps icon LEDs including mountain, coffee, rain, bridge, sasquatch, book, train, beard, bike, donut, rose, and beer.
CactusCon 2017 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Scanner Badge
source-backed
Wi-Fi SSID and signal display
After troubleshooting, the badge displayed visible Wi-Fi SSIDs and signal strength in the attendee writeup.
BSides Orlando 2018 Discrete Marquee Badge
source-backed
Discrete marquee attendee kit
Jonathan Singer's Hackaday.io project classifies the badge as a simple discrete marquee badge given to BSides Orlando attendees as a kit.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
source-backed
IS31FL3736 Bender eye lighting
The retrospective and Hackaday review describe the switch from WS2812B pixels to an IS31FL3736 common-anode RGB LED driver controlling 31 RGB LEDs plus screen LEDs around the Bender eye artwork.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
source-backed
IS31FL3741 LED matrix and light pipes
The project page documents HQ19-2333RGBC RGB LEDs, an IS31FL3741 controller, full LED matrix behavior, LED-backlit light pipes, and glow-in-the-dark capacitive-touch presentation.
CactusCon 12 Badge
source-backed
WS2812B LED archive
The CactusCon 12 board archive preserves WS2812B LED footprints and LED schematic material.
CactusCon 14 Badge
source-backed
WS2812B LED archive
The LED schematic and board archive preserve WS2812B lighting evidence for the CactusCon 14 badge hardware.
ToorCon 13 Spectrum Analyzer Badge
source-backed
CR2032 sleep/wake and self-test workflow
The project page documents CR2032 power, power-on LED self-test, button wake/sleep behavior, automatic sleep after several minutes, and a low-battery reset symptom.
SAINTCON 2020 Badge and MiniBadge Kit
first-hand documented
Shipped virtual-edition badge package
DC540 first-hand coverage documents that a SAINTCON 2020 badge package arrived for the virtual edition and included the badge itself.
BSidesSF 2022 Hardware Village Badge
source-backed
Arduino IDE rubber-ducky workflow
The official village description says participants could program the badge through Arduino IDE to send automated keystrokes for harmless rubber-ducky experiments.
BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus Badge
source-backed
Controller genfiles and flash workflow
The Trick-or-Treat README points to controller code for generating game files and flashing badge-specific storage contents.
ToorCon 20 Official Badge
source-backed
8-bit art and hidden code surface
The log says the badge carried 8-bit art plus many codes in many places while withholding the exact meanings and Gerber artwork.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
source-backed
LULZCODE badge scripting
The LULZCODE log describes a LOLCODE-derived badge language extended for microcontroller peripherals, with high memory usage that drove the ESP32-WROVER external-RAM choice.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
source-backed
TCLish scripting and GPIO
The scripting log documents TCLish language support plus badge-specific graphics, LED, button, timing, file, and GPIO commands for day-one badge hacking.
LayerOne 2019 Voight-Kampff Badge
partial archive
ATtiny and ESP32CAM source trail
The public CharlieX repository preserves ATtiny source material for the badge and documents ESP32 camera-board firmware context without treating the camera board as the main badge controller.
RVAsec 2022 Badge
source-backed
Badge apps and games
The app tree includes Badge Monsters, Maze, Lunar Lander, Smashout, Spacetripper, Slot Machine, Cube, Game of Life, Ghost Detector, Hacking Simulator, and other app examples.
LayerOne 2017 CAN Bus Badge
partial archive
CAN logger and emulator experiments
The development logs describe CAN logging, ECU reflashing experiments, J2534-adjacent PC software, NES emulator memory access over CAN, and PC-versus-badge gameplay ideas.
LayerOne 2018 ESP32 Alexa Badge
partial archive
ESP32 Alexa source trail
The linked CharlieX repository preserves an ESP32 Alexa experiment source trail derived from MakerAsia work, which the catalogue records without claiming a complete deployed production voice-assistant service.
RVAsec 2024 Badge
source-backed
Expanded 2024 app tree
The app tree includes AA Gunner, Badgey, Battlezone, Clue, Moon Patrol, Rover Adventure, Tank vs Tank, and other badge apps/games.
RVAsec 2023 Badge
source-backed
Expanded badge games
The repository includes Asteroids, Battlezone, Clue, Pong, Tank vs Tank, Magic 8 Ball, Badge Monsters, Maze, and other apps/games.
RVAsec 2012 Badge
source-backed
Four-button text and code input
The release firmware maps four P2 inputs to up/down/left/right behavior, text entry, logo selection strings, an elite LED state, and a Konami-style `99 LIVES!` path.
LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
documented
UDP RGB drive path
The project details say PSoC routines were back-ported from a PC lightserver and left able to receive patterns or blocks of RGB values over UDP from another Wi-Fi device.
LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
partial archive
Wi-Fi controlled LED behavior
The all-at-once log reports that the LEDs were being controlled from a PC over Wi-Fi after ESP8266 orientation, reset, GPIO, noisy-power, and capacitance debugging.
DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
source-backed
Bluetooth recon scanner
The README calls the Banglet a fully functional Bluetooth recon device, and the main firmware starts scanner behavior while advertising a BLEUART service.
DC503 Wagon Party Badge
source-backed
Three-mode firmware shell
The main loop cycles between wagon, hunt, and party modes when the mode input changes, keeping the badge centered on local interactive display behavior.
CypherCon 2017 Cube Badge
historical
Vintage time-sharing emulator
After the relay-computer game path, the badge became an emulator for a vintage time-sharing operating system where attendees could write code.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
source-backed
CP2102N USB serial console
The retrospective and Hackaday review document the micro-USB CP2102N path used to expose the serial console for the B.E.N.D.E.R. game after the DC25 wireless terminal experience.
THOTCON 0x8 Badge
source-backed
USB serial map and help menu
USB serial access at 9600 baud exposed tesserHack map and help views for playing the maze with clearer coordinate feedback.
AND!XOR DC24 Bender Badge
source-backed
USB serial terminal and shell
Hackaday documented USB CDC serial behavior at 115200 baud and a terminal mode, while project logs describe a shell for badge control and extra interactions.
JawnCon 0x1 Modem Badge
officially documented
Hayes SmartModem industrial design
The official write-up identifies the Hayes SmartModem as the badge's visual and command-set inspiration for the late-1980s/early-1990s event theme.
ShmooCon 2018 WiFi Rocket Badge
attendee-reported
Battery-powered WiFi signal meter
The badge was described by an attendee as a practical, battery-powered WiFi signal-strength meter rather than a decorative-only blinky.
Recon Village DC31 The Spy Silhouette Badge
officially documented
Speaker badge and lanyard variant
The DEF CON 31 entry documents LED illumination, a speaker badge variant, and a custom Recon Village lanyard.
Recon Village DC26 The Dual Design Badge
officially documented
Dual spy and skull variants
The DEF CON 26 entry documented two badge designs: the classic spy silhouette and a detailed skull variant.
BSidesKC 2019 Conference Badge
source-backed
Six role and color badge variants
Badge Pirates documents participant, speaker, organizer, volunteer, sponsor, and pirate badge designs for the 2019 BSidesKC badge family.
SAINTCON 2019 Enigma Badge
historical
Twenty-six-badge Enigma ring
The creator write-up says each badge represented one of 26 rotor notches and that attendees connected rings of 26 badges to receive and advance challenge messages.
Hackaday Supercon 2016 LED Matrix Badge
source-backed
Infrared UART badge protocol
The IR transmitter and TSOP receiver used a UART-oriented protocol with per-badge serial addressing, enabling challenges and user programs to exchange data optically.
Hackaday Supercon 2025 Communicator Badge
source-backed
LoRa topic-channel mesh chat
Hackaday and the firmware README document badges joining topic channels, sending LoRa messages, and repeating received frames with TTL limits across nearby badges.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
source-backed
BOTNET badge-to-badge game
The BOTNET log describes a badge-only wireless game where activated badges could act as badge-net repeaters while players managed services, firewalls, exploits, points, XP, and attacks against other AND!XOR badges.
NilbinSec DC33 Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots
source-backed
Robot-fighting badge game
The product and forum sources describe a main badge that uses onboard controls and supports robot fights against other badges.
BSides San Diego 2026 Cyberpunk Bunny Badge
officially documented
BLE co-op and hidden shaking sequence
The guide documents Bluetooth LE co-op mode for interacting with other attendees plus a secret shaking-sequence Easter egg tied to an ultimate flag and rainbow bunny-eye goal.
DEF CON 26 Badge
historical
Badge-to-badge unlock connector
The bottom connector enabled inter-badge progress, with public notes documenting Human-to-Human and Human-to-Goon interactions that changed movement or game state.
HOPE XV Electronic Badge
source-backed
IR blast and vibration interaction
The wiki says the fourth button sends an IR blast to nearby badges, making their lights flash and motor vibrate.
BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus Badge
source-backed
IR transceiver clue/contact trade
The badge docs describe IR exchanges that send clue and contact information, receive someone else's card/contact data, and verify cryptographic signatures on clues.
DEF CON 16 Badge
historical
Infrared SD-card file transfer
The DEF CON 16 badge could transfer attendee-selected files from an SD card to another badge over infrared, creating a PDA-style social exchange mechanic.
DEF CON 20 Badge
historical
Infrared encounter graph
Badges communicated over infrared and could report encountered badge identities through a serial terminal, turning attendee movement and mingling into puzzle state.
CypherCon 2017 Cube Badge
source-backed
Mesh badge code deployment
Hackaday frames the Cube as a mesh network of badges and says code written inside the emulated environment could be deployed to other badges.
AND!XOR DC24 Bender Badge
source-backed
RFM69W 433 MHz social radio
The badge used an RFM69W module and 433 MHz coil antenna for peer/chat and social radio behavior, with project logs documenting radio startup failures and bootloader timing fixes.
Queercon 16 Q Badge
historical
RJ12 Q/C badge token exchange
An RJ12 6P6C connector and cable linked Q and C badges so attendees could exchange digital tokens and advance the ARG across badge types.
DEF CON 17 Badge
source-backed
Wired badge-to-badge communication
The badge included multi-badge communication through a wired interface, and the role shapes also formed a seven-piece physical puzzle.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
source-backed
BOTNET Bluetooth mesh
The project page describes an IoT Bluetooth mesh where badges connected over USB serial could join the conference network and remotely execute badge commands within the badge-game framing.
DEF CON 21 Badge
historical
Mechanical Uber badge watch
WIRED documented the black Uber badge as a more elaborate artifact with a hand-assembled mechanical watch, exposed aging copper, and one-time-pad puzzle relevance.
Aerospace Village DC33 Aranya ESP32 Badge Board
source-backed
Qwiic, microSD, and USB-C interfaces
The official workshop hardware summary and repository README document USB-C, two Qwiic ports, a microSD slot, battery management, and battery connector support.
CactusCon 2014 PCB Badge
source-backed
LAN tap arm and leg boards
The badge outline was designed so the arms and legs could be broken out or used as LAN taps.
CactusCon 2014 PCB Badge
source-backed
USB 3.0 breakout head
The writeup describes the badge head as a USB 3.0 breakout section.
GrrCON 2024 BadgeBuddy
source-backed
Header-and-socket construction
The component notes describe socketed LED matrices and ESP8266 modules, header-pin quantities, 3xAA battery testing, USB power as a fallback, and a stated USD 9.44 per-badge cost.
SAINTCON 2024 MiniBadge Trading Collection
source-backed
Programming pinout guidance
The standard reserves PROG pins for builder use and lists optional AVR ISP, ST-Link SWD, PIC ICSP, and UART pin mappings.
Hackaday Supercon 2024 SAO Badge
source-backed
Starter petal collection
Hackaday documented four included starter petals: capacitive touch wheel, spiral LED petal matrix, blank protoboard, and CH32V003 I2C microcontroller proto-petal.
ToorCamp 2024 Shadybucks Wristband
source-backed
Shady Tag handle
The Euphoria CTF page directs players to register a Shady Tag at the Shadytel Experience Center before starting the badge challenge.
ToorCamp 2018 Badge
source-backed
Jar-of-fireflies assembly kit
The badge page documents assembly into a regular-mouth canning jar with a CR2032 holder, six LEDs, resistors, and an MSP430G2211 controller.
SAINTCON 2020 Badge and MiniBadge Kit
first-hand documented
Hackers Challenge CTF badge context
The DC540 write-up ties the package to HC CTF badge material, but this record does not infer unrecovered challenge hardware, firmware, or scoring details.
BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
attendee-reported
Pre-installed clue and badge-to-badge exchange
The same attendee report says each badge arrived with one pre-installed clue and could connect to other badges so participants could exchange clues while solving puzzles, ciphers, games, and hacks.
AvengerCon VIII 8-8-8 Badge
source-backed
Hack-the-badge bypass path
The same public source says participants could hack the badge and bypass the contest altogether.
SAINTCON 2019 Enigma Badge
historical
Commander badge progression
The write-up documents special Commander badges used by SAINTCON Committee members to help Agent rings progress through later challenge stages.
SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
first-hand documented
Hidden Hacker Challenge code secret
Datko says Matt Lorimer found one of the SAINTCON secrets by examining the badge source code, tying the badge to the Hacker Challenge trail.
SAINTCON 2021 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
Hackers Challenge and contest MiniBadges
Hackers Challenge, Tamper Evident, Scavenger Hunt, Vault Badge, and HACK-IN-THE-BOX entries preserve reward paths tied to game masters, contest completion, enough collected items, or event participation.
SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
Hackers Challenge and game MiniBadges
The guide includes Hackers Challenge, HACK-letter, Scavenger Hunt, and other game-adjacent MiniBadges with acquisition paths tied to game masters, challenge completion, or BadgeLife community interaction.
DEF CON 23 Badge
historical
Nyctograph and Gold Bug lanyards
The badge challenge used six lanyards carrying Lewis Carroll Nyctograph symbols and Poe Gold Bug cipher material that translated into early-stage secret messages.
Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge
attendee-documented
BLE and serial puzzle surfaces
The teardown documents 115200-baud serial output, BLE-readable messages, hash clues, and firmware strings analyzed with Ghidra.
Hackaday Supercon 2018 Retrocomputer Badge
historical
Badge-hacking project gallery
The curated Hackaday.io list preserved attendee-built cases, Atari and Apple-like emulators, games, music, QR generation, Morse code, Bluetooth chat, and plotter firmware hacks.
DEF CON 12 Forum Badge
documented
Extra forum-member identity badge
The thread clarifies that the forum badge was a separate extra badge for forum-member recognition, not a sticker or overlay for the official DEF CON badge.
SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge Collection
documented
2023 event and community MiniBadges
The 2023 data export includes event and community entries such as RFID Rocket, Minibadge Community Badge, LAN Party, Hardware Hacking, Fox Hunt, The Keep, and Hallway Talks.
DEF CON 25 Badge
historical
Unofficial badgelife breakout
Hackaday documented thousands of custom DEF CON 25 hardware badges, a badge-maker meetup, and shared API work among makers, making the simple official badge historically important by contrast.
DEF CON 32 Badge
historical
Custom Game Boy ROM experiments
Community ROM work showed the badge running custom Game Boy ROM code and controlling all nine LEDs beyond the default controls.
SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
Community booth MiniBadges
The guide lists AppSec, Circuit Assembly, Hardware Hacking, Healthcare, HomeLabs, IoT, Lockpicking, RFID/NFC, Scavenger Hunt, SMD Challenge, and Learn 2 Solder style badges acquired through community areas, booths, challenges, or presentations.
SAINTCON 2021 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
Community participation MiniBadges
The official page documents Red Team Community, RFID/NFC, Hardware Community, Lock Picking, Tin Foil Hat Talks, and related MiniBadges with acquisition tied to community events or interaction.
BIC Village DC33 BIC Pick Badge
source-backed
Volunteer, leader, and supporter wearer roles
The BIC Pick page says the badge can be spotted on village volunteers, leaders, and supporters throughout the con.
GrrCON 2024 BadgeBuddy
source-backed
Backpack of Shame companion
The same project archive includes a backpack-mounted open access point and four-matrix scoreboard that counted unique connecting clients during the conference.
RVAsec 2017 Badge
source-backed
Badge Intro context
InfoconDB preserves Badge Intro context for the 2017 event, tying the artifact to attendee-facing badge material.
RVAsec 2021 Badge
source-backed
Badge Intro session
InfoconDB preserves a Badge Intro session on the RVAsec 2021 schedule.
Kernelcon 2022 Watch Badge
source-backed
Hard-coded Wi-Fi configuration
The README says Wi-Fi settings are hard-coded and must be updated in wifi.h before building the watch firmware.
SAINTCON 2018 ESP32 Badge
documented
Wi-Fi configuration access point
The badge README and firmware document a Wi-Fi configuration mode where the badge displays an SSID and password, then hosts a configuration flow for network settings and the custom message.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
source-backed
Wi-Fi node, IRC, and serial interfaces
Returning badge features included capacitive touch buttons, 2.4 GHz connectivity mostly as a Wi-Fi node, remote connectivity via IRC, and a serial interface.
BSidesKC 2019 Conference Badge
historical
Challenge Accepted contest SAO
Challenge solvers could receive a Challenge Accepted SAO; the writeup says only two were awarded, one for crypto and one for the counterfeit-badge contest.
SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge Collection
documented
2023 contest and challenge MiniBadges
The 2023 data export lists contest-category entries including Lockpick Village, Tamper Evidence, and Hackers Challenge records, preserving acquisition routes tied to challenge activity.
BSidesSLC 2025 E-Badge
documented
2026 remaining-stock pickup
The official site offers remaining 2025 E-Badges through 2026 ticketing and instructs buyers to pick them up at the April 2026 conference.
ToorCamp 2024 Shadybucks Wristband
source-backed
Euphoria CTF badge challenge
The Euphoria CTF page says the first challenge is on the badge after Shady Tag registration at the Shadytel Experience Center.
ICS Village DC33 FREE-WILi Badge
released
Build-A-Badge customizer
The Build-A-Badge software lets users choose images, configure LED patterns, set a badge name, program the device, and upload WASM applications.
Hackaday Remoticon.2 DIY Badge
source-backed
Builder-supplied electronics path
Hackaday described the badge as a prototyping board or PCB canvas where builders removed the placeholder grid and added electronics they had on hand.
BSidesPDX 2017 BMD-300 Badge
source-backed
SWD, UART, I2C, and header breakout
The Eagle schematic and board preserve SWD, UART, I2C display/front connectors, jumpers, and a four-pin right-angle header for badge hacking and add-on work.
BSidesPDX 2016 ATTiny85 Badge
source-backed
Six-pin programming and signal header
The schematic maps J1 to VCC, GND, RST, PWM0, PWM1, CAP0, and CAP1-related nets, preserving a six-pin header trail for programming or badge hacking.
LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE
documented
CMSIS-DAP and SWD debug mode
DAP mode presents the badge as a CMSIS-DAP probe for pyOCD, OpenOCD, Keil, and SWD target debugging while keeping a CLI serial interface available.
DEF CON 31 Badge
archived
Official add-on design pack
The DEF CON media server published badge add-on specifications and test-fit assets for building physical customizations around the DC31 badge.
Kernelcon 2024 [a]nalyze [i]nternet Badge
historical
LAN cable tester remote
The badge tested cable continuity and ordering through head and remote LED banks while activities showed how to make the remote removable.
Aerospace Village DC33 ADS-B Badge
documented
USB Ethernet and SSH workflow
The FAQ documents USB-C Ethernet access and SSH to root@192.168.100.1, with Wi-Fi and USB-C platform caveats called out separately.
RVAsec 2024 Badge
source-backed
Badge firmware and emulator
The repository description and README document 2024 badge firmware and emulator/simulator build paths.
RVAsec 2022 Badge
source-backed
Badge simulator
The repository documents a simulator build target for local badge software development.
RVAsec 2023 Badge
source-backed
SDL simulator
The README documents an SDL simulator build for local app development and debugging.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
source-backed
220x176 color display and microSD path
The retrospective documents the 220x176 LCD upgrade, 40 MHz SPI and SD-card behavior, double-buffered display goals, and reduced frame-rate decisions caused by SD-card constraints.
LayerOne 2017 CAN Bus Badge
source-backed
DMA-driven TFT and SD storage
Project details describe a 2.2 or 2.4-inch DMA-driven SPI TFT display with ILI9341/45 support and SPI SD card storage.
RVAsec 2012 Badge
source-backed
Nokia 5110 / PCD8544 LCD firmware
The release firmware includes PCD8544/Nokia LCD initialization, cursor movement, character printing, contrast, and image drawing paths.
DC503 Wagon Party Badge
source-backed
Party scroll mode
The party loop displays the BLE banner, flips display inversion, and periodically chooses random scroll directions.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 Badge
source-backed
Dual SPI display headers
The hardware documentation maps two SPI screen headers with separate DC, reset, chip-select, and display-enable control signals.
DC503 Wagon Party Badge
source-backed
SSD1306 128x64 OLED display
The README requires SSD1306 128x64 configuration, and the firmware initializes an Adafruit_SSD1306 display at I2C address 0x3C.
Lonely Hackers Club DC33 Meshtastic Badge
source-backed
DEF CON 33 pickup and 50-unit limit
The badge page states that only 50 units were available, shipping was not offered, and pickup was at DEF CON 33 with possible in-person sales if any were left.
BIC Village DC33 BIC Pick Badge
documented
DEF CON 33 purchase and trade path
The official page says limited BIC Picks were available at DEF CON 33 through direct inquiry, limited purchase, or trade.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
source-backed
Hacker Warehouse DEF CON 33 sale and Tor donation
The README says the badge was sold at the Hacker Warehouse vendor booth during DEF CON 33 and that half of profits went to the Tor project.
BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge
source-backed
About 200 assembled badges
The official badge page says short lead times limited the assembled run to about 200 badges, while attendees who did not sign up for the assembled option still received a PCB.
RVAsec 2025 Badge
source-backed
Limited hotel-package badge
Official RVAsec pages list the Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge as part of a limited guaranteed hotel package.
BSidesPDX 2020 Presenter LED Mask
source-backed
Presenter-gift artifact context
The repository description and firmware comments frame the mask as a BSides 2020 presenter gift rather than a general attendee badge.
NilbinSec DC33 Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots
schedule-backed
Badgelife Community badge drop
The DC33 community schedule lists a Hack 'em Crack 'em Robots badge drop by 2PAC in the Badgelife Community area.
Aerospace Village DC33 ADS-B Badge
released
Winglet OS 2.0
Winglet OS 2.0 added ADS-B range and reliability work, Map Scope, GPS View, flight-board improvements, SD-card custom media, Wi-Fi scanning, USB-host reliability fixes, optional 3 A charging, and DC33 SAO support.
Rhai scripting REPL
The Rust firmware exposes a Rhai scripting engine over USB serial, with bindings for system, inputs, SAO, display, LED, accelerometer, battery, Trx/Rx, and CAN behavior.
JawnCon 0x1 Modem Badge
officially documented
Three-piece 3D-printed shell
The case was printed in three PLA pieces, used integrated PCB slots and snap clips, and avoided screws or extra assembly hardware.
Queercon 16 Q Badge
historical
Handler missions and base station
Handler staff badges distributed missions and a chill-room base station reported aggregate progress, turning the badge game into a venue-wide social challenge.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
officially documented
Badge-required party entry
The official schedule says attendees needed a 0xC badge for entry to the THOTCON 0xC party at Ravenswood Event Center.
BSides Tampa 2018 Badge
source-backed
Electronic Badge Assembly activity
The attendee report lists Electronic Badge Assembly as one of the BSides Tampa 2018 activities for the more-than-750-attendee event.
DEF CON 33 Badge
historical
Arts & Entertainment booth badge challenge
The creator announcement directed attendees to spot clues around the convention and visit the Arts & Entertainment booth to participate in the badge challenge.
BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
source-backed
Badge CTF contest
The 2024 Hardware Challenge Village description ties the badge to a competitive badge CTF contest and hands-on electronics tinkering.
Hackaday Supercon 2016 LED Matrix Badge
historical
Badge-hacking and crypto challenge
Supercon ran badge-hacking awards for blinky, deadbug, over-the-top, and crypto-solving work, with public presentations and prize recognition after the event.
Hackaday Supercon 2019 FPGA Badge
historical
Badge-hacking ceremony projects
Post-event coverage records custom cartridges, enclosures, C demos, color-palette animation, splash screens, and a Linux-on-badge SDRAM cartridge project shown through the ceremony and hack list.
Hackaday Supercon 2017 Camera Badge
historical
Badge-hacking contest projects
Post-event coverage documented camera, printer, charging, VR, thermal, time-lapse, and 3D-printer projects built around the official badge.
DEF CON 17 Badge
historical
DEF CON 17 badge hacking contest
The 2009 contest drew 32 official entries, with Zoz's anti-surveillance system, Team Hack the Badge's sound-fearing blimp, and 501d3r Guy's multifunction dialer/voice amplifier taking the top three places.
DEF CON 15 Badge
historical
DEFCON 15 badge hacking contest
The 2007 contest drew seven official entries, including Team Slackers' pGina single sign-on generator and Team Osogato's winning hardware/firmware line-level meter.
DEF CON 14 Badge
historical
DEFCON Badge Hacking Contest
Grand Idea Studio hosted a badge-hacking contest for obscure or mischievous badge hacks, including synthesizer control, TV-B-Goon, multicolor LEDs, flame effects, and Morse-code firmware.
BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
source-backed
Electronic tinkering and programming village
The 2025 Hardware Challenge Village description frames the badge activity around electronic tinkering, programming, and competitive CTF play.
Hackaday Supercon 2024 SAO Badge
historical
Functional SAO contest
The Supercon 8 Add On Contest pushed entrants toward functional SAOs using I2C, GPIO, sensors, displays, radios, and other active peripherals.
DEF CON 30 Badge
historical
Nine-variant music challenge
The challenge required collecting musical faceplate measures across multiple badge colors and using the combined melody to unlock later phone, URL, and friend-code stages.
DEF CON 19 Badge
historical
Non-electronic puzzle reality game
The badge and surrounding event materials carried clues, hints, mini-puzzles, easter eggs, and the start of a weekend challenge rather than firmware or electronics.
DEF CON 21 Badge
historical
Playing-card crypto matrix
Challenge writeups document suit symbols, 3-bit binary values, pi/e/Gray-code/LFSR ordering, program text, floor graphics, and badge comparisons feeding the badge-contest solution path.
DEF CON 22 Badge
historical
Propeller 1 badge puzzle platform
The badge was a required tool for DEF CON's largest contest, connecting cryptology, social engineering, programming, and attendee interaction to the official entry badge.
Bug Bounty Village DC33 BBV Badge
documented
Sponsor challenge flag entry
Zoom, Intigriti, HackerOne, and CTF.ae challenge legs each produced binary flags that could be entered into the badge.
Hackaday Supercon 2023 Vectorscope Badge
historical
Vectorscope badge-hacking ceremony
Hackaday documented a Sunday badge-hacking ceremony after roughly 78 hours of hacking, with categories for badge-only Vectorscope work and Vectorscope plus external hardware.
RVAsec 2018 Badge
source-backed
Badge-hacking CTF room
RVAsec layout and CTF sources place badge hacking and badge-challenge material in the 2018 CTF conference flow.
RVAsec 2024 Badge
source-backed
Badge-hacking event context
The official RVAsec 13 layout places badge hacking in the event context.
SAINTCON 2017 Raspberry Pi Badge
documented
Hacker Challenge registration
The official badge page and registration manual tie the badge to Hacker Challenge participation and document pairing the badge with the challenge server.
SAINTCON 2016 ESP8266 LED Badge
documented
Hackers Challenge badge registration
The registration guide says Hackers Challenge registration prompted for a badge ID and that the badge could show the current game score from the last 30 seconds.
SAINTCON 2019 Enigma Badge
historical
Hut 6 teleprinter challenge station
Attendees visited a Hut 6 station with a teleprinter-style receipt printer to receive intercepted messages for Enigma decoding.
LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE
historical
Hardware Hacking Village challenges
LayerOne's HHV challenge list tied the badge to Open Sauce badge work, ESP32 BluTag JTAG, RP2040 timing-attack exercises, and a custom shadetree companion-hardware target.
BSidesPDX 2018 ATTiny861 Badge
official schedule
BSidesPDX 101 badges context
The official schedule says BSidesPDX 101 covered CTF, contests and events, badges, and more, and the speaker page says the panel discussed the thing around attendees' necks.
BSidesPDX 2019 Multnomah Badge
official schedule
BSidesPDX 101 badges context
The official schedule says BSidesPDX 101 covered CTF, contests and events, badges, and more on Friday morning.
BSidesPDX 2015 Badger Badge
official schedule
Electronic Taxidermy workshop anchor
The official BSidesPDX schedule places Electronic Taxidermy: Badger Hacking in the workshop track with Michael Leibowitz on October 16, 2015.
BSidesPDX 2016 ATTiny85 Badge
secondary event metadata
PCB badge giveaway context
The Calagator listing says Security BSides Portland had PCB badges, T-shirts, and bags to give away, with donors receiving them first.
BIC Village DC33 BIC Pick Badge
documented
Sold-out badge and merchandise fundraiser
BIC's 2025 event summary says badges and merchandise sold out and that proceeds helped raise funds for future programming.
AND!XOR DC28 Badge
historical
BENDERPISS standalone CTF
The badge hosted a BENDER CTF variant playable directly on the badge while mirroring interaction over an RS232 serial connection.
DEF CON 27 Badge
historical
NFMI badge pairing game
The DEF CON 27 badge game used near-field magnetic induction badge interactions and role-specific badge types to advance through DEFCON letter levels.
DEF CON 20 Badge
historical
Secret-society badge challenge
The badge puzzle combined firmware, hieroglyphic shapes, binary codes, lanyards, venue clues, program material, and social interaction into a secret-society narrative.
BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus Badge
source-backed
Trick-or-Treat and Attribution game modes
The repository documents the Attribution Game clue/card workflow plus a Trick-or-Treat variant where attendees trade digital candy and cash it in for real candy.
SAINTCON 2015 Wi-Fi Show Badge
source-backed
Schedule, score, and zone display
The badge could display the conference schedule, live Hacker Challenge score, and current location zone within the venue.
RVAsec 2017 Badge
source-backed
HackRVA badge distribution station
The official RVAsec 6 layout placed badges from HackRVA in the James River Terrace area.
BSides Tampa 2026 Badge Challenge
source-backed
Badge-challenge clue surface
The official challenge page tells attendees to inspect the badge and other neck-worn materials for clues, while keeping the 2026 challenge intentionally vague and hint-free.
DEF CON 24 Badge
historical
Lanyard and conference-media trail
The challenge expanded beyond the skull PCB into lanyard data, room keys, standee glyphs, DEF CON media-server files, conference CD material, and program equations.
DEF CON 23 Badge
historical
Noir key-card trail
Public writeups and attendee recaps describe DEF CON 23 key-card material as part of the noir-themed badge challenge trail.
Kernelcon 2026 Off Grid Badge
historical
Narrative quest kiosks
The 2026 activities guide describes venue kiosks, SCAN mode, crank-built charge, printed clues, tasks, and LED animation rewards.
CarolinaCon Online 2021 Badge Kit
source-backed boundary
Public CTF source boundary
The official page says the CTF source became public, but this catalogue keeps that as event context because the source trail does not tie the CTF repository to badge firmware or badge hardware.
HOPE XV Electronic Badge
historical
Badge Clinic support track
The official schedule and wiki describe a Badge Clinic where attendees could get help with assembly, features, repairs, hacking, and historical badge questions.
CarolinaCon 12 Electronic Kit Badge
historical
Hardware Hacking Village assembly path
The guide points builders to Hardware Hacking Village equipment and personnel, and the event page says attendees could put their badge together there for the duration of the conference.
CactusCon 11 Badge
historical
Nightmare House IoT platform
The badge was designed around CactusCon 11's Nightmare House theme and home-automation interaction rather than a generic blinky-only board.
BSides Tampa 2026 Badge Challenge
source-backed
USF Marshall Student Center context
The current official venue and FAQ pages place BSides Tampa 2026 at the USF Marshall Student Center, 4103 USF Cedar Circle, Tampa, with participant check-in and registration context.
SAINTCON 2024 MiniBadge Trading Collection
source-backed
Extender-board compatibility caveat
The MiniBadge standard documents extender pins introduced for the 2019 Enigma badge and warns that unverified I2C hardware may be treated like a MiniBadge.
SAINTCON 2019 Enigma Badge
source-backed
Minibadge holder boards
The badge used a bottom connector for minibadge holder boards, I2C port expanders, individual minibadge power control, and chaining of up to eight boards.
SAINTCON 2018 ESP32 Badge
source-backed
Twelve minibadge spots
The official badge page and README document twelve minibadge spots, included female minibadge headers, and expanded minibadge support for the 2018 event.
Hackaday Remoticon.2 DIY Badge
source-backed
Remoticon.2 artwork and Gerbers
The project file list exposes artwork archives, KiCad PCB material, Gerbers, and paste files for builders who wanted the shared visual identity.
DEF CON 12 Forum Badge
documented
3x5 laminated badge workflow
Forum follow-up documented a 3x5 badge size and a practical color-copy plus lamination path for making the extra forum badge before or during the event.
Hackaday Remoticon 2020 Unofficial Badge
source-backed
OSH Park self-order workflow
The project linked an OSH Park shared board so remote participants could order boards rather than receive a centrally distributed official badge.
Maritime Hacking Village DC33 Differential Destroyer
source-backed
Differential injector and receiver lab
The badge exposes differential receiver and injector circuits, switched voltage references from 0 V through 4 V, high-impedance mode, and operation up to 5 MHz.
LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE
source-backed
Voltage glitcher and crowbar lab
The badge docs expose voltage-glitch and crowbar controls, setup commands, trigger workflows, and target-voltage tuning through the GLiTCh BadgE CLI.
JawnCon 0x1 Modem Badge
officially documented
Laser-marked front panels
JawnCon describes settling on pulsed infrared laser marking for the front labels, with about 45 seconds per badge and explicit open-air laser PPE warnings.
BSidesPDX 2015 Badger Badge
source-backed
HTTP LED control API
The README and firmware document `/leds` and `/leds/` routes for status, all/none/blink/chase/twinkle modes, individual LED state, and RGB color updates.
ToorCamp 2018 Badge
source-backed
MSP430 firmware source
The public repository preserves firmware source for the low-power firefly LED behavior and links the hardware/software archive from the project README.
RVAs3c 2014 Badge
source-backed
Public firmware source
The 2014 badge firmware source was publicly released by RVAsec and preserved in HackRVA's GitHub repository.
LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner Badge
documented
1-bit image asset pipeline
The README says image-folder artwork is 12 pixels high and 1-bit, then converted into C headers for the firmware's bitmap display routines.
Kernelcon 2019 K Badge
source-backed
APA102 mode stack
The badge exposed fading, freeze, binary blink, rave, and looping-animation modes through the badge button.
DEF CON 24 Badge
historical
Konami Code serial unlock
Writeups documented that entering the Konami Code on the badge buttons unlocked LED-eye behavior and serial text, even though the visible code path was not the final puzzle answer.
SEC Youth Challenge 2023 Flux Decoder Badge
source-backed
Mode-button jigawatts animation
The firmware watches a pull-up mode button and triggers a named animation routine that ramps the center LED before stepping the grouped LEDs.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
source-backed
RF chat and pager sketch
five-oh-BEE.ino implements display-backed message buffers, keyboard input, RF reads, RF byte writes, and byte-3 submission delimiters for simple pager/chat behavior.
BSidesPDX 2019 Multnomah Badge
source-backed
Two-channel PWM LED animation
The firmware defines two PWM pins and repeatedly writes sine/cosine-derived brightness values, giving the LED badge a simple animated lighting pattern.
DEF CON 26 Badge
historical
USB serial text adventure
The badge enumerated over USB and exposed an interactive retro text adventure whose ASCII-art map mirrored the physical PCB face.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
source-backed
Compiled firmware artifact
The project links a compiled `DerbyCon7BadgeFirmware.bin` file and describes custom C firmware upload as part of the build.
The Diana Initiative 2020 Off-the-Shelf Virtual Badge
public examples
Arduino Create blinky and scanner examples
The archive links basic blinky, seven-LED scanner, and grab-and-go sketches for the TDI 2020 off-the-shelf badge workshop.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
public demo archive
Arduino/ESP32 demo firmware archive
The `thotcon-examples` repository preserves cleaned-up Arduino/ESP32 examples for touch input, LEDs, audio modes, display output, menus, mini-game placeholders, and credits.
RVAsec 2019 Badge
source-backed
Badge C interpreter
Dustin Firebaugh's public repository preserves a C interpreter intended for the 2019 badge.
RVA5sec 2016 Badge
source-backed
Low-frequency serial transmission experiment
HackRVA discussed low-frequency serial transmissions from the speaker to nearby badge LED sensors.
RVAsec 2020 Badge
source-backed
Badge app framework
The repository documents menu-driven badge apps, button handling, IR callbacks, LCD drawing, assets, and app templates.
DEF CON 27 Badge
historical
Chameleon firmware workflow
Community firmware work modified the official source to broadcast as multiple badge types and complete other badges through spoofed interactions.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 Badge
source-backed
Custom MicroPython firmware
The firmware README documents a custom MicroPython 1.26.0 image with compiled badge-challenge modules and a Russ Hughes GC9A01 C display driver.
AND!XOR DC24 Bender Badge
archived
DFU and provisioning workflow
The repository README documents entering DFU mode and flashing provisioned human badge binaries; Hackaday.io discussion records bootloader and NAND flash loading paths.
JawnCon 0x1 Modem Badge
source-backed
RetroWiFiModem AT command personality
JawnCon says the badge used RetroWiFiModem to simulate Hayes-style AT commands and control the LEDs.
Rabbit-Labs The Pirates' Plunder Badge
source-backed
Full-functionality and Blinken Lights firmware options
Rabbit-Labs links RocketGod's full-functionality firmware for LCD, LED, and CC1101 access plus a zRCrackiiN/JBOHack alternate firmware described as limited LED-only Blinken Lights functionality.
DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
source-backed
Portland street-name identity generator
The main firmware builds unique device names from Portland-style street and direction arrays so Banglets present local-flavored BLE identities.
Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge
source-backed
Car-on-a-board firmware
The firmware repository describes firmware intended to emulate a car on one PCB, with C and Python areas, verification files, RP2040 flashing workflow, and socketcan/cansniffer output.
Ninja Networks DC17 Party Badge
archived
Public-domain badge firmware
The technical archive links the badge source-code tarball and labels the code as public domain.
La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge
released
VillaHacker.hex release firmware
The v1.0.0 release publishes VillaHacker.hex for badge reprogramming, while the README says badges come with pre-installed firmware.
ToorCamp 2018 Badge
historical
Great Scott Gadgets reflashing support
The project page says attendees could ask Great Scott Gadgets for help reflashing the badge firmware.
Kernelcon 2021 Hacker HotKey
source-backed
Advanced configurable hotkey firmware
The repository preserves a simple sample firmware and an advanced configurable hotkey firmware guide for post-event customization.
BSidesPDX 2020 Presenter LED Mask
source-backed
Adafruit NeoMatrix firmware stack
The README requires Adafruit NeoMatrix, Adafruit NeoPixel, and Adafruit GFX libraries, while the sketch uses NeoMatrix drawing primitives for scrolling text and pixel mouth images.
THOTCON 0x8 Badge
documented
Arduino Leonardo bootloader recovery
Gigawatts documented burning an Arduino Leonardo bootloader over ICSP with a Bus Pirate so the badge could accept Arduino IDE sketches over USB.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
documented
Arduino RP2040 flashing path
The repository guide documents Earle Philhower RP2040 board-manager setup, required Adafruit libraries, 2 MB sketch/filesystem partitioning, upload, and copying data files after first boot.
DEF CON 30 Badge
archived
BOOTSEL and picotool firmware path
Forum and reversing sources document booting into mass-storage/BOOTSEL behavior and using picotool or chip-off workflows to dump or replace firmware.
DEF CON 22 Badge
archived
C-style badge code release
DEF CON's archive announced C-style badge code and a badge-hacking-file torrent so attendees could continue writing and studying badge software after the conference.
ToorCon 14 RfCat Badge
source-backed
CC Bootloader firmware upgrade
Great Scott Gadgets documents entering bootloader mode from RfCat, using `bootload.py`, erasing, and downloading properly linked RfCatDonsCCBootloader firmware images.
CactusCon 11 Badge
source-backed
CH340N USB serial and wireless firmware path
The badge writeup documents onboard CH340N USB serial access plus wireless firmware-pull behavior used during the conference.
BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus Badge
source-backed
CircuitPython USB storage and serial console
The badge guide frames the device as a CircuitPython learning platform after the conference, with USB serial/Python CLI access and editable `code.py` storage contents.
LayerOne 2023 PIC HID Badge
documented
DFU and Pickit programming path
The README documents holding the button while plugging in USB for DFU mode, Zadig/WinUSB setup, dfu-util upload, 454hex2dfu conversion, and Pickit fallback programming if the bootloader is overwritten.
Kernelcon 2022 Watch Badge
source-backed
ESP8266 Arduino firmware path
The watch badge firmware used Arduino IDE, the ESP8266 Arduino core, ArduinoJson, Generic ESP8266 Module settings, and serial flashing.
HOPE XV Electronic Badge
documented
ESPHome firmware path
The wiki points badge hackers to an ESPHomeBadge path as an alternative way to write firmware for the HOPE XV badge.
WOPR Summit 0x00 Badge
documented
Info-booth firmware loading
The Handorf guide says firmware would be loaded by staff at the info booth after assembly.
Hackaday Supercon 2017 Camera Badge
archived
MPLAB app-template API
The firmware template exposed camera, accelerometer, button, OLED, timing, and filesystem helpers so attendee applications could reuse the stock badge services.
Hackaday Supercon 2024 SAO Badge
archived
MicroPython I2C workflow
The repository README describes MicroPython setup over serial terminal, Thonny, or VSCode, with boot.py/main.py demos and memory-style I2C read/write patterns.
HOPE XV Electronic Badge
documented
MicroPython badge workflow
The wiki documents erasing and flashing ESP32-C3 MicroPython firmware, using serial console access, running scripts with mpremote, and copying code to run at boot.
Hackaday Supercon 2023 Vectorscope Badge
source-backed
MicroPython demo slots
MicroPython, front-panel buttons, joystick control, filesystem access, and mpremote/Thonny/VSCode workflows let attendees write and store custom vector demos on the badge.
Hackaday Supercon 2017 Camera Badge
archived
MicroSD bootloader workflow
The quick-start workflow let attendees copy compiled HEX files to MicroSD and use the onboard bootloader, with PICkit programming as a fallback path.
BSidesPDX 2018 ATTiny861 Badge
source-backed
Micronucleus and ATTinyCore workflow
The firmware README documents ATTinyCore board settings, external programmer needs, micronucleus USB bootloader use, and command-line flashing steps.
SAINTCON 2016 ESP8266 LED Badge
documented
NodeMCU Lua and esptool flashing workflow
The upload-code guide documents HHV Raspberry Pi flash stations, CH340G driver setup, esptool.py flashing, `latest-spiffs.bin`, and Lua upload tools such as nodemcu-uploader and ESPlorer.
DEF CON 32 Badge
archived
Official firmware and hardware archive
The DEF CON media-server badge directory published hardware, firmware, game, music, asset, and later FREEWiLi firmware files for post-event hacking.
LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
documented
OpenWRT sysupgrade workflow
The VoCore notes document OpenWRT buildroot setup, LuCI and USB-storage package choices, sysupgrade flashing, first-login password setup, SSH/telnet access, and opkg package work.
DEF CON 26 Badge
archived
PICkit firmware update path
DEF CON's media-server update and forum-curated notes documented flashing the PIC32MM0256GPM048 with MPLAB X IPE and PICkit 3 or 4 to reach newer firmware versions.
PhreakNIC 26 Electronic Shelf Label Badge
source-backed
Per-attendee firmware image patching
The badge update pipeline patched one-bit 240x96 image data and a hash into a base firmware image, then reflashed the badge with cc-tool and CC Debugger hardware.
DEF CON 20 Badge
archived
Propeller firmware release path
Parallax and DEF CON published firmware, schematic, top-level objects, LED examples, VGA/PS2 examples, and conference-DVD materials for post-event badge hacking.
ToorCon 13 Spectrum Analyzer Badge
source-backed
Renesas R8C serial programming path
Great Scott Gadgets documents compiling R8C code with a GCC cross-compiler and flashing through a 3.3 V FTDI serial interface plus DJ Delorie's flash tool.
SAINTCON 2019 Enigma Badge
documented
STM32 DFU and FPGA reflash path
The README documents STM32CubeProgrammer DFU flashing, separate STM32 and FPGA HEX files, TEST-pin bootstrapping, and first-boot test mode.
Hackaday Supercon 2022 Voja4 Badge
source-backed
Serial save/load and internal flash slots
The badge could save and load programs over serial to another badge or computer and store programs in internal flash slots for later recall.
DEF CON 17 Badge
source-backed
Static serial bootloader
Grand Idea Studio documents a static serial bootloader for in-the-field firmware upgrades and links the CodeWarrior source archive.
THOTCON 0xA / Infinity Badge
public archive
Stock firmware restore and workshop archive
The repository preserves esptool.py commands for restoring stock firmware plus a workshop PDF used for THOTCON 0xA badge hacking.
DEF CON 29 Badge
archived
UF2 firmware update workflow
Forum and field-report sources document firmware updates through USB storage/UF2-style workflows and role-specific challenge firmware behavior.
USB mass-storage bootloader
Microchip adapted a bootloader so the badge appeared as a HackABadge USB disk where attendees could drag compiled HEX files for flashing.
CactusCon 12 Badge
source-backed
USB serial and MicroSD path
The public CAD archive documents USB-to-serial programming context, CH340N evidence, and MicroSD support.
CactusCon 13 Badge
source-backed
USB serial, MicroSD, and buzzer path
The CC13 archive comments document USB-to-serial programming, MicroSD, and buzzer hardware context.
CactusCon 14 Badge
source-backed
USB-C and CH340N serial path
The CAD tree includes USB connection sources and board evidence for a USB-C and CH340N serial programming/debugging path.
SEC Youth Challenge 2023 Flux Decoder Badge
source-backed
megaTinyCore programming note
The PCB silkscreen records ATtiny1614 Arduino instructions pointing builders toward the megaTinyCore workflow for the microcontroller family.
RVAsec 2022 Badge
source-backed
Pico UF2 flashing
The README documents flashing badge2022_c.uf2 through the Pico/RPI-RP2 USB mass-storage path.
RVAsec 2020 Badge
source-backed
USB bootloader tooling
The README documents building firmware.hex and programming the badge over USB with bootloadit tooling.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
source-backed
USBasp and Arduino provisioning
The README tells builders to use USBasp udev rules, add the 5ohBee board package to Arduino, install the SmartResponseXE library ZIP, compile sketches, and upload.
DC503 Wagon Party Badge
source-backed
Wheel-button programming workflow
The README says holding the center of the left wagon wheel while power cycling enters programming mode for Arduino SDK upload.
BSidesKC 2025 Badge
badge-maker documented
Pickup or shipping fulfillment path
The Badge Pirates shipping update says badge purchasers would be emailed after customs clearance and could choose pickup at later events or mailed delivery.
SAINTCON 2020 Badge and MiniBadge Kit
first-hand documented
Custom MiniBadge coupon
The package included a coupon for a custom MiniBadge, preserving a virtual-year path from shipped badge kit to personalized MiniBadge fulfillment.
CarolinaCon Online 2021 Badge Kit
historical
Bulk badge-supplies ordering
After the bundle closed, organizers said they had begun bulk ordering shirts and badge supplies and hoped to ship bundles soon.
CarolinaCon Online 2 Conference PCB Badge
historical
Post-conference preorder shipment
The home page describes the badge bundle as a pre-order shipping a few weeks after the conference, with orders closing on the last conference day.
BSidesPDX 2015 Badger Badge
source-backed
CTF flag endpoint
The README and firmware document `/flag` and `/flag?newflag=...` behavior, with source code initializing the default flag as BADGERMASTER.
Hackaday Supercon 2019 FPGA Badge
archived
FPGA SoC and IPL hacking
The public repository lets badge hackers modify the FPGA SoC, bootloader, Initial Program Loader, SDK, example apps, and peripheral blocks instead of only writing firmware on a fixed MCU.
LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
documented
Mini prototyping breakout area
The project describes a mini prototyping area with 3.3 V rail, battery rail, and PSoC4 I/O broken out so attendees could add their own components.
SAINTCON 2018 ESP32 Badge
source-backed
ESP32 MicroPython badge core
The badge README documents an ESP32 Wi-Fi module running MicroPython, and the repository preserves the source tree and binary image used to operate the badge.
BSidesPDX 2016 ATTiny85 Badge
source-backed
ATTiny85 badge core
The BOM lists an ATTINY85-20SUR microcontroller and the Eagle schematic instantiates U1 as a Tiny85-20-SMT device.
BSidesPDX 2018 ATTiny861 Badge
source-backed
ATTiny861 badge core
The firmware README describes the badge as ATTiny861-based, and the BOM lists an ATTINY861A-XUR / ATTINY861-class SOIC-20 controller.
THOTCON 0x8 Badge
source-backed
ATmega32u4 NeoPixel badge core
The badge used an ATmega32u4 with four RGB NeoPixels, three potentiometers, micro USB, and two CR2032 holders.
WOPR Summit 0x00 Badge
source-backed
ATtiny841 badge core
Hackaday and the build guide identify the reverse-side microcontroller as an ATtiny841 / ATTINY841-SSU.
BSidesPDX 2019 Multnomah Badge
source-backed
ATtiny85 LED badge core
The repository BOM lists an ATtiny85-20SUR microcontroller and 24 blue side-view LEDs as the badge's main active components.
The Diana Initiative 2020 Off-the-Shelf Virtual Badge
source-backed
Arduino Nano off-the-shelf badge core
TechGirlMN's hardware guide centers the remote badge build on an Arduino Nano mounted to a solderable breadboard-style PCB.
BSidesPDX 2020 Presenter LED Mask
source-backed
Arduino Pro Micro wearable core
The README describes the BSidesPDX mask modification as using an Arduino Pro Micro-class board with ATmega32U4 and USB Micro instead of the original Arduino Nano approach.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
source-backed
BMD-300 / nRF52 BLE badge core
The project page and postmortem document a Rigado BMD-300 module based on Nordic nRF52 with ARM Cortex-M4F, 512 KB flash, 64 KB RAM, integrated antenna, Nordic S132 SoftDevice, TFT display, WS2812B LEDs, sensors, and microSD.
BSidesPDX 2017 BMD-300 Badge
source-backed
BMD-300 BLE badge core
The repository BOM lists a BMD-300 module and the Eagle schematic exposes the Nordic/BMD-300 pinout, SWD pins, NFC pins, and power connections.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
source-backed
BMD-340 / nRF52840 badge core
The project page identifies the DC27 badge core as a Rigado BMD-340 module with Nordic nRF52840, paired with power regulation, capacitive touch, SWD/Tag-Connect, USB-C, and SAO 1.69bis hardware surfaces.
BSides San Diego 2026 Cyberpunk Bunny Badge
officially documented
ESP32 Cyberpunk Bunny platform
The official badge guide identifies the badge as a Cyberpunk Bunny PCB powered by an ESP32 and packed with cryptography, wireless hacking, and hidden secrets.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
source-backed
ESP32 retro-controller badge core
Rob Rehrig describes the 0xB badge as an ESP32-based design in an NES-controller and circus-ticket form factor.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
source-backed
ESP32 touch-wheel badge core
Hackaday.io and the repository README document an ESP32-compatible badge architecture with capacitive touch-wheel input, center button, TFT display, buzzer, LEDs, and LiPo power context.
HOPE XV Electronic Badge
source-backed
ESP32-C3 RGB badge core
The HOPE wiki documents an ESP32-C3 badge core with 16 WS2812-class RGB LEDs and attendee-facing light-pattern controls.
CactusCon 11 Badge
source-backed
ESP32-S2 WROOM badge core
Badge Pirates identifies the central controller as an Espressif ESP32-S2 WROOM with 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi for the badge's IoT behavior.
CactusCon 13 Badge
source-backed
ESP32-S3 WROOM N16 badge core
The CC13 KiCad archive comments identify an ESP32-S3 WROOM N16-class badge core with Wi-Fi/Bluetooth LE context.
CactusCon 12 Badge
source-backed
ESP32-S3 WROOM ProjectNeoRogue core
The CactusCon-12 CAD archive identifies an ESP32-S3 WROOM core for the ProjectNeoRogue badge hardware.
CactusCon 14 Badge
source-backed
ESP32-S3 WROOM badge core
The public CC14 CAD/archive evidence identifies an ESP32-S3 WROOM core for the conference badge hardware.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
source-backed
ESP32-WROVER Wild West core
The project page and retrospective document the move to ESP32-WROVER for WiFi/Bluetooth, external RAM, LULZCODE memory needs, and faster display/SD-card paths after the DC25 BMD-300 badge.
ShmooCon 2018 WiFi Rocket Badge
source-backed
ESP8266 LED badge core
A contemporary Hackaday.io project log describes the ShmooCon 2018 badge as basically an ESP8266 with serially addressable LEDs.
BSidesPDX 2015 Badger Badge
source-backed
ESP8266 Wi-Fi badge core
The firmware source includes ESP8266 Wi-Fi, WiFiClient, ESP8266WebServer, and mDNS support and serves a BSides PDX 2015 Badger web UI.
BSidesSLC 2025 E-Badge
source-backed
LilyGO T-Deck S3 badge base
The official BSidesSLC site says the 2025 E-Badge is built on the LilyGO T-Deck S3 platform.
BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus Badge
source-backed
RP2040/XIAO-derived badge core
The hardware README describes a Raspberry Pi RP2040 badge design derived from the Seeed XIAO 2040 with 16 MB SPI flash.
AND!XOR DC24 Bender Badge
source-backed
STM32F103 Bender badge core
The hands-on coverage and project-owner comments identify an STM32F103CBT6 ARM Cortex-M3 controller running at 72 MHz with the badge firmware built through STM32Duino-style tooling.
THOTCON 0xA / Infinity Badge
source-backed
SparkFun ESP32 Thing Dev badge core
The repository README identifies the THOTCON 0xA badge base as a SparkFun ESP32 Thing Dev board.
DC503 Wagon Party Badge
source-backed
SparkFun nRF52832 badge core
The README directs builders through SparkFun nRF52832 Breakout Arduino compatibility and variant-file changes for the badge target.
Queercon 16 Q Badge
source-backed
TI CC2640R2 Bluetooth badge core
Hackaday identifies the badge controller as a TI CC2640R2 with ARM Cortex-M3 core and Bluetooth capability, paired with a Holtek HT16D35B LED controller.
CactusCon 2017 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Scanner Badge
source-backed
WemOS-board scanner foundation
The writeup identifies the badge as a tiny Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanner made from a WemOS board.
DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
source-backed
nRF52 Bluefruit wrist core
The sketch README describes the Banglet board as a Feather-style nRF52/Bluefruit design modified into a wrist-worn form factor.
Biohacking Village DC33 Distiller BHV Badge
source-backed
RP2040 board-manager layer
The guide documents an RP2040 microcontroller / Raspberry Pi Pico board manager for button inputs, LED control, battery charging/status, and power management.
Ninja Networks DC17 Party Badge
archived
Creative Commons Attribution hardware archive
The technical archive publishes schematic and Gerber documentation and states that the documentation is Creative Commons Attribution licensed.
Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge
attendee-documented
ESP32-S3 teardown trail
The post-event teardown identifies the badge core as an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 and documents firmware extraction using ESP32-S3 tooling.
Hackaday Supercon 2023 Vectorscope Badge
source-backed
Analog prototyping field
The badge exposed waveform-generator outputs, scope inputs, and through-hole prototyping space for filters, curve tracers, oscillators, analog video experiments, and external signal hacks.
DEF CON 29 Badge
historical
Dual SAO connector host
The badge exposed both Type A and Type B SAO connectors, with community notes tying SAO behavior and add-ons into the badge challenge trail.
BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge
source-backed
Dual Shitty Add-On ports
The badge page documents two Shitty Add-Ons ports on the top corners of the badge and says the ports had no rotation.
Hackaday Supercon 2018 Retrocomputer Badge
source-backed
Expansion header and proto-board
The Supercon version added proto-board support and documented GPIO, I2C, serial, and SAO-style expansion paths for attendee-built peripherals.
Hackaday Supercon 2017 Camera Badge
source-backed
Expansion header and prototyping area
The badge exposed I2C, UART, GPIO, ISP, TTL232, and prototyping surfaces for shields, sensors, and direct hardware experiments.
Hackaday Remoticon 2020 Unofficial Badge
source-backed
Feather back-mount option
The README and writeup document Adafruit Feather mounting on the back with pins broken out to test points for user-added electronics.
Hackaday Supercon 2019 FPGA Badge
source-backed
Flash-backed cartridge ecosystem
The 40-pin cartridge slot and prototype cartridges with onboard flash let attendees build removable hardware and software modules for the badge.
CactusCon 11 Badge
source-backed
GPIO pinouts and Hardware Hacking Village development board
Remaining GPIO pins were broken out, and a separate development board was available at the Hardware Hacking Village for extra components or functions.
AND!XOR DC24 Bender Badge
source-backed
GPIO, RX/TX, DIO, RST breakouts
The hands-on article documents 11 GPIO pins plus RX/TX, DIO, RST, power, and ground breakouts as hardware-hacking surfaces.
ToorCon 14 RfCat Badge
source-backed
GoodFET-compatible programming connector
The badge exposed a GoodFET-compatible programming connector for installing or replacing the bootloader, plus test points for spring-pin access.
Kernelcon 2023 1337 kHz Radio Badge
historical
Hacker Playground
The official badge site documents labeled voltage, ground, audio, headphone, and jumper pads plus unlabeled prototyping pins.
CactusCon 14 Badge
source-backed
MicroSD, buzzer, and SAO v1.69 expansion
The public design archive preserves MicroSD, buzzer, and Badgelife SAO v1.69 expansion evidence for badge hacking and add-on use.
Optional IR, debug, and expansion pads
The README documents an optional Vishay TFBS4711 IR transceiver path, debug LEDs, UART/test points, expansion pins, and WS2812 data access for further hardware experimentation.
CactusCon 12 Badge
source-backed
SAO v1.69 expansion
The CactusCon 12 board file includes a Badgelife SAO v1.69 footprint for add-on expansion.
Hackaday Supercon 2025 Communicator Badge
source-backed
SAO v2 and GPIO/I2C expansion
The BOM and board pinout document an SAO v2 connector plus SAO I2C and GPIO assignments available to firmware and badge hardware experiments.
Hackaday Supercon 2024 SAO Badge
source-backed
Six-port SAO hub
The main badge exposed six SAO connectors with individually accessible GPIO and split left/right I2C buses for experimenting with add-on peripherals.
CactusCon 2014 PCB Badge
source-backed
Teensy expansion area
The front and back of the badge left space intended for a Teensy expansion.
ToorCon 13 Spectrum Analyzer Badge
historical
Ubertooth large hacking kit
The large badge-hacking kit supplied the components needed to turn the ToorCon 13 badge into an Ubertooth-capable passive Bluetooth monitoring device.
DEF CON 20 Badge
source-backed
VGA and PS/2 small-computer mod
Attendees received PS/2 adapters and a VGA connector and could add them in the Hardware Hacking Village to turn the Propeller badge into a small computer system.
DEF CON 14 Badge
historical
Event Generator Ghoul
The winning contest entry connected badge LED behavior through a stereo plug into an analog synthesizer as event generators and added piezo debug output.
Bug Bounty Village DC33 BBV Badge
acknowledged
Hardware-hacking LED bypass path
The official page explicitly notes that hacking the hardware to turn all LEDs on would probably also deserve the cool swag.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
source-backed
FT2232H hardware-hacking bridge
The FTDI log documents the badge's FT2232H channel split, with one channel for UART/JTAG/SPI/I2C/bit-banging hardware work and the other for the badge SoC serial terminal.
BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
attendee-reported
Four-line screen and joystick interface
A Veritas attendee report describes the 2024 HCV badge as an integrated-circuit electronic badge with a four-line LED screen and joystick, powered by battery or USB-C.
DEF CON 22 Badge
source-backed
Infrared and touch interaction stack
The badge exposed infrared transmit/receive hardware, touch-pad buttons, LEDs, USB programming, and accessible I/O so attendees could interact during the event and keep hacking afterward.
DEF CON 18 Badge
historical
USB hack surface
DEF CON 18 coverage documented USB connectivity as part of the badge's intended hackable interface.
Biohacking Village DC33 Distiller BHV Badge
source-backed
Compute Module 5 edge-AI badge platform
Raspberry Pi's article and the PamirAI user guide identify the badge around a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 platform intended to run local, private, interactive edge AI.
Hackbat DEF CON 32 Badge
source-backed
ESP32-C3 WROOM badge core
The Hackbat README documents the ESP32-C3 WROOM module as the badge core, with 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, BLE 5.0, and Arduino IDE or ESP-IDF programming paths.
Aerospace Village DC33 Aranya ESP32 Badge Board
source-backed
ESP32-S3 workshop badge-board core
The workshop page describes the supplied hardware as an ESP32 badge board, and the board README documents an ESP32-S3 demo board for Aranya Embedded.
Lonely Hackers Club DC33 Meshtastic Badge
source-backed
Heltec Wireless Tracker V1.1 badge core
The official page lists Heltec Wireless Tracker V1.1 hardware with ESP32-S3FN8, SX1262 915 MHz LoRa, UC6580 GPS, TFT display, user button, RGB LED, buzzer, and 450 mAh battery.
Maritime Hacking Village DC33 Differential Destroyer
source-backed
Pico 2 maritime badge core
Village-sold Differential Destroyer boards were documented as Pico 2-compatible and bundled with a Pico 2 flashed with current firmware.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
source-backed
RP2040 galvanic vestibular badge core
The README and firmware document a Raspberry Pi Pico / RP2040-class badge with two AAA batteries, TFT display, buttons, LEDs, DAC drive, current/voltage monitoring, and electrode output hardware.
DEF CON 32 Badge
source-backed
RP2350 badge platform
DEF CON described the DC32 badge as the first RP2350 board, while Raspberry Pi sources document the badge as powered by RP2350.
ICS Village DC33 FREE-WILi Badge
source-backed
RP2350A and ESP32-C6 badge core
FREE-WILi documents the badge around a Raspberry Pi RP2350A controller and ESP32-C6 Wi-Fi interface, with standard USB bootloader update support.
AND!XOR DC28 Badge
source-backed
STM32F412 and dual-display badge platform
The RTFM BOM documents an STM32F412RET6 badge with a 0.96 inch OLED, ST7735 128x160 TFT, APA-102C LEDs, USB-C, BlackBerry Q10 keyboard, and coin-cell holder.
Hackaday Supercon 2019 FPGA Badge
archived
CC BY-SA hardware artwork
The PCB repository publishes hardware artwork and errata under a CC BY-SA 3.0 statement attributed to Sprite_tm / Jeroen Domburg.
RVAsec 2012 Badge
source-backed
Eagle and Gerber source package
The repository preserves Eagle board/schematic files, generated Gerbers, LCD and RJ45 component documentation, and graphics assets for the historical badge archive.
Hackaday Remoticon 2020 Unofficial Badge
source-backed
KiCad and Gerber badge base
The repository preserves KiCad project files and Gerbers so builders could fork or fabricate the unofficial Remoticon board.
Hackaday Remoticon.2 DIY Badge
source-backed
KiCad badge canvas
The Hackaday.io project published the badge as a KiCad design with regular 0.1 inch pad-grid space intended for user-added circuitry.
DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
source-backed
Eagle CAD hardware archive
The repository preserves Eagle board, schematic, and library files for the DC503 2018 Banglet hardware design.
Hackaday Remoticon.2 DIY Badge
source-backed
MicroMod carrier-board variant
Hackaday and the project files describe a MicroMod carrier-board variant, with later logs showing hand-soldered spacers, joysticks, USB through-hole pins, screen, and a RISC-V MicroMod module.
Kernelcon 2024 [a]nalyze [i]nternet Badge
source-backed
555 timing modification activity
The activity guide identified R1, R2, and C2 as the 555 astable timing parts and encouraged attendees to change oscillation speed.
LayerOne 2023 PIC HID Badge
documented
Generic HID macro uploader
The host README and firmware document HID writes that stage data in RAM and commit it into flash for later keyboard/macro output.
ToorCamp 2024 Shadybucks Wristband
source-backed
Shadybucks wristband
The official wiki says each attendee received one Shadybucks wristband at registration and activated it at Shadytel.
BSides Tampa 2026 Badge Challenge
source-backed
Badge and lanyard admission package
The current official FAQ says every participant gets access to all tracks plus a BSides Tampa shirt, badge, lanyard, and happy-hour access.
BSides Tampa 2018 Badge
licensed documentary photo
Documented badge/lanyard artifact
The Wikimedia Commons documentary photo shows a physical BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard artifact, now published as a cropped WebP derivative with CC BY-SA provenance.
HOPE X Badge
source-backed
Physical issued badge
The Commons description identifies the photographed object as the badge issued at the tenth Hackers On Planet Earth conference.
DEF CON 25 Badge
historical
Rubber identity badge
DEF CON forum feedback describes the standard DEF CON 25 badge as a rubber or plastic admission artifact rather than a powered electronics platform.
DEF CON 18 Badge
historical
Low-power display role variants
The badge used a persistent low-power 128x32 display and role-colored variants for human, vendor, speaker, contest, goon, press, and uber-style identities.
SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
People status MiniBadge
The assembly guide documents the People Badge with attendee, staff, volunteer, and speaker status color variants and says everyone gets an attendee badge.
SAINTCON 2021 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
Registration and status MiniBadges
The archived page lists attendee, staff, committee, VIP, and speaker MiniBadges, including attendee badges in registration materials and VIP badges handed out by Jup1t3r.
DEF CON 12 Forum Badge
historical
Printable forum-avatar badge template
JoeSchmuck posted a PSD/JPG forum-avatar badge template with blank space for a username or nickname and invited forum members to use or modify it.
NilbinSec DC33 Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots
source-backed
Red and blue fighter SAOs
The NilbinSec announcement and product page describe two included SAOs, red and blue fighters, with game data and hidden interactions carried through EEPROM.
SAINTCON 2020 Badge and MiniBadge Kit
first-hand documented
Included MiniBadge
The same first-hand source says a MiniBadge was included with the 2020 badge package, without recovering enough public detail to describe its electronics or designer attribution.
DEF CON 16 Badge
historical
TV-B-Gone fallback mode
If no SD card was inserted, the transmit state used the infrared path for TV-B-Gone-style remote-control power-off behavior.
Hackaday Supercon 2025 Communicator Badge
source-backed
Custom keyboard and LVGL UI
The reveal and firmware docs document a custom keyboard, TCA8418 keyboard matrix controller, wide LCD, LVGL MicroPython UI pages, and function-key app workflows.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
source-backed
Capacitive touch wheel and center button
The README documents three capacitive touch sensors for wheel input plus a center capacitive button, matching the touch-wheel interaction model described in the project writeup.
BSidesKC 2019 Conference Badge
source-backed
Jr Hacker IR laser-tag badge
The related Jr Hacker badge used an ESP8266 platform with IR tag gameplay, speaker, vibration motor, and WS2812 hit counter, with source material preserved under shark-badge.
DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
documented
Apache-2.0 repository release
The repository includes an Apache-2.0 license file for its published source tree, while this catalogue still leaves the hero image empty until a specific reusable photo or upstream render is cleared.
Hackbat DEF CON 32 Badge
source-backed
WS2812 badge LEDs
The Hackbat documentation lists four WS2812 smart LEDs on the badge board.
Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge
officially documented
Antisyphon-sponsored electronic badge
The WWHF e-badge page says the 2025 electronic badge was sponsored by Antisyphon Training.
RVAsec 2021 Badge
source-backed
Annual HackRVA badge lineage
HackRVA describes the RVAsec electronic badge programme as a recurring badge-team effort with schedules, games, and surprises.
HOPE X Badge
historical
Tenth HOPE event anchor
Official and EFF event pages anchor HOPE X as the tenth HOPE in New York City on July 18-20, 2014, giving the physical badge a clear place in the HOPE lineage.
AvengerCon VIII 8-8-8 Badge
source-backed
First AvengerCon electronic badge
U.S. Army coverage identifies the 2024 8-8-8 badge as AvengerCon's first electronic badge.
SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
retrospective context
Show-badge lineage context
Cisco's 2015 write-up frames SAINTCON's show-badge program as having run across the prior two years, supporting 2014 as part of the event's early badge lineage.
SAINTCON 2015 Wi-Fi Show Badge
source-backed
Cisco CMX venue telemetry context
Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences data supplied the venue-location context used to personalize badge behavior and analyze attendee movement.
BSidesPDX 2015 Badger Badge
source-backed
Eagle PCB, schematic, and Gerber archive
The PCB repository preserves Eagle board and schematic files, a project library, scripts, OSH Park design rules, and multiple Gerber ZIP archives.
CactusCon 13 Badge
source-backed
Gerber and MIT-licensed CAD archive
Badge Pirates publishes CC13 Gerbers, KiCad sources, documentation outputs, and an MIT repository license.
CactusCon 12 Badge
source-backed
Gerber, BOM, and QA-code archive
Badge Pirates publishes Gerbers, BOM exports, an interactive BOM, ESP32-S3 reference material, and BasicCodeForQA for the CactusCon 12 badge.
Hackbat DEF CON 32 Badge
source-backed
JLCPCB production-file release
The repository README documents compressing the production files and using the centroid and BOM files to order boards through JLCPCB.
BSidesPDX 2019 Multnomah Badge
source-backed
KiCad Multnomah hardware archive
The repository preserves the Multnomah KiCad PCB, schematic, project, netlist, footprint table, symbol table, and local footprint directory.
BSidesPDX 2018 ATTiny861 Badge
source-backed
KiCad and Gerber archive
The repository preserves BSidesPDX_2018 KiCad board, schematic, project, libraries, local footprints, and Gerber/drill outputs.
BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus Badge
source-backed
KiCad hardware archive
The repository preserves OpenTaxus KiCad schematic, board, project, footprints, logos, and dock files for hardware review and reproduction.
CactusCon 14 Badge
source-backed
KiCad, Gerber, BOM, and enclosure archive
Badge Pirates publishes KiCad files, schematic PDF, interactive BOM, Gerbers, STEP exports, and STL/3MF enclosure parts for manufacturing and review.
JawnCon 0x1 Modem Badge
officially documented
Single-printer production run
The official write-up says the badge shells were printed on one Prusa MK4 over about a month and a half with full-plate front/back batches.
Kernelcon 2020 Hack-Master Badge
source-backed
Pogo-pin ICSP production workflow
Public sources document ICSP programming with pogo pins and a clothespin pogo-clamp workflow used during badge production.
Maritime Hacking Village DC33 Differential Destroyer
source-backed
CAN, NMEA, and Modbus bus modes
OSHWA and repository documentation describe CAN 2.0B/NMEA-2000, NMEA-0183, and Modbus RTU transceiver modes with software-controlled half- and full-duplex behavior.
LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE
documented
ADC streaming and 12-bit logic analyser
The README describes ADC streaming over a serial interface and frames the badge as a basic 12-bit logic analyser for low-rate signal inspection.
CypherCon 2017 Cube Badge
historical
Three-dimensional PCB cube body
Hackaday describes the badge as a cube constructed from PCBs soldered along their edges, with a run of over 400 units assembled by hand.
Hackaday Supercon 2025 Communicator Badge
source-backed
Front-panel customization models
Hackaday's customization article points attendees to STEP, DXF, and SVG front-panel models so the non-electrical front PCB can be replaced with CNC, laser-cut, or 3D-printed panels.
DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
source-backed
Hard and soft bangle shells
The 3D-print README documents soft flexible and hard hinged bangle shells for holding the electronics, with magnets, hinge wire, and heat-shrink retention.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
source-backed
Injection-molded clear polycarbonate housing
The production path moved from a two-material ABS and PC enclosure concept to a single clear polycarbonate housing so the PCB color and LED passthrough could work within the tooling schedule.
ShmooCon 2018 WiFi Rocket Badge
source-backed
Injection-molded rocket enclosure
The same Hackaday.io log identifies the enclosure as an injection-molded rocket shell and credits Jaycon Systems for the production path.
CactusCon 13 Badge
source-backed
3D-print and STEP archive
The public repository includes 3d_Prints model/STL material and a Project-CC13 STEP export for mechanical reference.
Kernelcon 2020 Hack-Master Badge
historical
Backlit image reel
The Hack-Master badge used a dual-PCB assembly and two RGB LEDs as backlights for a custom image reel.
DEF CON 28 Safe Mode Badge
historical
Printed liner and audio puzzle
Folded liner notes and the cassette audio carried track-list, color, character, tone, and number-station-style clues for remote badge solving.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
documented
USB mass-storage TGA photo workflow
The badge splits flash into code and filesystem partitions and exposes a USB mass-storage volume where users copy 128x160 TGA images into `blingpic/` for display on the badge.
CarolinaCon Online 2 Conference PCB Badge
source-backed
Conference PCB Badge bundle
The official home page says the badge bundle contained a CarolinaCon T-shirt, shot glass, sticker, and Conference PCB Badge.
CarolinaCon Online 2021 Badge Kit
source-backed
All-parts shipped badge kit
The official page says the merch bundle included a kit with all parts needed to make the year's badge.
Lonely Hackers Club DC33 Meshtastic Badge
documented
Preconfigured LHC Meshtastic channel
The badge ships with the LHC channel preprogrammed, while the LHC guide documents QR-code onboarding and Meshtastic channel setup.
ToorCon 20 Official Badge
source-backed
ATtiny84 badge controller
The same source identifies the controller as an ATtiny84 and warns that incorrect orientation leaves the badge non-functional.
SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
first-hand documented
Arduino-compatible badge core
Datko and Hackaday describe the SAINTCON 2014 badge as an Arduino clone or Arduino-compatible badge built for attendee hacking.
SAINTCON 2016 ESP8266 LED Badge
documented
D1 Mini ESP8266 badge core
The public guide identifies the D1 Mini ESP8266 development board as the badge compute module and documents header orientation and USB flashing behavior.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
source-backed
BLE smartphone terminal
The smartphone-integration log documents the AND!XOR Android app terminal, Nordic nRF Toolbox compatibility, nearby badge scanning, BLE terminal commands, script buttons, and maintenance-mode behavior.
RVAsec 2026 Badge
planned
Post-event refresh target
The record should be refreshed after June 9-10, 2026 for final hardware, firmware, attendee guide, production, and image provenance.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
source-backed
Accelerometer tilt synthesizer
An accelerometer was added and paired with the buzzer to create a tone-generator/synthesizer controlled by badge tilt.
LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner Badge
source-backed
Hall-effect RPM timing
The firmware documents a hall-effect sensor interrupt, RPM calculation, and timing loop used to align the POV output with spinner rotation.
NolaCon 2025 Patches Badge
officially documented
Voodoo Heart series continuity
The badge maker frames Patches as part of the Voodoo Heart badge series and says it combines with last year's badge and next year's final piece.
Aerospace Village DC33 ADS-B Badge
source-backed
GPS moving-map context
The badge provides GPS own-ship position on a moving map, and the FAQ documents manual coordinate fallback when GPS lock is unavailable.
SAINTCON 2015 Wi-Fi Show Badge
source-backed
Wi-Fi enabled show-badge platform
Cisco describes the SAINTCON show badges as purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled badges carried by about 550 attendees and tied to Cisco CMX infrastructure.
BSidesPDX 2015 Badger Badge
source-backed
BadgerNet hotspot and infrastructure mode
The firmware defines BadgerNet as both preferred infrastructure SSID and hotspot basename, with retry behavior before badge-hosted service fallback.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
source-backed
TIR lens design
Rehrig documents total-internal-reflection lens work intended to focus emitter output and shape the optical behavior needed for the laser-tag game.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
source-backed
IR receiver and dual-emitter layout
The badge placed an IR receiver in the center and IR emitters on the center-left and center-right of the board for laser-tag interaction.
ToorCamp 2022 Spider Badge
source-backed
Buzzer or tripwire modification
The guide suggests attaching a buzzer or anything else to BZ1 and notes the badge can become a tripwire alarm when pointed at with a laser.
RVAsec 2025 Badge
source-backed
Challenge coin pairing
The registration page pairs the electronic badge with a custom RVAsec challenge coin in the guaranteed package.
BSidesKC 2019 Conference Badge
source-backed
Non-electronic crypto challenge path
Badge Pirates says non-electronic participants received an electrically same PCB with clues for a crypto challenge, preserving participation without overclaiming electronics for every attendee artifact.
ToorCamp 2024 Shadybucks Wristband
source-backed
External burner-wallet linking
The Shadybucks page documents optional external burner-wallet linking plus QR-code wallet setup, sponsorship transfers, and spending at camp.
SAINTCON 2021 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
Unofficial and booth MiniBadges
The unofficial section lists WiCyS, USA, Gadsen, Matrix, Eduroam, Private LTE, CompuNet, and Radiation badges with booth, sponsor, contact, or personal handoff acquisition notes.
SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge Collection
documented
2023 personal trading badges
The export includes personal and community-designed badges such as Cryptid Minibadge Expansion Board, SAO Adapter, Delicate Arch, Infinity, and other designer-attributed entries.
SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
Personal and trading MiniBadges
The personal category explains that creators brought their own badges for trading or networking and that those badges were not directly supported by conference staff.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
source-backed
EEPROM-backed identity state
The sketches use EEPROM for stored names and HugQuest token/infection state, keeping the pager identity and game state across restarts.
DEF CON 19 Badge
source-backed
Waterjet-cut titanium credential
The official program describes 0.040-inch commercially pure titanium pieces fabricated by waterjet, tumbled for deburring, and kiln-oxidized for an aged puzzle-game appearance.
DEF CON 21 Badge
historical
Continuity-probed PCB puzzle
The DEF CON 21 badge used hidden PCB metal and interconnected paths that attendees could discover with a multimeter, making a non-powered board behave like a puzzle circuit.
DEF CON 24 Badge
historical
Hidden trace and silkscreen puzzle
DEF CON 24 solving notes used badge backs, hidden traces, common encoded text, badge-type-specific silkscreen strings, and visible printed codes as puzzle material.
DEF CON 28 Safe Mode Badge
historical
Lanyard cipher surface
The lanyard carried unusual character strings and is identified by official forum and writeup sources as one of the challenge surfaces included with the badge.
DEF CON 33 Badge
historical
Layered-lens optical challenge
Mar Williams described the DC33 badge as interacting with 3D images and layered art around the con through different lenses and lens combinations.
DEF CON 31 Badge
historical
SAO customization slot
DEF CON's badge news previewed the badge through its SAO slot and framed the badge as having room for attendee customization.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
source-backed
Laser-cut acrylic body
The build notes document custom PCB design plus laser-cut acrylic and 3D/2D files for the badge enclosure and presentation form.
BIC Village DC33 BIC Pick Badge
source-backed
Afro-pick commemorative badge form
The official page frames the BIC Pick as a red, green, and gold Afro-pick-shaped badge celebrating BIC Village's five-year anniversary.
Planned specialty stations
The public plan sketches badge stations for hardware hacking, puzzles, games, a photo booth, or similar event-specific interactions.
Planned UART or wireless interaction
The project-owner plan calls out UART or wireless communication so stations can update badge state or behavior without reflashing a full image.
RVAsec 2026 Badge
planned
Planned limited hotel-package badge
Official RVAsec 15 pages list a limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge as part of the pre-event hotel package.
Planned self-service update stations
The next-version plan keeps the self-service update-station idea that was not fully reliable enough for PN26 field deployment.
Planned EEPROM image storage
The PN26 writeup lists EEPROM storage for image data as the first improvement target for the next version, avoiding PN26's full-firmware-patch workflow.
AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
officially documented
Post-event unlock-code publication
After AC9, the official badge page published four booth/village unlock codes for people who missed them during the event.
SAINTCON 2017 Raspberry Pi Badge
documented
Post-conference RetroPie conversion
The manual provides a post-conference conversion path for turning the badge into a RetroPie device after the event.
DEF CON 29 Badge
historical
USB HID macro-pad mode
Hackaday documented that the badge could identify as a USB HID keyboard and operate as a configurable macro pad after the event.
LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
source-backed
CR123A chainable LED hardware
Project details and build logs document two CR123A cells, diode reverse-polarity protection, battery tests, WS2812B failure observations, and boards chainable by VCC, ground, and LED data output.
Biohacking Village DC33 Distiller BHV Badge
documented
Battery, USB-C PD, and serviceability workflow
The user guide documents battery connection during setup, USB Power Delivery charging with a 9V/3A minimum, SSH access, RGB LED shutdown behavior, and 3D-printing button-tolerance troubleshooting.
AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
officially documented
BAT CON coin-cell safety path
The badge page documents BAT CON jumper behavior and warns users not to keep the coin cell connected while the badge is plugged into a computer.
CactusCon 12 Badge
source-backed
14500 battery, charger, and MAX17048 gauge
The CAD archive records 14500 battery-holder, TP4054-class charging, and MAX17048 fuel-gauge evidence.
BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus Badge
source-backed
AA battery and USB-C power path
The hardware README documents AA battery power through a boost converter, USB-C power through a regulator, and a switch between USB and battery power.
BSidesPDX 2017 BMD-300 Badge
source-backed
CR2032 and slide-switch power path
The BOM lists a CR2032 battery holder and ALPS power switch, and the schematic links the battery holder through the switch into the 3V3 path.
BSidesPDX 2019 Multnomah Badge
source-backed
CR2032 and slide-switch power path
The BOM lists a CR2032 battery holder and DPDT slide switch for the badge's portable power/control hardware.
BSidesPDX 2016 ATTiny85 Badge
source-backed
CR2032 battery holder
The BOM lists a CR2032 battery holder and the Eagle schematic carries BT1 as a CR2032 holder tied into the badge power rails.
CactusCon 14 Badge
source-backed
Dual 14500 power and MAX17048 fuel gauge
The board archive and README point to power and MAX17048 schematic material, with dual 14500 battery-holder and fuel-gauge evidence preserved in the CAD tree.
CactusCon 13 Badge
source-backed
Dual 14500 power and fuel gauge
The CC13 KiCad comments identify LiPo charging, dual 14500 battery holders, and fuel-gauge hardware.
BSidesPDX 2020 Presenter LED Mask
source-backed
Pushbutton standby control
The README and firmware document a pushbutton that toggles microphone power and clears the display for standby/low-power behavior.
LayerOne 2018 ESP32 Alexa Badge
source-backed
18650 battery and charging circuit
Hackaday describes an 18650 cell and charging circuit as part of the badge hardware package.
DEF CON 34 Badge
pre-event spec
Two-AA and USB-C power behavior
The SAO spec states that the badge is powered by two AA batteries and that USB-C power-bank operation keeps the badge continuously on.
La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge
source-backed
Two-AAA battery holder
The README lists a two-AAA battery holder as the badge power hardware.
ToorCamp 2018 Badge
source-backed
OSH Park sponsored PCB package
Great Scott Gadgets credits OSH Park sponsorship and the repository preserves the badge hardware designs and kit photo trail.
BSidesKC 2025 Badge
badge-maker documented
250 fully assembled ESP32 badges
Badge Pirates documents a batch of 250 fully electronic badges built around ESP32 boards with touch screens, Wi-Fi, and SD card slots.
BSidesKC 2025 Badge
badge-maker documented
Tariff and customs production lesson
The tariff writeup records customs scrutiny, opened packaging, delayed delivery, and roughly a 20 percent tariff hit on the production order.
AvengerCon VIII 8-8-8 Badge
source-backed
More-than-300 badge build
The Army article says Capt. Richard Shmel personally developed and made more than 300 electronic badges for AvengerCon VIII.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
documented
GPIO0/DTR production rework
A late GPIO0 buffer design caused battery-powered badges to enter Download boot mode until the team fixed DTR with an R19 pull-up resistor before conference shipment.
ShmooCon 2018 WiFi Rocket Badge
attendee-reported
Pre-conference firmware reflash
An attendee report says factory firmware left LEDs blindingly bright, requiring all badges to be reflashed just before the conference.
PhreakNIC 26 Electronic Shelf Label Badge
source-backed
DB9 pogo programming jig
Mog noticed the exposed pad spacing lined up well enough with DB9/DE9 connector pins, leading to a pogo-pin cable and CC Debugger flashing workflow.
LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
historical
CR123A and pick-and-place build
The Wi-Fi and pick-and-place log documents CR123A cells and holders, diode validation, stencil-holder work, eight early hand-built badges, and pick-and-place setup six days before the conference.
RV4sec 2015 Badge
source-backed
Hand-built surface-mount production
The official post documents panelized boards, solder-paste stencil work, reflow, inspection, through-hole soldering, and testing.
LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
historical
TM-220A badge production run
The building-badges log says kits were made, speaker and staff badges were built, and LED badges were being assembled with a TM-220A pick-and-place shortly before the conference.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
documented
Xometry injection-molding production path
The first-hand writeup names Xometry as the injection-molding partner and describes design-for-manufacturing tradeoffs around wall thickness, sink marks, lens geometry, and schedule pressure.
LayerOne 2017 CAN Bus Badge
documented
USB host/device and SWD workflow
The badge-team notes describe USB device support, USB host, HID or CDC behavior, and ST-Link V2/SWD programming expectations.
BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge
source-backed
ATTINY85 programming connector path
The official page identifies the ATTINY85 pin mapping for SAO data pins and names the Amphenol programming-port and male-connector parts with 1.27 mm pitch.
LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner Badge
documented
AVR flashing workflow
The README documents Microchip Studio or avr-gcc build paths, `L12024POV.hex`, avrdude flashing to `t4313`, and Kraken or Arduino ISP programmer options for attendees.
LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE
documented
AVRISP programming mode
The hardware-hacking guide documents AVRISP wiring and commands for initialization, target identification, flash reads/programming, and fuse access.
SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
first-hand documented
FTDI programming header
The badge could be programmed through an FTDI header, giving attendees a direct Arduino-style code-loading path.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
source-backed
RSSI scanner mode
The RSSI sketch and HugQuest command path scan channels 11 through 26 and display channel signal-strength readings on the SMART Response XE screen.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
source-backed
ATmega128RFA1 RF channel stack
RadioFunctions.h initializes the ATmega128RFA1 2.4 GHz transceiver and constrains channels to 11 through 26 for packet send/receive and RSSI reads.
BSidesSLC 2025 E-Badge
source-backed
ESP32-S3 and LoRa support
The official page identifies the badge's ESP32-S3 chip and LoRa support, framing the device as Meshtastic ready.
DEF CON 34 Badge
planned
Guaranteed preregistration Human badge
DEF CON's official ticket page says preregistration guarantees a DEF CON 34 Human badge when the ticket is redeemed onsite in Las Vegas.
CactusCon 8 Electronic Badge
source-backed
Printed or electronic badge handoff
The Friday and Saturday registration schedule pages say volunteers issued a printed badge or an electronic badge depending on ticket type.
CactusCon 2018 Paid Badge
source-backed
Ticket-required Mesa event
The Arizona LoCo notes say CactusCon 2018 required tickets because the event was growing and had moved to Mesa Convention Center.
Kernelcon 2021 Hacker HotKey
historical
Hack Live voting hotkeys
The default firmware mapped buttons for Hack Live website launch, voting, sabotage, hint, and live audience commands.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
source-backed
SMART Response XE base pager
The repository description and README frame 5ohBEE as a SMART Response XE-based pager project with board setup through an ATmega128RFA1 development-board profile.
Z80 CP/M emulator
The stock firmware included a Z80 emulator running CP/M with classic software hooks such as Zork and Sargon, turning the badge into a tiny retrocomputer.
Lonely Hackers Club DC33 Meshtastic Badge
documented
Post-event normal Meshtastic node mode
The page says the badge can be used as a normal Meshtastic node after the event, keeping the artifact useful beyond DEF CON 33.
PhreakNIC 26 Electronic Shelf Label Badge
source-backed
Reclaimed ZBD 55c-RB display core
The badge reused surplus ZBD 55c-RB / EPOP55 electronic shelf labels with CC1110 control hardware and a bistable LCD that keeps its image without power.
DEF CON 17 Badge
historical
Seven-badge puzzle and Uber hack
Human, Goon, Press, Speaker, Vendor, Contest Organizer, and Uber badge shapes could be placed together as a puzzle, and Smitty & The Minions / Team Halibut earned honorable mention for combining all seven badges with modified firmware animations.
DEF CON 25 Badge
documented
No official badge challenge
Attendee feedback explicitly called out the lack of an official badge challenge, so the record treats DEF CON 25 as a non-puzzle standard-badge year.
DEF CON 27 Badge
source-backed
NFMI remote-code-execution research
Grand Idea Studio links post-event research into over-the-air remote code execution against the badge's NFMI subsystem.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 Badge
source-backed
Motion, battery, and audio support
The specification documents a LIS3DHTR accelerometer, LiPo voltage monitoring, DW01A protection, TP4056 charging, TPS63060 buck-boost conversion, and a PWM buzzer.
ICS Village DC33 FREE-WILi Badge
source-backed
Environmental ICS sensor surface
The badge exposes BME688 gas/pressure/humidity/temperature sensing, MQ-3 alcohol sensing, XYZ position, infrared receive/transmit, RTC, buttons, LEDs, speaker, and full-color display for ICS exercises.
AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
officially documented
CP2102 9600-baud serial workflow
The badge page documents CP2102 USB-to-UART access, /dev/ttyUSB0 discovery, PuTTY, and 9600-baud serial connection guidance.
GrrCON 2024 BadgeBuddy
source-backed
WiFi proximity counter
BadgeBuddy counted unique nearby BadgeBuddy BSSIDs every 30 seconds and adjusted the animation density to reflect nearby badges.
DEF CON 19 Badge
documented
Badge-as-participation design
LosT's forum note framed the badge as a security token, curiosity device, and conference-participation prompt meant to get attendees interacting without the time burden of the Mystery Challenge.
Distiller CM5 SDK hardware modules
The SDK branch documents hardware, audio, camera, e-ink, SAM LED, ASR/VAD, TTS, optional Whisper, native display, package, and Debian installation modules for the CM5 platform.
User app examples
The repository preserves user-app directories for games, screensavers, spectrum analysis, text adventure, air-quality, hardware-monitor, app-manager, and other MicroPython examples.
RVAsec 2020 Badge
source-backed
Badge C-like interpreter
The README documents interpreter commands for IR, LEDs, note output, buttons, D-pad, framebuffer drawing, flash read/write, and source-buffer execution.
RVAsec 2013 Badge
source-backed
USB audio behavior
HackRVA's later interview describes audio from USB through the badge speaker path.
ICS Village DC33 FREE-WILi Badge
documented
USB API, GUI, and WASM scripting
Official docs describe FREE-WILi GUI support, ESP32 WebSocket interface, USB serial console API, WASM scripting examples, host Python API, FAT filesystem, and WASM control of device features.
Hackaday Supercon 2022 Voja4 Badge
archived
Badge emulator and example archive
The repository stores emulator, tutorial, examples, manuals, and firmware paths so the badge can be studied or programmed beyond the original event floor.
Hackaday Supercon 2022 Voja4 Badge
archived
Python assembler/disassembler
The public tools repository preserves Python assembler and disassembler scripts plus pseudo-op support for writing Voja4 programs outside direct binary entry.
RVAsec 2023 Badge
source-backed
Audio-output support
The 2023 status table marks audio output working on both badge hardware and simulator while audio/jack input remains not implemented.
RVAsec 2018 Badge
source-backed
Two-channel audio behavior
The HackRVA recap documents two-channel audio behavior on the 2018 badge.
Kernelcon 2025 Race Condition Badge
historical
Bonus track build
Attendees could build a bonus track with standoffs, headers, jumper wires, and a detect-pad bridge, then insert it into the badge for racing.
Kernelcon 2026 Off Grid Badge
source-backed
USB charge module kit
The official activity guide documents a small PCB kit that lets attendees harness the badge crank output to charge devices through USB-A.
ToorCon 20 Official Badge
source-backed
Eight-LED SMD Challenge
The builder log says the ToorCon badge incorporated an SMD Challenge with eight LEDs, including one smaller 0201 LED.
Hackaday Remoticon 2020 Unofficial Badge
source-backed
MakersBox SMD challenge circuit
The badge incorporated an SMD soldering challenge circuit credited to MakersBox, turning part of the board into a small assembly exercise.
NolaCon 2025 Patches Badge
officially documented
Learn to Solder badge tradition
NolaCon's badge page says the badge had been a conference Learn to Solder centerpiece for the past three years and presents Patches as the 2025 continuation.
AND!XOR DC28 Badge
archived
Apache-2.0 post-CTF source archive
The public repository preserves firmware, Gerbers, SPI tooling, troubleshooting notes, a flash-image archive, and Apache-2.0 license metadata after the CTF window.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
source-backed
Legacy Black Badge award
The first-hand writeup describes DerbyCon's black badge as the event's lifetime-ticket equivalent and frames this build as the Legacy Black Badge artifact.
SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection
officially documented
Sponsor MiniBadges
The sponsor category records badges designed by or for sponsors, including Arctic Wolf, Check Point, CompuNet, UETN, and Valcom entries with sponsor-booth acquisition framing.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
documented with safety caveats
Calibration, steering, and wobble modes
The badge manual documents calibration plus steering and wobble modes that affect perceived left/right balance through conductive electrode pads.
DEF CON 33 Badge
documented
Cash-line paper badge fallback
DEF CON's August 7, 2025 news notice says attendees in the cash line were receiving paper badges because the main badge shipment was delayed.
CactusCon 8 Electronic Badge
source-backed
Optional electronic badge registration path
The official registration update says CactusCon had a free tier and an option to purchase an electronic badge.
CactusCon 2018 Paid Badge
source-backed
Paid badge option
The same notes say there was no cost to get in but attendees had to pay in order to get a badge.
CactusCon 2017 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Scanner Badge
source-backed
Paid badge, shirt, and swag package
The attendee writeup says CactusCon 2017 could be attended free or with a $45 package that included a badge, shirt, and swag.
SAINTCON 2024 MiniBadge Trading Collection
officially documented
MiniBadge trading booth
The official page lists MiniBadge trading hours from Tuesday through Friday, with Monday closed, making trading an explicit conference activity rather than an inferred side event.
Ninja Networks DC17 Party Badge
source-backed
Electronic party invitation
Ninja Networks built the DC17 badge as the electronic invitation artifact for its DEF CON-adjacent party at the Artisan Hotel.
BSidesKC 2019 Conference Badge
documented
Pirate badge and counterfeit contest
Badge Pirates documents an unofficial Pirate badge variant plus a counterfeit-badge challenge triggered after badge imagery leaked before the event.
DEF CON 15 Badge
documented
Optional accelerometer and 2.4 GHz RF footprints
Grand Idea Studio says the fully designed but unpopulated circuitry supported an MMA7260QT triple-axis accelerometer and an MC13191FC 2.4 GHz RF transceiver for motion and ZigBee-class experiments.
Hackaday Supercon 2022 Voja4 Badge
source-backed
Front-panel LED and button programming
Hackaday documented direct programming through tactile front-panel buttons and 272 LEDs that showed CPU state, data memory, opcodes, operands, and execution progress.
Aerospace Village DC33 Aranya ESP32 Badge Board
source-backed
RGB notification LED and tactile button
The workshop page calls out a large RGB notification LED and a large tactile button as the board's attendee-facing interaction surface.
CactusCon 13 Badge
source-backed
Role-specific outer boards
The CAD-OuterBoard tree preserves attendee, Mafia, speaker, staff, and generic outer-board KiCad variants.
LayerOne 2017 CAN Bus Badge
source-backed
Twin CAN bus interface
The project documents twin 1 Mbps CAN buses, two transceivers, external CAN headers, MITM or dual-logging breakout, and CAN-side badge focus.
Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge
source-backed
RP2040 four-CAN main badge
The official CHV page documents the 2024 main badge with an RP2040, four CAN networks, a dry CAN connector, and four SAO connectors, while the public board tree preserves KiCad and production files.
BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
source-backed
Hardware Challenge Village badge
The official 2025 schedule says the village hosted a competitive CTF using a badge designed specifically for the Hardware Challenge Village.
BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
source-backed
Specially designed HCV badge
The official 2024 schedule says the Hardware Challenge Village used a specially designed village badge for HCV.
BSidesSF 2022 Hardware Village Badge
source-backed
Pre-assembled village badge
The official schedule says each Hardware Village participant would receive a pre-assembled badge, with limited badges available while supplies lasted.
The Diana Initiative 2020 Off-the-Shelf Virtual Badge
source-backed
Tinkercad virtual badge model
The Maker Village archive links an off-the-shelf virtual badge in Tinkercad so remote participants could inspect or simulate the project.
LayerOne 2019 Voight-Kampff Badge
source-backed
Six-button / sixteen-LED face
The report documents six surface-mount buttons and 16 RGB LEDs on the main badge face.
LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner Badge
source-backed
12-LED POV display strip
`main.c` maps 12 LED bits to AVR ports and the README describes words and patterns displayed through persistence of vision while the fidget spinner turns.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
source-backed
224-LED front array
The Hackster materials list names 224 Adafruit 0805 LEDs, four 74HC595 shift registers, and sixteen 2N3904 transistors for the visual badge surface.
LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
source-backed
5x4 WS2812B display
The project description names a 5x4 WS2812B LED array, and the development log says the design uses 20 LEDs rather than the earlier 25-LED expectation.
LayerOne 2023 PIC HID Badge
source-backed
WS2812B/SK6812 LED output
The README names WS2812B/SK6812 LEDs, while the firmware maps RC3 as the WS2812 output and cycles color-wheel and slow-fade LED effects.
Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge
attendee-documented
Binary and Morse LED challenges
The teardown documents four upper and four lower LEDs used for binary output, followed by a Morse-code light sequence.
SEC Youth Challenge 2023 Flux Decoder Badge
source-backed
Flux-capacitor LED groups
The schematic labels top, left, right, and center LED groups with ten LEDs total, while the firmware drives three three-LED arms plus a center LED.
WOPR Summit 0x00 Badge
source-backed
Dozen colored LEDs and eight RGB LEDs
Hackaday describes the WarGames-inspired display surface as a dozen colored LEDs plus eight RGB LEDs.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
source-backed
Reverse-mount LED and IS32FL3731 lighting
The badge used reverse-mount RGB LEDs behind the THOTCON letters, single-color reverse-mount LEDs near capacitive buttons, and an IS32FL3731 driver for animation without heavy CPU load.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
source-backed
ST7789 TFT and six-LED display surface
The public sources identify an ST7789 240x320 TFT display and six LEDs as the badge's main visual surfaces.
The Diana Initiative 2020 Off-the-Shelf Virtual Badge
source-backed
Seven-LED badge face
The BOM and wiring chart document seven LEDs with 220 ohm resistors mapped across Arduino digital pins D2 through D8.
BSidesPDX 2020 Presenter LED Mask
source-backed
Flexible 8x8 WS2812 mouth matrix
The parts list and wiring notes document a flexible 8x8 WS2812 LED matrix connected to 5 V, ground, and Arduino A3/digital 21 for mouth and banner output.
DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
source-backed
NeoPixel strip on A0
The sketch README says A0 is the only data pin and goes straight to the NeoPixel strip; the main firmware defines NeoPixel output on A0 with 12 LEDs.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
source-backed
WANNAHUG infection mechanic
HugQuest includes WANNAHUG transmission, infected-state persistence, a displayed ransom-style HUG-token prompt, and an unlock command requiring HUG tokens.
DC503 Wagon Party Badge
source-backed
BLE 0503 banner characteristic
The firmware advertises 503WAGON and exposes a BLE service and writable characteristic UUID 0503 that updates the on-screen banner text.
DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
source-backed
BLEUART hidden party modes
The README describes hidden party modes on BLEUART, while the BLEUART interaction sketch exposes list, rainbow, patriot, and off commands.
LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
source-backed
ESP8266 Wi-Fi bridge
The project says the ESP8266 worked before the conference and exposed GPIO connections to the PSoC4 so the chips could interact and the PSoC4 could reset the Wi-Fi module.
WOPR Summit 0x00 Badge
source-backed
Concept to Prototype teaching example
Hackaday reports that Russell Handorf and Mike Kershaw used the badge as a simple low-part-count reference design during their hardware design workshop.
Aranya wireless messaging demo
Attendees were expected to compile, configure, deploy, and modify an Aranya distributed wireless messaging application on the workshop board.
Operational history
Issues & Camp Impact
The FAQ says the badge collects 1090 MHz ADS-B only, not 978 MHz, and that radar display traffic depends on correct badge coordinates from GPS lock or manually entered position.
The record preserves the RF and navigation limits without implying universal aircraft tracking or software-selectable ADS-B bands.
The repository README explicitly warns that later documentation may include AI-generated docs, so this pass treats the repository as useful project evidence while preferring official LayerOne pages for event claims and recording documentation limits.
Hardware and firmware features are kept to repeatedly corroborated repository and guide statements instead of overstating uncertain generated prose.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
note
The project page describes unauthenticated remote command execution within the badge's Bluetooth mesh as an event game mechanic and explicitly ties it to the badge ecosystem.
The catalogue records the game behavior without implying broader real-world botnet capability beyond the AND!XOR badge network described by the project owners.
The official page also announces public CTF challenge source, but does not connect those CTF files to badge hardware or badge firmware.
The catalogue avoids merging the online CTF archive into the badge record without source-backed badge integration evidence.
The 2021 project was distributed as KiCad/artwork/Gerber files and shared fabrication paths, not as a verified centrally issued attendee badge.
The catalogue preserves the badge-culture artifact while avoiding universal distribution, official handout, or finished-product claims.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
note
The retrospective describes ESP32 DMA-memory pressure, WiFi logging behavior, flash-protection tradeoffs, power draw, SD-card performance limits, and SDK complexity as important project lessons.
The catalogue records the ESP32-WROVER migration as a deliberate capability upgrade while preserving the team's documented engineering tradeoffs.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
note
A late GPIO0/DTR buffer design let battery-powered badges enter ESP32 Download boot mode until an R19 pull-up resistor was added by the assembly house before shipment.
The record preserves a real manufacturing and bring-up issue as part of the badge history rather than presenting the 0xB build as frictionless.
The top-level README lists CH32V003, while the firmware README and hardware footprint trail expose Puya PY32F002/PY32F002AA15M details.
The badge record keeps those statements source-specific and avoids claiming a single verified final controller until the project publishes a reconciled BOM or final schematic note.
Hackaday described the LoRa mesh as an experiment because hundreds of long-range radios would be operating at very short range in the Supercon venue.
The catalogue records the intended mesh-chat behavior without implying that every RF condition, channel plan, or conference-floor routing outcome was solved before the event.
The public firmware includes RF transmit, Tesla, and jammer code paths, while Rabbit-Labs' product page says end users are responsible for lawful, safe, and authorized use.
The catalogue records the existence of those code paths as evidence only and does not provide operating instructions or imply that transmitting, jamming, or replaying RF signals is lawful in any jurisdiction.
The current Uber Badge page documents the lifetime-admission award model and public registry, but the public registry does not list a 2026 badge-challenge winner as of the current recheck.
The catalogue treats Uber Badges as an award lineage attached to the challenge and avoids naming unverified 2026 winners.
The ESP32CAM face-recognition behavior belongs to an optional add-on path, while the base badge is documented as an ATtiny2313 LED/button board.
The catalogue avoids implying that every 2019 badge had an onboard camera, Wi-Fi-capable core, or face-recognition hardware.
DEF CON 23 Badge
note
DEF CON 23's official badge is documented as a fully analog playable record rather than an electronic board.
The compendium avoids MCU, firmware, LED, battery, and circuit claims and records the audio, physical, lanyard, and printed clue surfaces instead.
DEF CON 20 Badge
note
This pass records the public firmware/material release paths but does not unpack, mirror, or inventory every firmware object, EEPROM dump, conference DVD file, or badge-contest writeup.
The record preserves the verified hardware and software surfaces while leaving deeper artifact archaeology for a later pass.
AND!XOR DC28 Badge
note
The public repository preserves firmware, Gerbers, SPI tools, troubleshooting, and a flash image, while this pass does not audit every firmware commit, CTF flag, Slack hint, scoreboard state, patch, land-mine flag, or physical drop artifact.
The record captures the verified hardware/software surfaces without claiming complete CTF reconstruction or complete production logistics.
The public sources prove a Shadybucks wristband, Shady Tag identity workflow, and badge CTF entry path, but not a recovered universal electronic PCB badge archive.
The record is classified as an identity/payment and CTF artifact instead of inventing electronics, components, firmware, or distribution details beyond the official wiki.
The public repository describes the item as a talking LED mask for BSides 2020 presenters, and the firmware comments call it a BSides PDX speaker gift; no source recovered here says it was the attendee badge.
The catalogue models the object as a presenter wearable/event artifact rather than a general admission badge or attendee-wide distribution claim.
The recovered notes prove a paid badge option, but they do not say whether the badge was printed, electronic, PCB-based, lanyard-only, challenge-enabled, or produced in a specific quantity.
The catalogue keeps the 2018 record as a paid-badge entitlement and avoids unsupported physical or electronic details.
Queercon 16 Q Badge
note
This pass relies on contemporary Hackaday technical coverage and DEF CON host-event context but does not recover an official Queercon 16 badge repository, firmware archive, full ARG ruleset, or production photo set.
The catalogue records verified hardware and social-game behavior while leaving firmware, challenge, and complete variant archaeology for a later pass.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
note
The README credits the bee art to Ivycraft and the repository is Apache-2.0, but this pass does not treat that as a complete image-publication provenance record for the catalogue hero slot.
The catalogue preserves the artwork credit as source context while leaving the visual empty until a specific image can be cleared under the project image rules.
The public record proves the talk, assembly guide, part list, and analog badge behavior, but this pass did not recover schematic files, PCB manufacturing files, production quantity, or a source repository.
The record keeps hardware claims tied to the assembly PDF rather than inventing design files or firmware surfaces.
Public sources document the cassette, liner, lanyard, and media-server availability, but this pass does not mirror or audit every audio file, transcript, tape variant, or final puzzle solution branch.
The catalogue records the verified analog badge surfaces and leaves complete audio forensics for a later artifact-level pass.
The public evidence describes the Legacy Black Badge as a special black-badge lifetime-access award artifact, not an attendee-wide DerbyCon admission credential.
The compendium records the artifact under DerbyCon while avoiding claims of general conference distribution or regular attendee-badge status.
DEF CON 33 Badge
note
DEF CON announced that cash-line attendees were temporarily receiving paper badges because the main badge shipment was delayed.
The record should not imply that every attendee received the final physical art badge immediately at registration; the temporary paper credential is part of the event artifact history.
DEF CON 27 Badge
note
Public firmware-hacking notes warned that badge resets could be caused by the battery touching metal and suggested insulating with the lanyard cloth.
The catalogue records practical handling behavior that matters for surviving badges and post-event hacking.
Badge Pirates documented battery-life problems and weak alkaline batteries, with many badges needing replacement batteries.
The record presents the badge as a real deployed event artifact with field power lessons rather than a frictionless reference design.
The build guide requires a Linux machine tested on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 and warns the Buildroot build can take around an hour and a half; the FAQ also documents Windows, macOS USB-C, Wi-Fi, SSH, keyboard, and battery-reset caveats.
The record presents Winglet OS as publicly buildable and hackable while making clear that toolchain, USB, and access workflows are not frictionless for every host.
Public sources describe the badge as a PCB canvas with space for builders to add their own electronics, including a MicroMod variant, rather than a complete stock electronics-and-firmware package.
The record avoids inventing a fixed MCU, app set, puzzle, or firmware behavior for the base Remoticon.2 template.
DEF CON 29 Badge
note
Public sources document hardware, firmware updates, SAO/IR hints, serial/Morse material, and solving paths, but this pass does not mirror or audit every firmware image, forum attachment, add-on, or final badge state.
The catalogue records the verified hardware and challenge surfaces while leaving full artifact preservation for a later pass.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
note
The retrospective says more than four dozen people actively worked on the B.E.N.D.E.R. challenges, but that no individual player beat the full game during the event because progress was spread across different challenge areas and social collaboration did not converge in time.
The software record describes the intended and observed challenge surface without implying a completed public solve path for every attendee.
The badge-challenge page deliberately withholds hints and says it is possible there may not be a winner this year; this pass did not recover an official puzzle solution, final badge artwork, clue inventory, or challenge source archive.
The entry keeps the challenge description narrow until an official or first-hand walkthrough appears.
The teardown warns that the TP4056 charger could get very hot when the badge was used while plugged in over USB/serial.
The record preserves a practical handling caveat without escalating it beyond the attendee report or claiming a formal recall/safety notice.
The 2021 archived page documents many MiniBadges with distinct status, community, contest, booth, personal, and unofficial acquisition paths, so this record is a collection entry rather than a single universal attendee-issued main badge.
The catalogue preserves the MiniBadge ecosystem while keeping per-board authorship, distribution, electronics, and official/unofficial status boundaries separate.
The 2022 assembly guide covers official, sponsor, and personal MiniBadges, so this record is a documented collection entry rather than a claim that every listed PCB was a universal conference-issued attendee badge.
The catalogue preserves the MiniBadge ecosystem while keeping acquisition routes, creator roles, and support boundaries separate from main-badge distribution claims.
The 2023 public evidence supports a MiniBadge ecosystem with official, community, contest, and personal entries, not a single uniform attendee-issued main badge or a claim that every listed board was organizer-built.
The catalogue preserves the verified trading and collection surface while keeping per-board authorship, acquisition, electronics, and support boundaries narrow.
The official 2024 page describes submitted and official MiniBadges brought to the conference, so this record models a collection/trading ecosystem rather than a single uniform attendee-issued main badge.
The catalogue preserves the verified BadgeLife surface while avoiding unsupported claims about universal distribution, per-MiniBadge electronics, or official status for every submitted design.
The LHC badge page ties pickup to DEF CON 33 but does not describe the badge as an official DEF CON attendee badge or official village badge.
The catalogue treats it as an unofficial/community DEF CON 33 badge release, separate from the mainline DEF CON 33 badge and village-issued badges.
Public sources tie the badge to DEF CON 33 and the Hacker Warehouse vendor booth, but do not describe it as the official DEF CON admission badge or an official DEF CON village badge.
The catalogue treats the Tipsy Badge as an independent DEF CON 33 badgelife release while keeping the official DEF CON 33 badge record separate.
RVAsec 2018 Badge
note
The public trail proves electronic hardware badges and badge software/challenge behavior, but no complete 2018 schematic, BOM, PCB source, final firmware tree, or manufacturing archive was recovered in this pass.
The record avoids unverified controller, pinout, schematic, or production-detail claims.
DEF CON 15 Badge
note
The project page names seven official contest entries and links several archives, but this pass records the main winner/runner-up facts rather than unpacking and modeling every submitted ZIP as separate source material.
The badge page preserves the contest lineage while leaving full per-entry reconstruction for a later archive pass.
DEF CON 17 Badge
note
The official results list 32 badge-hacking contest entries and the project page links selected ZIP archives, but this pass records the top entries and selected linked archives rather than unpacking every contest artifact.
The badge page preserves the contest lineage while leaving full per-entry reconstruction and media review for a later archive pass.
The current official site sells remaining 2025 E-Badges for pickup at the 2026 conference, so this record does not infer a separate 2026 electronic-badge design from that sale language.
Country and event pages can show the 2025 badge lineage without turning remaining-stock pickup into an unsupported new edition.
The live BSides Fort Wayne site has rolled forward to 2026, while the first-hand 2025 badge-team writeup and public 2025 badge repository preserve the 2025 evidence trail.
Keep the source note explicit and prefer archive/search snapshots or future official archive pages if a dedicated 2025 official page becomes available.
The official 2016 schedule and speaker page place the Friday program and keynote on October 14, 2016, and Calagator records October 14-15, 2016, while the current official past-events index lists October 19-20, 2016 even though those weekdays do not match the printed Friday/Saturday wording.
The event page uses the schedule/Calagator October 14-15 dates and preserves the mismatch as a provenance caveat instead of silently normalizing it.
The README warns that reprogramming erases badge memory, including challenge progress and custom messages.
Surviving-badge owners should preserve state before using the documented post-event firmware path or DFU flashing workflow.
The repository README links the historical `secyc23badge` page, but that URL currently returns a WordPress 404.
Future work should recover an archived copy before adding additional lore, instructions, or imagery from the original project page.
AND!XOR DC28 Badge
note
The project page says badges would be shipped to drops around the country for proxy hackers to give away for free, but this pass did not recover a final drop manifest, production count, recipient list, or universal-attendee distribution statement.
The catalogue treats the board as an unofficial DEF CON-adjacent badgelife artifact and avoids implying it was the official DEF CON 28 admission badge or a universally issued attendee item.
Badge Pirates says only 250 preregistration attendees received electronic badges, organizer/speaker/volunteer/Jr Hacker batches totaled 128 hand-assembled boards, and non-electronic participant PCBs carried crypto-challenge clues.
The catalogue avoids implying every BSidesKC attendee had a fully electronic badge while still recording the verified electronic badge ecosystem.
The README documents boards sold through the village and bundled with a flashed Pico 2, while OSHWA identifies the board as the official Maritime Hacking Village DEF CON 33 badge; this pass did not recover a public shipped count, sale quantity, or full distribution report.
The badge is included as a source-backed village badge without claiming attendee-wide DEF CON distribution or a final production quantity.
The official page states only 50 badges were available and that there was no shipping, but this pass did not recover a final sold count, full pickup ledger, or post-event availability report.
The record preserves the limited-run status without overclaiming final distribution.
The repository title says VIP Banglet and the sources prove a real badge project, but this pass did not recover a final quantity, party guest list, sales record, or attendee-wide distribution statement.
The record avoids claiming universal DEF CON, DC503, or BSidesPDX distribution and treats the artifact as a VIP/party wrist badge.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
note
The repository proves a real 503 Party 2019 pager project, but this pass did not recover a final quantity, recipient list, sales record, or attendee-wide distribution statement.
The record avoids claiming universal 503 Party, DC503, DEF CON, or RainSec distribution and limits itself to the public repository's party-pager scope.
Public sources say BIC Picks were worn by village volunteers, leaders, and supporters, were available through limited purchase or trade at DEF CON 33, and later sold out with merchandise, but they do not state a final badge count or attendee-wide distribution.
The record preserves the verified distribution language without implying every DEF CON or BIC Village attendee received one.
The official badge page says only about 200 fully assembled badges were available because of lead times, and that attendees who did not sign up for the assembled badge would receive a PCB.
The catalogue records the electronic badge without implying that every attendee received a fully assembled programmed unit.
The official source proves a Badger Hacking workshop and the repositories prove public 2015 Badger PCB/firmware archives, but this pass did not recover a production count, attendee-wide distribution statement, ticket tier, or final handout logistics.
The catalogue models the artifact conservatively as a BSidesPDX 2015 badge-hacking board archive rather than a universal attendee badge claim.
Calagator says PCB badges would be given away with donors prioritized, and the repository proves a public PCB badge archive, but this pass did not recover an attendee-wide distribution statement, final quantity, assembly note, donor-tier rule, or handout ledger.
The catalogue records the source-backed BSidesPDX 2016 PCB badge without claiming that every attendee received one.
The official schedule and speaker page prove a 2017 BSides PDX badge existed and had an Ox-Vox add-on target, while the repository proves a badge hardware archive, but this pass did not recover an attendee-wide distribution statement, production count, assembly note, or final handout logistics.
The catalogue records a source-backed BSidesPDX 2017 badge archive without overclaiming distribution scope.
The official schedule and speaker page prove a badges-related BSidesPDX 101 session and the repository proves a badge archive, but this pass did not recover an attendee-wide distribution statement, quantity, assembly note, or final handout logistics.
The catalogue records a source-backed BSidesPDX 2018 badge archive without overclaiming distribution scope.
The official schedule proves a badges-related BSidesPDX 101 session and the repository proves a badge archive, but this pass did not recover an attendee-wide distribution statement, quantity, assembly note, or final handout logistics.
The catalogue records a source-backed BSidesPDX 2019 badge archive without overclaiming distribution scope.
The official event site and Electronic Cats repository prove event and badge-project context, but this pass did not recover a static official product page proving attendee-wide distribution, final sales count, or exact pickup logistics.
The catalogue treats the artifact as a source-backed La Villa Hacker 2025 badge without implying every village attendee received one.
The badge was published for people to order, customize, or fork; public sources do not prove centralized production or attendee-wide distribution.
Claims are limited to a self-order/forkable hardware template and do not imply all Remoticon attendees received one.
The attendee-wide badge statement comes from a first-hand badge-team writeup rather than a recovered 2025 official archive page or production-count document.
The catalogue may state that the badge was given to attendees, but it does not claim final production quantity, ticket-tier mechanics, or exact replacement/spare counts.
FREE-WILi documentation says it may be updated without notice and includes a liability disclaimer, so this record cites both the live docs and the GitHub markdown source for traceability.
Hardware and software claims stay tied to the current public documentation snapshot and should be revisited if FREE-WILi revises the page or publishes design files.
CactusCon 13 Badge
note
The CactusCon13 repository lacks a descriptive README in the inspected public tree, so hardware claims are tied to directory names, KiCad comments, and repository metadata rather than a narrative badge-maker writeup.
The record remains useful for source discovery while preserving the limits of the public documentation.
The official HHV archive and Hackaday.io project describe two 2015 badges, so this catalogue keeps them in one LayerOne 2015 record while clearly separating the PSoC4/ESP8266 LED badge from the VoCore/OpenWRT network badge.
Readers see the two-source-backed badge designs without treating one board's hardware, firmware, or production state as universal to the other.
The CactusCon 8 registration update says electronic badges were available "as always", which hints at earlier CactusCon electronic-badge years, but the current early-lineage pass only recovered artifact-level evidence for the 2014 PCB badge, 2017 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth scanner badge, and 2018 paid badge option.
CactusCon 2012-2013 and 2015-2016 stay explicit negative coverage until primary event pages, ticket text, badge-team archives, photos with reuse rights, repositories, or other artifact-level public sources surface.
The badge writeup identifies CactusCon and the public slide trail anchors CactusCon activity on April 4, 2014, but this pass did not recover a complete official 2014 event page with full venue, ticketing, or schedule archive.
The event edition is named by year and kept source-scoped rather than assigning an unsupported CactusCon edition number.
RVAsec 2019 Badge
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HackRVA noted time pressure around the scoreboard and base-station/game content, so the record treats some game/networking elements as planned or constrained rather than fully proven completed behavior.
The entry separates source-backed plans, public interpreter code, and final-event uncertainty.
The FAQ warns external-antenna installation can disturb a tiny AC-coupling capacitor, explains the capacitor protects downstream RF parts from DC and low-frequency high-power signals, and says the external antenna must be selected in settings.
The catalogue records the optional antenna path while preserving the modification risk and RF-protection context.
DEF CON 17 Badge
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Public YouTube, Flickr, WIRED, Hackaday, Forbes, MAKE, CNET, and NetworkWorld references exist for the badge and hacks, but they are used only as pointers unless their reuse rights and exact badge-image provenance can be reconciled.
The catalogue avoids importing media from social/gallery/press surfaces while preserving source links for future review.
The BHV guide documents USB-C PD 9V/3A charging requirements, battery setup steps, side RGB LED shutdown behavior, and possible button-stuck issues from 3D-printing tolerance.
The record presents the badge as a serviceable field device with operational constraints rather than a frictionless consumer gadget.
The README says the documentation and firmware were work-in-progress and lists missing or incomplete areas including SD-card FAT32 packet capture/replay files, button-controlled GUI, protocol state machines, Modbus Rx, MCP2518FD drivers, I2C/SPI pass-through, and better docs.
The record documents intended and exposed firmware surfaces without implying that every listed protocol or feature was complete during DEF CON 33.
DEF CON 34 Badge
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The public source trail currently documents SAO electrical and mechanical constraints but not badge firmware, bootloader behavior, challenge source, final PCB files, BOM, shipped role variants, or production notes.
Hardware and software fields stay limited to the official SAO spec until DEF CON publishes final badge files or credible post-event technical documentation.
The official badge page documents CTF behavior, CP2102 serial access, BAT CON battery handling, 9600-baud workflow, unlock codes, and safety instructions, but this pass did not recover firmware source, schematic files, BOM, Gerbers, challenge binaries, or a complete hardware archive.
The catalogue keeps the strong official badge-guide evidence while avoiding unsupported claims about the unrecovered design files or shipped firmware internals.
DEF CON 18 Badge
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Recovered public sources describe hardware, display, USB, role variants, and production context more clearly than original firmware internals.
The record intentionally avoids detailed firmware claims beyond USB-oriented hackability until stronger primary source is recovered.
The reveal article said software was still being worked on while badges were being produced, with final behavior expected to settle at the event.
The record treats the repository and firmware documentation as living event artifacts rather than claiming a frozen pre-event production firmware state.
DEF CON 32 Badge
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Public sources document the save issue, firmware archives, GB Studio game source, and DEF CON's response to contractor-credit and firmware claims, but this pass does not adjudicate every dispute, audit every firmware build, or mirror every hardware/game asset.
The catalogue records the verified public badge surfaces and flags that the production and firmware story needs a deeper artifact-level chronology.
DEF CON 30 Badge
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Public sources document firmware dumping/modification, key combos, badge variants, and challenge flow, but this pass does not mirror every firmware image, media artifact, phone recording, badge variant, or post-win state.
The catalogue records verified hardware and challenge structure while leaving full artifact preservation and firmware archaeology for a later pass.
The wiki references firmware, ESPHome, user manuals, and MicroPython workflows, but this pass does not mirror or audit every firmware image, manual PDF, pro-model component variant, or Badge Clinic artifact.
The catalogue records verified hardware and hacking surfaces while leaving complete firmware and variant preservation for a later artifact-level pass.
DEF CON 24 Badge
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Public writeups expose serial strings and interaction behavior but this pass does not unpack the full badge firmware or media-server archive.
The compendium records observed behavior and published challenge paths while avoiding unsupported claims about the badge's internal firmware architecture.
The forum narrative says USB storage and radio time-synchronization features were planned and then dropped, so this record does not claim those features shipped on attendee badges.
The badge page describes the published public-domain source and visible electronic invitation hardware without upgrading abandoned goals into production behavior.
Great Scott Gadgets warns that replacement firmware must be linked properly for CC Bootloader and tells users to use RfCatDonsCCBootloader rather than the non-bootloader RfCatDons image.
The record preserves an operational caveat that matters for surviving badges and avoids presenting reflashing as a risk-free generic CC1111 workflow.
Each visual update required flashing a newly patched firmware image instead of writing display data to EEPROM.
The project owner notes that interrupted flashing could leave a badge in a broken state; EEPROM storage is listed as a future improvement.
Recovered sources prove an analog 555-timer badge kit and optional Arduino-compatible expansion path, but no CarolinaCon 12 badge firmware repository, microcontroller stock firmware, CTF code, or final attendee modifications were recovered.
The entry records the verified soldering badge and hacking surface without inventing software behavior.
The base badge repository documents hardware files and optional Feather mounting, but does not define stock event firmware for the template itself.
Software claims remain limited to user-supplied electronics and do not invent a Remoticon 2020 badge firmware platform.
THOTCON 0x8 Badge
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Hackaday.io links stock firmware source and an Arduino RGB demo, but this pass records the public project evidence rather than auditing, mirroring, or validating every firmware artifact and challenge branch.
The catalogue records verified hardware, game behavior, and recovery workflow while leaving full firmware preservation and challenge reconstruction for a later pass.
The project logs describe firmware tracks, CAN tooling, HID/CDC behavior, and emulator experiments, but this pass did not recover a complete public final firmware repository, board-production release, or challenge/utility software archive.
Software and protocol claims are kept to the public project statements rather than treating development notes as a complete release package.
The guide provides assembly and acquisition documentation but this pass did not recover a central firmware repository, schematic archive, BOM archive, manufacturing files, or complete per-MiniBadge source release.
The record describes verified assembly and interaction evidence without inventing unrecovered firmware behavior or treating every MiniBadge as source-open hardware.
The public record proves staff firmware flashing after attendee assembly, but this pass did not recover a public firmware repository, binary release, pin map, bootloader workflow, or badge-challenge source archive.
The software section records the verified staff-flashing workflow without inventing firmware behavior or challenge internals.
RV4sec 2015 Badge
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The 2015 source trail proves hardware and fabrication but does not expose a complete event firmware repository in this pass.
Software behavior is kept conservative until firmware or attendee documentation surfaces.
ToorCamp 2018 Badge
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The public repository proves hardware and firmware source availability, but this pass does not audit every source file, firmware build, power profile, or attendee modification.
The record preserves verified hardware/software surfaces while leaving deeper MSP430 firmware archaeology for later work.
DEF CON 26 Badge
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Public sources document firmware update paths and version checks, but this pass does not mirror or audit every media-server artifact, hex file, writeup, or internal game branch.
The catalogue records the verified hardware and update workflow while leaving complete firmware archaeology for a later artifact-level pass.
Voja's project page preserves later owner support and errata discussion around firmware versions, manual corrections, serial behavior, LED dimming, bootloader use, and Berlin 2023 firmware context.
The record treats manuals, firmware binaries, and repository artifacts as living owner-support evidence, not as proof that every recovered file represents a bug-free Pasadena production state.
Hackbat DEF CON 32 Badge
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The README warns that the DEF CON 32 received version had D9 misplaced, leaving USB 5V directly connected to the battery; the repository says the current revision fixes the problem.
The catalogue preserves the battery/USB safety erratum and does not treat all Hackbat boards as identical to the fixed public revision.
BSidesKC 2025 Badge
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Badge Pirates said the badges were held at U.S. Customs after the event and that purchasers would be contacted for pickup or shipping once the badges cleared.
The record presents the badge as a real post-event delivery effort with documented logistics friction instead of implying frictionless on-site distribution.
The official badge PDF title says 'CarolinaCon 2012 Badge Cheat Sheet,' but the official CarolinaCon 12 page, URL, dates, and badge-section link identify it as the CarolinaCon 12 / 2016 badge instruction manual.
The catalogue treats the PDF title as an edition-number wording issue rather than a separate 2012 event claim.
The public sources document high-level Pico/OLED/button/SAO/EEPROM/game behavior, but this pass did not recover schematics, PCB files, BOM, firmware source, protocol documentation, production files, or a public repository.
Component and firmware claims remain limited to the public product and announcement text, with no invented electronics or implementation details.
The README records hardware caveats including an error on one charlieplexed LED and a reversed 3-pin JST SWD connector, plus solder-jumper and target-voltage configuration notes.
The record presents the badge as a real hardware lab platform with documented errata rather than a polished reference design without caveats.
The production story records that the badge's power path could not reliably support flash writes at full 80 MHz operation, requiring firmware and clocking attention.
Surviving-badge hacking and firmware flashing should respect the documented power and flash-write constraints.
The recovered public sources document product context, pinouts, firmware behavior, and operating notes, but this pass did not recover schematics, Gerbers, KiCad files, BOM, manufacturing files, shipped quantity, or final assembly documentation.
Hardware claims stay limited to the product page, pinout text, and firmware constants without inventing board layout, production quantity, or undocumented circuit details.
The official page proves four buttons, four LEDs, challenge flags, and hardware-hacking acknowledgement, but it does not publish component identifiers, schematic, firmware, PCB files, battery details, or production notes.
The catalogue records only the verified badge behavior and avoids inventing electronics beyond the public BBV Badge 2025 source.
The official source proves a commemorative Afro-pick badge artifact but does not publish a schematic, controller, firmware, PCB source, component list, material specification, or production quantity.
The catalogue treats the BIC Pick as a physical commemorative and identity artifact, not as an electronic badge unless primary technical documentation appears.
The public project record proves a simple discrete marquee attendee kit, but this pass did not recover public schematics, BOM, assembly guide, firmware, battery, controller, LED count, or event-game documentation.
The catalogue keeps the record as a source-backed kit badge and avoids inventing electronics beyond the published discrete marquee description.
The recovered official sources prove that CactusCon 8 offered an electronic badge option and issued printed or electronic badges by ticket type, but they do not describe electronics, manufacturer, firmware, challenge behavior, production count, final appearance, or distribution beyond ticket entitlement.
The catalogue records the badge as a real registration-tier artifact without upgrading it into a specific PCB platform or game badge.
Public sources in this pass describe the badge's role, ESP8266 class, LED behavior, enclosure, and production trouble, but no complete schematic, firmware repository, BOM, or official badge guide was recovered.
The catalogue avoids claiming pinouts, radio firmware internals, LED counts, or final production files until an official or creator archive is found.
The public 2022 source trail is strong for firmware and flashing workflow but does not expose a complete final schematic, BOM, badge photo provenance, or distribution writeup.
The catalogue avoids unsupported claims about exact PCB assembly and distribution while preserving the source-backed ESP8266 watch firmware record.
RVAsec 2017 Badge
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The public trail confirms HackRVA badge distribution and badge-program context but does not expose final hardware specifications, firmware source, schematic, BOM, component list, or a complete attendee badge guide.
The badge is modeled as a source-backed artifact without invented electronics or component claims.
The PCB repository documents practical hardware quirks including swapped SAO signal names/silkscreen, an oscillator routing caveat for Lattice Diamond, larger-than-intended buttons, and intentional lack of USB power operation.
The badge is a serious open FPGA platform, but catalogue readers should not treat the public PCB as a frictionless reference design without reading the errata.
JawnCon's official badge write-up describes the badge PCB as an ESP32 radio plus level shifter and LEDs, while Hackaday and the linked RetroWiFiModem repository describe ESP8266 / Wemos D1 lineage.
The catalogue preserves both source trails and avoids asserting a single microcontroller family until a JawnCon-specific schematic, BOM, or firmware fork is recovered.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
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The FT2232H feature intentionally exposes UART, JTAG, SPI, I2C, and bit-bang workflows for hacking other embedded systems, so the catalogue frames it as a legitimate learning/debugging tool and not as authorization to attack third-party hardware.
User-facing wording documents capability without overstating permission or harmful use.
Aerospace Village states that the DC32 badge is back for DC33 as the same badge hardware with new software.
The catalogue treats this as a DC33 software/support/accessory refresh of the Aerospace Village ADS-B badge, not as a newly designed 2025 board revision.
Visible official, Hackaday, and Hackaday.io media prove the badge and add-on context, but no specific LayerOne 2018 badge photo or full upstream raster has been paired with complete reusable image license or permission, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article photos, event media, repository screenshots, or project images without full provenance.
Visible Hackaday, official, and repository-linked media prove the badge and add-on context, but no specific LayerOne 2019 badge photo or full upstream raster has been paired with complete reusable image license or permission, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article photos, event media, repository screenshots, or project images without full provenance.
The official WWHF page proves an electronic badge and badge CTF but does not publish a component list, schematic, BOM, firmware release, PCB files, or challenge-source archive; component-level details currently come from a post-event attendee teardown.
The catalogue records ESP32-S3, OLED, charger, LED, BLE, serial, and firmware-analysis details as teardown-backed rather than official board documentation.
The repository preserves firmware and programming instructions, but this pass did not recover schematics, board files, BOM, final production quantity, handout list, or a photographed final badge set.
Hardware claims stay limited to the README programming workflow, nRF52832 target, SSD1306 display setup, I2C pin mapping, and firmware-observed inputs.
Public sources document the CM5 platform, custom PCB functions, enclosure, software branches, and user operation, but this pass did not recover a final public schematic, PCB/Gerber release, full bill of materials, or production count.
The catalogue keeps hardware claims to verified public documentation and avoids inventing component identifiers or manufacturing details.
The public page gives concrete module/specification details, but this pass did not recover a custom schematic, case source, firmware patch repository, manufacturing files, or bill of materials beyond the listed hardware platform.
The catalogue records verified hardware and firmware configuration while avoiding unsupported custom-board or source-release claims.
Public sources prove BSides Tampa 2018 event context, electronic badge assembly activity, and a visible badge/lanyard artifact, but this pass did not recover schematic, BOM, firmware, assembly instructions, controller part, battery details, or challenge-source material.
The record captures the source-backed artifact without inventing electronics or software behavior beyond the public evidence.
The current public source describes the LilyGO T-Deck S3 base and visible feature set, but this pass did not recover a BSidesSLC badge firmware repository, schematic, BOM, Meshtastic configuration, app archive, or challenge source.
The catalogue records the verified official badge description while avoiding unsupported local firmware, challenge, or hardware-modification claims.
The official source proves a pre-assembled Arduino-programmable badge, but this pass did not recover a schematic, BOM, controller part, firmware repository, payload archive, PCB files, production count, or official badge photo license.
The catalogue records the real village artifact while avoiding unsupported component or firmware claims.
No schematic, firmware repository, bill of materials, wristband electronics description, or exact badge hardware implementation was recovered in this pass.
Future work should revisit ToorCamp and Shadytel archives for hardware details before adding component-level claims.
DEF CON 14 Badge
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Primary designer materials use DEFCON while current event branding is commonly written DEF CON.
The compendium uses DEF CON for the series and event but preserves DEFCON in source titles where that is the original title.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
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The badge housing changed from a two-piece ABS and clear-PC concept to a single clear-polycarbonate part after injection-molding review, timeline pressure, wall-thickness concerns, sink-mark risk, and lens-geometry iteration.
The record preserves the badge as a real production artifact with mechanical and optical compromises rather than treating the enclosure as a frictionless visual shell.
DEF CON 1 Name Tag
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The DEF CON 1 image uses a WebP crop from Sephiroth storm's CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons documentary photo `HackerCon Badges.jpg`.
The entry now has a real rights-cleared documentary-photo derivative while avoiding generated art, placeholder imagery, and reuse of the rights-limited official DEF CON media-server badge photo.
The DEF CON 13 image uses Prosavage2600's Wikimedia Commons public-domain photograph of a DEF CON 13 badge.
The entry has a real rights-cleared documentary photo without introducing generated, placeholder, or uncleared imagery.
DEF CON 14 Badge
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The DEF CON 14 image uses Eliot Phillips / RobotSkirts' Flickr documentary photo of the badge under CC BY-NC 2.0.
The entry now has a real rights-cleared documentary photo without copying Grand Idea Studio's all-rights-reserved project-page images, generated art, or placeholders.
DEF CON 17 Badge
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The DEF CON 17 visual uses Nate Grigg / nateOne's Flickr documentary photo `HUMAN` under CC BY 2.0, cropped to the visible Human attendee badge area.
The entry now has a rights-cleared original documentary photo while preserving the rule against copying Grand Idea Studio all-rights-reserved project-page images, press imagery, generated art, placeholders, or social-media scrapes.
DEF CON 18 Badge
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The DEF CON 18 image uses Samsonswiki's CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons photograph identified as DEF CON 18.
The entry now has a real rights-cleared documentary photo with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes instead of a generated, placeholder, or uncleared image.
DEF CON 19 Badge
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The DEF CON 19 image uses a 00:18:26 frame from the TIB AV-Portal / DEF CON recording of Welcome & Making of the badge under CC BY 3.0, cropped to the talk-slide collage of real titanium badge variants.
The entry now has a rights-cleared documentary video-frame derivative without copying attendee photos, generated art, placeholders, or all-rights-reserved gallery media.
DEF CON 20 Badge
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The published DEF CON 20 image is a WebP crop from Sephiroth storm's CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons documentary photo of multiple DEF CON badges.
The catalogue can show a real DEF CON 20 badge image while preserving the full source original and avoiding Parallax forum images, WIRED gallery images, generated art, or uncleared archive photos.
DEF CON 21 Badge
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The published DEF CON 21 image is an optimized WebP derivative of Openfly's CC BY 2.0 Flickr photo titled populated defcon 21 badge case.
The catalogue can show a real DEF CON 21 badge-case photo while preserving the full source original and avoiding WIRED, Hackaday, or writeup photos without complete provenance.
DEF CON 22 Badge
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The local DEF CON 22 image is Tony Webster's Wikimedia Commons badge photograph under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The entry now has a rights-cleared original documentary photo without using generated, placeholder, or uncleared event imagery.
DEF CON 23 Badge
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The DEF CON 23 image uses a 00:09:56 frame from the CC BY 3.0 TIB AV-Portal / DEF CON recording `DT and 1057 - Welcome to DEF CON`, cropped to the talk-slide collage of real vinyl record badge variants.
The entry now has a rights-cleared documentary video-frame derivative while continuing to avoid The Register, Hackaday, writeup, attendee, social-media, generated, and placeholder imagery.
DEF CON 24 Badge
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The DEF CON 24 image now uses Hanno Böck's original Wikimedia Commons photograph of the badge front under CC0 1.0.
The entry can show a real badge photo while preserving the project rule against generated, placeholder, press, video-frame, or uncleared writeup imagery.
DEF CON 26 Badge
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The DEF CON 26 image uses Sephiroth storm's Wikimedia Commons documentary photo `HackerCon Badges.jpg` under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The entry now has a real rights-cleared documentary photo without copying article media, Hackaday.io photos, screenshots, generated art, or placeholders.
The Tipsy visual uses the repository README's exact `assets/tipsy.readme.png` badge photo under the repository CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
The record has a real source image, attribution, license basis, retained local source original, and optimized WebP delivery file rather than generated, placeholder, social-media, or screenshot imagery.
HOPE X Badge
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The HOPE X visual uses Acebarry's CC0 Wikimedia Commons photo of the badge issued at the tenth Hackers On Planet Earth conference.
The public badge page, image archive, and API point at a real public-domain badge photo with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes preserved.
The HOPE XV visual uses the `graphics/boardrendfront.png` upstream front-board raster from the HiP Badge open-hardware repository linked by the HOPE wiki.
The record now has a rights-cleared official upstream raster render with source URL, CC BY-SA 4.0 component license, attribution, local source preservation, and optimized WebP delivery while keeping the wiki's unlicensed front/back photos unpublished.
The published BSides Tampa 2018 image is a WebP crop from Sephiroth storm's CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons documentary photo of hacker-conference badges.
The entry can show a real badge/lanyard artifact while avoiding generated art, unclear conference-gallery imagery, or social-media copies.
The BSidesKC 2019 visual uses the official BadgePiratesLLC/BSidesKC_2019 `photos/Participant Close up.JPG` repository photo under the repository CC BY 4.0 hardware license.
The public badge page, image archive, and API point at a real physical participant-badge photo with source URL, license, attribution, and WebP processing notes preserved.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
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The AND!XOR DC26 image uses a WebP crop from Sephiroth storm's CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons documentary photo `HackerCon Badges.jpg`.
The entry now has a real rights-cleared documentary-photo derivative with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes instead of generated, placeholder, article, project-gallery, or social-media imagery.
DEF CON 27 Badge
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The DEF CON 27 visual uses Grand Idea Studio's official `dc27_bdg_img1.jpg` badge photo under the project page's Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International design-license statement.
The public badge page, image archive, and API now point at a real upstream badge photo with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes preserved.
The Hackbat visual uses the GPL-3.0 `doc/3d.png` render from the official theHackbat/defcon32_badge repository.
The record has a rights-cleared official upstream raster render with source URL, license, attribution, local source preservation, and optimized WebP delivery while avoiding generated or placeholder imagery.
The ICS Village DC33 visual uses FREE-WILi's `build_a_badge` repository `assets/ics_village_badge.png` upstream raster render under the repository README's MIT License text.
The record now has a rights-cleared official upstream render with source URL, license, attribution, source-original retention, and WebP processing notes while avoiding generated or placeholder imagery.
The LayerOne 2024 visual uses the MIT-licensed `docs/spinner_photo.png` repository photo embedded in the public README for the POV Spinner badge.
The public badge page, image archive, and API can show a real repository badge photo with source URL, license, attribution, local source preservation, and optimized WebP delivery rather than synthetic or unclear imagery.
CactusCon 14 Badge
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The CactusCon 14 visual uses Badge Pirates' official `CAD/CC14.png` front board-output raster from the public CactusCon14 repository.
The record now has a rights-cleared official upstream raster render with source URL, license basis, attribution, local source preservation, and optimized WebP delivery while avoiding generated, placeholder, screenshot, or social-media imagery.
ToorCamp 2018 Badge
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The ToorCamp 2018 visual uses the BSD-licensed repository JPEG embedded in the Great Scott Gadgets README as the Jar of Fireflies badge image.
The public badge page, image archive, and API point at an original repository photo with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes preserved.
The Supercon 2023 Vectorscope visual now uses the MIT-licensed `docs/badge_talk_2023/images/image2.png` workbench photo from the official Hack-a-Day/Vectorscope repository.
The original North American Vectorscope record now has a rights-cleared physical-badge image with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes while avoiding generated or placeholder imagery.
The Supercon 2025 visual now uses the repository `images/2025_badge_front_supercon_logo.png` front photo under the MIT-licensed Hack-a-Day/2025-Communicator_Badge source tree.
The public badge page, image archive, and API point at a real upstream badge photo with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes preserved.
The Remoticon 2020 visual uses Thomas Flummer's official `RENDER/remoticon_badge.jpg` upstream render from the public CC BY-SA 4.0 flummer/remoticon2020-badge repository.
The record now has a rights-cleared official upstream raster render with source URL, license, attribution, local source preservation, and optimized WebP delivery while avoiding generated, placeholder, social-media, or OSH Park preview imagery.
The linked PDF includes badge imagery, but no reusable image license, exact attribution basis for photos/figures, or processing permission was recovered for local publication.
The record remains image-free until a rights-cleared original photo or official upstream raster is available.
The repository includes Apache-2.0 licensing for the published source tree, but that alone is not used here as proof that any particular documentary badge photo is reusable with full attribution and processing provenance.
The catalogue records the repository license while leaving the visual slot empty until a specific image can be cleared under the project image rules.
AND!XOR DC28 Badge
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No local AND!XOR DC28 image is published because this pass did not pair a specific physical badge photo or official upstream full-board raster with complete reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than copying Hackaday.io media, social posts, repository-adjacent screenshots, article images, or generated artwork.
The first-hand post and coverage pages include badge photos or media, but this pass did not recover a badge photo or official render with complete reusable image license, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog, SparkFun, Hackaday, or event media without explicit reuse permission.
Cisco and official archive pages contain event or badge-related media, but this pass did not recover a badge photo or official render with complete reusable image license, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying Cisco blog, archive, or event media without explicit reuse permission.
The ReadTheDocs badge documentation includes finished-example and assembly photos, but no recovered source pairs those images with a reusable image license, explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing notes for publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying documentation photos or archive media without complete provenance.
The official badge page and manual contain badge-related images, but no recovered source pairs those images with a reusable image license, explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing notes for publication.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying official-page photos, manual screenshots, GitLab Pages media, or social images without complete provenance.
The DC540 post and recovered archive/media trail do not provide a complete reusable image license, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance for badge photos or page imagery.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying first-hand blog or archive images without explicit reuse permission.
Hackaday and Handorf publish real badge photos and build images, but this pass did not recover complete reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes for local catalogue publication.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article or build-guide media without a clear reuse basis.
The official CHV page, IOActive build posts, and GitHub repositories include useful badge-related imagery, but this pass did not recover a specific badge photo or full-board render paired with reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for publication.
The record remains image-free rather than copying event-page images, blog photos, repository images, social previews, screenshots, generated art, or approximate badge artwork.
The build post includes useful assembled-badge images and video, but this pass did not recover an explicit reusable image license, attribution basis, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The record remains image-free rather than copying blog photos, OpenGraph images, videos, screenshots, repository diagrams, generated art, or approximate badge artwork.
The Hackster project includes real badge images and build-media context, but this pass did not recover an explicit reusable image license, permission basis, attribution requirement, and processing provenance for local catalogue publication.
The record remains image-free rather than copying Hackster project media, screenshots, OpenGraph images, generated art, or approximate badge artwork.
RVAs3c 2014 Badge
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Some source text describes goals and in-progress firmware rather than a complete post-event final-behavior manual, so the entry separates proven hardware/source release from planned bootloader and hacking ambitions.
The record avoids overstating final attendee software behavior beyond public sources.
The base badge worked as a spectrum analyzer, while full Ubertooth-capable behavior required a larger hacking kit and additional firmware installation on both microcontrollers.
The catalogue separates shipped badge behavior from optional kit upgrades and does not imply that every attendee badge was fully populated as an Ubertooth.
The repository license states that hardware and software are CC BY-SA 4.0, but names, logos, and artwork are covered by their own more restrictive licenses.
The catalogue cites the source trail and technical claims but does not republish badge artwork, logo material, or repository imagery as a hero image.
This pass did not identify a clear project-wide license on the Hackaday.io Remoticon.2 files that would support local reuse of project photos, renders, or artwork as catalogue images.
The project is cited for artifact facts and fabrication context, but image and artwork reuse is withheld pending explicit license or permission evidence.
The PCB repository includes CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing, while the firmware file carries a permissive source-header notice and the repositories do not provide a single unified image/documentation rights statement for publishable badge media.
The record cites code and hardware sources but does not reuse repository artwork or social/event imagery as a hero image.
The README states that the hardware is released under CERN Open Hardware Licence v1.2, while repository metadata did not expose a recognized top-level license during this pass.
The repository is used as evidence for badge facts, but no repository image or media asset is promoted into the public image archive.
The Supercon II badge intentionally reused the core Hackaday Belgrade badge concept while changing visual design, integrating the accelerometer, exposing expansion pads, and updating the bootloader.
The compendium keeps the US Pasadena record separate while preserving the Serbian Belgrade design lineage and shared firmware roots.
The Supercon 2018 badge was based on the Hackaday Belgrade 2018 badge rather than a wholly unrelated Pasadena-only design.
The compendium keeps the US Supercon record separate while preserving the Serbian Belgrade design lineage and firmware evolution.
The Vectorscope badge appears both as the original Hackaday Supercon 2023 badge and as a later Hackaday Europe 2024 reuse.
The compendium keeps separate records for the US origin event and the Berlin reuse so country and event-history pages remain accurate.
The BSidesPDX 2018 schedule also lists The Making of the Banglet, and PDX Badgers has a separate Apache-2.0 `2018-banglet` repository for a DEFCON 26 / DC503 VIP wrist badge.
This record covers the BSidesPDX 2018 conference badge archive in `badge-2018`; the DC503 Banglet is modeled separately as its own DEF CON-adjacent party-badge lineage record.
The original DePaul Newsline article is still a useful indexed source for the IRL sponsorship and 1,700-badge build, but the live URL currently returns DePaul's 404 page through direct curl.
The catalogue cites the original source URL and corroborates event and technical details through InfoconDB and GitHub while leaving full article archive recovery for a later pass.
The main official DEF CON 12 badge remains source-limited in this pass; reviewed official event and media-archive sources support event context but do not yet provide enough artifact-level evidence for a separate official-badge record.
The catalogue avoids inventing material, role, visual, puzzle, or electronic claims for the official DEF CON 12 badge until stronger public sources are recovered.
Public sources describe a medical chatbot that could listen and provide feedback or treatment ideas, but this catalogue has not validated clinical safety, model quality, or regulatory suitability.
The badge is recorded as an event artifact and AI interaction surface, not as a trusted medical device or medical-advice system.
No local DEF CON 2 badge photo has been added because the official media-server event photos do not provide a complete reusable license, attribution, and processing-provenance trail for this catalogue.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying DEF CON archive photography without complete rights clearance.
No local DEF CON 3 badge photo has been added because the official media-server event photos do not provide a complete reusable license, attribution, and processing-provenance trail for this catalogue.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying DEF CON archive photography without complete rights clearance.
No local DEF CON 4 badge photo has been added because the official media-server event photos do not provide a complete reusable license, attribution, and processing-provenance trail for this catalogue.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying DEF CON archive photography without complete rights clearance.
No local DEF CON 5 badge photo has been added because the official media-server event photo does not provide a complete reusable license, attribution, and processing-provenance trail for this catalogue.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying DEF CON archive photography without complete rights clearance.
No local DEF CON 6 badge photo has been added because the official media-server event photos do not provide a complete reusable license, attribution, and processing-provenance trail for this catalogue.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying DEF CON archive photography without complete rights clearance.
No local DEF CON 8 badge photo has been added because the official media-server event photos and JPEG EXIF copyright data do not provide a complete reusable license, attribution, and processing-provenance trail for this catalogue.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying DEF CON archive photography without complete rights clearance.
No local DEF CON 9 badge photo has been added because the official media-server event photos do not provide a complete reusable license, attribution, and processing-provenance trail for this catalogue.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying DEF CON archive photography without complete rights clearance.
No local DEF CON 10 badge photo has been added because the official media-server badge images do not provide a complete reusable license, attribution, and processing-provenance trail for this catalogue.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying DEF CON archive photography without complete rights clearance.
No local DEF CON 11 badge photo has been added because the official media-server badge photos do not provide a complete reusable license, attribution, and processing-provenance trail for this catalogue.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying DEF CON archive photography without complete rights clearance.
No DEF CON 12 forum-badge image is published because the historical template/example images, forum attachments, and external gallery references do not provide complete source URL, reusable license, attribution, and processing provenance for local publication.
The record stays source-backed and image-free rather than copying old forum, gallery, or template media without complete rights clearance.
DEF CON 15 Badge
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No local DEF CON 15 badge photo has been added because the recovered Grand Idea Studio badge photos are not paired with an explicit reusable image license, attribution string, and processing provenance for this catalogue.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying project-page WebP photos without complete rights clearance.
DEF CON 16 Badge
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No local DEF CON 16 badge photo has been added because the recovered Grand Idea Studio project images are not paired with a visible reusable image license, attribution string, and processing provenance for this catalogue.
The entry remains source-linked and image-free rather than copying project-page, press, or article images without complete rights clearance.
No local Ninja Networks DC17 badge image is published because the available forum, Flickr, Hackaday, and process-video media have not been paired with complete reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance.
The record stays source-backed and image-free rather than copying social, article, video-frame, generated, placeholder, or uncleared media.
No DC503 Banglet image is published because this pass did not select a physical documentary photo or official upstream raster render with complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository screenshots, event-page images, social photos, article media, generated art, or placeholder visuals.
No Wagon Party image is published because this pass did not identify a physical documentary badge photo or official reusable raster render with complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository sprites, image assets, social photos, generated art, screenshots, or placeholder visuals.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
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No 5ohBEE image is published because this pass did not identify a physical documentary photo or official reusable raster render with complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying the bee artwork, repository screenshots, social photos, generated art, or placeholder visuals.
DEF CON 25 Badge
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No local DEF CON 25 rubber-badge photo has been added because visible photos and forum or article images do not yet have a complete reuse basis, attribution string, and processing record for this catalogue.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying attendee or press photography without provenance.
No local DEF CON 28 cassette-badge photo has been added because article and writeup images have not been paired with a complete reuse basis, attribution string, and processing record for this catalogue.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying Hackaday or personal writeup photography without provenance.
DEF CON 29 Badge
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No local DEF CON 29 badge photo has been added because available article, forum, and writeup images have not been matched with a complete reuse basis, attribution string, and processing record for this catalogue.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying press, forum, or personal writeup photography without provenance.
DEF CON 30 Badge
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No local DEF CON 30 musical-badge photo has been added because article, forum, GitHub, and writeup images have not been paired with a complete reuse basis, attribution string, and processing record for this catalogue.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying attendee, press, forum, or GitHub-hosted challenge photography without provenance.
DEF CON 31 Badge
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No local DEF CON 31 badge image has been added because official news, vendor, media-server, and attendee images have not been paired with a complete reuse basis, attribution string, and processing record for this catalogue.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying official preview images, vendor art, or attendee photography without complete provenance.
DEF CON 32 Badge
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No local DEF CON 32 badge photo has been added because official store/news images, Raspberry Pi images, community blog images, and attendee images have not been paired with a complete reuse basis, attribution string, and processing record for this catalogue.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying official, press, or community photography without provenance.
DEF CON 33 Badge
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No local DEF CON 33 badge photo has been added because the visible creator-post images and official media assets have not been paired with complete reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying creator, official, attendee, or press photography without provenance.
DEF CON 34 Badge
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No DEF CON 34 image is published because no final original badge photo or official reusable raster render with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes has been recovered.
The entry stays image-free rather than copying ticket graphics, registration art, media-server diagrams, social-media previews, or generated badge art.
No NilbinSec DC33 image is published because the forum and product-page images are not paired with a reusable image license, exact attribution, and processing provenance for local publication.
The record stays source-backed and image-free rather than copying product photos, forum images, social-media previews, or generated artwork.
No Rabbit-Labs The Pirates' Plunder image is published because the product-page media and GitHub README attachment images are not paired with a reusable image license, exact attribution, and processing provenance for local publication.
The record stays source-backed and image-free rather than copying product photos, GitHub user-attachment images, social-media previews, screenshots, or generated artwork.
No Differential Destroyer image is published because this pass did not recover a specific original badge photo or official raster render with source URL, reusable license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository, OSHWA, village, social-media, or attendee imagery without complete provenance.
No Aerospace Village DC33 badge image is published because the official page, repository, and release imagery were not reconciled to a specific reusable original photo or official raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page graphics, store imagery, repository screenshots, or generated imagery without complete provenance.
No Aranya workshop board image is published because the official workshop page and demo-board repository have not been paired with a visible reusable image license or explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying workshop media, repository board images, screenshots, or generated imagery without complete provenance.
No BBV Badge 2025 image is published because the official Wix page and recovered public media have not been paired with complete reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes for catalogue publication.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official site media, screenshots, social posts, or generated imagery.
No Biohacking Village DC33 badge image is published because the official Wix page, PamirAI documentation, and Raspberry Pi article images have not been paired with explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing notes for catalogue publication.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying page media, documentation screenshots, article photos, social posts, or generated imagery.
No BIC Pick image is published because the official badge page image and PDF imagery have not been paired with a reusable image license or explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page media, PDF imagery, screenshots, social-media images, or generated approximations without complete provenance.
No LHC Meshtastic Badge image is published because the official page and forum imagery have not been paired with a visible reusable image license or explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying product photos, site graphics, forum media, screenshots, or generated imagery without complete provenance.
No LayerOne 2017 badge image is published because the recovered official HHV photos, Hackaday.io project gallery images, YouTube frames, and development-log photos do not expose complete reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official-page images, Hackaday CDN photos, video frames, or prototype screenshots without complete provenance.
No LayerOne 2023 badge image is published because the recovered official page images, repository files, and article media have not been paired with a specific original badge photo or official upstream raster that carries complete source URL, reusable license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official-page images, repository previews, article photos, or screenshots without complete provenance.
No LayerOne 2025 badge image is published because the available official-site, repository, and GitHub-attachment visuals have not been paired with complete original-photo provenance, license, attribution, and processing notes; a May 22, 2026 repository recheck found the only tracked PNG is a script/test screenshot rather than a badge hero image.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than reusing generated, teaser, attachment, screenshot, or undocumented badge imagery.
No SAINTCON 2019 badge image is published because the creator write-up, archive, video, and repository visuals have not been paired with complete original-photo provenance, explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog, conference, video-thumbnail, or repository imagery without a clear license.
No CypherCon 2017 Cube badge image is published because the Hackaday article images, official-history thumbnails, and YouTube frames have not been paired with complete original-photo provenance, explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article or video imagery without a clear catalogue reuse basis.
No NolaCon 2025 Patches badge image is published because the official badge page, schedule, sponsor PDF, and surrounding event media do not pair a specific physical badge photo or full official raster render with reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official site media, screenshots, social photos, event graphics, generated art, or placeholders.
No BSides Las Vegas 2019 badge image is published because the archive pages and registration media do not provide a specific reusable original badge photo or official upstream raster with complete source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying logo, event-site, attendee, or social imagery without a clear catalogue reuse basis.
No BSides Tampa 2026 badge, lanyard, or Uber Badge image is published because official site images and event media have not been paired with explicit reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance.
The entry remains image-free rather than using event-page graphics, screenshots, social-media photos, generated imagery, or placeholders.
No BSides San Diego 2026 Cyberpunk Bunny badge image is published because the official Google Sites page media and thumbnail do not provide explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official site imagery, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.
BSidesKC 2025 Badge
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No BSidesKC 2025 badge image is published because the recovered Badge Pirates posts expose production and fulfillment evidence but no reusable physical badge photo or full upstream raster render with complete license, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog art, screenshots, social photos, or generated approximations.
No BSidesSLC 2025 E-Badge image is published because the official site imagery has not been paired with explicit reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying site artwork, generated-looking imagery, ticketing media, social photos, or screenshots.
No SECCON 2026 PCB badge image is published because the recovered official pages do not provide a rights-cleared original badge photo or reusable official badge render with attribution and processing provenance.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying ticketing media, site artwork, social photos, screenshots, or generated media.
No BSidesSF 2022 Hardware Village badge image is published because the official schedule imagery does not provide a rights-cleared original badge photo or reusable official render with attribution and processing notes.
The record stays image-free rather than copying schedule, social, gallery, or generated media.
No BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village badge image is published because no source paired the badge media with reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event-page graphics, sponsor avatars, social photos, or screenshots.
No BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village badge image is published because no public source recovered in this pass provided complete reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than publishing uncleared or synthetic visuals.
No BSidesPDX 2015 Badger image is published because this pass did not identify a physical documentary badge photo or complete official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying logos, board-art files, event-page imagery, screenshots, or generated visuals.
No BSidesPDX 2016 ATTiny85 badge image is published because this pass did not recover a physical documentary photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event-page images, board files, repository artwork, social photos, screenshots, or generated visuals.
No BSidesPDX 2017 BMD-300 badge image is published because this pass did not recover a physical documentary photo or full official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying board files, event-page imagery, social photos, screenshots, or generated visuals.
No BSidesPDX 2018 ATTiny861 badge image is published because this pass did not recover a physical documentary photo or full official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying board files, sponsor logos, event-page imagery, social photos, screenshots, or generated visuals.
No BSidesPDX 2019 Multnomah badge image is published because this pass did not recover a physical documentary photo or full official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying board files, logos, event-page imagery, social photos, screenshots, or generated visuals.
No BSidesPDX 2020 presenter LED mask image is published because this pass did not recover a physical documentary photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository screenshots, event-page images, social photos, product photos, or generated visuals.
No BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus badge image is published because the current `pdxbadgers/badge-2024` tree exposes hardware/source files, decoder libraries, STEP assets, and license text, but no physical documentary photo or full official upstream raster render with complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying social photos, event media, repository artwork, screenshots, logos, or generated imagery.
No BSides Orlando 2018 badge image is published because the official event site is all-rights-reserved and the Hackaday.io gallery images have not been paired with complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying project-gallery or event media without explicit reuse rights.
No CactusCon 2014 PCB badge image is published because the recovered blog photos have not been paired with complete source URL, reusable license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog photos, social media, screenshots, or generated media.
No CactusCon 2017 badge image is published because the recovered attendee writeup photos have not been paired with complete source URL, reusable license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog photos, screenshots, social media, or generated media.
No CactusCon 2018 badge image is published because no physical documentary photo or official reusable raster render was recovered with complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event-page, social, wiki, or generated media without explicit reuse rights.
No CactusCon 8 badge image is published because no physical documentary photo or official reusable render was recovered with source URL, reusable license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event-page, schedule, social, or gallery media without explicit reuse rights.
CactusCon 11 Badge
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No CactusCon 11 badge image is published because the available official and badge-maker page imagery has not been paired with complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog or event imagery without a clear catalogue reuse basis.
CactusCon 12 Badge
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No CactusCon 12 badge image is published because the repository board-output images, artwork, event graphics, and Badge Pirates gallery images have not been paired with complete reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository PNGs, website gallery files, screenshots, or generated media.
CactusCon 13 Badge
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No CactusCon 13 badge image is published because the available repository, website-gallery, event-page, or rendered assets have not been selected with complete source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying gallery, board-output, screenshot, social, or generated media.
No AND!XOR DC24 badge image is published because Hackaday and Hackaday.io photos have not been paired with complete original-photo provenance, explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes for catalogue publication.
The unofficial badge entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article or project images without a clear reuse basis.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
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No AND!XOR DC25 badge image is published because Hackaday.io, Hackster, CDN, and social images have not been paired with complete reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article/project images, screenshots, video frames, generated art, placeholders, or uncleared media.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
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No AND!XOR DC27 badge image is published because Hackaday.io project images, Hackaday article photos, add-on media, store images, and social media have not been paired with complete reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying project images, article photos, screenshots, generated art, placeholders, or uncleared media.
Queercon 16 Q Badge
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No Queercon 16 Q Badge image is published because the Hackaday article photos have not been paired with complete original-photo provenance, explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article photography without a clear catalogue reuse basis.
THOTCON 0x8 Badge
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No THOTCON 0x8 badge image is published because Hackaday and Hackaday.io photos have not been paired with complete original-photo provenance, explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article or project-gallery photography without a clear catalogue reuse basis.
No ShmooCon 2018 badge image is published because the proceedings reserve image rights and the available attendee/project photos have not been paired with complete original-photo provenance, explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying proceedings, attendee-report, or Hackaday.io project imagery without a clear catalogue reuse basis.
No AvengerCon VIII 8-8-8 badge image is published because this pass did not establish a reusable original badge photo or official raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying Army article media, event photos, social posts, screenshots, or generated visuals.
No AvengerCon IX badge image is published because the official badge page photo has not been paired with explicit reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying the official page image, Army event photos, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.
No Recon Village DC25 badge image is published because the official Badge Life page and site footer do not provide explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page imagery, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.
No Recon Village DC26 badge image is published because the official Badge Life page and site footer do not provide explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page imagery, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.
No Recon Village DC27 badge image is published because the official Badge Life page and site footer do not provide explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page imagery, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.
No Recon Village DC30 badge image is published because the official Badge Life page and site footer do not provide explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page imagery, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.
No Recon Village DC31 badge image is published because the official Badge Life page and site footer do not provide explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page imagery, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.
No Recon Village DC32 badge image is published because the official Badge Life page and site footer do not provide explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page imagery, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.
No Recon Village DC33 badge image is published because the official Badge Life page and site footer do not provide explicit reusable image rights, attribution, and processing provenance for catalogue publication.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying official page imagery, screenshots, social media, or generated visuals.
No ToorCon 13 badge image is published because the available project-page and kit-documentation visuals have not been paired with complete original-photo provenance, explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying project-page media or rendering KiCad files into approximate badge art.
No ToorCon 14 badge image is published because the project page and hardware repository do not provide a specific rights-cleared original photo or official upstream raster render with complete provenance.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than publishing generated renderings, SVG/PDF conversions, or uncleared project-page media.
No ToorCon 20 badge image is published because the Hackaday.io project photos and screenshots have not been paired with complete original-photo provenance, explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying project-gallery imagery without a clear catalogue reuse basis.
No local Supercon 2016 badge photo has been added because Hackaday article images, Hackaday.io images, manual images, and repository README images have not been paired with complete reuse rights, attribution, original-source URL, and processing notes.
The record stays source-backed and image-free rather than copying public photos or using generated placeholder imagery.
No local Supercon 2017 badge photo has been added because Hackaday article images, Hackaday.io prototype images, and project media have not been paired with complete reuse rights, attribution, original-source URL, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying public photos or using generated placeholder imagery.
No local Supercon 2018 badge photo has been added because Hackaday article images, Hackaday.io images, and repository assets have not been paired with complete reuse rights, attribution, original-source URL, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying public photos without a complete image provenance record.
No local Supercon 2019 badge photo has been added because article images and project images have not been paired with complete reuse rights, attribution, original-source URL, and processing notes.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying Hackaday article photos, Hackaday.io images, or repository assets without a complete image provenance record.
No local Supercon 2022 Voja4 badge photo has been added because Hackaday article/project photos and the repository `voja4.jpg` candidate have not been paired with complete reusable image license or explicit permission, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying public Hackaday media, Hackaday.io project media, or repository images without a complete image provenance record.
No local Supercon 2024 badge photo has been added because article images and repository glamour shots have not been paired with complete reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying Hackaday article images or repository photos without a complete image provenance record.
No La Villa Hacker badge image is published because the official site, store, and repository media have not been paired with complete reusable image license or explicit permission basis, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying site media, repository screenshots, renders, social-media photos, or generated replacements.
No local Remoticon.2 badge image has been added because Hackaday article images, Hackaday.io project photos, and OSH Park previews have not been paired with complete reusable image license or permission, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article, project, or fabrication-preview media without complete image provenance.
No PhreakNIC 26 badge image is published because the available project-writeup and article photos do not include the full source URL, reusable license or explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing provenance required by badge.gallery; a May 22, 2026 CrumpSpace recheck found real optimized badge photos but no visible reusable photo license or permission statement.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying article media, site-optimized photos, screenshots, generated art, or other unclear imagery.
No PhreakNIC 27 image is published because the available public evidence does not provide a specific final badge photo or official raster render with source URL, reusable license or permission basis, attribution, and processing provenance.
The planned record stays image-free rather than reusing PN26 article photos, generated art, screenshots, or speculative visuals.
RVAsec 2012 Badge
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No 2012 RVAsec badge image is published because the recovered repository exposes graphics and source files but no rights-cleared physical badge photo or full official raster render with reusable license or permission basis, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than copying repository graphics or generating a replacement.
RVAsec 2013 Badge
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The official pages include badge imagery or context, but this pass did not recover a specific 2013 badge image with reusable license or explicit permission, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than copying page media or generating an approximation.
RVAs3c 2014 Badge
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The official preview and `HackRVA/rvasec-badge-2014` README include badge imagery, including `final_badges_at_conf.jpg`, but the GitHub API reports no repository license and the recovered file-level licenses cover programmer/dependency code rather than the photo or documentation.
The record remains image-free until an explicitly reusable original photo or official raster render is recovered.
RV4sec 2015 Badge
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The build post includes badge photos, but this pass did not recover reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes for publication in the catalogue.
The record remains image-free rather than copying article media.
RVA5sec 2016 Badge
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The official interview includes badge imagery, but this pass did not recover a reusable image license or explicit permission, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than copying article media.
RVAsec 2017 Badge
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No 2017 RVAsec badge image is published because this pass did not recover a specific badge photo or official raster render with reusable license or explicit permission, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than copying page media, archived media, or generating an approximation.
RVAsec 2018 Badge
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The available HackRVA/RVAsec pages include useful badge evidence, but this pass did not recover a specific 2018 badge image with reusable license or explicit permission, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than copying article photos, wiki media, screenshots, or generated replacements.
RVAsec 2019 Badge
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Recovered HackRVA and RVAsec pages include badge imagery, but this pass did not recover a specific original badge photo or official raster render with reusable license or explicit permission, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than copying page media or generating a replacement.
RVAsec 2020 Badge
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No 2020 RVAsec badge image is published because the recovered repository/page media does not provide complete source URL, reusable image license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes for a specific physical badge photo or official render.
The record remains image-free rather than copying repository graphics or generating an approximation.
RVAsec 2021 Badge
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No 2021 RVAsec badge image is published because no specific photo or official raster render with reusable rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes was recovered.
The record remains image-free rather than copying event media or generated replacements.
RVAsec 2022 Badge
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No 2022 RVAsec badge image is published because no specific physical photo or full official render with reusable license or permission basis, attribution, source URL, and processing notes was recovered.
The record remains image-free.
RVAsec 2023 Badge
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No 2023 RVAsec badge image is published because no specific image has complete reusable license or permission basis, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than copying repository, event, or article media.
RVAsec 2024 Badge
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No 2024 RVAsec badge image is published because repository image assets and event-page graphics do not provide complete reusable image provenance.
The record remains image-free.
RVAsec 2025 Badge
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No 2025 RVAsec badge image is published because no specific badge image with complete reusable rights, attribution, source URL, and processing notes was recovered.
The record remains image-free.
RVAsec 2026 Badge
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No 2026 RVAsec badge image is published because no final rights-cleared physical photo or official reusable render exists in the recovered pre-event sources.
The record remains image-free pending post-event source recovery.
No Kernelcon 2019 badge image is published because the recovered repository images have not been paired with a complete reusable image license, attribution, and processing record.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying repository screenshots or photos without complete catalogue provenance.
No Kernelcon 2020 badge image is published because the recovered repository photos and animation have not been cleared with complete reuse provenance.
The Hack-Master record stays image-free under the no-generated/no-placeholder image policy.
No Hacker HotKey image is published because repository images and storefront imagery have not been reconciled with complete reusable license and attribution metadata.
The virtual-event badge record stays source-backed and image-free.
No Kernelcon 2022 watch-badge image is published because no specific documentary photo or official render has complete source, license, attribution, and processing provenance in this pass.
The record uses firmware evidence but leaves the visual slot empty.
No Kernelcon 2023 radio badge image is published because the official page imagery has not been paired with explicit reusable license, attribution, and processing notes.
The entry remains image-free rather than copying source-site photos or diagrams.
No Kernelcon 2024 cable-tester badge image is published because source-site images and schematics do not yet have complete local reuse provenance.
The record remains source-backed and image-free under the project image policy.
No Kernelcon 2025 Race Condition image is published because the official badge-site images have not been reconciled with a reusable license, attribution, and processing record.
The record stays image-free rather than using uncleared activity photos or schematic screenshots.
No Kernelcon 2026 Off Grid image is published because the official `badge.png`, `badge_schematic.png`, repository PDFs, SVG layer exports, STEP/STL models, and KiCad material have not been paired with a reusable image or documentation license, attribution, and processing notes.
The current badge record remains image-free until a rights-cleared original photo or official raster render can be proven.
No Flux Decoder image is published because the repository has no top-level license and the live SEC site is all-rights-reserved; board-cache images and page artwork are not copied without complete reuse provenance.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than publishing generated, placeholder, screenshot, repository-cache, or uncleared page imagery.
No BSides Fort Wayne 2025 badge image is published because the recovered writeup photos, repository logos, badge-creator images, STLs, schematics, and project-media references have not been paired with a specific physical badge photo or official full-board render carrying complete source URL, reusable image license or explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog media, logos, screenshots, schematic snippets, generated art, or approximate badge imagery.
No Hackaday Remoticon.2 DIY Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No CarolinaCon 12 Electronic Kit Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No CarolinaCon Online 2021 Badge Kit image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No CarolinaCon Online 2 Conference PCB Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No GrrCON 2024 BadgeBuddy image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No LayerOne 2018 ESP32 Alexa Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No LayerOne 2019 Voight-Kampff Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No THOTCON 0xA / Infinity Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
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No THOTCON 0xB Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
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No THOTCON 0xC Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
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No THOTCON 0xD Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No The Diana Initiative 2020 Off-the-Shelf Virtual Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No WOPR Summit 0x00 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No JawnCon 0x1 Modem Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
AND!XOR DC28 Badge
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No AND!XOR DC28 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No SAINTCON 2015 Wi-Fi Show Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No SAINTCON 2016 ESP8266 LED Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No SAINTCON 2017 Raspberry Pi Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No SAINTCON 2018 ESP32 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No SAINTCON 2020 Badge and MiniBadge Kit image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No SAINTCON 2021 MiniBadge Collection image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge Collection image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No SAINTCON 2024 MiniBadge Trading Collection image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No ToorCamp 2022 Spider Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
No ToorCamp 2024 Shadybucks Wristband image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2012 Badge
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No RVAsec 2012 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2013 Badge
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No RVAsec 2013 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAs3c 2014 Badge
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No RVAs3c 2014 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RV4sec 2015 Badge
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No RV4sec 2015 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVA5sec 2016 Badge
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No RVA5sec 2016 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2017 Badge
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No RVAsec 2017 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2018 Badge
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No RVAsec 2018 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2020 Badge
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No RVAsec 2020 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2021 Badge
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No RVAsec 2021 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2022 Badge
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No RVAsec 2022 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2023 Badge
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No RVAsec 2023 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2024 Badge
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No RVAsec 2024 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2025 Badge
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No RVAsec 2025 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
RVAsec 2026 Badge
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No RVAsec 2026 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The writeup names a WemOS board but does not identify the exact module variant, bill of materials, display part, battery setup, or scanner firmware source.
The record uses WemOS only as the source-backed board family reference and avoids pinout, controller, or firmware-specific claims.
The recovered guide describes an analog light-sensing circuit and optional buzzer/tripwire behavior, but not a microcontroller, firmware, app platform, or badge-to-badge protocol.
The badge is modeled as a soldering and analog electronics badge rather than a programmable badgelife platform.
GitHub reports no repository license for pdxbadgers/wagonparty, so the source tree is used as public evidence but not as permission to republish images or derivative visual assets.
The record links to upstream files while leaving the hero image empty and avoiding local copies of sprites or image assets.
The official page states the badge has no microcontroller and no flash storage.
The record treats this as an analog electronic badge and does not invent firmware, app, or hidden-code behavior.
The official about page says the badge kept things old school with no microcontrollers, using a 555 timer and 4017 counter instead.
The catalogue models the badge as analog electronic hardware and does not infer firmware or software challenges.
DEF CON 1 Name Tag
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DEF CON 1 is modeled as a non-electronic physical name-tag and paper-badge artifact because the public source trail proves identity/access artifacts but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the first DEF CON credential artifacts without upgrading them into circuit-board badges.
DEF CON 2 is modeled as a non-electronic physical chest credential because the public source trail proves identity/access artifacts but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 3 is modeled as a non-electronic physical waist credential because the public source trail proves identity/access artifacts but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 4 is modeled as a non-electronic physical chest credential because the public source trail proves an identity/access artifact but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 5 is modeled as a non-electronic physical hanging credential because the public source trail proves an identity/access artifact but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 6 is modeled as a non-electronic physical conference credential because the public source trail proves identity/access artifacts but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 8 is modeled as a non-electronic physical lanyard credential because the public source trail proves an identity/access artifact but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 9 is modeled as a non-electronic physical lanyard badge because the public source trail proves an identity credential but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 10 is modeled as a non-electronic physical badge because the public source trail proves a badge artifact but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early physical credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 11 is modeled as a non-electronic human identity badge because the public source trail proves a physical badge but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early physical credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 13 is modeled as a non-electronic human identity badge because the public source trail proves a physical badge but places DEF CON's first electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006.
The compendium preserves the pre-electronic artifact without inventing LEDs, firmware, microcontrollers, or a badge challenge for 2005.
DEF CON 19 Badge
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DEF CON 19's standard badge is modeled as a non-electronic titanium identity and puzzle artifact because official sources explicitly say the year moved away from electronic badges.
The catalogue avoids MCU, firmware, LED, battery, and circuit claims for 2011 while still preserving the badge's physical fabrication and puzzle significance.
DEF CON 21 Badge
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DEF CON 21's standard badges were intentionally described as non-electronic-electronic rather than powered electronic gadgets.
The compendium models the badge as a PCB identity and puzzle artifact and avoids firmware, MCU, LED, or battery claims for the standard badge.
DEF CON 25 Badge
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The official DEF CON 25 badge is modeled as a rubber/plastic identity artifact because public feedback records the badge that way and no source-backed firmware or electronic official-badge design has been established in this pass.
The compendium avoids adding imaginary hardware to a year whose badge significance is partly the contrast with unofficial electronic badgelife.
The public source trail proves a badge-required admission model and badge pickup workflow, but does not prove an electronic PCB badge, firmware, schematic, challenge circuit, or hardware badge repository.
The catalogue preserves the major BSides Las Vegas badge lineage as an identity/access artifact without inventing electronics.
The recovered official sources prove an attendee badge/lanyard and a badge challenge, but do not prove electronics, firmware, batteries, PCB traces, displays, radios, NFC, or a public hardware repository.
The catalogue records the badge challenge and physical identity artifact without inventing hardware.
The repository license is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0, and the firmware header asks commercial users to seek permission.
The catalogue can publish the selected image as a credited noncommercial reference asset, but downstream reuse should preserve the noncommercial restriction and attribution.
The badge record relies on a public builder log that frames the work as an official-badge request, but this pass did not recover an official ToorCon badge guide, repository, schematic set, or firmware archive.
The catalogue keeps the official-badge wording tied to the cited log and avoids claiming complete production ownership, final challenge rules, or released design files.
The HOPE wiki links the HiP Badge repository as open hardware and notes repository uncertainty in the page text, so this pass treats it as linked lineage rather than a fully audited HOPE-specific release mirror.
The catalogue records the public open-hardware path while avoiding stronger claims about every production file until a deeper repository audit is done.
The board README describes optional parts and assembly paths, including an IR transceiver not populated by default.
The record separates the documented board capability surface from any claim that every workshop board shipped with every optional component populated.
No BSidesROC 2019 badge image is published because the recovered official page and website repository did not provide a rights-cleared badge photo or official raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than copying page media, repository assets, screenshots, social photos, or generated approximations without complete provenance.
RVAsec 2020 Badge
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The public repository proves a HackRVA 2020 badge firmware archive, but this pass did not recover final event logistics, attendee distribution, production quantity, or post-event recap evidence for the COVID-disrupted year.
The record is kept as a source-backed badge archive without overstating shipped attendee distribution.
The badge competition is documented as a partial RubberDucky 2.0 interpreter in the code, not as a complete public challenge archive with rules, released solve, or prize outcome.
The record preserves the competition hook without overstating the completeness of the recovered challenge material.
The source trail describes a DC503 Wagon Party badge archive, not an official DEF CON admission badge or a BSidesPDX conference credential.
The catalogue models the artifact as a DC503 party badge and keeps it separate from DEF CON, BSidesPDX, and later DC503 Banglet/5ohBEE lineages.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
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The public source trail describes SMART Response XE-based pagers for the 503 Party 2019, not an official DEF CON admission badge or a BSidesPDX conference credential.
The catalogue models 5ohBEE as a DC503 party pager and game artifact while keeping official conference badge lineages separate.
The Shadybucks page documents burner-wallet linking, sponsorship, transfers, and spending flow; this catalogue stores only artifact context and does not reproduce private account, wallet, or live transaction details.
The compendium keeps the badge-history record separate from any operational payment-system use.
DEF CON 31 Badge
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Public sources document the non-electronic badge plan, creator, SAO slot, and media-server add-on assets, but this pass does not inventory every badge type, physical material detail, Black Badge variant, attendee add-on, or final production artifact.
The catalogue records verified badge lineage and customization surfaces while leaving full physical artifact documentation for a later pass.
DEF CON 33 Badge
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Public sources document the non-electronic lens/layer concept, clue trail, badge-making talk, and black-badge collaborator note, but this pass does not inventory every physical lens, badge type, printed layer, clue, or final challenge solution.
The catalogue records verified badge lineage and interaction surfaces while leaving full artifact photography and challenge reconstruction for a later pass.
DEF CON 34 Badge
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The DEF CON 34 record is seeded before the event from official preregistration and SAO specification sources.
The catalogue can document the planned Human badge and public electronic interface constraints now, but it must not claim final shipped artwork, firmware, badge-game rules, manufacturing quantities, or all attendee-role variants until post-event sources appear.
RVAsec 2026 Badge
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This record is seeded before RVAsec 2026 occurs and does not claim that the badge has shipped, been distributed, or reached final hardware/firmware form.
The catalogue can track the announced badge while keeping all final technical claims open.
The badge README notes the badge lacks an on/off switch and tells owners to unplug the battery when not using it; the minibadge README warns that the 5 V rail may actually be battery voltage and asks minibadge makers to be conservative with power draw.
The record preserves operational and add-on-design constraints rather than presenting the badge as a frictionless reference platform.
The current public evidence is pre-event ticket text, so this record does not claim final shipped hardware, final firmware, attendee delivery, or post-event challenge behavior.
The catalogue can preserve the limited PCB badge announcement while keeping final distribution and field behavior open for a post-event source pass.
This record is seeded from a public project-owner plan before the November 6-7, 2026 event and does not claim that the MK.II badge has shipped.
The catalogue can track the announced lineage while keeping all final hardware, software, distribution, and production claims open until post-event sources appear.
Production coverage says final firmware fixes continued after the assembled badges arrived and before the event kits were packed.
The record treats the badge as a living event platform and avoids implying that every public firmware artifact represented a fully settled pre-production state.
Project logs record RFM69 startup failures, oscillator/load-capacitor diagnosis, bootloader timing fixes, and WS281x LED timing issues that moved failed badges off the rework pile.
The entry preserves real production and firmware bring-up caveats that matter for surviving badges and reproduction attempts.
The attendee report says one box of badge parts went missing and factory firmware set LEDs too bright, forcing a pre-conference badge reflash.
The record preserves manufacturing and logistics context as part of the badge's historical importance rather than presenting it as a frictionless production run.
CactusCon 11 Badge
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Badge Pirates says the badge encountered supply-chain issues, but that PCBWay fabrication plus lab assembly, testing, and initial programming still reached the event.
The record preserves production reality without overstating it into a failure or delivery controversy.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
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The production log records initial triage failures including no serial on 6 of 28 sampled badges, no LEDs on 13 of 28, capacitive-touch failures on 6 of 28, cannot-flash failures on 10 of 28, and BMD-340 soldering issues that required manual diagnosis and rework.
The record preserves the badge as a real distributed artifact with documented production yield and rework constraints rather than treating the design as frictionless reference hardware.
The README says DFU flashing depends on the L1 bootloader and notes that overwriting it requires reinstalling with a PIC programmer such as a Pickit 3 or better.
The catalogue presents the badge as reflashable while preserving the practical recovery boundary for surviving units.
Changing badge firmware requires an AVR programmer path such as the Kraken programmer, Arduino ISP, or another compatible programmer plus avrdude or Microchip Studio workflow.
The catalogue presents the badge as hackable and source-backed while preserving the practical hardware access needed to modify surviving units.
The intended ESP32 self-service programming station was not reliable enough with the FDM-printed cases and tiny pogo-pad alignment before the conference.
Badge updates were handled manually at the event with a Bluetooth barcode scanner, local script, CC Debugger, and programming jig.
DEF CON 16 Badge
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Early press coverage warned that preview photos showed a prototype whose production colors, USB/debug headers, and SD-card inclusion differed from final badges.
The catalogue avoids binding the record to a specific public preview photo until an exact production-badge image is cleared.
The public Hackaday.io material is a development log with prototype revisions and feature planning, while the official HHV page establishes the year as an electronic badge without publishing a final production source package.
The catalogue records the source-backed architecture and car-hacking direction while avoiding unsupported claims about every final shipped component, firmware image, or quantity.
The public Hackaday.io material mixes prototypes, late board changes, USB mirroring, level-shifter selection, build pressure, and final assembly notes rather than a single audited final production package.
The catalogue records the source-backed architecture and build status while avoiding unsupported claims about every final shipped component, firmware image, quantity, or attendee role.
The public Hackaday.io material is a late build diary with PCB bring-up, component substitutions, Wi-Fi power debugging, hand-built early units, and pick-and-place preparation rather than a complete final manufacturing package.
The catalogue records the source-backed architecture and build status while avoiding unsupported claims about every final shipped component, production quantity, or assembled variant.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
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The public repository is a cleaned-up demo firmware collection with examples and removed event-specific/proprietary material, while the Hackaday.io project describes a richer original badge firmware with menus, audio games, visual effects, timers, hidden screens, and challenge hooks.
The software description separates the recovered demo archive from the full shipped event firmware so the record does not overstate public source completeness.
The 2021 badge was tied to a one-day Hack Live virtual event rather than an in-person conference hall.
The record models it as a remote-event input badge and avoids ordinary attendee-distribution assumptions.
CactusCon 14 Badge
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The CC14 CAD archive contains some carryover names such as `CC13-drawing.pretty` alongside CC14 KiCad and manufacturing files.
The record anchors claims to the CC14 README, event context, and CC14-named schematic/CAD outputs rather than inferring anything about earlier CactusCon badge years from carryover filenames.
GitHub did not report a license for aranya-project/demo-board-v2 during this pass, even though the repository exposes README text, PCB source, and board images.
The repository is cited as public technical evidence, but its images and design files are not republished locally or treated as broadly reusable catalogue assets.
The public firmware repository remains license-metadata-limited in this pass, while the Build-A-Badge repository README embeds MIT License text used only for the selected upstream badge render and customization-app evidence.
The catalogue records public firmware and customization surfaces conservatively while allowing the specifically reviewed Build-A-Badge render to carry explicit MIT provenance.
The public GitHub repository exposes source, PDFs, hardware files, firmware image, and site imagery, but this pass did not recover a top-level license or image-specific reuse grant.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence but does not republish repository media or treat design files, PDFs, or images as reusable publication assets.
The public GitHub repository exposes source, hardware files, PDFs, and images but GitHub reports no detected repository license in this pass.
The catalogue can cite the repository as evidence, but it does not republish repository media or claim a blanket reuse license for hardware files, photos, or PDFs.
GitHub reports no repository license for `pdxbadgers/pcb-2016`, and no top-level LICENSE file was recovered in the repository listing.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence but does not republish repository media or treat the design files as reusable image assets.
GitHub reports no repository license for `pdxbadgers/pcb-2017`, and no top-level LICENSE file was recovered in the repository listing.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence but does not republish repository media or treat the design files as reusable image assets.
GitHub reports no repository license for `pdxbadgers/badge-2018`, and no top-level LICENSE file was recovered in the repository listing.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence but does not republish repository media or treat the design files as reusable image assets.
GitHub reports no repository license for `pdxbadgers/badge-2019`, and no top-level LICENSE file was recovered in the repository listing.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence but does not republish repository media or treat the design files as reusable image assets.
GitHub reports no repository license for `pdxbadgers/2020-mask`, and no top-level LICENSE file was recovered in the repository listing.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence but does not republish repository media or treat source files as a reusable image basis.
CactusCon 12 Badge
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The public CactusCon-12 repository does not expose a visible repository license in GitHub metadata or the top-level tree inspected in this pass.
The catalogue cites the public source trail as evidence but does not republish images or imply reusable licensing for the CactusCon 12 archive.
The public `poplicola/Thotcon0xA_Pub` repository exposes workshop, firmware, and example-code material, but no repository license was detected in the current GitHub metadata pass.
The catalogue treats the repository as evidence and a user-facing technical reference, not as a blanket permission source for republishing media, firmware, or hardware assets.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
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The public `poplicola/thotcon-examples` repository exposes Eagle board files and demo firmware, but GitHub reports no detected repository license and the README only frames the examples as provided as-is.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence and a user-facing reference without treating its images, firmware, or hardware files as freely reusable beyond what the source itself permits.
The 2022 badge tools repository exposes useful manuals, firmware, software tools, and a badge image candidate, but this pass did not identify a top-level GitHub-reported license that clearly covers local reuse of the repository photo or manual imagery.
The catalogue cites the repository for source facts and tooling while withholding local image publication until a specific image license or permission basis is verified.
The public repository exposes hardware, software, and photo resources, but this pass did not identify a top-level license file that clearly covers image reuse for the catalogue.
The catalogue records technical facts and outbound source links while withholding local images and avoiding license assumptions.
The local image uses one exact repository photo covered by the MIT-licensed source tree; article media and other repository rasters remain unmirrored unless separately selected and recorded with provenance.
The catalogue avoids broad image assumptions while publishing a specific audited source photo for the badge page.
RVAsec 2012 Badge
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GitHub reports no repository license for `HackRVA/rvasec-badge-2012`, so the archive is used as source evidence but its graphics, screenshots, and hardware-source media are not republished as catalogue images.
The record links to the public archive while avoiding reuse claims beyond the visible source evidence.
RVAsec 2022 Badge
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The public badge2022 repository exposes firmware and documentation but no visible top-level repository license in GitHub metadata during this pass.
The source is used as evidence, but repository images or documentation media are not republished as catalogue images.
RVAsec 2023 Badge
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The public badge2023 repository exposes source and image directories but no visible top-level repository license in GitHub metadata during this pass.
The repository is used as evidence, but images are not published in the catalogue.
RVAsec 2024 Badge
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The public badge2024 repository exposes firmware and image assets but no visible top-level repository license in GitHub metadata during this pass.
The repository is used as evidence, but images are not copied into Public/images.
The public repository documents hardware and challenge behavior, but this pass did not recover a top-level license suitable for local image or code reuse assumptions.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence while leaving images empty and avoiding license claims beyond the source text.
The repository README says the project is released for educational purposes and to see individual files for specific licenses; no top-level LICENSE file was recovered in this pass.
The catalogue cites the repository for evidence but does not use repository images locally or claim a single reuse license for the whole project.
The GitHub API reports no repository license for `secommunity/FluxDecoder` in this pass.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence but does not assume reusable image, code, schematic, or PCB rendering rights beyond ordinary source citation.
GitHub reported no detected license for the DC32 main badge board, main badge firmware, CTF challenge, and CHV SAO specification repositories in this pass, while the separate Speedometer SAO firmware repository reports MIT.
The catalogue cites those repositories as source evidence but does not treat repository images, board renders, firmware, CTF material, or documentation as broadly reusable publication assets without explicit license coverage.
GitHub reported no detected license for `ickfosec/esp` in this pass.
The catalogue cites the repository as evidence but does not treat code, wiring diagrams, screenshots, or repository media as broadly reusable publication assets without explicit license coverage.
RVAsec 2013 Badge
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The 2014 preview discusses the 2013 badge retrospectively and notes that some 2013 badges lacked accelerometer hardware, so this record keeps input and game claims conservative.
The badge is modeled as a proven electronic badge while exact final per-attendee hardware capability remains caveated.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
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The project repurposes SMART Response XE classroom-response hardware and publishes setup and firmware files, but this pass did not recover a complete hardware modification guide, BOM, enclosure record, production log, or photographed final handout set.
Hardware claims stay limited to the SMART Response XE platform, ATmega128RFA1 radio path, USBasp/Arduino workflow, and the source files reviewed.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
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The README says the badge is experimental, not a medical device, not intended for children, and may affect balance, coordination, or perception.
The catalogue records the device as an event artifact and badgelife experiment, not as a safe consumer medical or therapeutic device.
The README warns that voltage glitching can cause damage, that the differential injector circuit is not electrically isolated from connected devices or buses, that direct boat connection needs additional safety precautions, and that the injector can drive up to 400 mA.
The catalogue presents the badge as a real fault-injection and maritime-bus lab while preserving the primary-source caution around unsafe use.
The hardware README contains an older cross-repository schematic link, but the current organization repository also includes `schematics/Badge Schematic V4.pdf` directly.
Hardware claims use the current hardware specification text and repository tree instead of relying on the stale embedded link alone.
Hackaday reports that the intended Alexa-style voice service was expensive to scale for hundreds of devices, so the catalogue treats Alexa behavior as an experiment and source trail rather than claiming full cloud voice-assistant service for every attendee badge.
The record preserves the voice/audio ambition without overstating default deployed service behavior.
DEF CON 22 Badge
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DEF CON points to Parallax forum code and badge-hacking torrents, while this pass records the existence of the release rather than unpacking every firmware artifact.
The record preserves verified software-release context and leaves deeper artifact inventory as an archive task.
CactusCon 11 Badge
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The badge-maker writeup says the CactusCon crew planned a software-side writeup and hints at event wireless infrastructure, but this pass did not recover a public firmware repository, complete challenge source, or software architecture note.
The catalogue records verified hardware and firmware-access surfaces while avoiding unsupported claims about the badge's full event game or OTA backend.
CactusCon 12 Badge
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The repository includes BasicCodeForQA, but this pass did not recover final event firmware, badge-game source, OTA service code, or challenge material.
The record keeps software claims limited to QA-code context and hardware-programming surfaces.
CactusCon 13 Badge
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The CactusCon13 repository exposes CAD, outer-board, documentation, reference, and 3D-print material, but this pass did not recover standalone final firmware, event-game source, OTA service code, or challenge archive.
The catalogue records verified hardware/manufacturing evidence while avoiding unsupported claims about badge software behavior.
CactusCon 14 Badge
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The GitHub repository description mentions firmware, but the visible public tree inspected in this pass primarily exposes hardware design, manufacturing, enclosure, BOM, schematic, and art outputs rather than standalone event firmware or challenge source.
The catalogue records the verified hardware archive while avoiding unsupported claims about badge applications, games, OTA behavior, or event infrastructure.
The recovered public trail proves the event context and visible 2021 MiniBadge collection, but this pass did not recover a central build guide, complete schematic/BOM set, firmware archive, production counts, or reusable image permission for page media.
The record keeps claims tied to the official archive page, Sched listing, venue page, and MiniBadge standard, and leaves the page image-free until a rights-cleared original photo or official render is available.
The recovered public trail proves the event context, MiniBadge culture, and year-specific data export, but this pass did not recover a central 2023 build guide, official per-badge source archive, final schematic set, complete BOM set, firmware archive, or reusable image permission for wiki/page media.
The record keeps hardware claims to official FAQ language, community data-export fields, and the MiniBadge standard instead of inventing missing per-badge technical detail.
The recovered public trail proves the trading page, build-guide link, and MiniBadge standard context, but this pass did not recover a central per-badge source archive, final schematic set, complete BOM set, firmware archive, or reusable image permission for guide/page media.
The record keeps hardware/protocol claims to the MiniBadge standard and official trading-page wording, and leaves the page image-free until a rights-cleared original photo or official render is available.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
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This pass relies on project-owner logs and hands-on coverage and does not recover a stable public firmware, schematic, BOM, or Gerber repository for the full DC27 badge.
The record avoids stronger open-hardware or source-release claims until a complete repository or archive mirror is recovered.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
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The postmortem says source code and Gerbers were published, but a current public-source check found the referenced GitHub trail unavailable while the Hackaday.io file area still exposes only VRML/SVG/DXF model files.
The record cites the available project logs and model archive while avoiding stronger open-hardware/source-code claims until the missing repository or an archive mirror is recovered.
The public documentation proves the kit contents, assembly path, flashing workflow, and Hackers Challenge registration behavior, but this pass did not recover a public schematic archive, PCB source, production count, complete Lua source tree, final firmware image mirror, or badge-team repository.
The record preserves verified public hardware and workflow facts without inventing unrecovered firmware internals, board-source details, or manufacturing data.
The official 2025 badge site documents behavior and schematic material, but this pass did not recover a public final firmware repository or board-source archive comparable to 2026.
The record documents source-backed behavior while avoiding claims about open firmware availability.
Official pages and the public manual document badge assembly, flashing, registration, and post-event conversion, but this pass did not recover a public source repository for the badge image, custom PCB design files, challenge daemons, or final production files.
The catalogue records the verified deployed badge and public manual without inventing unrecovered firmware internals or PCB-source details.
DEF CON 1 Name Tag
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The current public sources prove DEF CON 1 name-tag and paper role-badge artifacts but do not identify the badge designer, production process, complete role taxonomy, or any official puzzle layer.
The record limits claims to visible physical-credential evidence and official registration context.
The current public sources prove visible DEF CON 2 rectangular printed chest credentials but do not identify the badge designer, production process, material, full role taxonomy, or any official puzzle layer.
The record limits claims to visible physical-credential evidence and event context.
The current public sources prove visible DEF CON 3 colored rectangular waist credentials but do not identify the badge designer, production process, material, full role taxonomy, or any official puzzle layer.
The record limits claims to visible physical-credential evidence and event context.
The current public sources prove visible DEF CON 4 rectangular chest credentials but do not identify the badge designer, production process, material, full role taxonomy, or any official puzzle layer.
The record limits claims to visible physical-credential evidence and event context.
The current public sources prove a visible DEF CON 5 hanging credential but do not identify the badge designer, production process, material, full role taxonomy, or any official puzzle layer.
The record limits claims to visible physical-credential evidence and event context.
The current public sources prove visible DEF CON 6 credentials but do not identify the badge designer, production process, material, full role taxonomy, or any official puzzle layer.
The record limits claims to visible physical-credential evidence and event context.
The current public sources prove attendees wore DEF CON 8 lanyard credentials but do not identify the badge designer, production process, material, full role taxonomy, or any official puzzle layer.
The record limits claims to visible physical-credential evidence and event context.
The current public sources prove attendees wore DEF CON 9 lanyard badges but do not identify the badge designer, production process, material, full role taxonomy, or any official puzzle layer.
The record limits claims to visible physical-badge evidence and event context.
The current public sources prove the physical badge artifact and corner-hole lore but do not identify the badge designer, production process, material, full role taxonomy, or any official puzzle layer.
The record limits claims to visible physical-badge evidence and official program context.
The current public sources prove the badge artifact and event context but do not identify the badge designer, production process, material, full role taxonomy, or any official puzzle layer.
The record limits claims to visible physical-badge evidence and official event context.
This pass found official BBV page evidence for the badge and CTF leg but no public repository, bill of materials, final challenge writeup, or rights-cleared documentary badge photo.
The record is intentionally compact and should be revisited if Bug Bounty Village publishes post-event technical material.
The public sources prove the ESP32 audio badge, repository trail, and add-on connector, but this pass did not recover a complete final schematic, BOM, production package, firmware release tag, or attendee challenge archive.
The record keeps hardware and software statements tied to public evidence while avoiding unsupported production-scale and final-firmware claims.
The public sources prove the ATtiny2313 main badge, repository source trail, and ESP32CAM/servo add-on context, but this pass did not recover a complete final schematic, BOM, production package, firmware release tag, or challenge solve archive.
The record keeps hardware, software, and add-on statements tied to public evidence while avoiding unsupported production-scale and final-firmware claims.
The repository preserves firmware, board and schematic files, host tooling, enclosure assets, and an interactive BOM, but this pass does not claim a complete production package, final assembly guide, attendee count, or challenge solve archive.
The record keeps hardware, USB, LED, and firmware statements tied to the recovered public repository while avoiding unsupported production-scale claims.
The repository preserves firmware, board and schematic files, documentation images, and workflow notes, but this pass does not claim a complete BOM, production package, attendee count, or final manufacturing audit.
The record keeps hardware and firmware statements tied to the recovered public repository and avoids unsupported production-scale claims.
The recovered public trail proves an Arduino-compatible badge, FTDI programming path, HHV assembly context, hidden challenge behavior, and blinky expansion board, but this pass did not recover an official 2014 archive page, schematic, BOM, PCB source, MCU identification, final firmware repository, production count, or complete build manual.
The record preserves verified badge behavior and named-source context without inventing unrecovered electronics, firmware internals, component values, or manufacturing details.
The official archive proves the event context and Cisco proves a real Wi-Fi enabled show badge, but this pass did not recover a public schematic, BOM, PCB source, firmware image, badge-team repository, production manual, or final application source.
The record preserves verified behavior and integration claims without inventing components, radio details beyond Wi-Fi, PCB layout, battery design, firmware internals, or backend implementation.
The official archive and metadata sources prove the virtual event context, and the first-hand DC540 write-up proves a shipped badge package, included MiniBadge, custom-MiniBadge coupon, and HC CTF badge context; this pass did not recover an official 2020 schematic, BOM, firmware archive, production count, or complete badge-team build notes.
The record treats SAINTCON 2020 as a conservative package-level badge entry instead of inventing unrecovered electronics, firmware behavior, or challenge mechanics.
The official talk page and repository document the badge design, gameplay, hardware archive, and CircuitPython workflows, but this pass did not recover a final production count, shipped firmware release tag, manufacturing order, or rights-cleared field photo.
The record preserves the real BSidesPDX badge without overstating production logistics or publishing unclear media.
The recovered source proves a paid badge package and observed Wi-Fi/Bluetooth scanner behavior, but this pass did not recover official badge-team documentation, schematics, BOM, firmware, production count, challenge material, or a source repository.
The catalogue records the real scanner badge while keeping technical claims limited to the public attendee writeup.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
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Rob Rehrig's first-hand writeup documents the 0xB badge electronics and production fix, but this pass did not recover a public schematic, Gerber set, BOM, firmware repository, binary archive, or full badge manual.
The catalogue records verified hardware behavior and production context without claiming that the complete design archive is public.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
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Rob Rehrig's first-hand writeup documents the 0xC badge theme, laser-tag behavior, enclosure, optics, and production decisions, but this pass did not recover a public schematic, Gerber set, BOM, firmware repository, binary archive, or full badge manual.
The catalogue records verified event, game, mechanical, and optical facts without claiming that the complete design archive is public.
Public sources preserve the workshop, BOM, wiring chart, Tinkercad model, and Arduino sketches, but this pass did not recover a formal schematic, Gerber set, distribution count, repository license, or official reusable badge photo.
The record limits hardware and software claims to the common-parts build guide and public code previews, with image publication withheld until rights-cleared provenance exists.
Public sources document the badge concept, case, production workflow, LED/modem behavior, and upstream RetroWiFiModem lineage, but this pass did not recover JawnCon-specific schematic files, BOM, Gerbers, firmware fork, enclosure CAD, or a reusable licensed badge photo.
The record stays anchored to the official write-up and upstream firmware repository without inventing exact board files, pin maps, or firmware modifications.
The current public trail names a planned MK.II badge and desired improvements, but no dedicated PN27 repository, schematic, BOM, firmware tree, attendee guide, station code, production note, or final event schedule entry has been recovered.
The record avoids final component, firmware, interaction, and distribution claims until stronger PhreakNIC 27 sources appear.
RVAsec 2012 Badge
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The repository proves a real badge source archive, but this pass did not recover an attendee guide, production recap, exact distribution quantity, final assembled-photo evidence, or an explicit hardware license.
The record keeps component and behavior claims tied to the recovered firmware, Eagle files, Gerbers, and event archive.
RVA5sec 2016 Badge
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The public source documents behavior and production context through an interview rather than a full hardware repository or final attendee manual.
The record avoids claiming a recovered schematic, BOM, final firmware tree, or complete CTF source.
The Hackster project provides first-hand build notes, materials, and a firmware binary link, but this pass did not recover a dedicated public source repository with complete C source, schematic, Gerbers, PCB production outputs, or a formal hardware license.
The record keeps controller, LED, fabrication, and firmware claims tied to the first-hand project page and avoids unsupported protocol, challenge, and source-release claims.
The GitHub hacking template is MIT licensed, but that source license does not by itself clear article, manual, README, or project-page badge images for local publication.
Source-code claims can cite the repository, while the badge image remains empty until a separately cleared original photo or official render is selected.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
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The retrospective says source code would be posted, but this pass did not recover a stable public repository, firmware archive, schematic, BOM, or Gerber set for the DC26 badge.
The record cites project-owner logs and hands-on technical coverage while avoiding stronger open-source hardware/software claims until a repository or archive mirror is recovered.
The all-at-once log says Eagle files and software would be uploaded to GitHub, but this pass did not recover a complete public final repository, release package, board-production archive, or challenge/software bundle for the 2016 badge.
Hardware and software claims remain tied to the public HHV page and Hackaday.io logs instead of treating planned source publication as recovered source.
This pass recovered contemporaneous local notes rather than an official CactusCon 2018 registration archive or badge-team source.
The record is useful as a source trail but should be revisited if official pages, ticket text, badge photos, or hardware archives surface.
The repository includes generated sprite/image assets and source comments naming image2cpp and ezgif, but this does not establish a reusable badge-photo license, upstream render permission, or attribution record for catalogue publication.
Sprites remain source evidence for firmware behavior only and are not promoted into `Public/images/`.
The archived page links to a shop product for the swag bag, but the stable evidence retained in this pass is the archived CarolinaCon page text rather than a current mutable storefront listing.
The catalogue can cite the official archived event page for bundle contents without depending on a live store page that may change or disappear.
The repository exposes Eagle CAD, firmware sketches, and 3D-print files, but this pass did not recover a final BOM, ordered assembly record, firmware release tag, complete user manual, or post-event challenge writeup.
Hardware and software claims remain limited to the public repository files and official talk description.
The recovered official page proves an all-parts badge kit in the merch bundle, but no component list, schematic, PCB artwork, firmware, battery details, assembly guide, or challenge writeup was recovered.
The record stays narrow and does not invent electronics beyond the official badge-kit language.
The recovered official pages prove a Conference PCB Badge and electronic-badge merch bundle, but do not publish component, firmware, schematic, BOM, battery, image-rights, or challenge-source detail.
The record preserves the artifact while avoiding unsupported claims about hardware design or firmware behavior.
The official schedule proves a specially designed HCV badge and badge CTF contest, and a Veritas attendee report documents the screen, joystick, USB-C/battery power, and clue-exchange behavior, but no source recovered here publishes component identifiers, schematics, firmware, PCB files, production notes, or challenge source.
The catalogue can describe observed user-facing badge behavior while leaving schematic, firmware, and manufacturing details for a later badge-team archive.
The official schedule proves a badge designed specifically for the Hardware Challenge Village CTF, but does not publish component identifiers, schematics, firmware, PCB files, production notes, challenge source, or scoreboard archive.
The catalogue records the verified village badge and leaves hardware/software archaeology for a later source recovery pass.
The public PCB and firmware archives document the design files and ESP8266 badge behavior, but this pass did not recover BOM notes, assembly instructions, final flashed release tag, manufacturing order, workshop handout count, or post-event challenge results.
Hardware and firmware claims remain limited to the public repository files and official schedule wording.
The public repository exposes Eagle board, schematic, BOM, and an Arduino sketch, but this pass did not recover final Gerbers, assembly instructions, production photos, challenge docs, release tags, or a post-event firmware history.
Hardware and firmware claims remain limited to the public repository files plus event-context wording.
The public repository exposes Eagle board, schematic, BOM, and library files, but this pass did not recover final firmware, challenge docs, production photos, Gerber release, or a talk transcript explaining intended badge behavior.
Hardware and software claims remain limited to the public repository files and official schedule/speaker wording.
The public repository exposes KiCad, BOM, LED mapping, and test firmware files, but this pass did not recover final firmware release notes, challenge docs, production photos, or a full talk transcript explaining intended gameplay.
Hardware and firmware claims remain limited to the public repository files and official schedule/speaker wording.
The public repository exposes KiCad, BOM, and simple firmware files, but this pass did not recover assembly instructions, final firmware release notes, challenge docs, production photos, or talk notes explaining intended gameplay.
Hardware and firmware claims remain limited to the public repository files and official schedule wording.
The public repository exposes README wiring notes and one Arduino sketch, but this pass did not recover fabrication notes, final quantity, presenter handout list, production photos, source license, or post-event maintenance history.
Hardware and software claims remain limited to the public repository files and official all-digital event context.
The first-hand writeup proves the PCB badge concept, count, giveaway, assembly materials, and board-function ideas, but this pass did not recover schematics, Gerbers, BOM, fabrication files, firmware, exact LED circuit, or a design repository.
The catalogue preserves the physical badge lineage while avoiding unsupported component-level or reproducibility claims.
The official badge page proves Patches, soldering tradition, customization, and Voodoo Heart continuity, but this pass did not recover a schematic, BOM, controller, firmware repository, badge guide, battery details, LED count, production count, or complete challenge archive.
The catalogue records the verified 2025 badge artifact and avoids inventing unsupported electronics or firmware behavior.
The official badge guide proves an ESP32-powered Cyberpunk Bunny portable CTF with accelerometer, crypto challenges, BLE co-op behavior, and hidden flag path, but no schematic, BOM, PCB files, firmware source, exact module revision, battery details, or production count were recovered.
The catalogue records verified badge behavior without inventing component-level electronics, source-release status, or shipped-hardware internals.
BSidesKC 2025 Badge
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The public sources prove an ESP32 touchscreen badge batch with Wi-Fi, SD card slots, PCBWay assembly, and customs/tariff logistics, but this pass did not recover the schematic, BOM, Gerbers, firmware, challenge files, battery details, or full component placement record.
The catalogue records the verified badge platform and production run while avoiding unsupported firmware, challenge, and component claims.
The official source documents ATTINY85, SAO ports, programming connector parts, reprogrammability, and contest framing, but this pass did not recover a schematic, BOM, Gerbers, firmware repository, flashing guide, badge challenge source, or final production file archive.
Hardware and software claims remain limited to the official badge-page text and avoid unsupported electronics or firmware behavior.
The official ticket page proves a PCB badge with CTFs and features, but this pass did not recover component identifiers, schematic, BOM, Gerbers, firmware, challenge source, badge guide, production photos, or repository evidence.
The catalogue records only the verified official badge scope and avoids unsupported hardware, software, and challenge claims.
The public Army source proves the first electronic AvengerCon badge, 8-8-8 naming, scavenger-hunt behavior, hack-bypass option, in-person distribution until supplies ran out, more-than-300 build, and Capt. Richard Shmel maker credit, but it does not publish schematics, BOM, firmware, controller identity, protocol docs, or manufacturing files.
The catalogue records the verified badge lineage without inventing component-level details or open-source status.
The official page proves the electronic badge lineage, spy silhouette, die-cut shape, hardwear.io lanyard, and first-badge framing, but no schematic, firmware, BOM, controller, battery, or production files were recovered.
The catalogue records the verified artifact without inventing component-level electronics or source-release status.
The official page proves the two design variants, spy silhouette, skull artwork, and black-and-white aesthetic, but no schematic, firmware, BOM, controller, battery, or production files were recovered.
The catalogue records the verified artifact without inventing component-level electronics or source-release status.
The official page proves the skull-shaped PCB, steampunk mechanical design, LED eye illumination, and CREW variant, but no schematic, firmware, BOM, controller, battery, or production files were recovered.
The catalogue records the verified artifact without inventing component-level electronics or source-release status.
The official page proves the circular radar design, world map overlay, teal and emerald color scheme, compass markings, and coordinate markings, but no schematic, firmware, BOM, controller, battery, or production files were recovered.
The catalogue records the verified artifact without inventing component-level electronics or source-release status.
The official page proves die-cut silhouette shape, LED illumination, speaker-badge variant, and custom Recon Village lanyard, but no schematic, firmware, BOM, controller, battery, or production files were recovered.
The catalogue records the verified artifact without inventing component-level electronics or source-release status.
The official page proves multi-layer PCB construction, red and blue LED eyes, 3D assembled design, and military helmet design, but no schematic, firmware, BOM, controller, battery, or production files were recovered.
The catalogue records the verified artifact without inventing component-level electronics or source-release status.
The official page proves the cyberpunk owl design, glowing pink LED eyes, detailed mechanical artwork, and metallic blue-gray finish, but no schematic, firmware, BOM, controller, battery, challenge protocol, or production files were recovered.
The catalogue records the verified artifact without inventing component-level electronics or source-release status.
RVAsec 2025 Badge
note
The official page proves a limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge, but this pass did not recover a 2025 public firmware repository, schematic, BOM, component list, final attendee guide, or production writeup.
The record keeps hardware and software claims at the official high-level classification.
The DEF CON 12 Forum Badge is modeled as a community extra badge, not the official attendee credential.
The compendium can preserve the source-backed forum artifact without claiming it represents the main DEF CON 12 badge.
Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots is a NilbinSec badgelife release connected to DEF CON 33, not the official DEF CON 33 attendee badge.
The catalogue includes it as an unofficial community badge artifact while keeping the official Mar Williams DEF CON 33 badge as a separate record.
The Pirates' Plunder badge is modeled as a Rabbit-Labs vendor/community badgelife release for DEF CON 33, not the official DEF CON 33 attendee badge.
The catalogue keeps it separate from the official Mar Williams DEF CON 33 badge while preserving its vendor-booth debut and public firmware evidence.
The AND!XOR Bender Badge was not the official DEF CON 24 admission badge and did not grant conference entry; it is modeled as an unofficial DEF CON-adjacent badgelife artifact.
Country, event, and series pages can show the badge's historical importance without confusing it with the official 1o57 skull badge.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
note
The AND!XOR DC25 badge is modeled as an unofficial DEF CON-adjacent badgelife artifact and not as the official DEF CON 25 admission badge.
The compendium preserves the community hardware lineage without confusing it with the official DEF CON 25 rubber/plastic identity badge.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
note
The AND!XOR DC26 badge is modeled as an unofficial DEF CON-adjacent badgelife artifact and not as the official DEF CON 26 Tymkrs/Toymakers admission badge.
The compendium preserves the community hardware lineage without confusing it with the official DEF CON 26 text-adventure badge.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
note
The AND!XOR DC27 badge is modeled as an unofficial DEF CON-adjacent badgelife artifact and not as the official Grand Idea Studio DEF CON 27 crystal badge.
The compendium can show both the official DEF CON 27 badge and the community AND!XOR hardware without merging their lineages.
The Hackaday.io Remoticon discussion and repository README state that there was no official badge and identify the board as an unofficial community badge.
The compendium treats the artifact as a source-backed community badge template, not as the official event credential or a universal attendee handout.
Hackbat was designed specially for DEF CON 32 and source text references people who received it at DEF CON, but the public sources do not make it the official DEF CON 32 attendee badge or state a complete distribution quantity.
The catalogue keeps Hackbat as an unofficial DEF CON 32 badgelife record separate from the official RP2350 DEF CON 32 Badge.
BadgeBuddy was built for roughly thirty friends attending GrrCON rather than issued as an official event-wide admission badge.
The compendium records it as unofficial badgelife and avoids implying GrrCON organizer publication, attendee-wide distribution, or admission-credential status.
The badge is modeled as a Ninja Networks party invitation for DEF CON 17 weekend, not as the official DEF CON 17 admission badge.
The compendium keeps the unofficial party-badge lineage separate from the official DEF CON badge series while preserving its badgelife significance.
The public sources describe the item as the DC503 VIP Banglet and as the DC503 badge discussed at BSidesPDX, not as the official DEF CON 26 admission badge or a BSidesPDX attendee badge.
The catalogue keeps the DC503 wrist badge separate from the official DEF CON 26 Tymkrs badge, the AND!XOR DC26 badge, and BSidesPDX 2018's conference-badge archive.
DEF CON 15 Badge
note
Accelerometer and 2.4 GHz RF support was fully designed but unpopulated on the badge circuit board.
The catalogue records the expansion footprints as a design surface without implying that every attendee badge shipped with populated motion or RF hardware.
DEF CON 19 Badge
note
The official program says the number of badge designs was intentionally not released and was much larger than the standard role set, but this pass does not reconstruct every physical variant.
The record preserves the existence of hidden variants without overclaiming a complete catalog of DEF CON 19 badge shapes.
The artifact belongs to the Social Engineering Community Youth Challenge at DEF CON 31 and is not the official DEF CON 31 admission badge.
The compendium keeps the record under its own Social Engineering Community series while cross-linking the DEF CON context.
This record belongs to Car Hacking Village's DEF CON 32 hardware ecosystem and is not the official DEF CON 32 Human admission badge.
The compendium keeps the badge under its own village lineage while preserving DEF CON event context and avoiding an attendee-wide DEF CON main-badge claim.
The recovered sources support an off-the-shelf Arduino Nano badge workshop artifact for remote participants, not a claim that every attendee received a centrally manufactured physical badge.
The catalogue models the badge as a virtual-conference workshop build and simulation artifact rather than upgrading it into an all-attendee production electronic badge.
The serial CTF mini game was removed when Kernelcon 2020 became virtual, so the record documents planned/offline capability without claiming that the mini game ran at the event.
The badge remains an electronic artifact, but its event-game behavior is kept narrower than the original hardware capability.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
note
The BOTNET log frames wireless activity as badge-only gameplay with custom packet structures and payloads interpreted only by AND!XOR badges, with activation and airplane-mode opt-out behavior.
The catalogue records the game mechanics without implying a real-world botnet or harmful network capability beyond the badge ecosystem described by the project owners.
The builder log explicitly says the author was sworn to secrecy and forced to burn Gerber files, so the public record intentionally withholds the art secrets and full board files.
Future archive work should seek official or creator permission before treating private Gerbers, puzzle art, or code meanings as publishable catalogue evidence.
The official schedule limited the SpiderOak Aranya workshop to 20 attendees because hardware was included for free.
The catalogue treats the board as a limited attendee-retained workshop artifact, not a village-wide or DEF CON-wide attendee badge.
RVAsec 2021 Badge
note
The public trail supports Badge Intro context and continuing HackRVA electronic-badge lineage, but this pass did not recover a 2021-specific public firmware repository, schematic, BOM, component list, production note, or final attendee guide.
The record avoids importing 2020 or 2022 technical details into 2021 without a year-specific source.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
warning
The public documentation says the first attempt should be seated and away from stairs or hard surfaces, the person wearing electrodes should control the zap button, and zap modes should run on batteries rather than USB power.
User-facing wording preserves the practical safety boundary around operating surviving badges or reproductions.
Resources
AND!XOR DC26 console ARG log
ARG documentation · Primary log documenting the command-line challenge, ESP-IDF console direction, UART/USB serial focus, village-themed hacking areas, and social challenge framing.
Blendster scanner example
Arduino Create sketch · Arduino Create preview source for the lightly modified Blendster seven-LED scanner used on the TDI 2020 off-the-shelf project.
TDI 2020 basic blinky code
Arduino Create sketch · Arduino Create preview source for @TechGirlMN's basic blinky code, initial LED pins, button input, and digitalWrite/digitalRead workshop path.
TDI off-the-shelf grab-and-go code
Arduino Create sketch · Arduino Create preview source for TechGirlMN's August 8, 2020 grab-and-go code with working button behavior.
DC32 CHV CTF challenges
CTF archive · Public challenge archive documenting main-badge CAN, UART, random-traffic, Speedometer SAO, Red Balloon Security, and Rivian challenge surfaces.
Bug Bounty Village CTF 2025
CTF page · Official CTF page documenting the CTF.ae leg, August 8-10, 2025 timing, remote and onsite participation, and Bug Bounty Village room W326 at LVCC.
DC32 Speedometer SAO firmware
SAO firmware source · MIT-licensed firmware repository for the DC32 Speedometer SAO, referenced by the public CTF challenge archive.
Kernelcon 2023 badge activities
activity guide · Official activity page for badge bling, amplifier/volume-control, and hardware-hacking paths.
Kernelcon 2024 badge activities
activity guide · Official activity guide for removable remote, cable making/testing, 555-timer modification, and timing-circuit CTF context.
Kernelcon 2025 bonus-track activity
activity guide · Official guide for building and inserting a bonus track with soldered headers, jumper wires, detect pad, and badge detection.
AND!XOR DOOM SAO log
add-on documentation · Primary add-on source for the ATSAMD21G18A DOOM SAO, SAO v1.69bis logical integration, serial terminal, DOOM Guy interface, bus sniffers, virtual EEPROM identity, and DC27-badge compatibility context.
SAINTCON 2017 official MiniBadges
add-on list · Manual page for official MiniBadge add-ons tied to the 2017 badge ecosystem.
SAINTCON 2017 unofficial MiniBadges
add-on list · Manual page for unofficial MiniBadge add-ons and community badge ecosystem evidence.
CHV SAO specification
add-on specification · Car Hacking Village SAO connector specification documenting the CAN TX/RX pin substitution, voltage, footprint, and design constraints.
MiniBadge standard
add-on specification · Public MiniBadge hardware standard repository linked by later SAINTCON documentation and used as source context for MiniBadge compatibility.
MiniBadge standard
add-on specification · Public MiniBadge hardware standard source used as connector and I2C context for the SAINTCON MiniBadge ecosystem.
MiniBadge standard
add-on specification · Public MiniBadge hardware standard repository linked from the SAINTCON 2022 archive footer and used as source context for the two-position MiniBadge ecosystem.
MiniBadge standard README
add-on specification · Public MiniBadge hardware standard source used only as connector and I2C context for the SAINTCON MiniBadge ecosystem.
MiniBadge standard README
add-on specification · Public MiniBadge specification source for +VBATT, CLK, I2C read/write behavior, PROG pinouts, NC caution, and extender-board compatibility context.
Blinken Lights firmware fork
alternate firmware · Rabbit-Labs product page links this zRCrackiiN and JBOHack repository as a limited LED-only Blinken Lights firmware option for the badge.
AND!XOR DC25 smartphone integration
app integration · Primary log documenting BLE terminal behavior through the AND!XOR Android app, Nordic nRF Toolbox compatibility, maintenance mode, scanning, connection, script buttons, and app-permission notes.
Archived DerbyCon 2017 site
archived official event site · Internet Archive mirror linked from InfoconDB as the official DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy event-page context.
2019 Supercon badge hacks
article · Post-event Hackaday source for badge-hacking ceremony results, custom cartridges, software demos, and Linux-on-badge with SDRAM cartridge context.
2019 Supercon badge reveal
article · Hackaday reveal article for RISC-V soft core, open FPGA tooling, Jeroen Domburg / Sprite_TM design credit, and 500-plus attendee badge production context.
2022 Supercon badge reveal
article · Hackaday reveal source for the Voja4 front-panel concept, PIC24FJ256GA704 controller, simulated 4-bit CPU, tactile programming buttons, LED memory/register display, SAO serial behavior, save/load, and flash slots.
2024 Supercon SAO badge reveal
article · Hackaday source for six SAO ports, Raspberry Pi Pico W, GPIO/I2C topology, bundled petals, MicroPython, CH32V003 proto-petal, and contest framing.
2025 Communicator Badge reveal
article · Hackaday reveal source for the Communicator Badge name, LoRa mesh-chat concept, ESP32-S3, keyboard, LCD, SX1262 radio, LiPo charging, LVGL MicroPython, team credits, and after-event hacking intent.
Ars DEF CON 27 badge story
article · Context article on Joe Grand's return, badge aesthetic, high-volume DEF CON context, and the official crystal-badge story.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 1's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 2's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 3's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 4's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 5's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 6's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 8's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 9's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 10's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 11's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the first DEF CON electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006, supporting DEF CON 13's conservative non-electronic classification.
Badgelife history
article · VICE/Motherboard history placing the DEF CON 14 badge in the origin story of DEF CON badgelife.
Behind the scenes of the 2019 badge
article · Hackaday source for last-minute production, volunteer/team effort, distribution timing, and manufacturing context.
Building the Hackaday Superconference badge
article · Hackaday design article for PIC32, camera, OLED, MicroSD, accelerometer, power, expansion, firmware, and hardware tradeoffs.
DEF CON 23 record badge article
article · Contemporary article documenting LostboY / Ryan Clarke authorship, playable vinyl record format, role-color variants, secret alphabets, inner-groove markings, and analog puzzle clues.
DEF CON 24 Konami badge report
article · Contemporary source documenting the skull badge, mini processor, buttons, printed codes, Konami Code behavior, 1o57 authorship, and media-server badge-contest files.
DEFCON 21 attendee report
article · Attendee report documenting opening-ceremony badge discussion, Ryan Clarke / LostboY attribution, and puzzle interaction framing.
Decrypting DEF CON badge challenges
article · Later puzzle-analysis source using DEF CON 23 as an example of lanyard-based Nyctograph and Gold Bug enciphered secret messages.
Design and hacking drilldown
article · Designer-authored Hackaday article for Belgrade reuse, integrated LIS3 accelerometer, expansion pads, IR UART, USB bootloader, schematic, C framework, and MPLAB/Xpress workflow.
Engadget DEF CON 24 badge feature
article · Contemporary feature source for Ryan Clarke / 1o57 attribution, robot-skull badge form, roughly 20,000 badges, and last-minute badge programming context.
Hackaday AND!XOR DC26 hands-on review
article · Secondary hands-on review corroborating ESP32-WROVER, WiFi/Bluetooth, mesh/botnet framing, GreenPAK button handling, IS31FL3736 LEDs, CP2102N USB, serial adventure behavior, and pre-event badge delivery.
Hackaday AND!XOR DC27 hands-on review
article · Secondary hands-on source corroborating the badge as a hardware-hacking tool, BMD-340/nRF52840 core, FT2232H dual-channel USB behavior, OLED/LED/light-pipe presentation, USB-C, SWD, JTAG, SPI, I2C, UART, and bit-bang workflows.
Hackaday Ninja Networks party badge article
article · Contemporary secondary coverage pointing readers to the Ninja Networks DC17 party badge archive and photos; used only as corroborating context.
Hackaday PN26 ESL badge coverage
article · Secondary technical coverage corroborating the official badge claim, ZBD 55c-RB electronic shelf-label reuse, DB9 pogo programming approach, QR customization, and conference field workflow.
Hackaday at DEF CON 21
article · Contemporary field report naming Ryan Clarke as badge designer and documenting the non-electronic-electronic PCB playing-card design, copper/soldermask/silkscreen artwork, XOR gate, and crypto challenge.
Hacking The Thotcon 0x8 Badge
article · Hackaday source for Jedha, John Wallis, Workshop 88, ATmega32u4, NeoPixels, potentiometers, micro USB, tesserHack firmware, USB serial play, Bus Pirate recovery, and Hackaday.io project handoff.
Hacks and puzzles article
article · Hackaday source for hidden puzzle layers, gravity simulation, moving-message display, Tetris clone, infrared protocol, prize framing, and badge-hacking award categories.
Hackster AND!XOR DC25 article
article · Secondary coverage corroborating the DC25 badge as a hackable BLE DEF CON 25 indie badge and pointing to the Hackaday.io project.
Hands-on the AND!XOR unofficial DEF CON badge
article · Hackaday hands-on source for unofficial DEF CON context, visible hardware, controls, radio, GPIO breakouts, USB serial behavior, games, and sale/distribution plan.
Help Decipher The DEFCON Badge
article · Contemporary Hackaday source documenting the 7-inch vinyl record badge, non-electronic alternation context, collaborative badge-hacking effort, and early puzzle hunt.
Making the DEFCON 16 Badge
article · Joe Grand's Nuts & Volts article covering DEF CON 16 design goals, SD-card file transfer, IR, TV-B-Gone behavior, cost, and production.
Making the DEFCON 17 Badge
article · Nuts & Volts article source linked by Grand Idea Studio for a narrative badge-making account.
New SuperCon badge reveal
article · Hackaday reveal source for the 8x16 LED matrix, four user buttons, reset and wake controls, IR communications, accelerometer, PIC18LF25K50, two AAA cells, USB programming, and Voja Antonic design credit.
PCWorld DEF CON 18 badge gallery
article · Press source for lithographed aluminum, Kent Displays 128x32 low-power display, USB, role variants, and hackable styling.
Queercon 16 hardware badge hands-on
article · Hackaday source for the 2019 Q and C badge split, custom membrane keyboard, e-paper display, RGB LEDs, TI CC2640R2, Holtek LED driver, RJ12 connector, AA power, Handler badges, base station, and ARG flow.
Remoticon.2 badge article
article · Hackaday coverage describing the 2021 remote badge as a KiCad file set, prototyping board, builder canvas, and MicroMod carrier-board variant.
Supercon 2018 badge firmware article
article · Hackaday firmware source for Jaromir Sukuba's BASIC work, CP/M emulator context, Voja Antonic hardware design, Ziggurat29 tokenizer speedups, and Zork/retrocomputing lore.
Supercon 2018 badge hacking report
article · Hackaday field report documenting the badge-hacking area, LED sculptures, shift-register examples, wireless add-ons, and community projects during Supercon.
Supercon 2023 badge hacks
article · Post-event Hackaday roundup documenting the badge-hacking ceremony and categories.
Supercon 2024 badge add-on winners
article · Hackaday post-event source for winning and honorable-mention SAOs, production plan for Hackaday Europe 2025, and functional I2C/NFC/IR/LED add-on context.
Supercon 2025 customization article
article · Hackaday source for front-panel customization, two-PCB stack-up, front-board mechanical role, M3 hardware notes, and STEP/DXF/SVG model path.
The Cubic Cyphercon Badge
article · Hackaday source for the cube construction, more-than-400 hand-soldered run, LEDs, microprocessors, buses, USB terminal behavior, mesh network, text adventure, and time-sharing emulator lore.
The Supercon Badge Is A Freakin' Computer
article · Hackaday reveal source for 320x240 color display, full QWERTY keyboard, BASIC, CP/M, games, Easter eggs, GPIO/I2C/serial hacking, and Belgrade lineage.
Vectorscope badge introduction
article · Hackaday article introducing the 2023 badge hardware, analog signal path, MicroPython workflow, and design intent.
WIRED DEF CON 20 badge reveal
article · Contemporary article documenting Ryan Clarke's design goals, embedded game, cryptography, badge variants, IR interactions, free/open software, VGA expansion, and secret-society story.
WIRED DEF CON 21 badge reveal
article · Detailed contemporary source for role variants, PCB inner-layer continuity clues, poker-card artwork, famous-hacker face cards, Uber mechanical watch, Easter eggs, and Ryan Clarke design quotes.
Wired DEF CON 16 preview
article · Pre-event coverage documenting prototype caveats, SD-card advice, designer context, and public badge expectations.
50bee.png artwork asset
artwork provenance lead · Repository artwork asset referenced by the README with an Ivycraft credit; retained as a source clue but not promoted as a public badge image because image-specific reuse provenance is incomplete.
wagonparty images directory
artwork provenance lead · Repository sprite/image asset directory retained as source context only; no asset is promoted as a catalogue image because the repository has no visible license and the files are not documentary badge photos.
DEFCON 15 badge assembly drawing
assembly drawing · Assembly drawing source for board population and manufacturing reference.
DEFCON 17 badge assembly drawing
assembly drawing · Assembly drawing source for board population and manufacturing reference.
2024 SAINTCON MiniBadge guide
assembly guide · Public build-guide PDF linked from the official trading page for submitted and official MiniBadges brought to SAINTCON 2024.
CarolinaCon 12 badge instruction manual
assembly guide · Official PDF guide for the 555 timer, resistors, LED, capacitor, photoresistor, battery holder, wire, soldering steps, battery test, light-reactive blinking behavior, and lanyard/blank-board context.
MiniBadges of 2022 assembly guide
assembly guide · Archived official PDF source for the SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Assembly Guide, including official, sponsor, and personal MiniBadge categories, names, designers, acquisition notes, difficulty/rarity labels, and assembly instructions.
SAINTCON 2016 Badge Assembly
assembly guide · Badge assembly source for conference-bag contents, D1 Mini ESP8266, MAX7219 driver, LED displays, BOM, orientation notes, and HHV part exchange.
SAINTCON 2017 assembly guide
assembly guide · Manual source for the Pi Zero W, PiTFT, custom board, battery/PowerBoost wiring, screws, standoffs, lanyard, acrylic shield, and assembly process.
SAINTCON 2018 build sheet
assembly guide · Repository PDF assembly guide for building the badge.
ToorCamp 2022 Badge assembly guide
assembly guide · Linked PDF quick guide listing badge parts, assembly orientation, battery-holder checks, potentiometer adjustment, and optional buzzer/tripwire modification ideas.
ToorCon 13 kit assembly diagram
assembly guide · Great Scott Gadgets assembly PDF linked from the badge page for the ToorCon 13 badge hacking kit.
ToorCon 14 assembly PDF
assembly guide · Assembly PDF in the public hardware repository for the ToorCon 14 badge.
BSides Tampa 2026 FAQ
attendee FAQ · Current official FAQ source for the USF Marshall Student Center event context, participant badge and lanyard inclusion, check-in expectations, and admission package.
SPC Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics Club Attends BSides Tampa 2018
attendee report · St. Petersburg College attendee report for BSides Tampa 2018, Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2 hosting context, more-than-750-attendee note, and Electronic Badge Assembly activity evidence.
ShmooCon 2018 conference notes
attendee report · First-hand attendee source for the battery-powered WiFi signal-strength badge, missing parts box, bright factory firmware, and just-before-conference reflash.
Veritas BSidesSF 2024 HCV attendee report
attendee report · Secondary attendee report documenting the 2024 electronic HCV badge's screen, joystick, battery or USB-C power, pre-installed clues, and badge-to-badge clue exchange.
BSides Tampa Uber Badges
award registry · Official Uber Badge page documenting lifetime-admission award context and the public registry model; the current public registry does not list a 2026 badge-challenge winner.
La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge README
badge README · README source for the badge name, Electronic Cats design credit, README-listed components, preinstalled-firmware note, and hardware-license statement.
Blinky Ball SAO for Layer One
badge add-on log · mmca hardware log tying the 2018 L1 badge to an official blinking LayerOne logo add-on using a 3.3 V, GPIO2, and ground add-on connector.
Badge apps source tree
badge app source · Source tree containing menu, schedule, settings, Tetris, battery monitor, system monitor, and badge challenge application files.
BSides Tampa 2026 badge challenge
badge challenge · Official badge-challenge page documenting the 2026 puzzle's intentionally vague badge and neck-worn-material clue surface, no-hints posture, Joshua Grose solve path, and Uber Badge award path.
ESP32_Alexa README
badge documentation · Repository README source for the ESP32 Alexa experiment lineage, software setup, and source-license boundary.
Hackbat DEF CON 32 README
badge documentation · Primary documentation source for ESP32-C3 WROOM, OLED, four WS2812 smart LEDs, six buttons, AA-cell case support, Arduino IDE or ESP-IDF programming, JLCPCB production-file use, and the D9 erratum.
LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner README
badge documentation · Primary repository documentation for the POV Spinner purpose, LayerOne 2024 badge context, Kraken AVR programmer path, Microchip Studio and avr-gcc build notes, image conversion, and flashing workflow.
LayerOne2023 README
badge documentation · Primary repository documentation for PIC16F1455, WS2812B/SK6812 LEDs, MPLAB/XC8 setup, DFU mode, dfu-util flashing, Pickit fallback programming, and the badge competition.
SAINTCON 2016 Badge documentation
badge documentation · Public badge documentation landing page linking assembly, upload-code, and registration instructions.
SAINTCON 2017 badge manual
badge documentation · GitLab Pages badge manual for parts, assembly, flashing, registration, MiniBadges, and post-conference reuse.
SAINTCON 2018 badge README
badge documentation · Primary badge documentation for ESP32, MicroPython, 8x32 LED matrix, three buttons, twelve minibadge spots, rechargeable battery, flashing, charging, menu behavior, Wi-Fi configuration, Hacker Challenge score, and uPyCraft editing.
Attribution Game badge guide
badge guide · Repository badge guide source for contact setup, navigation, IR trading, cryptographic clue verification, organizer validation, round propagation, and post-conference CircuitPython hacking.
Badge end-user README
badge guide · End-user and developer guide for badge buttons, menu navigation, app behavior, repository layout, uv setup, mpremote workflow, and custom firmware flashing.
Shady Tag registration
badge handle workflow · Official Euphoria CTF wiki page directing players to the Shadytel Experience Center for Shady Tag registration before the badge challenge.
AND!XOR DC28 RTFM
badge manual · Primary manual source for the STM32F412RET6, OLED, ST7735 TFT, APA-102C LEDs, BlackBerry Q10 keyboard, USB-C, battery holder, inspectAR workflow, key bindings, BENDERPISS CTF, and source-release links.
Tipsy Badge README
badge manual · Primary documentation source for DEF CON 33 sales context, Tor profit donation note, safety disclaimer, hardware list, modes, calibration, photo workflow, and flashing guidance.
BBV Badge 2025
badge page · Official badge page documenting four buttons, four LEDs, sponsor challenge legs, binary flag entry, hardware-hacking acknowledgement, volunteer reward flow, and Discord support path.
BIC Pick badge page
badge page · Official Blacks In Cybersecurity source for the BIC Pick badge name, Afro-pick form, red/green/gold visual treatment, five-year-anniversary framing, village wearer roles, and DEF CON 33 purchase/trade availability.
Biohacking Village badges page
badge page · Official badge page source for the DEF CON 33 Biohacking Village badge, medical chatbot framing, computational-powerhouse language, feedback behavior, and PamirAI support context; no page image is reused without explicit rights.
ICS Village Badge product page
badge page · FREE-WILi badge page source for DEF CON 33 badge framing, sponsor context, RP2350A, ESP32-C6, sensors, GUI, USB API, and SAO feature summary.
LHC Meshtastic Badge 2025
badge page · Official Lonely Hackers Club source for the 50-unit DEF CON 33 pickup badge, Heltec Wireless Tracker V1.1 hardware, LoRa/Meshtastic configuration, battery, pairing behavior, and sale/pickup caveats.
seeess/Defcon-Tipsy-33-Badge
badge repository · Public repository for the Tipsy Badge README, firmware, source image, data assets, STL files, and CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
BadgeBuddy source tree
badge source tree · Repository directory containing BadgeBuddy firmware and ESP8266 wiring diagrams.
DEF CON 34 SAO specification
badge specification · Official media-server PDF documenting DC34 SAO electrical and mechanical constraints, including 3.0 V VDD, two-AA badge power, USB-C power-bank behavior, GPIO wake interrupt, I2C addresses, and mirrored 6-pin SAO header dimensions.
Kernelcon2020 Badge talk
badge talk metadata · Talk record for Tyler Rosonke and Aaron Gunning explaining the Hack-Master badge production story.
BSidesKC 2025 tariff writeup
badge-maker production writeup · Badge Pirates production source documenting 250 fully assembled ESP32 electronic badges from PCBWay with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, customs scrutiny, and tariff impact.
Badge Pirates
badge-maker site · Badge-maker organization context for the CactusCon 11 badge record.
All about the BSidesKC 2019 Badges
badge-maker writeup · Badge Pirates primary narrative source for the 2019 conference badge, Jr Hacker badge, badge quantities, ESP8266 hardware, reverse-mount LEDs, Wi-Fi beacon game, variants, contests, and production lessons.
CactusCon 11 Badge writeup
badge-maker writeup · Badge Pirates source for ESP32-S2 WROOM hardware, LEDs, buttons, optional OLED, GPIO, CH340N USB serial, wireless firmware behavior, production notes, and image-rights boundary.
HackRVA badge programme page
badge-team overview · HackRVA overview describing the ongoing RVAsec electronic-badge programme, sponsorship model, games, surprises, and limited availability.
HackRVA badge programme page
badge-team overview · HackRVA overview for the annual RVAsec electronic-badge programme, games, surprises, sponsorship, and limited badge availability.
HackRVA badge programme page
badge-team overview · HackRVA overview of the RVAsec badge programme, limited badge availability, games, surprises, schedules, and sponsor model.
LayerOne 2015 Badge project
badge-team project page · Primary Hackaday.io project source for the dual-badge concept, PSoC4/ESP8266/WS2812B blinky badge, VoCore/OpenWRT RT5350F network badge, and production timeline.
LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge project
badge-team project page · Primary project source for the PSoC4, ESP8266, WS2812B, mini prototyping area, exposed rails/I/O, team, and Wi-Fi working-before-event claims.
LayerOne 2017 badge-team project
badge-team project page · Primary badge-team project source for the LayerOne 2017 badge overview, car-hacking focus, gallery/media boundary, and project log trail.
2025 Communicator Badge BOM
bill of materials · Raw BOM source listing ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, Wio-SX1262-N, TCA8418, USB-C, LiPo charging, SAO connector, keyboard, LED, and related passive/connector components.
BSidesKC 2019 Final BOM
bill of materials · Repository BOM spreadsheet for component-level follow-up on the 2019 badge hardware.
BSidesPDX 2016 BoM.csv
bill of materials · Repository BOM source for ATTINY85-20SUR, 36 yellow 0603 LEDs, two 10 Mohm resistors, four 1206 resistors, and CR2032 battery-holder claims.
BSidesPDX 2017 bom.csv
bill of materials · Repository BOM source for the BMD-300 module, 32.768 kHz crystal, CR2032 battery holder, switch, navigation switches, right-angle header, OLED screen, and lanyard item.
BSidesPDX 2018 BOM.csv
bill of materials · Repository BOM source for ATTiny861-class controller, 12 yellow LEDs, four RGB LEDs, USB Micro-B connector, two switches, CR2032 battery, battery retainer, and lanyard claims.
DEFCON 15 badge bill of materials
bill of materials · Grand Idea Studio BOM PDF for parts and sourcing context.
DEFCON 17 badge bill of materials
bill of materials · Grand Idea Studio BOM PDF for parts and sourcing context.
Multnomah BoM.csv
bill of materials · Repository BOM source for ATtiny85-20SUR, 24 blue side-view LEDs, CR2032 battery holder, slide switch, and resistor claims.
Ninja Networks DC17 bill of materials
bill of materials · ODS bill-of-materials file linked by the technical archive for component and sourcing context.
ToorCamp 2018 badge BOM
bill of materials · Repository BOM PDF listing MSP430G2211, LEDs, resistors, CR2032 holder, and badge kit components.
ToorCon 13 kit parts list
bill of materials · Great Scott Gadgets parts-list PDF linked from the badge page for the ToorCon 13 badge hacking kit.
BSidesPDX_2018.kicad_pcb
board file · KiCad PCB source used as evidence of a concrete hardware design; no board artwork or render is reused as a hero image.
Badger Eagle board
board file · Repository board-file source for the physical PCB archive; used as evidence of a real hardware design rather than as publishable artwork.
badge.brd
board file · Eagle board-file source used as evidence of a concrete 2016 PCB design; no board artwork or render is reused as a hero image.
bsides2017.brd
board file · Eagle board-file source used as evidence of a concrete 2017 hardware design; no board artwork or render is reused as a hero image.
dc5032018banglet.brd
board file · Eagle board source for the DC503 2018 Banglet hardware archive.
multnomah.kicad_pcb
board file · KiCad PCB source used as evidence of a concrete hardware design; no board artwork or render is reused as a hero image.
SEC Youth Challenge KiCad PCB
board source · KiCad PCB source for badge artwork, reverse-mounted PLCC LED footprints, Cyber City Circuits logo footprint, and SECYC sponsor silkscreen context.
CC Bootloader repository
bootloader source · Public CC Bootloader repository linked from the badge page as the bootloader path for badge firmware replacement.
Building Winglet OS
build guide · Repository guide documenting the Linux/Ubuntu build requirement, Buildroot workflow, winglet-kernel, winglet-boot, winglet-gui, and output image artifacts.
SAINTCON 2019 badge challenge PDF
challenge artifact · Repository challenge PDF referenced by the README for post-event challenge play.
BSidesKC 2019 challenge summary
challenge deck · Repository challenge-summary deck for the BSidesKC 2019 badge challenge trail.
SAINTCON 2016 Badge Registration
challenge registration · Hackers Challenge registration source for badge ID, UUID, serial boot output, and badge game-score behavior.
SAINTCON 2017 registration guide
challenge registration · Manual source for registering the badge with the Hacker Challenge server, personalization, and optional Wi-Fi configuration.
AND!XOR DC27 B.E.N.D.E.R. walkthrough
challenge walkthrough · Primary log documenting the B.E.N.D.E.R. v2.0 challenge path, text-adventure framing, buffer-overflow step, firmware/hardware/radio/crypto/social areas, and post-event walkthrough status.
DEF CON 28 badge challenges writeup
challenge writeup · Independent writeup source documenting the lanyard, cassette tape, liner-front, liner-back, character-color puzzle, and challenge timing.
DEF CON 29 badge writeup
challenge writeup · Science Viking Labs source documenting the pre-con clues, challenge hint flow, SAO and IR observations, Morse and serial material, and badge solving path.
DEF CON 30 Badge Challenge Writeup
challenge writeup · Kybr raw writeup source for nine badge variants, musical measures, Peer Gynt unlock, phone and friend challenge structure, hidden faceplate numbers, and final handoff context.
DEF CON 32 Badge Flashy ROM
community ROM · Community source documenting a custom Game Boy ROM for the DEF CON 32 badge, LED control behavior, and public source publication.
2017 Supercon badge hacks list
community archive · Hackaday.io list preserving attendee hardware, software, camera, printer, time-lapse, and challenge projects around the 2017 camera badge.
2018 Supercon badge hacks list
community archive · Hackaday.io list preserving 25 hardware, software, BASIC, music, enclosure, emulator, chat, QR-code, and display projects for the 2018 badge.
2019 Supercon badge hacks list
community archive · Hackaday.io list preserving enclosure and SDRAM-cartridge hack projects for the 2019 FPGA badge.
MiniBadge Wiki
community catalogue · Public community catalogue context for SAINTCON MiniBadge records; cited as supporting evidence and not as image permission.
MiniBadge Wiki 2023 data export
community data export · Public year-specific data export preserving 2023 MiniBadge names, categories, designers, acquisition paths, assembly difficulty, and descriptive notes.
DEF CON 33 badge drop schedule
community schedule · DEF CON 33 schedule mirror source listing the Badge Drop - Hack 'em Crack 'em Robots session by 2PAC in the Badgelife Community area.
Backpack of Shame firmware
companion firmware source · Companion ESP8266 access-point and scoreboard sketch for the open `GrrCon WiFi` network and unique-client count display.
MakersBox SMD Challenge circuit
component source · Referenced SMD soldering challenge circuit source used as part of the unofficial Remoticon 2020 badge design.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy InfoconDB entry
conference archive · Conference archive source for the DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy dates, Hyatt Regency Hotel venue, Louisville, Kentucky location, and linked event-program context.
LayerOne 2015 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · Conference archive source for the May 23-24, 2015 Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles LayerOne event context.
LayerOne 2016 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · Conference archive source for the May 28-29, 2016 Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles LayerOne event context.
LayerOne 2017 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · Conference archive source for the May 26-28, 2017 Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles event context and archived con-page trail.
LayerOne 2018 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · Conference archive source for the May 25-27, 2018 Pasadena Hilton LayerOne event context.
LayerOne 2019 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · Conference archive source for the May 24-26, 2019 Pasadena Hilton LayerOne event context.
RVAsec 2012 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · Conference archive source for June 15-16, 2012 dates, Commonwealth Ballroom at VCU University Commons venue, and event context.
RVAsec 2017 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · InfoconDB archive context preserving RVAsec 2017 metadata and Badge Intro talk/session evidence.
RVAsec 2018 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · InfoconDB archive context for the June 7-8, 2018 event and Badge Intro material.
RVAsec 2021 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · Conference archive preserving the November 4-5, 2021 Omni Richmond event context and Badge Intro schedule item.
RVAsec 2022 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · Conference archive context for RVAsec 2022 while the repository carries the badge technical evidence.
RVAsec 2023 InfoconDB entry
conference archive · Conference archive context for RVAsec 2023 and schedule material.
ANDnXOR DC28 SPI assets
content source · Repository SPI directory preserving badge content-generation scripts and source assets used for bling/content packaging.
DEFCON 15 Team Slackers contest entry
contest entry archive · Contest archive linked from the project page for the Team Slackers pGina single sign-on generator entry.
DEFCON 15 line-level meter contest entry
contest entry archive · Contest archive linked from the project page for the winning Team Osogato line-level meter entry.
DEFCON 17 Badge Bulletin Board System contest entry
contest entry archive · Contest archive linked from the project page for Mark Renouf and Jason Scott's incomplete Badge Bulletin Board System port.
DEFCON 17 Fffft contest entry
contest entry archive · Contest archive linked from the project page for Simap's 32-bin FFT LED-display entry.
DEFCON 17 multifunction dialer contest entry
contest entry archive · Contest archive linked from the project page for 501d3r Guy's Blue Box / DTMF Dialer / Voice Amplifier entry.
DEFCON 17 sound-fearing blimp contest entry
contest entry archive · Contest archive linked from the project page for Team Hack the Badge's sound-fearing blimp entry.
Supercon 8 Add On Contest
contest page · Hackaday.io contest source for functional SAO challenge rules, deadline, categories, judging, and winner list.
Mar Williams DEF CON 33 announcement
creator announcement · Creator source documenting DEFCON 33 badges as non-electronic, layered with 3D image and lens interactions, clue spotting, Arts & Entertainment booth participation, and black-badge collaborators.
Saintcon Enigma Badge write-up
creator writeup · MK Factor creator write-up for the Enigma badge design, STM32L433, ICE40HX1K FPGA, LED matrix, lampboard, minibadges, badge-ring challenge, firmware, production, and credits.
Differential Destroyer contributors
credits · Repository contributor file naming development, hardware, firmware, routing, design, graphics, project-management, logistics, and silkscreen roles.
Euphoria CTF badge challenge
ctf guide · Official wiki page directing players to register a Shady Tag at the Shadytel Experience Center and tying the first challenge to the badge.
DEF CON 26 Badge curated content
curated technical notes · DEF CON forum curation of media-server badge files, firmware-update instructions, PICkit/MPLAB flashing workflow, firmware-version checks, and community repair context.
AND!XOR DC25 microSD BYOB bling
customization guide · Primary log documenting the microSD card, Bring Your Own Bling workflow, RAW 16-bit 565 asset format, ffmpeg conversion command, and custom bling folder behavior.
Build-A-Badge repository
customization software and image source · Public repository for the DEF CON 33 badge customization application covering images, LED patterns, badge names, programming workflow, WASM upload support, README-embedded MIT license text, and the selected `assets/ics_village_badge.png` official upstream render.
AND!XOR DC27 SWD guide
debug guide · Primary debug-guide source for SWD/OpenOCD exploration through the onboard FTDI path and badge-as-debugger concept.
DEF CON 32 badge media-server directory
design and firmware assets · Official media-server source for assets.zip, Badge_Game_Music_v2.zip, badge_readme.txt, DC32 HW.zip, DC32BadgeGame.zip, DEFCON-32-BadgeFirmware-main.zip, and FREEWiLi firmware documentation.
DEF CON 31 badge media-server directory
design assets · Official media-server source for the badge add-on PDF, chamber test-fit STL, badge-card outline AI/EPS files, GIF previews, and Blender chamber asset.
LayerOne 2016 All at once log
development log · Project log source for PCB arrival, Eagle design, reverse-protection diode, level-shifter debugging, daisy-chain tests, ESP8266 power/noise fixes, Wi-Fi control, planned firmware-update station, and pre-build intent.
LayerOne 2017 goals log
development log · Project log source for feature status around CAN, USB, audio, battery, buttons, J2534 work, ST-Link programming, ECU reflashing, CAN logger behavior, and memory access over CAN.
Voja4 manuals archive
documentation · Repository directory preserving the user manual, instruction set, special-function-register, direct-mode, and hardware manuals.
DEF CON 28 Safe Mode archive
event archive mirror · Archived DEF CON Safe Mode page source for the in-person cancellation, August 6-9 online event context, optional Human Plus support model, and official cassette-badge announcement.
Hackaday Superconference Chat 2016
event community page · Hackaday.io event-community page for Pasadena November 5-6 chat, badge-hacking discussion, schedule files, and linked firmware repository.
CactusCon April 4 2014 slides
event context · Public slide deck source anchoring CactusCon activity on April 4, 2014.
DEF CON 33 villages page
event context · Official DEF CON 33 village listing for Biohacking Village and its healthcare, medical technology, and cybersecurity scope.
DEF CON forum Youth Challenge page
event context · DEF CON forum source for the DEF CON 31 Youth Challenge hours, Social Engineering Community Village location, and puzzle-topic framing.
Kernelcon 2019 event notice
event context · University of Nebraska-Lincoln announcement source for April 5-6, 2019 dates, Embassy Suites Omaha Downtown Old Market venue, and limited electronic badge availability.
CactusCon official site
event lineage · Official current CactusCon page for Arizona security-conference lineage context.
BSidesKC 2025 BSides Global listing
event metadata · BSides Global event listing for the April 25-26, 2025 BSidesKC event tagged Kansas City and USA.
BSidesSLC 2025 BSides wiki
event metadata · Security BSides wiki page preserving BSidesSLC 2025 event metadata and Sandy, Utah venue context.
CactusCon 11 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for dates, Mesa Convention Center location, free general admission, and schedule metadata.
CactusCon 12 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for the February 16-17, 2024 Mesa Convention Center CactusCon 12 event context.
CactusCon 13 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for the February 14-15, 2025 Mesa Convention Center CactusCon 13 event context.
CactusCon 2017 event metadata
event metadata · Secondary event listing source used for September 29-30, 2017 Phoenix Convention Center context, not for badge technical details.
Calagator Security BSides Portland
event metadata · Community event listing for October 14-15, 2016, Oregon Convention Center, and source text saying PCB badges, T-shirts, and bags would be given away with donors prioritized.
DEF CON 25 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for DEF CON 25 dates, venue, general admission cost, and official event links.
DEF CON 26 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for August 9-12, 2018 Caesars Palace event metadata and the Welcome To DEF CON & Badge Maker Talk schedule entry.
DEF CON 28 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for DEF CON 28 virtual location, August 6-9, 2020 dates, free general admission, and official conference links.
DEF CON 29 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for August 5-8, 2021 DEF CON 29 metadata, Bally's and Paris location context, and official event links.
DEF CON 30 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for DEF CON 30 event metadata and official conference links.
Kernelcon 2020 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB event record for the March 25-28, 2020 virtual Kernelcon context.
Kernelcon 2022 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for March 30-April 2, 2022 Omaha dates and Embassy Suites Omaha Downtown Old Market venue.
Kernelcon 2023 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for April 12-15, 2023 dates and Embassy Suites Omaha Downtown Old Market event context.
Kernelcon 2025 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for April 3-4, 2025 dates and Hilton Omaha Downtown Old Market venue.
SAINTCON 2020 InfoconDB entry
event metadata · InfoconDB source corroborating SAINTCON 2020 as an October 27-30, 2020 virtual event.
ShmooCon XIV InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for ShmooCon XIV dates, Washington Hilton venue, Washington, DC location, and event schedule context.
THOTCON 0x8 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for THOTCON 0x8 dates, Chicago location context, and links to the event page and program.
THOTCON 0xA InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for THOTCON 0xA dates, May 3-4, 2019, undisclosed Chicago location, program link, and schedule entries.
THOTCON 0xC InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for THOTCON 0xC dates, May 19-20, 2023, unknown-location framing, and official con-page link.
ToorCamp 2018 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB event metadata for ToorCamp 2018 dates, Orcas Island location, cost, and conference links.
ToorCon San Diego 13 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for ToorCon San Diego 13 dates, San Diego Convention Center venue, San Diego location, and schedule context.
ToorCon San Diego 14 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for ToorCon San Diego 14 dates, San Diego Westin Emerald Plaza venue, San Diego location, and schedule context.
ToorCon San Diego 20 InfoconDB record
event metadata · InfoconDB source for ToorCon San Diego 20 dates, San Diego Westin Emerald Plaza venue, San Diego location, and schedule context.
2016 Superconference overview
event page · Hackaday event source for November 5-6, 2016 Pasadena context, Supplyframe DesignLab and Los Angeles College of Music venue, hardware badge, hacking competition, and crypto challenge.
2020 Remoticon start page
event page · Official Hackaday.io start page for the November 6-8, 2020 virtual Remoticon, workshop context, public chat, and discussion thread where official-badge scope was clarified.
DEF CON 1 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the July 9-11, 1993 DEF CON 1 dates, Sands Hotel and Casino venue, official page link, admission price, and archive references.
DEF CON 10 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the August 2-4, 2002 DEF CON 10 dates and Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas venue context.
DEF CON 11 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the August 1-3, 2003 DEF CON 11 dates and Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas venue context.
DEF CON 12 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for DEF CON 12 dates, schedule archive, Alexis Park Resort venue metadata, and official event-page pointers.
DEF CON 13 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the July 29-31, 2005 DEF CON 13 event dates and Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas venue context.
DEF CON 17 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for July 30-August 2, 2009 dates and Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas venue context.
DEF CON 19 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON source for August 4-7, 2011 Rio Hotel and Casino event framing.
DEF CON 19 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for DEF CON 19 dates and Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas venue metadata.
DEF CON 2 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the July 22-24, 1994 DEF CON 2 dates, Sahara Hotel and Casino venue, official page link, admission price, and program/archive references.
DEF CON 20 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON source for July 26-29, 2012 Rio Hotel event context, badge firmware notice, conference DVD material, and badge-contest writeup links.
DEF CON 21 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON archive source for DEF CON 21 event context, contest results, press archive, and post-event conference material links.
DEF CON 22 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON archive source for August 7-10, 2014 Rio Hotel & Casino event context, DEF CON 22 badge news, C-style code release, and badge-hacking-file torrent.
DEF CON 23 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON archive source for 2015 event context, conference material links, contest framing, and post-event archive records.
DEF CON 24 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON source for 2016 Paris/Bally's event context, badge contest forum link, Council of 9 badge walkthrough link, CD torrents, and black-badge references.
DEF CON 25 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON archive source for July 27-30, 2017 Caesars Palace event context and conference material links.
DEF CON 26 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON archive source for 2018 event context, Caesars Palace and Flamingo venue split, badge firmware update notice, writeup link, and media-server material.
DEF CON 29 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON archive source for the 2021 event, linked FAQ, badge announcement links, post-con material links, and hybrid Las Vegas context.
DEF CON 3 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the August 4-6, 1995 DEF CON 3 dates, Tropicana Resort & Casino venue, official page link, and program/archive references.
DEF CON 30 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON archive source for August 11-14, 2022 venue context, Hacker Homecoming framing, media archive links, and magical mystery musical badge talk notice.
DEF CON 31 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON archive source for August 10-13, 2023 dates, venue context, and event framing.
DEF CON 32 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON archive source for August 8-11, 2024 dates, Las Vegas Convention Center venue, pricing, and post-con media archive links.
DEF CON 33 event archive
event page · Official DEF CON archive source for August 7-10, 2025 dates, Las Vegas Convention Center venue, and post-con archive links.
DEF CON 34 homepage
event page · Official DEF CON source for August 6-9, 2026 dates, LVCC West Hall location, Agency theme, and preregistration news linking to the official ticket page.
DEF CON 4 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the July 26-28, 1996 DEF CON 4 dates, Monte Carlo Resort and Casino venue, official page link, and program/archive references.
DEF CON 5 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the July 11-13, 1997 DEF CON 5 dates, Aladdin Hotel & Casino venue, official page link, and program/archive references.
DEF CON 6 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the July 31-August 2, 1998 DEF CON 6 dates, Plaza Hotel & Casino venue, official page link, and program/archive references.
DEF CON 8 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the July 28-30, 2000 DEF CON 8 dates, Alexis Park Resort venue, official page link, and program/archive references.
DEF CON 9 event metadata
event page · InfoconDB source for the July 13-15, 2001 DEF CON 9 dates and Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas venue context.
EFF at HOPE X
event page · Event corroboration for HOPE X as the tenth Hackers On Planet Earth event in New York City with talks, workshops, and projects.
HOPE X official site
event page · Official event source for New York City and July 18-20, 2014 HOPE X timing.
HOPE XV about page
event page · Official event source for the 15th Hackers On Planet Earth conference, July 12-14, 2024 dates, in-person St. John's University campus context, and HOPE lineage.
Hackaday Superconference 2017 event page
event page · Hackaday.io event source for the 2017 Pasadena Superconference context and schedule archive.
Supercon 2019 event chat
event page · Hackaday.io event source for the Pasadena, CA, November 15-17, 2019 Superconference dates and badge-hacking community setup.
Supercon 2019 press release
event page · Hackaday press source for fifth annual Superconference context, Supplyframe DesignLab and Los Angeles College of Music venues, dates, workshops, badge hacking, talks, and demos.
Supercon 2023 announcement
event page · Hackaday event announcement source for the November 3-5, 2023 Pasadena Supercon dates.
Supercon 2024 schedule
event page · Official Hackaday.io event source for November 1-3, 2024 dates, Supplyframe DesignLab venue, and Pasadena address.
Supercon 2025 call for participation
event page · Hackaday event source for October 31-November 2, 2025 dates and Pasadena, California context.
ToorCamp 2024 official site
event page · Official event site for the June 26-30, 2024 camp at Doe Bay Resort & Spa on Orcas Island.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy program
event program PDF · Infocon-hosted program PDF linked from InfoconDB, used for event-context corroboration rather than badge hardware claims.
2017 Superconference badge film festival project
event project · Hackaday.io project source documenting a badge-shot Supercon 2017 film-festival submission and files.
Badge Bling and More at LayerOne 2018
event report · Hackaday source for ESP32-WROOM-32, I2S audio, amplifier, microphone preamp, 18650 power, GPIO breakout, Alexa experiment framing, soldering village, and blinky add-on context.
Hunting Replicants With The 2019 LayerOne Badge
event report · Hackaday source for the Voight-Kampff theme, ATtiny2313 main badge, 16 RGB LEDs, six buttons, five-pin power/PWM/I2C add-on header, ESP32CAM eye-recognition add-on, servo eye add-on, and LED add-on context.
LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village coverage
event report · Hackaday coverage from the LayerOne 2015 Hardware Hacking Village corroborating that there were two badges and that each came with different hacking paths.
SAINTCON Badge: Badge Hacking for Mortals
event report · Hackaday coverage source for the Arduino-compatible badge, bag-of-components distribution, HHV assembly workflow, FTDI header, challenge secrets, and blinky-board add-on context.
2016 Supercon badge hacks results
event results · Post-event Hackaday source for badge-hacking presentations, winners, $256 awards, crypto challenge recognition, display-matrix hacks, and hardware/firmware project context.
What actually happens at a hardware hacking con
event results · Post-event Hackaday source for badge-hacking winners and projects including film, VR, time-lapse, printer, camera, charging, thermal, and SLA-printer experiments.
BSides Tampa
event site · Current official event site for the yearly Tampa Bay Security BSides conference lineage.
BIC Village 2025 event summary
event summary · Official PDF summary source for 2025 village impact metrics, 33 volunteers, 10 team leads, 7 event leads, sold-out badges and merchandise, and future-programming fundraising context.
BSides Tampa 2026 venue
event venue · Official venue page documenting the USF Marshall Student Center location, address, parking, and venue-map context used for BSides Tampa 2026.
ToorCamp wiki
event wiki · Official ToorCamp wiki source for outdoor hacker-camp context, June 20-24, 2018 dates, Doe Bay Resort & Spa venue, and inspiration from the Netherlands and Germany hacker-camp traditions.
ToorCamp wiki
event wiki · Official wiki source for ToorCamp 2022 dates, Doe Bay Resort & Spa venue, Orcas Island context, and outdoor hacker-camp lineage framing.
ToorCamp wiki
event wiki · Official wiki source for the 2024 camp dates, Doe Bay Resort & Spa venue, Orcas Island context, and links into Shadybucks and Euphoria CTF material.
Remoticon 2020 OSH Park project
fabrication handoff · Shared OSH Park board-order path linked from the repository/writeup for builders who wanted the base PCB.
Remoticon.2 MicroMod OSH Park project
fabrication handoff · OSH Park shared project linked from the Hackaday.io project for the MicroMod carrier-board variant.
Remoticon.2 paste-stencil OSH Park project
fabrication handoff · OSH Park shared project linked from the Hackaday.io project for the MicroMod carrier-board paste/stencil workflow.
All The Hardware Badges Of DEF CON 25
field report · Contemporary Hackaday report documenting the scale of unofficial DC25 hardware badges, badge-maker meetup, shared badgelife coordination, and unified API context.
First Look At DEF CON 26 Official Badge
field report · Contemporary Hackaday source documenting official-badge status, Tymkrs/Toymakers attribution, PIC32MM hardware, LEDs, USB serial text adventure, badge-to-badge connector, and add-on header.
First WOPR Summit Finds The Winning Move
field report · Hackaday source for the inaugural Atlantic City WOPR Summit, Bally's venue context, badge-hacking area, attendee assembly, ATtiny841, twelve colored LEDs, eight RGB LEDs, battery holders, and staff firmware flashing.
Hands-On: DEF CON 29 Badge Embraces The New Normal
field report · Contemporary Hackaday source documenting MK Factor, RP2040 hardware, LCD, buttons, USB-C, SAO connectors, speaker, debug pads, and USB HID macro-pad behavior.
Pandemic DEF CON badge hands-on
field report · Contemporary Hackaday source documenting the physical cassette, jewel case, lanyard, liner notes, tones, number-station-like audio, and collaboration project.
Voja4 firmware archive
firmware · Repository directory preserving the public firmware binary and firmware README path used as source evidence without treating repository images as rights-cleared media.
RetroWiFiModem
firmware and hardware repository · Upstream mecparts repository linked by JawnCon for the Hayes-style AT command firmware lineage, ESP8266/Wemos D1 mini hardware basis, LED indicators, ATDT dialing, Telnet modes, and OTA update path.
pdxbadgers/5ohBEE-2019 repository
firmware and setup source repo · Public PDX Badgers repository described as SMART Response XE based pagers for the 503 Party 2019, with README, Apache-2.0 license, helper archives, firmware sketches, and artwork asset.
Hacker HotKey repository
firmware archive · Public Kernelcon repository preserving Arduino Leonardo firmware examples, default key mapping, and 3D-print case reference.
Kernelcon 2022 watch badge repository
firmware archive · Public ZonkSec repository preserving the ESP8266 watch-badge firmware and Arduino IDE flashing workflow.
2025 Communicator Badge firmware README
firmware docs · Firmware source for MicroPython, LVGL, ucryptography, asyncio, LoRa network stack, protocol ports, TTL relay behavior, RF channel notes, ImHex packet pattern, app lifecycle, and development workflow.
LayerOne 2025 USB modes guide
firmware docs · Repository documentation for normal, CMSIS-DAP, and DFU USB modes and related debugging workflows.
BSides PDX 2015 Badger Firmware README
firmware documentation · Repository README source for the `/flag` endpoint, `/leds` endpoint, RGB LED color command, and LED mode command list.
BSidesPDX 2018 firmware README
firmware documentation · Repository firmware README source for ATTiny861, ATTinyCore, micronucleus bootloader, sample programs, Arduino configuration, and pin mappings.
Custom firmware README
firmware documentation · Firmware README for the MicroPython 1.26.0 custom binary, compiled C badge-challenge modules, GC9A01 display driver, and esptool flashing commands.
DC32 CHV firmware README
firmware documentation · Build, flash, RP2040 BootSel/reset, and socketcan/cansniffer workflow documentation for the main badge firmware.
La Villa Hacker firmware README
firmware documentation · Firmware README source for Puya PY32F002A/PY32F002Ax5, toolchain, programmer, SDK, and development workflow details.
Thotcon0xA_Pub README
firmware documentation · Repository README source for SparkFun ESP32 Thing Dev base, touch-pad mapping, LED pin mapping, speaker, microphone, audio examples, stock-firmware restore command, and Arduino setup.
Touch Wheel Badge demo firmware README
firmware documentation · Repository README source for ESP32-compatible hardware, ST7789 240x320 display, six LED pins, capacitive wheel and center-button inputs, buzzer pin, Arduino IDE/TFT_eSPI workflow, and `tonechaser`, `working`, and `wheel_visualization` firmware examples.
bleuart_interaction.ino
firmware example · BLEUART interaction sketch documenting commands such as list, rainbow, patriot, and off for badge interaction experiments.
SAINTCON 2017 flashing guide
firmware image workflow · Manual source for writing the badge image to microSD and first-boot behavior.
SAINTCON 2016 Upload Code
firmware instructions · Flashing source for HHV flash stations, CH340G setup, esptool.py command, NodeMCU/Lua workflow, custom code upload tools, and community extras.
led_mapping.csv
firmware mapping · Repository mapping source for icon LEDs such as mountain, coffee, rain, bridge, sasquatch, book, train, beard, bike, donut, rose, and beer.
globals.h
firmware pin map · Firmware header source for SH1106 screen constants, CC1101 SPI/GDO0 pins, button pins, NeoPixel pin/count, SDIO pins, EEPROM size, sample buffer size, and RF helper declarations.
FREE-WILi firmware repository
firmware release · Public firmware repository distributing DEF CON 33 badge UF2 firmware and firmware-update entry points; GitHub API currently reports no repository license.
La Villa Hacker v1.0.0 release
firmware release · GitHub release source for the published VillaHacker.hex firmware asset.
HackRVA badge2020 repository
firmware repository · Public HackRVA repository titled as software for the HackRVA 2020 badge, with LCD, IR, USB, app framework, audio, and interpreter source context.
HackRVA badge2022 repository
firmware repository · Public HackRVA repository documenting RVAsec Badge 2022 firmware, hardware and simulator build paths, component status table, and app framework.
HackRVA badge2023 repository
firmware repository · Public HackRVA repository documenting RVAsec 2023 badge firmware, UF2 flashing, SDL simulator, component status, and app/game tree.
HackRVA badge2024 repository
firmware repository · Public HackRVA repository documenting 2024 badge firmware and emulator, hardware status, UF2 flashing, SDL simulator, and app/game tree.
HackRVA rvasec-badge-2014 repository
firmware repository · Public HackRVA repository preserving source code for the 2014 RVAs3c badge.
RVAsec 2019 badge interpreter repository
firmware repository · Public HackRVA repository preserving Dustin Firebaugh's badge C interpreter for the 2019 badge.
2020-mask.ino
firmware source · Arduino firmware source for BSides PDX speaker-gift modifications, NeoMatrix/NeoPixel mouth animation, microphone sampling, pushbutton standby, and scrolling BSidesPDX banner behavior.
2025 Communicator Badge board pinout
firmware source · Raw firmware source for keyboard I2C, LCD pins, LoRa SPI, radio control pins, SAO I2C, SAO GPIO, and debug LED assignments.
ANDnXOR DC28 firmware tree
firmware source · Repository firmware directory containing badge firmware source tree, Zephyr setup helper, and word-list generation assets.
BSidesKC 2019 shark-badge firmware
firmware source · Repository shark-badge tree preserving the Jr Hacker / kids badge PlatformIO source context.
BadgeBuddy firmware
firmware source · Arduino-style ESP8266 firmware for the `BadgeBuddy` SSID, 30-second WiFi scans, unique-BSSID counting, 8x8 LED matrix animations, and falling-code mode.
DC32 CHV badge firmware
firmware source · Public CHV firmware repository for the main badge car-on-a-board firmware and verification material.
DefconBadgeRF.ino
firmware source · Primary firmware source naming DC33, The Pirates' Plunder, Rabbit Labs, TehRabbitt badge design, RocketGod firmware, SH1106 display use, NeoPixel setup, RF menu defaults, and RX/TX/jammer/Tesla code paths.
Flux Decoder firmware
firmware source · Arduino-style firmware source for LED group pins, mode button behavior, center LED breathing, and jigawatts animation.
HugQuest.ino
firmware source · HugQuest v1.5 source for name setup, HUG-token accounting, WANNAHUG infection and unlock behavior, channel/RSSI commands, sleep handling, and EEPROM persistence.
LayerOne 2024 firmware source
firmware source · Firmware source for the ATTiny4313 LED mapping, hall-effect sensor interrupt, RPM timing, sleep behavior, button handling, and POV drawing routines.
LayerOne2023 firmware sources
firmware source · Firmware source for USB initialization, button behavior, LED effects, flash-backed messages, generic HID handling, and keyboard-output behavior.
Project Ubertooth tc13badge firmware
firmware source · Project Ubertooth firmware tree for the Renesas R5F212L4/R8C ToorCon 13 badge microcontroller code.
SAINTCON 2018 main.py
firmware source · Primary MicroPython source for display states, I2C buses, button handling, minibadge polling, brightness events, Wi-Fi setup, and Hacker Challenge score updates.
SAINTCON 2018 source tree
firmware source · Repository source-code tree preserving MicroPython modules and web configuration assets for the badge.
SAINTCON 2019 firmware tree
firmware source · Repository firmware tree for the STM32CubeIDE badge firmware project.
badge.ino
firmware source · Repository firmware source for the 1 MHz ATTiny85 Arduino sketch, PWM outputs, CapacitiveSensor inputs, random four-state LED pattern, and alternate sine/cosine analogWrite animation.
badger.ino
firmware source · Firmware source for ESP8266 Wi-Fi includes, BadgerNet naming, embedded BSides PDX 2015 Badger web UI, HTTP handlers, LED pins, and CTF flag behavior.
banglet.ino
firmware source · Main firmware source for BLEUART service, scanner behavior, unique names, NeoPixel output, `/list` interaction, and party-badge operation.
boardtest.ino
firmware source · Firmware source for RGB PWM cycling, RGB enable pins, charlieplex row configuration, LED test behavior, SAO/I2C/SPI pins, and switch pin mapping.
five-oh-BEE.ino
firmware source · Basic pager/chat sketch source using SmartResponseXE display support, RadioFunctions RF send/receive, channel 11 setup, keyboard entry, message buffers, and byte-3 message termination.
layer-one.c ATtiny badge source
firmware source · Repository C source for the LayerOne 2019 ATtiny badge firmware trail.
multnomah.ino
firmware source · Arduino-style firmware source for two PWM outputs and sine/cosine analogWrite animation behavior.
tipsy.ino
firmware source · Arduino firmware source for RP2040 pin mapping, menu modes, zap modes, USB warning behavior, display handling, storage behavior, and CC BY-NC 4.0 source header.
wagonparty.ino
firmware source · Main firmware source for SSD1306 display setup, BLE service and banner characteristic, 503WAGON identity, 503.PARTY default banner, wagon/hunt/party modes, and DYSENTERY/WannaCry behavior.
pdxbadgers/fw-2015 repository
firmware source repo · Public PDX Badgers firmware repository preserving the ESP8266 Badger web server, LED behavior, config storage, and support files.
pdxbadgers/wagonparty repository
firmware source repo · Public PDX Badgers repository described as dc503 wagon party, with README flashing notes, Arduino firmware, sprites, image assets, and contributor history.
Banglet sketches README
firmware workflow · Sketch documentation source describing the Feather-style nRF52/Bluefruit board, NeoPixel data on A0, and Arduino/Adafruit setup path.
DEF CON 30 badge fun with OFRAK
firmware writeup · Red Balloon Security source for playable synthesizer behavior, Raspberry Pi Pico-driven badge description, speaker/screen/buttons, BOOTSEL/picotool workflow, and firmware modification.
Extracting and cracking DEF CON 30 badge firmware
firmware writeup · FaultPoint source for RP2 B2/RP2040 and W25Q16JV identification, SPI flash extraction, XIP firmware analysis, and challenge key-combo decoding.
RfCat repository
firmware/tooling source · Public RfCat repository used for the badge firmware and interactive Python RF shell workflow.
Hacking and Skydiving
first-hand attendee writeup · First-hand attendee source for the CactusCon 2017 paid badge package, Phoenix-area event context, WemOS-based Wi-Fi/Bluetooth scanner behavior, soldering troubleshooting, and image-rights boundary.
Hacking the SAINTCON Badge
first-hand badge write-up · Josh Datko first-hand source for the SAINTCON 2014 badge, Arduino-clone framing, FTDI programming, HHV soldering context, hidden source-code secret, blinky expansion board, and designer/support credits.
My SAINTCON badge came today
first-hand badge write-up · First-hand DC540 source documenting a shipped 2020 badge package, badge itself, included MiniBadge, custom-MiniBadge coupon, and HC CTF badge context.
WOPR 0x00 Badge
first-hand build guide · Russell Handorf source for WOPR 0x00 2019 badge assembly logistics, soldering-station workflow, ATTINY841-SSU placement, resistor/LED/battery-clip steps, LED color caveat, and info-booth firmware loading.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 badge-team writeup
first-hand project writeup · Primary first-hand source for the June 7, 2025 Fort Wayne conference context, attendee badge distribution statement, ESP32-WROVER hardware summary, MicroPython framework, CTF badge challenges, and badge-development talk.
DerbyCon Legacy Black Badge
first-hand project writeup · Primary first-hand maker source for the Legacy Black Badge purpose, hardware bill of materials, design/fabrication workflow, compiled firmware artifact, build steps, and image-rights boundary.
THOTCON 0xB Electronic Conference Badge
first-hand project writeup · Rob Rehrig source for ESP32 badge design, reverse-mount LEDs, IS32FL3731 LED driver, piezo buzzer, accelerometer, capacitive touch, Wi-Fi node behavior, IRC, serial interface, GPIO0/DTR production fix, and design-team role.
THOTCON 0xC Electronic Conference Badge
first-hand project writeup · Rob Rehrig source for the Contra theme, conference-wide laser-tag concept, custom housing design, clear polycarbonate production decision, IR receiver/emitter layout, TIR lens work, Xometry manufacturing path, and roughly 2,000-badge scale.
CactusCon PCB Badges
first-hand writeup · First-hand Robot Ambassador source for the 300-board CactusCon PCB badge giveaway, Erik Wilson design credit, HeatSync Labs booth, LAN tap, USB 3.0 breakout, Teensy expansion, acrylic, LED, resistor, battery, and lanyard context.
Arduino IDE getting-started guide
flashing guide · Repository guide for RP2040 board-manager setup, required Adafruit libraries, partitioning, flashing, and copying badge data files onto the mass-storage volume.
DEF CON forum LHC badge announcement
forum announcement · DEF CON forum announcement for the limited LHC Meshtastic Badge with DEF CON 33 pickup context.
NilbinSec Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots announcement
forum announcement · DEF CON #Badge Life forum source for NilbinSec's first full-size badge, SAO giveaway funding, included red and blue SAOs, EEPROM game-data behavior, DEF CON 33 release context, and pricing note.
Tipsy Electronic Badge DEF CON forum announcement
forum announcement · DEF CON forum announcement tying seeess's Tipsy Electronic Badge to DEF CON 33 and pointing readers to the public manual, code, and open-source files.
BSidesKC 2025 badge shipping update
fulfillment update · Badge Pirates update documenting BSidesKC 2025 badge orders, U.S. Customs hold status, and planned pickup or shipping choices for badge purchasers.
AND!XOR DC25 BOTNET game log
game documentation · Primary log describing the badge-to-badge BOTNET game, activation, badge-net repeating behavior, airplane-mode opt-out, services, firewall rules, exploits, XP, and points.
Trick-or-Treat README
game documentation · Repository game documentation source for digital candy trading, controller workflows, badge USB storage contents, and BSidesSF 2024 Attribution Game fork lineage.
DEFCON 27 badge getting started
guide · NXP guide documenting KL27/Kinetis hardware, programming setup, firmware source, schematics, tools, and hacking paths.
Supercon badge hacking quick-start
guide · Hackaday firmware guide for MPLAB X, XC32, MicroSD bootloader flashing, app templates, timed state-machine structure, and badge APIs.
2020-mask README
hardware and assembly documentation · Repository README source for Arduino Pro Micro, MAX4466 microphone module, flexible 8x8 WS2812 matrix, SMT switch, cotton face mask, USB power bank, wiring, library, and Arduino Leonardo programming workflow.
Kernelcon 2019 badge repository
hardware and challenge archive · Public ZonkSec repository preserving the ATtiny85, CR2032, APA102, LED-mode, and Docker CTF challenge details.
FluxDecoder repository
hardware and firmware archive · Public Social Engineering Community repository for the DEF CON 31 Youth Challenge Flux Decoder badge.
HackRVA RVAsec Badge 2012 repository
hardware and firmware archive · Public HackRVA repository preserving README context, Eagle board/schematic files, production Gerbers, component documentation, graphics, and release firmware for the RVAsec 2012 badge.
Kernelcon 2026 badge repository
hardware and firmware archive · Public ZonkSec repository preserving MicroPython firmware, KiCad files, Gerbers, BOMs, 3D models, flyers, and badge variants.
Parallax DEF CON 20 badge start-here post
hardware and firmware archive · Primary manufacturer source for Propeller P8X32A hardware, IR, LEDs, USB, attendee-role variants, firmware downloads, schematic, VGA/PS2 examples, and designer/code credits.
Differential Destroyer README
hardware and firmware docs · Primary technical documentation for the board hardware, Rust firmware, Rhai scripting engine, Trx/Rx controls, CAN helpers, safety warnings, and firmware TODOs.
Thotcon0xA_Pub repository
hardware and firmware examples · Public Poplicola repository preserving the THOTCON 0xA workshop PDF, stock-firmware binaries, LED examples, SoundBoard example, AudioStreaming example, and source handoff.
thotcon-examples repository
hardware and firmware examples · Public poplicola repository preserving the THOTCON touch-wheel badge example archive, Eagle schematic and board files, and Arduino/ESP32 demo firmware directories.
Badge-Villa-Hacker repository
hardware and firmware repository · Electronic Cats repository preserving the La Villa Hacker 2025 badge project, firmware, hardware tree, and release trail.
Hackbat DEF CON 32 repository
hardware and firmware source · Public source repository for the Hackbat DEF CON 32 badge, including KiCad material, documentation images, production-file workflow, and source publication context.
pdxbadgers/2018-banglet repository
hardware and firmware source repo · Public PDX Badgers repository for the DEFCON 26 DC503 VIP Banglet wrist badge, with README, license, Eagle CAD, firmware sketches, and 3D-print files.
pdxbadgers/badge-2018 repository
hardware and firmware source repo · Public PDX Badgers repository preserving the BSidesPDX 2018 KiCad hardware archive, BOM, firmware README, sample programs, LED mapping, and Gerber outputs.
pdxbadgers/badge-2019 repository
hardware and firmware source repo · Public PDX Badgers repository preserving the Multnomah KiCad board/schematic/netlist/project, BOM, local footprints, and Arduino firmware archive.
pdxbadgers/pcb-2016 repository
hardware and firmware source repo · Public PDX Badgers repository preserving the BSidesPDX 2016 Eagle board, schematic, BOM, and Arduino firmware file.
AV Badge README
hardware and software docs · Primary README source for ADS-B/GPS/Linux SBC features, Wi-Fi, memory/storage, battery, USB-C, Dump1090 exposure, microSD, and SAO bus support.
ICS Village Badge documentation
hardware and software docs · FREE-WILi documentation source for hardware, firmware, GUI, WASM, firmware update, tutorial, and Build-A-Badge details.
Distiller BHV Edition user guide
hardware and user guide · PamirAI guide documenting Compute Module 5, RP2040/Pico board-manager functions, e-ink interface, buttons, microphone, LEDs, SD card, GPIO headers, battery setup, USB-C PD 9V/3A charging, and troubleshooting.
Kernelcon 2020 badge repository
hardware archive · Public ZonkSec repository preserving ATmega328P, dual-PCB, image-reel, LED, serial, EEPROM, and pogo-pin programming notes.
TDI Off the Shelf Hardware Edition
hardware build guide · TechGirlMN source for the Arduino Nano, solderable breadboard PCB, seven LEDs, seven 220 ohm resistors, button, 10K resistor, and D2-D8 wiring chart.
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 launch note
hardware context · Raspberry Pi source for RP2350 launch context and the DEF CON badge relationship around the new microcontroller.
LayerOne 2025 hardware hacking guide
hardware docs · Repository documentation for voltage glitching, crowbar, SWD, DAP, AVRISP, and analog-monitoring workflows.
SpiderOak Demo V2 Board README
hardware docs · Repository documentation source for the ESP32-S3 demo board, Aranya Embedded target, front/back board views, assembly options, power architecture, IR, microSD, debug LEDs, expansion pads, and mechanical dimensions.
Hardware specifications
hardware documentation · Primary hardware specification for ESP32-WROVER-E-N8R8, CH340C USB serial, WS2812B LEDs, buttons, LIS3DHTR accelerometer, LiPo charging/protection, power conversion, display headers, buzzer, and expansion headers.
Remoticon.2 badge files
hardware files · Hackaday.io file listing for KiCad PCB, artwork zip, MicroMod variant source zip, Gerbers, and paste files.
AND!XOR DC27 FTDI 2232H hardware-hacking log
hardware guide · Primary hardware-guide source for the FT2232H channel split, `/dev/ttyUSB0` hardware-hacking channel, `/dev/ttyUSB1` embedded-terminal channel, and UART/JTAG/SPI/I2C/bit-bang usage intent.
LayerOne 2015 badge details
hardware notes · Technical source for PSoC routines, UDP-driven RGB output, CR123A battery behavior, level shifting, reverse-polarity protection, ESP8266 caveats, OpenWRT/VoCore setup, USB storage, LuCI, sysupgrade, and telnet/SSH paths.
LayerOne 2017 project details
hardware notes · Badge-team details page documenting TFT display, STM32F4 class controller, SD card, twin CAN, USB host/device, audio, battery, buttons, PC CAN software, and SWD/ST-Link expectations.
Badge pinout notes
hardware pinout · Repository pinout text documenting ESP32-S3-N16R8, dual 433 MHz CC1101 modules, OLED, five-way switch, SDIO reader, UART pins, NUP2105LT1G notes, and 32 WS2812B LEDs.
aranya-project/demo-board-v2
hardware repository · Public repository for the workshop badge board, including KiCad PCB file, front/back board images used only as evidence, and hardware README; GitHub reports no repository license, so no image is copied locally.
RP2350 hacking challenge results
hardware security context · Raspberry Pi source documenting the DEF CON 32 badge as an RP2350-powered badge, with credit context around Entropic Engineering and Dmitry Grinberg.
SparkFun nRF52832 Breakout Arduino setup
hardware setup guide · External setup guide explicitly linked by the README for adding Arduino compatibility to the SparkFun nRF52832 Breakout target used by the badge workflow.
2019 Supercon PCB repository
hardware source · Public PCB artwork repository with hardware errata and CC BY-SA 3.0 hardware-license statement.
2025 Communicator Badge hardware tree
hardware source · Repository hardware tree preserving KiCad projects, Gerbers, schematic PDFs, BOM, 3D/mechanical models, front-panel files, and component libraries.
ANDnXOR DC24 badge Gerbers
hardware source · Repository Gerber directory preserving fabrication outputs.
ANDnXOR DC24 badge schematic
hardware source · Repository schematic PDF source for hardware-archive scope.
BSidesKC 2019 Gerbers
hardware source · Repository Gerber archive containing conference, shark/kids, SAO, and prototype manufacturing outputs.
CactusCon 12 KiCad CAD tree
hardware source · Repository CAD tree with CactusCon12 KiCad files, schematic sheets, BOM output, Gerbers, and board-output context.
CactusCon 12 documentation outputs
hardware source · Repository DOCS tree preserving CactusCon12 BOM, ESP32-S3 pinout reference, interactive BOM, and ProjectNeoRogue board-output images.
CactusCon 13 KiCad CAD tree
hardware source · Repository CAD tree with Project-CC13 KiCad files, schematic sheets, STEP export, ESP32-S3 reference material, and Gerber outputs.
CactusCon 13 documentation outputs
hardware source · Repository DOCS tree preserving ESP32-S3 pinout reference and Badge Pirates drawing-sheet files.
CactusCon 13 outer-board archive
hardware source · Repository outer-board KiCad tree preserving attendee, Mafia, speaker, staff, and general role-board variants.
CactusCon 14 KiCad CAD tree
hardware source · Repository CAD tree with KiCad project, schematic, board, STEP, and related hardware-design outputs.
CactusCon 14 interactive BOM
hardware source · Interactive BOM output referenced by the README for placement help and parts review.
CactusCon 14 schematic PDF
hardware source · Human-readable schematic export referenced by the README for understanding power and connectors.
DC32 CHV badge board
hardware source · Public CHV repository for the DC32 main badge board archive.
HiP Badge open hardware project
hardware source · Open-hardware repository linked by the HOPE wiki for the badge hardware lineage and KiCad-derived source material.
OpenTaxus hardware README
hardware source · Repository hardware documentation source for RP2040/XIAO-derived design, 16 MB flash, OLED, IR, d-pad, NeoPixels, AA/USB-C power, test points, KiCad files, and manufacturing archive.
Project Ubertooth tc13badge hardware
hardware source · Project Ubertooth hardware tree containing KiCad schematic and board files for the ToorCon 13 badge.
Remoticon 2020 badge repository
hardware source · Public KiCad, schematic, PCB, Gerber, render, and README repository for the unofficial Remoticon 2020 badge template.
SAINTCON 2018 hardware tree
hardware source · Repository hardware directory preserving KiCad design files, schematic, BOM, Gerbers, position files, footprints, and related board assets.
SAINTCON 2019 hardware tree
hardware source · Repository hardware tree with KiCad files, Gerbers, board schematics, and minibadge-holder schematics.
SEC Youth Challenge KiCad schematic
hardware source · KiCad schematic source for ATtiny1614, USB-C power-only input, pushbutton, LED groups, and Cyber City Circuits title-block context.
ToorCon 14 badge hardware files
hardware source · Public cc11xx repository tree preserving ToorCon 14 KiCad board and schematic files plus assembly, part-list, and schematic PDFs.
pdxbadgers/pcb-2015 repository
hardware source repo · Public PDX Badgers repository preserving the 2015 Badger Eagle board, schematic, library, Gerber archives, OSH Park design rules, board-art files, and CC BY-SA 3.0 license file.
pdxbadgers/pcb-2017 repository
hardware source repo · Public PDX Badgers repository preserving the BSidesPDX 2017 Eagle board, schematic, BOM, and library files.
DC32 CHV board design tree
hardware source tree · KiCad board, schematic, PCBWay BOM, position files, footprints, and plot outputs for the main badge board.
La Villa Hacker hardware tree
hardware source tree · Hardware tree preserving KiCad board, schematic, project, footprint, 3D, SVG/DXF, and KiBot material.
SmartResponseXE.h
hardware support header · SMART Response XE support header naming Larry Bank / BitBank Software and documenting the LCD, keyboard, flash, sleep, and drawing APIs used by the 5ohBEE sketches.
WOPR: Building Hardware Worth Sharing
hardware workshop report · Hackaday source tying Russell Handorf and Mike Kershaw to the official badge work and documenting the badge as a simple, low-part-count hardware teaching example for the four-hour Concept to Prototype workshop.
FREE-WILi Python host API
host API · Public host API repository linked from the badge documentation for PC-side control and automation.
DEF CON 27 event archive
host event page · Official DEF CON archive source for the host-event context around Queercon 16's DEF CON 27-adjacent badge record.
LayerOne2023 host uploader
host tool docs · Host-side uploader documentation and HID-write example for sending macro data into badge flash.
Shadybucks wristband guide
identity and payment artifact guide · Official wiki source documenting per-attendee Shadybucks wristband issuance, Shadytel activation, QR-code wallet setup, sponsorship transfers, and spending flow.
CC BY 2.0 license
image license · Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license page for the Flickr image license recorded on the HUMAN photo page.
LayerOne 2024 repository photo and license
image provenance · Exact upstream `docs/spinner_photo.png` badge photo used for the local optimized WebP; the repository MIT license and README provenance provide the reusable image basis and attribution trail.
2025 Communicator Badge front photo
image source · MIT-licensed official repository PNG used as the local rights-cleared badge image.
BSidesKC 2019 participant badge photo
image source · CC BY 4.0 repository photo used as the local rights-cleared original-source image for the optimized WebP badge hero.
CactusCon 14 front board render
image source · Official repository `CAD/CC14.png` front board-output raster retained locally as the image source and served as an optimized WebP delivery asset.
Hackbat upstream 3D render
image source · Official repository `doc/3d.png` raster render retained locally as the image source and served as an optimized WebP delivery asset.
HackerCon Badges.jpg
image source · CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons documentary photo by Sephiroth storm used as the source for the local DEF CON I Human badge crop.
HackerCon Badges.jpg
image source · CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons documentary photo by Sephiroth storm used as the source for the BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard crop.
HackerCon Badges.jpg
image source · CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons documentary photo by Sephiroth storm used as the source for the AND!XOR DC26 badge crop.
HiP Badge front board render
image source · Exact `graphics/boardrendfront.png` upstream repository raster used as the local source image for the HOPE XV record because the HOPE wiki links this project as the badge open-hardware source.
Remoticon 2020 upstream render
image source · Official repository `RENDER/remoticon_badge.jpg` upstream raster render retained locally as the source image and served as an optimized WebP delivery asset.
ToorCamp 2018 repository badge photo
image source · BSD-licensed repository JPEG used as the local original-photo hero image.
2018-banglet LICENSE
license · Repository Apache-2.0 license file; used as project-code/documentation licensing evidence, not as a cleared badge-photo source.
2025 Communicator Badge repository license
license · MIT license file for repository software, documentation, and image provenance context.
5ohBEE LICENSE
license · Repository Apache-2.0 license file; used as source-code and documentation licensing evidence, not as a cleared documentary badge-photo source.
ANDnXOR DC24 badge license
license · Repository license source for code/archive reuse context; badge-gallery does not republish repository images in this pass.
ANDnXOR DC28 license
license · Apache-2.0 repository license source for firmware and archive reuse context; local badge image reuse remains withheld pending image-specific provenance.
CactusCon 13 license
license · MIT license source for the public repository archive.
CactusCon 14 hardware license
license · CERN-OHL-S v2 hardware-license source for the open hardware design material.
CactusCon 14 software/content license
license · MIT license source for the repository software/content material.
Differential Destroyer repository license
license · Repository license source for the CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Weakly Reciprocal; no repository image is reused in this catalogue pass.
Hackbat repository license
license · Repository license source for GPL-3.0 reuse basis used by this catalogue for the upstream 3D badge render.
HiP Badge graphics license
license · Component license source for the selected upstream front-board raster; the repository root delegates licensing to per-component COPYING files and `graphics/COPYING` is CC BY-SA 4.0.
LayerOne 2025 repository license
license · MIT license file for repository software and documentation; no badge photo is reused from this repository in this catalogue pass.
LayerOne2023 repository license
license · BSD-3-Clause license source for the repository code and documentation; no badge image is reused from this repository in this catalogue pass.
Remoticon 2020 badge license
license · Repository license source for the CC BY-SA 4.0 hardware/source release and the upstream README-embedded render selected for local WebP delivery.
RocketGod firmware license
license · Repository license source establishing GPL-3.0 terms for the public firmware tree; it is not treated as an image-license grant for product photos or README attachments.
Tipsy Badge license
license · Repository license source for Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International terms used for local image and source provenance.
ToorCamp 2018 repository license
license · BSD-3-Clause license source naming Michael Ossmann as 2018 copyright holder.
badge-2024 LICENSE
license · Repository license source stating CC BY-SA 4.0 for hardware/software while names, logos, and artwork remain under their own more restrictive licenses.
pcb-2015 COPYING
license · Repository license source stating Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 for the PCB archive; firmware licensing is documented separately from source headers.
HUMAN DEF CON 17 badge photo
licensed documentary photo · Nate Grigg / nateOne Flickr photo whose description identifies the anonymous Human attendee badge at DEF CON 17; Flickr structured metadata reports CC BY 2.0.
Vectorscope badge workbench photo
licensed image source · MIT-licensed repository photo from the badge-talk image set, used as the rights-cleared physical-badge image for the original Supercon 2023 record.
DEF CON 14 Flickr badge photo
licensed photo · Flickr source for Eliot Phillips / RobotSkirts' CC BY-NC 2.0 documentary photo titled DefCon 14 2006.
DEF CON 18 Commons photo
licensed photo · Wikimedia Commons source for Samsonswiki's CC BY-SA 4.0 original photograph identified as DEF CON 18.
DEF CON 21 badge-case Flickr photo
licensed photo · Flickr source for Openfly's CC BY 2.0 original photo titled populated defcon 21 badge case.
DEF CON 22 badge Commons photo
licensed photo · Wikimedia Commons source for Tony Webster's CC BY-SA 4.0 photograph of a DEF CON 22 badge.
DEF CON 24 badge-front Commons photo
licensed photo · Wikimedia Commons source for Hanno Böck's CC0 photograph of the DEF CON 24 press badge front side.
DEF CON badges Commons photo
licensed photo · Wikimedia Commons source for Sephiroth storm's CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary photo containing the DEF CON 20 Human badge among multiple DEF CON artifacts.
DT and 1057 - Welcome to DEF CON
licensed talk video · TIB AV-Portal recording with CC BY 3.0 license metadata, DEF CON publisher metadata, and a badge-talk slide showing the DEF CON 23 vinyl record badge variants at 00:09:56.
Welcome & Making of the badge video
licensed talk video · TIB AV-Portal recording with CC BY 3.0 license metadata, DEF CON publisher metadata, creators Jeff Moss and LosTboY, and talk-slide frames showing actual DEF CON 19 titanium badge variants.
WemOS
linked board-vendor reference · Board-vendor link named by the attendee writeup for the badge's WemOS-board foundation; used only to preserve the linked hardware reference, not to infer a specific module variant.
Arizona LoCo Team September 2018
local meeting notes · Contemporaneous local notes source for the September 28-29, 2018 CactusCon Mesa Convention Center event, ticket requirement, free-ticket path, and paid badge option.
DEFCON 17 Haiku
lore artifact · Poem/lore artifact linked from the primary project page.
Ode to the DEFCON Badge
lore artifact · Poem referenced by the contest-winning rap-song collaboration with The Brothers Grimm.
Diana Initiative 2020 Maker Village archive
maker archive · TechGirlMN archive source for the off-the-shelf virtual badge context, Tinkercad model link, attendee finished-project evidence, and Arduino Create code links.
Fourfold work portfolio
maker portfolio · Fourfold source identifying THOTCON 0xB as a retro controller-inspired hardware badge with D-pad design and PCB art framing.
Fourfold work portfolio
maker portfolio · Fourfold source identifying the THOTCON 0xC badge as a full-assembly/manufacturing project from bare PCB to polished conference-electronics product.
Badge Manual V1R0
manual · PDF manual source for Pasadena 2016 badge operation, hardware list, MCU, LED matrix, infrared, controls, USB bootloader, and hacking workflow.
BSidesPDX 2018 Gerbers
manufacturing archive · Repository manufacturing-file directory preserving copper, mask, silk, edge-cut, drill, and GerbView project outputs.
Badger Gerber archive
manufacturing archive · Repository manufacturing-file source showing Gerber release material for the 2015 Badger board.
SAINTCON 2018 Gerbers
manufacturing files · Repository Gerber outputs for badge manufacturing evidence.
ANDnXOR DC28 Gerbers
manufacturing output · Repository Gerber directory used as the public manufacturing-output evidence for the badge board.
CactusCon 12 Gerbers
manufacturing output · Repository Gerber and drill archive for the ProjectNeoRogue fabrication outputs.
CactusCon 13 Gerbers
manufacturing output · Repository Gerber archive preserving Project-CC13 production output.
CactusCon 14 Gerbers
manufacturing output · Repository Gerber and drill archive for main and outer/attendee board fabrication outputs.
Banglet 3D-print README
mechanical enclosure documentation · Repository mechanical source describing soft and hard bangle shells, clear flexible material, hinge wire, magnets, and heat-shrink retention.
CactusCon 13 3D-print archive
mechanical source · Repository 3d_Prints tree preserving model and STL material for the CC13 badge archive.
CactusCon 14 STL enclosure parts
mechanical source · Repository STL/3MF tree preserving 3D-printable BadgeBackCover and BadgeBatteryCover enclosure parts.
Arizona LoCo Team September 9 log
meeting log · Attached meeting-log source preserving the same CactusCon 2018 ticket and paid-badge language; used as corroborating local context rather than hardware evidence.
SAINTCON 2018 minibadge notes
minibadge protocol · Repository minibadge-maker notes documenting I2C address coordination, power caveats, polling messages, text and pixel display messages, custom data, and event messages.
AND!XOR DC25 model files
model archive · Hackaday.io file archive advertised by the project as VRML, SVG, and DXF models for badge accessories and paper/PLA mockups; not treated as full Gerber source.
RVAsec CTF archive
official CTF archive · Official CTF archive context for the 2018 RVAsec badge challenge and badge-hacking competition surface.
AvengerCon IX badge hints
official CTF hints · Official hint page linked from the AvengerCon IX badge guide for post-event CTF support.
SAINTCON 2023 FAQ
official FAQ · Official FAQ source for MiniBadge definition, zZq origin credit, 17,000-plus yearly MiniBadge scale, and 8-10 percent attendee trading estimate.
CarolinaCon Online 2 about page
official about page · Official about/FAQ source that describes the merch bundle as a shirt, electronic badge, and sticker bundle.
DEF CON 1 announcement
official announcement · Official 1993 announcement source for July 9-11 dates, Sands Hotel location, registration pricing, and the 24-bit color pre-generated name-tag promise for advance registration.
DEF CON 2 announcement
official announcement · Official announcement source for July 22-24, 1994 dates, Sahara Hotel location, room context, and program schedule.
SAINTCON 2019 letter from Jup1t3r
official attendee letter · Official attendee letter documenting The Enigma theme, Utah Valley Convention Center venue, badge handout, badge challenge, minibadges, and Hardware Hacking Community context.
DEF CON 33 badge media-server directory
official badge archive · Official media-server source proving a dedicated DEF CON 33 badge archive directory; audited as empty during this pass.
RVAsec badge archive
official badge archive · Official RVAsec badge archive tying the 2015 build post into the RVAsec badge lineage.
RVAsec badge archive
official badge archive · Official RVAsec badge archive tying the 2016 interview into the public RVAsec badge lineage.
RVAsec badge archive
official badge archive · Official RVAsec badge archive context for the 2017 badge sponsor and HackRVA badge lineage.
RVAsec badge archive
official badge archive · RVAsec badge archive used to tie the 2019 badge to the public RVAsec badge lineage.
Recon Village Badge Life
official badge archive · Official Recon Village source for the DEF CON 25 The Original electronic badge, spy silhouette, die-cut shape, hardwear.io lanyard, and image-rights boundary.
Recon Village Badge Life
official badge archive · Official Recon Village source for the DEF CON 26 The Dual Design badge, spy-silhouette and skull variants, black/white aesthetic, and image-rights boundary.
Recon Village Badge Life
official badge archive · Official Recon Village source for the DEF CON 27 The Skull Badge, skull-shaped PCB, LED eye, CREW variant, and image-rights boundary.
Recon Village Badge Life
official badge archive · Official Recon Village source for the DEF CON 30 The Radar Badge, circular radar theme, world map overlay, compass/coordinate markings, and image-rights boundary.
Recon Village Badge Life
official badge archive · Official Recon Village source for the DEF CON 31 The Spy Silhouette badge, LED illumination, speaker-badge variant, custom lanyard, and image-rights boundary.
Recon Village Badge Life
official badge archive · Official Recon Village source for the DEF CON 32 The Recon Soldier badge, multi-layer PCB construction, red and blue LED eyes, 3D assembled design, and image-rights boundary.
Recon Village Badge Life
official badge archive · Official Recon Village source for the DEF CON 33 The Cyber Owl badge, cyberpunk owl design, glowing pink LED eyes, and image-rights boundary.
AvengerCon IX badge page
official badge guide · Primary badge source for the four-challenge CTF, A-C-9 blink behavior, BAT CON battery jumper, micro-USB path, CP2102 USB-to-UART serial access, 9600-baud PuTTY workflow, post-event unlock codes, and battery-safety instructions.
BSides San Diego Badge Challenge
official badge guide · Primary official badge source for the Cyberpunk Bunny ESP32 portable CTF, accelerometer oracle, classic and advanced crypto tiers, BLE co-op mode, hidden shaking-sequence Easter egg, Electronic Cats support note, and image-rights boundary.
Aerospace Village DC33 badge page
official badge page · Official Aerospace Village source for the DC33 badge page, DC32 hardware returning for DC33, new software, DC33 SAO context, ADS-B feature summary, and supporter bundle badge line.
BSidesROC 2019 badge page
official badge page · Primary badge page for the reprogrammable electronic badge, about 200 assembled units, PCB fallback, ATTINY85 details, dual SAO ports, programming connector, and best hacked badge contest.
Kernelcon 2023 1337 kHz badge site
official badge page · Official badge site for the 1337 kHz AM radio badge.
Kernelcon 2024 badge site
official badge page · Official badge site for the [a]nalyze [i]nternet cable-tester badge.
Kernelcon 2025 badge site
official badge page · Official badge site for the Race Condition badge.
Kernelcon 2026 badge site
official badge page · Official badge site for the off-grid weather badge, source-release note, activities, BOM, and quest results.
MiniBadges of SAINTCON 2021
official badge page · Archived official page documenting the 2021 MiniBadge collection, status badges, challenge/community badges, soldering and puzzle badges, unofficial badges, acquisition notes, and designer attribution.
NolaCon badge story
official badge page · Primary official badge source for the Patches name, Learn to Solder tradition, missing-limbs story, customizable limbs/LEDs/personal flair, and Voodoo Heart multi-year continuity.
SAINTCON 2017 badge page
official badge page · Official badge page documenting the Raspberry Pi Zero W badge, custom board, TFT display, SNES-style controls, MiniBadges, Hacker Challenge registration, build-session framing, and post-conference RetroPie possibility.
SAINTCON 2018 badge page
official badge page · Official badge page documenting the 2018 electronic badge, compukidmike design credit, expanded minibadge support, I2C support, repository link, and included female minibadge headers.
SAINTCON 2024 MiniBadge trading page
official badge page · Official source for MiniBadge trading, SHIFTY and JUP1T3R attribution, build-guide link, submitted and official MiniBadge scope, and booth hours.
WWHF 2025 e-badge page
official badge page · Primary official badge source for the Antisyphon-sponsored electronic badge, Meta CTF challenge partner, multiple badge CTF challenges, observation-or-firmware solve paths, and badge-team contact trail.
JawnCon 0x1 modem badge write-up
official badge write-up · Primary badge source for the Hayes SmartModem inspiration, RetroWiFiModem use, AT command emulation, LEDs, ESP radio wording, level shifter, 3D-printed case, hand-soldered headers/radio/LEDs, Prusa MK4 production, and laser-marked front panels.
HackRVA 2016 badge interview
official badge-team interview · Official HackRVA interview documenting the 2016 badge, team process, production quantity, USB reflashing, CTF focus, and serial-transmission experimentation.
RVAs3c badge preview
official badge-team interview · Official preview documenting 2014 badge goals, PIC32 hardware, LCD, IR, capacitive sliders, LEDs, speaker, USB, and hacking intent.
RVAs3c badge preview retrospective context
official badge-team interview · Official RVAsec interview preserving retrospective details about the prior year's badge, including badge-game behavior, audio, USB, and 2013 hardware limitations.
DEF CON 31 call for badge designers
official call · Official source documenting that DC31 was planned as a non-electronic physical badge year, after two MK Factor electronic years, with production planning up to 30,000 badges plus Black Badge variants.
WWHF 2025 Meta CTF challenge
official challenge link · Meta CTF challenge URL linked from the official e-badge page for WWHF 2025 badge CTF registration and scoring context.
THOTCON 0xD contests
official contest page · Official contest source documenting Gold Badge-eligible contests and the badge contest instruction to read the program, solve the puzzles, and hack the badge.
DEF CON 17 contest results
official contest results · Official DEF CON source for 32 badge-hacking contest entries, judging notes, top places, honorable mention, and media links.
BSides San Diego FAQ
official event FAQ · Official FAQ source placing the event at San Diego State University's Montezuma Hall and Theater, with after-hours venue context.
BSidesSLC official site
official event and badge page · Official BSidesSLC source for the 2025 E-Badge hardware description, remaining-stock sale language, 2026 pickup context, and event branding.
AvengerCon IX archive
official event archive · Official AvengerCon source marking the 2025 AvengerCon IX edition as concluded and linking to the badge page.
BSidesROC 2019 official archive
official event archive · Official archive page preserving Security B-Sides Rochester event context, seventh-year framing, RIT Inn venue, and March 23, 2019 date.
SAINTCON 2015 archive
official event archive · Official archive source for October 27-30, 2015 event timing, Weber State University / Ogden context, schedule, workshops, villages, and pre-registration badge-pickup context.
SAINTCON 2016 archive
official event archive · Official archive source for October 11-14, 2016 dates, Provo, Utah event context, and Hackers Challenge navigation.
SAINTCON 2017 archive
official event archive · Official mirror source for October 10-13, 2017 event timing and Provo, Utah context.
SAINTCON 2018 archive
official event archive · Official mirror source for September 25-28, 2018 event timing and Provo, Utah context.
SAINTCON 2019 archive
official event archive · Official mirror source for October 22-25, 2019 dates, Provo, Utah location, and event context.
SAINTCON 2020 archive
official event archive · Official archive source identifying the 2020 SAINTCON edition as virtual and preserving the event-site context.
SAINTCON 2021 archive
official event archive · Official mirror source for the 2021 SAINTCON site, return-to-real-life context, archive provenance, and MiniBadges page link.
SAINTCON 2022 archive
official event archive · Official archive mirror source for October 25-28, 2022 event timing, Utah Valley Convention Center venue context, archive provenance, and MiniBadge-development links.
SAINTCON 2023 official site
official event archive · Official mirror source for SAINTCON 2023 dates, Utah Valley Convention Center venue, Provo, Utah location, and event context.
SAINTCON 2024 official site
official event archive · Official mirror source for SAINTCON 2024 event context, October 22-25, 2024 dates, and Provo, Utah location.
WOPR Summit 0x00 archive
official event archive · Official WOPR archive trail for the 0x00 edition, talk/workshop context, and event-lineage source; current live DNS was intermittent during this pass, so badge facts are anchored to the reachable field report and first-hand build guide.
BSides San Diego CFP
official event context · Official CFP source for the April 4, 2026 event date and San Diego State University location context.
BSidesPDX 2016 contests and events
official event context · Official contests/events page documenting the 2016 quiz show, CTF, scavenger hunt, Karmageddon, Internet of Buckets, and book-swap activity context.
BSidesPDX 2018 contests and events
official event context · Official contests/events page documenting the 2018 CTF, event activities, and Friday/Saturday party context; no image is reused from this page.
BSidesPDX 2019 contests and events
official event context · Official contests/events page documenting the CTF and event-activity context referenced by the BSidesPDX 101 schedule slot.
BSidesSLC 2026 CFP
official event context · Official BSidesSLC page for the April 9-10, 2026 Sandy, Utah event context used to classify the 2025 badge pickup language as cross-year remaining-stock distribution.
NolaCon 2025 sponsor pack
official event context · Official PDF source used for 2025 event context, sponsor/audience framing, and venue/date corroboration; not used as badge-image permission.
CypherCon history
official event history · Official CypherCon history source for CypherCon 2.0 dates, Discovery World venue, attendee count, Game of Life / Hacker Glider theme, The Cube badge, TYMKRS attribution, and badge-creator panel listing.
BSidesPDX past events
official event index · Official past-events index reviewed for the 2016 lineage; it currently carries a date line that conflicts with the 2016 schedule and external event metadata, so the mismatch is recorded as a caveat.
BSidesPDX past events
official event index · Official past-events index source for the October 23-24, 2020 BSidesPDX date range.
RVAsec 13 layout
official event layout · Official RVAsec layout placing badge hacking in the Downtown Richmond Marriott event context.
RVAsec 6 layout
official event layout · Official RVAsec 6 layout source placing HackRVA badge distribution in the James River Terrace area.
RVAsec 7 layout
official event layout · Official RVAsec 7 layout source for Richmond Marriott event context, including HackRVA badge-hacking and CTF room placement.
BSides Las Vegas 2019 archive
official event page · Official archive source for the August 6-7, 2019 Las Vegas, Nevada BSidesLV edition and entry point to the year's registration material.
BSides San Diego 2026 home
official event page · Official source for America's Finest BSides 2026, San Diego location context, post-event wrap framing, and copyright boundary.
BSidesKC 2019 official event page
official event page · Official BSidesKC 2019 page preserving April 26-27, 2019 dates, Plexpod Westport venue, Kansas City location, and event navigation context.
CactusCon 11 overview
official event page · Official event source for the January 27-28, 2023 Mesa Convention Center CactusCon 11 context.
CactusCon 8 hotel update
official event page · Official update source corroborating the CactusCon 8 Mesa Convention Center and Delta Phoenix Mesa event context.
CactusCon official site
official event page · Official CactusCon site source for the CactusCon 14 February 6-7, 2026 Mesa, Arizona event context.
CarolinaCon 12 event page
official event page · Official source for March 4-6, 2016 Raleigh dates, Hilton North Raleigh / Midtown venue, admission price, badge-kit inclusion, Hardware Hacking Village context, Arduino-compatible donation hardware, and links to the schematic image and instruction manual.
CarolinaCon Online 2 home page
official event page · Official archived page for the 2022 online event, including Conference PCB Badge merch-bundle language, pre-order timing, CTF context, and April 29-May 1 event window.
CarolinaCon Online 2021 home page
official event page · Official archived page for CarolinaCon Online 2021, including merch-bundle badge-kit language, badge-supplies bulk-order update, CTF source boundary, and online event context.
DEF CON 1 official archive page
official event page · Official DEF CON I archive page preserving first-event context, announcement, speaker/audio/article links, and picture-archive links.
DEF CON 12 official event page
official event page · Official DEF CON 12 archive page source for the July 30-August 1, 2004 event context and archive links.
DEF CON 2 official archive page
official event page · Official DEF CON II archive page preserving Las Vegas event context, announcement, speaker/audio/article links, picture-archive links, and post-event recap trail.
DEF CON 3 official archive page
official event page · Official DEF CON III archive page preserving Las Vegas event context, speaker/audio/article links, picture-archive links, and post-event recap trail.
DEF CON 4 official archive page
official event page · Official DEF CON IV archive page preserving Las Vegas event context, speaker/audio/article links, picture-archive links, and the post-event archive trail.
DEF CON 5 official archive page
official event page · Official DEF CON V archive page preserving Las Vegas event context, speaker/audio/article links, picture-archive links, and the post-event archive trail.
DEF CON 6 official event page
official event page · Official DEF CON 6 page preserving Las Vegas event context, event links, picture-archive links, and program link.
DEF CON 8 post-event page
official event page · Official DEF CON page preserving the post-event context, admission-price note, picture-archive links, and conference schedule context.
JawnCon 0x1 event page
official event page · Official JawnCon source for the October 11-12, 2024 event dates, Arcadia University Commons Building venue, two-day schedule, and second-year event context.
KernelCon 2021 Hack Live page
official event page · Official Hack Live source for April 30, 2021, free virtual-event framing and customizable hotkey stream-deck badge wording.
La Villa Hacker official site
official event page · Official village page used for La Villa Hacker event context and August 8-10, 2025 dates.
LayerOne about page
official event page · Official LayerOne source for the Pasadena conference context, 2025 dates, Pasadena Hilton venue, and electronic-badge ticketing.
SECCON official site
official event page · Official SECCON source for the OKC Cybersecurity Conference name, September 18, 2026 date, and Oklahoma City-area conference context.
Security B-Sides Orlando 2018 attendee page
official event page · Official event source for BSides Orlando 2018 registration context, Central Florida framing, and organizer copyright boundary.
THOTCON 0xD home
official event page · Official THOTCON source for Chicago's Hacking Conference, the May 30-31, 2025 0xD dates, TOP_SECRET venue framing, and THOTCON Infinity NFP production context.
WWHF Deadwood 2025 event page
official event page · Official Wild West Hackin' Fest source for the October 8-10, 2025 Deadwood Mountain Grand event, venue address, and live/virtual conference registration context.
LayerOne 2023 conference post
official event post · Official LayerOne source for the May 27-28, 2023 Hilton Pasadena return-to-in-person event context.
LayerOne 2024 conference post
official event post · Official LayerOne post source for the May 25-26, 2024 Pasadena Hilton event context.
Kernelcon 2024 Eventzilla page
official event registration · Official registration source for Hilton Omaha Downtown location, April 2-5 event dates, April 4-5 main conference dates, and event context.
Kernelcon 2026 registration page
official event registration · Official registration source for April 7-10, 2026 event dates, April 9-10 main conference dates, and Hilton Omaha Downtown location.
PhreakNIC 26 schedule
official event schedule · Official PhreakNIC 26 source for November 14-15, 2025 dates, Murfreesboro, Tennessee location, and Tyler Crumpton's electronic shelf-label talk.
THOTCON 0x8 schedule
official event schedule · Official THOTCON archive source for May 4-5, 2017 Chicago dates, undisclosed-location framing, and badge pickup at attendee check-in.
THOTCON 0xB schedule
official event schedule · Official THOTCON archive source for Oct. 8-9, 2021 Chicago dates, badge/swag check-in, party-entry badge requirement, and the Track X `Hacking the THOTCON 0xB Badge` workshop.
THOTCON 0xC schedule
official event schedule · Official THOTCON archive source for May 19-20, 2023 Chicago dates, badge/swag check-in, and badge-required party entry at Ravenswood Event Center.
BSides Fort Wayne official site
official event site · Official BSides Fort Wayne site used for event identity and current organizer context; live navigation has rolled forward to the 2026 edition.
GrrCON official site
official event site · Official event site used for GrrCON's Grand Rapids hacker, cybersecurity, and AI conference identity; it does not claim BadgeBuddy was an official event badge.
PhreakNIC website
official event site · Official PhreakNIC website used as the live event-lineage anchor while the planned PN27 badge remains pre-event.
RVAsec 2013 registration update
official event update · Official RVAsec update documenting the 2013 conference venue/date context and teasing HackRVA electronic badges with LEDs, IR, piezo, and 3D-printed button details.
RVAs3c badge firmware source release
official firmware release · Official RVAsec post announcing public firmware source for the 2014 badge.
DEF CON 13 is a GO!
official forum announcement · Official DEF CON forum announcement where Dark Tangent says the program had gone to printers, badges were done, shirts and stickers were made, and final pre-conference updates were underway.
DEF CON 25 feedback thread
official forum feedback · DEF CON forum feedback source describing rubber badges, lack of an official badge challenge, badge-line experience, and short-lead-time production context.
On the Defcon 19 Badge
official forum note · DEF CON forum repost where LosT states the badge was not electronic and explains the security-token, curiosity, participation, and interaction goals.
DC30 badge forum thread
official forum thread · DEF CON forum source for boot key-test mode, mass-storage firmware behavior, picotool dumping, connector observations, and early badge-hacking discussion.
DEF CON 12 Forum Badge thread
official forum thread · Forum source where JoeSchmuck posted the forum-avatar badge template, invited use or modification, and highwizard clarified the separate-extra-badge classification.
DEF CON 12 Forum Badge thread page 2
official forum thread · Follow-up forum source for attendee fabrication details, including DJ Jackalope's InDesign/color-copy/lamination workflow and JoeSchmuck's 3x5 size note.
DEF CON 29 badge hacking thread
official forum thread · DEF CON forum source for badge power caveats, firmware-update behavior, challenge mode, role artwork, SAO and IR hints, and community solving notes.
Safe Mode Badge Challenge forum
official forum thread · DEF CON forum source proving badge purchase/support context, LosT creator attribution, challenge surfaces, and media.defcon.org cassette-content availability.
AvengerCon history page
official history · Official AvengerCon source for the lineage from the 2016 internal Fort Meade training event through the Augusta-era AvengerCon VIII and IX editions.
Kernelcon past badges list
official lineage index · Official current badge site listing the 2019 K, 2020 HackMaster, 2021 Hacker Hotkey, 2022 Watch, 2023 radio, 2024 cable-tester, and 2025 Race Condition badge lineage.
SEC Youth Challenge retirement note
official lineage note · Current Social Engineering Community page documenting the Youth Challenge as a DEF CON youth program that ran through 2024 before retirement.
DEF CON 1 picture archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory for DEF CON 1 pictures, including the unsorted photo set and contact sheet.
DEF CON 1 unsorted photo set
official media archive · Official media-server photo-set listing used to verify the recovered DEF CON 1 badge artifact image.
DEF CON 10 media image archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory whose file listing includes DEF CON 10 badge images.
DEF CON 11 media image archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory whose file listing includes multiple DEF CON 11 badge photos.
DEF CON 12 media archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory reviewed for event context and image-rights boundaries; no reusable main-badge photo or official artifact description was promoted from this pass.
DEF CON 2 picture archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory for DEF CON 2 pictures, including the unsorted photo set and contact sheet.
DEF CON 2 unsorted photo set
official media archive · Official media-server photo-set listing used to verify visible printed DEF CON 2 chest credentials.
DEF CON 3 picture archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory for DEF CON 3 pictures, including the unsorted photo set and contact sheet.
DEF CON 3 unsorted photo set
official media archive · Official media-server photo-set listing used to verify visible colored rectangular DEF CON 3 waist credentials.
DEF CON 4 Evil Pete photo set
official media archive · Official media-server photo-set listing used to verify visible rectangular DEF CON 4 chest credentials.
DEF CON 4 picture archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory for DEF CON 4 pictures, including Evil Pete, Lockheed, MCS, Pluvis, TDYC, and Wyatt event-photo sets.
DEF CON 5 Broken Net photo set
official media archive · Official media-server photo-set listing used to verify a visible DEF CON 5 hanging credential.
DEF CON 5 picture archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory for DEF CON 5 pictures, including Broken Net, cDc, CSUA, Lockheed, TDYC, Tek Lord, and unsorted event-photo sets.
DEF CON 6 Lockheed photo set
official media archive · Official media-server photo-set listing used to verify a visible rectangular lanyard credential in the event room.
DEF CON 6 Snow Dog photo set
official media archive · Official media-server photo-set listing used to verify a visible blue attendee waist credential.
DEF CON 6 picture archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory for DEF CON 6 pictures, including cDc, Count Zero, Ira, Lockheed, Snow Dog, and unsorted event-photo sets.
DEF CON 8 event photo set
official media archive · Official media-server photo-set listing used to verify attendee lanyard-credential images.
DEF CON 8 picture archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory for DEF CON 8 pictures, including the unsorted event-photo set and contact sheet.
DEF CON 9 event photo set
official media archive · Official media-server photo-set listing used to verify attendee lanyard-badge images.
DEF CON 9 picture archive
official media archive · Official media-server directory for DEF CON 9 pictures, including the unsorted event-photo set.
DEF CON 31 badge news
official news · Official news source documenting the public SAO slot preview, add-on media-server pointer, and thanks to spux as the year's badge designer.
DEF CON 32 badge news and response posts
official news · Official DEF CON news source for the badge sale posts, first-RP2350-board statement, save-issue patch notice, and DEF CON response to badge controversy.
DEF CON 33 badge shipment delay notice
official news · Official DEF CON source documenting that cash-line attendees temporarily received paper badges on August 7, 2025 because of a badge shipment delay.
DEF CON 33 news archive
official news · Official DEF CON source for the DC33 event framing, registration context, and post-event news timeline.
BSidesROC 2019 volunteer call
official operations page · Official volunteer page listing March 22-23 setup and event roles including CTF Proctor and Badge wrangler.
RVAsec 13 hotel package
official package page · Official RVAsec package page listing a limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge.
RVAsec 14 hotel package
official package page · Official package page preserving the limited electronic-badge package context.
RVAsec 15 hotel package
official package page · Official package page listing a limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge before the 2026 event.
DEF CON 32 badge redirect
official patch path · Official badge-update URL that redirects to the DEF CON 32 badge media-server archive.
DEF CON 1 official picture page
official picture page · Official 1998 picture index for DEF CON I, used to corroborate the recovered media-server picture archive and event-photo context.
DEF CON 2 official picture page
official picture page · Official 1997 picture index for DEF CON II, used to corroborate the recovered media-server picture archive and event-photo context.
DEF CON 3 official picture page
official picture page · Official 1998 picture index for DEF CON III, used to corroborate the recovered media-server picture archive and event-photo context.
2018 ShmooCon Proceedings
official proceedings · ShmooCon Press source for the 14th ShmooCon context, all-rights-reserved publication notice, and image-rights boundary.
DEF CON 31 vendor profile for Mar Williams
official profile · Official vendor page source stating that Mar Williams is DEF CON's resident artist and created the year's official DEF CON badge.
DEF CON 1 program
official program · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive for first-event program context; no badge electronics claim is derived from it.
DEF CON 10 program
official program · Official program PDF source for the tenth-year event context and badge form-factor note about ninja throwing badges and corner holes.
DEF CON 11 program
official program · Official program PDF source for event layout, information booth, vendor area, contests, staff-badge language, and Alexis Park field context.
DEF CON 2 program
official program · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive for event-program context; no badge electronics claim is derived from it.
DEF CON 3 program
official program · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive for event-program context; no badge electronics claim is derived from it.
DEF CON 4 program
official program · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive for event-program context; no badge electronics claim is derived from it.
DEF CON 5 program
official program · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive for event-program context; no badge electronics claim is derived from it.
DEF CON 6 program
official program · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive for event-program context; OCR review did not add badge-specific hardware claims.
DEF CON 8 program
official program · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive for event-program context.
DEF CON 9 program
official program · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive for event-program context.
BSides Las Vegas 2019 Registration FAQ
official registration FAQ · Official FAQ source for badges-required entry, no walk-in badges, participant-badge paths, room-block two-badge entitlement, donor/sponsor/volunteer/speaker badges, and badge-type registration lines.
BSides Las Vegas 2019 Join Us
official registration page · Official source documenting that attendees needed to secure a badge ahead of time and that BSidesLV would no longer accept walk-ins for the conference.
CactusCon 2019 registration update
official registration page · Official update source naming CactusCon 8, December 6-7, 2019 at Mesa Convention Center, and distinguishing printed-badge versus electronic-badge registration entitlements.
RVAsec 14 registration
official registration page · Official RVAsec 14 page listing the June 3-4, 2025 event and the limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge hotel-package offer.
RVAsec 15 registration
official registration page · Official RVAsec 15 registration page for the planned June 9-10, 2026 event and limited electronic-badge package context.
BSidesPDX 2015 schedule
official schedule · Official BSidesPDX schedule source for the October 16, 2015 event date and the Electronic Taxidermy: Badger Hacking workshop placement in the morning workshop track.
BSidesPDX 2016 schedule
official schedule · Official schedule source for the 2016 program, Friday October 14 keynote timing, Saturday program, contests, workshops, and hardware-security talk context.
BSidesPDX 2017 schedule
official schedule · Official BSidesPDX schedule source for the October 20-21, 2017 event dates, BSidesPDX 101 badge context, and Rob Rehrig's Ox-Vox badge-add-on talk slot.
BSidesPDX 2018 schedule
official schedule · Official BSidesPDX schedule source for the October 26-27, 2018 event dates and the BSidesPDX 101 session covering CTF, contests, events, badges, and more.
BSidesPDX 2019 schedule
official schedule · Official BSidesPDX schedule source for the October 25-26, 2019 event dates and the BSidesPDX 101 session covering CTF, contests, events, badges, and more.
BSidesPDX 2020 schedule
official schedule · Official schedule source for the all-digital program, main presentation track, YouTube-linked talks, workshops, walkthrough track, and October 23, 2020 Friday program.
BSidesPDX 2024 schedule
official schedule · Official BSidesPDX schedule source for the October 25-26, 2024 event dates and The Badge Talk placement in the Friday program.
CarolinaCon Online 2 schedule
official schedule · Official schedule source for the April 29, April 30, and May 1, 2022 online event dates.
CarolinaCon Online 2021 schedule
official schedule · Official schedule source anchoring the April 23-25, 2021 online event window.
NolaCon 2025 talks archive
official schedule · Official 2025 talks page anchoring the source-backed conference edition and surrounding New Orleans hacker-conference program context.
SAINTCON 2021 Sched listing
official schedule · Sched event listing corroborating SAINTCON 2021 dates, Provo, Utah location, and offline event context.
BSidesSF 2022 Hardware Village
official schedule archive · Official BSidesSF 2022 Sched archive source for the two-day Hardware Village, pre-assembled Arduino-programmable badge, harmless rubber-ducky experiment framing, limited supply, Hackerwares attribution, and City View at Metreon context.
BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village
official schedule archive · Official BSidesSF 2024 Sched archive source for the Hardware Challenge Village, specially designed HCV badge, electronics tinkering, badge CTF contest, BuddoBot and Hackerwares attribution, and City View at Metreon context.
BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village
official schedule archive · Official BSidesSF 2025 Sched archive source for the Hardware Challenge Village, badge designed specifically for the village, electronic tinkering, programming, competitive CTF, Pacific Hackers and Hackerwares attribution, and City View at Metreon context.
CactusCon 8 Friday registration
official schedule page · Official schedule source saying registration volunteers issued a printed badge or electronic badge depending on ticket type and that badges gave access to all talks and workshops.
CactusCon 8 Saturday registration
official schedule page · Official Saturday schedule source repeating the printed/electronic badge handoff and badge access language.
ToorCamp 2022 Badge Talk
official schedule session · Official schedule source for Rich Gonzales' badge talk about project management, design process, budgeting, realistic timelines, and art design from concept to finished art.
BSidesPDX 2015 speakers
official speaker page · Official speaker-page source used for 2015 event and hardware-security context; no badge image is reused from the page.
BSidesPDX 2016 speakers
official speaker page · Official speaker-page source for Senator Ron Wyden keynote context and hardware-security talks by Joe FitzPatrick, Joe Grand, Lee Fisher, and Piotr Esden-Tempski; no image is reused from the page.
BSidesPDX 2017 speakers
official speaker page · Official speaker-page source describing Ox-Vox as an add-on for that year's unreleased BSides PDX badge and naming Rob Rehrig.
BSidesPDX 2018 Making of the Banglet talk
official speaker page · Official speaker page source stating that the DC503 badge was a Bluetooth LE bangle rather than a neck badge.
BSidesPDX 2018 speakers
official speaker page · Official speaker-page source describing the BSidesPDX 101 panel as discussing the thing around attendees' necks, plus badge and event organization context.
BSidesPDX 2020 speakers
official speaker page · Official speaker-page source for the 2020 event context, including keynote and presenter roster; no speaker or event imagery is reused.
BSidesPDX 2024 Badge Talk
official speaker page · Official speaker-page source naming Joe FitzPatrick and describing the 2024 BSidesPDX badge design, gameplay, hacking, and Q&A scope.
La Villa Hacker store
official store page · Official store surface reviewed for badge distribution context; the dynamic storefront was not used as image or hardware evidence.
BSidesPDX 2018 schedule
official talk schedule · Official schedule source placing Nisha Kumar's Making of the Banglet talk after the BSidesPDX 101 session.
LayerOne 2025 badge teaser
official teaser · Official teaser post for the 2025 badge.
SECCON 2026 tickets
official ticket page · Primary official ticket source for VIP and individual pass inclusion of a PCB badge with CTFs and features, limited to the first 180 registrants.
BSidesPDX 2017 venue
official venue page · Official venue source for Oregon Convention Center, Lobby F, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, Oregon.
BSidesPDX 2018 venue
official venue page · Official venue source for Oregon Convention Center, Lobby F, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, Oregon.
BSidesPDX 2019 venue
official venue page · Official venue source for Oregon Convention Center, Lobby D, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, Oregon.
BSidesPDX 2020 venue
official venue page · Official venue page documenting the 2020 edition as an all-digital conference with streaming and conferencing-application participation context.
BSidesPDX 2024 venue
official venue page · Official venue source for Smith Memorial Student Union and the Portland, Oregon event context.
SAINTCON 2016 venue map
official venue page · Official venue source documenting Utah Valley Convention Center, 220 Center Street, Provo, Utah as the SAINTCON 2016 location.
SAINTCON 2017 venue page
official venue page · Official venue page documenting Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah as the SAINTCON 2017 venue.
SAINTCON 2018 venue page
official venue page · Official venue page documenting Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah as the SAINTCON 2018 venue.
SAINTCON 2021 venue page
official venue page · Official venue page documenting Utah Valley Convention Center, 220 Center Street, Provo, Utah as the SAINTCON 2021 venue.
SECCON 2026 venue
official venue page · Official venue source placing SECCON 2026 at the Tanenbaum Aerospace and Cybersecurity Center at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma.
Car Hacking Village DEF CON 32 badges
official village badge page · Official CHV event page for the DEF CON 32 badge ecosystem, including the main badge, kids badge, Speedometer SAO, key-fob SAO, PRNDL SAO, and CTF context.
LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
official village page · Official HHV page identifying the 2015 Electronic Badge and linking CharlieX's Hackaday.io build details for both badges.
LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
official village page · Official HHV page identifying the 2016 Electronic Badge and linking CharlieX's Hackaday.io project page.
LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
official village page · Official HHV page identifying the 2017 electronic badge and linking the badge-team Hackaday.io project page.
LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
official village page · Official HHV page identifying the 2018 Electronic Badge and linking Hackaday's full article for build and badge details.
LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
official village page · Official HHV page identifying the 2019 Electronic Badge and linking Hackaday's Hunting Replicants article for badge details.
LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
official village page · Official HHV page linking the 2023 electronic badge to the public LayerOne2023 repository and describing electronic badge assembly in the village.
LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
official village page · Official HHV page linking the 2024 electronic badge to the public LayerOne_2024 repository and describing electronic badge assembly in the village.
LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
official village page · Official HHV page identifying the 2025 electronic badge as the LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE and linking the repository plus challenge context.
HOPE XV Electronic Badge wiki
official wiki · HOPE wiki source for attendee and pro badge variants, ESP32-C3 hardware, 16 RGB LEDs, IR and vibration behavior, open hardware, firmware, MicroPython, BOM, and user-manual links.
Aerospace Village DEF CON 33 workshop schedule
official workshop page · Official Aerospace Village source for the SpiderOak Aranya workshop, max-20 free hardware limit, ESP32 badge-board language, keep-the-hardware statement, schedule timing, and tooling requirements.
Basic Arduino coding using virtual Badge
official workshop schedule · Sched source for The Diana Initiative 2020 online conference, August 21-22, 2020 super-event dates, August 22 Village Workshop timing, and @TechGirlMN speaker attribution.
Differential Destroyer OSHWA certification
open hardware certification · OSHWA source identifying Differential Destroyer as Maritime Hacking Village's official DEF CON 33 badge, certification UID US002786, certification date, country, features, and hardware/software/documentation license summary.
AV Badge FAQ
operational caveats · Primary FAQ source for 1090 MHz-only ADS-B behavior, GPS/manual-position requirements, external-antenna cautions, USB Ethernet/SSH, Wi-Fi, keyboard, and battery-reset caveats.
Blacks In Cybersecurity LinkedIn
organization profile · Organization profile linked from the official badge page for Blacks In Cybersecurity identity and public attribution context.
ShmooCon 2018 0wn the Con deck
organizer deck · ShmooCon organizer deck preserving the 2018 operating context, badge contest department, and badge budget line.
CypherCon 2.0 Badge Creator's Panel
panel video · Official-history-linked panel source for badge-creator discussion at CypherCon 2.0.
Badges? We got badges!
partner badge write-up · Cisco source documenting SAINTCON's purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled show badges, 2.25 inch LCD screen, buttons, 550-attendee scale, Cisco CMX integration, schedule display, live Hacker Challenge score, and venue-zone awareness.
Hacking the SaintCon Badge
partner repost · SparkFun repost/context source for the October 20-23, 2014 Ogden event window and badge-hacking narrative.
IR Demo V2 KiCad PCB
pcb file · KiCad PCB source for the demo-board hardware used as public design-file evidence.
Raspberry Pi Biohacking Village badge article
post-event article · Raspberry Pi article documenting the CM5 core, local private edge-AI goal, SolaSec and PamirAI roles, medical chatbot behavior, and Biohacking Village badge tradition; article images are not reused without explicit image rights.
SAINTCON 2017 RetroPie conversion
post-event reuse guide · Manual source for post-conference RetroPie conversion, storage expansion, package reinstall, challenge-daemon removal, and emulator reuse.
Badge Hacking - WWHF Deadwood 2025
post-event teardown · AlrikRr first-hand teardown source for ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, OLED, TP4056 charger, USB-C serial, eight LEDs, BLE messages, firmware extraction, Ghidra analysis, and challenge-string behavior.
Get your hands on a 2017 Superconference badge
preview article · Pre-event Hackaday source for camera-badge framing, badge availability, design by Mike Harrison, and attendee hacking expectations.
The 2009 Ninja Badge / Ninja Party
primary forum narrative · DEF CON forum post documenting the Ninja Networks party history, Artisan Hotel party context, electronic badge-invitation purpose, 500-badge assembly effort, YETDA displays, sponsor support, and dropped USB/radio feature goals.
Ninja Networks DC17 assembly process video
process video · Assembly-process movie linked by the technical archive; treated as documentation evidence and not copied as a still image because reusable image rights were not established.
Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots product page
product page · RENXCHANGE product source for the limited DEF CON 33 NilbinSec badge set, Raspberry Pi Pico, OLED, buttons, badge-to-badge fighting game, SAO roles, hidden interactions, and sales/shipping context.
Rabbit-Labs The Pirates Plunder product page
product page · Rabbit-Labs source for the DEF CON 33 vendor-booth debut, limited remaining quantity, included 18650/lanyard/accessory context, screen and UART notes, SDIO note, firmware links, charger caveat, credits, and legal disclaimer.
The perils of developing the Superconference badge
production article · Production-context article documenting late assembly, firmware fixes, power and flash-write caveats, kitting, and handoff pressure before Supercon.
AND!XOR DC27 production log
production log · Primary production source documenting Macrofab triage, serial failures, LED failures, capacitive-touch failures, flashing failures, BMD-340 soldering diagnosis, hot-air rework, and yield caveats.
LayerOne 2015 building badges log
production log · Project log documenting kits, speaker and staff badges, LED badge assembly, TM-220A pick-and-place work, chainable LED boards, and late production workflow.
LayerOne 2016 WiFi and pick-and-place log
production log · Project log source for CR123A parts, diode validation, Wi-Fi mode, stencil-holder work, early hand-built badges, pick-and-place preparation, and ESP8266 supply limitations.
DEF CON 19 program
program · Official program source for non-electronic badge rationale, titanium material, waterjet fabrication, kiln oxidation, role variants, clue surfaces, and Ryan 1o57 Clarke credit.
Security B-Sides Orlando 2018 Badge gallery
project gallery · Hackaday.io gallery source used only as evidence of the project record and image-rights caveat; no gallery image is copied locally.
2022 Supercon badge guide
project guide · Hackaday.io starter guide for direct binary programming, PGM/DIR/SS modes, examples, assembler, emulator, and technical deep-dive links.
AND!XOR DC25 badge postmortem
project log · Primary retrospective log for team expansion, design goals, BMD-300 selection, display/LED/regulator production context, S132 firmware base, activation code, bling, games, production quantities, and source-release caveats.
AND!XOR DC26 retrospective
project log · Primary retrospective source for design goals, ESP32-WROVER selection, 220x176 display, SD-card and SPI tradeoffs, IS31FL3736 lighting, CP2102N serial, two-AA power, SAO work, B.E.N.D.E.R. results, and production lessons.
How I built one MrRobotBadge
project log · Contemporary Hackaday.io source for ESP8266, serially addressable LEDs, injection-molded rocket enclosure, Jaycon Systems, and badgelife manufacturing context.
Official Toorcon Badge?
project log · Hackaday.io source for the ToorCon badge request, 400 kits, SMD Challenge role, hidden codes, 8-bit art, eight SMD LEDs, 0201 LED, ATtiny84, and assembly-video pointer.
2018 Supercon badge project
project page · Official Hackaday.io project source for the retrocomputer concept, attendee distribution, BASIC/CP/M table of contents, hardware hacking notes, proto-board files, and MIT firmware-license statement.
2019 Supercon FPGA badge project
project page · Official Hackaday.io project page for ECP5 FPGA, Game Boy form factor, buttons, display, cartridge adapter, flash-backed cartridges, toolchain setup, and hardware overview.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge project
project page · Project-owner Hackaday.io source for DEF CON 25 context, BMD-300/nRF52 hardware specs, TFT, LEDs, sensors, microSD, badge functions, team list, files, and project status.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge project
project page · Project-owner Hackaday.io source for Wild West of IoT framing, DEF CON 26 date/location context, ESP32-WROVER component listing, team roster, and open hackable badge/dev-board purpose.
AND!XOR DC27 Badge project
project page · Project-owner Hackaday.io source for DEF CON 27 context, BMD-340/nRF52840 hardware specs, IS31FL3741 lighting, capacitive touch, FT2232H, SWD/Tag-Connect, SAO 1.69bis, BOTNET, B.E.N.D.E.R., team roster, sponsors, and free-distribution framing.
AND!XOR DC28 Badge project
project page · Project-owner Hackaday.io source for DEF CON 28 pandemic-cancellation context, distributed free badge-drop framing, bling, embedded CTF, MyBASIC hardware scripting, Slack/scoreboard links, team roster, sponsors, and project logs.
AND!XOR DEFCON 24 Badge project
project page · Project-owner Hackaday.io source for production logs, STM32/RFM69/OLED/RGB features, shell behavior, production quantities, and failure/fix history.
Camera badge for Supercon 2017
project page · Official Hackaday.io documentation for the Mike Harrison camera badge, hardware list, prototype caveat, MacroFab assembly support, Microchip parts donation, files, and hack categories.
DEFCON 14 badge project page
project page · Primary designer page with hardware, production, role-color, contest, documentation, source-code, and hack details.
DEFCON 15 badge project page
project page · Primary designer page with MC9S08QG8, LED matrix, capacitive sensor, optional accelerometer/RF, production, role variant, operating-state, contest, and documentation details.
DEFCON 16 badge project page
project page · Primary designer page with MC9S08JM60 hardware, infrared transfer, SD-card/FAT16 support, USB bootloader, role variants, documentation, contest, and official image-path context.
DEFCON 17 badge project page
project page · Primary designer page with MC56F8006, MEMS microphone, RGB LED, operating states, production quantity, role-shape puzzle, documentation, source-code, and contest details.
DEFCON 27 badge project page
project page · Grand Idea Studio source for DEF CON 27 badge project files, firmware, fixtures, community resources, and NFMI/security-research links.
Hackbat project page
project page · Hackaday.io project source stating that the Hackbat Badge was designed specially for DEFCON32 and summarizing the ESP32-C3, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, LEDs, OLED, and first-run D9 diode warning.
Remoticon.2 badge project
project page · Thomas Flummer Hackaday.io project source for the Remoticon.2 visual identity, KiCad design, 0.1 inch pad-grid customization area, files, logs, and author attribution.
Security B-Sides Orlando 2018 Badge project
project page · Project-owner Hackaday.io source identifying the artifact as a simple discrete marquee badge for BSides Orlando and an attendee kit.
Supercon II badge project
project page · Primary Hackaday.io project source for Voja Antonic's Supercon II badge, Belgrade lineage, LED matrix, accelerometer, expansion, Microchip bootloader, files, manual, Gerbers, and challenge firmware.
Thotcon 0x8 Badge project
project page · Hackaday.io source for badge hardware, two CR2032 holders, 8x8x8 maze mechanics, LED meanings, serial-console setup, ICSP bootloader recovery, Arduino Leonardo targeting, and pin mapping.
ToorCamp 2018 badge project page
project page · Great Scott Gadgets project source for the electronic jar-of-fireflies badge, assembly instructions, BOM, reflashing support, OSH Park sponsorship, and repository link.
ToorCon 13 badge project page
project page · Great Scott Gadgets project source for the 2.4 GHz RF spectrum-analyzer badge, Wi-Fi channel LEDs, Bluetooth/ZigBee/microwave-oven detection, hacking kits, programming path, and open-source hardware/software claim.
ToorCon 14 badge project page
project page · Great Scott Gadgets project source for the sub-1 GHz wireless-transceiver badge, RfCat firmware, CC Bootloader, USB control, GoodFET connector, sponsors, and credits.
5ohBEE README
project readme · Primary setup source for the 5ohBEE name, SMART Response XE board preparation, USBasp assumption, ATmega128RFA1 board profile, bundled SmartResponseXE library, and keymap notes.
DEFCON 26 DC503 VIP Banglet README
project readme · Primary repository README for the wrist-badge premise, Bluetooth recon and hidden-party-mode framing, team credits, and Adafruit acknowledgement.
Flux Decoder README
project readme · Repository readme naming the SEC Youth Challenge Flux Decoder badge and linking the historical project page.
Wagon Party README
project readme · Primary setup source that calls the target a badge, specifies 3.3V USB-serial programming, SparkFun nRF52832 Arduino setup, SSD1306 128x64 configuration, I2C pin remapping, and wagon-wheel programming-mode entry.
DEFCON 22 Conference Badge
project retrospective · Parallax source for Propeller 1 hardware, IR, touch pads, LEDs, USB programming circuit, exposed I/O, 13 badge styles, 14,000-board production, and named concept contributors.
RVAsec Badge Build 2018 wiki
project wiki · HackRVA wiki page preserving the 2018 badge build coordination trail, date context, and badge-team contact names.
Badgelife for online events
project writeup · Thomas Flummer writeup explaining the unofficial Remoticon 2020 board, online-event motivation, visual-art inspiration, prototyping/decorative intent, Feather option, and OSH Park path.
Building an Unofficial Badge for GrrCon 2024
project writeup · Primary first-hand build writeup for BadgeBuddy distribution scope, ESP8266 and LED-matrix hardware, proximity behavior, cost notes, battery test, backpack companion, and image-rights boundary.
IOActive key-fob badge part 1
project writeup · First part of IOActive's DEF CON 2024 CHV key-fob badge build series, used for key-fob SAO purpose, component selection, and village context.
IOActive key-fob badge part 2
project writeup · Second part of the IOActive build series, used for firmware, peripherals, and bring-up context.
IOActive key-fob badge part 3
project writeup · Final IOActive build-series part, used for fabrication, assembly, conference deployment, and lessons learned.
HackRVA RVAsec 8 badge layout post
project-owner build post · HackRVA post documenting the 2019 badge as the eighth RVAsec badge, with games, base stations, scoreboard caveats, Arduino-compatible layout, and badge-team notes.
HackRVA badge build post
project-owner build post · HackRVA build post documenting 2015 badge fabrication, components, assembly, soldering, testing, and badge-team credits.
2018 RVAsec HackRVA badges recap
project-owner recap · HackRVA post documenting 2018 RVAsec hardware badges, more than 300 produced badges, games, puzzles, and two-channel audio.
Kernelcon 2019/2020 retrospective
project-owner writeup · ZonkSec retrospective corroborating the 2019 K badge hardware, power switch, momentary button, CTF blink behavior, and project team context.
Official PN26 Electronic Badge
project-owner writeup · Primary project-owner source for official-badge status, reclaimed ZBD 55c-RB / EPOP55 hardware, CC1110 pinout, flashing workflow, customization pipeline, production count, and credits.
Official PN26 Electronic Badge
project-owner writeup · Primary project-owner writeup that documents the PN26 ESL badge and explicitly says work was already underway on a cooler MK.II version for PhreakNIC 27, scheduled for November 6-7, 2026.
THOTCON 0xD Badge project
project-owner writeup · Hackaday.io source for Fourfold's 2,000-unit badge build, ESP32, ST7789 TFT, capacitive touch wheel, buzzer, six LEDs, LiPo battery, add-on header, firmware/game/challenge scope, production fixtures, packaging, and sub-$20 BOM target.
AvengerCon IX Army Cyber article
public-affairs article · U.S. Army public-affairs source for AvengerCon IX's return to the Georgia Cyber Center and broader Army Cyber event context.
AvengerCon VIII Army Cyber article
public-affairs article · U.S. Army public-affairs source for the February 28-29, 2024 Georgia Cyber Innovation & Training Center event, first AvengerCon electronic 8-8-8 badge, scavenger-hunt behavior, LED-code path, hack-bypass path, more-than-300 badge build, and Capt. Richard Shmel credit.
HOPE X Badge Wikimedia Commons photo
public-domain image · CC0 Wikimedia Commons source photo identifying the object as the badge issued at the tenth HOPE conference.
DC13 Badge Commons photo
public-domain photo · Wikimedia Commons source for Prosavage2600's public-domain original photograph of a DEF CON 13 badge.
CactusCon 12 BasicCodeForQA
qa code · Repository QA-code tree used only as limited software evidence, not as a final event firmware claim.
RadioFunctions.h
radio support source · ATmega128RFA1 radio helper source documenting 2.4 GHz channel setup, RF byte/string send, receive buffers, RX/TX LEDs, RSSI reads, and SparkFun/Beerware attribution.
DEF CON 34 ticket page
registration page · Official shop source stating that preregistration guarantees a DEF CON 34 Human badge, that badges must be picked up onsite, and that onsite registration begins Thursday, August 6, 2026.
wagonparty commit history
repository history · Repository history source for README errata, flashing instructions, image-resource addition, and initial code publication in July 2017.
Perfect hardware badge retrospective
retrospective · Hackaday retrospective source for open files, firmware, manual availability, Voja Antonic's design-talk context, and the badge as exposed-PCB design reference.
Cisco SAINTCON show-badge context
retrospective partner context · Cisco's 2015 write-up frames SAINTCON show badges as a two-year program, used here only as lineage context rather than as a source for unrecovered 2014 electronics details.
Dmitry Grinberg ESL reverse-engineering notes
reverse-engineering reference · Technical reference named by the project owner as the source code and documentation base for related ZBD EPOP shelf-label firmware work.
DEF CON 1 badge photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing DEF CON 1 laminated paper role badges and a pre-generated name-tag form; used only as artifact evidence and not republished because the media-server copyright context does not satisfy the site's image policy.
DEF CON 10 badge photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG used only as artifact evidence; it is not republished because the media-server copyright and attribution trail do not satisfy the site's image policy.
DEF CON 11 badge photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG used only as artifact evidence; it is not republished because the media-server copyright and attribution trail do not satisfy the site's image policy.
DEF CON 2 chest-credential photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing a speaker with a rectangular magenta-and-white chest credential; used only as artifact evidence and not republished because the embedded copyright metadata and media-server context do not satisfy the site's image policy.
DEF CON 2 corroborating credential photo
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing another speaker with a similar rectangular chest credential; used only to corroborate the artifact classification and not republished.
DEF CON 3 corroborating credential photo
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing another pink rectangular waist credential; used only to corroborate the artifact classification and not republished.
DEF CON 3 waist-credential photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing attendees with pink and blue rectangular waist credentials; used only as artifact evidence and not republished because the embedded copyright metadata and media-server context do not satisfy the site's image policy.
DEF CON 4 chest-credential photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing an attendee wearing a red-topped rectangular chest credential; used only as artifact evidence and not republished because the embedded copyright comment and media-server context do not satisfy the site's image policy.
DEF CON 4 corroborating credential photo
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing another attendee with a rectangular chest credential; used only to corroborate the artifact classification and not republished.
DEF CON 5 hanging-credential photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing an attendee wearing a white hanging card with visible DEF CON 5 markings; used only as artifact evidence and not republished because the media-server copyright and attribution trail do not satisfy the site's image policy.
DEF CON 6 lanyard-credential photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing a white rectangular lanyard credential; used only as artifact evidence and not republished because the media-server copyright and attribution trail do not satisfy the site's image policy.
DEF CON 6 waist-credential photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing a blue DEF CON 6 credential clipped at the waist; used only as artifact evidence and not republished because the media-server copyright and attribution trail do not satisfy the site's image policy.
DEF CON 8 lanyard-credential photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing attendees wearing DEF CON 8 lanyard credentials; used only as artifact evidence and not republished because the EXIF/media-server copyright and attribution trail do not satisfy the site's image policy.
DEF CON 9 lanyard-badge photo evidence
rights-limited archive photo · Official archive JPEG showing attendees wearing DEF CON 9 lanyard badges; used only as artifact evidence and not republished because the media-server copyright and attribution trail do not satisfy the site's image policy.
HOPE XV schedule
schedule · Official schedule source for ongoing Electronic Badge Hacking and The Badge Clinic entries, presenters, village context, and badge-support framing.
The One DEF CON 31 contest listing
schedule mirror · Consolidated DEF CON 31 schedule mirror corroborating the Social Engineering Community Youth Challenge listing.
The One DEF CON 31 village schedule
schedule mirror · Consolidated DEF CON 31 village schedule placing SECV Youth Challenge activity in the Social Engineering Village room block.
BSidesPDX_2018.sch
schematic · KiCad schematic source for the BSidesPDX 2018 hardware archive.
Badger Eagle schematic
schematic · Repository schematic source for the hardware archive and named Badger design files.
DEFCON 15 badge schematic
schematic · Grand Idea Studio schematic PDF for the DEF CON 15 badge hardware.
DEFCON 17 badge schematic
schematic · Grand Idea Studio schematic PDF for the DEF CON 17 badge hardware.
ToorCon 14 schematic PDF
schematic · Schematic PDF in the public hardware repository for the ToorCon 14 badge.
badge.sch
schematic · Eagle schematic source for ATTiny85, D1-D35 plus DNOSE LED array, CR2032 holder, PWM0/PWM1, CAP0/CAP1, SENSE, RST, and six-pin J1 header evidence.
bsides2017.sch
schematic · Eagle schematic source for the BMD-300, I2C display/front connectors, SWD header, UART connector, jumpers, and CR2032/switch power path.
dc5032018banglet.sch
schematic · Eagle schematic source for the DC503 2018 Banglet hardware archive.
multnomah.sch
schematic · KiCad schematic source used for the hardware archive trail.
Ninja Networks DC17 hardware documentation
schematic and gerber archive · ZIP archive linked by the technical page for the schematic and Gerber files, with the page stating that the documentation is Creative Commons Attribution licensed.
CarolinaCon 12 partial schematic image
schematic reference · Official linked partial schematic image used only as evidence; it is not republished because no reusable image license or explicit permission basis was recovered.
AND!XOR DC25 TCLish scripting
scripting documentation · Primary log documenting badge scripting, supported commands, graphics drawing APIs, GPIO read/write commands, button state commands, and examples.
AND!XOR DC26 LULZCODE log
scripting documentation · Primary log documenting LULZCODE as a LOLCODE-derived badge scripting layer for microcontroller peripheral control and explaining why the badge used ESP32-WROVER external SPI RAM.
DEFCON 14 badge slides
slides · Joe Grand's DEF CON 14 slide deck covering badge conception, specification, PIC firmware, production, and contest context.
DEFCON 16 badge slides
slides · Grand Idea Studio slide source for role-color counts, production process, design goals, hardware, and firmware framing.
DEFCON 18 badge retrospective
slides · Grand Idea Studio retrospective source for DEF CON 18 badge design and production context.
Making and Hacking the DEFCON 17 Badge
slides · Slide deck source for badge design, signal-processing behavior, production, and hack contest context.
Making of the DEFCON 15 Badge
slides · Slide deck source for badge design, implementation, and conference context.
Parallax badge downloads
software and hardware archive · Parallax download archive preserving Hackable Electronic Badge product guide, schematic, BadgeHacker customization tooling, Propeller Spin/C examples, and design files for the related badge platform.
2025 Communicator Badge user apps
software examples · Repository directory for community and bundled user apps such as games, screensavers, text adventure, air-quality, hardware monitor, and spectrum analyzer examples.
Winglet OS 2.0 release
software release · GitHub release for the DC33-era Winglet OS 2.0 image and u-boot artifacts, with ADS-B, GPS, flight-board, Wi-Fi, USB-host, charging, and DC33 SAO support changes.
Aranya Embedded
software repository · Public Aranya Embedded repository linked by the board README for the ESP32-S3 demonstration software target.
DEF CON 26 Official Badge Hacking
solving project · Hackaday.io solving project documenting live puzzle collaboration, badge state, role-specific serial content, badge-to-badge unlocks, and hardware interaction discoveries.
2016 SuperConference badge hacking repository
source · Public Hack-a-Day source repository for the badge hacking C framework, memory map, animation example, Makefile, compiled example HEX, schematic image, and MIT license.
2018 Supercon badge repository
source · Public Hack-a-Day firmware repository for the Retrocomputing BASIC Badge, MIT license, built-in features, firmware hex, and modification guidance.
2019 Supercon SoC repository
source · Public gateware, IPL, bootloader, SDK, example apps, USB mass-storage, HDMI, audio, PIC soft-core, and app-development repository.
2022 Supercon badge README
source · Raw README source for Voja4 naming, badge reveal links, Hackaday.io guide links, assembler, disassembler, emulator, examples, manuals, software, and tutorial structure.
2022 Supercon badge tools repository
source · Public Hack-a-Day repository preserving tutorial material, assembler/disassembler, emulator, examples, firmware, manuals, software, and the Voja4 badge archive.
2024 Supercon SAO Badge README
source · Raw README source for six-SAO-hub framing, MicroPython workflow, I2C memory-style use, CH32V003 proto-petal workflow, and Super-8 MQTT badge framework note.
2024 Supercon SAO Badge repository
source · Public repository for badge-hacks, hardware, resources, software, I2C address notes, and the I2C proto-petal tutorial.
2025 Communicator Badge README
source · Raw README identifying the badge image filename and repository badge name.
2025 Communicator Badge repository
source · Public Hack-a-Day repository for hardware, firmware, user apps, documentation, images, and MIT license file.
ANDnXOR DC24 badge README
source · Raw README source for DFU flashing, provisioned human badge binary path, and boot behavior.
ANDnXOR DC24 badge software tree
source · Repository software directory preserving released badge code and support files.
BSidesKC_2019 README
source · Repository README identifying the BSidesKC 2019 badge source archive and expected Conference Badge and Kids Badge scope.
BSidesKC_2019 repository
source · Official Badge Pirates repository preserving conference badge and kids badge source material, docs, firmware, hardware, Gerbers, photos, and license files.
CactusCon 12 README
source · Minimal repository README source identifying the archive as CactusCon12 badge files.
CactusCon 14 Badge README
source · Repository README source for CC14 badge identity, manufacturing orientation, quick links, KiCad/Gerber/BOM/STL layout, and license split.
DEFCON 32 Badge Game repository
source · Public badge-game source for GB Studio project files, DEF CON 32 LVCC game context, playable itch.io link, and remix/ROM-hack notes.
LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE README
source · Raw README source for RP2040, ICE40 FPGA, voltage glitcher, crowbar, SWD, AVRISP, ADC streaming, USB modes, build scripts, hardware notes, and documentation caveats.
Remoticon 2020 badge README
source · README source for unofficial classification, no-official-badge note, customization invitation, SMD challenge, Feather mounting, and Gerber availability.
SAINTCON 2019 badge README
source · Raw README source for post-event challenge use, DFU flashing, STM32CubeProgrammer, ST-Link V2 development, firmware directories, FPGA Icestudio source, and warning that flashing erases badge memory.
Saintcon2018 repository README
source · Repository overview stating that the archive contains badge building, flashing, operating, and minibadge-maker information.
ToorCamp 2018 badge repository
source · Public Great Scott Gadgets repository containing hardware designs, firmware, README, BOM, badge photo, and BSD-3-Clause license.
Vectorscope README
source · Raw README evidence for setup paths, firmware, hardware files, and repository structure.
Vectorscope repository
source · Public hardware, firmware, BOM, Gerber, drill, KiCad-conversion, and MicroPython asset repository.
Voja4 assembler README
source · Assembler/disassembler source for Python tooling, Mike Szczys documentation credit, serial save/load workflow, and pseudo-op support.
DEFCON 15 badge source code
source code · Released CodeWarrior source archive for the MC9S08QG8 firmware.
DEFCON 17 badge source code
source code · Released CodeWarrior source archive for the Freescale MC56F8006 firmware.
Ninja Networks DC17 badge code
source code · Badge source-code tarball linked by the technical archive, which labels the code as public domain.
tipsy.readme.png
source image · Exact repository badge photo used as the local source original and optimized WebP delivery image under the repository CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
BSidesROC 2019 badge markdown source
source markdown · Repository-backed Markdown source for the official badge page text used to corroborate the live page.
ANDnXOR DC24 badge repository
source repo · Public repository preserving README, schematic PDF, Gerbers, provisioning files, software tree, and license.
ANDnXOR DC28 badge repository
source repo · Public repository preserving firmware, Gerbers, SPI asset-generation tools, flash image archive, troubleshooting notes, README, and Apache-2.0 license.
Aerospace Village AV Badge repository
source repo · Public repository preserving the ADS-B badge software, hardware references, releases, tutorials, FAQ, and Winglet OS build documentation.
CactusCon-12 repository
source repo · Badge Pirates public repository preserving the CactusCon 12 ProjectNeoRogue badge archive.
CactusCon13 repository
source repo · Badge Pirates public repository preserving the CactusCon 13 badge archive under an MIT license.
CactusCon14 repository
source repo · Badge Pirates public repository preserving the CactusCon 14 badge design, build, manufacturing, enclosure, BOM, and licensing archive.
Distiller CM5 Python BHV branch
source repo · Public Apache-2.0 application branch documenting the conversational interface, local LLM workflow, MCP support, hardware integrations, GGUF model switching, WiFi setup, and debug mode.
Distiller CM5 SDK BHV branch
source repo · Public Apache-2.0 SDK branch documenting the CM5 platform's hardware, audio, camera, e-ink, SAM LED, ASR/VAD, TTS, and optional Whisper software surface.
ESP32_Alexa repository
source repo · Public CharlieX repository linked from Hackaday's 2018 LayerOne badge coverage for the ESP32 Alexa experiment source trail.
LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner repository
source repo · Public source repository for the badge README, AVR firmware, board and schematic files, image assets, documentation images, and MIT license.
LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE repository
source repo · Public source repository for the badge hardware, firmware, documentation, scripts, and license.
LayerOne2023 repository
source repo · Public source repository for the badge README, PIC firmware, USB descriptors, host uploader, board and schematic files, interactive BOM, enclosure assets, and BSD-3-Clause license.
Maritime Hacking Village Badge-2025 repository
source repo · Public repository for the official MHV 2025 badge, including KiCad, firmware, software, README, contributors, and CERN-OHL-W license material.
PSoC4 ESP8266 WS2812 repository
source repo · Public charlie-x repository linked from the Hackaday.io discussion for the PSoC4, ESP8266, and WS2812 badge code trail; GitHub reports The Unlicense for the repository.
RocketGod full-functionality firmware repository
source repo · Public firmware repository for the Rabbit-Labs / The Pirates Plunder DEF CON 33 badge, including Arduino source, CC1101 driver files, globals, pinout text, README, and GPL-3.0 license.
SAINTCON 2019 Enigma Badge repository
source repo · Public GitHub repository preserving badge firmware, hardware files, PDFs, FPGA design, and release images; repository has no detected license for media reuse in this pass.
compukidmike/Saintcon2018
source repo · Public repository preserving the 2018 badge source code, build sheet, binary firmware image, KiCad hardware files, Gerbers, schematic, BOM, and minibadge notes.
layerOne2019 repository
source repo · Public CharlieX repository linked from the Hackaday article, preserving the LayerOne 2019 ATtiny badge source trail and ESP32CAM add-on pointers.
pdxbadgers/badge-2024 repository
source repo · Public PDX Badgers repository preserving the BSidesPDX 2024 badge hardware, software, attribution-game, Trick-or-Treat, and license archive.
BSidesFW2025Badge repository
source repository · Public BSides Fort Wayne organization repository preserving the 2025 badge README, hardware documentation, schematics, STLs, firmware binary, MicroPython app tree, and MIT license metadata.
ickfosec/esp repository
source repository · Public repository containing the GrrCon 2024 BadgeBuddy and Backpack of Shame code and wiring diagrams; GitHub reported no detected repository license in this pass.
Rich Gonzales speaker profile
speaker profile · Official schedule speaker profile used to tie the badge talk to Rich Gonzales.
sprites.h
sprite source · Sprite header source naming image2cpp and ezgif generation tools and preserving wagon, mountain, hunter, and Bender bitmap data used by the firmware.
ANDnXOR DC28 troubleshooting notes
support documentation · Repository troubleshooting note source for post-release hardware/software support context.
BSidesKC 2019 badge presentation
talk deck · Repository presentation deck for the Badge Pirates BSidesKC 2019 badge talk context.
Making The DEF CON 31 Badge
talk metadata · InfoconDB source for the DEF CON 31 badge-making talk title, timing, duration, and presenter Mar Williams.
Making of the DEF CON 30 badge talk
talk metadata · InfoconDB talk record proving The Dark Tangent and MK Factor badge-maker presentation, date, presenters, and official badge-making context.
Making the DEF CON 32 Badge
talk metadata · InfoconDB source for the DEF CON 32 badge-making talk title, presenter Mar Williams, timing, and 60-minute duration.
Making the DEF CON 33 Badge
talk metadata · Official creator-talk page source for the badge-making talk title, presenter Mar, time, room, duration, and art/hacking framing.
DEF CON 24 badge talk record
talk record · InfoconDB metadata for the DEF CON 24 welcome and badge talk with Jeff Moss and Ryan Clarke / LosT presenter attribution.
Welcome & Making the DEF CON 20 Badge
talk record · InfoconDB metadata for the DEF CON 20 badge talk, Jeff Moss presenter credit, and Ryan Clarke / LosT badge-designer credit.
Welcome - Making of the badge
talk record · InfoconDB source naming the DEF CON 19 badge-making talk and Ryan Clarke / LosT presenter attribution.
CypherCon 2 Badges video
talk video · Official-history-linked video source for the TYMKRS Cube badge explanation.
SAINTCON 2019 badge talk
talk video · SAINTCON-published badge talk video titled SAINTCON 2019 - Michael Whiteley - The Badge Talk.
Defcon 17 Ninja Networks Party Badge
technical archive · Technical archive landing page for the Ninja Networks DC17 party badge, including documentation, source code, BOM, process video, and contributor/sponsor notes.
The JawnCon 0x1 Badge Dials Up A Simpler Time
technical coverage · Hackaday source by Tom Nardi describing the badge as a scaled-down Hayes SmartModem, ESP8266-powered RetroWiFiModem device, wearable lanyard artifact, and Philadelphia-area hacker-con badge.
Voja4 technical project page
technical project · Voja Antonic's technical page for the 4-bit simulated CPU, 272 LEDs, instruction set, execution speed, memory model, stack, bootloader, IO port, serial save/load, two-AA power, and SAO serial I/O.
DEFCON 15 badge test procedure
test procedure · Production test procedure source for functional verification workflow.
DEFCON 17 badge test procedure
test procedure · Production test procedure source for functional verification workflow.
DEFCON 18 badge test procedure
test procedure · Grand Idea Studio production-test procedure source for manufacturing and functional-check context.
ESP CC Flasher
tool repository · Tool source named in the project writeup as the ESP32-based CC1110 flashing path that informed the planned badge programming stations.
DePaul IRL receives first sponsorship
university news article · DePaul Newsline source for the Idea Realization Lab sponsorship, THOTCON Infinity commission, six-month badge effort, and 1,700 custom circuit-board badge quantity.
LHC Meshtastic guide
user guide · Official LHC guide for Meshtastic app setup, QR-code onboarding, channel configuration, direct messages, and DEF CON mesh behavior.
HOPE XV venue page
venue page · Official venue source for St. John's University in Queens, New York City.
HOPE XV Electronic Badge permalink
versioned wiki page · Versioned HOPE wiki page used to lock the current badge facts and page timestamp for this catalogue pass.
BIC Village page
village page · Official village source for Blacks In Cybersecurity Village context, DEF CON 33 relationship, community programming, and the badge page navigation path.
Biohacking Village home
village page · Official village source for Biohacking Village's healthcare, medical-device-security, biotechnology, citizen-science, and DEF CON 33 context.
Bug Bounty Village home
village page · Official village source for the Bug Bounty Village site, DEF CON 33 navigation, and DEF CON 34 continuity context.
ICS Village
village page · Official village context source for the industrial-control-security event track represented by the DEF CON 33 badge tool.
Off the shelf virtual badge
virtual badge model · Tinkercad model linked from the Maker Village archive as the virtual badge used for the remote workshop exercise.
pdxbadgers/2020-mask repository
wearable source repo · Public PDX Badgers repository described as a talking LED mask for BSides 2020 presenters; GitHub metadata reports no repository license.
Council of 9 DEF CON 24 walkthrough
winner walkthrough · Winner-published walkthrough documenting the DEF CON 24 badge contest path, Council of 9 attribution, multi-day clue flow, and final solution context.
Hacking the Thotcon 0xA Badge
workshop listing · InfoconDB presentation source for the badge workshop covering board layout, components, some badge code, puzzle-spoiler boundary, and presenters Jay Margalus and Rudy Ristich.
Hacking the Thotcon 0xB Badge
workshop listing · InfoconDB source for the rescheduled THOTCON 0xB badge workshop, Oct. 8, 2021 timing, presenters Jay Margalus and Rudy Ristich, and board-layout/component/code workshop scope.
DEFCON 21 Badge Contest writeup
writeup · Winning-team writeup documenting program clues, badge matrix analysis, badge symbols, binary ordering, floor graphics, and puzzle-solving flow.
DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge writeup
writeup · Public challenge writeup documenting six lanyards, Nyctograph and Gold Bug cipher use, badge text, lanyard translations, key cards, and solution flow.
DEFCON 24 badge writeup
writeup · Technical challenge writeup documenting room keys, standee glyphs, hidden traces, silkscreen strings, Konami serial dump, lanyards, conference CD, and program equations.
DEFCON 27 badge writeup
writeup · Independent technical writeup for KL27P64M48SF2, NXH2261UK NFMI, SWD/UART, firmware building, and chameleon firmware approach.
Sources
Aerospace Village: Aerospace Village DEF CON 33 workshop schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official workshop source proving the SpiderOak Aranya hands-on session, max-20 free hardware limit, ESP32 badge-board wording, keep-the-hardware statement, distributed wireless messaging app workflow, tooling requirements, and schedule context.
Aerospace Village: DC33 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source proving the DC33 Aerospace Village badge page, DC32 hardware returning for DC33, new software, the DC33 SAO, badge feature summary, ADS-B antenna kit, and supporter bundle including one ADS-B Badge.
Arduino Create / TechGirlMN: Blendster scanner example
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Arduino sketch source for the lightly modified Blendster scanner using seven LEDs on the TDI 2020 off-the-shelf project.
Arduino Create / TechGirlMN: TDI 2020 basic blinky code
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Arduino sketch source for the basic blinky exercise by @techGirlMN, including LED and button pin examples.
Arduino Create / TechGirlMN: TDI off-the-shelf grab-and-go code
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Arduino sketch source for the August 8, 2020 `TDI Off the shelf` version with working button behavior.
Ars Technica: Badge life: The story behind DEFCON's hackable crystal electronic badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Context source for Joe Grand's return to official DEF CON badge design, crystal-badge framing, and conference-scale badge culture.
AvengerCon: AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge-guide source for the four-challenge CTF, BAT CON battery jumper, coin-cell blink behavior, CP2102 USB-to-UART serial path, 9600-baud PuTTY workflow, post-event unlock codes, and safety instructions.
AvengerCon: AvengerCon IX badge hints
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official post-event hint source linked from the AvengerCon IX badge guide.
AvengerCon: AvengerCon history
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official lineage source for AvengerCon's 2016 origin, growth across U.S. Cyber Command units and partners, and the Augusta-era AvengerCon VIII and IX entries.
BSides Global: BSidesKC
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event source for the April 25-26, 2025 Kansas City, USA BSidesKC listing.
BSides Las Vegas: BSides Las Vegas 2019
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive source for August 6-7, 2019 dates, Las Vegas location, schedule entry point, and the year's registration archive.
BSides Las Vegas: Join Us
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official registration source stating that attendees had to secure a badge ahead of time and that the conference would no longer accept walk-ins.
BSides Las Vegas: Registration FAQ
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official FAQ source for badges-required admission, no walk-in badges, room-block participant badges, donor/sponsor/volunteer/speaker badge paths, and badge-type queues at registration.
BSides San Diego: BSides San Diego
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for America's Finest BSides 2026, San Diego address context, post-event wrap status, and copyright boundary.
BSides San Diego: Badge Challenge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge-guide source for the Cyberpunk Bunny badge, ESP32 power, portable CTF framing, accelerometer oracle, D-pad decryption method selection, Basic and Advanced crypto tiers, BLE co-op mode, hidden shaking-sequence flag, bunny-eye rainbow goal, Electronic Cats support note, and image-rights boundary.
BSides San Diego: CFP
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for April 4, 2026 event date and San Diego State University location context.
BSides San Diego: FAQs
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official FAQ source for San Diego State University Montezuma Hall and Theater venue context.
BSides Tampa: BSides Tampa
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Current official site anchoring the Tampa Bay Security BSides lineage; not used for image reuse.
BSides Tampa: Badge Challenge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the 2026 badge challenge, including the instruction to inspect the badge and other neck-worn materials for clues, the no-hints note, and the Joshua Grose solve path.
BSides Tampa: FAQ
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for BSides Tampa 2026 participant-package language identifying badge and lanyard materials as included with admission, plus USF Marshall Student Center event context.
BSides Tampa: Uber Badges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for Uber Badge lifetime-admission award context and public registry model; not treated as reusable image permission and not used to claim a 2026 awardee.
BSides Tampa: Venue
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event-context source for the USF Marshall Student Center venue, 4103 USF Cedar Circle address, Tampa location, parking, and venue map.
BSidesKC: Basic Electronics and Soldering for Hackers
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for BSidesKC 2019 dates, Plexpod Westport venue, Kansas City location, and event context.
BSidesPDX: 2017 Speakers
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official speaker-page source for Ox-Vox, naming Rob Rehrig and describing the talk as an add-on for that year's unreleased BSides PDX badge.
BSidesPDX: 2018 Speakers
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official speaker-page source for the BSidesPDX 101 panel, panelist handles, and wording that it discussed the thing around attendees' necks.
BSidesPDX: BSidesPDX 2018 Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official talk-schedule source placing Nisha Kumar's Making of the Banglet talk at BSidesPDX 2018.
BSidesPDX: Past Events
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official lineage index for BSidesPDX past events; its 2016 date line is retained as source context but conflicts with schedule and Calagator evidence.
BSidesPDX: Past Events
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official lineage index for the October 23-24, 2020 BSidesPDX all-digital edition.
BSidesPDX: Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official event source for the October 16, 2015 BSidesPDX date and the Electronic Taxidermy: Badger Hacking workshop slot with Michael Leibowitz.
BSidesPDX: Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official schedule source for the Friday October 14, 2016 program and surrounding hardware-security talk context.
BSidesPDX: Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official event source for BSidesPDX 2017 dates, the Friday BSidesPDX 101 schedule slot that explicitly includes badges, and Rob Rehrig's Saturday Ox-Vox badge-add-on talk placement.
BSidesPDX: Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official event source for BSidesPDX 2018 dates and the Friday BSidesPDX 101 schedule slot that explicitly includes badges.
BSidesPDX: Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official event source for BSidesPDX 2019 dates and the Friday BSidesPDX 101 schedule slot that explicitly includes badges.
BSidesPDX: Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official event source for the 2020 all-digital schedule, YouTube-linked program, workshop track, and walkthrough track context.
BSidesPDX: Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official event source for BSidesPDX 2024 dates and the Friday 13:30 Badge Talk schedule slot.
BSidesPDX: Speakers
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official event source for surrounding BSidesPDX 2015 speaker and hardware-security context; used for event context rather than image reuse.
BSidesPDX: The Badge Talk
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official speaker-page source naming Joe FitzPatrick and stating that the BSidesPDX badge was based on an open-source badge design customized for BSidesPDX, with design process, gameplay, and badge-hacking discussion.
BSidesPDX: The Making of the Banglet
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official speaker-page source describing the DC503 badge as a Bluetooth LE controlled bangle rather than a neck badge and naming Nisha Kumar as presenter.
BSidesPDX: Venue
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official venue source for Oregon Convention Center, Lobby F, and Portland address context.
BSidesPDX: Venue
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official venue source for Oregon Convention Center, Lobby F, and Portland address context.
BSidesPDX: Venue
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official venue source for Oregon Convention Center, Lobby D, and Portland address context.
BSidesPDX: Venue
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official venue source documenting that BSidesPDX 2020 was all-digital, with streaming and conferencing-application participation.
BSidesPDX: Venue
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official venue source for the Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland, Oregon event context.
BSidesROC: BSidesROC 2019 volunteer call
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official operations source listing CTF Proctor and Badge wrangler roles around the March 22-23, 2019 setup and conference dates.
BSidesROC: BSidesRoc.Badge manual page
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge source documenting the fully working reprogrammable electronic badge, about 200 assembled units, PCB fallback, dual Shitty Add-Ons ports, ATTINY85 pins, programming connectors, and best hacked badge contest.
BSidesROC: Security B-Sides Rochester 2019 archive
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for March 23, 2019 RIT Inn event context and the Badge Hacking navigation entry.
BSidesSF / Sched: Hardware Challenge Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official schedule source for the BSidesSF 2024 specially designed HCV badge, electronics tinkering, competitive badge CTF contest, date, venue, and BuddoBot / Hackerwares attribution.
BSidesSF / Sched: Hardware Challenge Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official schedule source for the BSidesSF 2025 badge designed specifically for Hardware Challenge Village, electronic tinkering, programming, competitive CTF context, date, venue, and Pacific Hackers / Hackerwares attribution.
BSidesSF / Sched: Hardware Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official schedule source for the BSidesSF 2022 village-distributed pre-assembled badge, Arduino IDE programming path, automated-keystroke behavior, harmless rubber-ducky script scope, limited supply, date, venue, and Hackerwares attribution.
BSidesSLC: BSidesSLC
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the 2025 E-Badge claim, LilyGO T-Deck S3 base, keyboard, trackball, 25 LEDs, ESP32-S3, LoRa support, Meshtastic readiness, customization language, remaining-badge price, and 2026 pickup instructions.
BSidesSLC: BSidesSLC 2026 CFP
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event-context source for the April 9-10, 2026 Sandy, Utah BSidesSLC event where remaining 2025 E-Badges could be picked up.
Badge Pirates: All about the BSidesKC 2019 Badges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge-maker source for ESP8266 badge hardware, six reverse-mount LEDs, badge variants, Jr Hacker badge, Wi-Fi beacon game, production quantities, contests, and battery-life lessons.
Badge Pirates: BSidesKC Tariff Woahs
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary production source for the 250 fully assembled ESP32 badges, 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, PCBWay assembly, customs inspection, and tariff impact.
Badge Pirates: Bsideskc badge shipping update
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary fulfillment source for BSidesKC 2025 badge orders, customs hold status, and pickup or shipping plan.
Badge Pirates: CactusCon 11 Badge (2023)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Badge-maker technical source for the ESP32-S2 WROOM controller, Wi-Fi, LED/button/OLED/GPIO surfaces, CH340N serial path, wireless firmware behavior, PCBWay production, and supply-chain caveat.
Biohacking Village: Badges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge-page source for the DEF CON 33 badge, computational-powerhouse framing, medical chatbot behavior, feedback language, usage-help prompt, and PamirAI support context.
Biohacking Village: Biohacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for Biohacking Village's healthcare, medical-device-security, biotechnology, citizen-science, and DEF CON 33 event context.
Blacks In Cybersecurity: B.I.C. Village Event 2025 @ DEF CON 33
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official 2025 impact summary source for BIC Village volunteer/team-lead/event-lead counts and the statement that badges and merchandise sold out to raise funds for future programming.
Blacks In Cybersecurity: BIC Pick
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge source proving the BIC Pick name, Afro-pick shape, red/green/gold color framing, five-year-anniversary statement, volunteer/leader/supporter wearer context, and DEF CON 33 on-site purchase/trade language.
Blacks In Cybersecurity: BIC Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official village source for Blacks In Cybersecurity Village event context and continuity around DEF CON village programming.
Bug Bounty Village: BBV Badge 2025
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge source proving the BBV Badge 2025 page, four buttons with corresponding LEDs, four sponsor challenge legs, binary flag entry, all-LED reward flow, hardware-hacking acknowledgement, and volunteer reward handoff.
Bug Bounty Village: CTF - Full Event Overview
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary CTF context source for the CTF.ae challenge leg, Friday August 8 through Sunday August 10, 2025 timing, remote and onsite participation, and room W326 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Bug Bounty Village: Home
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official village site source for Bug Bounty Village, DEF CON 33 navigation, and Las Vegas Convention Center continuity context.
CIRCUITS TO KERNEL: DEF CON 28 - Badge Challenges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Challenge writeup source for lanyard, cassette, liner-front, liner-back, color-character puzzle observations, and puzzle-start timing.
CactusCon: CactusCon
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official site source for CactusCon 14, February 6-7, 2026, Mesa, Arizona event context.
CactusCon: CactusCon 11 Overview
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for the Mesa Convention Center edition, dates, in-person/streaming framing, and CactusCon Kids context.
CactusCon: CactusCon 8 Hotel Reservations Now Open
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event-context source for CactusCon 8 Mesa Convention Center / Delta Phoenix Mesa logistics.
CactusCon: CactusCon Registration and Volunteer Signup
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official registration source for the CactusCon 8 free tier plus optional electronic-badge registration path.
CactusCon: CactusCon official site
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official current source for Arizona security-conference lineage context.
CactusCon: Friday: Registration
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule source corroborating printed-badge versus electronic-badge handoff by ticket type and badge access to talks and workshops.
CactusCon: Saturday: Registration
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule source corroborating printed-badge versus electronic-badge handoff by ticket type and badge access to talks and workshops.
Calagator: Security BSides Portland
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary local event metadata source for October 14-15, 2016, Oregon Convention Center, and PCB badge giveaway language with donor priority.
Calvin Liang: DEF CON 32 Badge Flashy ROM
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Community ROM source for Game Boy ROM behavior on the DEF CON 32 badge, all-LED control observations, and public code publication.
Car Hacking Village: DEF CON 32
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official village source for the 2024 CHV badge lineup, main badge, kids badge, Speedometer SAO, key-fob SAO, PRNDL SAO, and CTF framing.
CarolinaCon: CarolinaCon 12
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event source for the March 4-6, 2016 Raleigh edition, admission-included electronic kit badge, Hardware Hacking Village assembly support, Arduino-compatible donation hardware, and official badge-guide links.
CarolinaCon: CarolinaCon 2012 Badge Cheat Sheet
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary assembly source for the CarolinaCon 12 badge; the PDF title uses '2012' while the hosting page, URL, and context identify it as the CarolinaCon 12 / 2016 badge guide.
CarolinaCon: CarolinaCon Online 2
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the Conference PCB Badge merch bundle, pre-order and shipping language, and April 29-May 1, 2022 online event context.
CarolinaCon: CarolinaCon Online 2 about page
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official FAQ source describing the merch bundle as including a shirt, electronic badge, and sticker.
CarolinaCon: CarolinaCon Online 2 schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule source for the Friday April 29 through Sunday May 1, 2022 event window.
CarolinaCon: CarolinaCon Online 2021
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the merch bundle with all parts needed to make the year's badge, later badge-supplies bulk-order update, online CTF context, and shipping note.
CarolinaCon: CarolinaCon Online 2021 schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule source for April 23-25, 2021 timing used to anchor the event edition.
CarolinaCon: badge.trim.png
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official partial schematic evidence linked from the event page; cited for source traceability and not reused as a local image because no reusable media rights were found.
Cisco: Badges? We got badges!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Retrospective SAINTCON show-badge lineage context; not used to infer unrecovered 2014 component or firmware details beyond the existence of prior-year show-badge activity.
Cisco: Badges? We got badges!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge evidence for the purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled show badge, LCD and buttons, attendee scale, Cisco CMX linkage, schedule, score, and zone-display behavior; cited without image reuse.
CosmicBonBon / GitHub: DEFCON 32 Badge Game
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public source for the GB Studio badge-game project, graphical assets, playable itch.io link, and ROM-hacking/remix context.
Council of 9: DEF CON 24 Badge Challenge Walkthrough
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Winner walkthrough source for Council of 9 attribution, final badge-contest path, clue aggregation, and DEF CON 24 challenge solution context.
CrumpSpace / Tyler Crumpton: Official PN26 Electronic Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source proving that the artifact was the official PN26 electronic badge and documenting hardware, firmware, tooling, production, caveats, and thanks.
CrumpSpace / Tyler Crumpton: Official PN26 Electronic Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source for the public PN27 MK.II planning statement, future date, and expected follow-up direction from the PN26 ESL badge.
CynicalSignals: Building an Unofficial Badge for GrrCon 2024
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary first-hand source proving BadgeBuddy's GrrCON 2024 context, unofficial friend-distribution scope of roughly thirty badges, component list, proximity behavior, backpack companion, and GitHub release trail.
CypherCon: History of CypherCon
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event history source for CypherCon 2.0 dates, Discovery World venue, 525 attendees, The Cube badge, TYMKRS attribution, and badge-creator panel context.
CypherCon / YouTube: Badge Panel | CypherCon 2.0
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official-history-linked panel source preserving badge-creator discussion at the 2017 event.
CypherCon / YouTube: CypherCon 2 Badges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official-history-linked video source preserving the Cube badge explanation.
DC540 / Baab: My SAINTCON badge came today
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand source proving the shipped badge package, badge itself, included MiniBadge, custom-MiniBadge coupon, and HC CTF badge context without granting image reuse.
DEF CON: Badge Shipment Delay
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for the August 7, 2025 shipment-delay notice stating that cash-line attendees were getting paper badges while DEF CON awaited the delayed physical badge shipment.
DEF CON: DEF CON 17 Badge Hacking Contest
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official contest-results source for 32 entries, Zoz's winning anti-surveillance system, Team Hack the Badge's second-place blimp, 501d3r Guy's third-place dialer/amplifier, and the combined seven-badge honorable mention.
DEF CON: DEF CON 19 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for DEF CON 19 event framing, dates, and Rio Hotel location.
DEF CON: DEF CON 19 program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official program source for the non-electronic badge decision, titanium material, waterjet fabrication, kiln oxidation, variant secrecy, puzzle framing, and Ryan 1o57 Clarke authorship.
DEF CON: DEF CON 20 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for dates, venue, badge firmware availability, conference DVD badge materials, and badge-contest writeup links.
DEF CON: DEF CON 21 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for DEF CON 21 conference context, contest archive links, press archive, and post-event material release.
DEF CON: DEF CON 22 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for dates, venue, badge-code release note, badge-hacking-file torrent, and Hardware Hacking Village context.
DEF CON: DEF CON 23 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for DEF CON 23 context, conference materials, contest links, and post-event archive records.
DEF CON: DEF CON 24 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive source for DEF CON 24 event context, badge contest forum link, Council of 9 badge walkthrough link, CD torrents, and black-badge material.
DEF CON: DEF CON 25 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for DEF CON 25 timing, venue, post-event archive context, and linked conference materials.
DEF CON: DEF CON 26 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for DEF CON 26 context, venue split, firmware update/writeup notice, and media-server badge-material references.
DEF CON: DEF CON 27 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official host-event archive source for DEF CON 27 context around the Queercon 16 badge record.
DEF CON: DEF CON 29 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for DEF CON 29 context, FAQ and badge links, and post-con material references.
DEF CON: DEF CON 30 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for DEF CON 30 timing, venues, Hacker Homecoming context, badge-talk video notice, and media archive pointers.
DEF CON: DEF CON 31 Badge News!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for the SAO customization slot preview, add-on design-assets pointer, and spux badge-designer credit.
DEF CON: DEF CON 31 Call for Badge Designers
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for the non-electronic physical badge mandate, MK Factor context, and planned badge production scale.
DEF CON: DEF CON 31 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for DEF CON 31 dates, venues, and conference context.
DEF CON: DEF CON 31 Vendors
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source connecting Mar Williams to the year's official DEF CON badge and identifying their DEF CON artist role.
DEF CON: DEF CON 32 Badge Redirect
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official badge-update path proving defcon.org/badge/32 as the public patch/archive handoff URL.
DEF CON: DEF CON 32 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for DEF CON 32 dates, venue, prices, and post-con archive links.
DEF CON: DEF CON 32 News
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for badge sale and extra-badge posts, first-RP2350-board wording, save-issue patch notice, and DEF CON's response to badge controversy.
DEF CON: DEF CON 33 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for DEF CON 33 dates, venue, conference context, cash receipt link, contest results link, and media-server path.
DEF CON: DEF CON 33 Hacking Conference - News
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for DC33 public event timeline and post-event publication context.
DEF CON: DEF CON 33 Villages
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source placing Biohacking Village at DEF CON 33 and describing the village as an immersive healthcare, medical-technology, and cybersecurity area.
DEF CON: DEF CON 34
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official homepage source for DEF CON 34 dates, LVCC West Hall location, Agency theme, and preregistration news.
DEF CON: Making the DEF CON 33 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official creator-talk source for Mar's badge-making talk, Saturday 10:00 timing, 45-minute duration, and framing around badge creation, art, hacking, and constraints.
DEF CON 33 schedule mirror / 2PAC: Badge Drop - Hack 'em Crack 'em Robots
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Schedule source placing the NilbinSec badge drop at DEF CON 33 in the Badgelife Community area.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 1 Announcement
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official announcement source for the 1993 dates, Sands Hotel venue, registration pricing, and the 24-bit color pre-generated name-tag statement.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 1 Program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive; used for first-event program context rather than badge hardware claims.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 10 Program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official program source for tenth-year context and badge form-factor language about ninja throwing badges and corner holes.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 11 Program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official program source for event operations, map, information booth, contest context, Goon/staff badge references, and the physical conference setting.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 12 Hacking Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for DEF CON 12 timing, venue, and archive context.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 2 Announcement
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official announcement source for the 1994 dates, Sahara Hotel venue, and event schedule context.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 2 Program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive; used for event-program context rather than badge hardware claims.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 3 Program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive; used for event-program context rather than badge hardware claims.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 4 Program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive; used for event-program context rather than badge hardware claims.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 5 Program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive; used for event-program context rather than badge hardware claims.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 6 Program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive; used for event-program context rather than OCR-backed badge claims.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 6.0 was July 31st to August 2nd in Las Vegas, Nevada!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event page for DEF CON 6, used for event context and the picture/program archive trail.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 8 Program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive; used for event-program context rather than OCR-backed badge claims.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 8 Will be the last weekend in July, 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official post-event page for DEF CON 8, used for event context, admission-cost/no-pre-registration context, and picture-archive trail.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON 9 Program
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official scanned program PDF preserved in the DEF CON media archive; used for event-program context rather than OCR-backed badge claims.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON I Archives
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive page for DEF CON 1, used for event context and the announcement, picture, program, audio, and article archive trail.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON I Picture Archive
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official picture index preserving DEF CON 1 photo captions and archive context.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON II Archives
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive page for DEF CON 2, used for event context and the announcement, picture, program, audio, and article archive trail.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON III Archives
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive page for DEF CON 3, used for event context and the picture/program archive trail.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON IV Archives
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive page for DEF CON 4, used for event context and the picture/program archive trail.
DEF CON Communications: DEF CON V Archives
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive page for DEF CON 5, used for event context and the picture/program archive trail.
DEF CON Communications: Picture Archive for DEF CON II
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official picture index preserving DEF CON 2 photo captions and archive context.
DEF CON Communications: Picture Archive for DEF CON III
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official picture index preserving DEF CON 3 photo captions and archive context.
DEF CON Forums: DC30 badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official forum source for boot mode, mass-storage firmware loading, picotool dumping, connector observations, and attendee badge-hacking notes.
DEF CON Forums: DEF CON 13 is a GO!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official pre-event source stating that DEF CON 13 badges were done before registration and that printed schedules would be distributed at registration.
DEF CON Forums: DEF CON 26 Badge, Curated Content
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Curated technical source for media-server badge artifacts, firmware update process, PIC32MM0256GPM048 flashing, version checks, and repair/upgrade context.
DEF CON Forums: DEF CON 29 Badge Hacking
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official forum source for firmware updates, power behavior, challenge mode, role art, SAO and IR hints, and ongoing community-solving details.
DEF CON Forums: DefCon 12 Forum Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary forum source for the community template, JoeSchmuck authorship, use/modification permission wording, and highwizard's separate-extra-badge clarification.
DEF CON Forums: DefCon 12 Forum Badge - page 2
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary forum continuation source for 3x5 sizing and attendee printing/lamination workflow evidence.
DEF CON Forums: Social Engineering Community (SEC) Youth Challenge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official DEF CON forum source for DEF CON 31 Youth Challenge schedule, LINQ Social A village location, and challenge-category context.
DEF CON Forums: The 2009 Ninja Badge / Ninja Party
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary narrative source for the unofficial Ninja Networks party badge, including party venue context, electronic-invitation framing, roughly 500 working badges, YETDA display evidence, sponsor support, and production problems.
DEF CON Forums: Welcome to the pre-con Safe Mode Badge Challenge forum!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official forum source for badge creator LosT attribution, cassette/lanyard/liner challenge scope, and media-server availability for cassette contents and liner notes.
DEF CON Forums: What was good or bad at DEF CON 25
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official forum feedback source for rubber/plastic badge descriptions, lack of a badge challenge, and attendee response to the official badge.
DEF CON Forums / 2PAC: Introducing Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand badgelife announcement source for NilbinSec's DEF CON 33 full-size badge, prior SAO giveaway context, red/blue SAOs, EEPROM-backed game data, ready-to-play packaging, pricing, and social-media drop plan.
DEF CON Forums / Lonely Hackers Club: LHC Meshtastic Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Community announcement source tying the LHC Meshtastic Badge to DEF CON 33 pickup and limited community distribution.
DEF CON Forums / LosT: On the Defcon 19 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary forum source stating that the DEF CON 19 badge was not electronic and explaining badge goals around admission, curiosity, participation, and social interaction.
DEF CON Forums / seeess: Tipsy Electronic Badge for DEF CON 33 by seeess
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand forum announcement source for the Tipsy Electronic Badge, DEF CON 33 context, code/manual/open-source-file links, and brief buttons/LEDs/SAO feature framing.
DEF CON Media Server: DC34 Badge SAO Electrical Spec
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official badge-spec PDF source for 3.0 V SAO VDD, dual-SAO supply limit, two-AA badge power, USB-C continuous-power behavior, GPIO wake interrupt, I2C addresses, and SAO header mechanical constraints.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 1 Pictures - Unsorted
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official photo-set listing preserving DEF CON 1 event images and the recovered badge artifact image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 1 badges.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for DEF CON 1 laminated paper role badges and a pre-generated name-tag form; used for artifact description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 1 pictures
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media-server directory for the DEF CON 1 picture archive.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 10 dc-0A-badge.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for the visible physical DEF CON 10 badge artifact; used for description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 10 images
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media-server listing preserving files named as DEF CON 10 badge images.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 11 badge IMG_2736.JPG
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for the visible physical DEF CON 11 badge artifact; used for description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 11 images
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media-server listing preserving files named as DEF CON 11 badge photos.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 12 media archive
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media archive reviewed for event context and main-official-badge boundaries; no local image is reused from it.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 2 KM-1.JPG
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for a visible magenta-and-white rectangular DEF CON 2 chest credential; used for artifact description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 2 KM-2.JPG
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for another visible rectangular DEF CON 2 chest credential; used for artifact corroboration only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 2 Pictures - Unsorted
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official photo-set listing preserving DEF CON 2 event images, including visible printed chest credentials.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 2 pictures
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media-server directory for the DEF CON 2 picture archive.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 3 28500516.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for visible pink and blue rectangular DEF CON 3 waist credentials; used for artifact description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 3 28500518.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for another pink rectangular DEF CON 3 waist credential; used for artifact corroboration only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 3 Pictures - Unsorted
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official photo-set listing preserving DEF CON 3 event images, including visible colored waist credentials.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 3 pictures
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media-server directory for the DEF CON 3 picture archive.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 31 badge media directory
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for the add-on PDF, chamber STL, outline AI/EPS, GIF previews, and Blender asset used to describe the badge customization surface.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 32 badge media directory
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for hardware, firmware, game, music, asset, readme, and FREEWiLi firmware archive filenames.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 33 badge media directory
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for the dedicated DC33 badge directory and the current absence of listed badge files in that directory.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 4 Evil Pete Sat-027.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for a visible red-topped rectangular DEF CON 4 chest credential; used for artifact description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 4 Evil Pete Sat-044.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for another rectangular DEF CON 4 chest credential; used for artifact corroboration only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 4 Pictures - Evil Pete
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official photo-set listing preserving DEF CON 4 event images, including visible rectangular chest credentials.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 4 pictures
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media-server directory for the DEF CON 4 picture archive.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 5 Broken Net 47.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for a visible white DEF CON 5 hanging credential; used for artifact description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 5 Pictures - Broken Net
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official photo-set listing preserving DEF CON 5 event images, including a visible hanging credential.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 5 pictures
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media-server directory for the DEF CON 5 picture archive.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 6 Lockheed 129.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for a visible white rectangular lanyard credential; used for artifact description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 6 Pictures - Lockheed
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official photo-set listing preserving DEF CON 6 event-room images, including a visible white lanyard credential.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 6 Pictures - Snow Dog
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official photo-set listing preserving DEF CON 6 event images, including a visible blue waist credential.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 6 Snow Dog 459e9077.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for a visible blue DEF CON 6 waist credential; used for artifact description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 6 pictures
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media-server directory for the DEF CON 6 picture archive.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 8 mackhack.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for attendees wearing physical DEF CON 8 lanyard credentials; used for visible artifact description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 8 pictures
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media-server directory for the DEF CON 8 picture archive.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 8 pictures - Unsorted
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official photo-set listing preserving attendee images from DEF CON 8.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 9 dc11.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive image evidence for attendees wearing physical DEF CON 9 lanyard badges; used for visible artifact description only, not as a local published image.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 9 pictures
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official media-server directory for the DEF CON 9 picture archive.
DEF CON Media Server: DEF CON 9 pictures - Unsorted
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official photo-set listing preserving attendee images from DEF CON 9.
DEF CON Merchandise: DEF CON 34 Las Vegas Convention Center
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official shop source for the preregistration guarantee of an onsite DEF CON 34 Human badge and the onsite pickup requirement.
DEF CON archive mirror: DEF CON 28 Safe Mode archive
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event archive source for Safe Mode cancellation/online-event context, Human Plus support framing, and the official announcement that the badge was a LosT-created cassette tape.
DePaul Newsline: IRL receives first sponsorship, produces badges for largest hacker conference in Chicago
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · University news source for DePaul IRL's first outside sponsorship, THOTCON Infinity commission, six-month build effort, and 1,700 custom circuit-board badges.
Degenerate Metric: Defcon 24 Badge write-up
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Challenge writeup source for room keys, standee glyphs, hidden traces, badge silkscreen, serial strings, Konami unlock, lanyards, CD files, and program equations.
DerbyCon / Internet Archive: DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy archived site
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Archived official event-page context linked by InfoconDB; not used for black-badge hardware claims.
Dmitry Grinberg: Dmitry Grinberg ESL reverse-engineering reference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Referenced technical basis for related ZBD EPOP firmware behavior and display work used by the PN26 badge project.
Electronic Cats / GitHub: ElectronicCats/Badge-Villa-Hacker
Retrieved 2026-05-22 · Primary hardware and firmware repository for the La Villa Hacker 2025 badge, including C firmware, KiCad hardware files, and release metadata.
Electronic Cats / GitHub: La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-22 · README source for badge title, README-listed CH32V003, NRF24L01, OLED, two-AAA holder, Shitty Addon connector, preinstalled firmware, Electronic Cats design credit, and CERN OHL v1.2 hardware statement.
Electronic Cats / GitHub: La Villa Hacker firmware README
Retrieved 2026-05-22 · Firmware README source for the Puya PY32F002A / PY32F002Ax5 technical trail, J-Link, GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain, Make, VSCode, and SDK workflow.
Electronic Cats / GitHub Releases: Badge-Villa-Hacker v1.0.0
Retrieved 2026-05-22 · Release source for the published VillaHacker.hex binary.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF at HOPE X
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Corroborating event source for the tenth Hackers On Planet Earth framing, New York City context, and talks/workshops/projects scope.
Elegin / MLF: DEFCON 21 Badge Contest
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Challenge writeup source for badge matrix interpretation, symbol sets, 3-bit binary ordering, program and floor-graphic clues, and solved puzzle flow.
Elegin / Team Potato: Defcon 23 Badge Challenge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Challenge writeup source for lanyard ciphers, Nyctograph and Gold Bug alphabets, lanyard translations, key-card clues, and solution flow.
Engadget: The incredibly intricate badges of Def Con
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary source for Ryan Clarke / 1o57 attribution, robot-skull electronics, badge-production crunch, and approximate 20,000-badge scale.
FREE-WILi: ICS Village Badge for Defcon 33 with AI power
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Badge-page source proving the ICS Village Badge for DEF CON 33, FREE-WILi/Intrepid framing, RP2350A platform, ESP32-C6, gas and alcohol sensors, GUI support, USB terminal, SAO expansion, battery, and firmware update path.
FREE-WILi Docs: ICS Village Badge for DEFCON 33 with AI Power
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary documentation source for the purchased ICS Village badge tool, sponsorship, hardware summary, software features, tutorial videos, firmware update pointer, and Build-A-Badge section.
FaultPoint: Extracting and Cracking the DEFCON 30 Badge Firmware
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Technical source for RP2 B2/RP2040 and W25Q16JV hardware identification, chip-off extraction, XIP firmware analysis, and keyboard-combo decoding.
Flickr: DefCon 14 2006
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY-NC 2.0 original photo source by Eliot Phillips / RobotSkirts showing the DEF CON 14 badge; used for image provenance, not as a hardware-spec source.
Flickr: populated defcon 21 badge case
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY 2.0 original photo source by Openfly identifying the object as a populated DEF CON 21 badge case; used for image provenance, not hardware specification.
Flickr / Nate Grigg: HUMAN
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Licensed documentary photo source for the DEF CON 17 Human attendee badge; Flickr structured metadata identifies CC BY 2.0, Nate Grigg / nateOne attribution, and the image description as the anonymous badge for human attendees at DEFCON 17 in Las Vegas.
Fourfold: Fourfold work portfolio
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Maker portfolio source for the 0xB badge's retro gaming, D-pad design, and PCB-art framing.
Fourfold: Fourfold work portfolio
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Maker portfolio source for the 0xC badge's full assembly, manufacturing, protective-enclosure, and conference-electronics production framing.
GitHub: Hack-a-Day/2016-Hackaday-SuperConference-Badge-Hacking
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Source repository for the MPLAB X badge-hacking template, kernel function map, display/button/timing/accelerometer examples, USB bootloader instructions, and MIT source license.
GitHub: Hack-a-Day/2018-Supercon-Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Source repository for firmware, built-in feature list, BASIC commands, 3-voice audio, serial communications, Z80 CP/M, firmware hex, and MIT license.
GitHub: Hack-a-Day/2022-Supercon6-Badge-Tools
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source repository for tutorial, assembler, disassembler, emulator, examples, firmware, manuals, software, and the repository image candidate that remains unpublished locally due incomplete image rights.
GitHub: Hack-a-Day/2024-Supercon-8-Add-On-Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository for hardware, software, resources, badge hacks, I2C addresses, and tutorial structure.
GitHub: Hack-a-Day/2025-Communicator_Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public source repository for the 2025 Communicator Badge hardware, firmware, documentation, image assets, app examples, and license file.
GitHub: Hack-a-Day/Vectorscope
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary repository for badge firmware, hardware package, board files, BOM, Gerbers, drill files, and restoration assets.
GitHub: Spritetm/hadbadge2019_fpgasoc
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source repository for FPGA configurations, boot/IPL software, SDK, sample apps, USB mass-storage behavior, HDMI, audio, PicoRV32, and PIC soft-core structure.
GitHub: Spritetm/hadbadge2019_pcb
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary hardware repository for PCB artwork, hardware errata, and CC BY-SA 3.0 hardware-license statement.
GitHub: flummer/remoticon2020-badge
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · Primary hardware repository for KiCad board files, schematics, Gerbers, renders, README, and GitHub-reported CC BY-SA 4.0 repository license metadata.
GitHub / ANDnXOR: AND!XOR DEF CON 24 Badge Schematic
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository schematic PDF source corroborating hardware-archive availability.
GitHub / ANDnXOR: ANDnXOR DC24 badge LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository license source for code and archive context; local image reuse is still withheld pending image-specific provenance.
GitHub / ANDnXOR: ANDnXOR DC24 badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Raw README source for DFU flashing instructions, provisioned human badge binary path, and boot LED behavior.
GitHub / ANDnXOR: ANDnXOR DC28 badge LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Apache-2.0 license source for the public repository; image reuse is still treated separately under badge.gallery provenance rules.
GitHub / ANDnXOR: ANDnXOR DC28 badge firmware tree
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository source for the released badge firmware tree and Zephyr/word-list helper files.
GitHub / ANDnXOR: ANDnXOR/ANDnXOR_DC24_Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Source repository preserving schematic PDF, Gerbers, provisioning files, software tree, README, and license.
GitHub / ANDnXOR: ANDnXOR/ANDnXOR_DC28_Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public source archive preserving firmware, Gerbers, SPI tooling/content, flash image archive, troubleshooting, README, and repository metadata.
GitHub / Aerospace Village: AV Badge 2024 README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for ADS-B reception, 1090 MHz framing, Linux SBC feature set, built-in Wi-Fi and GPS, dual-core processor, 128 MB DDR3 RAM, 8 GB eMMC, microSD, Dump1090 network exposure, 18650 battery, USB-C, and SAO support.
GitHub / Aerospace Village: AV Badge FAQ
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for GPS lock/manual-coordinate behavior, 1090 MHz-only ADS-B limitation, external-antenna caution, USB Ethernet/SSH, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, USB host quirks, and battery polarity warning.
GitHub / Aerospace Village: AerospaceVillage/avBadge_2024
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the badge project, releases, tutorials, FAQ, build guide, and software/hardware archive context.
GitHub / Aerospace Village: Building Winglet OS
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the Winglet OS Buildroot workflow, tested Ubuntu versions, winglet-kernel, winglet-boot, winglet-gui, output image format, u-boot, and SD/eMMC flashing context.
GitHub / BSidesFortWayne: BSidesFW2025Badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary end-user and developer source for badge menu navigation, button map, default badge application, repository layout, uv setup, mpremote workflow, firmware flashing commands, and source tree organization.
GitHub / BSidesFortWayne: BSidesFortWayne/BSidesFW2025Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary public repository for the BSides Fort Wayne 2025 badge; GitHub metadata reports an MIT license, public organization ownership, Python/MicroPython code, and active source history.
GitHub / BSidesFortWayne: Custom Badge Firmware
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware source for the custom MicroPython 1.26.0 image, compiled badge-challenge modules, GC9A01 display driver, and flashing path.
GitHub / BSidesFortWayne: Technical Specifications V4
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary hardware source for the ESP32-WROVER-E-N8R8 badge core, USB-C/CH340C programming, LEDs, buttons, accelerometer, battery, display, buzzer, and expansion-header details.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: BadgePiratesLLC/BSidesKC_2019
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary repository source preserving conference badge and kids badge files, docs, Gerbers, photos, hardware license, and MIT software license.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: BadgePiratesLLC/CactusCon-12
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for CactusCon 12 ProjectNeoRogue badge files, CAD, CODE, DOCS, artwork, and reference-material directories.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: BadgePiratesLLC/CactusCon13
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for CactusCon 13 KiCad, outer-board, 3D-print, documentation, reference, and license material.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: BadgePiratesLLC/CactusCon14
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the CactusCon 14 badge hardware-design and build-resource archive.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 12 BasicCodeForQA
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Limited QA-code source; not treated as final event firmware or challenge source.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 12 CAD archive
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Hardware source for ESP32-S3, displays, controls, USB serial, MicroSD, power, MAX17048, LEDs, SAO, BOM, and Gerber evidence.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 13 CAD and outer-board archive
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Hardware source for Project-CC13 KiCad files, schematic sheets, Gerbers, STEP export, and role-board variants.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 13 LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · MIT license source for the public CactusCon13 repository archive.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 14 Badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · README source for badge identity, manufacturing workflow, schematic/BOM/CAD/Gerber/STL/art layout, KiCad tooling, and license split.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 14 CAD/CC14.png
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Image-provenance source for the official upstream front board-output raster used as the rights-cleared CactusCon 14 visual under the README's MIT software/content and CERN-OHL-S v2 hardware license split.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 14 hardware license
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CERN-OHL-S v2 license source for the hardware design material.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 14 schematic and BOM outputs
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository schematic source paired with the interactive BOM for verifiable public hardware-archive evidence.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: CactusCon 14 software/content license
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · MIT license source for the repository software/content material.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: HW-LICENSE.md
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International hardware license source used to clear the selected repository participant-badge photo and hardware documentation scope.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: SW-LICENSE.md
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · MIT software license source for the public firmware and PlatformIO material.
GitHub / Badge Pirates, LLC: photos/Participant Close up.JPG
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository photo source for the physical participant badge image published locally as an optimized WebP with attribution and processing notes.
GitHub / Car Hacking Village: CHV_SAO_Specification
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the CHV CAN SAO pinout, 3.3 V supply, CAN TX/RX use, 50x50 mm guidance, and SAO footprint material.
GitHub / Car Hacking Village: DC32_CHV_Badge_Board
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary hardware-source repository for the DC32 main badge board archive; GitHub reported no detected repository license in this pass.
GitHub / Car Hacking Village: DC32_CHV_Badge_Firmware
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware-source repository for the DC32 main badge car-on-a-board firmware; GitHub reported no detected repository license in this pass.
GitHub / Car Hacking Village: DC32_CTF_CHALLENGES
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary CTF-source archive for main-badge CAN enumeration, UART, random-traffic, Speedometer SAO, TUF, and Rivian challenge context.
GitHub / FREE-WILi: freewili/build_a_badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public Build-A-Badge repository source for the DEF CON 33 customization software, LED/image/name configuration workflow, cross-platform app framing, WASM upload support, README-embedded MIT license text, and `assets/ics_village_badge.png` image provenance.
GitHub / FREE-WILi: freewili/freewili-firmware
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public firmware repository source for the DEF CON 33 badge UF2 firmware and firmware-update trail; repository metadata did not expose a license during this pass.
GitHub / FREE-WILi: freewili/freewili-python
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Host API repository linked from the official badge documentation for PC-side badge control and automation.
GitHub / Fergus Noble: fnoble/CC-Bootloader
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Bootloader source repository linked by Great Scott Gadgets as the firmware-upgrade path for ToorCon 14 badge users.
GitHub / FreeWili_WebDocs: icsvillage-badge-defcon33.md
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Markdown source for the FREE-WILi documentation page, used to pin the exact prose behind hardware, software, sponsor, and image-rights decisions.
GitHub / Great Scott Gadgets: greatscottgadgets/toorcamp2018badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Source repository for hardware designs, firmware, README, badge photo, BOM, and license evidence.
GitHub / Great Scott Gadgets: greatscottgadgets/ubertooth tc13badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Source repository preserving ToorCon 13 badge hardware and firmware trees under the Project Ubertooth `tc13badge` code name.
GitHub / Great Scott Gadgets: tc13badge firmware README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware-source evidence for the Renesas R5F212L4/R8C code archive and build context.
GitHub / Great Scott Gadgets: tc13badge hardware README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Hardware-source evidence for the GPL-licensed Project Ubertooth design files, KiCad schematic/layout, and two-layer PCB production notes.
GitHub / Maritime Hacking Village: Differential Destroyer CONTRIBUTORS
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary contributor source naming Nicholas Haltmeyer, Duncan Woodbury, Marco Casaroli, @blenster, @mothball, and @vrllrv with their project roles.
GitHub / Maritime Hacking Village: Differential Destroyer README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge documentation source for Pico 2 bundle/distribution language, display, controls, NeoPixels, accelerometer, SAO, SD, battery, differential protocol ports, MCP2518FD, injector behavior, Rust/Embassy firmware, Rhai scripting, and safety warnings.
GitHub / Maritime Hacking Village: Maritime-Hacking-Village/Badge-2025
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the official MHV 2025 badge hardware, firmware, software, documentation, license, and contributor files.
GitHub / Michael Ossmann: mossmann/cc11xx tc14badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Hardware-source repository preserving ToorCon 14 KiCad board/schematic files, assembly PDF, part list, schematic PDF, and GPL COPYING file.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: 2018-banglet LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary license source documenting Apache-2.0 terms for the repository; no local image is derived from repository media in this pass.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: 2020-mask.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source for the BSides PDX speaker-gift modifications, NeoMatrix mouth animation, microphone sampling, standby control, and scrolling BSidesPDX banner.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: 5ohBEE LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary license source documenting Apache-2.0 terms for the repository; no local image is derived from the bee artwork or other repository media in this pass.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: 5ohBEE README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary setup source for the 5ohBEE identity, SMART Response XE preparation, USBasp workflow, ATmega128RFA1 board profile, SmartResponseXE dependency, and keymap documentation.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: 5ohBEE commit history
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository history source for development milestones including bee-art addition, multi-function mode, HUG tokens, WANNAHUG, RainSec-enjoyed 1.0 release, and RSSI command support.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: Attribution Game badge guide
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Badge-operation source for navigation, contact setup, IR clue/contact trades, cryptographic signature checks, organizer validation, round propagation, and CircuitPython post-conference hacking.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: BSides PDX 2015 Badger Firmware README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware README source for `/flag`, `/leds`, LED mode, per-device, and RGB endpoint behavior.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: BSidesPDX_2018.kicad_pcb
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · KiCad board-file source proving a concrete BSidesPDX 2018 PCB archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: BSidesPDX_2018.sch
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · KiCad schematic source for the BSidesPDX 2018 hardware archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: Banglet 3D-print README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary mechanical source for soft and hard bangle enclosures, hinge, magnets, and electronics retention details.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: Banglet sketches README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware workflow source for Feather-style nRF52/Bluefruit form factor, A0 NeoPixel data, and Arduino/Adafruit setup instructions.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: BoM.csv
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · BOM source for ATTINY85-20SUR, 36 yellow 0603 LEDs, two 10 Mohm resistors, four 1206 resistors, and CR2032 battery holder.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: BoM.csv
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · BOM source for the ATtiny85, 24 side-view LED, CR2032 battery holder, slide switch, and resistor claims.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: COPYING.TXT
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · License source for CC BY-SA 3.0 terms covering the PCB repository archive; no repository image is published locally from this pass.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: DEFCON 26 DC503 VIP Banglet README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project source for the Banglet wrist-badge framing, Bluetooth recon device and hidden party modes, team credits, and Adafruit acknowledgement.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: FW/README.md
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware documentation source for ATTiny861, ATTinyCore, micronucleus, Arduino settings, flashing workflow, and pin mappings.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: HW/BOM.csv
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · BOM source for the ATTiny861-class controller, LED, USB, switch, CR2032, battery-retainer, and lanyard claims.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: HugQuest.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware source for HugQuest v1.5, HUG tokens, WANNAHUG infection/unlock behavior, EEPROM state, RSSI command, channel setting, sleep handling, and help/version commands.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · License source for CC BY-SA 4.0 hardware/software terms and the explicit caveat that names, logos, and artwork have separate more restrictive licensing.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: OpenTaxus hardware README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Hardware documentation source for the RP2040/XIAO-derived board, OLED, IR, d-pad, NeoPixels, power, test-point, KiCad, and manufacturing-file claims.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: README.md
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Hardware and wiring source for Arduino Pro Micro, MAX4466, flexible 8x8 WS2812 matrix, SMT switch, face mask, USB power bank, Arduino Leonardo programming, and required Adafruit libraries.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: RadioFunctions.h
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary radio helper source for ATmega128RFA1 transceiver setup, 2.4 GHz channel range, TX/RX helpers, RSSI capture, receive buffering, and SparkFun/Beerware attribution.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: Trick-or-Treat README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Game and controller source for candy trading, badge USB-storage contents, game-file generation/flashing, and the BSidesSF 2024 Attribution Game fork lineage.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: Wagon Party README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary setup source calling the target a badge and documenting the 3.3V USB-serial, SparkFun nRF52832, SSD1306, I2C pin, and wagon-wheel programming workflow.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: badge.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source for the ATTiny85 LED pattern, PWM pins, CapacitiveSensor inputs, and sine/cosine analogWrite animation path.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: badge.sch
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Eagle schematic source for Tiny85, LED array, CR2032 holder, PWM, capacitive-sense, reset, and six-pin header claims.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: badger.brd
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Board-file source proving a concrete PCB archive for the 2015 Badger design.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: badger.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source for ESP8266 WebServer usage, BadgerNet SSID naming, BSides PDX 2015 Badger web UI, CTF flag update handler, and LED pin/control behavior.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: badger.sch
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Schematic source for the 2015 Badger hardware archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: banglet.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware source for BLEUART service, scanner behavior, NeoPixel LED count and pin, generated names, `/list` interaction, and badge operation.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: boardtest.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source for RGB PWM cycling, charlieplexed LED tests, pin names, and switch/USB/SAO pin mapping.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: bom.csv
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · BOM source for the BMD-300 module, 32.768 kHz crystal, CR2032 battery holder, switch, navigation switches, right-angle header, OLED screen, and lanyard claims.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: bsides2017.sch
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Eagle schematic source for BMD-300, I2C display/front connectors, SWD, UART, jumpers, switches, and battery power path claims.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: five-oh-BEE.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware source for RF chat/pager behavior, channel 11 initialization, keyboard entry, message buffers, radio byte writes, and byte-3 message termination.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: led_mapping.csv
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · LED mapping source for icon names, diode designators, row wiring, and RGB enable outputs.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: multnomah.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source for two PWM outputs and sine/cosine analogWrite animation behavior.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: multnomah.kicad_pcb
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · KiCad board-file source proving a concrete Multnomah PCB archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: multnomah.sch
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · KiCad schematic source for the Multnomah hardware archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/2018-banglet
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary repository source for the DEFCON 26 DC503 VIP Banglet hardware, firmware sketches, 3D-print files, Apache-2.0 license, and contributor trail.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/2020-mask
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source described as a talking LED mask for BSides 2020 presenters; GitHub repository metadata reports no visible license.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/5ohBEE-2019
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary repository source for the 503 Party 2019 SMART Response XE pager project, Apache-2.0 license metadata, helper archives, firmware sketches, contributor trail, and bee-art source clue.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/badge-2018
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the BSidesPDX 2018 KiCad/BOM/firmware badge archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/badge-2019
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the Multnomah KiCad/BOM/firmware badge archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/badge-2024
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus badge hardware, attribution, Trick-or-Treat, controller, and badge-storage archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/fw-2015
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public firmware repository source for the BSides PDX 2015 Badger firmware archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/pcb-2015
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the 2015 Badger PCB, schematic, library, board-art files, Gerber archives, OSH Park DRC, and CC BY-SA 3.0 PCB license file.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/pcb-2016
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the BSidesPDX 2016 Eagle board, schematic, BOM, and Arduino firmware archive; GitHub repository metadata reports no visible license.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/pcb-2017
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the BSidesPDX 2017 Eagle board, schematic, BOM, and library archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: pdxbadgers/wagonparty
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary repository source for the DC503 Wagon Party badge archive, repository metadata, source tree, contributor trail, and no-visible-license image decision.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: sprites.h
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary sprite-source evidence for the generated wagon, mountains, hunter, and Bender graphics used by firmware, while keeping those assets out of the catalogue image archive.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: wagonparty commit history
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository history source for July 2017 publication, image-resource addition, flashing-instruction updates, and README errata.
GitHub / PDX Badgers: wagonparty.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware source for BLEPeripheral service UUID 0503, writable banner text, 503WAGON advertising, OLED setup, three game modes, input pins, DYSENTERY/WannaCry strings, and game loops.
GitHub / PamirAI: Pamir-AI/distiller-cm5-python BHV
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public Apache-2.0 application source for conversational UI, local LLM integration, MCP server support, hardware interfaces, medical-assistant prompt example, GGUF model switching, WiFi setup, and debug mode.
GitHub / PamirAI: Pamir-AI/distiller-cm5-sdk BHV
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public Apache-2.0 SDK source for Distiller CM5 hardware, audio, camera, e-ink, SAM LED control, Parakeet ASR/VAD, Piper TTS, optional Whisper, native display library, and Debian packaging workflow.
GitHub / RocketGod: DefconBadgeRF.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware file source for DC33 / DEF CON 33 project naming, TehRabbitt badge-design credit, RocketGod firmware credit, display and NeoPixel initialization, default 433.92 MHz RF state, and RX/TX/jammer/Tesla mode declarations.
GitHub / RocketGod: RocketGod-git/Defcon33-TPP-RL-badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the full-functionality firmware tree, README, badge pinout, GPL-3.0 license, CC1101 driver files, and source filenames that define the documented software surface.
GitHub / RocketGod: badge pins.txt
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository pinout source for the ESP32-S3-N16R8, two CC1101 433 MHz modules, OLED, five-way switch, SDIO reader, UART wiring, NUP2105LT1G mention, and 32 WS2812B LED surface.
GitHub / RocketGod: globals.h
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware header source for SH1106 screen dimensions/address, CC1101 A/B pin maps, button pins, NeoPixel pin/count, SDIO pins, EEPROM size, and sample buffer definitions.
GitHub / Thomas Flummer: Hackaday Remoticon 2020 Unofficial Badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · README source for explicit unofficial-badge status, no-official-badge context, customization invitation, SMD challenge circuit, Feather mounting option, and Gerbers.
GitHub / Thomas Flummer: Remoticon 2020 RENDER/remoticon_badge.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · Image-provenance source for the official upstream README-embedded badge render used as the rights-cleared Remoticon 2020 visual under the repository CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
GitHub / Thomas Flummer: Remoticon 2020 badge CC BY-SA 4.0 license
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · License text source for the repository release and selected upstream render; GitHub reports the repository license as CC BY-SA 4.0.
GitHub / aranya-project: IR Demo V2 KiCad PCB
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public KiCad PCB file source for the demo-board hardware and board-layout evidence.
GitHub / aranya-project: SpiderOak Demo V2 Board README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary board documentation source for ESP32-S3, Aranya Embedded target, front/back board views, assembly options, power switching, IR, microSD, debug LEDs, test points, expansion pads, lanyard holes, and mechanical dimensions.
GitHub / aranya-project: aranya-project/demo-board-v2
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public hardware repository source for the SpiderOak Demo V2 Board used as workshop board evidence; GitHub reports no repository license in this pass, so repository images are cited but not copied into the catalogue.
GitHub / atc1441: ESP_CC_Flasher
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Referenced tool repository for ESP32-assisted CC1110 flashing and the planned programming-station path.
GitHub / atlas: atlas0fd00m/rfcat
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · RfCat source repository and BSD license source for the interactive Python RF control stack referenced by the badge page.
GitHub / charlie-x: ESP32_Alexa README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository documentation source for the ESP32 Alexa experiment lineage and source-license boundary.
GitHub / charlie-x: L1_POVSpinner main.c
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source proving the 12 LED outputs, hall-effect sensor timing, RPM calculations, sleep behavior, button-driven mode changes, and POV drawing implementation.
GitHub / charlie-x: LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE Hardware Hacking Guide
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Technical guide source for glitch, crowbar, SWD, DAP, AVRISP, and analog-monitoring workflows.
GitHub / charlie-x: LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary technical source for RP2040, ICE40 FPGA, voltage glitcher, crowbar, SWD, AVRISP, ADC streaming, USB modes, flashing, and project notes.
GitHub / charlie-x: LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE USB Modes Guide
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Technical guide source for normal, CMSIS-DAP, and DFU USB behavior.
GitHub / charlie-x: LayerOne2023 README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary technical source for PIC16F1455, WS2812B/SK6812 LEDs, MPLAB/XC8, DFU mode, dfu-util flashing, Pickit fallback, and RubberDucky 2.0 badge-competition framing.
GitHub / charlie-x: LayerOne2023 UsbDescriptors.h
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · USB descriptor source for the generic HID and keyboard HID interfaces, report sizes, vendor/product identifiers, and keyboard report descriptor.
GitHub / charlie-x: LayerOne2023 keyboard.c
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Keyboard firmware source for HID report generation, ASCII-to-scan-code conversion, alt-code helpers, and the partial RubberDucky command parser.
GitHub / charlie-x: LayerOne2023 main.c
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source proving USB initialization, generic HID commands, flash-backed messages, button-triggered keyboard output, LED effect modes, and the default `LayerOne 2023` keyboard string.
GitHub / charlie-x: LayerOne_2024 README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary technical source proving the POV Spinner was part of the LayerOne 2024 Conference badge and documenting LED POV behavior, Kraken programmer context, build paths, flashing, and image-header workflow.
GitHub / charlie-x: LayerOne_2025 LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · MIT license source for repository software and associated documentation; no repository images are reused as badge-gallery images.
GitHub / charlie-x: attijny/layer-one.c
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · ATtiny C source used to anchor the software archive without overclaiming unpublished production files.
GitHub / charlie-x: charlie-x/ESP32_Alexa
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public source repository linked from the Hackaday article for the badge's ESP32 Alexa experiment code trail.
GitHub / charlie-x: charlie-x/LayerOne2023
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public badge source repository preserving the README, PIC firmware, keyboard and USB code, host uploader, Eagle board and schematic files, interactive BOM, enclosure assets, and BSD-3-Clause license.
GitHub / charlie-x: charlie-x/LayerOne_2024
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public badge source repository preserving the README, firmware, Eagle board and schematic files, documentation images, image assets, and MIT license.
GitHub / charlie-x: charlie-x/LayerOne_2025
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public badge source repository for hardware, firmware, documentation, and scripts.
GitHub / charlie-x: charlie-x/layerOne2019
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public source repository preserving the Blade Runner / Voight-Kampff LayerOne 2019 badge firmware source trail.
GitHub / charlie-x: charlie-x/psoc4-esp8266-ws1812
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository linked from the Hackaday.io discussion for the PSoC4/ESP8266/WS2812 badge source trail; GitHub reports The Unlicense.
GitHub / charlie-x: docs/spinner_photo.png and LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Image and license trail for the selected repository photo: the README embeds this exact PNG, and the repository LICENSE is MIT with copyright (c) 2024 charliex.
GitHub / compukidmike: Saintcon 2019 Enigma Badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary repository instructions for post-event challenge play, reflash workflow, test mode, STM32CubeIDE, and Icestudio FPGA source.
GitHub / compukidmike: Saintcon2018 Badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary technical source for ESP32/MicroPython hardware, LED matrix, buttons, rechargeable battery, flashing, Wi-Fi configuration, display/menu behavior, and editable MicroPython workflow.
GitHub / compukidmike: Saintcon2018 Hardware Files
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Hardware source tree preserving KiCad, schematic, Gerber, BOM, and position-file evidence for the badge PCB.
GitHub / compukidmike: Saintcon2018 Minibadges README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Minibadge protocol source for I2C address coordination, power limits, polling, text/pixel messages, custom data, and badge event messages.
GitHub / compukidmike: Saintcon2018 main.py
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source for display states, I2C buses, minibadge polling, brightness event messages, Wi-Fi setup, and Hacker Challenge score updates.
GitHub / compukidmike: Saintcon2019 Firmware
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source tree preserving the STM32CubeIDE project used for the badge.
GitHub / compukidmike: Saintcon2019 Hardware
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Hardware source tree preserving KiCad files, Gerbers, board schematics, and minibadge-holder schematics.
GitHub / compukidmike: Saintcon2019BadgeChallenge.pdf
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Challenge artifact referenced by the README for completing the badge challenge after the event.
GitHub / compukidmike: compukidmike/Saintcon2018
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the badge source code, build sheet, firmware image, hardware files, Gerbers, schematic, BOM, and minibadge documentation.
GitHub / compukidmike: compukidmike/Saintcon2019
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public source repository for hardware, firmware, FPGA design, PDFs, challenge artifacts, and HEX files.
GitHub / ickfosec: BackpackofShame.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary companion firmware source for the open GrrCON-themed access point, MAC-address tracking, and four-matrix scoreboard.
GitHub / ickfosec: BadgeBuddy.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware source for BadgeBuddy AP+station mode, SSID scanning, BSSID counting, LedControl display behavior, and animation thresholds.
GitHub / ickfosec: ickfosec/esp
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary public source repository for BadgeBuddy and Backpack of Shame code plus wiring diagrams; GitHub reported no detected repository license in this pass.
GitHub / lukejenkins: lukejenkins/minibadge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public MiniBadge standard source for compatibility and add-on specification context.
GitHub / lukejenkins: lukejenkins/minibadge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public MiniBadge standard source linked from the 2022 archive footer and used only for add-on specification context.
GitHub / lukejenkins: lukejenkins/minibadge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public MiniBadge standard source for connector and protocol context; cited without claiming the 2020 badge or included MiniBadge implemented every protocol behavior.
GitHub / lukejenkins: lukejenkins/minibadge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public MiniBadge standard source for connector and protocol context; cited without claiming all 2021 MiniBadges implemented active I2C behavior.
GitHub / lukejenkins: lukejenkins/minibadge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public MiniBadge standard source for connector, voltage, I2C, programming-pin, NC, and extender compatibility claims.
GitHub / poplicola: Examples for Thotcon 0xA Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · README source for SparkFun ESP32 Thing Dev base, touch pads, six LED positions, speaker pin, microphone pins, audio conversion notes, and stock-firmware restore workflow.
GitHub / poplicola: Touch Wheel Badge - Demo Firmware Collection
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · README source for the cleaned-up demo-firmware boundary, hardware requirements, pin mapping, Arduino setup, firmware example roles, and Fourfold credit.
GitHub / poplicola: poplicola/Thotcon0xA_Pub
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository source for public 0xA badge examples, workshop PDF, binaries, LED code, SoundBoard code, AudioStreaming code, and lack of detected license metadata in the current pass.
GitHub / poplicola: poplicola/thotcon-examples
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository source for public Eagle board/schematic files, C++/Arduino demo firmware directories, and absence of GitHub-detected license metadata in the current pass.
GitHub / seeess: Defcon 33 Tipsy Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge manual source for Hacker Warehouse sales context, Tor profit donation note, safety disclaimer, hardware list, calibration, steering, wobble, color-game, photo, flashing, and user-operation details.
GitHub / seeess: LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · License source for Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International terms; used as the visible reusable image/source permission basis for the selected upstream repository photo.
GitHub / seeess: seeess/Defcon-Tipsy-33-Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository source for public files, firmware tree, data assets, STL hardware accessories, source image, repository metadata, and visible CC BY-NC 4.0 license context.
GitHub / seeess: tipsy.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source for authorship, CC BY-NC 4.0 source header, RP2040 pin mapping, modes, display behavior, current measurement, USB warning behavior, file-storage support, and button handling.
GitHub / theHackbat: DEFCON32 Badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary hardware documentation source for ESP32-C3 WROOM, OLED, WS2812 LEDs, buttons, AA-cell case, programming options, production-file workflow, and the fixed-revision note.
GitHub / theHackbat: thehackbat/defcon32_badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Repository source for the open hardware/source tree, documentation images, KiCad/production files, and upstream 3D render.
GitHub / theHackbat: thehackbat/defcon32_badge LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · GPL-3.0 license source supporting local publication of the official upstream repository render with attribution and source preservation.
GitHub / zRCrackiiN: zRCrackiiN/Defcon33-TPP-RL-badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Rabbit-Labs-linked alternate firmware repository described on the product page as the zRCrackiiN and JBOHack limited LED-only Blinken Lights option.
GitHub Releases / Aerospace Village: Winglet OS 2.0
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Release source for Winglet OS 2.0 assets and changes, including ADS-B range/reliability, Map Scope, GPS View, flight-board improvements, custom SD media, Wi-Fi scanning, light mode, USB host reliability, optional 3 A charge rate, and Aerospace Village DC33 SAO support.
GitLab: tidklaas/hip-badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Open hardware project linked by the HOPE wiki for the badge's hardware source lineage.
GitLab / tidklaas: graphics/COPYING
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · License source for the selected `graphics/boardrendfront.png` upstream raster; the root project license file says component licenses live in their own COPYING files, and the graphics component COPYING file is CC BY-SA 4.0.
GitLab / tidklaas: graphics/boardrendfront.png
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Image-provenance source for the CC BY-SA 4.0 upstream front-board raster used as the optimized HOPE XV visual; the HOPE wiki links this repository as the badge's open-hardware source while separately documenting purple attendee boards and black pro boards.
Grand Idea Studio: Behind the Scenes of the DEFCON Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary slide source for specifications, 6,055-unit quantity, cost target, feature set, firmware states, and production process.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 14 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for first-DEF CON-electronic-badge claim, PIC10F202 hardware, LED modes, production quantity, role-color variants, and contest lore.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 15 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for MC9S08QG8 hardware, 95-LED matrix, capacitive sensors, optional accelerometer/RF circuitry, operating states, 6,800-badge production, role variants, and contest winners.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 15 Badge Bill of Materials
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary BOM source for parts-list evidence and hardware corroboration.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 15 Badge Schematic
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary schematic source for component-level hardware evidence.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 15 Badge Source Code
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary released source-code archive for CodeWarrior / MC9S08QG8 firmware evidence.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 16 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project source for MC9S08JM60 hardware, infrared transfer, SD-card/FAT16 support, USB bootloader, 8,500-badge production, role variants, contest links, and official page image paths.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 17 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for MC56F8006 hardware, MEMS microphone, RGB LED, operating states, wired communication, serial bootloader, 6,694-badge production, role shapes, and contest summary.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 17 Badge Schematic
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary schematic source for component-level hardware evidence.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 17 Badge Source Code
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary released source-code archive for CodeWarrior / MC56F8006 firmware evidence.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 18 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Production-test source for functional and manufacturing-check context.
Grand Idea Studio: DEFCON 27 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project source for official files, firmware, fixtures, linked hacking projects, NFMI security research, and badge-game framing.
Grand Idea Studio: Making and Hacking the DEFCON 17 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary slide source for badge design, production, and badge-hacking context.
Grand Idea Studio: Making of the DEFCON 15 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary slide source for design, badge-making, and conference presentation context.
Grand Idea Studio: Making the DEFCON 16 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary slide source for role-color counts, 8,500-piece production framing, hardware choices, and source/schematic release context.
Grand Idea Studio: The DEFCON 18 Badge: Fifth Time's the Charm
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary slide source for DEF CON 18 design and production context.
Grand Idea Studio: dc27_bdg_img1.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Image-provenance source for the official DEF CON 27 badge photo published on the Grand Idea Studio project page; the page states that all designs are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Great Scott Gadgets: ToorCamp 2018 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project page source for the jar-of-fireflies badge concept, assembly workflow, OSH Park sponsorship, firmware reflashing help, and repository pointer.
Great Scott Gadgets: ToorCon 13 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project source for the 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer behavior, 13 Wi-Fi-channel LEDs, Bluetooth/ZigBee/microwave detection, CR2032 use, hacking kits, Renesas R5F212L4/R8C programming, and open-source archive pointer.
Great Scott Gadgets: ToorCon 14 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project source for the sub-1 GHz wireless transceiver badge, IM-Me radio-circuit lineage, RfCat firmware, CC Bootloader, USB control, GoodFET connector, and sponsorship/credit trail.
Great Scott Gadgets: Toorcamp 2018 Badge BOM
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Component-list source for the MSP430G2211, through-hole LEDs, resistors, CR2032 holder, and kit hardware.
Great Scott Gadgets: toorcamp2018badge LICENSE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · BSD-3-Clause license source naming Michael Ossmann as 2018 copyright holder.
GrrCON: GrrCON Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Conference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for GrrCON's conference identity and Grand Rapids context; no official-badge claim is derived from this page.
HOPE: HOPE X
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for HOPE X, New York City, and July 18-20, 2014 dates.
HOPE: HOPE XV About
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for HOPE XV dates, 15th-event status, Hackers On Planet Earth expansion, St. John's campus context, and in-person/online event framing.
HOPE: HOPE XV Venue
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for St. John's University in Queens, New York City as the HOPE XV venue.
HOPE / pretalx: HOPE XV Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule source for ongoing Electronic Badge Hacking, The Badge Clinic, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz, Badge Clinic Team, and the clinic's badge repair, assembly, museum, and advisory scope.
HOPE Wiki: HOPE XV Electronic Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge source for attendee/pro variants, ESP32-C3, 16 WS2812-class LEDs, LiPo charge controller, IR blast behavior, vibration feedback, open hardware, BOM, user manuals, firmware, and MicroPython workflow.
HOPE Wiki: HOPE XV Electronic Badge oldid 10460
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Versioned wiki source preserving the page state used for the current catalogue facts and page edit date.
Hack-a-Day / GitHub: 2024 Supercon 8 -- 2025 Hackaday Europe -- Simple Add-On Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · README source for six-SAO-hub framing, MicroPython setup, memory-style I2C interactions, CH32V003 proto-petal workflow, and Super-8 badge framework mention.
Hack-a-Day / GitHub: 2025 Communicator Badge BOM
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Component source for ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, Wio-SX1262-N, TCA8418 keyboard controller, USB-C, LiPo charging, SAO, LED, and switch hardware.
Hack-a-Day / GitHub: 2025 Communicator Badge firmware README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware source for MicroPython/LVGL architecture, LoRa network-stack behavior, RF channel rules, app APIs, and development workflows.
Hack-a-Day / GitHub: 2025_badge_front_supercon_logo.png
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · MIT-licensed repository photo source for the physical front-side Communicator Badge image used in local image provenance.
Hack-a-Day / GitHub: Hackaday Superconference 2022 Badge (Voja4)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Raw README source for Voja4 naming, official links, tutorial sections, software tools, manuals, and repository layout.
Hack-a-Day / GitHub: Voja4 assembler README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Source for Python assembler/disassembler behavior, pseudo-ops, serial save/load workflow, and Mike Szczys tooling/documentation credit.
Hack-a-Day / GitHub: Voja4 manuals directory
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Documentation source for user manual, instruction set, special-function-register, direct-mode, and hardware manual artifacts.
Hack-a-Day/Vectorscope: docs/badge_talk_2023/images/image2.png
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Image-provenance source for the MIT-licensed repository workbench photo of the physical Vectorscope badge.
HackRVA: 2018 RVAsec HackRVA Badges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source for 2018 electronic hardware badge production, games, puzzles, and audio behavior.
HackRVA: HackRVA Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Badge-team overview source for the ongoing RVAsec electronic-badge lineage and limited-badge availability.
HackRVA: HackRVA Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Badge-team overview source supporting the continuing electronic-badge lineage and general attendee badge behaviour.
HackRVA: HackRVA Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Badge-team overview source for the limited electronic badge lineage.
HackRVA: RVAsec 8 Layout 2019
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source for the 2019 badge games, base-station plan, custom layout, badge-team notes, and schedule pressure caveats.
HackRVA / GitHub: HackRVA/badge2019interp
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the 2019 badge C interpreter evidence.
HackRVA / GitHub: HackRVA/badge2020
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public source for the 2020 badge firmware archive, app tree, interpreter, USB bootloader tooling, and hardware abstraction code.
HackRVA / GitHub: HackRVA/badge2022
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public source for the 2022 badge firmware, CMake/Pico build flow, simulator, component status, and app tree.
HackRVA / GitHub: HackRVA/badge2023
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public source for 2023 badge firmware, hardware status table, SDL simulator path, app tree, and flashing workflow.
HackRVA / GitHub: HackRVA/badge2024
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public source for 2024 badge firmware, emulator, component status, app tree, and flashing workflow.
HackRVA / GitHub: HackRVA/rvasec-badge-2014
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public repository source for the 2014 badge firmware evidence.
HackRVA / GitHub: RvaSec Badge 2012
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the repository's stated 2012 badge scope plus hardware, Gerber, graphics, documentation, and release firmware files.
HackRVA Wiki: RVAsec Badge Build 2018
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project wiki source for build coordination, date context, and named contacts.
Hackaday: 2023 Hackaday Supercon Badge: Welcome To The Vectorscope
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary article source for vectorscope concept, AK4619 ADC/DAC, 0-3 V inputs, waveform generator, RP2040/PIO/DMA behavior, MicroPython, controls, and prototyping area.
Hackaday: A Fantastic Frontier Of FPGA Flexibility Found In The 2019 Supercon Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Post-event source for badge-hacking ceremony, open hardware/software repos, prototype cartridges, software demos, and Linux-on-badge with SDRAM cartridge.
Hackaday: A Look At All The Badge Hacks Of Supercon 2023
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Post-event source for Sunday badge-hacking ceremony, pure Vectorscope category, and Vectorscope plus external hardware category.
Hackaday: All The Hardware Badges Of DEF CON 25
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary secondary source for DEF CON 25's unofficial hardware-badge scale, badge-maker coordination, and unified badgelife API context.
Hackaday: Announcing the 2025 Hackaday Superconference Communicator Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary reveal source for LoRa mesh chat, ESP32-S3, memory, LCD, custom keyboard, SX1262 radio, LiPo charging, LVGL MicroPython, sponsor and contributor context, and post-event reuse goals.
Hackaday: Behind The Scenes Of The 2019 Superconference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Production-context source for late-stage assembly, volunteer effort, and distribution at Supplyframe HQ.
Hackaday: Building The Hackaday Superconference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary design article for the badge hardware, camera/OLED/MicroSD/power architecture, expansion connectors, programming path, and design tradeoffs.
Hackaday: Design And Hacking Drilldown: SuperCon Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Designer-authored source for hardware deltas from Belgrade, integrated LIS3 accelerometer, IR UART, expansion pads, USB mass-storage bootloader, schematic, C framework, and programming workflow.
Hackaday: Everything You'll Find At The SuperConference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event source for Pasadena 2016 venue, dates, electronic hardware badge, hacking competition, and crypto challenge context.
Hackaday: First Look At DEF CON 26 Official Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary source for official electronic badge status, Tymkrs/Toymakers credit, PIC32MM hardware, LED layout, USB serial game, badge-to-badge connector, and add-on header.
Hackaday: First WOPR Summit Finds The Winning Move
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Field-report source for the inaugural Atlantic City event, Bally's Casino venue context, open hacking area, badge-hacking section, LED counts, ATtiny841 controller, attendee assembly, and volunteer firmware flashing.
Hackaday: Get Your Hands On A 2017 Hackaday Superconference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Pre-event source for early badge access, camera-badge framing, production-badge context, and attendee hacking expectations.
Hackaday: Gigantic FPGA In A Game Boy Form Factor, 2019 Supercon Badge Is A Hardware Siren Song
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary article source for RISC-V soft core, open-source FPGA toolchain, Sprite_TM attribution, large team effort, cartridge slot, and several-hundred-attendee context.
Hackaday: Hackaday At DEF CON 21
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary source for Ryan Clarke designer attribution, non-electronic-electronic framing, PCB playing-card construction, visible copper/soldermask/silkscreen layers, XOR gate, and crypto challenge.
Hackaday: Hackaday Supercon 2025 Call For Participation: We Want You!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for the October 31-November 2, 2025 Pasadena Supercon dates.
Hackaday: Hacking The Thotcon 0x8 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Technical and attribution source for the badge designer, firmware programmer, hardware list, tesserHack firmware, USB serial behavior, and bootloader-recovery context.
Hackaday: Hands-On: AND!XOR DC27 Badge Is A Hardware Hacking Tool
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary hands-on source for the hardware-hacking-tool framing, nRF52840/BMD-340 core, FT2232H dual-channel behavior, SWD/UART/JTAG/SPI/I2C/bit-bang workflows, USB-C, and lighting presentation.
Hackaday: Hands-On: DEF CON 29 Badge Embraces The New Normal
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary source for MK Factor creator attribution, RP2040 hardware, LCD, button layout, SAO headers, speaker, USB-C, debug pads, and HID macro-pad functionality.
Hackaday: Hands-On: Queercon 16 Hardware Badge Shows Off Custom Membrane Keyboard
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary technical source for the Q badge hardware, C badge counterpart, badge-team credits, membrane keyboard, e-paper display, RGB LEDs, TI CC2640R2, RJ12 token exchange, Handler missions, and base-station progress behavior.
Hackaday: Hands-On: The Pandemic DEF CON Badge Is An Audio Cassette
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary source for the physical cassette badge, jewel case packaging, lanyard characters, liner-note clues, audio tones, number-station-like opening, and Hackaday.io collaboration context.
Hackaday: Hands-on The AND!XOR Unofficial DEF CON Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Technical and context source for the unofficial status, STM32F103, OLED, flash, RGB LEDs, RFM69W, coil antenna, three-AA power, USB serial terminal, GPIO breakouts, games, and sale plan.
Hackaday: Help Decipher The DEFCON Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary source for 7-inch vinyl record badge format, non-electronic badge-year framing, and collaborative badge-hacking context.
Hackaday: Jaromir Sukuba: The Supercon 2018 Badge Firmware
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware source for Jaromir Sukuba, BASIC interpreter expansion, Ziggurat29 tokenizer work, CP/M emulator, and Zork/retrocomputer context.
Hackaday: LayerOne Hardware Hacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary Hackaday coverage corroborating that the LayerOne 2015 HHV had two badges and contrasting the OpenWRT networking path with the LED blinky path.
Hackaday: New SuperCon Badge Is 40% Lighter And A Work Of Art
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Hardware source for 8x16 LED matrix, controls, IR, accelerometer, PIC18LF25K50, two AAA cells, USB programming, and Voja Antonic attribution.
Hackaday: Ninja Networks Party Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary contemporary source corroborating the public release of the Ninja Networks DEF CON 17 party badge archive and media pointers.
Hackaday: SAINTCON Badge: Badge Hacking for Mortals
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary coverage source corroborating Arduino-compatibility, FTDI header, bag-of-components distribution, HHV soldering, blinky board, and hidden challenge behavior.
Hackaday: Shelf Life Extended: Hacking E-Waste Tags Into Conference Badges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Corroborating secondary source for the official badge, reclaimed shelf-label design, DB9 pogo-pin programming, QR customization, and field update fallback.
Hackaday: Showing Off The Badge Hacks From SuperCon
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Post-event source for badge-hacking award presentations, winning hack categories, crypto challenge recognition, and community project evidence.
Hackaday: Supercon 2023 Is On, We Want You!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event source for Pasadena and November 3-5, 2023 dates.
Hackaday: Supercon 2024: Badge Add-On Winners
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Post-event source for winners, honorable mentions, production plan, and functional add-on descriptions.
Hackaday: Supercon Badge Hacking Quick-Start
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Firmware workflow source for MPLAB X, XC32, MicroSD bootloader use, PICkit fallback, app templates, timed execution model, and hardware API surfaces.
Hackaday: The 2022 Supercon Badge Is A Handheld Trip Through Computing History
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary reveal source for Pasadena return context, Voja4 concept, PIC24FJ256GA704, simulated 4-bit CPU, front-panel programming, LED memory/register view, SAO serial behavior, and save/load slots.
Hackaday: The 2024 Hackaday Supercon SAO Badge Reveal
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary article source for Pico W hardware, six SAO slots, individually accessible GPIO, dual I2C buses, starter petals, MicroPython, CH32V003, and repository release.
Hackaday: The Cubic Cyphercon Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary technical source for the cube-PCB construction, mesh-network framing, more-than-400 badge run, USB terminal behavior, text adventure, relay-computer goal, and time-sharing emulator behavior.
Hackaday: The Hackaday Remoticon 2 Badge: An Exercise In Your Own Ingenuity
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · Hackaday article source for the 2021 remote-badge production problem, KiCad-file distribution model, prototyping-board concept, builder customization, and MicroMod carrier-board variant.
Hackaday: The Hacks And Puzzles Of The Hackaday SuperCon Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Puzzle source for gravity simulation, moving-message display, Tetris clone, IR protocol, hidden challenge layers, and hacking award categories.
Hackaday: The JawnCon 0x1 Badge Dials Up A Simpler Time
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary source by Tom Nardi corroborating the badge as a miniature Hayes SmartModem-style wearable, tying it to ESP8266 and RetroWiFiModem, and noting the two-day October 11-12 JawnCon 0x1 schedule.
Hackaday: The Perils Of Developing The Hackaday Superconference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Production source for late board arrival, firmware fixes, power caveat, flash-write behavior, and kitting schedule.
Hackaday: The Supercon 2025 Badge is Built to be Customized
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary customization source for the front-PCB mechanical role, two-PCB stack-up, front-panel replacement path, spacing guidance, M3 hardware, and mechanical-model directory.
Hackaday: The Supercon Badge Is A Freakin' Computer
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Reveal article source for 320x240 display, full keyboard, BASIC, CP/M, game/demo firmware, Belgrade reuse, and GPIO/I2C/serial hacking suggestions.
Hackaday: Video Review: AND!XOR DEF CON 26 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary hands-on source for ESP32-WROVER WiFi/Bluetooth, wireless botnet framing, board size/power changes, GreenPAK button handling, IS31FL3736 lighting, CP2102N USB, and serial adventure behavior.
Hackaday: WOPR: Building Hardware Worth Sharing
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Workshop-report source for Russell Handorf and Mike Kershaw's official badge-guy attribution, low-part-count teaching-example framing, mixed through-hole and surface-mount construction, and Concept to Prototype workshop context.
Hackaday: What Actually Happens At A Hardware Hacking Con
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Post-event source for badge-hacking winners, film festival, hardware/software experiments, and the scope of attendee projects.
Hackaday / PR Newswire: Engineers, Hackers, and Replicants Alike Gather in Pasadena for the 5th Hackaday Superconference
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event source for fifth annual Superconference context, Supplyframe DesignLab, Los Angeles College of Music, dates, badge hacking, workshops, talks, and demos.
Hackaday / Roger Cheng: Badge Bling and More at LayerOne 2018
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand event report source for the ESP32-WROOM-32 badge hardware, audio/Alexa experiment path, cloud-cost caveat, soldering village, and official blinky add-on context.
Hackaday / Roger Cheng: Hunting Replicants With The 2019 LayerOne Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event report source for the ATtiny2313 main badge hardware, LED/button face, five-pin add-on header, ESP32CAM Voight-Kampff add-on, and servo eye add-on context.
Hackaday.io: 2017 Hackaday Superconference Badge Film Festival
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Post-event project source for a badge-shot film-festival submission and media files.
Hackaday.io: 2018 Hackaday Superconference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project source for attendee distribution, retrocomputer framing, keyboard/display/speaker/flash/AA-battery hardware, BASIC/CP/M software, files, and MIT firmware-license statement.
Hackaday.io: 2019 Hackaday Superconference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project source for ECP5 FPGA, Game Boy form factor, LCD, buttons, cartridges, mass-storage app loading, toolchain, hardware overview, DFU paths, and team credits.
Hackaday.io: 2019 Hackaday Superconference Chat
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official Hackaday.io event-community source for Pasadena and November 15-17, 2019 Superconference context.
Hackaday.io: 2020 Remoticon: Pandemic Creativity! (start here)
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · Official virtual-event source for November 6-8, 2020 Remoticon context, workshop list, and discussion evidence that there was no official badge while unofficial work was welcomed.
Hackaday.io: 2022 Hackaday Supercon 6 Badge Guide
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official guide source for direct on-badge programming lessons, assembler/emulator flow, and links into the repository and technical project.
Hackaday.io: Camera badge for Supercon 2017
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project source for Mike Harrison authorship, official documentation status, camera-badge framing, PIC32/SRAM/Microchip and MacroFab context, hack categories, and prototype-image caveat.
Hackaday.io: DEF CON 26 Official Badge Hacking
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Collaborative solving source for badge state, role-specific serial text, Human-to-Human and Human-to-Goon unlocks, magnet and shorting observations, and puzzle workflow.
Hackaday.io: Hackaday Superconference 2024
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event source for Supercon 2024 dates, venue, Pasadena address, and schedule navigation.
Hackaday.io: Supercon 8 - Add On Contest
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contest source for functional SAO challenge goals, categories, rules, timeline, and winner list.
Hackaday.io: Supercon II badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project source for Supercon II naming, Pasadena event target, Voja Antonic and Dusan Petrovic team credits, Belgrade lineage, LED matrix, accelerometer, expansion port, Microchip bootloader, BOM, files, and manual.
Hackaday.io / AND!XOR: AND!XOR DC25 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project-owner source for hardware specs, DEF CON 25 dates/location, badge functions, team roster, project files, and the open hackable-badge framing.
Hackaday.io / AND!XOR: AND!XOR DC26 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project-owner source for Wild West of IoT framing, DEF CON 26 dates/location, ESP32-WROVER component listing, team roster, and open hackable badge/dev-board positioning.
Hackaday.io / AND!XOR: AND!XOR DC27 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project-owner source for hardware specs, DEF CON 27 dates/venue context, badge functions, BOTNET serial setup, B.E.N.D.E.R. framing, FT2232H hardware-hacking role, team roster, sponsors, and free-distribution framing.
Hackaday.io / AND!XOR: AND!XOR DC28 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project-owner source for the DEF CON 28 canceled/remote context, distributed free badge drops, bling, embedded CTF adventure, MyBASIC hardware scripting, Slack/scoreboard collaboration, sponsors, team roster, and project logs.
Hackaday.io / AND!XOR: AND!XOR DEFCON 24 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source for badge concept, production quantities, STM32Duino development, RFM69 radio work, shell behavior, production updates, and radio/LED failure fixes.
Hackaday.io / AND!XOR: AND!XOR DOOM SAO
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary add-on source for SAO 1.69bis integration, ATSAMD21G18A hardware, ST7789 display, USB-C, serial terminal, bus sniffers, virtual EEPROM identity, and DC27 badge interaction context.
Hackaday.io / AND!XOR: Smartphone Integration
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary BLE/app source for AND!XOR Android terminal behavior, Nordic nRF Toolbox compatibility, maintenance mode, and BLE permission caveats.
Hackaday.io / AND!XOR: The AND!XOR Conference Badges Are Part Of An IoT Botnet
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary game-design source for the badge-only wireless BOTNET mechanic, player services, firewall/exploit rules, badge-net behavior, activation, and opt-out details.
Hackaday.io / Benchoff: How I built one MrRobotBadge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary project-owner source for the ESP8266, serially addressable LEDs, injection-molded rocket enclosure, Jaycon Systems manufacturing attribution, and badgelife influence.
Hackaday.io / Gigawatts: Thotcon 0x8 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Technical project source for hardware details, maze controls, LED states, serial menu setup, ICSP bootloader recovery, Arduino Leonardo workflow, and pin mapping.
Hackaday.io / Hyr0n: B.E.N.D.E.R. Walkthrough
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary challenge source for the B.E.N.D.E.R. v2.0 walkthrough, embedded text adventure, buffer-overflow example, and multi-area hacking challenge design.
Hackaday.io / Hyr0n: Badge ARG / Console / Command Line Puzzle / Whatevs U Call it
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary software/gameplay source for the command-line ARG, ESP-IDF console direction, serial-console pivot from the DC25 wireless terminal, challenge areas, and social learning goals.
Hackaday.io / Hyr0n: FTDI 2232H Breakout For Hardware Hacking
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary hardware-guide source for the FT2232H channel split, hardware-hacking breakout purpose, and UART/JTAG/SPI/I2C/bit-banging workflows.
Hackaday.io / Hyr0n: LULZCODE
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary scripting source for the LOLCODE-derived LULZCODE language, microcontroller peripheral-control purpose, memory pressure, and ESP32-WROVER external RAM rationale.
Hackaday.io / Hyr0n: RTFM
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary manual source for the BOM, inspectAR usage, BlackBerry keyboard controls, BENDERPISS CTF, RS232 mirroring note, GitHub source links, and named contributor/sponsor credits.
Hackaday.io / Jonathan Singer: Security B-Sides Orlando 2018 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source for the simple discrete marquee badge classification, attendee-kit distribution, completed hardware-project status, and Jonathan Singer attribution.
Hackaday.io / Jonathan Singer: Security B-Sides Orlando 2018 Badge Gallery
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project gallery source for public visual evidence and image-rights caveat; no image is reused locally without explicit provenance.
Hackaday.io / MakersBox: Official Toorcon Badge?
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Builder-log source for the official-badge request wording, 400 kits, SMD Challenge integration, hidden-code/art surfaces, eight SMD LEDs, 0201 LED, ATtiny84, and assembly warning.
Hackaday.io / Poplicola: THOTCON 0xD Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source for Fourfold's badge design/production role, 2,000-unit quantity, ESP32/ST7789/touch-wheel hardware, firmware feature surface, add-on header, production/test fixtures, and repository handoff.
Hackaday.io / Thomas Flummer: Remoticon 2 badge
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · Primary project source for Remoticon.2 badge naming, Thomas Flummer attribution, KiCad design, 0.1 inch pad-grid space, files, project logs, and OSH Park-linked fabrication paths.
Hackaday.io / Thomas Flummer: Remoticon 2 badge files
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · File-listing source for KiCad PCB, artwork archive, MicroMod carrier source zip, Gerber zips, and paste/stencil package.
Hackaday.io / Voja Antonic: BADGE FOR SUPERCON.6 / November 2022
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary technical source for 272 LEDs, 31 instructions, speed control, program/data memory, stack, bootloader, 4-bit IO, two-AA power, SAO serial I/O, and owner support notes.
Hackaday.io / Zapp: DC25 Badge Post Mortem
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary retrospective source for BMD-300/nRF52 choice, display, WS2812B LEDs, production quantities, regulator substitution, S132 firmware base, activation, games, app, and source-release caveats.
Hackaday.io / Zapp: DC26 Retrospective
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary retrospective source for ESP32-WROVER migration, display and SD-card details, IS31FL3736 LED architecture, CP2102N USB serial, power decisions, add-ons, B.E.N.D.E.R. challenge results, and production lessons.
Hackaday.io / Zapp: Production
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary production source for Macrofab triage, serial, LED, capacitive-touch and flashing failures, BMD-340 soldering diagnosis, and manual rework.
Hackaday.io / charliex: All at once
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Development-log source for PCB arrival, component reuse, reverse protection, level-shifting and capacitance debugging, daisy-chain testing, Wi-Fi control from a PC, and planned firmware-update station.
Hackaday.io / charliex: Building badges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Production-log source for kit preparation, speaker and staff badge builds, LED badge pick-and-place assembly, chainable boards, and late May 2015 build status.
Hackaday.io / charliex: How are the goals going?
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Development-log source for feature status, CAN logger and ECU reflashing experiments, HID/CDC output, NES emulator memory access over CAN, and explicit prototype-versus-final caveats.
Hackaday.io / charliex: LayerOne 2015 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge-team project source for the two-badge plan: PSoC4/ESP8266/WS2812B blinky badge plus VoCore/OpenWRT RT5350F Wi-Fi and Ethernet badge.
Hackaday.io / charliex: LayerOne 2015 Badge details
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Technical project source for PSoC LED routines, UDP RGB drive path, CR123A power behavior, daisy-chain tests, VoCore/OpenWRT configuration, LuCI, USB storage, sysupgrade, and administration workflows.
Hackaday.io / charliex: LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge-team source for the PSoC4, 5x4 WS2812B LED array, mini breakout area, 3.3 V and battery rails, broken-out PSoC4 I/O, ESP8266 Wi-Fi bridge, and charliex/mmca team listing.
Hackaday.io / charliex: LayerOne 2017
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge-team project source for LayerOne 2017 badge framing, car-hacking focus, project authorship, visible media boundary, and development-log trail.
Hackaday.io / charliex: LayerOne 2017 details
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Technical project source for the STM32F4 badge architecture, TFT, SD card, twin CAN, USB, audio, battery, controls, PC CAN tooling, J2534 work, and ST-Link/SWD programming notes.
Hackaday.io / charliex: WiFi, pick and placing
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Production-log source for CR123A parts, diode validation, Wi-Fi mode, stencil-holder and pick-and-place work, eight hand-built badges, and ESP8266 supply pressure.
Hackaday.io / mmca: Blinky Ball SAO for Layer One
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner hardware log source for the official blinking LayerOne logo add-on and the 2018 badge add-on connector pinout.
Hackaday.io / theHackbat: Hackbat Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source describing the Hackbat Badge as designed specially for DEFCON32 and warning DEF CON recipients about the D9 diode placement issue.
Hackaday.io file archive: Badge Manual V1R0
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Manual source for the 2016 Pasadena badge hardware, operation, USB bootloader, and attendee hacking workflow.
Hackster / Ben Hibben: DerbyCon Legacy Black Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary first-hand source proving the DerbyCon Legacy Black Badge artifact, black-badge lifetime-ticket framing, Ben Hibben and Charles Lehman maker context, BOM, fabrication steps, and compiled firmware artifact.
Hackster.io: A Hackable BLE DEFCON 25 Indie Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary technical source corroborating the BLE indie-badge framing and Hackaday.io project evidence.
Help Net Security: Decrypting DEF CON badge challenges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Later secondary source for DEF CON 23's six lanyards and Nyctograph / Gold Bug enciphered-message role in the badge challenge.
IOActive: Inside IOActive's Innovative Key Fob Badge for DEF CON 2024's Car Hacking Village, Part 1
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project writeup for the key-fob badge/SAO's DEF CON 32 CHV context, automotive-key-fob concept, and component direction.
IOActive: Inside IOActive's Innovative Key Fob Badge for DEF CON 2024's Car Hacking Village, Part 2
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project writeup for key-fob badge firmware, bring-up, peripheral, and hardware-integration context.
IOActive: Inside IOActive's Innovative Key Fob Badge for DEF CON 2024's Car Hacking Village, Part 3
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project writeup for key-fob badge fabrication, assembly, conference use, and production lessons.
InfoconDB: CactusCon 11 (2023)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata corroboration for CactusCon 11 dates, venue, and official page links.
InfoconDB: CactusCon 12 (2024)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for CactusCon 12 dates and Mesa Convention Center venue.
InfoconDB: CactusCon 13 (2025)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for CactusCon 13 dates and Mesa Convention Center venue.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 1 (1993)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 1 dates, official-page and archive links, admission price, and Sands Hotel and Casino venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 10 (2002)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 10 dates, schedule archive, and Alexis Park Resort venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 11 (2003)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 11 dates, schedule archive, and Alexis Park Resort venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 12 (2004)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 12 dates, schedule archive, official page link, and Alexis Park Resort venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 13 (2005)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 13 dates, schedule archive, and Alexis Park Resort venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 17 (2009)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 17 dates, schedule archive, and Riviera Hotel & Casino venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 19 (2011)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for August 4-7, 2011 dates and Rio Hotel & Casino venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 2 (1994)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 2 dates, official-page and program links, admission price, and Sahara Hotel and Casino venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 25 (2017)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for dates, venue, admission context, and official DEF CON 25 links.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 26 (2018)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for dates, venue, admission context, and Welcome To DEF CON & Badge Maker Talk listing.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 28 (2020)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for virtual location, August 6-9, 2020 dates, free general admission, and official DEF CON 28 links.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 29 (2021)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for DEF CON 29 dates, Bally's and Paris location context, and official DEF CON links.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 3 (1995)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 3 dates, official-page and program links, admission price, and Tropicana Resort & Casino venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 30 (2022)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for DEF CON 30 dates, conference context, and official DEF CON links.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 4 (1996)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 4 dates, official-page and program links, admission price, and Monte Carlo Resort and Casino venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 5 (1997)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 5 dates, official-page and program links, admission price, and Aladdin Hotel & Casino venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 6 (1998)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 6 dates, official-page and program links, admission price, and Plaza Hotel & Casino venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 8 (2000)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 8 dates, official-page and program links, admission price, and Alexis Park Resort venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON 9 (2001)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event-context source for DEF CON 9 dates, schedule archive, and Alexis Park Resort venue metadata.
InfoconDB: DEF CON Welcome & Badge Talk
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Talk metadata source for DEF CON 24 badge-talk timing and Jeff Moss / Ryan Clarke presenter attribution.
InfoconDB: DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source proving the September 22-24, 2017 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy event context.
InfoconDB: Hacking the Thotcon 0xA Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Workshop source for board-layout, component, code, and badge-hacking context, plus Jay Margalus and Rudy Ristich presenter attribution.
InfoconDB: Hacking the Thotcon 0xB Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Workshop metadata source for THOTCON 0xB badge-hacking session timing, presenters, board-layout, component, and code scope.
InfoconDB: Kernelcon 2022
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for dates, venue, and Omaha conference context.
InfoconDB: Kernelcon2020 Badge: nonononoyes
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Talk metadata source naming Tyler Rosonke and Aaron Gunning and summarizing the badge-making presentation.
InfoconDB: LayerOne 2015
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source proving the May 23-24, 2015 Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles LayerOne event context.
InfoconDB: LayerOne 2016
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source proving the May 28-29, 2016 Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles LayerOne event context.
InfoconDB: LayerOne 2017
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source proving the May 26-28, 2017 Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles LayerOne event context.
InfoconDB: LayerOne 2018
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source proving the May 25-27, 2018 Pasadena Hilton LayerOne event context.
InfoconDB: LayerOne 2019
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source proving the May 24-26, 2019 Pasadena Hilton LayerOne event context.
InfoconDB: Making The DEF CON 31 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Talk metadata source for Mar Williams' DEF CON 31 badge-making presentation, date, time, and duration.
InfoconDB: Making the DEF CON 32 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Talk metadata source for Mar Williams' DEF CON 32 badge-making talk, date, time, and 60-minute duration.
InfoconDB: RVAsec 2012
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source for RVAsec 2012 date and venue context.
InfoconDB: RVAsec 2017
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source preserving RVAsec 2017 metadata and Badge Intro context.
InfoconDB: RVAsec 2018
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source for the 2018 event and Badge Intro context.
InfoconDB: RVAsec 2021
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source for event dates, venue, schedule, and Badge Intro context.
InfoconDB: RVAsec 2022
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source for the 2022 RVAsec event context.
InfoconDB: RVAsec 2023
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Conference archive source for the 2023 RVAsec context.
InfoconDB: SAINTCON 2020
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for October 27-30, 2020 virtual dates.
InfoconDB: ShmooCon XIV (2018)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for January 19-21, 2018 dates, Washington Hilton venue, Washington, DC location, and schedule context.
InfoconDB: THOTCON 0x8 (2017)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for THOTCON 0x8 dates and Chicago location context.
InfoconDB: THOTCON 0xA (2019)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for May 3-4, 2019 dates, undisclosed Chicago location, program link, and schedule context including badge sessions.
InfoconDB: THOTCON 0xC (2023)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for May 19-20, 2023 dates and unknown-location context.
InfoconDB: The Making of the DEF CON Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Talk metadata source for MK Factor and Dark Tangent presenter attribution and official DEF CON 30 badge-making presentation context.
InfoconDB: ToorCamp 2018
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for ToorCamp 2018 dates, location, and public event links.
InfoconDB: ToorCon San Diego 13 (2011)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for October 7-9, 2011 dates, San Diego Convention Center venue, and ToorCon San Diego 13 schedule context.
InfoconDB: ToorCon San Diego 14 (2012)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for October 19-21, 2012 dates, San Diego Westin Emerald Plaza venue, and ToorCon San Diego 14 schedule context.
InfoconDB: ToorCon San Diego 20 (2018)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event metadata source for September 10-16, 2018 dates, San Diego Westin Emerald Plaza venue, and ToorCon San Diego 20 schedule context.
InfoconDB: Welcome & Making the DEF CON 20 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Talk metadata source for DEF CON 20 badge presentation context and Jeff Moss / Ryan Clarke presenter attribution.
InfoconDB: Welcome - Making of the badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Talk metadata source for Ryan Clarke / LosT badge-making presenter attribution.
Inverse: This DEF CON Badge Has a Classic 'Contra' Easter Egg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary source for skull badge, mini processor, buttons, printed codes, Konami Code behavior, 1o57 authorship, and badge-contest media files.
JawnCon: JawnCon 0x1
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for the October 11-12, 2024 Arcadia University Commons Building edition, schedule, and event context.
JawnCon: JawnCon 0x1: The Modem Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge source for the modem theme, Hayes SmartModem inspiration, RetroWiFiModem use, ESP radio wording, level shifter, LED front, three-piece printed case, printed snap clips, hand assembly, Prusa MK4 print run, and laser-marked front panels.
Josh Datko / Datko.net: Hacking the SAINTCON Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand badge source for the Arduino-compatible SAINTCON 2014 badge, FTDI programming, hidden Hacker Challenge code, blinky board, and named contributors.
Kernelcon: KernelCon 2021 Hack Live
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for April 30, 2021, Hack Live context and customizable hotkey stream-deck badge claim.
Kernelcon GitHub repository: Hacker HotKey README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for default hotkey mapping, launcher/voting behavior, Arduino Leonardo firmware workflow, sample and advanced firmware paths, and case reference.
Kernelcon badge site: 1337 kHz badge about page
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for analog design, TA7642 radio IC, 1.5 V power, transistor amp, headphone output, RF gain knob, hacker playground, credits, and no-microcontroller statement.
Kernelcon badge site: 1337 kHz badge activities
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary activity source for hardware-hacking paths and badge modification context.
Kernelcon badge site: Off Grid badge about page
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for weather prediction, BME280 sensing, ESP32, battery/crank modes, 90:1 motor, buck-boost plus regulator power path, LEDs, and manufacturing credits.
Kernelcon badge site: Off Grid badge activities
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary activity source for assembly, quest kiosks, SCAN/CHRG modes, weather training, and USB charge-module kit.
Kernelcon badge site: Race Condition badge about page
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for Raspberry Pi Pico, TM1637, seven-segment display, three AAA power, seven RGB LEDs, buzzer, racing modes, achievements, high scores, CTF flags, and credits.
Kernelcon badge site: Race Condition badge activities
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary activity source for bonus-track build, soldering, standoffs, headers, jumper tracing, detect pad, and badge detection.
Kernelcon badge site: [a]nalyze [i]nternet badge about page
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for 555 timer, 4017 decade counter, RJ45 cable-testing behavior, diode network, remote LEDs, manufacturing credits, and no-microcontroller framing.
Kernelcon badge site: [a]nalyze [i]nternet badge activities
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary activity source for cable testing, remote handling, 555 astable circuit modification, R1/R2/C2 values, and CTF timing-circuit context.
Kybr / GitHub: DC30 Badge Challenge Writeup
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Challenge source for badge variants, musical-measure collection, Peer Gynt unlock, phone/friend challenge branches, hidden faceplate numbers, and final solution handoff.
La Villa Hacker: La Villa Hacker
Retrieved 2026-05-22 · Official source for the Spanish-language village context and August 8-10, 2025 event dates.
LayerOne: 2025 Badge teaser
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official LayerOne teaser source for the 2025 badge.
LayerOne: Hardware Hacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official village source naming the 2015 Electronic Badge and linking CharlieX's Hackaday.io page for full build details for both badges.
LayerOne: Hardware Hacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official village source naming the 2016 Electronic Badge and linking CharlieX's Hackaday.io project page for build details.
LayerOne: Hardware Hacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official village source linking the 2017 electronic badge to the badge-team Hackaday.io project page.
LayerOne: Hardware Hacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official village source naming the 2018 Electronic Badge and linking Hackaday's article for full build details.
LayerOne: Hardware Hacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official village source naming the 2019 Electronic Badge and linking Hackaday's Hunting Replicants report.
LayerOne: Hardware Hacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official village source linking the 2023 electronic badge to the LayerOne2023 repository and documenting electronic badge assembly support in the HHV.
LayerOne: Hardware Hacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official village source linking the 2024 electronic badge to the LayerOne_2024 repository and documenting electronic badge assembly support in the HHV.
LayerOne: Hardware Hacking Village
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official village source identifying the LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE, repository link, on-site support, and HHV challenge context.
LayerOne: LayerOne 2023 Dates and Call for Papers
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source proving the May 27-28, 2023 Hilton Pasadena LayerOne return-to-in-person event context.
LayerOne: LayerOne 2024
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source proving the May 25-26, 2024 Pasadena Hilton LayerOne conference context.
LayerOne: LayerOne About
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for LayerOne conference context, 2025 date and venue details, and electronic-badge ticketing.
LinkedIn / Blacks In Cybersecurity: Blacks In Cybersecurity profile
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Organization profile linked from the official badge page and used only for attribution context, not for additional badge hardware claims.
Lonely Hackers Club: LHC Meshtastic
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary user-guide source for app pairing, LHC channel setup, QR-code onboarding, and direct-message behavior on the club mesh.
Lonely Hackers Club: LHC Meshtastic Badge 2025
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge source for limited 50-unit availability, DEF CON 33 pickup, Heltec Wireless Tracker V1.1, SX1262, ESP32-S3FN8, GPS, TFT display, battery, Meshtastic 2.6.11, LHC channel, pairing behavior, and no-shipping caveat.
MK Factor: Saintcon Enigma Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary creator write-up for badge hardware, badge-ring mechanics, Hut 6 challenge, firmware scope, production constraints, and named contributors.
MakersBox / GitHub: Attiny85ChallengeHackaday2020
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · Referenced SMD challenge circuit source incorporated into the unofficial Remoticon 2020 badge.
Malwarebytes Labs: DEFCON 21: An Odyssey
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Attendee report source for badge-line experience, Ryan Clarke / LostboY opening-ceremony attribution, and attendee-facing puzzle framing.
Mar Williams Art: DEF CON 33
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Creator source for non-electronic badge status, 3D/layered art and lens interactions, clue and Arts & Entertainment booth challenge context, and collaborator credits.
MaxVT's Home On The Net: ShmooCon 2018 conference notes
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand attendee source for the battery-powered WiFi signal-strength meter badge, missing-parts-box production issue, and pre-conference reflash.
MiniBadge Wiki: MiniBadge Wiki
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public community catalogue source for browsing and contextualizing the 2023 data export; no image reuse claim is derived from this page.
MiniBadge Wiki: MiniBadge Wiki 2023 export
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Community data source for 2023 MiniBadge names, category taxonomy, designers, acquisition paths, and assembly metadata.
NXP Community: DEFCON 27 Badge - Getting Started
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary technical guide for NXP KL27 hardware, programming workflow, firmware source, schematics, tools, and component details.
NetRunSecurity / AlrikRr: Badge Hacking - WWHF Deadwood 2025
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand post-event writeup source for ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, 128x64 OLED-like display, TP4056 charger, USB-C serial at 115200 baud, eight LED binary/morse behavior, BLE messages, ESP32-S3 firmware extraction, Ghidra analysis, and cryptography challenge strings.
NolaCon: Badge Story (2025): Patches
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge page documenting Patches, the Learn to Solder tradition, customizable limbs/LEDs/personal flair, and Voodoo Heart badge-series continuity.
NolaCon: NolaCon 2025 talks
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule source for NolaCon 2025 conference context around the badge record.
NolaCon: NolaCon sponsor pack 2025
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official PDF source for the 2025 event context, venue/date corroboration, and sponsor-facing conference framing; not an image-rights source.
Nuts & Volts / Joe Grand: Making the DEFCON 16 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary article source for DEF CON 16 design goals, Freescale platform, SD-card infrared file transfer, TV-B-Gone behavior, operating states, and production constraints.
OSH Park / Thomas Flummer: Remoticon.2 MicroMod OSH Park projects
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · Fabrication source for the shared MicroMod carrier-board route linked from the Remoticon.2 project; treated as a fabrication handoff rather than image-rights evidence.
OSHWA: Differential Destroyer (MHV DC33 Badge)
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Open-hardware certification source proving the Maritime Hacking Village official DEF CON 33 badge status, US002786 UID, October 24, 2025 certification, CAN/NMEA/Modbus/glitching feature summary, and license metadata.
PCWorld: The Defcon Badge: Sleek, Stylish and Hackable
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary source for lithographed aluminum, Kent Displays 128x32 display, USB, role variants, and Joe Grand design context.
PamirAI: Distiller BHV Edition User Guide
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary user-guide source for CM5, RP2040/Pico board manager, e-ink display, buttons, LEDs, microphone, SD card, GPIO headers, battery setup, USB-C Power Delivery requiring 9V/3A, SSH defaults, and field troubleshooting notes.
Parallax: Badge Downloads & Software
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary Parallax archive source for supported badge software, schematics, product guide, C/Spin examples, BadgeHacker tooling, and design files for the related hackable electronic badge platform.
Parallax: DEFCON 22 Conference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary supplier/designer source for Propeller 1, IR transmit/receive, touch-pad buttons, LEDs, USB programming, exposed I/O, 13 badge styles, 14,000 assembled PCBs, contributor names, and contest role.
Parallax Forums: Parallax Propeller on DEF CON 20 Badge Start Here
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary manufacturer source for Propeller P8X32A, IR badge communication, LEDs, USB, role variants, Human badge shapes, firmware artifacts, VGA/PS2 expansion, and named contributors.
PhreakNIC: PhreakNIC
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official website anchor for the PhreakNIC event series; it is not used as final badge-spec evidence.
PhreakNIC: Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source establishing PhreakNIC 26 dates, location, schedule context, and Tyler Crumpton's talk on electronic shelf labels.
RENXCHANGE: Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots - Limited Badge Release for DEF CON 33 by NilbinSec
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Product-page source for the badge-set name, NilbinSec attribution, Raspberry Pi Pico/OLED/buttons hardware summary, robot-fighting badge-to-badge game behavior, SAO interaction, edition size, and sales/shipping caveats.
RVAsec: RVA5EC 2013 Registration Opens
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for 2013 RVAsec event context and the public HackRVA badge teaser.
RVAsec: RVAs3c Badge Firmware Source Released
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for public firmware-release provenance.
RVAsec: RVAsec 13 Hotel Package
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge package evidence.
RVAsec: RVAsec 13 Layout at Downtown Richmond Marriott
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for badge-hacking context.
RVAsec: RVAsec 14 Hotel Package
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for the guaranteed hotel package and limited electronic-badge context.
RVAsec: RVAsec 14 Registration Now Open
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for 2025 event dates and limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge package language.
RVAsec: RVAsec 15 Hotel Package
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official pre-event source for the limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge offer.
RVAsec: RVAsec 15 Registration Now Open
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official pre-event source for RVAsec 2026 date/venue context and electronic-badge package language.
RVAsec: RVAsec 6 Layout
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source proving HackRVA badge distribution context for RVAsec 2017.
RVAsec: RVAsec 7 Layout
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source placing badge hacking and CTF material in the 2018 conference layout.
RVAsec: RVAsec CTF
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official CTF source for badge-challenge context.
RVAsec: RVAsec badge archive
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive context for the RVAsec badge lineage.
RVAsec: RVAsec badge archive
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive context for the RVAsec/HackRVA badge lineage and 2017 badge sponsor trail.
RVAsec / HackRVA: Badges: Hack.RVA at it again!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source for 2015 badge hardware, fabrication workflow, sponsor support, and credits.
RVAsec / HackRVA: Hack.RVA: 2016 Badges!
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for 2016 badge hardware reuse, USB reflashing, CTF challenge focus, quality-check count, and credits.
RVAsec / HackRVA: RVAs3c Badge Preview
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for retrospective 2013 badge behavior, feature goals, and hardware caveats.
RVAsec / HackRVA: RVAs3c Badge Preview
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for 2014 hardware, software goals, and badge-team rationale.
Rabbit-Labs: The Rabbit-Labs & The Pirates Plunder Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Product-page source for the badge name, SKU RLTPP-BADGE, DEF CON 33 Rabbit-Labs vendor-booth debut, limited no-restock sales note, included battery/lanyard/accessories, firmware links, UART flashing notes, SDIO fix note, charger caveat, project credits, and legal disclaimer.
Raspberry Pi: Creating the most advanced event badge yet for the Biohacking Village at DEF CON
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Post-event article source for the Compute Module 5 core, local private edge-AI goal, SolaSec and PamirAI collaboration roles, physical enclosure and assembly responsibility, medical-chatbot behavior, and the report that recent Biohacking Village badges included three AI models.
Raspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Raspberry Pi launch-context source for RP2350 and DEF CON badge connection around Pico 2 availability.
Raspberry Pi: Security through transparency: RP2350 Hacking Challenge results are in
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Raspberry Pi source for RP2350-powered DEF CON 32 badge description, challenge context, and public credit trail around badge hardware and firmware work.
Ratil.life: Hacking and Skydiving
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand attendee source for CactusCon 2017 paid badge package, soldering/de-soldering troubleshooting, WemOS-board identity, Wi-Fi SSID/signal display, Bluetooth MAC-address scrolling, and image-rights boundary.
Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 25 The Original badge, first-badge lineage, spy-silhouette design, die-cut shape, hardwear.io lanyard, and all-rights-reserved image boundary.
Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 26 The Dual Design badge, two variants, spy-silhouette design, skull artwork, and black-and-white aesthetic.
Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 27 The Skull Badge, steampunk-recon theme, skull-shaped PCB, LED eye, and CREW variant.
Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 30 The Radar Badge, global-surveillance theme, circular radar design, world-map overlay, and coordinate/compass markings.
Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 31 The Spy Silhouette badge, die-cut shape, LED illumination, speaker badge variant, and custom lanyard.
Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 32 The Recon Soldier badge, tactical-recon theme, multi-layer PCB construction, red and blue LED eyes, and 3D assembled design.
Recon Village: Recon Village Badge Life
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 33 The Cyber Owl badge, Cyber Vigilance theme, cyberpunk owl design, glowing pink LED eyes, detailed mechanical artwork, and metallic blue-gray finish.
Red Balloon Security: DEF CON 30 Badge Fun with OFRAK
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Technical source for Raspberry Pi Pico-driven badge behavior, synthesizer, screen, speaker, BOOTSEL/picotool workflow, and OFRAK firmware modification.
Rob Rehrig: THOTCON 0xB Electronic Conference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand technical source for the ESP32 badge design, LEDs, LED driver, buzzer, accelerometer, capacitive touch, Wi-Fi/IRC/serial behavior, GPIO0/DTR production fix, and schematic/board/driver development role.
Rob Rehrig: THOTCON 0xC Electronic Conference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand badge-team source for the Contra theme, laser-tag function, enclosure and lens design, injection-molding decisions, Xometry production path, and physical-layout evidence.
Robot Ambassador / Eric: CactusCon PCB Badges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary first-hand source for the CactusCon 2014 PCB badge, 300-board count, Erik Wilson design attribution, HeatSync Labs booth giveaway, LAN tap arms/legs, USB 3.0 breakout head, Teensy expansion space, acrylic, LED, resistor, battery, lanyard, and image-rights boundary.
Russell Handorf: WOPR 0x00 Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · First-hand badge-build guide source for the WOPR 0x00 2019 badge, soldering logistics, ATTINY841-SSU, resistors, RGB LEDs, colored LEDs, battery clips, color-mixing warning, and staff-loaded firmware.
SAINTCON: SAINTCON 2019 - Michael Whiteley - The Badge Talk
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · SAINTCON-published video source for the badge talk and Michael Whiteley attribution.
SAINTCON / GitLab Pages: Badge Assembly
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Assembly source for the badge kit, Pi Zero W, PiTFT, PowerBoost, battery, cable routing, standoffs, lanyard, acrylic shield, and board mounting.
SAINTCON / GitLab Pages: Badge Registration
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Registration source for Hacker Challenge server pairing, personalization, and Wi-Fi setup context.
SAINTCON / GitLab Pages: Converting Your Badge to a RetroPie
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Post-conference reuse source for RetroPie conversion and challenge-daemon cleanup.
SAINTCON / GitLab Pages: Official MiniBadges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official MiniBadge list source for the 2017 add-on ecosystem.
SAINTCON / GitLab Pages: SAINTCON 2017 Badge Documentation
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Badge manual source for assembly, BOM, flashing, registration, MiniBadges, and post-conference reuse.
SAINTCON 2016 Badge / Read the Docs: Badge Assembly
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Assembly source for the badge kit, D1 Mini ESP8266, MAX7219 LED driver, 4-digit LED modules, BOM, header/socket cautions, and HHV part exchange.
SAINTCON 2016 Badge / Read the Docs: Badge Registration
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Registration source for Hackers Challenge badge ID, UUID output, serial boot message, and score display behavior.
SAINTCON 2016 Badge / Read the Docs: SaintCon 2016 Badge Documentation
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Badge documentation source for assembly, flashing, and registration navigation.
SAINTCON 2016 Badge / Read the Docs: Upload Code
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Flashing source for HHV flash stations, esptool.py, CH340G drivers, NodeMCU/Lua customization, badge firmware image link, and community extras.
SECCON: Get Tickets
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge source for the PCB badge with CTFs and features included with eligible passes, the first-180-registrants limit, and pre-event distribution framing.
SECCON: SECCON
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for the OKC Cybersecurity Conference identity, September 18, 2026 date, sponsor and village framing, and Oklahoma City-area event context.
SECCON: Venue
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official venue source for Rose State College's Tanenbaum Aerospace and Cybersecurity Center in Midwest City, Oklahoma.
Sched / SAINTCON: SAINTCON 2021 Schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Schedule source corroborating October 18-22, 2021 dates, Provo, Utah location, and offline event status.
Science Viking Labs: DEF CON 29 Badge Writeup
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Challenge writeup source for hint pages, SAO and IR observations, Morse and serial puzzle material, and post-event solving details.
Security B-Sides Orlando: Security B-Sides Orlando 2018 Attendee
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source anchoring the 2018 Orlando event, attendee ticketing, Central Florida framing, and all-rights-reserved image boundary.
Security BSides: BSidesSLC 2025
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Security BSides wiki metadata source for the 2025 Salt Lake City event, Sandy venue context, and community lineage.
Security.World: CactusCon event listing
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary event-context source for September 29-30, 2017 Phoenix Convention Center metadata; not used for badge technical claims.
ShmooCon: 0wn the Con
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Organizer deck source for badge contest operations and a badge budget line in ShmooCon's public operating retrospective.
ShmooCon Press / GitBook: 2018 ShmooCon Proceedings
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official proceedings source for the 14th ShmooCon context and publication/image-rights boundary.
SlideShare: Malware Analysis and Forensics: CactusCon April 4, 2014
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public event-context source anchoring CactusCon activity on April 4, 2014.
Social Engineering Community: Youth Challenge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Current official SEC page documenting the Youth Challenge as a DEF CON youth program, naming supporting staff, and recording retirement after the 2024 chapter.
Social Engineering Community GitHub repository: FluxDecoder
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary repository source describing the project as the Social Engineering Community Youth Challenge Flux Decoder badge for DEF CON 31 and exposing KiCad and firmware files.
Social Engineering Community GitHub repository: SEC Flux Decoder Code.ino
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary firmware source identifying DEFCON 2023 SEC Village context, Cyber City Circuits software authorship, LED pins, mode button, startup animation, center LED breathing, and jigawatts behavior.
Social Engineering Community GitHub repository: SEC Youth Challenge - DC31 KiCad schematic
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary hardware source for the ATtiny1614-SS microcontroller, USB-C power-only connector, pushbutton, ten LED count note, labeled LED groups, and Cyber City Circuits company title block.
SparkFun: nRF52832 Breakout Board Hookup Guide
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Setup source linked by the README for the SparkFun nRF52832 Arduino compatibility path used by the badge programming instructions.
SparkFun News: Hacking the SaintCon Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · SparkFun repost/context source for the October 20-23, 2014 Ogden event and badge-hacking write-up trail.
St. Petersburg College: SPC Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics Club Attends BSides Tampa 2018
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Attendee report source for the 2018 event, Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2 host context, more than 750 attendees, and Electronic Badge Assembly as an event activity.
THOTCON: THOTCON
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for THOTCON 0xD as Chicago's Hacking Conference on May 30-31, 2025, with TOP_SECRET venue framing and nonprofit production context.
THOTCON: THOTCON 0x8 schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for the May 4-5, 2017 Chicago edition and badge pickup at check-in.
THOTCON: THOTCON 0xB schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for the Oct. 8-9, 2021 Chicago edition, badge pickup, party-entry badge requirement, and badge-hacking workshop title.
THOTCON: THOTCON 0xC schedule
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for the May 19-20, 2023 Chicago edition, badge pickup, and party-entry badge requirement.
THOTCON: THOTCON 0xD contests
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official contest source for the badge contest and Gold Badge eligibility framing.
TIB AV-Portal / DEF CON: DT and 1057 - Welcome to DEF CON
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY 3.0 licensed video source for the DEF CON 23 opening and badge talk; a 00:09:56 frame is used only for image provenance after cropping to the talk-slide vinyl record badge collage.
TIB AV-Portal / DEF CON: Welcome & Making of the badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY 3.0 licensed video source for the badge-making talk; a 00:18:26 frame is used only for image provenance after cropping to the talk-slide badge collage.
TechGirlMN: Diana Initiative 2020 Maker Village archive
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Maker archive source for the off-the-shelf virtual badge, Tinkercad virtual model link, attendee finished-project evidence, and Arduino Create code examples.
TechGirlMN: TDI Off the Shelf Hardware Edition
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Build-guide source for the common-parts Arduino Nano badge BOM, LED/button/resistor list, breadboard PCB, and D2-D8 LED wiring chart.
Thad Turner: BSides Fort Wayne 2025 Conference Experience
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary first-hand badge-team source proving the June 7, 2025 Fort Wayne conference context, statement that the badge was given to each attendee, ESP32-WROVER hardware summary, team roles, MicroPython app framework, badge CTF challenges, and badge-development talk.
The Diana Initiative / Sched: Basic Arduino coding using virtual Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official workshop-schedule source for The Diana Initiative 2020 online event, August 21-22 super-event dates, August 22 Village Workshop slot, online attendance mode, and @TechGirlMN speaker attribution.
The Register: Is this the most puzzling DEF CON attendee badge yet on record?
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary source for LostboY / Ryan Clarke authorship, playable vinyl record format, role-color variants, secret alphabet text, inner-groove markings, and analog puzzle surface.
Thomas Flummer: A bit of #badgelife for online events
Retrieved 2026-05-21 · Project-owner writeup proving the unofficial Remoticon badge concept, customization/order model, artwork inspiration, SMD challenge, Feather mounting, and online-event motivation.
Tinkercad / TechGirlMN: Off the shelf virtual badge in Tinkercad
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Virtual badge model linked from the TechGirlMN archive for remote badge simulation and workshop build context.
ToorCamp: ToorCamp 2024
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event-page source for the June 26-30, 2024 dates, Doe Bay Resort & Spa venue, Orcas Island context, and hacker-camp framing.
ToorCamp: ToorCamp wiki
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event-wiki source for camp dates, Doe Bay Resort & Spa venue, Orcas Island context, and outdoor hacker-camp lineage framing.
ToorCamp / pretalx: Rich Gonzales
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official speaker profile source for the badge-talk presenter credit.
ToorCamp / pretalx: ToorCamp 2022 Badge Talk
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official schedule source identifying the badge-talk session, Rich Gonzales, and the design/project-management topics behind the badge.
ToorCamp / pretalx media: Toorcamp 2022 Badge assembly
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary linked PDF source for parts, LED orientation, battery-holder soldering order, potentiometer adjustment, and optional buzzer/tripwire modifications.
ToorCamp Wiki: EuphoriaCTF
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the 2024 Euphoria CTF flow saying to register a Shady Tag at the Shadytel Experience Center and that the first challenge is on the badge.
ToorCamp Wiki: EuphoriaCTF Shady Tag registration
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the Shady Tag registration step at the Shadytel Experience Center before the first badge challenge.
ToorCamp Wiki: Shadybucks
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for one-wristband-per-attendee issuance at registration, activation at Shadytel, QR-code wallet flow, external wallet linking, sponsorship, and spending behavior.
ToorCamp Wiki: ToorCamp wiki
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official wiki source for ToorCamp 2022 dates, Doe Bay Resort & Spa venue, Orcas Island context, and camp lineage.
ToorCamp Wiki: ToorCamp wiki
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official wiki source for ToorCamp 2024 dates, Doe Bay Resort & Spa venue, Orcas Island context, and the current camp operational page trail.
U.S. Army: AvengerCon IX hacker training event returns to Georgia Cyber Center
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public-affairs source for AvengerCon IX's 2025 return to the Georgia Cyber Center and broader Army Cyber conference context.
U.S. Army: AvengerCon VIII: Army Cyber's homegrown hacker-con returns
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary public-affairs source for the February 28-29, 2024 Georgia Cyber Innovation & Training Center event, first AvengerCon electronic badge, 8-8-8 badge name, scavenger-hunt LED-code path, hack-bypass path, in-person attendee distribution until supplies ran out, more-than-300 badge build, and Capt. Richard Shmel maker credit.
Ubuntu Wiki / Arizona LoCo Team: 2018-09-09 Arizona LoCo Team meeting log
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Attached meeting-log source corroborating the CactusCon 2018 ticketing and paid-badge language; no hardware, firmware, or image reuse details are claimed from it.
Ubuntu Wiki / Arizona LoCo Team: ArizonaTeam/TeamProjects/September 2018
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporaneous local notes source for CactusCon 2018 dates, Mesa Convention Center venue, ticket requirement, free-ticket path, and paid badge option.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: 2017 SAINTCON Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge source for Raspberry Pi Zero W, custom board, 2.8-inch TFT display, SNES-style controls, MiniBadges, Hacker Challenge registration, and post-conference RetroPie language.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: COM - Minibadge Trading
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for submitted and official MiniBadge scope, build-guide link, booth hours, and SHIFTY/JUP1T3R trading-page attribution.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: Conference Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge source for the electronic badge announcement, compukidmike credit, expanded minibadge support, I2C support, repository link, and included female minibadge headers.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: Content - MiniBadges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for MiniBadges of SAINTCON 2021, official and unofficial sections, badge names, designer fields, and acquisition notes.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: FAQ
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for SAINTCON MiniBadge definition, origin credit, yearly scale, attendee-trading participation estimate, and beginner-designer encouragement.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: Message from Jup1t3r
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official attendee source for The Enigma theme, badge framing, minibadge culture, Hardware Hacking Community, and Utah Valley Convention Center venue.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: MiniBadges-of-2022-v2.pdf
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Assembly Guide, official/sponsor/personal category definitions, community and status MiniBadge names, creator credits, acquisition routes, difficulty/rarity labels, and assembly instructions.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: Venue
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official venue source for Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: Venue Details
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official venue source for Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: Venue Details
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official venue source for Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON: Venue Map
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official venue source for Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON / GitHub: 2024 SAINTCON MiniBadge Build Guide
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Officially linked build-guide PDF source for the 2024 MiniBadge collection; cited as evidence but not republished as image material.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON 2015
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for October 27-30, 2015 timing, Weber State University / Ogden context, and event-site source trail.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON 2016
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for October 11-14, 2016 timing, Provo context, and Hackers Challenge event navigation.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON 2019
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for 2019 dates, Provo location, and event context.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON 2020
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive source for the virtual SAINTCON 2020 framing and event-site context.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON 2022
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official archive mirror source for October 25-28, 2022 dates, Utah Valley Convention Center venue context, event-site provenance, and MiniBadge-development links.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON Conference 2017
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for October 10-13, 2017 timing and Provo, Utah context.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON Conference 2018
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for September 25-28, 2018 timing and Provo, Utah context.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON Main Page
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive source for SAINTCON 2021 site context and the archived MiniBadges page navigation.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON Main Page
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for October 24-27, 2023 dates, Utah Valley Convention Center venue, and Provo, Utah context.
UtahSAINT / SAINTCON archive mirror: SAINTCON Main Page
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for October 22-25, 2024 dates and Provo, Utah context.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 1.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 2.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 3.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 4.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 5.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 6.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 8.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 9.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 10.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 11.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary context source stating that DEF CON 14 in 2006 was the first electronic DEF CON badge, supporting the non-electronic classification of DEF CON 13.
VICE / Motherboard: A History of Badgelife, Def Con's Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary history source for DEF CON 14 as the first electronic badge and the broader badgelife context.
Veritas: Part 2: Best sessions from BSides SF 2024
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Attendee-report source for the integrated-circuit electronic badge, four-line LED screen, joystick, battery or USB-C power, pre-installed clues, badge connection for clue exchange, and puzzle/cipher/game/hack challenge framing.
WIRED: DefCon 20 Badges, the Big Reveal
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary source for Ryan Clarke design context, embedded game, crypto/puzzle goals, badge-type roles, IR interactions, programming-language support, VGA expansion, and secret-society lore.
WIRED: Hidden Circuits and Handmade Clockwork: The Striking Intricacies of Def Con Badges
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Contemporary source for PCB inner-layer metal clues, role badge types, over-forty design variations, poker-card/famous-hacker motifs, Uber watch construction, and Ryan Clarke quotes.
WOPR Summit: WOPR Summit 0x00
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event archive trail for the 0x00 edition and talk/workshop context; the current live hostname was intermittently unreachable from the local resolver during this pass.
WemOS: WemOS
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Linked vendor reference named by the attendee writeup for the badge board foundation; not used to infer a specific WemOS module beyond the source text.
Wikimedia Commons: DC13 Badge.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public-domain source image for Prosavage2600's original photograph of a DEF CON 13 badge; used for image provenance and identity-artifact evidence.
Wikimedia Commons: DEF CON 22 defcon badge 2014-08-10 1407688220.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY-SA 4.0 source image for Tony Webster's original photograph of a DEF CON 22 badge; used only for image provenance, not as a hardware-spec source.
Wikimedia Commons: DefCon Badges.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary photo source by Sephiroth storm showing multiple DEF CON badges, including the DEF CON 20 Human badge; used for image provenance, not hardware specification.
Wikimedia Commons: Defcon-24-badge-front.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC0 source image for Hanno Böck's original photograph of the DEF CON 24 press badge front side; used only for image provenance, not as a hardware-spec source.
Wikimedia Commons: Defcon.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Image source for the CC BY-SA 4.0 original photo by Samsonswiki, described on Commons as DEF CON 18.
Wikimedia Commons: HOPE X Badge.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Public-domain image source for the physical badge issued at the tenth HOPE conference, with source, author, and CC0 license metadata.
Wikimedia Commons: HackerCon Badges.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary photo source by Sephiroth storm showing a visible DEF CON I Human badge/name-tag artifact; used for image provenance and artifact visibility, not as a hardware-spec source.
Wikimedia Commons: HackerCon Badges.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary source image by Sephiroth storm showing the DEF CON 26 lanyard and official badge among other hacker-conference badges; used for image provenance, not as a hardware-spec source.
Wikimedia Commons: HackerCon Badges.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary photo source by Sephiroth storm showing a visible BSides Tampa 2018 badge/lanyard artifact; used for image provenance and artifact visibility, not component-level hardware specification.
Wikimedia Commons: HackerCon Badges.jpg
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY-SA 4.0 documentary source image by Sephiroth storm showing the visible AND!XOR DC26 badge among multiple hacker-conference badges; used for image provenance and artifact visibility, not component-level hardware specification.
Wild West Hackin' Fest: Wild West Hackin' Fest - Deadwood 2025
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event source for the October 8-10, 2025 Deadwood Mountain Grand conference, venue address, event description, and registration context.
Wild West Hackin' Fest: e-badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official badge source for the Antisyphon-sponsored electronic badge, badge CTF framing, Meta CTF link, observation-or-firmware solve paths, and badge-team contacts Ray Feltch, David Fletcher, and Rick Wisser.
Wired: Exclusive Defcon 16 Badge Sneak Peek
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Secondary pre-event source for SD-card use, prototype caveats, Joe Grand and Jeff Moss context, and public badge positioning.
ZonkSec: Kernelcon Electronic Badges and Pogopin Hackery
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner retrospective corroborating 2019 badge concept, programming role, power switch, mode button, and CTF blink challenges.
ZonkSec GitHub repository: Kernelcon 2026 Badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary repository source for ESP32-WROOM-32E, BME280, SK6812 LEDs, crank generator, MicroPython firmware, BLE scanning, quest files, KiCad files, BOMs, Gerbers, 3D models, and license caveat.
ZonkSec GitHub repository: kernelcon-2019-badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for ATtiny85, CR2032 battery slots, five APA102 LEDs, LED modes, binary blink behavior, secret mode, badge-role variants, and Docker CTF challenge flow.
ZonkSec GitHub repository: kernelcon-2020-badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the Hack-Master dual-PCB badge, ATmega328P-AU, three AAA power, nine APA102 LEDs, backlit image reel, serial mini-game removal, EEPROM, and ICSP pogo-pin programming.
ZonkSec GitHub repository: kernelcon-2022-badge README
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the Watch Badge firmware, ESP8266 Arduino core, ArduinoJson, Generic ESP8266 Module target, Wi-Fi configuration, flashing notes, and deauther lineage.
mecparts: RetroWiFiModem
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Upstream firmware/source context for the ESP8266 RS-232/Wi-Fi modem, Hayes AT command set, LED indicators, ATDT dialing, Wi-Fi setup commands, Wemos D1 mini basis, and OTA update support used as JawnCon's linked firmware lineage.
rhye.org: DEFCON 27: Badge Writeup
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Technical writeup source for KL27P64M48SF2, NXH2261UK NFMI, badge-type byte behavior, UART/SWD paths, firmware build changes, and chameleon firmware.
unsynchronized.org: Ninja Networks DC17 badge code
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source-code archive; the technical archive labels the badge code as public domain.
unsynchronized.org: Ninja Networks DC17 schematic and Gerber archive
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary documentation archive source; the archive page states that schematic and Gerber documentation is Creative Commons Attribution licensed.
unsynchronized.org / Ninja Networks: Defcon 17 Ninja Networks Party Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary technical archive source for the public documentation, source-code, BOM, process-video links, licensing notes, contributor acknowledgements, and official project framing.
