HackerHotel 2027
Hotel de Werelt, Veluwe
A future Badge.Team HackerHotel badge currently advertised with LoRa, keyboard, large screen, ESP32-P4 ambition, and budget/prototyping caveats.
Camp lineage
Events
Hacker camp and conference editions represented in the worldwide catalogue, grouped by their event series and badge history.
BornHack 2026
Funen
A future BornHack badge entry currently documented through Badge.Team sponsor and hardware notes for nRF52840, Bluetooth Low Energy, NFC, and SX1262 LoRa.
RomHack Camp 2026
Rome
A future RomHack Camp edition currently advertised with a unique hardware badge, collectible challenge, and on-site CTF context.
Camp++ 2026
Fényes Camping, Tata, Hungary
The planned fourteenth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed before the event as a ticket-ID, gate/reception check-in, and campsite wristband identity-artifact record rather than a shipped electronic badge.
Hackaday Europe 2026
Politecnico di Milano, Campus di Lecco
The May 16-17, 2026 Hackaday Europe edition in Lecco, Italy, whose official sources said Hackaday was bringing the 2025 Supercon Communicator Badge to Europe for LoRa mesh, MicroPython app, and badge-hacking experiments.
BSides Porto 2026
ISEP, Porto
The June 26-27, 2026 Porto Security BSides edition whose official site and ticketing page advertise an electronic badge experience alongside talks, workshops, CTF, and community networking.
BSides Reykjavik 2026
Valur FC Club House, Reykjavik
The March 18, 2026 Reykjavik Security BSides edition at Valur FC Club House, source-backed through the official event page and sponsorship package as having badge and merchandise sponsor-logo placement.
h-c0n 2026
Centro Cultural Sanchinarro, Madrid
The February 5-7, 2026 Hackplayers h-c0n edition in Madrid, with workshops at Exe Madrid Norte and talks at Centro Cultural Sanchinarro, whose official post announced the CTF BADge electronic development-board challenge.
CONFidence 2026
EXPO Krakow, Krakow
The May 25-26, 2026 CONFidence cybersecurity conference in Krakow, whose official site links a planned hackable electronic ConfiBadge with ESP32-C6, OLED, audio, controls, and expansion hardware.
x33fcon 2026
Pomeranian Science and Technology Park, Gdynia
The June 11-12, 2026 x33fcon edition in Gdynia, Poland, whose public conference and terms pages document a hybrid red-team/blue-team security conference and a conference-floor badge requirement.
DEF CON 34
LVCC West Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
HackConRD 2026
Dominican Republic / Hotel Dominican Fiesta reservation context
The 2026 Dominican Republic HackConRD edition whose official site documents the Republica Dominicana hacker-conference context and EBADGE+ electronic-badge ticket tier, and whose public firmware repository documents an ESP32-C3, CC1101, TFT, WS2812B, games, RF, and profile-persistence badge stack.
PhreakNIC 27
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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.
BSides Tampa 2026
USF Marshall Student Center, Tampa, Florida
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.
BSides San Diego 2026
San Diego State University, San Diego, California
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.
SECCON 2026
Tanenbaum Aerospace and Cybersecurity Center, Rose State College, Midwest City, Oklahoma
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.
CactusCon 14
Mesa, Arizona
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 Singapore 2026
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
The April 28-30, 2026 official DEF CON Singapore conference at Marina Bay Sands, represented here by a source-backed unofficial/community HFSDR badge, HTX Public Safety Village badge artifact, and CSIT TISC finalist ESP32 challenge trinket without treating any of them as a universal admission badge.
NorthSec 2026
Bonsecours Market, Montreal
The May 9-17, 2026 Montreal NorthSec edition whose official registration page offered a new social electronic badge while supplies lasted and whose villages material documented badge soldering, badge-enhancement activity, and a badge museum.
RVAsec 2026
Richmond Marriott Downtown, Richmond, Virginia
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.
ROOTCON 20
Royce Hotel & Casino, Clark, Pampanga
The planned September 23-25, 2026 ROOTCON edition whose current homepage and con-goers guide place it at Royce Hotel & Casino in Clark, with first-come electronic badges at on-site check-in and a Type-B non-electronic fallback.
Zer0Con 2026
Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul, Seoul
The April 2-3, 2026 Zer0Con closed vulnerability-research conference in Seoul whose official page documents event context and whose POC Security update trail documents limited registration availability.
Kernelcon 2026
Hilton Omaha Downtown, Omaha, Nebraska
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.
BSides Melbourne 2026
Seek HQ, 60-88 Cremorne St, Cremorne, Melbourne
The May 15-17, 2026 BSides Melbourne edition whose official home page documents training and conference dates at Seek HQ and whose sponsorship package documents a lanyard item that includes participant badges.
BSides Canberra 2026
National Convention Centre, Canberra
The planned September 24-26, 2026 BSides Canberra edition whose public ticketing page documents electronic attendee-badge inclusion and whose official CFP documents a speaker/event-host badge for accepted talks or events.
BSides Adelaide 2026
Amora/Hilton Adelaide, South Australia
The planned July 27-28, 2026 third BSides Adelaide edition whose pretalx CFP anchors the event context and whose sponsor brief documents printing, lanyards, and badges as supporter-fundable attendee-experience costs.
BSides Brisbane 2026
QUT Gardens Point Campus - Z Block, Brisbane
The planned July 4, 2026 Queensland BSides edition whose public prospectus and ticketing pages document conference badges, a VIP special badge tier, and electronic badge design/build for 500 delegates.
BSides Perth 2026
UWA Business School, Crawley, Perth
The planned October 10-11, 2026 BSides Perth edition whose official event page lists conference swag including a t-shirt, badge, and stickers for participant tickets.
BSides Ballarat 2026
Emerging Technologies Hub, Central Ballarat, Victoria
The February 28-March 1, 2026 regional Victorian BSides edition whose public event page documents the Underground interactive ESP32 conference badge, SAO support, and limited BSides SAO add-on.
Unknown Security Conference 2026
Auditorio UTEC Barranco, Lima
The planned June 4-6, 2026 Lima UnknownCon edition whose official event page includes an official lanyard and badge in the free conference pass.
BSides Reunion 2026
IUT de Saint-Pierre, Saint-Pierre, Reunion
The April 2, 2026 Indian Ocean Security BSides edition whose official post-event site documents about 80 participants and whose volunteer page explicitly lists distributing badges and goodies to participants.
Seasides 2026
International Centre Goa, Goa
The February 19-21, 2026 Seasides conference in Goa whose official site links a Hardware Hacking Village page documenting a soldering badge, enough badges for attendees, and a hidden hardware/firmware badge challenge.
Hack&Roll 2026
CAPT / RC4, National University of Singapore
The January 17-18, 2026 NUS Hackers student hackathon in Singapore whose organizers introduced their first custom PCB badge, later documented through a public ESP-IDF firmware and I/O component archive.
BSidesTLV 2026
Tel Aviv
The planned June 25, 2026 BSidesTLV edition whose official Hardware Village page centers a hardware CTF on the electronic badge and lists Badge Talk plus Badge Hacking sessions.
Disobey 2026
Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki
The February 13-14, 2026 Disobey edition in Helsinki whose official badge page documents the delayed 2025/2026 ESP32-S3 badge, OTA setup, competition workflow, and public firmware/hardware archive.
Konsool Platform
Badge.Team / Nicolai Electronics
An ongoing Badge.Team-compatible handheld platform, also known commercially as Tanmatsu, with hardware, software, app-store, LoRa, and expansion-board documentation.
39th Chaos Communication Congress
Hamburg
The December 27-30, 2025 Hamburg Chaos Communication Congress whose official info pages documented a Hub badge system for assembly-created digital souvenirs, challenge rewards, and help/exploration badges.
What Hackers Yearn 2025
Geestmerambacht, near Alkmaar
A badge remembered both for capable hardware and for serious delivery, safety, process, and camp-impact issues.
BornHack 2025
Funen
A circular ESP32-C3 LoRa/Meshtastic badge with external antenna, RGB LEDs, Qwiic/STEMMA QT, and SAO expansion footprints.
Gulaschprogrammiernacht 23
HfG and ZKM, Karlsruhe
Entropia's 2025 GPN edition with source-backed non-electronic attendee badges, lanyard reuse guidance, badge design/production notes, and safeR/orga badge context.
44CON 2025
Novotel London West, London
The September 18-19, 2025 44CON edition at Novotel London West whose public Electronic Cats repository documents the 44CON 2025 RF-detector badge hardware and firmware.
DORS/CLUC 2025
Zagreb
The second electronic DORS/CLUC badge year, with NFC quests, LED-display modes, USB passthrough, open source files, and public production-challenge lore.
Hackaday Europe 2025
MotionLab.Berlin
The March 15-16, 2025 Berlin Hackaday Europe edition at MotionLab, with public sources documenting a Supercon 8 SAO badge reuse, revamped Europe firmware, bundled SAOs, and a Saturday-night badge-hacking ceremony.
BSides Lisbon 2025
Auditorio FMD-UL, Lisbon
The November 13-14, 2025 Lisbon Security BSides edition at Auditorio FMD-UL, source-backed through the official about page, Eventbrite listing, CTF page, and official badge-sponsor page.
BSides Prague 2025
Gabriel Loci, Prague
The April 3-4, 2025 Prague Security BSides edition whose official schedule page announced an electronic PCB badge and whose organizer retrospective documents the first-generation electronic badge, attendee chips, challenges, panels, and nickname display.
BSides Kristiansand 2025
Noroff University College Kristiansand Campus
The June 6, 2025 first BSides Kristiansand conference at Noroff's Kristiansand campus, whose source trail documents a custom SolaSec electronic duck badge and badge CTF.
DEF CON 33
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
Maritime Hacking Village at DEF CON 33
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
Aerospace Village at DEF CON 33
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
ICS Village at DEF CON 33
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
Blacks In Cyber Village at DEF CON 33
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
Lonely Hackers Club at DEF CON 33
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
seeess at DEF CON 33
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Hacker Warehouse Vendor Booth
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.
Rabbit-Labs at DEF CON 33
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Rabbit-Labs Vendor Booth
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.
La Villa Hacker 2025
Las Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 33
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
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena, California
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.
PhreakNIC 26
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
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.
NolaCon 2025
Hyatt Centric French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
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.
BSidesKC 2025
Kansas City, Missouri
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.
BSidesSLC 2025
Conference Center at Miller Campus, Sandy, Utah
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.
BSidesSF 2025
City View at Metreon, San Francisco, California
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.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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.
CactusCon 13
Mesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona
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.
THOTCON 0xD
Chicago, Illinois / TOP_SECRET venue
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
Deadwood Mountain Grand, Deadwood, South Dakota
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.
AvengerCon IX
Augusta, Georgia
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.
Recon Village at DEF CON 33
Las Vegas, Nevada / 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.
Hackaday Supercon 2025
Supplyframe DesignLab, Pasadena, California
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.
NorthSec 2025
Bonsecours Market, Montreal
The Montreal NorthSec 2025 edition whose public badge repository documents an ESP32-C3 electronic badge with RGB LEDs, buttons, IR pairing, dual SAO connectors, USB-C/AAA power, and PlatformIO firmware workflows.
RVAsec 2025
Richmond Marriott Downtown, Richmond, Virginia
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.
HITCON 2025
Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei
The August 15-16, 2025 HITCON edition whose PCB Badge guide documents a hacker-pet badge, games, pedometer scoring, Red-vs-Blue tower capture, cross-board interaction, and BadUSB behavior.
ROOTCON 19
Clark, Pampanga
The ROOTCON 19 edition whose public registration update documented first-come electronic-badge distribution, Human+ and Blackcard guarantees, and a simpler Type-B badge fallback.
Zer0Con 2025
Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul, Seoul
The April 10-11, 2025 Zer0Con closed vulnerability-research conference in Seoul whose official archive documents event context and whose POC Security update trail documents limited entry-badge availability.
BugCON 2025
Fronton Bucareli, Mexico City
The November 20-21, 2025 Mexico City BugCON edition whose official event pages and Electronic Cats repository document a Linux-capable RV1106 badge with open hardware source, add-on board, and release-image flashing path.
BSides CDMX 2025
Ex Fabrica MX, Mexico City
The July 18, 2025 Mexico City Security BSides edition whose official event page documents the Ex Fabrica MX venue and whose Electronic Cats repository preserves a PY32F030 badge, role variants, Metro add-on, firmware, BOMs, and hardware renders.
HackGDL 2025
Jardin Americana, Guadalajara, Jalisco
The March 1, 2025 Guadalajara HackGDL edition whose official pages and Electronic Cats repository document a HackGDL event badge based on the ESP32-S3 Minino platform.
Kernelcon 2025
Hilton Omaha Downtown Old Market, Omaha, Nebraska
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.
CrikeyCon X
Royal International Convention Centre, Brisbane
The March 22, 2025 tenth CrikeyCon edition in Brisbane whose official schedule and ticketing trail document conference badge pickup and attendee access context.
BSides Adelaide 2025
Hilton Adelaide, South Australia
The May 12-13, 2025 BSides Adelaide edition whose public Hackerware, Hackster, and attendee writeup sources document the second Wombat CTF badge with onboard binary-entry buttons and a secret hardware challenge.
BSides Brisbane 2025
QUT Gardens Point Campus Z Block, Brisbane
The July 12, 2025 Queensland hacker conference edition whose Humanitix ticketing page documents cool badge inclusion for standard and VIP tickets and whose prospectus offered electronic badge design/build for 500 delegates.
CHCon 2025
The Majestic, Christchurch
The Christchurch Hacker Conference edition held October 29-31, 2025, whose attendee badge paired an ESP32-C3, 24 WS2812 RGB LEDs, SSD1306 OLED, USB Serial JTAG shell, bare-metal Rust firmware, and progressive badge challenges.
Kawaiicon 2025
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
The November 6-8, 2025 Wellington Kawaiicon edition whose official badge page documents a Kawaiicon 3 badge laser etched and cut from recycled wildflower seed paper.
Ekoparty 2025
CEC, Buenos Aires
The 21st Ekoparty Buenos Aires edition whose official badge page documents an artistic, sonic, customizable electronic badge with public hardware and firmware repository.
DragonJAR Security Conference 2025
Centro de Eventos El Tesoro, Medellin
The September 10-11, 2025 Medellin DragonJARCON edition whose official pages document an optional paid electronic hardware badge plus a limited DragonJARCON 2025 NFC hacking badge raffle.
BSides Cape Town 2025
Lagoon Beach Hotel & Spa, Cape Town
The December 6, 2025 BSides Cape Town edition whose official sponsorship page lists a dedicated Badge Sponsor slot and whose ticketing page documents the Lagoon Beach event and swag context.
VULNCON 2025
National Science Seminar Complex, IISc, Bengaluru
The June 14-15, 2025 Bengaluru VULNCON edition whose official schedule and village pages document the Solder & Spark Badge Village, a one-day hands-on electronic badge-building activity.
BSides Agra 2025
Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, Civil Lines, Agra
The December 13, 2025 Uttar Pradesh Security BSides edition whose archived official site documents the Agra event, workshops and villages, ticket/welcome-kit context, and whose official LinkedIn trail documents IOTSRG as Badge Sponsor and a soldering village.
GreyCTF Summit 2025
NUS School of Computing, COM1 Level 2, Singapore
The July 5, 2025 NUS Greyhats cybersecurity summit in Singapore whose public GreyBadge archive documents the GreyMecha/Army badge, setup workflow, KiCad hardware, CircuitPython filesystem, FPGA files, and summit firmware releases.
BSidesTLV 2025
Tel Aviv
The BSidesTLV 2025 edition whose official badge page documents the limited Infinity Glove electronic badge as a custom hardware CTF with on-site pickup.
HackerHotel 2025
Garderen
A Dutch HackerHotel edition whose public badge talk documents badge-team workflow, production handoff, challenge integration, and lessons learned.
Bug Bounty Village at DEF CON 33
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
Biohacking Village at DEF CON 33
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
38th Chaos Communication Congress
Hamburg
The December 27-30, 2024 Hamburg Chaos Communication Congress whose official Hub archived an expanded assembly-created digital badge system, distinct from a physical or electronic attendee badge.
Electromagnetic Field 2024
Eastnor Castle Deer Park
The first Tildagon year, intended as a reusable badge platform with hexpansions.
BornHack 2024
Funen
The 2024 badge centered on ESP32-C3 firmware, POV-badge hardware, community firmware examples, and a 3D-printed case path.
Fri3d Camp 2024
Belgium
A modern ESP32-S3 Fri3d badge with LCD, controls, MicroPython/Arduino docs, blaster and communicator add-ons, and reset/update workflows.
HaxoGreen 2024
Dudelange, Luxembourg
A Luxembourg hacker camp edition whose public wiki documents camp wristbands, infodesk registration, hackerpassport stamps, goodie bags, T-shirt timing, and ticket/merch context rather than a sourceable electronic badge.
Easterhegg 2024
OTH Regensburg
The 21st Easterhegg in Regensburg, where the Rabbit Chaos Adventure tied campus, laptop, and badge challenges to a public badge repository and hardware-hacking area.
Camp++ 2024
Fényes Camping, Tata, Hungary
The twelfth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as a ticket-ID, gate/reception check-in, and campsite wristband identity-artifact record rather than an electronic badge.
Security Fest 2024
Gothenburg
The Swedish Security Fest edition with the Feskekôrka Piano Badge, a music-and-airship CTF badge documented through Hackster and Hackerware build notes.
CyberThreat 2024
London
The London CyberThreat 2024 edition whose official event site documents brand-new Secure Impact hackable badges with nine challenges and published official walkthroughs for the final two badge challenges.
DORS/CLUC 2024
Zagreb
The first electronic DORS/CLUC conference badge year, with e-paper, IR badge-to-badge discovery, light-sensor web configuration, and open hardware files.
BalCCon2k24
Novi Sad
The Mini Cyberdeck 0o00 badge year, centered on a CH32V003 RISC-V microcontroller, ST7735 display, buzzer, six buttons, and BCD-0o27 connectivity.
Hackaday Europe 2024
MotionLab.Berlin
The Berlin Hackaday Europe edition whose public schedule included a badge-hacking ceremony and whose field reports document reuse of the 2023 Vectorscope badge.
BSides Athens 2024
TWELVESEC, Athens
The June 29, 2024 Security BSides Athens edition at TWELVESEC, with official programme context for a soldering workshop and recovered wrap-up text documenting an electronic circuit badge.
DEF CON 32
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
Car Hacking Village at DEF CON 32
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / 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.
HackConRD 2024
Dominican Republic
The 2024 Dominican Republic HackConRD edition whose official-badge repository and badge-team workshop writeup document the first official HackConRD badge and its ATTiny85, lanyard, challenge, serial, LED, buzzer, firmware, and KiCad manufacturing trail.
HOPE XV
St. John's University, Queens, New York City
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.
LayerOne 2024
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena, California
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.
SAINTCON 2024
Provo, Utah
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.
BSidesSF 2024
City View at Metreon, San Francisco, California
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.
BSidesPDX 2024
Smith Memorial Student Union, Portland, Oregon
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.
CactusCon 12
Mesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona
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.
JawnCon 0x1
Arcadia University Commons Building, Pennsylvania
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.
AvengerCon VIII
Georgia Cyber Innovation & Training Center, Augusta, Georgia
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.
Recon Village at DEF CON 32
Las Vegas, Nevada / 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.
GrrCON 2024
Grand Rapids, Michigan
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.
ToorCamp 2024
Doe Bay Resort & Spa, Orcas Island, Washington
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.
Hackaday Supercon 2024
Supplyframe DesignLab, Pasadena, California
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.
NorthSec 2024
Bonsecours Market, Montreal
The Montreal NorthSec 2024 edition whose public badge repository documents an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 badge with NeoPixel LEDs, buttons, pairing connectors, four SAO connectors, USB-C or AAA battery power, and PlatformIO firmware targets.
RVAsec 2024
Downtown Richmond Marriott, Richmond, Virginia
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.
HITCON CMT 2024
Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei
The HITCON CMT 2024 edition whose official activity page said every attendee ID was a PCB badge, with score accrual, games, docking between badges, BadUSB play, and on-site programmer support.
ROOTCON 18
Taal Vista Hotel, Tagaytay City
The September 25-27, 2024 ROOTCON edition whose official archive and media server preserved a Badge/STL directory with Rootcon 2024 Buttons and Single Color STL files.
Zer0Con 2024
Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul, Seoul
The April 4-5, 2024 Zer0Con closed vulnerability-research conference in Seoul whose official archive documents event context and whose POC Security update trail documents limited entry-badge availability.
HITBSecConf2024 Bangkok
Intercontinental Hotel, Bangkok
The August 26-30, 2024 Bangkok HITB edition whose official Badge Village page documented a Raspberry Pi Pico-based fault-injection device for embedded-system attack experiments.
BugCON 2024
Mexico City
The Mexico City BugCON security conference edition whose official Electronic Cats badge repository documents community and VIP ESP32-C6 hardware variants, firmware paths, and CERN-OHL hardware release.
Kernelcon 2024
Hilton Omaha Downtown, Omaha, Nebraska
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.
BSides Melbourne 2024
Seek HQ, Cremorne, Melbourne
The November 15-17, 2024 BSides Melbourne edition whose official sponsorship prospectus documents badges carrying preferred-pronoun, photo-permission, and interaction-preference signals plus a sold lanyard sponsorship item.
BSides Canberra 2024
National Convention Centre, Canberra
The September 26-28, 2024 BSides Canberra edition whose official event page and ticketing source document an electronic badge, with attendee evidence describing a soldered 555-timer orc blinky badge.
CrikeyCon IX
Royal International Convention Centre, Brisbane
The May 18, 2024 ninth CrikeyCon edition in Brisbane whose official schedule documents early badge pickup and whose ticketing page documents TinkerInk accessibility badge/pin creation for approach-preference signalling.
BSides Adelaide 2024
Lot Fourteen, Adelaide
The inaugural BSides Adelaide edition held May 17-18, 2024, whose Hackerware/Hackster source trail documents the first Wombat CTF hardware badge and soldering-village workflow.
Ekoparty 2024
CEC, Buenos Aires
The November 13-15, 2024 Buenos Aires Ekoparty edition whose official event page documents the free CEC event and whose public Electronic Cats repository preserves the official electronic badge hardware and firmware.
H2HC 2024
Sao Paulo
A Brazilian H2HC edition represented by the first edition of the Hacker ID Card and custom CR80 card-printing identity-artifact project.
8.8 Reloaded 2024
Centro Cultural Cine Arte Normandie, Santiago
The October 10-11, 2024 Santiago 8.8 Computer Security Conference edition whose published event announcement documents a first VIP sector with a special badge and swag kit.
BSides Goa 2024
Planet Hollywood Beach Resort, Utorda, Goa
The April 25-27, 2024 Goa Security BSides edition whose official site and ticketing trail provide event context for SecOps Group's Hackable BCPen/CPen booth badge challenge.
Off-By-One Conference 2024
M Hotel Singapore
The June 26-27, 2024 first Off-By-One Singapore offensive-security conference whose source-backed Octopus hardware badge carried dual screens, ESP32-S3 and ATmega328P controllers, MicroPython challenge apps, and a six-flag badge challenge.
HackerHotel 2024
Garderen
The Telegraph badge, an ESP32-C6 e-paper puzzle badge with telegraph-inspired switches, LED matrix input, Qwiic, SAO, and case files.
Chaos Communication Camp 2023
Ziegeleipark Mildenberg
The flow3r badge shifted the camp badge toward music, touch, light, and collaborative art.
37th Chaos Communication Congress
Hamburg
The December 27-30, 2023 Hamburg Chaos Communication Congress whose official Hub archived an assembly-created digital badge system, distinct from a physical or electronic attendee badge.
BornHack 2023
Funen
BornHack explored NFC with paired tag and reader badges, RP2040, PN7150, NTAG I2C Plus, and CircuitPython.
MuHackademy 2k23
Italy
The MuHackademy 2k23 public programme included a MuHack Badge talk and workshop record for an RP2040 MicroPython badge.
Camp++ 2023
Fényes Camping, Tata, Hungary
The eleventh H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket IDs, gate check-in, and campsite wristband registration rather than an electronic badge.
TROOPERS23
Heidelberg
A German TROOPERS conference edition with a Badge.Team-powered electronic badge documented through the official badge retrospective, public hardware repository, firmware repository, and SAO hardware repository.
Security Fest 2023
Gothenburg
The Swedish Security Fest edition with a UV-printed Gothenburg Skyline CTF badge, soldering-village LED personalization, and serial cryptography challenges.
Hardwear.io Netherlands 2023
Netherlands
A hardware-security conference year whose attendee badge used reused e-paper price tags and OpenEPaperLink-style infrastructure.
Open Source Hardware Camp 2023
Hebden Bridge Town Hall
A UK open-source hardware camp whose WiFi badge doubled as a solder-paste workshop device, name badge, USB-UART adapter, and post-event sensor platform.
BalCCon2k23
Novi Sad
The BalCCon Cyberdeck 0o27 badge year, with an ESP32-S3, display, buttons, SAO-ish I2C, serial console, firmware framework, and case files.
Hackaday Berlin 2023
MotionLab.Berlin
The March 25-26, 2023 Berlin Hackaday conference whose official preview offered attendees a Berlin-reskinned Voja4 down-to-the-metal computer trainer badge and a Saturday-night badge-hacking ceremony.
DEF CON 31
Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Linq, and Harrah's, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
SEC Youth Challenge at DEF CON 31
LINQ Hotel, Social A, Las Vegas, Nevada / 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.
LayerOne 2023
Hilton Pasadena, Pasadena, California
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.
SAINTCON 2023
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
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.
CactusCon 11
Mesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona
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.
THOTCON 0xC
Chicago, Illinois / undisclosed location
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.
Recon Village at DEF CON 31
Las Vegas, Nevada / 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.
Hackaday Supercon 2023
Pasadena, California
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.
NorthSec 2023
Bonsecours Market, Montreal
The Montreal NorthSec 2023 anniversary edition whose public badge repository and first-hand technical writeup document an attendee electronic badge with badge-chain interaction, optional OLED, RGB LEDs, AVR firmware behavior, and hardware-source context.
RVAsec 2023
Richmond Marriott, Richmond, Virginia
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.
HITCON CMT 2023
Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei
The HITCON CMT 2023 edition where the attendee badge acted as more than identification, activating booth and venue card-reader mini-games with NFC reader learning at the Activity Team booth.
ROOTCON 17
Taal Vista Hotel, Tagaytay City
The September 27-29, 2023 ROOTCON edition whose official archive, conference overview, pocket guide, and media-server art directory documented Human/Human+ badge-and-lanyard inclusions and registration check-in.
BugCON 2023
Mexico
The BugCON 2023 edition whose Electronic Cats badge repository and README document a resistance-themed official badge, ESP32S3 or RP2040 feature statement, UART, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on ESP32S3, AA battery support, GPL firmware, CERN-OHL hardware files, KiCad hardware trees, and Arduino developer workflow.
Kernelcon 2023
Embassy Suites Omaha Downtown Old Market, Omaha, Nebraska
The April 12-15, 2023 Omaha Kernelcon edition whose official badge site documents the analog 1337 kHz AM radio badge and hardware-hacking playground.
BSides Melbourne 2023
SEEK, Cremorne, Melbourne
The 2023 BSides Melbourne edition whose official attendee communications and schedules document check-in, lanyards, badge interaction-protocol stickers, photo-consent lanyard colors, badge-based afterparty access, CTF, lockpick village, and keyboard soldering workshop context.
BSides Canberra 2023
National Convention Centre, Canberra
The September 28-30, 2023 BSides Canberra edition whose official archive links the bPod badge repository and whose schedule includes the Introducing the new bPod talk.
Ekoparty 2023
CEC, Buenos Aires
The Buenos Aires Ekoparty edition that publicly introduced a limited electronic badge offer of 500 units alongside free conference registration.
H2HC 2023
Sao Paulo
A Brazilian H2HC edition represented by a custom Game Boy game badge/artifact that depicts a virtual visit to the conference, venue, hotel, and Brazil.
SINCON Reloaded 2023
Voco Orchard Singapore, Singapore
The Singapore SINCON Reloaded 2023 edition held 5-6 January 2023 at Voco Orchard Singapore, where the first SINCON badge became a Khong Guan Building-shaped interactive CTF badge.
HackerHotel 2023
Garderen
A documented Badge.Team event badge with public team credits and challenge/artwork context.
Hacking in Parallel Berlin 2022
ETI Schauspielschule and c-base, Berlin
The December 27-30, 2022 decentralized Berlin year-end hacker event whose attendees received an electronic HiP badge and whose schedule later included a badge-hacking workshop.
May Contain Hackers 2022
Scoutinglandgoed Zeewolde
A Dutch camp badge shaped like a game console, with ESP32, RP2040, FPGA, and Hatchery apps.
Electromagnetic Field 2022
Eastnor Castle Deer Park
The TiDAL badge year, bridging EMF's Python badge lineage toward the reusable Tildagon platform.
BornHack 2022
Funen
BornHack's RP2040-powered Game On badge emphasized CircuitPython and handheld games.
Fri3d Camp 2022
Belgium
An ESP32-WROVER camp badge with display, add-ons, GameOn, Time Blaster, and open hardware/software references.
RomHack Camp 2022
Rome
The first RomHack hacker camp in Rome, where Cyber Saiyan produced the RHC22 electronic badge.
HaxoGreen 2022
Dudelange, Luxembourg
A Luxembourg hacker camp edition whose public wiki documents camp wristbands, infodesk registration, hackerpassport stamps, and goodie bags rather than a sourceable electronic badge.
Camp++ 2022
Fényes Camping, Tata, Hungary
The tenth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, random ticket IDs, campsite reception checks, certificate checksum verification, and government-ID arrival context rather than an electronic badge.
Gulaschprogrammiernacht 20
ZKM and HfG, Karlsruhe
Entropia's 2022 Karlsruhe edition whose public wiki documents on-site printed and laminated attendee badges plus badge-issue queue feedback.
TROOPERS22
Heidelberg
A German TROOPERS conference edition whose public Badge.Team PID record names Troopers 2022 badges as using the Badge.Team platform.
Security Fest 2022
Gothenburg
The Swedish Security Fest edition with a publicly remembered tram-inspired badge that blinked lights and included a Rickroll reference.
BSides Tallinn 2022
Vaba Lava, Tallinn
The September 22, 2022 Estonian Security BSides edition at Vaba Lava whose official page says each participant received a special badge that was also a DIY soldering project.
DEF CON 30
Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Linq, and Harrah's, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
SAINTCON 2022
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
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.
CarolinaCon Online 2
Virtual / online
The April 29-May 1, 2022 CarolinaCon Online 2 edition whose official pages document a merch bundle with an electronic Conference PCB Badge.
BSidesSF 2022
City View at Metreon, San Francisco, California
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.
Recon Village at DEF CON 30
Las Vegas, Nevada / 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.
ToorCamp 2022
Doe Bay Resort & Spa, Orcas Island, Washington
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.
Hackaday Supercon 2022
Pasadena, California
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.
NorthSec 2022
Marche Bonsecours, Montreal
The return-to-in-person NorthSec edition at Marche Bonsecours whose public repository archive preserves a 2022 ESP32 badge hardware tree, production files, BOM material, challenge assets, and SAO hardware directories.
RVAsec 2022
Richmond, Virginia
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.
BugCON 2022
Mexico City (CDMX)
The BugCON 2022 CDMX edition whose Electronic Cats badge repository and README document an RP2040 electronic badge with USB serial use, LEDs, microphone, buzzer or speaker, EdgeImpulse audio-classification context, Arduino Mbed programming notes, KiCad hardware files, and firmware examples.
Kernelcon 2022
Embassy Suites Omaha Downtown Old Market, Omaha, Nebraska
The March 30-April 2, 2022 Omaha Kernelcon edition whose public badge repository preserves the ESP8266 watch-badge firmware and flashing workflow.
CrikeyCon 8
Brisbane
The CrikeyCon 8 edition whose public badge page documents a simple LED badge circuit, coin-cell or SAO-header power, and soldering instructions.
linux.conf.au 2022 Open Hardware Miniconf
Online, worldwide
The January 14-16, 2022 linux.conf.au online edition whose Open Hardware Miniconf offered hardware kits, an updated SwagBadge, FPGA SAOs, and Rockling-related badge hardware talks.
Kākācon #4
Zealandia, Wellington
The 2022 Kākācon edition whose organizer walkthrough documents the second Kākācon badge challenge, again using the printed sticker backing paper as the challenge entry point.
H2HC 2022
Sao Paulo
A Brazilian H2HC edition represented by a wooden-PCB badge with wrapped wire, an NE555 clock circuit, and blinking LEDs.
BornHack 2021
Funen
A deliberately DIY electronics badge focused on simple components, SAO, and Qwiic/STEMMA QT expansion rather than onboard compute.
Camp++ 2021
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The ninth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, bring-your-ticket arrival guidance, and Pretalx programme context rather than an electronic badge.
DEF CON 29
Bally's and Paris, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
SAINTCON 2021
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
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.
CarolinaCon Online 2021
Virtual / online
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.
THOTCON 0xB
Chicago, Illinois
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.
Hackaday Remoticon.2
Virtual / online
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.
NorthSec 2021
Remote / online
The remote NorthSec 2021 edition whose official badge page and public repository document a North Sectoria ESP32 electronic badge with 240x240 LCD, Wi-Fi, BLE, NeoPixels, buttons, buzzer, game flags, and ESP-IDF firmware.
RVAsec 2021
The Omni Richmond Hotel, Richmond, Virginia
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.
ROOTCON 15
Zoom Webinar / Discord
The October 13-15, 2021 ROOTCON 15 reboot edition whose official archive, sponsor overview, and media server documented virtual Human Badge sponsorship benefits plus official badge and lanyard artwork directories.
HITB+CyberWeek 2021 Abu Dhabi
ADNEC Hall & ICC, Abu Dhabi
The November 21-25, 2021 HITB+CyberWeek hybrid event in Abu Dhabi whose public event pages document ADNEC context, hardware and software challenges, competitions, and Packet Hack Badge lineage.
KernelCon 2021: Hack Live Virtual
Virtual
The April 30, 2021 Hack Live virtual Kernelcon event, whose public pages and repository document the customizable Hacker HotKey stream-deck badge.
BSides Canberra 2021
Canberra / hybrid
The April 9-10, 2021 BSides Canberra edition whose public source trail documents a community-delivered electronic badge with SAMD21, ESP32, e-paper display, LEDs, firmware binaries, and badge-hacking writeups.
CrikeyCon VII
Events on Oxlade, Brisbane
The March 6, 2021 seventh CrikeyCon edition whose official archive, schedule, and events pages document conference badge pickup plus a CrikeyCon Connect badge used to identify mentoring/connect-corner helpers.
linux.conf.au 2021 Open Hardware Miniconf
Online, worldwide
The January 23-25, 2021 linux.conf.au online edition whose Open Hardware Miniconf centered on the LCA2021 SwagBadge and DagBadge, with hardware, firmware, SAO, testing, and show-and-tell sessions.
Kākācon #3
Zealandia, Wellington
The 2021 Kākācon edition whose organizer walkthrough documents the first Kākācon badge challenge, using a printed sticker backing-paper puzzle as the entry point.
Ekoparty 2021
Argentina
The 2021 Ekoparty edition represented by official Ekoparty media attachments titled as 2021 badge artwork for attendee, speaker, workshop, ACFT placement, ICFT player, and Lado B variants.
BornHack 2020
Funen
A SAMD21 CircuitPython badge with a charlieplexed LED matrix, IR communication, buttons, SAO header, and exposed pads.
Camp++ 2020
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The eighth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, bring-your-ticket arrival guidance, and Pretalx programme context rather than an electronic badge.
NoNameCon 2020
Online
The September 3, 2020 online NoNameCon cybersecurity edition whose TechMaker source trail documented a scratch-designed ESP32 NoNameBadge 2020 for air-quality monitoring, CTF play, and hardware hacking.
DEF CON 28 Safe Mode
Virtual / online
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.
SAINTCON 2020
Virtual / online
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.
BSidesPDX 2020
Virtual / online
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.
The Diana Initiative 2020
Virtual / online
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.
Hackaday Remoticon 2020
Virtual / online
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.
RVAsec 2020
Richmond, Virginia / pandemic-era source gap
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.
ROOTCON 14 Recovery Mode
Virtual / ROOTCON Discord
The October 9-10, 2020 ROOTCON Recovery Mode virtual edition whose official quick guide documented a paid-attendee ROOTCON Survival Kit with conference badge, lanyard, and sticker set.
Kernelcon 2020 Virtual
Virtual / Omaha, Nebraska
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.
BSides Melbourne 2020
Victorian Innovation Hub, Docklands, Melbourne
The March 13-15, 2020 BSides Melbourne edition whose official schedule documents early and Saturday registration while the official sponsor page documents BSides Melbourne 2020 lanyards.
linux.conf.au 2020 Open Hardware Miniconf
Gold Coast, Queensland
The January 13-17, 2020 Gold Coast linux.conf.au edition whose Open Hardware Miniconf included an assembly workshop, DingoCar machine-learning and perception sessions, and small-scale self-driving car experimentation.
HackerHotel 2020
Garderen
A challenge badge framed as a mixed-reality hotel escape room with story, puzzles, SAO, and field errata.
Disobey 2020
Helsinki
A Disobey badge with touch-button navigation, serial shell, Hatchery app installation, WiFi configuration, and text input.
CampZone 2020
Netherlands
A CampZone Badge.Team firmware badge documented through its Python API module surface and team notes.
Chaos Communication Camp 2019
Ziegeleipark Mildenberg
The edition whose card10 badge explored wearable sensing and app distribution.
36th Chaos Communication Congress
Leipzig
The 2019 Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, where Thomas Flummer produced an unofficial bring-your-own-controller LED badge kit for hallway badgelife hacking.
BornHack 2019
Funen
The 2019 BornHack badge added a 240x240 color display, MicroSD card, and IR communication.
Camp++ 2019
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The seventh H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, bring-your-ticket arrival guidance, and Pretalx programme context rather than an electronic badge.
TROOPERS19
Heidelberg
A German IT-security conference with a public ESP32 e-paper keyboard badge hardware writeup, KiCad files, and Shitty Addon ecosystem.
Pixels Camp 2019
Pavilhao Carlos Lopes, Lisbon
The March 21-23, 2019 Lisbon Pixels Camp edition, documented as a three-day hacker-spirit technology event and paired here with Afonso Muralha's public ESP32 LED-matrix PCB badge archive.
NoNameCon 2019
Lavra Art Gallery, Kyiv
The May 14-17, 2019 Kyiv NoNameCon cybersecurity conference whose electronic NoNameBadge is documented by the badge team's making-of writeup and public firmware/CTF archives.
NodeConf EU 2019
Lyrath Estate, Kilkenny
The 2019 NodeConf EU edition at Lyrath Estate in Kilkenny, Ireland, whose NodeWatch/Bangle.js open-source smartwatch badge is documented by NodeWatch.dev, NearForm, Espruino, public app/workshop repositories, and attendee reporting.
DEF CON 27
Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
503 Party 2019
United States / DC503 party archive
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.
LayerOne 2019
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena, California
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.
SAINTCON 2019
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
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.
BSides Las Vegas 2019
Tuscany Suites, Las Vegas, Nevada
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
Plexpod Westport, Kansas City, Missouri
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.
BSidesROC 2019
RIT Inn, Henrietta, New York
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.
BSidesPDX 2019
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon
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.
CactusCon 8
Mesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona
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.
Queercon 16
Las Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 27
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.
THOTCON 0xA / Infinity
Undisclosed location, Chicago, Illinois
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
Bally's Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey
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.
Recon Village at DEF CON 27
Las Vegas, Nevada / 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.
DEFCON China 1.0
Beijing
The first official international DEFCON edition, whose Joe Grand-designed flexible PCB badge used a tree-lighting game, USB, accelerometer input, role variants, and open design files.
Hackaday Supercon 2019
Supplyframe DesignLab and Los Angeles College of Music, Pasadena, California
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.
NorthSec 2019
Montreal
The Montreal NorthSec 2019 edition whose public badge repository documents an nRF52832 and STM32F070 electronic badge with OLED, BLE, NeoPixel RGB LEDs, USB, Li-ion battery support, hardware files, firmware, games, challenges, and schedule code.
Hackfest 2019
Plaza, Quebec City
The October 31-November 2, 2019 Hackfest 11 / Upside Down edition in Quebec City, where the official Hackfest history says the CTF introduced an electronic badge that was an immediate hit with participants.
BSides Vancouver 2019
Vancouver, British Columbia
The 2019 BSides Vancouver edition represented here by TwinkleTwinkie's public DEF CON 27 Hardware Hacking Village bio, which lists the BSides Vancouver 2019 Badge among notable artistic PCB badge work.
RVAsec 2019
Richmond Marriott, Richmond, Virginia
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.
HITCON CMT 2019
Taipei
The HITCON CMT 2019 edition whose official event page documented a Taiwan-shaped electronic board badge, sponsor challenge LED unlocks, and an ARM TrustZone badge challenge.
ROOTCON 13
Taal Vista Hotel, Tagaytay City
The September 25-27, 2019 ROOTCON edition whose official archive, quick guide, and sponsor prospectus documented the Tagaytay event and ROOTCON 13 custom programmable conference badge sponsor-placement add-on.
HITBSecConf2019 Amsterdam
DoubleTree by Hilton Amsterdam Centraal Station / Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
The May 6-10, 2019 tenth annual HITB Security Conference in the Netherlands, whose official archive documented a 10th-anniversary special-edition electronic badge and HITB Badge Village reprogramming and challenge path.
ARAMCON 2019
Israel
The Israeli ARAMCON 2019 event whose smart badge is documented through CircuitPython board support, public hardware files, firmware repositories, and a production writeup.
BSides Puerto Rico 2019
Puerto Rico Convention Center, San Juan
The October 11, 2019 Caribbean Security BSides edition whose public badge documentation and GitHub repository preserve a DIY ATtiny13A soldering badge kit with Apache-licensed assembled-badge photos.
Kernelcon 2019
Embassy Suites by Hilton Omaha Downtown Old Market, Omaha, Nebraska
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.
BSides Canberra 2019
Canberra
The Australian BSides Canberra edition whose ticketing page included an electronic badge, whose Hardware Hacking Village page documents badge firmware reflashing, and whose later speaker-export trail identifies the 2019 badge firmware as Nopia 1337.
CrikeyCon VI
Riverside Receptions, Brisbane
The April 6-7, 2019 sixth CrikeyCon edition whose official archive documents pre-registration, Friendly Bear name badges, event-staff badges, and special speaker badges.
linux.conf.au 2019 E-ALE
University of Canterbury, Christchurch
The January 21-25, 2019 Christchurch linux.conf.au edition whose Apprentice Linux Engineer track required a purchased Floral Bonnet board for Raspberry Pi Zero hands-on labs, sensors, LEDs, buttons, and driver-writing seminars.
linux.conf.au 2019 Open Hardware Miniconf
University of Canterbury, Christchurch
The January 21-25, 2019 Christchurch linux.conf.au edition whose Open Hardware Miniconf included a source-backed Donkey Car self-driving car kit lineage built around Raspberry Pi camera control and TensorFlow training.
CHCon 2019
The Christchurch Arts Centre, Christchurch
The October 9-11, 2019 Christchurch Hacker Conference edition whose official about and sponsorship pages document cyber, physical, and electronic CTF challenges plus identification tags/badges and printed materials.
NotPinkCon 2019
Universidad del CEMA, Buenos Aires
The August 30, 2019 Buenos Aires information-security conference whose CFP preserved a speaker VIP badge benefit while making no public electronic-badge claim.
BSides Cape Town 2019
Cape Town
A South African BSides edition represented by source-backed evidence for an ESP32-WROOM-32U badge and surviving firmware references.
AVTOKYO 2019
TK SHIBUYA, Tokyo
The AVTOKYO 2019 edition at TK SHIBUYA, where the event programme listed Hackerware.io's hardware soldering village and Abhinav SP documented a cocktail-glass blinky PCB badge.
CODE BLUE 2019
BELLESALLE Shibuya Garden, Tokyo
The Tokyo CODE BLUE 2019 edition held October 29-30, 2019, where the first CODE BLUE soldering village used a simple Halloween-themed blinky PCB badge.
HackerHotel 2019
Garderen
A hotel-format Dutch hacker event badge built from SHA2017 leftovers with new audio, IR, Grove, and SAO features.
ETH0 2019
Netherlands
A small DIY protoboard badge documented by Badge.Team as a simple, fun badge for building circuits.
Disobey 2019
Helsinki
A Finnish event badge with ESP32 MicroPython, Hatchery apps, LEDs, screen, buzzer, IR, and puzzle pointers.
CampZone 2019
Netherlands
A Badge.Team firmware badge with app development docs, Hatchery workflow, hardware-mod notes, OTA setup, and community firmware behavior.
35th Chaos Communication Congress
Leipzig
The 2018 Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, where Thomas Flummer produced an unofficial Labitat indie badge around the 35C3 Refreshing Memories visual theme.
Electromagnetic Field 2018
Eastnor Castle Deer Park
The TiLDA MK4 badge combined MicroPython, sensors, WiFi, GSM, and a badge store.
BornHack 2018
Funen
The 2018 badge combined a Happy Gecko controller with a Nordic nRF51 Bluetooth-capable microcontroller and breakout boards.
Fri3d Camp 2018
Belgium
The Ph0xx ESP32 fox badge year, with LED eyes, add-on jewels, battery power, touch input, and robot/hardware-hack paths.
Italian Hacker Camp 2018
Padova
The Italian Hacker Camp year with a Nokia-3310-inspired ESP32 badge built into a repurposed phone shell.
HaxoGreen 2018
Dudelange, Luxembourg
A Luxembourg hacker camp edition whose public FAQ documents camp wristbands and whose blog ticket post anchors the 2018 edition.
Area41 2018
Zürich, Switzerland
The June 15-16, 2018 Swiss security conference organized by DEFCON Switzerland, where attendees received an ESP8266/WiFi/display badge running the Proteus firmware ecosystem.
Camp++ 2018
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The sixth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, and bring-your-ticket arrival guidance rather than an electronic badge.
BruCON 0x0A
Belgium
The 10th BruCON edition, with an electronic badge documented through the event retrospective and public GitHub repository.
Hacktivity 2018
Budapest
A Hungarian IT-security conference with a public hardware-hacking badge guide, serial console workflow, CTF menu, UART jumpers, RF notes, and named developer credits.
Security Fest 2018
Gothenburg
The Swedish Security Fest edition with a simple but public challenge badge built around USB HID, serial output, DIP-switch paths, and an open SecBadge hardware repository.
SteelCon 2018
Sheffield
A UK security-conference year whose official badge timeline documents floppy disks as attendee badges, tied to a retro gaming area and orange shirts.
Hackaday Belgrade 2018
Belgrade
The retro-computing badge year: a PIC32 handheld with BASIC, CP/M/Z80 emulation, keyboard, color display, speaker, expansion header, and a strong badge-hacking ceremony culture.
NodeConf EU 2018
Kilkenny
The 2018 NodeConf EU edition in Kilkenny, Ireland, whose attendee badge was a NearForm Pixl.js/Espruino hackable JavaScript badge with public code and hardware design files.
DEF CON 26
Caesars Palace and Flamingo, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
DC503 at DEF CON 26
Las Vegas, Nevada / 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.
LayerOne 2018
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena, California
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.
SAINTCON 2018
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
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.
BSides Tampa 2018
Tampa, Florida
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
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon
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.
BSides Orlando 2018
Orlando, Florida
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.
CactusCon 2018
Mesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona
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.
ShmooCon XIV
Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, DC
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.
Recon Village at DEF CON 26
Las Vegas, Nevada / 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.
ToorCon San Diego 20
San Diego Westin Emerald Plaza, San Diego, California
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.
ToorCamp 2018
Doe Bay Resort & Spa, Orcas Island, Washington
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.
Hackaday Supercon 2018
Pasadena, California
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.
NorthSec 2018
Montreal
The Montreal NorthSec 2018 edition whose public badge repository documents an nRF52832 and STM32F070 electronic badge with OLED, BLE, NeoPixel RGB LEDs, buttons, rechargeable Li-ion battery support, USB charging, and schematics.
RVAsec 2018
Richmond Marriott, Richmond, Virginia
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.
HITCON CMT 2018
Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center 5F
The July 27-28, 2018 HITCON CMT edition whose official pages documented HITCON Wallet, a limited blockchain electronic badge bundled with Royal VIP and Premium passes and built around secure-element cold-wallet, e-paper, Wi-Fi, and BLE features.
ROOTCON 12
Taal Vista Hotel, Tagaytay City
The September 27-28, 2018 ROOTCON edition whose official archive and quick guide documented the Tagaytay event, registration package, and official ROOTCON badge inclusion, with a maker post preserving the ROOTCON 12 Electronic Badge title.
HITBSecConf2018 Amsterdam
NH Collection Amsterdam Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam
The April 9-13, 2018 Amsterdam HITB edition whose official CommSec Village page documented a Qihoo360 Unicorn Team electronic badge for registered conference attendees, with Badge Village support, mini-games, hidden challenges, and a published hardware-spec list.
JD-HITBSecConf2018 Beijing
Kempinski Hotel Beijing, Beijing
The October 29-November 2, 2018 first HITB Security Conference in China, whose official CommSec Village page documented a special-edition HITB2018PEK badge with Badge Village hacking support, mini-games, hidden challenges, and MTK-series hardware notes.
HITBSecConf2018 Dubai
Grand Hyatt Dubai, Dubai
Hack In The Box's 2018 return to Dubai and the Middle East after an eight-year hiatus, with a special-edition electronic badge for attendees and a Badge Village for reprogramming, unlocking features, mini-games, and functional expansion.
OzSecCon 2018
Melbourne, Australia
The 2018 Australian physical-security conference edition whose first-hand MOS & BOO wrap-up documents special OzSecCon speaker badges and shows the artifact as a green PCB-form speaker credential.
BSides Canberra 2018
Canberra
The Australian BSides Canberra edition whose public BUSSide and CSides source trail documents an electronic badge issued to 2,000 delegates and later developed into an ESP8266 hardware-interface tool.
CrikeyCon V
Riverside Receptions, Brisbane
The February 24, 2018 fifth CrikeyCon edition whose official archive documents Friday pre-registration badge collection and special speaker badges for presenters, trainers, and event/workshop holders.
BSides Perth 2018
UWA Business School, Crawley, Perth
The September 15-16, 2018 BSides Perth edition whose contemporary coverage documents redesigned handmade conference badges using a NodeMCU ESP8266 WiFi SoC and a badge-hack prize.
linux.conf.au 2018 Open Hardware Miniconf
Sydney, New South Wales
The January 2018 Sydney linux.conf.au edition whose Open Hardware Miniconf had participants building LoliBot ESP32 robot kits and adjacent MicroPython, FPGA, Tomu, and protocol-analysis hardware sessions.
CHCon 2018
UCSA Events Centre, Christchurch
The October 25-27, 2018 Christchurch Hacker Conference edition whose official page documents CTF, badge, and locksport challenges plus sponsor-funded identification tags/badges and printed materials.
Kiwicon 2038AD
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
The Wellington Kiwicon 2038AD edition held November 16-17, 2018 at the Michael Fowler Centre, whose official site required attendees to wear a Kiwicon2038 badge and lanyard visibly and bring the badge to the afterparty.
Purplecon 2018
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
The November 15, 2018 Wellington defensive-security conference whose official diary documents a lanyard and glow-in-the-dark star badge issued to attendees.
H2HC 2018
Sao Paulo
A Brazilian H2HC edition represented by a bottle-shaped ESP32 badge with OLED display, BLE behavior, six LEDs, and Arduino-based code documentation.
OPCDE Kenya 2018
Strathmore Business School, Nairobi
The OPCDE Kenya event run with AfricaHackOn in Nairobi, whose public agenda included a making-of session for the AfricaHackOn 2018 electronic conference badge.
Nullcon Goa 2018
Holiday Inn Resort, Mobor Beach, Cavelossim, Goa
The March 2-3, 2018 Nullcon Goa conference edition whose official archive, sponsors page, venue page, schedule, and volunteer page document conference registration, a Badge Sponsor, a Lanyard Sponsor, and visible badge requirements for volunteers.
SHA2017
Scoutinglandgoed Zeewolde
A milestone Badge.Team badge and predecessor to the modern Dutch camp badge ecosystem.
BornHack 2017
Funen
BornHack moved into programmable badges with a Happy Gecko microcontroller, OLED display, buttons, USB, and example code.
ZeTeCo 2017
near Luzern
A Swiss Zeltlager fuer Technik- und Computerfreunde camp with a public badge talk and archived camp wiki.
Camp++ 2017
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The fifth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, and bring-your-ticket arrival guidance rather than an electronic badge.
Gulaschprogrammiernacht 17
ZKM and HfG, Karlsruhe
Entropia's 2017 Karlsruhe hackathon and conference, where the GPN17 Badge doubled as a GulaschPushNotifier, ROM-store device, and Hack-the-Badge target.
44CON 2017
London
The September 13-15, 2017 London 44CON edition whose official brochure documents the 44CON edition HIDIOT 1.0 badge from Raw Hex.
r2con 2017
Barcelona
The September 6-9, 2017 radare2 reverse-engineering congress in Barcelona, whose official schedule included NighterMan's r2con badge manufacturing talk and whose attendee reporting documents a limited speaker/friends electronic badge.
NodeConf EU 2017
Kilkenny
The November 5-8, 2017 NodeConf EU edition in Kilkenny, Ireland, whose attendee badge was a NearForm/Espruino open-source hackable JavaScript badge.
DEF CON 25
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
DC503 Wagon Party 2017
United States / DC503 party archive
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.
LayerOne 2017
Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles, California
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.
SAINTCON 2017
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
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.
CypherCon 2.0
Discovery World, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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.
BSidesPDX 2017
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon
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
Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona
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.
THOTCON 0x8
Chicago, Illinois
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.
Recon Village at DEF CON 25
Las Vegas, Nevada / 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.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky
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
Supplyframe DesignLab and Los Angeles College of Music, Pasadena, California
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.
NorthSec 2017
Montreal
The Montreal NorthSec 2017 edition whose public badge repository documents the refreshed nRF51822 and STM32F072 electronic badge, OLED/BLE behavior, touch buttons, USB, batteries, firmware images, and schematic release.
RVAsec 2017
Richmond Marriott, Richmond, Virginia
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.
HITCON CMT 2017
Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei
The August 25-26, 2017 HITCON CMT edition whose official pages documented the first HITCON Badge Challenges electronic badge, powered by a MediaTek chipset with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, joystick, infrared, and LED display features.
ROOTCON 11
Taal Vista Hotel, Tagaytay City
The September 21-22, 2017 ROOTCON edition whose official archive and sponsorship kit documented an official ROOTCON 11 electronic badge with paid sponsor-logo placement.
Ruxcon 2017
CQ Function Centre, Melbourne, Australia
The October 21-22, 2017 Ruxcon edition in Melbourne whose official Hardware Hacking Village schedule documents the Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge session and whose public Darkglade/GitHub trail preserves ESP8266/NodeMCU badge firmware and flag walkthroughs.
CrikeyCon 2017
Polonia, Milton, Brisbane
The February 25, 2017 Brisbane edition whose official archive documents Friday pre-registration badge collection and whose CFP documents special speaker badges.
BSides Perth 2017
UWA Business School, Crawley, Perth
The inaugural BSides Perth edition at the University of Western Australia whose official blog and public repository document a Wemos D1 Mini, OLED, RGB shield, AA battery, acrylic-panel badge.
linux.conf.au 2017 Open Hardware Miniconf
Wrest Point, Hobart, Tasmania
The January 16-20, 2017 Hobart linux.conf.au edition whose Open Hardware Miniconf centered on the IoTuz ESP32 board, public KiCad hardware, firmware setup, and ESP32 software talks.
H2HC 2017
Brazil
A Brazilian H2HC edition represented by a small ATTiny85 USB HID injector badge based on the Wattuino Nanite 85 and documented by Security-Bits.
BSides Cape Town 2017
Central Park Building, Black River Park, Cape Town
A South African BSides edition whose RFCat challenge writeup documents a two-part badge made from a black ESP-based flux-capacitor badge and a red CC1111 RF badge.
AfricaHackOn 2017
Nairobi
The fourth AfricaHackOn conference edition in Kenya, where a limited-run ESP8266 electronic badge tested local badge culture for speakers and selected attendees.
Electromagnetic Field 2016
Guildford
The TiLDA MK3 year, where MicroPython became central to the EMF badge experience.
BornHack 2016
Funen
The initial BornHack badge was a solder-it-yourself electronics kit with a Joule Thief LED circuit and prototyping area.
Fri3d Camp 2016
Belgium
The first documented Fri3d custom badge year, built as an Arduino-compatible AVR learning and IR interaction platform for attendees.
HaxoGreen 2016
Campsite Belvedere, Dudelange, Luxembourg
A Luxembourg hacker camp edition whose public wiki documents camp wristbands, infodesk pickup, hackerpassport stamps, tickets, and goodie bags rather than a sourceable electronic badge.
Camp++ 2016
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The fourth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, bring-your-ticket arrival guidance, and CAcert-assurance ID context rather than an electronic badge.
44CON 2016
London
The September 14-16, 2016 London 44CON edition whose official badge-onboarding post documents the HIDIOT 0.7 USB HID prototype board.
BalCCon2k16
Novi Sad
The first BalCCon official badge year, documented as a PIC-based LED, IR, TV-B-Gone, and password-manager badge by Voja Antonic.
Hackaday Belgrade 2016
Belgrade
Hackaday's first European conference, with an open-hardware PIC badge built around a red 8x16 LED matrix, IR communication, bootloader hacking, and demoscene energy.
DEF CON 24
Paris Hotel and Bally's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
LayerOne 2016
Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles, California
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.
SAINTCON 2016
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
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.
CarolinaCon 12
Hilton North Raleigh / Midtown, Raleigh, North Carolina
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.
BSidesPDX 2016
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon
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.
Hackaday Supercon 2016
Supplyframe DesignLab and Los Angeles College of Music, Pasadena, California
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.
NorthSec 2016
Montreal
The Montreal NorthSec 2016 edition whose public badge repository documents an nRF51822 and STM32F072 electronic badge with OLED, BLE, touch buttons, USB, battery management, LEDs, and SWD/DFU programming paths.
RVA5sec 2016
Richmond, Virginia
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.
Ruxcon 2016
CQ Function Centre, Melbourne, Australia
The October 22-23, 2016 Ruxcon edition in Melbourne whose official Hardware Hacking Village schedule and public Darkglade material preserve an STM32F030, IR, LED, CR2032, and firmware-source badge trail.
BSides Canberra 2016
Canberra Rex Hotel, Canberra
The April 15-16, 2016 BSides Canberra edition whose official event page anchors the Canberra Rex Hotel event context and whose contemporary Register coverage documents a home-made Arduino badge that displayed the conference running order.
linux.conf.au 2016 Open Hardware Miniconf
Geelong, Victoria
The February 1-5, 2016 Geelong linux.conf.au edition whose Open Hardware / Arduino Miniconf centered on the ESPlant ESP8266 environmental-sensor board, public hardware repository, assembly context, and attendee MQTT reuse.
Kiwicon X
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
The November 17-18, 2016 Wellington Kiwicon edition whose official site documents early ticket pickup and a Kiwicon X badge-and-lanyard visibility requirement at the Michael Fowler Centre.
BSides Cape Town 2016
Cape Town
A South African BSides edition whose ESP8266 badge used IR interactions, OLED UI, game factions, challenges, and post-event unlock tooling.
X-CTF 2016
NUS School of Computing, Singapore
The June 18, 2016 NUS Greyhats student cybersecurity finals in Singapore whose participants received a custom ESP8266 electronic badge with LCD, buttons, LiPo power, and public challenge firmware.
Chaos Communication Camp 2015
Ziegeleipark Mildenberg
The camp where rad1o turned the official badge into a serious SDR platform.
Camp++ 2015
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The third H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, advertised as the camp before the camp and source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, bring-your-ticket arrival guidance, and CAcert-assurance ID context rather than an electronic badge.
Nuit du Hack 2015
Académie Fratellini, La Plaine Saint-Denis
The 2015 Nuit du Hack edition whose official store sold an Electrolab-developed Arduino Micro-compatible electronic badge kit limited to 200 units.
DEF CON 23
Paris Hotel and Bally's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
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
Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles, California
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.
SAINTCON 2015
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
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 2015
Portland, Oregon
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.
NorthSec 2015
Bonsecours, Montreal
The Bonsecours NorthSec 2015 CTF edition whose official past-editions page documents 54 teams, team-of-eight competition structure, and hardware badges used for network, IPv6, RF-monitoring, smartcard, and related challenge paths.
RV4sec 2015
Richmond, Virginia
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.
Ruxcon 2015
CQ Function Centre, Melbourne, Australia
The October 24-25, 2015 Ruxcon edition in Melbourne whose public Hardware Hacking Village badge repository and build guide preserve an STM32 electronic badge with SMD assembly, CR2032 power, SWD programming, I2C errata, and firmware examples.
Kiwicon 9
St. James Theatre, Wellington
The December 10-11, 2015 Wellington Kiwicon edition whose official site documents a venue-visible badge requirement, early pickup, 1,400 expected attendees, and New Zealand hacker-conference context.
AVTOKYO 2015
Tokyo
The Japanese AVTOKYO 2015 edition whose official badge page documents an electrical attendee badge, public PCB design, and public Arduino program.
Electromagnetic Field 2014
Bletchley
The TiLDA MKe year, focused on schedules, radio base stations, and practical camp utilities.
Nuit du Hack 2014
Disneyland Resort Paris, New York Hotel
The Fnord Edition of Nuit du Hack, whose collector badge was an assemble-and-hack hardware challenge for a Black Badge life pass.
DEF CON 22
Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
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
New York City
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.
SAINTCON 2014
Ogden, Utah
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.
CactusCon 2014
Arizona / CactusCon local security conference
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.
RVAs3c 2014
Richmond, Virginia
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.
Nullcon Goa 2014
Goa
The Nullcon Goa 2014 edition whose official schedule included the Nullcon Hardware Badge 101 (Desi Jugaad) talk about the design, uses, evolution, and production problems of the 2014 hardware badge.
Observe. Hack. Make. 2013
Geestmerambacht
The 2013 Dutch camp is remembered more for camp identity artifacts such as hats and patches than for a modern electronic PCB badge.
Electromagnetic Wave 2013
Milton Keynes
The EMF spin-off event that used the SiNE badge for LED effects, IR-based games, locator beacons, and a scurvy-themed scavenger hunt.
Hackover 2013
Bürgerschule, Hannover
The second Hackover edition, whose ticket included an assembled and flashed badge PCB with ARM processor, 2.4 GHz radio, LCD, USB, and buttons.
CampZer0 2013
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The zeroth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, born after OHM2013 and source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, bring-your-ticket arrival guidance, optional CAcert-assurance ID context, ticket-price infrastructure lore, and CfP email context rather than an electronic badge.
DEF CON 21
Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
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
Commonwealth Ballroom at VCU University Commons, Richmond, Virginia
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.
WAHCKon 2013
Building 32, Edith Cowan University, Perth
The May 4-5, 2013 Perth WAHCKon edition whose official ticket page documents a WAHCKon 2013 badge included with the standard ticket.
Kiwicon 7
Wellington Opera House, Wellington
The November 9-10, 2013 Wellington Kiwicon edition whose official site documents Kiwicon 7 badge assembly, early pickup, ticket and merch workflow, and New Zealand hacker-conference context.
H2HC 2013
Sao Paulo
The 10th Hackers to Hackers Conference in Brazil, represented by an open-source LPC1343 ARM development badge documented by Great Scott Gadgets.
ZACon V
South Africa
A free South African security conference represented by Andrew MacPherson's source-backed mesh-networked badge with 433 MHz RF interaction tracking.
Electromagnetic Field 2012
Pineham Park
The first EMF badge year, introducing TiLDA as a radio-enabled Arduino-style camp badge.
DEF CON 20
Rio Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
ToorCon San Diego 14
San Diego Westin Emerald Plaza, San Diego, California
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.
RVAsec 2012
Commonwealth Ballroom at VCU University Commons, Richmond, Virginia
The June 15-16, 2012 RVAsec edition whose HackRVA repository preserves the RVAsec Badge 2012 hardware, Gerbers, documentation, graphics, and release firmware source.
Chaos Communication Camp 2011
Finowfurt Aviation Museum
The camp where r0ket introduced many attendees to the idea of a deeply hackable electronic camp badge.
TROOPERS11
Heidelberg
A German IT-security conference whose attendee badge used a nixie tube, score programmer, Cat-5 LANyard switch, capacitive touch secret, and hackable pad fields.
Nuit du Hack 2011
Disneyland Paris Conference Center
A French HackerzVoice security-conference edition with a public attendee report describing a 100% electronic badge and linked reverse-engineering tutorials by its designer.
DEF CON 19
Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
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
San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California
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.
Easterhegg 2010
Munich
The Munich Easterhegg edition whose eHaserl surprise badge was documented through assembly instructions, flashing notes, alternative software, and a public badge talk.
DEF CON 18
Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
Hacking at Random 2009
Vierhouten
The Dutch 2009 camp sits in the bridge period between early identity artifacts and the later Badge.Team-era electronic tradition.
DEF CON 17
Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
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
Artisan Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada / 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 16
Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
Chaos Communication Camp 2007
Finowfurt Aviation Museum
The camp where Sputnik/OpenBeacon active RFID tags turned attendance itself into a 2.4 GHz tracking and experimentation surface.
DEF CON 15
Las Vegas, Nevada
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 14
Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
What The Hack 2005
Liempde
The 2005 Dutch camp whose public badge-history record treats badges as simple or absent compared with later electronic devices.
DEF CON 13
Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
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 12
Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
Chaos Communication Camp 2003
Germany
The second Chaos Communication Camp sits between the early pass era and the later Sputnik/OpenBeacon infrastructure badge.
DEF CON 11
Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
The August 1-3, 2003 DEF CON edition represented here by an official-media-archive photographed pre-electronic human badge.
DEF CON 10
Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
The August 2-4, 2002 DEF CON tenth-anniversary edition represented here by an official-program and media-archive pre-electronic physical badge artifact.
Hackers At Large 2001
University of Twente, Enschede
A Dutch outdoor hacker camp in the post-HIP lineage, before electronic badges became a defining expectation.
DEF CON 9
Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
The July 13-15, 2001 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of a pre-electronic lanyard identity badge.
DEF CON 8
Alexis Park Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
The July 28-30, 2000 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of a pre-electronic lanyard identity badge.
Chaos Communication Camp 1999
Germany
The first Chaos Communication Camp belongs in the lineage as an early outdoor camp identity/pass era before public electronic badge records.
DEF CON 6
Plaza Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
The July 31-August 2, 1998 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of pre-electronic lanyard and waist credentials.
Hacking in Progress 1997
Netherlands
A Dutch camp predecessor remembered for on-site personalized photo badge production under 1997 field conditions.
DEF CON 5
Aladdin Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
The July 11-13, 1997 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of a pre-electronic hanging identity credential.
DEF CON 4
Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
The July 26-28, 1996 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of a pre-electronic chest identity credential.
DEF CON 3
Tropicana Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
The August 4-6, 1995 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of pre-electronic colored waist credentials.
DEF CON 2
Sahara Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
The July 22-24, 1994 DEF CON edition represented here by official-photo evidence of pre-electronic printed chest credentials.
Hacking at the End of the Universe 1993
Flevoland
The 1993 Dutch outdoor hacker camp whose Hitchhiker's Guide naming tradition echoes through later Dutch camps.
DEF CON 1
Sands Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
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.
Galactic Hacker Party 1989
Paradiso, Amsterdam
The origin point of the Dutch hacker camp lineage, documented as the beginning of the sequence that leads to WHY2025.