BalCCon

BalCCon2k16

The first BalCCon official badge year, documented as a PIC-based LED, IR, TV-B-Gone, and password-manager badge by Voja Antonic.

Novi Sad · Serbia · 2016

BalCCon 2016 Badge

BalCCon's first official badge combined synchronized LED patterns, IR badge-to-badge recognition, a TV-B-Gone mode, and a USB HID password manager.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

BalCCon 2016 Badge historical

infrared software mode

IR badge recognition and TV-B-Gone

The 2016 badge used IR for badge recognition/synchronization and TV-B-Gone-style code transmission.

Compatibility: BalCCon 2016 Badge

BalCCon 2016 Badge historical

software utility

USB HID password manager

The 2016 badge could act as a USB HID keyboard for generated passwords and random-number output.

Compatibility: BalCCon 2016 Badge

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

BalCCon 2016 Badge note

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

No BalCCon 2016 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The Serbia record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

BalCCon 2016 Badge note

source-depth caveat · project docs and article · needs original media recovery

The 2016 badge has strong project documentation, but the compendium still needs cleared original photos and any surviving official archive mirrors.

The current record is sourceable but publishes no image until licensed photos are cleared.

Resources

Conference badges are hardware art article · Voja Antonic's Hackaday article describing the BalCCon badge prototype lineage and IR synchronization idea. BalCCon 2016 badge project page · Hackaday.io project page for the first official BalCCon badge.

Sources

Hackaday: Conference badges are hardware art Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Design article for the BalCCon badge prototype lineage. Hackaday.io: BalCCon 2016 Badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project page for hardware and feature overview.