BSides Adelaide

BSides Adelaide 2024

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.

Lot Fourteen, Adelaide · Australia · 2024

BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge

BSides Adelaide 2024's first Wombat badge is preserved through creator-published Hackerware and Hackster sources as a full-colour UV-printed CTF hardware badge with Nuvoton MS51FB9AE controller, CH340G USB serial, RGB LED, six challenge LEDs, CR2032 power, and attendee LED soldering.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge source-backed

badge challenge

USB CTF flag unlocks

The 2024 badge used micro-USB CTF interaction, correct flags, persistent progress, and LED animations to show unlocked challenge state.

Compatibility: BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge

BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge source-backed

hardware architecture

MS51FB9AE CTF badge core

The 2024 Wombat badge combined a custom PCB, MS51FB9AE Nuvoton microcontroller, CH340G USB serial, micro-USB, RGB LED, six challenge LEDs, CR2032 holder, and slide switch.

Compatibility: BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge

BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge source-backed

workshop village

Hardware-village LED soldering

Attendees personalized the badge at the conference by soldering their own 1206 SMD challenge LEDs with hardware-village support.

Compatibility: BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge note

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

No local BSides Adelaide 2024 badge image is published because the recovered Hackerware, Hackster, and event-page images have not been paired with explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes for catalogue publication.

The entry stays source-backed and image-free rather than copying project photos, event gallery images, or using generated artwork.

BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge note

source-code archive gap · source-backed but incomplete · needs public firmware or schematic recovery

The recovered sources document hardware components, soldering, USB CTF interaction, and LED progress behavior, but this pass did not recover a public firmware, schematic, PCB, BOM, or gerber archive.

The dossier records the verified badge behavior while avoiding unsupported pinout, firmware, protocol, or source-release claims.

Resources

BSides Adelaide Wombat Badge badge page · Hackerware badge page describing the full-colour UV-printed CTF badge crafted for BSides Adelaide and linking build/CTF material. The FALKEN Wombat Badge badge writeup · Project-owner Hackster source for the 2024 badge concept, MS51FB9AE/CH340G hardware, LED layout, CTF behavior, and hardware village soldering. Wombat badge soldering tutorial build guide PDF · Soldering PDF documenting pre-soldered components, 1206 SMD LED placement, polarity, CR2032 power, micro-USB warning, and CTF LED progress. BSides Adelaide 2024 archive event archive · Official previous-event page preserving 2024 BSides Adelaide material and event context. BSides Adelaide FAQ event context · Official FAQ source describing BSides Adelaide as a hands-on community cybersecurity conference and identifying the 2024 edition as the first BSides Adelaide.

Sources

BSides Adelaide: FAQs Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event-context source for the hands-on BSides Adelaide format and statement that 2024 was the first BSides Adelaide edition. Hackerware: The BSides Adelaide Wombat Badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge page source for the full-colour UV-printed CTF badge made for BSides Adelaide and linked soldering/CTF material. Hackerwares: The BSides Adelaide Wombat Badge Soldering Tutorial Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary build-guide source for pre-soldered components, 1206 SMD LED soldering, LED polarity, CR2032 use, and micro-USB power warning. Hackster.io / Abhinav SP: The FALKEN Wombat Badge | BSides Adelaide Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source for the 2024 Wombat badge hardware components, cyborg-art concept, CTF LEDs, micro-USB interaction, flag persistence, and soldering village.