BSides Cape Town
A South African BSides edition whose ESP8266 badge used IR interactions, OLED UI, game factions, challenges, and post-event unlock tooling.
Cape Town · South Africa · 2016
A BSides Cape Town 2016 badge built around ESP8266, 128x64 OLED display, eight UI buttons, rear reset and program buttons, IR transmit and receive, level LEDs, faction RGB LED, USB-charged 600 mAh LiPo, schedule UI, challenges, and an organic faction game.
Lifecycle
The badge exposed unlockable games including two-player Pong and Rock/Paper/Scissors/Lizard/Spock badge-to-badge interaction.
A challenge-unlocked Warbadging mode scanned up to 30 nearby WiFi networks and displayed signal strength, ESSID, encryption type, and channel coverage.
Badges were assigned red, blue, or green factions and used IR interactions plus server-side logic to convert or level nearby badges during the conference.
After the conference, a badge-number form could output correct hashes to unlock all challenges and add-ons such as Pong, WiFi scanner, and animations.
Operational history
The record remains text-and-source only until a licensed documentary photo can be added.
The record documents the operational dependency that affects reuse of surviving badges.