BSides Kristiansand
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.
Noroff University College Kristiansand Campus · Norway · 2025
A source-backed Norwegian Security BSides electronic badge record: Noroff's post-event report documents a custom SolaSec electronic duck badge with seven LED challenge indicators, the official recordings page preserves Caleb Davis's Sykt Badge talk, and Cryptax's CTF write-up documents RP2040/MicroPython behavior, USB serial access, Wi-Fi AP setup, and on-badge web challenges.
Lifecycle
Noroff reports that the duck-shaped electronic badge used seven LED lights, each representing a unique challenge, and quotes SolaSec saying there were seven different ways to hack it.
Cryptax's write-up records USB enumeration as a MicroPython board, a Raspberry Pi Pico W / RP2040 MicroPython banner, and a MicroPython REPL used to inspect files.
The badge created a DUCK-prefixed Wi-Fi access point, exposed an embedded web server at 192.168.4.1, and hosted CTF pages for flag capture.
The official recordings page preserves Caleb Davis's BSides Kristiansand 2025 talk about making the Sykt Badge.
Operational history
The record keeps this as a CTF-solving and archive detail rather than treating it as a badge defect or official intended workflow.
The catalogue records observed hardware and software behavior while avoiding unrecovered component, board-source, and manufacturing claims.
The Norway record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event-site media, school-news photos, attendee screenshots, or generated badge art.