BSidesKC
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.
Plexpod Westport, Kansas City, Missouri · United States · 2019
The BSidesKC 2019 conference badge was a Badge Pirates ESP8266 badge with Wi-Fi behavior, reverse-mount LEDs, participant/speaker/organizer/volunteer/sponsor/pirate variants, a related Jr Hacker badge, and a rights-cleared repository photo served locally as optimized WebP.
Lifecycle
The conference badge game used Wi-Fi beacons scattered around Plexpod Westport for attendee discovery and exploration.
Badge Pirates documents participant, speaker, organizer, volunteer, sponsor, and pirate badge designs for the 2019 BSidesKC badge family.
Challenge solvers could receive a Challenge Accepted SAO; the writeup says only two were awarded, one for crypto and one for the counterfeit-badge contest.
The related Jr Hacker badge used an ESP8266 platform with IR tag gameplay, speaker, vibration motor, and WS2812 hit counter, with source material preserved under shark-badge.
Badge Pirates says non-electronic participants received an electrically same PCB with clues for a crypto challenge, preserving participation without overclaiming electronics for every attendee artifact.
Badge Pirates documents an unofficial Pirate badge variant plus a counterfeit-badge challenge triggered after badge imagery leaked before the event.
Operational history
The record presents the badge as a real deployed event artifact with field power lessons rather than a frictionless reference design.
The catalogue avoids implying every BSidesKC attendee had a fully electronic badge while still recording the verified electronic badge ecosystem.
The public badge page, image archive, and API point at a real physical participant-badge photo with source URL, license, attribution, and WebP processing notes preserved.
