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BSidesKC 2025

The April 25-26, 2025 Kansas City Security BSides edition listed by BSides Global, whose Badge Pirates source trail documents a fully electronic ESP32 touchscreen badge order, customs delay, and pickup or shipping fulfillment plan.

Kansas City, Missouri · United States · 2025

BSidesKC 2025 Badge

The BSidesKC 2025 badge was a Badge Pirates fully electronic conference badge documented through public production and fulfillment updates: 250 fully assembled ESP32 touchscreen badges from PCBWay with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, customs delays, tariff impact, and post-event pickup or shipping handling. A current maker-hosted flasher identifies its target as ESP32-S3, while a 2026 Badge Pirates announcement says the delayed 2025 hardware, not a new board, received a Lunar Lander contest continuation for BSidesKC's Ad Astra programme.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

BSidesKC 2025 Badge maker-announced; no new hardware

cross-year firmware programme

2026 Ad Astra Lunar Lander continuation

Badge Pirates said it ported a Lunar Lander contest to last year's BSidesKC badge for the April 2026 Ad Astra programme, told owners to bring that badge, and expressly said there was no new hardware. The announcement does not prove an individual badge was reflashed or used at the event.

Compatibility: BSidesKC 2025 Badge only; not evidence of a separate 2026 hardware badge

BSidesKC 2025 Badge current binary manifest

firmware delivery

Maker-hosted ESP32-S3 browser flash path

Badge Pirates' selectable BSidesKC 25 manifest names version 1.0.0 and an ESP32-S3 bootloader, partition, and firmware-binary path for browser flashing. It does not publish source code, a signed release, or a mapping to the 2026 Lunar Lander continuation.

Compatibility: BSidesKC 2025 Badge; exact module and deployed build remain unconfirmed

BSidesKC 2025 Badge badge-maker documented

fulfillment process

Pickup or shipping fulfillment path

The Badge Pirates shipping update says badge purchasers would be emailed after customs clearance and could choose pickup at later events or mailed delivery.

Compatibility: BSidesKC 2025 Badge orders

BSidesKC 2025 Badge badge-maker documented

production batch

250 fully assembled ESP32 badges

Badge Pirates documents a batch of 250 fully electronic badges built around ESP32 boards with touch screens, Wi-Fi, and SD card slots.

Compatibility: BSidesKC 2025 Badge

BSidesKC 2025 Badge badge-maker documented

production constraint

Tariff and customs production lesson

The tariff writeup records customs scrutiny, opened packaging, delayed delivery, and roughly a 20 percent tariff hit on the production order.

Compatibility: BSidesKC 2025 Badge manufacturing

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

BSidesKC 2025 Badge note

fulfillment and cross-year use caveat · badge-maker fulfillment and continuation updates · documented; actual 2026 deployment unconfirmed

Badge Pirates said the badges were held at U.S. Customs after the 2025 event and that purchasers would be contacted for pickup or shipping once they cleared. Its later announcement says last year's badge was finally getting the conference it missed, but does not report how many prior owners received, reflashed, brought, or used the hardware at BSidesKC 2026.

The record presents real delivery friction and the announced later programme without implying frictionless 2025 distribution or universal 2026 participation.

BSidesKC 2025 Badge note

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

No BSidesKC 2025 badge image is published because the recovered Badge Pirates production, continuation, and firmware-delivery pages expose no reusable physical badge photo or full upstream raster render with complete license, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance.

The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying blog art, firmware-page imagery, screenshots, social photos, or generated approximations.

BSidesKC 2025 Badge note

technical-source gap · badge-maker production and binary-delivery sources with limited archive depth · binary delivery documented; needs schematic, BOM, source, and deployment recovery

The public sources prove an ESP32 touchscreen badge batch with Wi-Fi, SD card slots, PCBWay assembly, customs/tariff logistics, and a selectable ESP32-S3 binary manifest. They still do not recover a schematic, BOM, Gerbers, source code, changelog, signed release, challenge files, battery details, full component placement record, or source-to-event deployment mapping.

The catalogue records the verified chip-family flashing target and maker-announced continuation while avoiding unsupported board, firmware-source, challenge, and production claims.

Resources

Badge Pirates 2026 Ad Astra update badge-maker continuation update · Badge Pirates' public update says the delayed prior-year badge received a Lunar Lander contest port for BSidesKC 2026, instructs owners to bring it, and expressly says there was no new hardware. BSidesKC 2025 tariff writeup badge-maker production writeup · Badge Pirates production source documenting 250 fully assembled ESP32 electronic badges from PCBWay with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, customs scrutiny, and tariff impact. BSidesKC 2025 BSides Global listing event metadata · BSides Global event listing for the April 25-26, 2025 BSidesKC event tagged Kansas City and USA. Badge Pirates firmware flasher firmware delivery · Maker-hosted browser flasher with a selectable BSidesKC 25 entry and USB delivery path. It does not identify its presented firmware as the 2026 Ad Astra build. BSidesKC 25 ESP32-S3 flash manifest firmware manifest · Machine-readable maker-hosted manifest identifying BSidesKC 2025 version 1.0.0 as an ESP32-S3 target with bootloader, partition, and firmware binary paths; it is binary delivery evidence, not public source code or a dated event-deployment record. BSidesKC 2025 badge shipping update fulfillment update · Badge Pirates update documenting BSidesKC 2025 badge orders, U.S. Customs hold status, and planned pickup or shipping choices for badge purchasers. BSidesKC 2026 official event page official cross-year event context · Official source for the April 25, 2026 Kansas City Kansas Community College event named in the later continuation context; it does not map an individual 2025 hardware unit to the event.

Sources

BSides Global: BSidesKC Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Event source for the April 25-26, 2025 Kansas City, USA BSidesKC listing. BSidesKC: BSidesKC 2026 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official source for the April 25, 2026 event context referenced by the maker's prior-badge continuation update; it does not independently confirm actual reflashing or participant use of a 2025 unit. Badge Pirates: BSidesKC 25 flash manifest Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Maker-hosted version 1.0.0 manifest for the selectable BSidesKC 25 browser-flasher target, identifying an ESP32-S3 chip-family build and binary components. It does not name an Ad Astra release or publish source code. Badge Pirates: BSidesKC Tariff Woahs Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary production source for the 250 fully assembled ESP32 badges, 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, PCBWay assembly, customs inspection, and tariff impact. Badge Pirates: Badge Pirates BSidesKC 2026 Ad Astra update Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Clearly attributable badge-maker update saying a Lunar Lander contest was ported to last year's BSidesKC badge for 2026, with no new hardware. Badge Pirates: Bsideskc badge shipping update Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary fulfillment source for BSidesKC 2025 badge orders, customs hold status, and pickup or shipping plan.