BSidesSF
The May 4-5, 2024 San Francisco Security BSides edition whose official Sched archive documents a Hardware Challenge Village using a specially designed HCV badge for electronics tinkering and badge CTF contest play.
City View at Metreon, San Francisco, California · United States · 2024
The BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village badge is a source-backed village badge used for electronics tinkering and a competitive badge CTF contest at City View at Metreon, with attendee-report evidence for a screen, joystick, battery or USB-C power, and badge-to-badge clue exchange.
Lifecycle
The same attendee report says each badge arrived with one pre-installed clue and could connect to other badges so participants could exchange clues while solving puzzles, ciphers, games, and hacks.
The 2024 Hardware Challenge Village description ties the badge to a competitive badge CTF contest and hands-on electronics tinkering.
A Veritas attendee report describes the 2024 HCV badge as an integrated-circuit electronic badge with a four-line LED screen and joystick, powered by battery or USB-C.
The official 2024 schedule says the Hardware Challenge Village used a specially designed village badge for HCV.
Operational history
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event-page graphics, sponsor avatars, social photos, or screenshots.
The catalogue can describe observed user-facing badge behavior while leaving schematic, firmware, and manufacturing details for a later badge-team archive.