Hackers Teaching Hackers
Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026
The June 3-5, 2026 Spaceballs-themed Hackers Teaching Hackers practitioner conference, whose official materials document the Columbus-area hacker, village, and CTF event. A public post-event Eagle 5 firmware archive and attendee account establish an electronic badge trail, while final board, allocation, and organizer-owned 2026 repository evidence remain unrecovered.
BrewDog DogTap, Canal Winchester, Ohio · United States · 2026
badge I/O documentation
The README identifies a 74HC595 plus nine single-color LEDs, one RGB wing, and dual USB CDC roles. No schematic, PCB, wiring, electrical limits, display, button map, or final component-population documentation was recovered.
Compatibility: Eagle 5 2026 HTH source archive
badge controller and radio context
The Eagle 5 README identifies an nRF52840-QIAA controller and SX1262 LoRa radio. It does not state frequency configuration, regulatory region, antenna characteristics, actual transmit behavior, final board revision, or a complete radio/power design.
Compatibility: Eagle 5 2026 HTH source archive
communications firmware context
The README and changes document an RNode-oriented modem integration and Reticulum mesh context on the documented board. This is an archive-level capability statement only; the record does not state a frequency, configuration, deployment, coverage, legal authorization, field result, or operating procedure.
Compatibility: Eagle 5 2026 HTH source archive
event association
The Eagle 5 repository calls itself the HTH 2026 conference-badge firmware, and its publisher has a multi-year HTH badge archive. The official HTH organization previously forked the publisher's 2025 badge source. Together this supports a conservative badge-team association, not an assertion that HTH owned the 2026 repository or administered all distribution.
Compatibility: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
firmware license
The repository provides a GPLv3 root license and README statement for the firmware. That source-license record is kept separate from any physical badge, manufacturing, branding, image, or support claim.
Compatibility: Eagle 5 firmware source archive
firmware source archive
The July source archive includes firmware code for a badge CLI, LED animations, BLE-related components, and CTF state material. The catalogue records the published source context without giving operational, radio, flashing, or challenge-completion instructions or claiming a deployed production image.
Compatibility: Eagle 5 2026 HTH source archive
distribution, ticket, and attendee-handoff gap · official event and post-event archive sources · event complete; allocation outcome unrecovered
The entry does not turn a public source archive or one attendee account into a distribution record or a claim that every conference participant received the same badge.
final hardware, power, and electrical-safety gap · firmware README and repository-tree review · partial hardware summary public; production device unconfirmed
The catalogue preserves the narrow source-backed hardware outline without representing it as a complete build specification, safety assessment, compatibility guarantee, or fabrication recipe.
firmware license and photo-provenance boundary · repository README and root-license review · GPLv3 firmware source recorded; image provenance incomplete
GPLv3 source information is recorded for research, while any local photo asset remains blocked until its individual source, reuse basis, attribution, and processing record are complete.
firmware release and deployed-image gap · GitHub repository state · post-event initial source release visible; final device state unrecovered
The dossier treats it as valuable code evidence without claiming the current checkout is the final deployed badge firmware or a supported update/recovery path.
individual design and fulfillment-credit gap · named publisher and attendee sources · scoped publisher/attendee credits only
The catalogue credits only the named event organization, source publisher, and attendee report without inferring individual design, production, distribution, branding, or image-use roles.
missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying the repository photo, social-media media, GitHub previews, logos, screenshots, or generated/approximate badge imagery.
official 2026 repository-association boundary · convergent official-history and publisher sources · badge-team provenance supported; direct organizer 2026 repo link unrecovered
The catalogue records a real HTH 2026 electronic-badge source trail without claiming an organizer-owned repository, a formal event endorsement, or universal official issuance from affiliation alone.
radio scope, lawful-use, and field-operation boundary · source-backed capability but incomplete operational record · technical context documented; field use unverified
The catalogue records high-level communications capability only and deliberately omits operating instructions, frequency/configuration guidance, challenge tactics, and claims about lawful or safe field operation.