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HITCON 2025

The August 15-16, 2025 HITCON edition whose PCB Badge guide documents a hacker-pet badge, games, pedometer scoring, Red-vs-Blue tower capture, cross-board interaction, and BadUSB behavior.

Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei · Taiwan · 2025

HITCON 2025 PCB Badge

HITCON 2025's official PCB Badge guide and public technical repository document an attendee PCB badge with a hacker-pet mode, built-in games, pedometer scoring, cross-board interaction, BadUSB behavior, Red-vs-Blue tower-capture play, and released STM32CubeIDE-oriented firmware/PCB project materials.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

HITCON 2025 PCB Badge source-backed

badge game

Hacker Pet badge mode

The 2025 PCB Badge guide documents a Hacker Pet mode alongside score display and other badge activities.

Compatibility: HITCON 2025 PCB Badge

HITCON 2025 PCB Badge source-backed

protocol notes

BadUSB HID write protocol

The repository BadUSB notes document HID report framing, script loading, command bytes, and custom-HID interface context for writing scripts to the badge.

Compatibility: HITCON 2025 PCB Badge

HITCON 2025 PCB Badge source-backed

social badge interaction

Cross-board game battle

The 2025 guide documents cross-board interaction and game-battle behavior, pairing badge-to-badge play with Tetris, Dino, and Snake activities.

Compatibility: HITCON 2025 PCB Badge

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

HITCON 2025 PCB Badge note

remaining hardware caveat · source-backed but intentionally narrow · BOM and production notes recovered; still needs shipped-count and image provenance

Recovered official sources now include the PCB Badge guide, public technical repository, production BOM, production notes, firmware, PCB files, base-station/backend/game/web/software trees, hardware revision notes, timer/DMA details, menu-flow notes, and BadUSB protocol notes, but this pass still does not assert a shipped count or rights-cleared badge image.

The dossier records the verified interaction, production, and technical-archive surface while avoiding unsupported production-scale and image-provenance claims.

Resources

HITCON 2025 PCB Badge guide badge guide · Official 2025 badge guide documenting name editing, score display, Hacker Pet, Tetris, Dino, Snake, Red-vs-Blue tower capture, Re:CTF badge-ID binding, cross-board interaction, and BadUSB behavior. HITCON PCB Badge repository hardware and firmware source · Public repository documenting firmware, PCB, backend, base-station, game, web, and software project trees; README notes STM32CubeIDE firmware workflow, hardware-version selection, V2.2 2025 attendee hardware, IR, LED, button, and cross-board USART timer/DMA details, and BSD-3-Clause licensing. HITCON PCB Badge production notes manufacturing notes · Repository JLCPCB notes documenting black PCB color, lead-free HASL finish, two-sided standard assembly, flying-probe electrical test, production-file confirmation, and a list of not-assembled or missing-designator parts to check before ordering. HITCON PCB Badge JLCPCB BOM production BOM · Repository production CSV identifying STM32F103CBT6, USB-C connector, eight tactile switches, IR receiver, LSM6DS3 motion sensor, AAA battery holder, 128 LED positions, regulators, oscillator, and transistor parts for the V2.2 badge hardware archive. HITCON PCB Badge BadUSB repository notes protocol notes · Repository BadUSB notes documenting the HID write protocol, report-ID framing, set-name, clear-script, write-script, memory read/write commands, and Windows custom-HID interface development context. HITCON 2025 PCB Badge development talk talk record · Official agenda record naming the HITCON PCB Badge development talk and Justin / aoaaceai presenters. HITCON 2025 ticketing ticket page · KKTIX ticketing page corroborating August 15-16, 2025 dates, Academia Sinica venue, and welcome-kit attendee-badge inclusion. HITCON 2025 location venue page · Official location page for Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei, plus badge-wearing and venue-entry guidance.

Sources

GitHub: john0312/hitcon-pcb-badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary public technical archive for the HITCON PCB Badge, including firmware, PCB, base-station, backend, game, web, software, production BOM, production notes, hardware revisions through V2.2 2025 attendee hardware, timer/DMA details, and BSD-3-Clause licensed project release. HITCON: Welcome to HITCON PCB Badge Guide! Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary 2025 badge-guide source for name editing, score display, Hacker Pet, Tetris, Dino, Snake, Red-vs-Blue tower capture, Re:CTF badge-ID binding, cross-board interaction, and BadUSB behavior. HITCON 2025: HITCON PCB Badge Development Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official agenda record naming the PCB Badge development talk and Justin / aoaaceai presenters for badge-development context. HITCON 2025: Location Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary venue source for Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building in Taipei plus badge-wearing and entry guidance. KKTIX / HITCON: HITCON 2025 Ticketing Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Ticketing source for August 15-16, 2025 dates, venue, and welcome-kit attendee-badge inclusion.