Kiwicon

Kiwicon 2038AD

The Wellington Kiwicon 2038AD edition held November 16-17, 2018 at the Michael Fowler Centre, whose official site required attendees to wear a Kiwicon2038 badge and lanyard visibly and bring the badge to the afterparty.

Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington · New Zealand · 2018

Kiwicon 2038 Badge and Lanyard

Kiwicon 2038's official site required attendees to wear a Kiwicon2038 badge and lanyard visibly during the conference and to bring the badge to the afterparty.

Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking Training Badge

Kiwicon 2038's official Intro to Badge Hacking training page documents a one-day workshop where attendees built and hacked their own conference badge from supplied electrical components and tools.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking Training Badge source-backed

firmware training

Arduino IDE programming workflow

Participants learned IC programming and used the Arduino IDE, then shared code and developed new badge features with others at the conference.

Compatibility: Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking Training Badge

Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking Training Badge source-backed

training artifact

Supplied electrical badge kit

The official training page says all components and tools required to create a standard conference badge were supplied during the one-day workshop.

Compatibility: Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking Training Badge

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking Training Badge note

hardware-detail caveat · source-backed but incomplete · needs public schematic or participant notes

The official source documents supplied electrical components, tools, soldering, IC programming, and Arduino IDE use, but not the exact PCB, chip, battery, display, schematic, or firmware.

The record avoids inventing component-level details until a workshop handout, schematic, or first-hand writeup is recovered.

Kiwicon 2038 Badge and Lanyard note

identity-artifact classification · official source · documented

The official Kiwicon 2038 source trail proves a badge and lanyard credential but not a public electronic attendee badge.

The entry is intentionally modeled as a conference identity artifact so New Zealand coverage expands without inventing hardware, firmware, RF, CTF, or PCB claims.

Kiwicon 2038 Badge and Lanyard note

image provenance · source-backed · licensed original replacement applied

The Kiwicon 2038 visual uses Kristina D.C. Hoeppner / 4nitsirk's Flickr documentary photo `Kiwicon 2038AD name badge` under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The entry now has a real rights-cleared lanyard/name-badge photo while preserving the rule against generated, placeholder, social-media, conference-gallery, or uncleared event imagery.

Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking Training Badge note

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

No Kiwicon 2038 training badge image is published because no reusable original photo with complete source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes has been recovered.

The training-badge record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery or using generated art.

Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking Training Badge note

training-artifact classification · official source · documented

The official page proves a badge created in a training workshop, not necessarily the main attendee credential or a public mass-distributed badge.

The compendium keeps the artifact in the Kiwicon lineage while distinguishing a classroom build from a con-wide badge issue.

Resources

Kiwicon 2038AD home and news event page · Official event page and news feed documenting the Michael Fowler Centre return, November 16-17 dates, ticket pickup, visible Kiwicon2038 badge-and-lanyard requirement, and afterparty badge requirement. Kiwicon 2038 FAQ faq · Official FAQ corroborating the November 16-17, 2018 Wellington dates and Michael Fowler Centre venue. Kiwicon 2038AD name badge photo licensed photo · Flickr source for Kristina D.C. Hoeppner / 4nitsirk's CC BY-SA 2.0 documentary photo of the Kiwicon 2038 lanyard and mirrored name-badge credential. Intro to Badge Hacking training training page · Official training page documenting a one-day badge-hacking course with circuit components, soldering, IC programming, Arduino IDE work, and a conference-badge build. Intro to Badge Hacking training training page · Official training page documenting the one-day Kiwicon 2038 badge-hacking workshop, supplied components and tools, soldering, IC programming, Arduino IDE workflow, and standard conference-badge build.

Sources

Flickr: Kiwicon 2038AD name badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY-SA 2.0 image-provenance source for Kristina D.C. Hoeppner / 4nitsirk's documentary photo of the Kiwicon 2038 lanyard and mirrored badge credential. Kiwicon Heavy Industries: Intro to Badge Hacking Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary training source for badge-hacking course context, soldering, IC programming, Arduino IDE workflow, and conference-badge build language. Kiwicon Heavy Industries: Intro to Badge Hacking Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary source for the Kiwicon 2038 training-badge artifact, including one-day duration, supplied components/tools, circuit components, soldering, IC programming, Arduino IDE workflow, and collaborative feature-development framing. Kiwicon Heavy Industries: Kiwicon 2038 FAQ Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary FAQ source for November 16-17, 2018 dates and Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington location. Kiwicon Heavy Industries: Kiwicon 2038AD Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event/news source for the 2018 Wellington event, visible Kiwicon2038 badge-and-lanyard requirement, afterparty badge requirement, ticket-pickup context, and organizer attribution.