NorthSec

NorthSec 2016

The Montreal NorthSec 2016 edition whose public badge repository documents an nRF51822 and STM32F072 electronic badge with OLED, BLE, touch buttons, USB, battery management, LEDs, and SWD/DFU programming paths.

Montreal · Canada · 2016

NorthSec 2016 Badge

NorthSec's public 2016 badge repository documents an electronic attendee badge with nRF51822 and STM32F072CB microcontrollers, OLED display, BLE, battery management, touch buttons, red/green LEDs, USB, SWD programming, and STM32 USB DFU support.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

NorthSec 2016 Badge archived

firmware workflow

SWD and STM32 USB DFU workflow

The README documents SWD programming for both MCUs and USB DFU flashing for the STM32 side.

Compatibility: NorthSec 2016 Badge

NorthSec 2016 Badge source-backed

hardware architecture

Dual MCU OLED/BLE core

The 2016 badge paired nRF51822 OLED/BLE/battery/LED control with an STM32F072 USB and touch-button controller.

Compatibility: NorthSec 2016 Badge

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

NorthSec 2016 Badge note

license dependency caveat · primary README · documented

The README notes nonfree Nordic SDK, SoftDevice, and Atollic linker-script dependencies around the public firmware workflow.

The catalogue treats the hardware and source trail as public but does not imply that every upstream dependency is freely redistributable.

NorthSec 2016 Badge note

missing rights-cleared image · policy decision · open

No 2016 badge image is published locally because this pass did not verify source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, processing notes, and documentary-photo or official-raster provenance for a specific image.

The record remains text-source complete while avoiding generated, placeholder, or uncleared imagery.

Resources

NorthSec past editions event lineage · Official NorthSec source documenting 2016 as the year training sessions were added and every conference and competition attendee received a hardware badge. NorthSec 2016 badge README source · Primary repository README for nRF51822, STM32F072CB, OLED, BLE, battery management, touch buttons, LEDs, USB, SWD, USB DFU, and SDK caveats. NorthSec 2016 badge repository tag source · Public repository tag preserving the 2016 badge hardware and firmware context.

Sources

NorthSec: Past editions Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official lineage source proving that NorthSec 2016 gave a hardware badge to every conference and competition attendee. NorthSec / GitHub: NorthSec 2016 badge README Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary technical source for the nRF51822/STM32F072 badge, OLED, BLE, battery management, buttons, USB, SWD, DFU, and software dependency caveats.