NorthSec
The May 9-17, 2026 Montreal NorthSec edition whose official registration page offered a new social electronic badge while supplies lasted and whose villages material documented badge soldering, badge-enhancement activity, and a badge museum.
Bonsecours Market, Montreal · Canada · 2026
NorthSec 2026's official registration page lists a new social electronic badge as an included item for conference, CTF, combo, and training ticket holders while supplies lasted. The official villages and community-schedule pages document badge pickup through attendees' nSec order QR codes, soldering-village activity where attendees could enhance their badge with blinking electronic parts, plus a badge museum showing NorthSec's electronic-badge history.
Lifecycle
The registration page lists a new social electronic badge as an included item for multiple NorthSec 2026 ticket classes while supplies lasted.
The villages schedule told attendees to retrieve goodies such as their t-shirt and badge using the QR code in their nSec order email.
The official villages page describes a Badge Museum documenting NorthSec's long-running electronic-badge history and open-hardware culture.
The villages material describes enhancing the NorthSec badge with blinking electronic parts during soldering-village activity.
Operational history
The catalogue avoids inventing microcontroller, radio, LED, display, firmware, or game details until primary hardware/software sources appear.
The record stays visible and source-backed without using generated, placeholder, social-media, or uncleared event imagery.