PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
A conservative pre-event record for Tyler Crumpton's public plan to bring an even cooler MK.II electronic shelf-label badge to PhreakNIC 27, currently scheduled for November 6-7, 2026.
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PhreakNIC 27
The planned November 6-7, 2026 PhreakNIC edition, currently seeded from the public PhreakNIC site and Tyler Crumpton's PN26 project-owner writeup; the site promotes preregistration and challenge coins while final PN27 MK.II badge details remain unreleased.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee · United States · 2026
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
Planned specialty stations
The public plan sketches badge stations for hardware hacking, puzzles, games, a photo booth, or similar event-specific interactions.
Planned UART or wireless interaction
The project-owner plan calls out UART or wireless communication so stations can update badge state or behavior without reflashing a full image.
Planned self-service update stations
The next-version plan keeps the self-service update-station idea that was not fully reliable enough for PN26 field deployment.
Planned EEPROM image storage
The PN26 writeup lists EEPROM storage for image data as the first improvement target for the next version, avoiding PN26's full-firmware-patch workflow.
Operational history
Issues & Camp Impact
No PhreakNIC 27 image is published because the available public evidence does not provide a specific final badge photo or official raster render with source URL, reusable license or permission basis, attribution, and processing provenance.
The planned record stays image-free rather than reusing PN26 article photos, generated art, screenshots, or speculative visuals.
This record is seeded from a public project-owner plan before the November 6-7, 2026 event and does not claim that the MK.II badge has shipped.
The catalogue can track the announced lineage while keeping all final hardware, software, distribution, and production claims open until post-event sources appear.
The current public trail names a planned MK.II badge and desired improvements, while the live PhreakNIC site currently promotes preregistration and challenge coins rather than PN27 badge specifications. No dedicated PN27 repository, schematic, BOM, firmware tree, attendee guide, station code, production note, or final event schedule entry has been recovered.
The record avoids final component, firmware, interaction, and distribution claims until stronger PhreakNIC 27 sources appear.
Resources
PhreakNIC website
official event site · Official PhreakNIC website used as the live event-lineage anchor while the planned PN27 badge remains pre-event; the current page advertises preregistration and challenge coins, not final PN27 badge specifications.
Official PN26 Electronic Badge
project-owner writeup · Primary project-owner writeup that documents the PN26 ESL badge and explicitly says work was already underway on a cooler MK.II version for PhreakNIC 27, scheduled for November 6-7, 2026.
Sources
CrumpSpace / Tyler Crumpton: Official PN26 Electronic Badge
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Project-owner source for the public PN27 MK.II planning statement, future date, and expected follow-up direction from the PN26 ESL badge.
PhreakNIC: PhreakNIC
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official website anchor for the November 6-7, 2026 PhreakNIC event; the current public page promotes preregistration and challenge coins but is not final PN27 badge-spec evidence.