PhreakNIC

PhreakNIC 27

Name: PhreakNIC 27
Location: Clarion Inn & Suites, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

The planned November 6-7, 2026 PhreakNIC edition at the Clarion Inn & Suites in Murfreesboro, seeded from the official PhreakNIC site and Tyler Crumpton's PN26 project-owner writeup. The site promotes preregistration, challenge coins, and the PHREAKMYST CTF, and since September 30, 2026 has posted a PN27 badge sneak peek (new frame, wireless features, disk slot, LEGO-compatible shutter), an October 9 schedule entry for the badge talk Shelf Label 2: Electric Badge-a-loo, and an October 21 Badge Customizer for printing custom floppy-disk shutters. Final badge electronics and distribution remain unreleased.

Clarion Inn & Suites, Murfreesboro, Tennessee · United States · 2026

PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge

A pre-event record for the PhreakNIC 27 badge ahead of the November 6-7, 2026 conference in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Tyler Crumpton's PN26 writeup announced a cooler MK.II electronic shelf-label badge, and the official PhreakNIC site now confirms it: a September 30, 2026 sneak peek describes a new frame, wireless features, a disk slot, and a LEGO-compatible customizable shutter slider; an October 9 schedule entry for his talk Shelf Label 2: Electric Badge-a-loo says the badge is built on the same recycled hardware as PN26's with conference customization, wireless communication, and battery-less operation; and an October 21 Badge Customizer lets attendees design and download STLs for their own floppy-disk shutter. Final electronics, firmware, and handout are not yet documented.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge official pre-event tool

case customization

LEGO-compatible floppy shutter

The badge frame has a LEGO-compatible 2x4 socket where a floppy disk's shutter would sit, and the official Badge Customizer exports STLs for a custom printed shutter with drawn, typed, or imported SVG artwork in several filament colours.

Compatibility: PhreakNIC 27 badge frame

PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge planned

planned badge interaction

Planned specialty stations

The public plan sketches badge stations for hardware hacking, puzzles, games, a photo booth, or similar event-specific interactions.

Compatibility: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge

PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge planned

planned communication path

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.

Compatibility: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge

PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge planned

planned event tooling

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.

Compatibility: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge

PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge planned

planned firmware improvement

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.

Compatibility: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge note

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · open

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.

PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge note

pre-event badge caveat · project-owner plan and official pre-event posts · planned

This record is built from the project-owner plan and official pre-event posts 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.

PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge note

shutter fit caveat · official customizer notice · documented limitation

The customizer's info box says its author probably cannot guarantee that a printed shutter will fit perfectly and suggests checking against real LEGO bricks.

Printed shutters may need adjustment; the record makes no fit or tolerance claim.

PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge note

source-depth caveat · project-owner plan plus official teaser, talk abstract, and case customizer · needs post-event source recovery

Official posts now confirm the floppy-disk frame, LEGO-compatible shutter, recycled ESL hardware, wireless communication, and battery-less operation, but no PN27 repository, schematic, BOM, firmware, station code, or production note is public. The customizer credits its preview mesh to a pn27-badge project file named epop55-cassette, which hints at the label model without stating it, and the pn27-badge repository itself is not public.

The record avoids naming a shelf-label model, controller, radio, or power design until the talk or a release documents them.

Resources

PN27 Badge Customizer official case customizer · Official browser tool added on October 21, 2026 for designing a custom floppy-disk shutter for the badge's LEGO-compatible 2x4 socket: marker drawing, text in Osifont, Overpass, Orbitron, OCR-B, or Eat Fruits, SVG import, multi-colour inlay depth, and print-ready STL export. Its preview mesh is credited to a pn27-badge project file named epop55-cassette-stl-socket-4.stl. PhreakNIC website official event site · Official PhreakNIC website for the November 6-7, 2026 event at the Clarion Inn & Suites, Murfreesboro. Besides preregistration and challenge coins, its news feed carries the September 30, 2026 PN27 Badge Sneak Peek post by tylercrumpton (new frame, cool wireless features, a ka-chunk-y slot for the disk, and a LEGO-compatible customizable shutter slider bit) with an official reveal video that is not reused here. Shelf Label 2: Electric Badge-a-loo official schedule entry · Official PN27 schedule entry, added October 9, 2026, for Tyler Crumpton's 11:30-11:50 talk on November 6: the badge is built on the same recycled hardware as PN26's, with conference customization, wireless communication, and battery-less operation. Phreaknic/phreaknic.info official site repository · Public source of the official site, including the September 30, 2026 badge-post commit, the October 9 schedule and speaker data, and the October 21 badge-customizer commit with its font and third-party notices. 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: Badge Customizer | phreaknic 27 Retrieved 2026-10-21 · Primary official source that the PN27 badge has a LEGO-compatible 2x4 socket on the front where the floppy-disk shutter would go and that attendees may print their own shutter; it documents the case, not the electronics. PhreakNIC: PhreakNIC Retrieved 2026-10-21 · Official website for the November 6-7, 2026 event. Its September 30, 2026 PN27 Badge Sneak Peek post is the first organizer source for the floppy-disk frame, disk slot, wireless features, and LEGO-compatible shutter; it gives no electronics specification. PhreakNIC: Shelf Label 2: Electric Badge-a-loo Retrieved 2026-10-21 · Primary official schedule abstract stating that the PN27 badge reuses PN26's recycled electronic shelf-label hardware and adds conference customization, wireless communication, and battery-less operation. It is a talk announcement, not a hardware release.