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RomHack Camp

RomHack Camp 2026

The completed October 2-4, 2026 RomHack Camp edition at Flaminio Village, the second RomHack hacker camp, advertised with a unique hardware badge, collectible challenge, participant FAQ, and on-site CTF context. A September 28 recheck found the site carrying a CAMP IS SOLD OUT banner while the participant FAQ's Cyber Saiyan stand listing adds The Camp electronic badge as a card-only on-site purchase item; a September 29-30 organizer release on GitHub and badge.romhack.io then published the ESP32-S3 Walkman-inspired badge's schematic, Gerbers, BOM, Tactility and Retro-Go firmware, and a browser flasher ahead of the camp. Firmware releases 0.2 to 0.4 followed on October 1-2; on October 4, the scheduled last day, the event site still read pre-event. By October 15 romhack.io states that RomHack Camp 2026 is over and thanks attendees, speakers, and volunteers, and Cyber Saiyan's official rhc2026-resources repository publishes the talk material and closing slides, which report 550 attendees, so the edition is marked completed. Badge handoff counts remain unpublished.

Flaminio Village, Rome · Italy · 2026

RomHack Camp 2026 Badge

The hardware badge of the October 2-4, 2026 RomHack Camp at Flaminio Village, whose event site and participant FAQ advertise a unique hardware badge and collectible challenge. On September 29-30, 2026, two days before the camp, Cyber Saiyan's official GitHub organization published the rhc2026-badge repository and the badge.romhack.io setup site: an ESP32-S3 handheld inspired by the Sony Walkman WM-22, with a 2.4-inch 320x240 ILI9341 screen, stereo audio and speaker, 22 RGB LEDs, a Ci522 13.56 MHz NFC reader, microSD, a LiPo battery, and USB-C, running a Tactility-based firmware with camp agenda, map, music player, a TagQuest NFC trivia hunt, and Retro-Go emulators. Firmware 0.4 was tagged on October 2, the camp's opening day. The camp has since ended (romhack.io: RomHack Camp 2026 is over; closing slides: 550 attendees), and the organizer README now opens with a Setup your badge link, but no source states how many badges were sold or handed out.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

RomHack Camp 2026 Badge camp completed; badge integration unpublished

CTF/event integration

RomHack Camp CTF finals context

The separate RomHack Camp CTF page provides the event-side context for tracking whether badge hardware becomes part of on-site challenge play.

Compatibility: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge

RomHack Camp 2026 Badge organizer firmware source

badge game

TagQuest NFC Cyber Trivia hunt

A Tactility app that scans NFC tags with the Ci522 reader and fetches a timed Cyber Trivia question from a server for each tag, with network and invalid-tag error handling; the setup site also links a Cyber Trivia challenge.

Compatibility: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge on camp Wi-Fi

RomHack Camp 2026 Badge announced pre-event; on-site mechanics unpublished

camp challenge surface

Collectible badge challenge

RomHack Camp 2026 was advertised pre-event with a unique hardware badge and collectible challenge. The released firmware's TagQuest app is the likely badge-side mechanic, but the organizers have not tied the two together in public text.

Compatibility: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge

RomHack Camp 2026 Badge organizer firmware source

firmware partition

Retro-Go emulator suite

A separately built Retro-Go launcher with NES, SNES, Game Boy and Color, Game & Watch, Master System, Game Gear, ColecoVision, PC Engine, and Lynx cores plus PrBoom for Doom, loading ROMs and WADs from microSD.

Compatibility: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge with a FAT32 microSD card

RomHack Camp 2026 Badge official site

setup tool

badge.romhack.io web flasher

Five-step setup guide and esptool-js Web Serial flasher for Chromium browsers serving firmware 0.1.1, plus demo Tactility apps (calculator, media keys, snake, brainfuck, vi, diceware).

Compatibility: RomHack Camp 2026 Badge over USB-C

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

RomHack Camp 2026 Badge low

I/O expander read quirk · community firmware author, one badge · workaround documented

Traboda OS's hardware notes report that a two-byte burst read of the AW9523B input ports intermittently returned a stale port 1, which looked like dead B and prev keys, phantom presses, and a phantom microSD card; single-register reads were always correct. The same notes say TinyUSB sometimes stalled during enumeration after a watchdog reset, while USB-Serial-JTAG did not.

Custom firmware should read the expander one register at a time. The observation comes from one community author and is not confirmed by the organizers.

RomHack Camp 2026 Badge note

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

No RomHack Camp 2026 Badge image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The Italy record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

RomHack Camp 2026 Badge note

post-camp distribution gap · official event page, organizer repositories, and closing slides · camp completed; badge count and handoff details unpublished

The camp is over by the organizer's own statement and its closing slides report 550 attendees, but no source states how many badges were made, sold at the Cyber Saiyan stand, or included with tickets, how the collectible challenge played out on site, or whether any field issues occurred. The pre-event record had been built from the September 29-30 hardware and firmware release.

The record describes the released design and firmware for a completed camp without asserting a badge count, inclusion with every ticket, or on-site behaviour.

Resources

RomHack Camp CTF CTF page · Official CTF page tying RomHack Camp to on-site finals and training-camp CTF context. RomHack 2026 badge BOM bill of materials · Bill of materials with LCSC part numbers for the AW9523, FM8002A, TP4056, TPS61023, AP2112K, USB-C, microSD, headphone jack, U.FL connectors, and tactile switches. Traboda OS community firmware · MIT-licensed MicroPython 1.29 companion and console firmware by Silvio De Pasquale, published October 12-14, 2026: launcher, Walkman music player, games, LED studio, NFC tool, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth tools, name tag, synth, and a Mac-fed dashboard, keeping the stock Retro-Go emulators in their own partitions. Not an organizer release. Traboda OS hardware notes community hardware reference · Pin map and quirks checked on a real badge: ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 N16R8, AW9523B at 0x58, ES8156 at 0x08, 22 WS2812-type LEDs behind a 74AHCT1G126 buffer, Ci522 with a PCB-coil antenna and parallel U.FL, Qwiic/STEMMA QT connector, debug header, and key wiring. RomHack Camp 2022 badge page lineage reference · Historical RHC22 badge page used as the previous source-backed RomHack Camp badge anchor. RomHack Camp 2026 closing slides official closing talk · Cyber Saiyan's October 4, 2026 closing session material; the slides report October 2-4, 2026, 550 attendees, target reached, and thank the staff, volunteers, attendees, and sponsors. They do not mention the badge or a badge count. RomHack Camp 2026 official event page · Public event page for the October 2-4, 2026 RomHack Camp at Flaminio Village and its unique hardware badge / collectible challenge. The September 28, 2026 recheck found a CAMP IS SOLD OUT banner; the 2026 design was published separately on GitHub and badge.romhack.io on September 29-30. The October 15, 2026 recheck found the page post-event: RomHack Camp 2026 is over, three days of talks, workshops, CTF, communities and a lot of good chaos at Flaminio Village, with thanks to everyone who came, spoke, volunteered, and played, and with a Camp 2026 Badge link to badge.romhack.io next to the Camp 2022 Badge page. CyberSaiyanIT/rhc2026-badge official hardware and firmware repository · Cyber Saiyan organization repository created September 16, 2026 and filled in from September 25 to 30 with the README hardware table, Tactility and Retro-Go firmware trees, a combined build script, microSD layout, and the hardware/ folder (schematic PDF, Gerbers, BOM, pick-and-place). The October 4, 2026 recheck found firmware tags 0.2 and 0.3 published on October 1 and 0.4 on October 2, 2026, the camp's opening day, plus an open pull request from October 3 adding FLAC playback to the music player. RomHack Camp participant FAQ official participant FAQ · Official participant FAQ source for the Flaminio Village setting, future badge-detail timing, hardware-badge inclusion, and collectible challenge wording. The September 28, 2026 recheck found the Cyber Saiyan on-site stand listing The Camp electronic badge among its purchasable items, card-only, which documents an on-site purchase channel without stating price, stock, or ticket inclusion. CyberSaiyanIT/rhc2026-resources official post-event talk archive · Cyber Saiyan repository created October 10, 2026 collecting slides, code, and materials from RomHack Camp 2026 talks and workshops dated October 2-4, including the Meethack NFC Cyber Car Wash CTF and the opening and closing sessions. RomHack Camp 2026 Badge getting started official setup and web flasher · Official badge.romhack.io site describing the Walkman WM-22-inspired ESP32-S3 badge and its features, a five-step setup (connect the screen, connect the battery, USB-C, bootloader mode, flash), a Web Serial esptool flasher for firmware 0.1.1, demo Tactility apps, and a Cyber Trivia link. RomHack 2026 badge schematic schematic · Schematic PDF added on September 30, 2026. The LICENSE covers the two firmware trees only; no hardware licence is stated. CyberSaiyanIT/rhc2026-badge.github.io setup-site source · Astro source for badge.romhack.io, with firmware 0.0.1 to 0.1.1 updates on September 27-28, 2026 and demo app uploads on September 29.

Sources

Cyber Saiyan: ROMHACK Camp 2026 badge: getting started Retrieved 2026-10-01 · Official setup site on the romhack.io domain naming the Sony Walkman WM-22 inspiration, the feature list (ESP32-S3, 2.4-inch TFT, stereo audio and speaker, LiPo, USB-C, microSD, NFC reader, buttons, camp agenda, camp map, retro games, Cyber Trivia), the self-assembly steps, and the firmware 0.1.1 web flasher. Cyber Saiyan / GitHub: RomHack Camp 2026 – Resources Retrieved 2026-10-15 · Primary organizer post-event archive for the held camp: talk and workshop material dated October 2-4, 2026 and the opening and closing slides. The closing slides report 550 attendees; neither slide deck mentions the badge, a badge count, or field issues. Cyber Saiyan / GitHub: Romhack Camp Badge 2026 Retrieved 2026-10-04 · Primary organizer source for the hardware table (ESP32-S3 16 MB/8 MB, ILI9341 2.4-inch, AW9523B, ES8156 and FM8002A, 22 RGB LEDs, Ci522 NFC, microSD, Wi-Fi/BLE), the Tactility and Retro-Go firmware, and the build and flash workflow. The hardware files were last changed on September 30, 2026; the October 4 recheck found further firmware releases 0.2 to 0.4 on October 1-2 (the last on the camp's opening day) with Retro-Go button-mapping, VU-meter LED, and TagQuest accent changes. The October 15 recheck found only an October 10 README change adding a Setup your badge link, with no statement about the number of badges handed out. Cyber Saiyan / GitHub: Romhack Camp Badge 2026 LICENSE Retrieved 2026-10-01 · Licence statement splitting firmware/tactility (GPL-3.0 and Apache-2.0 parts) from firmware/retro-go (GPL-2.0, zlib Lynx core) and noting the bundled Doom shareware WAD remains id Software / ZeniMax material. It does not license the hardware files or images. Cyber Saiyan / GitHub: Romhack Camp Badge 2026 hardware files Retrieved 2026-10-01 · Primary hardware source for the schematic, Gerbers, BOM, and pick-and-place, added in a September 30, 2026 commit. They document the design, not a production count or attendee allocation. RomHack: RomHack Camp 2026 Retrieved 2026-10-15 · Primary official source for the October 2-4, 2026 RomHack Camp dates, Flaminio Village context, and announced badge/challenge claim. The September 28, 2026 recheck found the sold-out banner; the October 15, 2026 recheck found the post-event statement that RomHack Camp 2026 is over, with a Camp 2026 Badge link to badge.romhack.io, which is the basis for marking the edition completed. RomHack: RomHack Camp CTF Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary current source for the on-site CTF finals and challenge context. RomHack: RomHack Camp Participant FAQ Retrieved 2026-09-28 · Official FAQ source confirming that badge details are pre-event and expected closer to the camp, while preserving the hardware-badge and collectible-challenge language. The September 28, 2026 recheck additionally found the Cyber Saiyan stand listing The Camp electronic badge as a card-only on-site purchase item. Silvio De Pasquale / GitHub: Traboda OS: The badge's hardware Retrieved 2026-10-17 · Secondary first-hand post-camp source: a community firmware author describes the board as handed out at RomHack Camp, says every detail was checked on a real badge, and adds the Qwiic/STEMMA QT port, the PCB-coil NFC antenna, the Traboda brand on the PCB, and an AW9523B burst-read quirk. It does not give a badge count.