SAINTCON
The October 25-28, 2022 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official archive and MiniBadges-of-2022 assembly guide document official, sponsor, and personal MiniBadge categories, acquisition paths, assembly instructions, and community-booth badge activity.
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah · United States · 2022
The SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Assembly Guide preserves a broad MiniBadge ecosystem: official community and status badges, sponsor badges, personal/trading badges, acquisition notes, rarity/difficulty labels, and assembly instructions for through-hole, SMD, RFID, motorized, and programmed badge variants.
Lifecycle
The guide covers LED orientation, two-position headers, through-hole and SMD soldering, reverse-mount LEDs, RFID sticker placement, motor/fan parts, hot glue, cable-test behavior, and ATTiny programming for selected MiniBadges.
The guide includes Hackers Challenge, HACK-letter, Scavenger Hunt, and other game-adjacent MiniBadges with acquisition paths tied to game masters, challenge completion, or BadgeLife community interaction.
The guide lists AppSec, Circuit Assembly, Hardware Hacking, Healthcare, HomeLabs, IoT, Lockpicking, RFID/NFC, Scavenger Hunt, SMD Challenge, and Learn 2 Solder style badges acquired through community areas, booths, challenges, or presentations.
The assembly guide documents the People Badge with attendee, staff, volunteer, and speaker status color variants and says everyone gets an attendee badge.
The personal category explains that creators brought their own badges for trading or networking and that those badges were not directly supported by conference staff.
The sponsor category records badges designed by or for sponsors, including Arctic Wolf, Check Point, CompuNet, UETN, and Valcom entries with sponsor-booth acquisition framing.
Operational history
The catalogue preserves the MiniBadge ecosystem while keeping acquisition routes, creator roles, and support boundaries separate from main-badge distribution claims.
The record describes verified assembly and interaction evidence without inventing unrecovered firmware behavior or treating every MiniBadge as source-open hardware.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.