SAINTCON
The October 24-27, 2023 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official FAQ and community data trail document MiniBadge culture, attendee trading, and a year-specific community MiniBadge data export.
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah · United States · 2023
SAINTCON 2023 is represented here by its public MiniBadge ecosystem: the official 2023 FAQ documents MiniBadge popularity and attendee trading, while the community MiniBadge Wiki export preserves year-specific personal, event, community, and contest badge records.
Lifecycle
The public MiniBadge standard supplies the shared connector and I2C protocol context for SAINTCON MiniBadges, but this record does not claim every 2023 entry implemented active I2C behavior.
The 2023 data includes through-hole and surface-mount difficulty notes, parts lists, LED/resistor builds, and acquisition guidance, while the official FAQ encourages newcomers to learn MiniBadge design.
The official FAQ says average yearly MiniBadge volume is well over 17,000 and that roughly 8-10 percent of attendees bring their own MiniBadges to trade.
The 2023 data export includes event and community entries such as RFID Rocket, Minibadge Community Badge, LAN Party, Hardware Hacking, Fox Hunt, The Keep, and Hallway Talks.
The 2023 data export lists contest-category entries including Lockpick Village, Tamper Evidence, and Hackers Challenge records, preserving acquisition routes tied to challenge activity.
The export includes personal and community-designed badges such as Cryptid Minibadge Expansion Board, SAO Adapter, Delicate Arch, Infinity, and other designer-attributed entries.
Operational history
The catalogue preserves the verified trading and collection surface while keeping per-board authorship, acquisition, electronics, and support boundaries narrow.
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.
The record keeps hardware claims to official FAQ language, community data-export fields, and the MiniBadge standard instead of inventing missing per-badge technical detail.