SAINTCON
The October 22-25, 2024 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official site and MiniBadge trading page documented submitted and official MiniBadges, a public build-guide link, trading-booth hours, and MiniBadge standards.
Provo, Utah · United States · 2024
SAINTCON's 2024 MiniBadge Trading page documents an official trading area and a public build-guide link covering submitted MiniBadges that attendees designed and brought to the conference, including official MiniBadges.
Lifecycle
The MiniBadge standard defines I2C read/write initiation, button, text, score-update, and brightness messages, while warning that microcontrollers need to track state across repeated starts and stops.
The public MiniBadge standard documents +VBATT, 3V3, GND, SDA, SCL, CLK, PROG, and NC pin guidance, including +VBATT voltage caution and do-not-connect rules for reserved pins.
The official trading page says the build guide covers submitted MiniBadges that people designed and brought to the conference, including all official MiniBadges.
The standard reserves PROG pins for builder use and lists optional AVR ISP, ST-Link SWD, PIC ICSP, and UART pin mappings.
The MiniBadge standard documents extender pins introduced for the 2019 Enigma badge and warns that unverified I2C hardware may be treated like a MiniBadge.
The official page lists MiniBadge trading hours from Tuesday through Friday, with Monday closed, making trading an explicit conference activity rather than an inferred side event.
Operational history
The catalogue preserves the verified BadgeLife surface while avoiding unsupported claims about universal distribution, per-MiniBadge electronics, or official status for every submitted design.
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/protocol claims to the MiniBadge standard and official trading-page wording, and leaves the page image-free until a rights-cleared original photo or official render is available.