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Seasides 2026

The February 19-21, 2026 Seasides conference in Goa whose official site links a Hardware Hacking Village page documenting a soldering badge, enough badges for attendees, and a hidden hardware/firmware badge challenge. A later maker archive calls its ATtiny85 design the Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge and says 300-plus people assembled it live, but the official event pages do not independently name that exact board or final configuration.

International Centre Goa, Goa · India · 2026

Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge

The official Seasides and HW101 pages establish a Goa Hardware Hacking Village where people soldered take-home badges and worked on a hidden hardware/firmware challenge. A public project-owner archive calls a concrete board the Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge, says that more than 300 participants assembled it live, and publishes its C firmware, schematic, and Gerbers. The archive makes this a source-backed maker-documented instance of the village badge, but the official event pages do not independently name the Roulette design or confirm that every village or conference badge used that exact final configuration.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge source-backed

badge challenge

Hidden hardware and firmware challenge

The official source describes a hidden hardware/firmware challenge using reverse-engineering skills, with prizes for successful solvers. It does not independently identify the exact Roulette board, its eight-stage maker CTF, or a shared challenge implementation.

Compatibility: Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge

Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge source-backed

hardware village badge

Conference-attendee soldering badge

The HW101 page says the village would have enough badges for everyone attending the conference and that participants could take home a custom badge after soldering it.

Compatibility: Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge

Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge source-backed maker documentation

maker-documented firmware behavior

Eight-stage CTF and UART progression

The README describes an eight-stage embedded CTF, 1,200-baud software UART, EEPROM-backed progression, encoding challenges, and animation unlocks. It does not prove current availability, rules, solution handling, participant scope, service operation, safety review, or firmware parity across all physical event units.

Compatibility: Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge

Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge source-backed maker documentation

maker-documented hardware

ATtiny85 and eight-LED hardware baseline

The README identifies an ATtiny85 at an internal 8 MHz oscillator, a 74HC595 shift register, and eight LEDs, with data/clock/control pin mapping and VCC/GND labels. The source does not establish the final event-unit supply, battery, current budget, BOM, board revision, tests, safety evaluation, or compliance.

Compatibility: Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge

Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge maker documentation published

post-event source archive

Maker-declared Roulette source archive

Rahul Thareja's public, commit-pinned project calls the design the Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge, says more than 300 people assembled it live, and provides a C firmware, schematic, and Gerber trail. That is strong maker documentation of a real physical artifact, but the official event sources do not independently name the design or confirm the claimed count and unit parity.

Compatibility: Seasides 2026 Hardware Village activity

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge note

distribution, participant-count, and recipient-scope caveat · separate official and maker statements · planned availability and maker-reported live assembly; final ledger unrecovered

HW101 said there would be enough badges for everyone attending, while the maker README says more than 300 participants assembled the Roulette design live. Neither source supplies a final production count, serial/recipient ledger, independent attendee pickup report, relationship between the two quantities, excluded cohorts, leftovers, replacements, or evidence that all attendees received the same design/revision.

The record preserves both distribution-related statements without converting them into a confirmed universal issuance count or individual fulfillment history.

Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge note

maker-to-event provenance, final configuration, and source-license boundary · official generic village evidence plus maker documentation · individual artifact documented; official identity and reuse license absent

Official pages establish a generic soldering badge and hidden challenge at the Hardware Hacking Village. Rahul Thareja's archive calls its design the Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge and provides technical source material, but the official event publishers do not independently name that board, authorize the claim, identify its final revision, or confirm it was the only or universal village badge. The repository's root exposes no license, so source code, design files, art, and photos are not treated as reusable.

The catalogue can identify a real maker-documented hardware artifact without representing it as an organizer-issued credential, a fully verified all-attendee unit, a specific final manufacturing configuration, or an open/reusable media release.

Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge note

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

No Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge image is published because neither the official village/conference pages nor the maker repository pair a specific badge photo or render with an explicit reusable license or permission basis, attribution, and processing provenance. The repository's root has no stated license.

The record stays image-free rather than copying official page imagery, repository photos, screenshots, social media, or generated badge art.

Resources

Roulette Badge Gerber archive commit-pinned fabrication source · Commit-pinned PCB fabrication archive named by the maker for the Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge. It supports the existence of a design/fabrication source surface but does not license the archive or prove a particular manufacture, production count, or event handoff. Roulette Badge firmware source commit-pinned firmware source · Public `badge.c` source surface referenced by the maker README for the ATtiny85 badge firmware. It is a reproducibility reference, not proof that every event unit used this exact revision or that the repository's contents carry a reusable license. Roulette Badge schematic and Gerber archive commit-pinned hardware source · Commit-pinned schematic document for the maker's Roulette Badge design. It is paired with the project's Gerber archive and supports a documented design trail, while leaving fabrication run, assembled revision, inspection, electrical limits, and final event-unit parity open. Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge README commit-pinned maker documentation · Primary maker documentation for the 300-plus live-assembly statement; ATtiny85, 74HC595, eight-LED, UART, EEPROM, animation, eight-stage CTF, and author claims. The README's voltage labels and build guidance do not establish a final production-unit power configuration, safety review, or distribution ledger. Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge source archive commit-pinned maker source archive · Rahul Thareja's commit-pinned public project archive. Its project title and README call the object a Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge built for the Hardware Village, and the archive includes firmware, schematic, Gerber, and image-file surfaces. It is maker-declared event association, not an organizer confirmation of official issue, all-attendee allocation, final event-unit parity, or reusable-image permission. Seasides Conference 2026 official event page · Official Seasides site for the February 19-21, 2026 International Centre Goa event, free cybersecurity conference framing, and village links. Seasides 2026 Hardware Hacking Village official village page · Primary badge source documenting the soldering village, custom badge, enough badges for attendees, take-home badge activity, hidden hardware/firmware challenge, and hardware village programme.

Sources

HW101: Hardware Hacking Village at Seasides 2026 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge-source page for the soldering badge, enough badges for everyone attending, take-home badge activity, hidden hardware/firmware challenge, hardware talks, CTF context, and prize framing. Rahul Thareja / c1ph3r-fsocitey: Roulette Badge firmware source Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Commit-pinned public firmware source supporting the maker-published ATtiny85 implementation trail. It does not establish that every event unit ran the same build, expose a complete event challenge service/history, confirm a hardware revision, or supply an explicit repository/content license. Rahul Thareja / c1ph3r-fsocitey: Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge README Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary project-owner source identifying the maker-declared Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge and Hardware Village association; it says more than 300 participants assembled it live and documents the ATtiny85, 74HC595, eight LEDs, UART, EEPROM progression, eight-stage CTF, source, schematic, and Gerber trail. It is not a Seasides/HW101 organizer statement, finalized recipient ledger, final-unit verification, or license grant. Seasides: Seasides Conference 2026 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event-context source for the February 19-21, 2026 Goa conference, International Centre Goa venue, free conference framing, and Hardware Hacking Village link.