Wild West Hackin' Fest
The October 8-10, 2025 Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood conference at Deadwood Mountain Grand, whose official e-badge page documents the Antisyphon-sponsored electronic badge and MetaCTF badge challenge.
Deadwood Mountain Grand, Deadwood, South Dakota · United States · 2025
The Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 e-badge was the conference's electronic badge and badge CTF artifact. The official WWHF e-badge page identifies Antisyphon Training as the badge sponsor, Meta CTF as the scoreboard/challenge partner, multiple challenges solvable from badge behavior or firmware, and Ray Feltch, David Fletcher, and Rick Wisser as badge-team contacts.
Lifecycle
The official page links the WWHF 2025 badge CTF to Meta CTF and says challenges could be solved from badge behavior or firmware.
The teardown documents 115200-baud serial output, BLE-readable messages, hash clues, and firmware strings analyzed with Ghidra.
The post-event teardown identifies the badge core as an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 and documents firmware extraction using ESP32-S3 tooling.
The WWHF e-badge page says the 2025 electronic badge was sponsored by Antisyphon Training.
The teardown documents four upper and four lower LEDs used for binary output, followed by a Morse-code light sequence.
Operational history
The record preserves a practical handling caveat without escalating it beyond the attendee report or claiming a formal recall/safety notice.
The catalogue records ESP32-S3, OLED, charger, LED, BLE, serial, and firmware-analysis details as teardown-backed rather than official board documentation.
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.