X-CTF 2016
NUS School of Computing, Singapore
The June 18, 2016 NUS Greyhats student cybersecurity finals in Singapore whose participants received a custom ESP8266 electronic badge with LCD, buttons, LiPo power, and public challenge firmware.
Camp lineage
Events
Hacker camp and conference editions represented in the worldwide catalogue, grouped by their event series and badge history.
548 event edition(s)
Chaos Communication Camp 2015
Ziegeleipark Mildenberg
The camp where rad1o turned the official badge into a serious SDR platform.
Camp++ 2015
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The third H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, advertised as the camp before the camp and source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, bring-your-ticket arrival guidance, and CAcert-assurance ID context rather than an electronic badge.
Nuit du Hack 2015
Académie Fratellini, La Plaine Saint-Denis
The 2015 Nuit du Hack edition whose official store sold an Electrolab-developed Arduino Micro-compatible electronic badge kit limited to 200 units.
DEF CON 23
Paris Hotel and Bally's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
The 2015 DEF CON edition whose official Ryan Clarke / 1o57 badge went fully analog as a playable 7-inch vinyl record with lanyard ciphers, groove clues, role colors, audio clues, and a noir badge challenge.
LayerOne 2015
Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles, California
The May 23-24, 2015 LayerOne edition whose official Hardware Hacking Village archive and CharlieX Hackaday.io project document two electronic badges: a PSoC4/ESP8266/WS2812B blinky badge and a VoCore/OpenWRT RT5350F network badge.
SAINTCON 2015
Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
The October 27-30, 2015 SAINTCON edition in Ogden, Utah, whose official archive records the Weber State University venue and whose Cisco partner write-up documents purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled attendee show badges with LCD screen, buttons, schedule, live Hacker Challenge score, and CMX zone awareness.
BSidesPDX 2015
Portland, Oregon
The October 16, 2015 Portland Security BSides edition whose official schedule lists the Electronic Taxidermy: Badger Hacking workshop with Michael Leibowitz and whose PDX Badgers repositories preserve the public Badger PCB and firmware archive.
NorthSec 2015
Bonsecours, Montreal
The Bonsecours NorthSec 2015 CTF edition whose official past-editions page documents 54 teams, team-of-eight competition structure, and hardware badges used for network, IPv6, RF-monitoring, smartcard, and related challenge paths.
RV4sec 2015
Richmond, Virginia
The June 4-5, 2015 RVAsec edition whose official badge-build post documents HackRVA's hand-built PCB badge process, surface-mount assembly, IR/audio/USB/LCD components, and reset-header development option.
Ruxcon 2015
CQ Function Centre, Melbourne, Australia
The October 24-25, 2015 Ruxcon edition in Melbourne whose public Hardware Hacking Village badge repository and build guide preserve an STM32 electronic badge with SMD assembly, CR2032 power, SWD programming, I2C errata, and firmware examples.
Kiwicon 9
St. James Theatre, Wellington
The December 10-11, 2015 Wellington Kiwicon edition whose official site documents a venue-visible badge requirement, early pickup, 1,400 expected attendees, and New Zealand hacker-conference context.
AVTOKYO 2015
Tokyo
The Japanese AVTOKYO 2015 edition whose official badge page documents an electrical attendee badge, public PCB design, and public Arduino program.
Electromagnetic Field 2014
Bletchley
The TiLDA MKe year, focused on schedules, radio base stations, and practical camp utilities.
Nuit du Hack 2014
Disneyland Resort Paris, New York Hotel
The Fnord Edition of Nuit du Hack, whose collector badge was an assemble-and-hack hardware challenge for a Black Badge life pass.
DEF CON 22
Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
The 2014 DEF CON edition whose Parallax-built Propeller 1 badge used infrared, touch pads, LEDs, full I/O access, role variants, C code releases, and badge-contest mechanics.
HOPE X
New York City
The tenth Hackers On Planet Earth conference, held July 18-20, 2014 in New York City, represented by a CC0-documented physical admission badge issued at the event.
SAINTCON 2014
Ogden, Utah
The October 20-23, 2014 SAINTCON edition in Ogden, Utah, whose first-hand attendee/project-owner write-up, SparkFun repost, and Hackaday coverage document an Arduino-compatible conference badge designed for soldering, hacking, and hidden Hacker Challenge secrets.
CactusCon 2014
Arizona / CactusCon local security conference
The April 2014 Arizona hacker/security conference edition whose public attendee-maker writeup preserves a 300-piece PCB badge giveaway with HeatSync Labs soldering-booth context.
RVAs3c 2014
Richmond, Virginia
The 2014 RVAsec edition whose official preview and firmware-release post document a redesigned HackRVA electronic badge with public firmware, bootloader goals, games, LCD, IR, capacitive sliders, LEDs, speaker, micro USB, and PIC32 hardware.
Nullcon Goa 2014
Goa
The Nullcon Goa 2014 edition whose official schedule included the Nullcon Hardware Badge 101 (Desi Jugaad) talk about the design, uses, evolution, and production problems of the 2014 hardware badge.
Observe. Hack. Make. 2013
Geestmerambacht
The 2013 Dutch camp is remembered more for camp identity artifacts such as hats and patches than for a modern electronic PCB badge.
Electromagnetic Wave 2013
Milton Keynes
The EMF spin-off event that used the SiNE badge for LED effects, IR-based games, locator beacons, and a scurvy-themed scavenger hunt.
Hackover 2013
Bürgerschule, Hannover
The second Hackover edition, whose ticket included an assembled and flashed badge PCB with ARM processor, 2.4 GHz radio, LCD, USB, and buttons.
CampZer0 2013
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The zeroth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, born after OHM2013 and source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, bring-your-ticket arrival guidance, optional CAcert-assurance ID context, ticket-price infrastructure lore, and CfP email context rather than an electronic badge.
DEF CON 21
Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
The 2013 DEF CON edition whose Ryan Clarke-designed playing-card PCB badges intentionally blurred non-electronic identity art, circuit-board construction, continuity testing, role variants, and a cryptographic badge challenge.
RVAsec 2013
Commonwealth Ballroom at VCU University Commons, Richmond, Virginia
The May 31-June 1, 2013 RVAsec edition whose official registration update and later badge-team interview document electronic HackRVA badges with LEDs, infrared interaction, audio, USB, and badge-game behavior.
WAHCKon 2013
Building 32, Edith Cowan University, Perth
The May 4-5, 2013 Perth WAHCKon edition whose official ticket page documents a WAHCKon 2013 badge included with the standard ticket.
Kiwicon 7
Wellington Opera House, Wellington
The November 9-10, 2013 Wellington Kiwicon edition whose official site documents Kiwicon 7 badge assembly, early pickup, ticket and merch workflow, and New Zealand hacker-conference context.
H2HC 2013
Sao Paulo
The 10th Hackers to Hackers Conference in Brazil, represented by an open-source LPC1343 ARM development badge documented by Great Scott Gadgets.
ZACon V
South Africa
A free South African security conference represented by Andrew MacPherson's source-backed mesh-networked badge with 433 MHz RF interaction tracking.
Electromagnetic Field 2012
Pineham Park
The first EMF badge year, introducing TiLDA as a radio-enabled Arduino-style camp badge.
DEF CON 20
Rio Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
The 2012 DEF CON edition whose Ryan Clarke-designed Parallax Propeller badge mixed IR badge-to-badge communication, many physical badge styles, firmware releases, VGA/PS2 expansion, and a crypto/social badge challenge.
ToorCon San Diego 14
San Diego Westin Emerald Plaza, San Diego, California
The October 19-21, 2012 ToorCon San Diego 14 edition whose public conference metadata and Great Scott Gadgets badge page document a USB-controlled sub-1 GHz RfCat badge.
RVAsec 2012
Commonwealth Ballroom at VCU University Commons, Richmond, Virginia
The June 15-16, 2012 RVAsec edition whose HackRVA repository preserves the RVAsec Badge 2012 hardware, Gerbers, documentation, graphics, and release firmware source.
Chaos Communication Camp 2011
Finowfurt Aviation Museum
The camp where r0ket introduced many attendees to the idea of a deeply hackable electronic camp badge.
TROOPERS11
Heidelberg
A German IT-security conference whose attendee badge used a nixie tube, score programmer, Cat-5 LANyard switch, capacitive touch secret, and hackable pad fields.
Nuit du Hack 2011
Disneyland Paris Conference Center
A French HackerzVoice security-conference edition with a public attendee report describing a 100% electronic badge and linked reverse-engineering tutorials by its designer.
DEF CON 19
Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
The August 4-7, 2011 DEF CON edition whose Ryan Clarke / 1o57 badge deliberately moved away from electronics into a commercially pure titanium physical puzzle, interaction, and conference-participation artifact.
ToorCon San Diego 13
San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California
The October 7-9, 2011 ToorCon San Diego 13 edition whose public conference metadata and Great Scott Gadgets badge page document an RF spectrum-analyzer badge tied to Project Ubertooth.