44CON 2025
Novotel London West, London
The September 18-19, 2025 44CON edition at Novotel London West whose public Electronic Cats repository documents the 44CON 2025 RF-detector badge hardware and firmware.
Camp lineage
Hacker camp and conference editions represented in the worldwide catalogue, grouped by their event series and badge history.
Novotel London West, London
The September 18-19, 2025 44CON edition at Novotel London West whose public Electronic Cats repository documents the 44CON 2025 RF-detector badge hardware and firmware.
Zagreb
The second electronic DORS/CLUC badge year, with NFC quests, LED-display modes, USB passthrough, open source files, and public production-challenge lore.
MotionLab.Berlin
The March 15-16, 2025 Berlin Hackaday Europe edition at MotionLab, with public sources documenting a Supercon 8 SAO badge reuse, revamped Europe firmware, bundled SAOs, and a Saturday-night badge-hacking ceremony.
Auditorio FMD-UL, Lisbon
The November 13-14, 2025 Lisbon Security BSides edition at Auditorio FMD-UL, source-backed through the official about page, Eventbrite listing, CTF page, and official badge-sponsor page.
Gabriel Loci, Prague
The April 3-4, 2025 Prague Security BSides edition whose official schedule page announced an electronic PCB badge and whose organizer retrospective documents the first-generation electronic badge, attendee chips, challenges, panels, and nickname display.
Noroff University College Kristiansand Campus
The June 6, 2025 first BSides Kristiansand conference at Noroff's Kristiansand campus, whose source trail documents a custom SolaSec electronic duck badge and badge CTF.
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
The 2025 DEF CON edition whose official Mar Williams art badge returned to a non-electronic physical format with layered 3D/lens interactions and an Arts & Entertainment badge challenge.
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
The DEF CON 33 Maritime Hacking Village edition whose official Differential Destroyer badge was OSHWA-certified and published as a Pico 2, maritime-bus, scripting, and voltage-glitching hardware platform.
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
The DEF CON 33 Aerospace Village edition where the DC32 ADS-B Linux badge hardware returned with new Winglet OS 2.0 software, DC33 SAO support, ADS-B badge accessories, and a SpiderOak Aranya ESP32-S3 workshop badge board.
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
The DEF CON 33 ICS Village edition whose FREE-WILi and Intrepid Control Systems sponsored badge tool documented RP2350A, ESP32-C6, sensors, GUI support, USB API, WASM scripting, and Build-A-Badge customization software.
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
The DEF CON 33 Blacks In Cybersecurity Village edition whose official BIC Pick badge page documented a five-year-anniversary Afro-pick commemorative badge, village wearer roles, and on-site DEF CON 33 purchases and trades.
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
The DEF CON 33 Lonely Hackers Club release window for the limited LHC Meshtastic Badge 2025, with DEF CON pickup, LoRa mesh hardware, preconfigured firmware, and LHC channel context.
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Hacker Warehouse Vendor Booth
The DEF CON 33 sales and release context for seeess's Tipsy electronic badge, a community badge sold at the Hacker Warehouse vendor booth with public repository documentation and firmware.
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Rabbit-Labs Vendor Booth
The DEF CON 33 vendor-booth debut context for the Rabbit-Labs and The Pirates' Plunder collaboration badge, an ESP32-S3 and dual-CC1101 RF badgelife board with public firmware options and pinout notes.
Las Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 33
The August 8-10, 2025 Spanish-language hacker-village edition whose official site provides event context and whose Electronic Cats repository documents the La Villa Hacker 2025 badge.
Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena, California
The May 24-25, 2025 LayerOne Pasadena edition whose official event and Hardware Hacking Village pages documented electronic-badge ticketing, HHV badge support, and the GLiTCh BadgE hardware-hacking platform.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
The November 14-15, 2025 PhreakNIC edition in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, whose official schedule included Tyler Crumpton's electronic shelf-label talk and whose post-event project writeup documents the official PN26 electronic badge.
Hyatt Centric French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
The May 16-18, 2025 New Orleans hacker conference whose official badge page documented the Patches electronic badge as a Voodoo Heart badge-series continuation and Learn to Solder artifact.
Kansas City, Missouri
The April 25-26, 2025 Kansas City Security BSides edition listed by BSides Global, whose Badge Pirates source trail documents a fully electronic ESP32 touchscreen badge order, customs delay, and pickup or shipping fulfillment plan.
Conference Center at Miller Campus, Sandy, Utah
The April 10-11, 2025 Salt Lake City Security BSides edition whose current official site documents a 2025 E-Badge built on a LilyGO T-Deck S3 with keyboard, trackball, LEDs, ESP32-S3, LoRa, Meshtastic readiness, and later 2026 pickup for remaining stock.
City View at Metreon, San Francisco, California
The April 26-27, 2025 San Francisco Security BSides edition whose official Sched archive documents a Hardware Challenge Village hosting a competitive CTF on a badge designed specifically for the village.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
The June 7, 2025 Indiana Security BSides edition whose first-hand badge-team writeup documents an attendee badge, badge talk, and CTF challenge path while the public organization repository preserves the badge hardware and firmware archive.
Mesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona
The February 14-15, 2025 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose InfoconDB event record anchors the Mesa Convention Center context and whose Badge Pirates repository preserves the CactusCon 13 badge archive.
Chicago, Illinois / TOP_SECRET venue
The May 30-31, 2025 Chicago THOTCON edition whose official site, contests page, Hackaday.io project, and public example repository document an ESP32 touch-wheel electronic badge and badge-hacking contest.
Deadwood Mountain Grand, Deadwood, South Dakota
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.
Augusta, Georgia
The 2025 AvengerCon IX edition in Augusta whose official archive and badge page document a conference electronic badge with a built-in four-challenge CTF, CP2102 serial access, coin-cell power, and booth/village unlock-code flow.
Las Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 33
The 2025 Recon Village badge edition documented by the official Badge Life archive as The Cyber Owl, a cyberpunk owl design with glowing pink LED eyes.
Supplyframe DesignLab, Pasadena, California
The October 31-November 2, 2025 Pasadena Supercon edition whose official Communicator Badge used ESP32-S3, LoRa mesh chat, a custom keyboard, LVGL MicroPython firmware, and public hardware/firmware repositories.
Bonsecours Market, Montreal
The Montreal NorthSec 2025 edition whose public badge repository documents an ESP32-C3 electronic badge with RGB LEDs, buttons, IR pairing, dual SAO connectors, USB-C/AAA power, and PlatformIO firmware workflows.
SFU Vancouver Campus, 515 W Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia
The May 25-26, 2025 BSides Vancouver edition whose official 2025 badge archive identifies an electronic badge, links a first-party programming bundle, and directs badge information to a public source archive. The public hardware documentation calls the production board REV 2 dated 2025-05-05, while the visible refactor was committed in 2026 and is not treated as proof of a 2026 electronic-badge reissue.
Richmond Marriott Downtown, Richmond, Virginia
The June 3-4, 2025 RVAsec 14 edition whose official registration page listed a limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge in the guaranteed hotel package while detailed hardware and firmware sources remain unrecovered.
Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei
The August 15-16, 2025 HITCON edition whose PCB Badge guide documents a hacker-pet badge, games, pedometer scoring, Red-vs-Blue tower capture, cross-board interaction, and BadUSB behavior.
Clark, Pampanga
The ROOTCON 19 edition whose public registration update documented first-come electronic-badge distribution, Human+ and Blackcard guarantees, and a simpler Type-B badge fallback.
Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul, Seoul
The April 10-11, 2025 Zer0Con closed vulnerability-research conference in Seoul whose official archive documents event context and whose POC Security update trail documents limited entry-badge availability.
Fronton Bucareli, Mexico City
The November 20-21, 2025 Mexico City BugCON edition whose official event pages and Electronic Cats repository document a Linux-capable RV1106 badge with open hardware source, add-on board, and release-image flashing path.
Ex Fabrica MX, Mexico City
The July 18, 2025 Mexico City Security BSides edition whose official event page documents the Ex Fabrica MX venue and whose Electronic Cats repository preserves a PY32F030 badge, role variants, Metro add-on, firmware, BOMs, and hardware renders.
Jardin Americana, Guadalajara, Jalisco
The March 1, 2025 Guadalajara HackGDL edition whose official pages and Electronic Cats repository document a HackGDL event badge based on the ESP32-S3 Minino platform.
Hilton Omaha Downtown Old Market, Omaha, Nebraska
The April 3-4, 2025 Omaha Kernelcon edition whose official badge site documents the Race Condition Raspberry Pi Pico racing badge and bonus-track activity.
Royal International Convention Centre, Brisbane
The March 22, 2025 tenth CrikeyCon edition in Brisbane whose official schedule and ticketing trail document conference badge pickup and attendee access context.
Hilton Adelaide, South Australia
The May 12-13, 2025 BSides Adelaide edition whose public Hackerware, Hackster, and attendee writeup sources document the second Wombat CTF badge with onboard binary-entry buttons and a secret hardware challenge.