Camp lineage
Hacker camp and conference editions represented in the worldwide catalogue, grouped by their event series and badge history.
Mesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona
The February 16-17, 2024 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose InfoconDB event record anchors the Mesa Convention Center context and whose Badge Pirates repository preserves the CactusCon 12 badge archive.
Arcadia University Commons Building, Pennsylvania
The October 11-12, 2024 JawnCon 0x1 edition at Arcadia University's Commons Building, whose official event page and badge write-up document a modem-themed electronic badge for the Philadelphia-area hacker con.
Georgia Cyber Innovation & Training Center, Augusta, Georgia
The February 28-29, 2024 AvengerCon edition in Augusta whose U.S. Army public-affairs article documents the first AvengerCon electronic badge, the 8-8-8 badge, as a scavenger-hunt and badge-hacking artifact.
Las Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 32
The 2024 Recon Village badge edition documented by the official Badge Life archive as The Recon Soldier, a multi-layer tactical reconnaissance design with red and blue LED eyes.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
The 2024 GrrCON edition in Grand Rapids whose public first-hand BadgeBuddy writeup and GitHub archive document an unofficial ESP8266 friend-distribution badge and companion backpack scoreboard.
Doe Bay Resort & Spa, Orcas Island, Washington
The June 26-30, 2024 ToorCamp outdoor hacker camp at Doe Bay Resort & Spa, whose official wiki documents per-attendee Shadybucks wristbands, Shadytel activation, Shady Tag registration, and the Euphoria CTF badge challenge path.
Supplyframe DesignLab, Pasadena, California
The Supercon 8 edition whose official badge centered on six SAO ports, Raspberry Pi Pico W, MicroPython, I2C experimentation, CH32V003 proto-petals, and a functional SAO contest.
Bonsecours Market, Montreal
The Montreal NorthSec 2024 edition whose public badge repository documents an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 badge with NeoPixel LEDs, buttons, pairing connectors, four SAO connectors, USB-C or AAA battery power, and PlatformIO firmware targets.
Downtown Richmond Marriott, Richmond, Virginia
The RVAsec 2024 edition whose official package page, layout, and HackRVA repository document limited HackRVA electronic badges, badge hacking context, LCD, three-color LED, D-pad, IR, rotary encoder, audio output, simulator, and game/app firmware.
Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei
The HITCON CMT 2024 edition whose official activity page said every attendee ID was a PCB badge, with score accrual, games, docking between badges, BadUSB play, and on-site programmer support.
Taal Vista Hotel, Tagaytay City
The September 25-27, 2024 ROOTCON edition whose official archive and media server preserved a Badge/STL directory with Rootcon 2024 Buttons and Single Color STL files.
Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul, Seoul
The April 4-5, 2024 Zer0Con closed vulnerability-research conference in Seoul whose official archive documents event context and whose POC Security update trail documents limited entry-badge availability.
Intercontinental Hotel, Bangkok
The August 26-30, 2024 Bangkok HITB edition whose official Badge Village page documented a Raspberry Pi Pico-based fault-injection device for embedded-system attack experiments.
Mexico City
The Mexico City BugCON security conference edition whose official Electronic Cats badge repository documents community and VIP ESP32-C6 hardware variants, firmware paths, and CERN-OHL hardware release.
Hilton Omaha Downtown, Omaha, Nebraska
The April 2-5, 2024 Omaha Kernelcon edition, with the main conference on April 4-5 and an official analog [a]nalyze [i]nternet cable-tester badge.
Seek HQ, Cremorne, Melbourne
The November 15-17, 2024 BSides Melbourne edition whose official sponsorship prospectus documents badges carrying preferred-pronoun, photo-permission, and interaction-preference signals plus a sold lanyard sponsorship item.
National Convention Centre, Canberra
The September 26-28, 2024 BSides Canberra edition whose official event page and ticketing source document an electronic badge, with attendee evidence describing a soldered 555-timer orc blinky badge.
Royal International Convention Centre, Brisbane
The May 18, 2024 ninth CrikeyCon edition in Brisbane whose official schedule documents early badge pickup and whose ticketing page documents TinkerInk accessibility badge/pin creation for approach-preference signalling.
Lot Fourteen, Adelaide
The inaugural BSides Adelaide edition held May 17-18, 2024, whose Hackerware/Hackster source trail documents the first Wombat CTF hardware badge and soldering-village workflow.
CEC, Buenos Aires
The November 13-15, 2024 Buenos Aires Ekoparty edition whose official event page documents the free CEC event and whose public Electronic Cats repository preserves the official electronic badge hardware and firmware.
Sao Paulo
A Brazilian H2HC edition represented by the first edition of the Hacker ID Card and custom CR80 card-printing identity-artifact project.
Centro Cultural Cine Arte Normandie, Santiago
The October 10-11, 2024 Santiago 8.8 Computer Security Conference edition whose published event announcement documents a first VIP sector with a special badge and swag kit.
Planet Hollywood Beach Resort, Utorda, Goa
The April 25-27, 2024 Goa Security BSides edition whose official site and ticketing trail provide event context for SecOps Group's Hackable BCPen/CPen booth badge challenge.
M Hotel Singapore
The June 26-27, 2024 first Off-By-One Singapore offensive-security conference whose source-backed Octopus hardware badge carried dual screens, ESP32-S3 and ATmega328P controllers, MicroPython challenge apps, and a six-flag badge challenge.
Garderen
The Telegraph badge, an ESP32-C6 e-paper puzzle badge with telegraph-inspired switches, LED matrix input, Qwiic, SAO, and case files.
Ziegeleipark Mildenberg
The flow3r badge shifted the camp badge toward music, touch, light, and collaborative art.
Hamburg
The December 27-30, 2023 Hamburg Chaos Communication Congress whose official Hub archived an assembly-created digital badge system, distinct from a physical or electronic attendee badge.
Funen
BornHack explored NFC with paired tag and reader badges, RP2040, PN7150, NTAG I2C Plus, and CircuitPython.
Italy
The MuHackademy 2k23 public programme included a MuHack Badge talk and workshop record for an RP2040 MicroPython badge.
Fényes Camping, Tata, Hungary
The eleventh H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket IDs, gate check-in, and campsite wristband registration rather than an electronic badge.
Heidelberg
A German TROOPERS conference edition with a Badge.Team-powered electronic badge documented through the official badge retrospective, public hardware repository, firmware repository, and SAO hardware repository.
Gothenburg
The Swedish Security Fest edition with a UV-printed Gothenburg Skyline CTF badge, soldering-village LED personalization, and serial cryptography challenges.
Netherlands
A hardware-security conference year whose attendee badge used reused e-paper price tags and OpenEPaperLink-style infrastructure.
Hebden Bridge Town Hall
A UK open-source hardware camp whose WiFi badge doubled as a solder-paste workshop device, name badge, USB-UART adapter, and post-event sensor platform.
Novi Sad
The BalCCon Cyberdeck 0o27 badge year, with an ESP32-S3, display, buttons, SAO-ish I2C, serial console, firmware framework, and case files.
MotionLab.Berlin
The March 25-26, 2023 Berlin Hackaday conference whose official preview offered attendees a Berlin-reskinned Voja4 down-to-the-metal computer trainer badge and a Saturday-night badge-hacking ceremony.
Caesars Forum, Flamingo, Linq, and Harrah's, Las Vegas, Nevada
The 2023 DEF CON edition whose Mar Williams / spuxo official physical badge returned the mainline to a non-electronic format while exposing an SAO customization chamber and public add-on design assets.
LINQ Hotel, Social A, Las Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 31
The Social Engineering Community Youth Challenge edition at DEF CON 31, documented by DEF CON forum and schedule sources as a youth-focused puzzle event in the Social Engineering Community Village and paired here with the public Flux Decoder badge repository.
Hilton Pasadena, Pasadena, California
The May 27-28, 2023 LayerOne return-to-in-person edition whose official conference post, Hardware Hacking Village page, and public repository document the PIC16F1455 USB HID electronic badge.
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
The October 24-27, 2023 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official FAQ and community data trail document MiniBadge culture, attendee trading, and a year-specific community MiniBadge data export.