Camp lineage
Hacker camp and conference editions represented in the worldwide catalogue, grouped by their event series and badge history.
Sydney, New South Wales
The January 2018 Sydney linux.conf.au edition whose Open Hardware Miniconf had participants building LoliBot ESP32 robot kits and adjacent MicroPython, FPGA, Tomu, and protocol-analysis hardware sessions.
UCSA Events Centre, Christchurch
The October 25-27, 2018 Christchurch Hacker Conference edition whose official page documents CTF, badge, and locksport challenges plus sponsor-funded identification tags/badges and printed materials.
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
The Wellington Kiwicon 2038AD edition held November 16-17, 2018 at the Michael Fowler Centre, whose official site required attendees to wear a Kiwicon2038 badge and lanyard visibly and bring the badge to the afterparty.
Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington
The November 15, 2018 Wellington defensive-security conference whose official diary documents a lanyard and glow-in-the-dark star badge issued to attendees.
Sao Paulo
A Brazilian H2HC edition represented by a bottle-shaped ESP32 badge with OLED display, BLE behavior, six LEDs, and Arduino-based code documentation.
Strathmore Business School, Nairobi
The OPCDE Kenya event run with AfricaHackOn in Nairobi, whose public agenda included a making-of session for the AfricaHackOn 2018 electronic conference badge.
Holiday Inn Resort, Mobor Beach, Cavelossim, Goa
The March 2-3, 2018 Nullcon Goa conference edition whose official archive, sponsors page, venue page, schedule, and volunteer page document conference registration, a Badge Sponsor, a Lanyard Sponsor, and visible badge requirements for volunteers.
Scoutinglandgoed Zeewolde
A milestone Badge.Team badge and predecessor to the modern Dutch camp badge ecosystem.
Funen
BornHack moved into programmable badges with a Happy Gecko microcontroller, OLED display, buttons, USB, and example code.
near Luzern
A Swiss Zeltlager fuer Technik- und Computerfreunde camp with a public badge talk and archived camp wiki.
Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary
The fifth H.A.C.K. outdoor camp in Hungary, source-backed as an identity-artifact record through ticket registration, certificate checksum verification, and bring-your-ticket arrival guidance rather than an electronic badge.
ZKM and HfG, Karlsruhe
Entropia's 2017 Karlsruhe hackathon and conference, where the GPN17 Badge doubled as a GulaschPushNotifier, ROM-store device, and Hack-the-Badge target.
London
The September 13-15, 2017 London 44CON edition whose official brochure documents the 44CON edition HIDIOT 1.0 badge from Raw Hex.
Barcelona
The September 6-9, 2017 radare2 reverse-engineering congress in Barcelona, whose official schedule included NighterMan's r2con badge manufacturing talk and whose attendee reporting documents a limited speaker/friends electronic badge.
Kilkenny
The November 5-8, 2017 NodeConf EU edition in Kilkenny, Ireland, whose attendee badge was a NearForm/Espruino open-source hackable JavaScript badge.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
The 2017 DEF CON edition whose official badge was documented by attendee feedback as a rubber or plastic identity artifact without a badge challenge, while the wider event became a milestone year for unofficial badgelife hardware.
United States / DC503 party archive
The 2017 DC503 Wagon Party badge archive whose public PDX Badgers repository preserves reprogramming notes, nRF52832 Arduino setup, SSD1306 OLED firmware, BLE banner control, and game-mode source code.
Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles, California
The May 26-28, 2017 LayerOne edition whose official Hardware Hacking Village archive and badge-team project page document a CAN-bus-focused STM32F4 electronic conference badge.
Utah Valley Convention Center, Provo, Utah
The October 10-13, 2017 SAINTCON edition in Provo, Utah, whose official archive and badge page documented a Raspberry Pi Zero W electronic badge, a custom TFT/button board, MiniBadges, and Hacker Challenge integration.
Discovery World, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The March 30-31, 2017 Milwaukee CypherCon edition whose official history records 525 attendees, the Game of Life / Hacker Glider theme, the TYMKRS Cube badge, and the badge-creator panel.
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon
The October 20-21, 2017 Portland Security BSides edition at Oregon Convention Center whose official schedule included BSidesPDX 101 badge context and Rob Rehrig's Ox-Vox talk about an add-on for that year's unreleased BSides PDX badge, while PDX Badgers preserves the public BMD-300 Eagle board/schematic/BOM archive.
Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona
The September 29-30, 2017 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose public attendee writeup preserves a soldered Wi-Fi/Bluetooth scanner badge built around a WemOS board.
Chicago, Illinois
The May 4-5, 2017 Chicago THOTCON edition whose official schedule documents badge pickup at check-in and whose public badge-hacking record preserves the 0x8 electronic tesserHack badge.
Las Vegas, Nevada / DEF CON 25
The 2017 Recon Village badge-lineage start documented by the official Badge Life archive as The Original spy-silhouette electronic badge with a hardwear.io lanyard.
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky
The September 22-24, 2017 DerbyCon Legacy edition whose public conference metadata and first-hand maker writeup document a special electronic Legacy Black Badge award artifact.
Supplyframe DesignLab and Los Angeles College of Music, Pasadena, California
The Pasadena Hackaday Superconference edition whose Mike Harrison-designed official badge was a digital camera platform with PIC32, OV9650 camera, OLED screen, MicroSD storage, accelerometer, bootloader, and expansion hardware.
Montreal
The Montreal NorthSec 2017 edition whose public badge repository documents the refreshed nRF51822 and STM32F072 electronic badge, OLED/BLE behavior, touch buttons, USB, batteries, firmware images, and schematic release.
Richmond Marriott, Richmond, Virginia
The 2017 RVAsec edition whose official layout, sponsor, and InfoconDB trail document HackRVA badge distribution, badge-intro content, CTF-room context, and source-depth limits for the public badge record.
Academia Sinica Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Taipei
The August 25-26, 2017 HITCON CMT edition whose official pages documented the first HITCON Badge Challenges electronic badge, powered by a MediaTek chipset with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, joystick, infrared, and LED display features.
Taal Vista Hotel, Tagaytay City
The September 21-22, 2017 ROOTCON edition whose official archive and sponsorship kit documented an official ROOTCON 11 electronic badge with paid sponsor-logo placement.
CQ Function Centre, Melbourne, Australia
The October 21-22, 2017 Ruxcon edition in Melbourne whose official Hardware Hacking Village schedule documents the Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge session and whose public Darkglade/GitHub trail preserves ESP8266/NodeMCU badge firmware and flag walkthroughs.
Polonia, Milton, Brisbane
The February 25, 2017 Brisbane edition whose official archive documents Friday pre-registration badge collection and whose CFP documents special speaker badges.
UWA Business School, Crawley, Perth
The inaugural BSides Perth edition at the University of Western Australia whose official blog and public repository document a Wemos D1 Mini, OLED, RGB shield, AA battery, acrylic-panel badge.
Wrest Point, Hobart, Tasmania
The January 16-20, 2017 Hobart linux.conf.au edition whose Open Hardware Miniconf centered on the IoTuz ESP32 board, public KiCad hardware, firmware setup, and ESP32 software talks.
Brazil
A Brazilian H2HC edition represented by a small ATTiny85 USB HID injector badge based on the Wattuino Nanite 85 and documented by Security-Bits.
Central Park Building, Black River Park, Cape Town
A South African BSides edition whose RFCat challenge writeup documents a two-part badge made from a black ESP-based flux-capacitor badge and a red CC1111 RF badge.
Nairobi
The fourth AfricaHackOn conference edition in Kenya, where a limited-run ESP8266 electronic badge tested local badge culture for speakers and selected attendees.
Guildford
The TiLDA MK3 year, where MicroPython became central to the EMF badge experience.
Funen
The initial BornHack badge was a solder-it-yourself electronics kit with a Joule Thief LED circuit and prototyping area.
Belgium
The first documented Fri3d custom badge year, built as an Arduino-compatible AVR learning and IR interaction platform for attendees.