Issue dossier

AoSC's story references the British Museum and its own Sara Cladlow/T.E.C. characters, while its manufacturing section says Bradán Lane STUDIO engraved brass faces and unnamed local high-school students made brass blanks. No reviewed source establishes permission, affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement, authorship allocation, artwork rights, relationship with the British Museum, relationship with a charity/school/DEF CON/CircuitPython, or media-reuse authority.

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story, organization, authorship, and endorsement boundary · maker story and manufacturing wording only · creative and contributor context recorded; relationships unsubstantiated

The dossier preserves source-named narrative and manufacturing context without assigning ownership, cultural/institutional relationship, approval, sponsorship, final manufacturing responsibility, or image rights beyond the published statements.

Badge
2026 eChallengeCoin (DEF CON 34)
Category
story, organization, authorship, and endorsement boundary
Severity
note
Confidence
maker story and manufacturing wording only
Status
creative and contributor context recorded; relationships unsubstantiated
Timeframe
current source pass
Source note
AoSC 2026 eChallengeCoin page and CircuitPython Coin M0 profile.

Evidence

Related Resources

AoSC maker project page

2026 eChallengeCoin

Primary maker page for the 2026 planned 40-brass-coin statement, terminal text adventure, the page's Micro-USB/one-touch-pad/three-NeoPixel-group/speaker/no-battery/46-gram claims, Choose Your Own Charity context, U.S. mail or DEF CON pickup wording, and the linked CircuitPython build. Its product and promotional media do not state reusable-image rights.

Badge: 2026 eChallengeCoin (DEF CON 34)

AoSC organizer form and fulfillment page

Choose Your Own Charity eChallengeCoin Submission

Primary organizer form explaining that a $100-or-greater youth-STEM-charity donation may receive a 2026 coin, with U.S. mail or in-person DEF CON pickup options. It contains an upload flow for donation proof but does not publish a privacy, data-retention, tax, charity-verification, delivery, or final-allocation policy.

Badge: 2026 eChallengeCoin (DEF CON 34)

independent current-event index

DEF CON 34 Planning Highlights

DEF CON.outel.org's independently maintained planning index lists 2026 eChallenge Coin / eChallengeCoin entries among current DEF CON 34 items. It corroborates public current-event discovery only; it is not official DEF CON issuance, a complete technical source, fulfillment proof, or image-rights grant.

Badge: 2026 eChallengeCoin (DEF CON 34)

official CircuitPython board profile

Bradán Lane STUDIO Coin M0

Official CircuitPython profile linked by AoSC as the eChallengeCoin-specific build. It identifies ATSAMD21G1A/4 MB flash, three RGB-NeoPixel groups, three capacitive touch pads, one speaker, CircuitPython/Arduino support, and native USB-C—details that conflict with the maker page's Micro-USB and one-touch-pad wording rather than settle it.

Badge: 2026 eChallengeCoin (DEF CON 34)

Source trail

Evidence Sources

AoSC · retrieved 2026-05-15

Choose Your Own Charity eChallengeCoin Submission

Primary organizer source for the $100-or-greater youth STEM charity donation statement, may-receive wording, pickup/mail selection, U.S.-address restriction for mail, and donation-receipt upload requirement. It does not establish tax deductibility, legal charity status, organizer verification practice, personal-data retention/security, promised allocation, or completed fulfillment.

Badge: 2026 eChallengeCoin (DEF CON 34)

AoSC / Bradán Lane STUDIO · retrieved 2026-05-15

2026 eChallengeCoin

Primary source for the planned 40-brass-coin run, no-sale/gift framing, Sara and the Missing Artifacts terminal-game claim, one large touch pad, three NeoPixel groups, speaker, no battery, 46-gram brass, Micro-USB serial-device wording, CircuitPython/macropad statements, planned donation threshold, U.S. mail/DEF CON pickup, and student-brass statements. It does not prove final component parity, completed production, donation verification, delivery, official status, game-source license, or image reuse permission.

Badge: 2026 eChallengeCoin (DEF CON 34)

CircuitPython · retrieved 2026-05-15

Bradán Lane STUDIO Coin M0

Primary official board-profile source for the ATSAMD21G1A, 4 MB flash, native USB-C, three RGB-NeoPixel groups, three capacitive touch pads, speaker, CircuitPython/Arduino, and USB serial/MIDI/HID/disk surface. It is linked by AoSC as the eChallengeCoin build but does not reconcile its USB-C/three-touch claims with the maker eChallengeCoin page's Micro-USB/one-touch wording or prove 2026 production parity.

Badge: 2026 eChallengeCoin (DEF CON 34)

DEF CON.outel.org · retrieved 2026-05-15

DEF CON 34 Planning Highlights

Independent contemporary index source listing eChallenge Coin/eChallengeCoin in its DEF CON 34 planning roundup. It corroborates current discovery context, not DEF CON organizer issuance, attendance entitlement, technical claims, production, fulfillment, or media rights.

Badge: 2026 eChallengeCoin (DEF CON 34)