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The official badge page documents CTF behavior, CP2102 serial access, BAT CON battery handling, 9600-baud workflow, unlock codes, and safety instructions, but this pass did not recover firmware source, schematic files, BOM, Gerbers, challenge binaries, or a complete hardware archive.

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firmware and schematic gap · official badge guide with limited hardware depth · needs deeper archive recovery

The catalogue keeps the strong official badge-guide evidence while avoiding unsupported claims about the unrecovered design files or shipped firmware internals.

Badge
AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
Category
firmware and schematic gap
Severity
note
Confidence
official badge guide with limited hardware depth
Status
needs deeper archive recovery
Timeframe
current AvengerCon pass
Source note
AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge guide and linked hints page.

Evidence

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official badge guide

AvengerCon IX badge page

Primary badge source for the four-challenge CTF, A-C-9 blink behavior, BAT CON battery jumper, micro-USB path, CP2102 USB-to-UART serial access, 9600-baud PuTTY workflow, post-event unlock codes, and battery-safety instructions.

Badge: AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge

Source trail

Evidence Sources

AvengerCon · retrieved 2026-05-15

AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge

Primary official badge-guide source for the four-challenge CTF, BAT CON battery jumper, coin-cell blink behavior, CP2102 USB-to-UART serial path, 9600-baud PuTTY workflow, post-event unlock codes, and safety instructions.

Badge: AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge