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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.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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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.
official CTF hints
Official hint page linked from the AvengerCon IX badge guide for post-event CTF support.
Badge: AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
official badge guide
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
official event archive
Official AvengerCon source marking the 2025 AvengerCon IX edition as concluded and linking to the badge page.
Badge: AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
public-affairs article
U.S. Army public-affairs source for AvengerCon IX's return to the Georgia Cyber Center and broader Army Cyber event context.
Badge: AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
AvengerCon · retrieved 2026-05-15
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
AvengerCon · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official post-event hint source linked from the AvengerCon IX badge guide.
Badge: AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
U.S. Army · retrieved 2026-05-15
Public-affairs source for AvengerCon IX's 2025 return to the Georgia Cyber Center and broader Army Cyber conference context.
Badge: AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge