Issue dossier
The recovered public trail proves the electronic duck badge, CTF LEDs, and observed RP2040/MicroPython behavior, but does not expose schematics, PCB files, BOM, official firmware source, case files, or production files.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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hardware archive gap · post-event report and attendee observation · needs badge-team archive
The catalogue records observed hardware and software behavior while avoiding unrecovered component, board-source, and manufacturing claims.
- Badge
- BSides Kristiansand 2025 Sykt Badge
- Category
- hardware archive gap
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- post-event report and attendee observation
- Status
- needs badge-team archive
- Timeframe
- post-event archive
- Source note
- Noroff post-event report, BSides Kristiansand recordings page, and Cryptax technical write-up.
attendee technical writeup
Technical CTF write-up documenting observed badge hardware, RP2040/MicroPython behavior, USB serial access, Wi-Fi AP, web challenge pages, filesystem files, and encrypted flag database.
Badge: BSides Kristiansand 2025 Sykt Badge
official event site
Official current site for the BSides Kristiansand lineage, current Noroff Kristiansand campus context, and 2025 archive navigation.
Badge: BSides Kristiansand 2025 Sykt Badge
official recordings page
Official recordings page listing Caleb Davis's BSides Kristiansand 2025 talk, The making of a Sykt Badge, with embedded video.
Badge: BSides Kristiansand 2025 Sykt Badge
post-event report
Noroff report for the June 6, 2025 first BSides Kristiansand event at Noroff's campus and the SolaSec electronic duck badge with seven LED CTF challenges.
Badge: BSides Kristiansand 2025 Sykt Badge
BSides Kristiansand · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official current site source for the Norwegian Security BSides lineage, Kristiansand campus context, and 2025 archive navigation.
Badge: BSides Kristiansand 2025 Sykt Badge
BSides Kristiansand · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official source preserving Caleb Davis's The making of a Sykt Badge recording in the BSides Kristiansand 2025 programme archive.
Badge: BSides Kristiansand 2025 Sykt Badge
Cryptax · retrieved 2026-05-15
Attendee technical source for RP2040/MicroPython evidence, front LEDs, USB connector, exposed pins, battery holder, button, Morse-code markings, USB ACM serial access, Wi-Fi AP, embedded web server, challenge pages, REPL, filesystem, and encrypted flag database behavior.
Badge: BSides Kristiansand 2025 Sykt Badge
Noroff · retrieved 2026-05-15
Post-event source for the June 6, 2025 first BSides Kristiansand conference at Noroff, the custom SolaSec electronic duck badge, seven LED challenge indicators, CTF platform framing, and Kyle Shockley / Caleb Davis credit.
Badge: BSides Kristiansand 2025 Sykt Badge