Issue dossier
BSides Peoria's official sources establish the completed October 2025 event and later state that its electronic badges were memorable, while Technet8394's repository self-identifies as a BSides Peoria Badge Challenge 2025 project. No reviewed organizer source links the repository, names this device, identifies its author, calls it an official main badge, or records a ticket tier, distribution count, recipient group, pickup, sale, giveaway, or completed handoff.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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organizer-to-maker association, issuance, and allocation boundary · official organizer pages plus maker-published repository · event and electronic-badge context verified; direct project link unrecovered
The catalogue models a real maker-declared event-associated challenge artifact rather than presenting it as organizer-issued, attendee-wide, admission-bearing, or independently confirmed electronic hardware.
- Badge
- BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
- Category
- organizer-to-maker association, issuance, and allocation boundary
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- official organizer pages plus maker-published repository
- Status
- event and electronic-badge context verified; direct project link unrecovered
- Timeframe
- BSides Peoria 2025 and current retrospective review
- Source note
- BSides Peoria 2025 ticket announcement; BSides Peoria 2026 sponsor retrospective; Technet8394/HackTheBadge.
commit-pinned maker description
Immutable October 9, 2025 README snapshot created before the conference. It identifies an ESP32, a 240×320 ILI9341 TFT panel, wiring, and a Badge Challenge 2025 association, without proving final physical form, organizer authorization, recipient scope, or delivery.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
dated source-release commit
November 21, 2025 commit that adds the public main.ino source after the event. It supports a public source-release chronology, not a source-to-event-device mapping, deployed binary, final firmware, or operating procedure.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
maker source repository
Technet8394's public repository, whose description and README call the project ESP32 code for the BSides Peoria Badge Challenge 2025. It is a maker-published source archive, not an organizer-owned project page or an issuance record.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
official organizer event page
Primary organizer source for the October 25, 2025 Bradley University event context. It does not name HackTheBadge, an electronic badge, a challenge, a ticket inclusion, a maker, or a delivery record.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
official organizer retrospective
Primary organizer source stating that the prior event drew nearly 350 people and had electronic badges. It does not identify their form, design, source archive, allocation, or a direct relationship to the independent HackTheBadge project.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
BSides Peoria · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer retrospective stating that the previous year's event drew nearly 350 people and that its electronic badges were still being discussed. It corroborates an electronic-badge context, but does not name HackTheBadge, link its repository, or establish a specific official artifact.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
BSides Peoria · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official source for the October 25, 2025 third annual cybersecurity-conference setting at Bradley University in Peoria. It establishes event context only and does not describe an electronic badge or name the independent source project.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
Technet8394 / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Commit-pinned pre-event maker README for the Badge Challenge 2025 wording and high-level ESP32, 240×320 ILI9341 TFT, wiring, and two-battery parts list. It does not establish a custom PCB, wearable form, battery chemistry, final component set, or completed event device.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
Technet8394 / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Post-event source-release commit adding the Arduino-style main.ino file. It establishes a visible source archive after the conference, not a final binary, release tag, source-to-device mapping, deployment configuration, support commitment, or permission to republish media.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
Technet8394 / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary maker-published project source. Its repository description and README call the work ESP32 code for the BSides Peoria Badge Challenge 2025; this is a self-described event association, not organizer confirmation of issuance, allocation, or an official role.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge