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The designer's files show a PCB with nine LEDs, nine resistors, a 55-diode network, 16 COM edge pads, an NFC antenna footprint, and a SOIC-8 part labelled EEPROM1 and NFC1, with VCC=5v and I2C markings and no microcontroller, battery, or regulator. The SOIC-8 part has no part number, the schematic omits it, the attendee BOM and layout disagree on its package width, and no source explains what the diode network, COM pads, or LEDs do or what was programmed.
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electronics and function documentation gap · designer KiCad files, BOMs, and README · board files published; function and firmware undocumented
The record states the parts and labels from the designer's files but does not claim an NFC function, a puzzle, a power source, or behaviour on the shipped boards.
- Badge
- BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
- Category
- electronics and function documentation gap
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- designer KiCad files, BOMs, and README
- Status
- board files published; function and firmware undocumented
- Timeframe
- archive published 2026-11-02
- Source note
- Technet8394/BSides-Peoria-Badge-26 at commit 4f95084: README, base schematic, attendee layout, and attendee and black BOMs.
Gerber archive
Gerber zips with matching BOM, designator, and placement files for the attendee, atd, speaker, sponsor, staff, VIP, volunteer, and black builds, plus an IPC netlist.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
bill of materials
Attendee BOM listing nine 0805 LEDs, nine 0805 resistors, 55 0805 diodes, an NTAG213/215/216-sized NFC antenna footprint, and an unnamed SOIC-8 part, without LCSC part numbers.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
designer source archive
Unlicense repository by the badge designer Technet, published November 2, 2026, with the KiCad base board and schematic, role-specific board files, Gerbers, BOMs, placement files, and a media folder of renders and prototype photos. It has no firmware or programming script.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
official organizer event page
Primary organizer page for the October 24, 2026 Bradley University conference in Peoria. On November 3, 2026 it counted down to October 23, 2027 and had no wrap-up. It does not describe the badge's form, ticket inclusion, allocation, delivery, or technical features.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
official organizer sponsorship announcement
Primary organizer source stating that badge runs are being locked in for the 2026 event. It uses prior-year electronic-badge wording as historical promotional context, not as a 2026 technical specification or delivery record.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
official organizer sponsorship prospectus
Organizer-hosted 2026 prospectus for the October 24 Bradley University event. Its sponsorship matrix includes Logo on Badge, establishing planned badge-surface placement but not the artifact's construction, electronic form, recipient scope, or final production outcome.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
schematic
KiCad 10 schematic for the base board. It holds only the LED, resistor, and diode network; the EEPROM and NFC parts appear in the board layout and BOMs, not in this sheet.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
BSides Peoria · retrieved 2026-11-03
Primary organizer source for the annual community cybersecurity-conference framing and the October 24, 2026 Bradley University setting. It names neither the badge designer nor the badge, and it has no wrap-up or attendance statement for 2026.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
BSides Peoria · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer source for the 2026 date/venue and explicit statement that badge runs are being locked in. Its reference to prior electronic badges is historical promotion only; it does not prove a 2026 electronic badge, physical configuration, manufacture, or distribution.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
Illinois Cyber Foundation / BSides Peoria · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer-hosted sponsorship document listing Logo on Badge for the planned 2026 event. It supports a planned badge-surface claim only, not a final graphic, material, electronics, recipient allocation, or fulfilled run.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
Technet / GitHub · retrieved 2026-11-03
Primary designer source for the populated parts: nine LEDs, nine resistors, 55 diodes, the NFC antenna footprint, and a SOIC-8 part designated NFC1 with no part value. The other seven BOMs list the same parts; the atd and black BOMs give the SOIC-8 a 3.9 mm body and the rest a 5.3 mm body.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
Technet / GitHub · retrieved 2026-11-03
Primary designer source, Unlicense. It calls the repository the badge schematic and board design for BSides Peoria and says the designer worked on it for about a month and a half, built a pogo-pin programming jig, and programmed all 300 boards, and that the programming script was lost. It does not say how or to whom the boards were handed out.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
Technet / GitHub · retrieved 2026-11-03
Primary designer layout for the attendee build. It shows the BSides Peoria 2026 marking, Rev 2.0.2-atd, the EEPROM1, I2C, SDA, SCL, VCC, GND, and VCC=5v labels, 17 test pads marked COM0 to COM15 and GND, two Cherry MX footprints, an M3 hole, and a platinum-sponsor area. No microcontroller footprint is present.
Badge: BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge