Issue dossier
Badge Pirates said the badges were held at U.S. Customs after the 2025 event and that purchasers would be contacted for pickup or shipping once they cleared. Its later announcement says last year's badge was finally getting the conference it missed, but does not report how many prior owners received, reflashed, brought, or used the hardware at BSidesKC 2026.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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fulfillment and cross-year use caveat · badge-maker fulfillment and continuation updates · documented; actual 2026 deployment unconfirmed
The record presents real delivery friction and the announced later programme without implying frictionless 2025 distribution or universal 2026 participation.
- Badge
- BSidesKC 2025 Badge
- Category
- fulfillment and cross-year use caveat
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- badge-maker fulfillment and continuation updates
- Status
- documented; actual 2026 deployment unconfirmed
- Timeframe
- 2025 delivery period and 2026 continuation announcement
- Source note
- Badge Pirates BSidesKC 2025 shipping update, tariff writeup, and 2026 Ad Astra update.
badge-maker continuation update
Badge Pirates' public update says the delayed prior-year badge received a Lunar Lander contest port for BSidesKC 2026, instructs owners to bring it, and expressly says there was no new hardware.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
badge-maker production writeup
Badge Pirates production source documenting 250 fully assembled ESP32 electronic badges from PCBWay with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, customs scrutiny, and tariff impact.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
event metadata
BSides Global event listing for the April 25-26, 2025 BSidesKC event tagged Kansas City and USA.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
firmware delivery
Maker-hosted browser flasher with a selectable BSidesKC 25 entry and USB delivery path. It does not identify its presented firmware as the 2026 Ad Astra build.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
firmware manifest
Machine-readable maker-hosted manifest identifying BSidesKC 2025 version 1.0.0 as an ESP32-S3 target with bootloader, partition, and firmware binary paths; it is binary delivery evidence, not public source code or a dated event-deployment record.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
fulfillment update
Badge Pirates update documenting BSidesKC 2025 badge orders, U.S. Customs hold status, and planned pickup or shipping choices for badge purchasers.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
official cross-year event context
Official source for the April 25, 2026 Kansas City Kansas Community College event named in the later continuation context; it does not map an individual 2025 hardware unit to the event.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
BSides Global · retrieved 2026-05-15
Event source for the April 25-26, 2025 Kansas City, USA BSidesKC listing.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
BSidesKC · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official source for the April 25, 2026 event context referenced by the maker's prior-badge continuation update; it does not independently confirm actual reflashing or participant use of a 2025 unit.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
Badge Pirates · retrieved 2026-05-15
Maker-hosted version 1.0.0 manifest for the selectable BSidesKC 25 browser-flasher target, identifying an ESP32-S3 chip-family build and binary components. It does not name an Ad Astra release or publish source code.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
Badge Pirates · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary production source for the 250 fully assembled ESP32 badges, 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, PCBWay assembly, customs inspection, and tariff impact.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
Badge Pirates · retrieved 2026-05-15
Clearly attributable badge-maker update saying a Lunar Lander contest was ported to last year's BSidesKC badge for 2026, with no new hardware.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge
Badge Pirates · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary fulfillment source for BSidesKC 2025 badge orders, customs hold status, and pickup or shipping plan.
Badge: BSidesKC 2025 Badge