Issue dossier
Public sources prove a speaker-colored electronic badge and post-event badge-team activity, but no board photo with reuse rights, physical form, PCB, MCU, display, radio, power, connector, schematic, Gerber, BOM, firmware, challenge, programming guide, protocol, or repository was recovered.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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hardware and firmware source gap · source-conservative public record · needs primary technical archive
The dossier records the real electronic artifact without treating the term electronic, a ticket-page slogan, or social confirmation as a component-level technical description.
- Badge
- cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
- Category
- hardware and firmware source gap
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- source-conservative public record
- Status
- needs primary technical archive
- Timeframe
- 2026 post-event follow-up
- Source note
- cackalackycon 2026 CFP, Eventzilla listing, organizer updates, and Jeff Shouse report.
first-hand maker report
Public LinkedIn activity from Jeff Shouse says he helped make the 2026 badge and describes an active badge team; it does not provide a reproducible technical archive.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
official attendee guide
Official student-admission guidance used to preserve the paper-versus-electronic allocation boundary.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
official event page
Official event context that explicitly distinguishes student paper-badge access from electronic badges.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
official organizer channel
The official company feed reposts a post-event report describing a smooth 2026 badge handout, engaged badge use, and a badge-virus breakout, without publishing technical details or image rights.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
organizer-linked ticketing page
Completed-event ticketing page that markets another 2026 electronic badge but supplies no component, firmware, final-form, or allocation specification.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
organizer-provided call for papers
Primary allocation source: accepted speakers receive a speaker-colored electronic badge and free admission, while the included guest admission is paper and guests seeking an electronic badge must purchase a ticket.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
CackalackyCon / LinkedIn · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official organizer feed that reposts a post-event 2026 account of smooth badge handout, badge engagement, a badge-virus breakout, and badge-team work.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
Jeff Shouse / LinkedIn · retrieved 2026-05-15
First-hand public account stating that Shouse helped make the Cackalackycon 2026 badge and that it had an active badge team, without component-level or source-release documentation.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
cackalackycon · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official attendee guide that repeatedly identifies free student admission as a paper badge, not an electronic badge.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
cackalackycon · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official event source used to distinguish student paper-badge access from the separate electronic-badge paths.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
cackalackycon / Eventzilla · retrieved 2026-05-15
Organizer-linked completed-event listing that markets a 2026 electronic badge while leaving the hardware, software, final physical form, and allocation unspecified.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
cackalackycon / Sessionize · retrieved 2026-05-15
Organizer-provided CFP source proving the selected-speaker speaker-colored electronic badge, free speaker admission, paper-badge guest admission, and the paid-ticket condition for a guest electronic badge.
Badge: cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge