Issue dossier
The repository README calls the project a DC-34 DEF CON badge, but no reviewed DEF CON organizer or event source confirms its author, authorization, sponsorship, booth, seller, price, run size, fabrication, recipient eligibility, registration inclusion, allocation, pickup, shipment, completed handoff, admission role, or post-event outcome.
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independent DEF CON association, production, allocation, and credential boundary · public repository and README · pre-event independent source project; authorization and handoff unverified
The catalogue records a named, technically documented independent project without presenting it as an official DEF CON badge, an attendee entitlement, a credential, a completed physical run, or proof that any participant received one.
- Badge
- DC-34 Countdown to Singularity Badge
- Category
- independent DEF CON association, production, allocation, and credential boundary
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- public repository and README
- Status
- pre-event independent source project; authorization and handoff unverified
- Timeframe
- 2026 pre-event source pass
- Source note
- eggsactly/DC-34-Countdown-To-Singularity repository and README, reviewed 2026-08-05.
Evidence
Related Resources
public firmware source tree
Public Arduino firmware directory referenced by the README. It supports a source-availability record, not a tagged/released final firmware image, evaluated build, source-to-badge mapping, recovery process, security review, support guarantee, or license grant.
Badge: DC-34 Countdown to Singularity Badge
public hardware design tree
Public native KiCad board directory supporting a real hardware-design trail. It is recorded as a source project, not proof of a final manufacture-ready revision, component procurement, assembly outcome, electrical characterization, compliance, or physical DEF CON unit.
Badge: DC-34 Countdown to Singularity Badge
public independent DEF CON badge-project repository
Public GitHub repository whose README calls it KiCad 6 design files for a DC-34 Countdown-To-Singularity DEF CON badge. The root exposes board, firmware, board-art, library, and BOM areas. It establishes a source-backed planned independent project, not an official DEF CON issue, production run, seller, price, allocation, delivery, final-unit state, or image-reuse grant.
Badge: DC-34 Countdown to Singularity Badge
public project and BOM documentation
Primary public source for the project title, seven-segment/real-time-clock/button interaction description, KiCad and Arduino tree references, AVRs/SAO/power/display BOM surface, and bootloader/programming context. It does not establish final component selection, manufacture, safety, completed distribution, or a reusable-image right.
Badge: DC-34 Countdown to Singularity Badge
Source trail
Evidence Sources
GitHub / eggsactly · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary public source confirming a separate firmware directory for the named project. It does not establish a tagged release, final binary, reproducible build, toolchain/dependency lock, deployed event revision, update/recovery path, security review, support, or explicit license.
Badge: DC-34 Countdown to Singularity Badge
GitHub / eggsactly · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary public source confirming native project board files for the named badge design. It does not establish a reviewed schematic/BOM release, fabrication result, component substitutions, complete power/SAO specification, safety/compliance evidence, or final-unit parity.
Badge: DC-34 Countdown to Singularity Badge
GitHub / eggsactly · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary source for the eight-display/real-time-clock/button purpose, native KiCad/Arduino project layout, board-viewing and firmware context, bootloader statement, and published component-BOM claims. It does not establish a final build, production result, exact event firmware, safe programming/assembly result, or repository license.
Badge: DC-34 Countdown to Singularity Badge
GitHub / eggsactly · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary public repository for a project explicitly described as a DC-34 DEF CON badge. It establishes a named current independent source project, not official DEF CON authorization, a physical run, finished hardware, event allocation, admission role, or reusable-image permission.
Badge: DC-34 Countdown to Singularity Badge