Issue dossier
The public evidence describes the Legacy Black Badge as a special black-badge lifetime-access award artifact, not an attendee-wide DerbyCon admission credential.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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archived official event site
Internet Archive mirror linked from InfoconDB as the official DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy event-page context.
Badge: DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
conference archive
Conference archive source for the DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy dates, Hyatt Regency Hotel venue, Louisville, Kentucky location, and linked event-program context.
Badge: DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
event program PDF
Infocon-hosted program PDF linked from InfoconDB, used for event-context corroboration rather than badge hardware claims.
Badge: DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
first-hand project writeup
Primary first-hand maker source for the Legacy Black Badge purpose, hardware bill of materials, design/fabrication workflow, compiled firmware artifact, build steps, and image-rights boundary.
Badge: DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
DerbyCon / Internet Archive · retrieved 2026-05-15
Archived official event-page context linked by InfoconDB; not used for black-badge hardware claims.
Badge: DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
Hackster / Ben Hibben · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary first-hand source proving the DerbyCon Legacy Black Badge artifact, black-badge lifetime-ticket framing, Ben Hibben and Charles Lehman maker context, BOM, fabrication steps, and compiled firmware artifact.
Badge: DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
InfoconDB · retrieved 2026-05-15
Conference archive source proving the September 22-24, 2017 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy event context.
Badge: DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge