Issue dossier
No Ekoparty 2026 badge image is published. The official event page and ticket listing show no badge image, and the badge-team repository's top-side photo sits in a GPL-3.0 firmware repository without a separate image licence, explicit reuse permission, or photographer attribution.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement
The planned Argentine record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying ticket artwork, event media, social-media photos, screenshots, placeholders, or generated approximations.
- Badge
- Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
- Category
- missing rights-cleared image
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- pre-event source pass as of 2026-08-04
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy, Ekoparty Buenos Aires 2026 event page, and organizer-linked Champion ticket page.
attendee post-event writeup
Matias Zapf's October 12, 2026 attendee summary of the October 7-9 conference, which says the 2026 electronic Eko Badge ran its own build of Meshtastic and shows the author's badge, signed by Chema Alonso. Photos are not reused here.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
badge-team firmware and hardware repository
GPL-3.0 repository published on October 3, 2026 by Nicolas Restbergs (Fábrica Marciana), describing itself as the firmware for the official Ekoparty 2026 badge. It holds the Meshtastic-derived source with an Ekoparty module, build scripts, the badge-hardware folder with the September 11, 2026 schematic PDF and PNG, a pin map, a top-side photo, and the user manual.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
badge-team user guide
GitHub Pages guide published by the badge team from October 4, 2026, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese from October 7. It summarises the hardware (nRF52840, Ra-01SH SX1262, OLED, six decorative LEDs, piezo, 18650 battery slot, LoRa and Bluetooth antennas with an optional external antenna connector), the Meshtastic workflow, care warnings, and credits; on October 8, 2026 it added a warning that the badge was assembled with low-temperature solder.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
event page
Official Ekoparty event page for the planned EKO 22 Buenos Aires conference, listing October 7-9, 2026 at CEC and current programme context. The September 28 and October 4, 2026 rechecks found the full main-track agenda published alongside the ticket call, with still no badge mention anywhere on the page. The October 15, 2026 recheck, six days after the scheduled last day, still found the countdown, ticket call, and Próximamente inscripción wording, with no wrap-up, attendance figure, or 2026 results. The October 21, 2026 recheck (page last modified October 16) found an EKO BADGE ELECTRÓNICO section describing a customized Meshtastic badge that works off-grid without Wi-Fi, mobile data, or internet and linking to marsfactory.github.io/ekoparty-badge-2026; the Internet Archive shows the section absent on October 2 and present on October 9, 2026.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
firmware release
First public firmware release, October 3, 2026: Meshtastic 2.8.0.169c28b built from a clean tree, UF2 and HEX images, the EKO_FIRST_FLASH.hex bootloader image for first SWD flashing, BUILD_INFO, and SHA256SUMS. The notes record validation on the final PCB, including the ANZ region, MEDIUM_FAST preset, and CLIENT_MUTE role.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
firmware release
October 5, 2026 release, two days before the conference, that keeps physical GPS excluded but lets the badge receive and keep mesh positions, so the Distance frame works from a fixed position or the phone's shared location. The notes record Distance behaviour confirmed on the final PCB and a clean ekoparty_badge_v1 build at 89.9 percent of flash, with EKOBOOT unchanged.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
hardware design file
EasyEDA Pro project file for the badge PCB added to the repository on October 8, 2026, the second conference day. It is the first published layout-level design file; no exported Gerbers, BOM, or production quantity accompany it.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
hardware documentation
Pin map for the ekoparty_badge_v1 PCB (nRF52840 to SX1262, OLED, SK6812 pixels, piezo, button, ADC, DFU button, SWD) linking the September 11, 2026 schematic PDF. No Gerbers or BOM are published.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
official ticket page
Current organizer-linked ticket page that identifies the Champion tier as including an electronic badge for the planned three-day conference. The September 28 and October 4, 2026 rechecks found the wording unchanged: Entrada Champion (incluye badge electrónico hasta agotar stock), an electronic badge included while supplies last.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
user manual
Spanish user manual covering first boot and the 12-second intro, Meshtastic Bluetooth pairing, button navigation, the local BADGE menu, status-LED meanings, power and battery behaviour, UF2 updates through EKOBOOT, troubleshooting, and the scope of each reset option.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
Ekoparty · retrieved 2026-10-21
Primary official source for EKO 22, the October 7-9, 2026 CEC Buenos Aires event, and the surrounding programme context. The September 28 and October 4, 2026 rechecks found the main-track agenda live with no badge reveal, and the October 15 and 21 rechecks found the page still in pre-event wording with no wrap-up. Its EKO BADGE ELECTRÓNICO section, archived by October 9, 2026, is Ekoparty's own statement that the badge is an off-grid customized Meshtastic device and links the badge team's guide.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
Ekoparty / Eventbrite · retrieved 2026-09-28
Organizer-linked current ticket source that states the Champion tier includes an electronic badge while supplies last (incluye badge electrónico hasta agotar stock), reconfirmed unchanged on September 28 and October 4, 2026; it does not identify final hardware or confirm delivery.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
Fábrica Marciana / GitHub · retrieved 2026-10-04
Primary badge-team source, published October 3, 2026, identifying the firmware as made for the official Ekoparty 2026 badge on the ekoparty_badge_v1 PCB with an nRF52840, SX1262 radio, and OLED, and documenting the pin map, schematic, manual, build steps, and GPL-3.0 Meshtastic provenance. It is not an Ekoparty-hosted page and does not state production quantity or allocation.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
Fábrica Marciana / GitHub · retrieved 2026-10-04
Primary firmware release source for the October 3, 2026 build, its event profile (ANZ region, MEDIUM_FAST, CLIENT_MUTE, USB CAFE:E001), the EKOBOOT first-flash image and its pinned source, and the validation notes on the final PCB.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
Fábrica Marciana / GitHub · retrieved 2026-10-15
Primary firmware release source for the October 5, 2026 position-handling change, its validation on the final PCB, and the public and ported development commits; it does not state production quantity or allocation.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
Fábrica Marciana / GitHub · retrieved 2026-10-04
Firmware source for the bilingual Acerca de screen, which says the badge was created for Ekoparty 2026 by Lucas Leal (hardware design), Nicolas Restbergs (visual identity and firmware adaptation), and Jorge Crowe (coordination and concept), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
Fábrica Marciana / GitHub Pages · retrieved 2026-10-15
Primary badge-team source for the 18650 battery slot, antenna arrangement, care warnings, credits, and the October 8, 2026 statement that the badge was assembled with low-temperature solder that a bump or fall can break loose. It names no production count and carries no separate image licence.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
Matias Zapf / zapf.dev · retrieved 2026-10-15
Secondary first-hand attendee source, published October 12, 2026, confirming that the October 7-9 conference took place and that at least this attendee held a 2026 electronic Eko Badge running a Meshtastic build. It does not give a badge count, the share of Champion tickets fulfilled, or any field issues.
Badge: Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge