Issue dossier
Elliot Williams says on the October 23, 2026 Hackaday Podcast that the badge photos and release are held until the screens clear export from Germany and import into the United States. A German customs export declaration was pending while the customs portal was offline, with one-day express shipping already paid.
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screen import and reveal delay · official podcast, machine-transcribed locally · open; reveal pending
The badge reveal and possibly screen availability depend on a pending cross-border shipment. The organizer calls it not a real killer for the badge process, so the record notes the dependency without forecasting a delivery problem.
- Badge
- Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge
- Category
- screen import and reveal delay
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- official podcast, machine-transcribed locally
- Status
- open; reveal pending
- Timeframe
- October 23, 2026, two weeks before the event
- Source note
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 392, opening segment, transcribed locally from the official MP3 with WisprCLI large-v3.
official event announcement
Official July 13, 2026 Hackaday article placing the tenth in-person Superconference on November 6-8 in Pasadena, moving the two talk tracks to the ArtCenter South Campus for about 20 percent more capacity, scheduling the Friday badge-hacking day at Supplyframe HQ, and planning the Sunday badge-hack showcase.
Badge: Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge
official newsletter post
Official September 12, 2026 Hackaday newsletter post teasing that the badge is going to be bigger this year while explicitly withholding every further design detail.
Badge: Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge
official podcast episode
Official October 23, 2026 Hackaday Podcast episode. The show notes say it covers the upcoming Supercon badge and the trials of importing and exporting parts for the badges. In the opening segment, Elliot Williams says the badge release waits on getting the screens into America and that the screens are superb.
Badge: Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge
official programme announcement
Official September 23, 2026 Hackaday speaker announcement confirming the November 6-8 Pasadena dates, the Art Center campus move, and badge hacking among the advertised festivities, with no badge design detail.
Badge: Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge
official ticket announcement
Official August 13, 2026 Hackaday ticket article naming the sweet hackable badge included with admission, the 150-dollar early-bird and 296-dollar regular prices plus fees, and the Saturday-Sunday venue move to ArtCenter South Campus.
Badge: Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge
Hackaday · retrieved 2026-09-24
Primary official source reconfirming the November 6-8 Pasadena dates and Art Center campus move and listing badge hacking among the festivities, without badge hardware or software content.
Badge: Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge
Hackaday · retrieved 2026-09-24
Primary official source for the November 6-8, 2026 dates, tenth in-person edition framing, ArtCenter South Campus venue move, two 20-and-40-minute talk tracks, Friday badge-hacking day, and Sunday badge-hack showcase.
Badge: Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge
Hackaday · retrieved 2026-10-24
Primary official audio source. badge.gallery transcribed the first 15 minutes of the episode MP3 locally with WisprCLI large-v3; quotes are from that machine transcript. In it, Elliot Williams says the badge release will come as soon as the screens reach America, calls the screens superb, and describes the German export tax ID, customs export declaration, PHP2Shell-related customs-portal outage, and paid one-day express shipping. It proves that the badge has a display and that a parts shipment from Germany is pending. It does not give a display model, other hardware, or a reveal date.
Badge: Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge
Hackaday · retrieved 2026-09-24
Primary official source for the bigger-badge teaser, the bigger venue with courtyard hacking space, and the two talk tracks, with the explicit statement that no further badge detail can be shared at this time.
Badge: Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge
Hackaday · retrieved 2026-09-24
Primary official source stating that admission includes a sweet hackable badge, alongside ticket prices, sales opening, and venue capacity context. Its author's comment reply that the badge must have an add-on is retained only as a teaser, not a specification.
Badge: Hackaday Supercon 2026 Planned Badge