Issue dossier
Official HTH sources establish that the June 3-5 conference occurred, and a public attendee account says a light-up badge was part of the CTF. No reviewed source establishes ticket eligibility, badge price, production quantity, inventory, role variants, recipient count, registration pickup, shipment, replacement, refund, attendee-wide allocation, or individual physical receipt of the Eagle 5 hardware.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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distribution, ticket, and attendee-handoff gap · official event and post-event archive sources · event complete; allocation outcome unrecovered
The entry does not turn a public source archive or one attendee account into a distribution record or a claim that every conference participant received the same badge.
- Badge
- Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
- Category
- distribution, ticket, and attendee-handoff gap
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- official event and post-event archive sources
- Status
- event complete; allocation outcome unrecovered
- Timeframe
- HTH 2026 post-event source pass
- Source note
- HTH official site and LinkedIn updates; Paul Danis public account; Eagle 5 source repository.
badge-team source-publisher profile
Public source-publisher profile for Zack Nagaich, whose repository list includes 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025, and 2026 HTH badge-labelled archives. The profile is affiliation context, not an official 2026 organizer roster.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
dated post-event source commit
July 15, 2026 initial commit by syn-ack-zack explicitly calling this nRF52840 plus SX1262 Reticulum/RNode conference-badge firmware for HTH 2026 and adding the public source tree.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
firmware and hardware overview
Primary source for the nRF52840-QIAA, SX1262, 74HC595, nine single-color LEDs, RGB wing, dual USB CDC, RNode/Reticulum, CLI, LED-animation, CTF, and GPLv3 firmware statements. It also embeds a badge photo whose image-specific attribution/provenance is insufficient for local publication.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
firmware modification documentation
Source record describing the Eagle 5 nRF52840 plus SX1262 board port, LED hooks, and the GPLv3 RNode-fork modification boundary. It does not replace a final hardware schematic or production release.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
firmware source license
Repository root GNU GPLv3 license. The README identifies GPLv3 as the firmware license; it does not by itself provide the required selected-photo attribution and processing provenance for a local badge hero image.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
official 2026 event page
Official 2026 HTH ticket/edition page linked directly from the organizer site and titled HTH 2026: Spaceballs - The Hacker Conference.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
official event site
Official HTH source describing an annual Columbus-area information-security practitioner conference with hands-on villages, CTF challenges, scavenger hunts, talks, and a maker/hacker audience. It identifies BrewDog DogTap in Canal Winchester as the venue and links the 2026 ticket site.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
official historical badge archive
Organizer-owned GitHub organization that presents historical HTH badge repositories, including its forked 2025 badge source, establishing the event's public badge-archive practice.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
official organizer update feed
Organizer-controlled HTH profile and update feed stating the June 3-5, 2026 Columbus conference dates, Spaceballs theme, and post-event completion context.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
post-event attendee corroboration
Public attendee account describing a badge worn at HTH 2026 as lighting up and being part of the conference CTF. It corroborates a real electronic CTF badge without establishing its exact board revision, source origin, individual receipt, or image-reuse permission.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
post-event badge firmware repository
Public GPLv3 repository whose description states Hackers Teaching Hackers - 2026 Conference Badge and whose README identifies the Eagle 5 2026 HTH badge. It contains firmware, an RNode submodule reference, source headers, an image, and documentation but no hardware-manufacturing archive or official organizer ownership.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
provenance relationship
GitHub API metadata showing HTHackers/J5-ShortCircuit is an official-organization fork of syn-ack-zack/J5-ShortCircuit, a repository described as the 2025 HTH conference badge. This is evidence of prior source-publisher affiliation, not a direct official publication of the 2026 Eagle 5 repository.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
GitHub API / Hackers Teaching Hackers · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary API evidence that the official HTH organization forked syn-ack-zack/J5-ShortCircuit, which describes itself as the 2025 HTH conference badge. It supports a prior badge-team affiliation, not direct publication or endorsement of the 2026 repo.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
Hackers Teaching Hackers · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official 2026 edition page linked by the HTH homepage, establishing the titled HTH 2026 Spaceballs event context.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
Hackers Teaching Hackers · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer-controlled source establishing HTH as an annual information-security practitioner conference for hackers, defenders, makers, breakers, tinkerers, and hobbyists with villages and CTF challenges, plus BrewDog DogTap in Canal Winchester venue context.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
Hackers Teaching Hackers · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer update source for the June 3-5, 2026 Columbus event dates, Spaceballs theme, villages/CTF context, and public post-event acknowledgement that the 2026 conference occurred.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
Hackers Teaching Hackers / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary organizer-owned historical source listing HTH badge projects and the official 2025 fork relationship relevant to the 2026 source-publisher provenance check.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
Paul Danis / LinkedIn · retrieved 2026-05-15
Public post-event attendee account corroborating that a worn HTH 2026 badge lit up and was part of the conference CTF. It is used narrowly as artifact/CTF corroboration, not as a hardware specification, distribution ledger, or image-use grant.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
Zack Nagaich / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary source for the Eagle 5-specific board port, hardware reset, LED hooks, and GPLv3 upstream-modification disclosure. It is firmware context, not an operational guide or production-board proof.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
Zack Nagaich / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary source for the Eagle 5 2026 HTH wording, nRF52840/SX1262 hardware summary, LED/USB role summary, RNode/Reticulum context, CLI/animation/CTF source statements, and firmware GPLv3 claim.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
Zack Nagaich / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary repository license source. The README describes the firmware as GPLv3, while the presence of a repository image does not itself supply all image-specific attribution/provenance facts required by this catalogue.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
Zack Nagaich / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Public GitHub account source listing the publisher's HTH-labelled 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025, and Eagle 5 2026 repository trail. It is self-published archive evidence rather than an official 2026 staffing or design-credit list.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
Zack Nagaich / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary post-event Eagle 5 source repository. Its description explicitly calls it a Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 conference badge and it reports GPL-3.0 license metadata, a main branch, and a July 2026 initial public source state.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
syn-ack-zack / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary dated July 15, 2026 commit with an initial-release message naming the Eagle 5 nRF52840/SX1262 Reticulum/RNode HTH 2026 conference-badge firmware and its 45-file source addition.
Badge: Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge