Issue dossier
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying the repository photo, social-media media, GitHub previews, logos, screenshots, or generated/approximate badge imagery.
Evidence
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Official 2026 HTH ticket/edition page linked directly from the organizer site and titled HTH 2026: Spaceballs - The Hacker Conference.
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.
Organizer-owned GitHub organization that presents historical HTH badge repositories, including its forked 2025 badge source, establishing the event's public badge-archive practice.
Organizer-controlled HTH profile and update feed stating the June 3-5, 2026 Columbus conference dates, Spaceballs theme, and post-event completion context.
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.
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.
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.
Source trail
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.
Primary official 2026 edition page linked by the HTH homepage, establishing the titled HTH 2026 Spaceballs event context.
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.
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.
Primary organizer-owned historical source listing HTH badge projects and the official 2025 fork relationship relevant to the 2026 source-publisher provenance check.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.