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Hackover explicitly changed from the previous year's optional assembled Invader-style board toward giving every attendee an assembled and flashed PCB.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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assembled-for-beginners design choice · primary development post · historical
This is useful lore for European badge culture: the organizers optimized for immediate on-site play and beginners, not only for people already comfortable with microcontroller programming.
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- Hackover 2013 Badge
- Category
- assembled-for-beginners design choice
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- primary development post
- Status
- historical
- Timeframe
- pre-event design
- Source note
- Hackover badge development post on hackover.de/page/9/.
CCC Event Blog · retrieved 2026-05-15
Supporting source for Hackover venue, C3H context, and the microcontroller/display badge tradition.
Badge: Hackover 2013 Badge
Hackover · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary source for Hackover 2013 ticket contents, including the assembled badge PCB.
Badge: Hackover 2013 Badge
Hackover · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary source for the 2013 badge feature list: ARM processor, 2.4 GHz radio, LCD, USB, and buttons.
Badge: Hackover 2013 Badge
Hackover archive · retrieved 2026-05-15
Archive source for firmware and schematic clone URLs and post-event hacker documentation caveat.
Badge: Hackover 2013 Badge