Issue dossier
The sources establish that physical badges and an eyebrow module were present during the festival, and the designer README has a future purchase-link note. They do not establish ticket eligibility, price, inventory, production quantity, registration handoff, recipient count, standard-versus-optional configurations, order history, shipment, completed sale, replacement, refund, or attendee-wide allocation.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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distribution, purchase, and physical-handoff gap · post-event designer and attendee archives · physical badge use corroborated; recipient and purchase outcome unrecovered
No participant count, entitlement, price, purchase result, or universal issuance is inferred from a public source archive or a single attendee project's account.
- Badge
- Open Sauce 2026 Badge
- Category
- distribution, purchase, and physical-handoff gap
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- post-event designer and attendee archives
- Status
- physical badge use corroborated; recipient and purchase outcome unrecovered
- Timeframe
- Open Sauce 2026
- Source note
- Open Sauce official tickets; calebmarting README; putnam custom-firmware README.
badge firmware source
Public source file for the badge's Bop It firmware context. It is linked as historical software evidence without reproducing modification or operating instructions.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
independent attendee firmware archive
Public attendee repository describing a replacement firmware for the 2026 Open Sauce badge and a Saturday eyebrow-module handoff. It independently corroborates the physical badge and event hacking without being an organizer source.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
independent attendee provenance record
Primary attendee account of the original Bop It-style firmware, badge designer Caleb mention, custom Arduino MKR Zero-based board, overnight replacement project, Sunday demonstration, and named Gerard Hudson collaboration.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
native PCB source
Public native KiCad PCB file for the Bop It badge design. The file establishes a hardware archive without proving that every physical event unit exactly matched the current source file.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
native schematic source
Public native KiCad schematic file for the Bop It badge design. It is a technical reference rather than a production, safety, or recipient-allocation record.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
official event schedule
Official schedule confirming the July 17 Industry Day and July 18-19 main event context in San Mateo.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
official event site
Official Open Sauce page establishing the July 17-19, 2026 technology and creator festival at San Mateo County Event Center, including the public 1346 Saratoga Drive address.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
official ticket context
Official ticket source documenting public admission tiers and the festival's July 17-19 event dates. It does not identify a badge allocation or hardware entitlement.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
physical build, software, and event-hacking record
Primary source for the Arduino MKR Zero-compatible badge, documented physical components, optional headers, Bop It firmware context, native source tree, and statement that attendees created four games after Saturday badge hacking.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
post-event badge-source archive
Public repository described as schematics and firmware for the Open Sauce 2026 Badge and SAOs. It is a designer-published source archive, not a direct Open Sauce organizer repository.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
post-event community firmware archive
Designer-published folder referenced by the README for code from attendees who hacked badges during the festival. It corroborates a post-event community-hacking trail but does not identify each person's full role or a deployed production image.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
source archive license
Repository root MIT license naming Copyright 2026 Caleb Marting for software and associated documentation. It is kept distinct from a selected image's factual event-unit status and processing provenance.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
Caleb Marting / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary native PCB source for the public design archive; not proof of exact physical event-unit parity.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
Caleb Marting / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary native schematic source for the public design archive; not a final production or safety result.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
Caleb Marting / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary repository license source naming Copyright 2026 Caleb Marting for the archive's software and associated documentation.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
Caleb Marting / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary source for badge components, Arduino MKR Zero compatibility, optional SAO/battery headers, Bop It source context, source-tree purpose, and attendee-created game statement.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
Caleb Marting / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary badge firmware source supporting the documented game/input context, without asserting final deployed source or release ownership.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
Caleb Marting / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary source folder referenced as the attendees' post-event game code after Saturday hacking and Sunday demos.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
Caleb Marting / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary public post-event repository described as schematics and firmware for the Open Sauce 2026 Badge and SAOs.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
Open Sauce · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official source for the July 17-19, 2026 San Mateo festival and venue context.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
Open Sauce · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official schedule source for Industry Day and main-event timing.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
Open Sauce · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary official admission-tier source; it does not include a badge hardware entitlement statement.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
putnam / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Independent first-person source for the custom board / original Bop It account, badge-designer Caleb mention, attendee firmware work, Sunday game context, and Gerard Hudson collaboration.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge
putnam / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Independent post-event attendee source calling itself replacement firmware for the 2026 Open Sauce badge and documenting a physical eyebrow-module handoff.
Badge: Open Sauce 2026 Badge