Issue dossier
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
The record stays image-free instead of copying event, social-media, or repository photos.
Evidence
Alternative Rust firmware for the Conagotchi by John Vishnefske, created October 24, 2026. It trades Chi with stock badges, saves contacts, shows an animated pet, adds a Bluetooth LE GATT service and synchronised LED patterns, and is driven by the badgectl host tool over the USB debug link. Its README says the stock files, radio key, and DOOM stay on the badge. The repository has no licence file.
First release, published October 24, 2026, with a merged flash image and SHA-256 checksum. Not an OzSec release.
Design notes with the GPIO table taken from the stock firmware's config.py and the board silkscreen, the stock image layout (MicroPython 1.27, littlefs, DOOM partition), the Chi trading protocol, and hardware checks dated October 23 and 24, 2026.
Friday, October 23, 2026, Session 3 (1:30-2:15 PM, Redbud B): a joint talk by Jason, Chief Pixel Chef, Angle, and Daniel on bringing the Conagotchi badge to life, from concept to completion. No recording or slides have been published.
Official site for the October 23-24, 2026 conference at the Hyatt Regency Wichita. Its FAQ tells attendees to bring a laptop and a USB data cable for connecting to their badge, the sponsor list names Raxis as Badge Sponsor and Arista as Lanyard Sponsor, the leadership list names Jason Taylor as Badge President / Honorary Chair, and the page loads a Conagotchi stylesheet. On October 26, 2026 it still showed Buy Tickets Now and no wrap-up.
Speaker entry for the Conagotchi talk: your badge creation crew has been hard at work the past year preparing to bring you this year's badge.
Source trail
Secondary first-hand source for the hardware and stock-firmware details: ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 with 8 MB flash and no PSRAM, GC9A01 240x240 display, eight WS2812B LEDs, red alert and green raffle LEDs, five buttons, 38 kHz infrared, link UART, and the Bluetooth LE Chi trading protocol, read from the stock firmware and silkscreen of one badge. It names the badge as the OzSec 2026 Conagotchi and records hardware tests on October 23, 2026, the first conference day. It is not an organizer document.
Primary official source for the October 23-24, 2026 dates, the Hyatt Regency Wichita venue, the instruction to bring a USB data cable for the badge, the Raxis badge sponsorship, the Badge President listing, and the Conagotchi site theme. It has no post-event wrap-up.
Primary official source for the Conagotchi name and the badge talk, its time, room, and listed speakers.
Primary official source saying the badge creation crew worked on this year's badge for the past year.