Issue dossier
The November 6-7, 2026 dates have passed, and an attendee CTF writeup records the PHREAKMYST CTF running through November 7, including a scavenger-hunt request for a PhreakNIC badge with something funny flashed onto it. The writeup repository was deleted by November 10 without an archived copy. The official site's newest post is still the October 22 schedule announcement (Last-Modified October 27), and no badge firmware, repository, or distribution note has been published.
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post-event status unconfirmed by organizers · attendee CTF writeup; official site unchanged · awaiting organizer wrap-up or badge release
The edition is not marked completed, and the record keeps its planned-badge framing until an organizer or project-owner source documents the shipped badge.
- Badge
- PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
- Category
- post-event status unconfirmed by organizers
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- attendee CTF writeup; official site unchanged
- Status
- awaiting organizer wrap-up or badge release
- Timeframe
- checked 2026-11-10
- Source note
- PhreakNIC website, checked 2026-11-10, and the Super Prompt Brothers PHREAKMYST writeup, retrieved 2026-11-08 and gone on 2026-11-10.
attendee CTF writeup
Team Super Prompt Brothers' record of the PhreakNIC 27 PHREAKMYST CTF, published November 7-8, 2026: final standings frozen at 18:00 CT on November 7 with 31 teams, the challenge pages, maps, and field notes. GitHub reported no license. Removed by November 10, 2026: the repository now returns HTTP 404 and has no Wayback Machine snapshot.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
official case customizer
Official browser tool added on October 21, 2026 for designing a custom floppy-disk shutter for the badge's LEGO-compatible 2x4 socket: marker drawing, text in Osifont, Overpass, Orbitron, OCR-B, or Eat Fruits, SVG import, multi-colour inlay depth, and print-ready STL export. Its preview mesh is credited to a pn27-badge project file named epop55-cassette-stl-socket-4.stl.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
official event site
Official PhreakNIC website for the November 6-7, 2026 event at the Clarion Inn & Suites, Murfreesboro. Besides preregistration and challenge coins, its news feed carries the September 30, 2026 PN27 Badge Sneak Peek post by tylercrumpton (new frame, cool wireless features, a ka-chunk-y slot for the disk, and a LEGO-compatible customizable shutter slider bit) with an official reveal video that is not reused here.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
official schedule entry
Official PN27 schedule entry, added October 9, 2026, for Tyler Crumpton's 11:30-11:50 talk on November 6: the badge is built on the same recycled hardware as PN26's, with conference customization, wireless communication, and battery-less operation.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
official site repository
Public source of the official site, including the September 30, 2026 badge-post commit, the October 9 schedule and speaker data, and the October 21 badge-customizer commit with its font and third-party notices.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
project-owner writeup
Primary project-owner writeup that documents the PN26 ESL badge and explicitly says work was already underway on a cooler MK.II version for PhreakNIC 27, scheduled for November 6-7, 2026.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
CrumpSpace / Tyler Crumpton · retrieved 2026-05-15
Project-owner source for the public PN27 MK.II planning statement, future date, and expected follow-up direction from the PN26 ESL badge.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
PhreakNIC · retrieved 2026-10-21
Primary official source that the PN27 badge has a LEGO-compatible 2x4 socket on the front where the floppy-disk shutter would go and that attendees may print their own shutter; it documents the case, not the electronics.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
PhreakNIC · retrieved 2026-10-21
Official website for the November 6-7, 2026 event. Its September 30, 2026 PN27 Badge Sneak Peek post is the first organizer source for the floppy-disk frame, disk slot, wireless features, and LEGO-compatible shutter; it gives no electronics specification.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
PhreakNIC · retrieved 2026-10-21
Primary official schedule abstract stating that the PN27 badge reuses PN26's recycled electronic shelf-label hardware and adds conference customization, wireless communication, and battery-less operation. It is a talk announcement, not a hardware release.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
Super Prompt Brothers (GitHub) · retrieved 2026-11-08
Secondary attendee transcription of a CTF scavenger-hunt request: bring to the CTF table a PhreakNIC badge with something funny flashed onto it, judged by the CTF runners for 50 points. The CTF says its picture only illustrates the requested item, so it is not evidence of the badge's appearance, and the team did not attempt it. The repository returned HTTP 404 on November 10, 2026, and the Wayback Machine has no snapshot, so this rests on the November 8 retrieval.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
Super Prompt Brothers (GitHub) · retrieved 2026-11-08
Secondary attendee source. It says the PHREAKMYST CTF ran at the Clarion Inn in Murfreesboro on November 6 and 7, 2026, with final standings frozen at 18:00 CT on November 7 among 31 teams. It corroborates that the conference took place, but it is not an organizer wrap-up and says nothing about badge distribution. The repository returned HTTP 404 on November 10, 2026, and the Wayback Machine has no snapshot, so this rests on the November 8 retrieval.
Badge: PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge