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Official posts now confirm the floppy-disk frame, LEGO-compatible shutter, recycled ESL hardware, wireless communication, and battery-less operation, but no PN27 repository, schematic, BOM, firmware, station code, or production note is public. The customizer credits its preview mesh to a pn27-badge project file named epop55-cassette, which hints at the label model without stating it, and the pn27-badge repository itself is not public.
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source-depth caveat · project-owner plan plus official teaser, talk abstract, and case customizer · needs post-event source recovery
The record avoids naming a shelf-label model, controller, radio, or power design until the talk or a release documents them.
- Badge
- PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
- Category
- source-depth caveat
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- project-owner plan plus official teaser, talk abstract, and case customizer
- Status
- needs post-event source recovery
- Timeframe
- October 21, 2026 pre-event recheck
- Source note
- PhreakNIC site, schedule, and Badge Customizer, and the Phreaknic/phreaknic.info repository, checked 2026-10-21.
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