Issue dossier
The recovered public trail proves an Arduino-compatible badge, FTDI programming path, HHV assembly context, hidden challenge behavior, and blinky expansion board, but this pass did not recover an official 2014 archive page, schematic, BOM, PCB source, MCU identification, final firmware repository, production count, or complete build manual.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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source-depth caveat · first-hand write-up plus secondary coverage · needs badge-team archive
The record preserves verified badge behavior and named-source context without inventing unrecovered electronics, firmware internals, component values, or manufacturing details.
- Badge
- SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
- Category
- source-depth caveat
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- first-hand write-up plus secondary coverage
- Status
- needs badge-team archive
- Timeframe
- current SAINTCON 2014 pass
- Source note
- Josh Datko write-up, SparkFun repost, Hackaday coverage, and Cisco retrospective context.
event report
Hackaday coverage source for the Arduino-compatible badge, bag-of-components distribution, HHV assembly workflow, FTDI header, challenge secrets, and blinky-board add-on context.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
first-hand badge write-up
Josh Datko first-hand source for the SAINTCON 2014 badge, Arduino-clone framing, FTDI programming, HHV soldering context, hidden source-code secret, blinky expansion board, and designer/support credits.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
partner repost
SparkFun repost/context source for the October 20-23, 2014 Ogden event window and badge-hacking narrative.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
retrospective partner context
Cisco's 2015 write-up frames SAINTCON show badges as a two-year program, used here only as lineage context rather than as a source for unrecovered 2014 electronics details.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
Cisco · retrieved 2026-05-15
Retrospective SAINTCON show-badge lineage context; not used to infer unrecovered 2014 component or firmware details beyond the existence of prior-year show-badge activity.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
Hackaday · retrieved 2026-05-15
Secondary coverage source corroborating Arduino-compatibility, FTDI header, bag-of-components distribution, HHV soldering, blinky board, and hidden challenge behavior.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
Josh Datko / Datko.net · retrieved 2026-05-15
First-hand badge source for the Arduino-compatible SAINTCON 2014 badge, FTDI programming, hidden Hacker Challenge code, blinky board, and named contributors.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
SparkFun News · retrieved 2026-05-15
SparkFun repost/context source for the October 20-23, 2014 Ogden event and badge-hacking write-up trail.
Badge: SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge