Issue dossier
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
The record treats the repository as the designer's own primary evidence and leaves production numbers, distribution scope, and any assembly step open.
Evidence
Internet Archive capture from November 9, 2025 of the official BadgeLife community page, crediting compukidmike, redactd, v0rtex, BP, and Mike's Wife and describing the badge game, the Klippy AI storyline, the wrench design hint, support, and a booth MiniBadge.
Internet Archive capture from November 3, 2025 of the official homepage, reading Goodbye, and Thank You from SAINTCON 25 above the October 21-24, 2025 dates and the Utah Valley Convention Center venue.
Unofficial MIT-licensed PlatformIO firmware published October 31, 2026 that tracks 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi access points or Bluetooth LE transmitters by RSSI, with a display HUD, a 20-LED signal meter, and a serial CLI. The README marks it as work in progress and developed with AI assistance.
Unofficial MIT-licensed ESP-IDF 5.5.1 pet game by David Vasquez, published November 1, 2026. It installs into the badge's spare ota_1 app slot beside the original firmware, keeps saves in the ST25DV NFC EEPROM, and also builds for the browser.
SAINTCON Badge Museum build of compukidmike's original 2025 firmware compiled to WebAssembly from a pinned commit, with the pug pet as a second mode. The museum's code is MIT; the badge firmware stays under its author's terms. Not affiliated with SAINTCON or UtahSAINT.
Repository created October 27, 2025, with the badge and Nut board files and firmware, a README describing the wrench badge and Nut game, and an AfterCon Nut sketch added November 12, 2025. It states no licence.
ESP-IDF badge firmware, version 0.2.1, with LVGL interface, badge game, faction and Nut tables, API client, OTA, NFC, MiniBadge, battery, secure-element, and Dawn Accord components.
ESP-IDF firmware, version 1.2.0, for the ESP32-C3 Nut stations with PTX105R NFC reader, MCP23x17 expander, rotary input, and LED components.
Schematic, Gerbers, and KiCad files for the NFC Nut game stations, plus STL files for the printed nut, base, ring, and button.
Schematic PDF, final BOM PDF, Gerber archive, and KiCad project archive for the wrench badge.
Arduino sketch added November 12, 2025 that turns a Nut into a Bluetooth LE keyboard named SC25Nut for volume and play/pause control.
Source trail
Secondary community source for an unofficial fox-hunting firmware; it corroborates the ESP32-S3, the five-way control, and the 20-LED layout but is not used as a primary hardware source.
Secondary community source for an unofficial pet firmware. It corroborates the ESP32-S3, the ota_0 and ota_1 app slots with the original firmware in ota_0, the ST25DV NFC EEPROM, and the ATECC608B, and says the pet never writes NVS, the storage partition, or eFuses.
Archived primary source for the BadgeLife team credits, the collaborative badge game, the Klippy AI storyline chapters of 2023 and 2024, the wrench design hint, the solder-bridge support note, and the booth MiniBadge. It gives no hardware specification, quantity, or allocation.
Archived primary source for the October 21-24, 2025 dates, the Utah Valley Convention Center venue in Provo, and the post-event Goodbye, and Thank You from SAINTCON 25 notice. It does not describe the badge.
Primary designer source for the 50 mm wrench shape with a 10 mm lanyard hole, the NFC tag in the jaw, the Nut stations writing one-time codes that the badge checked in with the game server for points or node unlocks, and the published board files and firmware.
Primary designer source for the component list: ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, 2.0-inch ST7789 LCD, 20 WS2812B-2020 LEDs, ST25DV04K NFC tag, ATECC608B, four-way navigation switch, slide switch, USB-C, two-AA holder, XC9148 boost converter, AZ1117-3.3, A3910, and three MiniBadge footprints.
Primary designer source for the ESP32-C3 Nut station firmware, its NFC reader and expander components, six LEDs, and rotary and button inputs.
Primary designer source for the ESP32-S3 target with 16 MB flash and PSRAM, the GPIO map, the six factions and Nut types, the sc25.redactd.dev API base, the two-hour OTA check, MiniBadge scanning, and the Dawn Accord resistor and trace checks.