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The Player Guide names a charged battery, CP2102 programming connector, ESP32 pin in a warning, LED panel, Wi-Fi use, and labelled SAO GPIO1/GPIO2 contacts, but does not publish a specific ESP32/CP2102/LED model, schematic, PCB/BOM, board revision, battery chemistry/capacity/charging/power path, radio configuration, credential model, port wiring, SAO version/pinout/voltage/current budget, ESD/short/reverse protection, enclosure, test results, compliance record, final firmware mapping, or safety validation.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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hardware, power, Wi-Fi, connector, and physical-interaction safety boundary · public Player Guide identifies only high-level surfaces · limited player-facing hardware context published; engineering specification unrecovered
The record describes its source-backed interaction surface without turning it into a hardware specification, a safe connection/modification guide, a wireless-security claim, a universal SAO-compatibility result, or a validated physical-unit record.
- Badge
- The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)
- Category
- hardware, power, Wi-Fi, connector, and physical-interaction safety boundary
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- public Player Guide identifies only high-level surfaces
- Status
- limited player-facing hardware context published; engineering specification unrecovered
- Timeframe
- 2026 pre-event source pass
- Source note
- The Shattered Shard Player Guide.
Evidence
Related Resources
public badge challenge-player documentation
Primary public source for the badge/battery, local Wi-Fi/browser, data-USB, serial-terminal, labelled-SAO, LED-panel, sequential-quest, and assigned-badge-only interaction surface. It is intentionally linked as a player guide without repeating credentials, endpoints, flags, challenge hints, exploit steps, serial commands, or reset procedures in the catalogue.
Badge: The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)
public independent challenge-badge repository
Public GitHub repository whose description calls it the public repository for a DEF CON 34 RM-Cyber challenge badge named The Shattered Shard. The reviewed root exposes a Player Guide only. It establishes a distinct source-backed pre-event challenge-badge project, not RM-Cyber, DEF CON, or organizer authorization; a complete hardware/firmware archive; manufacture; allocation; delivery; or image-reuse rights.
Badge: The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)
Source trail
Evidence Sources
GitHub / BigDawgDave · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary public project source whose repository description identifies The Shattered Shard as a DEF CON 34 RM-Cyber challenge badge. It establishes source-publisher framing and a distinct named project, not a verified organization relationship, official DEF CON issuance, badge creator, physical run, allocation, handoff, credential function, or reusable-image permission.
Badge: The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)
GitHub / BigDawgDave · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary player-facing source describing an assigned electronic badge, a charged battery, badge-local Wi-Fi/browser use, USB/serial and labelled-SAO challenge context, an LED panel, saved progress, and an explicit instruction to use only the assigned badge and services it advertises. It does not publish a complete hardware design, software source, license, sale/giveaway terms, authorized organizer relationship, or post-event outcome.
Badge: The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)