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The maker expressly says no claims are made to this device's accuracy and that it must not be relied on for accurate air-quality measurements. It also frames its VOC-index behavior as relative change after warmup. The source does not publish calibration, environmental or chemical cross-sensitivity testing, threshold or exposure guidance, health recommendations, alarm validation, sensor maintenance, certification, or suitability for safety decisions.
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VOC measurement, air-quality, and safety boundary · explicit first-party product disclaimer · novelty use only; no accuracy claim
The entry does not treat a playful indication or a sensor part number as an air-quality monitor, medical/safety device, exposure warning, or replacement for appropriate ventilation and professional guidance.
- Badge
- Volatile Organic Canary SAO (DEF CON 34)
- Category
- VOC measurement, air-quality, and safety boundary
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- explicit first-party product disclaimer
- Status
- novelty use only; no accuracy claim
- Timeframe
- 2026 pre-event source pass
- Source note
- Volatile Organic Canary SAO product page.
first-hand Lepi Labs announcement
First-person Lepi Labs announcement naming the Volatile Organic Canary and its SGP40/display/RGB surface for DEF CON 34, plus planned Friday 12:30 PM and Saturday 2:30 PM BadgeLife Village drops. Reddit media is not a reusable image grant.
Badge: Volatile Organic Canary SAO (DEF CON 34)
first-party Lepi Labs product listing
Lepi Labs' live Uberflux page names the DEF CON 34 drop, current $45 / 11-sold / zero-remaining state, sensor/display/controller/power claims, explicit novelty-only accuracy warning, VOC-index warmup statement, v1.0 revision notes, and remedy wording. Its product image has no stated reusable license or explicit permission basis.
Badge: Volatile Organic Canary SAO (DEF CON 34)
maker-owned hardware and firmware source
Lepi Labs' public repository is named 5-dc34-canary-badge and contains a KiCad board/schematic tree plus a PlatformIO Arduino source tree whose SGP40, SHT4x, ATtiny1616, display, CR2032, SAO, and UPDI references align with the maker's Canary listing. The product page does not directly link the repository, so it is retained as a maker-owned matching source trail rather than proof of final v1.0 or event-unit parity. No root license file was recovered.
Badge: Volatile Organic Canary SAO (DEF CON 34)
public release status
Public GitHub release page reviewed on 2026-08-05 reports no releases. It does not identify a production firmware package, an event-unit source mapping, a support process, or a reuse grant.
Badge: Volatile Organic Canary SAO (DEF CON 34)
GitHub / Lepi Labs · retrieved 2026-05-15
Public release page reviewed on 2026-08-05, reporting no releases. This establishes an untagged public source state rather than a production firmware archive or source-to-unit mapping.
Badge: Volatile Organic Canary SAO (DEF CON 34)
Lepi Labs · retrieved 2026-05-15
First-hand maker announcement corroborating the named product, SGP40 VOC-sensor, two-character display, RGB LED, DEF CON 34 association, and scheduled BadgeLife Village drops. It is not a technical release, calibration record, final stock ledger, delivery report, or image license.
Badge: Volatile Organic Canary SAO (DEF CON 34)
Lepi Labs / GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Public maker-owned source archive named for a DC34 Canary. Its KiCad and PlatformIO trees contain components and software-family references matching the first-party Canary listing, but the maker's product and announcement do not directly link a revision to the event artifact. It is source context, not a final firmware, production, delivery, calibration, support, or image-rights record.
Badge: Volatile Organic Canary SAO (DEF CON 34)
Lepi Labs / Uberflux · retrieved 2026-05-15
Primary live maker marketplace source for the current DEF CON 34 drop, $45 / 11-sold / zero-remaining snapshot, SGP40/SHT4x/display/RGB/ATtiny1616-S/UPDI/SAO-or-CR2032 claims, raw/VOC-index behavior, ten-minute warmup statement, explicit novelty-only non-accuracy warning, I2C-isolation revision, and v1.0 remediation terms. It does not establish final production, fulfillment, certified measurement, host compatibility, or image reuse permission.
Badge: Volatile Organic Canary SAO (DEF CON 34)