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The teardown warns that the TP4056 charger could get very hot when the badge was used while plugged in over USB/serial.

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charger heat caveat · attendee-reported · documented

The record preserves a practical handling caveat without escalating it beyond the attendee report or claiming a formal recall/safety notice.

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Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge
Category
charger heat caveat
Severity
caution
Confidence
attendee-reported
Status
documented
Timeframe
WWHF Deadwood 2025 post-event teardown
Source note
AlrikRr NetRunSecurity WWHF Deadwood 2025 badge-hacking writeup.

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NetRunSecurity / AlrikRr · retrieved 2026-05-15

Badge Hacking - WWHF Deadwood 2025

First-hand post-event writeup source for ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, 128x64 OLED-like display, TP4056 charger, USB-C serial at 115200 baud, eight LED binary/morse behavior, BLE messages, ESP32-S3 firmware extraction, Ghidra analysis, and cryptography challenge strings.

Badge: Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge

Wild West Hackin' Fest · retrieved 2026-05-15

e-badge

Primary official badge source for the Antisyphon-sponsored electronic badge, badge CTF framing, Meta CTF link, observation-or-firmware solve paths, and badge-team contacts Ray Feltch, David Fletcher, and Rick Wisser.

Badge: Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge