The official page states the badge has no microcontroller and no flash storage.
The record treats this as an analog electronic badge and does not invent firmware, app, or hidden-code behavior.
Not just specs
Issues & Camp Impact
Safety warnings, delivery problems, app-store gaps, team-process history, and first-hand reports are tracked as sourced records.
1262 matching issue record(s)
The official about page says the badge kept things old school with no microcontrollers, using a 555 timer and 4017 counter instead.
The catalogue models the badge as analog electronic hardware and does not infer firmware or software challenges.
Virtualabs says the 2016 Pimp My Badge workshop presented the previous year's electronic badge because there was no new electronic badge that year.
The 2015 badge should be treated as a reusable workshop platform across the following edition, while the catalogue should not invent a distinct NDH 2016 badge without stronger sources.
The current source set supports wristbands, hackerpassport stamps, ticket/day-ticket handling, and goodie-bag artifacts, but not an official electronic HaxoGreen 2016 badge.
The page keeps HaxoGreen 2016 visible in the European camp archive while preventing the catalogue from presenting simple identity artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports a wristband/pass identity record, but not an official electronic HaxoGreen 2018 badge.
The page keeps HaxoGreen 2018 discoverable while preventing the catalogue from presenting a simple access artifact as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports wristbands, hackerpassport stamps, and goodie-bag artifacts, but not an official electronic HaxoGreen 2022 badge.
The page keeps HaxoGreen visible in the European camp archive while preventing the catalogue from overstating simple identity artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports wristbands, hackerpassport stamps, goodie-bag and T-shirt pickup, tickets, and merch context, but not an official electronic HaxoGreen 2024 badge.
The page keeps HaxoGreen 2024 visible in the European camp archive while preventing the catalogue from presenting simple identity artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket registration, ticket carry instructions, certificate checksum verification, optional CAcert-assurance ID context, and ticket-price infrastructure artifacts, but not an official electronic CampZer0 badge.
The page keeps the H.A.C.K. camp origin visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket registration, ticket carry instructions, certificate checksum verification, and optional CAcert-assurance ID context, but not an official electronic Camp++ 2015 badge.
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket registration, ticket carry instructions, certificate checksum verification, and optional CAcert-assurance ID context, but not an official electronic Camp++ 2016 badge.
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket registration, ticket carry instructions, and certificate checksum verification, but not an official electronic Camp++ 2017 badge.
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket registration, ticket carry instructions, and certificate checksum verification, but not an official electronic Camp++ 2018 badge.
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket registration, ticket carry instructions, certificate checksum verification, and Pretalx programme infrastructure, but not an official electronic Camp++ 2019 badge.
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket registration, ticket carry instructions, certificate checksum verification, and Pretalx programme infrastructure, but not an official electronic Camp++ 2020 badge.
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket registration, ticket carry instructions, certificate checksum verification, and Pretalx programme infrastructure, but not an official electronic Camp++ 2021 badge.
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket IDs, campsite reception checks, certificate checksum verification, and government-ID arrival context, but not an official electronic Camp++ 2022 badge.
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket IDs, gate/reception check-in, and wristbands, but not an official electronic Camp++ 2023 badge.
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The current source set supports ticket IDs, gate/reception check-in, and wristbands, but not an official electronic Camp++ 2024 badge.
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
The source set supports an on-site printed and laminated identity badge, not a PCB badge.
The dossier keeps GPN20 in the European badge archive while avoiding unsupported electronics, firmware, app-store, or hardware claims.
The record is a conference identity-object badge, not an electronic PCB badge.
The compendium includes it because the official event history calls the disks badges; hardware/software fields remain conservative so readers do not infer electronics.
GPN23 Identity Badge
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The public record supports a printed identity badge and lanyard workflow, not an electronic PCB badge for GPN23.
The dossier keeps GPN23 discoverable while preventing false firmware, microcontroller, app-store, or hardware claims.
DEF CON 1 Name Tag
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DEF CON 1 is modeled as a non-electronic physical name-tag and paper-badge artifact because the public source trail proves identity/access artifacts but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the first DEF CON credential artifacts without upgrading them into circuit-board badges.
DEF CON 2 is modeled as a non-electronic physical chest credential because the public source trail proves identity/access artifacts but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 3 is modeled as a non-electronic physical waist credential because the public source trail proves identity/access artifacts but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 4 is modeled as a non-electronic physical chest credential because the public source trail proves an identity/access artifact but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 5 is modeled as a non-electronic physical hanging credential because the public source trail proves an identity/access artifact but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 6 is modeled as a non-electronic physical conference credential because the public source trail proves identity/access artifacts but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 8 is modeled as a non-electronic physical lanyard credential because the public source trail proves an identity/access artifact but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 9 is modeled as a non-electronic physical lanyard badge because the public source trail proves an identity credential but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 10 is modeled as a non-electronic physical badge because the public source trail proves a badge artifact but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early physical credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 11 is modeled as a non-electronic human identity badge because the public source trail proves a physical badge but does not support electronics, firmware, or hackable hardware claims.
The compendium preserves the early physical credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
DEF CON 13 is modeled as a non-electronic human identity badge because the public source trail proves a physical badge but places DEF CON's first electronic badge at DEF CON 14 in 2006.
The compendium preserves the pre-electronic artifact without inventing LEDs, firmware, microcontrollers, or a badge challenge for 2005.
DEF CON 19 Badge
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DEF CON 19's standard badge is modeled as a non-electronic titanium identity and puzzle artifact because official sources explicitly say the year moved away from electronic badges.
The catalogue avoids MCU, firmware, LED, battery, and circuit claims for 2011 while still preserving the badge's physical fabrication and puzzle significance.
DEF CON 21 Badge
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DEF CON 21's standard badges were intentionally described as non-electronic-electronic rather than powered electronic gadgets.
The compendium models the badge as a PCB identity and puzzle artifact and avoids firmware, MCU, LED, or battery claims for the standard badge.
DEF CON 25 Badge
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The official DEF CON 25 badge is modeled as a rubber/plastic identity artifact because public feedback records the badge that way and no source-backed firmware or electronic official-badge design has been established in this pass.
The compendium avoids adding imaginary hardware to a year whose badge significance is partly the contrast with unofficial electronic badgelife.
The public source trail proves a badge-required admission model and badge pickup workflow, but does not prove an electronic PCB badge, firmware, schematic, challenge circuit, or hardware badge repository.
The catalogue preserves the major BSides Las Vegas badge lineage as an identity/access artifact without inventing electronics.
The recovered official sources prove an attendee badge/lanyard and a badge challenge, but do not prove electronics, firmware, batteries, PCB traces, displays, radios, NFC, or a public hardware repository.
The catalogue records the badge challenge and physical identity artifact without inventing hardware.
The repository license is Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0, and the firmware header asks commercial users to seek permission.
The catalogue can publish the selected image as a credited noncommercial reference asset, but downstream reuse should preserve the noncommercial restriction and attribution.
card10
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Hackaday cautioned that card10 should not be mistaken for a watch, noting that timekeeping was effectively an afterthought and that setting the clock depended on the companion app because there was no battery-backed RTC.
The page separates card10's wearable form factor from ordinary smartwatch expectations and keeps the focus on sensors, BLE, and hackability.
NorthSec 2025 Badge
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The local image is the official transparent PNG render from the NorthSec badge repository, not a documentary field photo of a physically assembled attendee badge.
The record has a rights-cleared visual without implying that the image is conference-floor photography.
The badge record relies on a public builder log that frames the work as an official-badge request, but this pass did not recover an official ToorCon badge guide, repository, schematic set, or firmware archive.
The catalogue keeps the official-badge wording tied to the cited log and avoids claiming complete production ownership, final challenge rules, or released design files.
The Pacman Badge hardware and CTF protocol are reconstructed from community reversing repositories, but no official RootedCON badge repository, official confirmation, named designer, schematic, PCB, BOM, or production file was recovered in this pass.
The record treats the badge as the official RootedCON 2026 badge on the strength of convergent community reversals, while keeping the official-status, designer, and production claims conservative until official sources appear.
The event listing presents NoNameCon 2020 as online and the TechMaker article says some CTF tasks were reworked because of COVID social distancing and the absence of the offline part of the conference.
The record documents a real badge platform but avoids claiming ordinary on-site pickup, universal in-person attendee distribution, or full offline village behavior.
The HOPE wiki links the HiP Badge repository as open hardware and notes repository uncertainty in the page text, so this pass treats it as linked lineage rather than a fully audited HOPE-specific release mirror.
The catalogue records the public open-hardware path while avoiding stronger claims about every production file until a deeper repository audit is done.
The how-to page asks for state-issued photo IDs only for participants who wanted CAcert assurance, not for ordinary camp entry.
The dossier separates ticket identity from optional certificate-assurance workflow so the access model is not overstated.
The how-to page asks for state-issued photo IDs only for participants who wanted CAcert assurance, not for ordinary camp entry.
The dossier separates ticket identity from optional certificate-assurance workflow so the access model is not overstated.
The how-to page asks for state-issued photo IDs only for participants who wanted CAcert assurance, not for ordinary camp entry.
The dossier separates ticket identity from optional certificate-assurance workflow so the access model is not overstated.
The board README describes optional parts and assembly paths, including an IR transceiver not populated by default.
The record separates the documented board capability surface from any claim that every workshop board shipped with every optional component populated.
No BSidesROC 2019 badge image is published because the recovered official page and website repository did not provide a rights-cleared badge photo or official raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.
The record remains image-free rather than copying page media, repository assets, screenshots, social photos, or generated approximations without complete provenance.
The SecOps page includes media and an Open Graph image, but this pass did not recover a reusable license or explicit permission basis for publishing a badge image in the catalogue.
The record remains text-and-source only rather than copying page media, screenshots, social photos, or generated badge art.