missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and ToorCamp 2022 Badge Talk and assembly PDF source trail.
missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs licensed original replacement
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and ToorCamp 2024 Shadybucks, Shady Tag, and Euphoria CTF wiki source trail.
mixed-source classification · primary plus first-hand secondary · documented
Claims are kept specific to what each source proves, and the record does not overstate official documentation beyond the public repositories and first-hand writeup.
Source note: NorthSec 2023 README, badge-conf-2023 README, nsec-badge-controller-screen README, and idk.bz conference-badge writeup.
module-variant caveat · source-limited · needs board-identification recovery
The record uses WemOS only as the source-backed board family reference and avoids pinout, controller, or firmware-specific claims.
Source note: Ratil.life Hacking and Skydiving writeup and linked WemOS reference.
multi-processor complexity · primary docs and repositories · documented
The architecture enabled unusual experiments but makes firmware provenance and troubleshooting more complex than a single-MCU badge.
Source note: Badge.Team hardware docs and ESP32/RP2040/iCE40 repositories.
multi-variant hardware and final-unit mapping gap · public repository tree · three design archives visible; production mapping unrecovered
The entry keeps the collection-level hardware description bounded and does not imply that every unit had identical hardware, display, sensors, power, firmware, or physical finish.
Source note: MNSEC2025BADGE repository, Schematics directory, and Badge PCB Gerber Files directory.
network/security · historical source trail · historical
Shows the practical tradeoffs of networked badges at camp scale.
Source note: TiLDA MK3 hardware and firmware repositories plus ST event coverage; the old badge wiki URL is no longer linked because it returns 404.
no firmware claim · source-backed hardware scope · documented
The badge is modeled as a soldering and analog electronics badge rather than a programmable badgelife platform.
Source note: ToorCamp 2022 badge assembly PDF.
no visible repository license · GitHub repository metadata · documented
The record links to upstream files while leaving the hero image empty and avoiding local copies of sprites or image assets.
Source note: pdxbadgers/wagonparty repository metadata and badge.gallery image policy.
no-MCU, QR/external-service, design-source, and support boundary · live maker listing and current public-source review · no-code and QR-search claims published; technical/service terms unrecovered
The catalogue records the stated no-MCU and QR-search feature without inventing firmware, treating the QR as an audited or privacy-neutral service, claiming an open design, or promising product support.
Source note: Brooke's Bytes Hacker Boba Uberflux listing and current public product trail.
no-firmware classification · official badge page · documented
The record treats this as an analog electronic badge and does not invent firmware, app, or hidden-code behavior.
Source note: Kernelcon 2023 badge about page.
no-firmware classification · official badge page · documented
The catalogue models the badge as analog electronic hardware and does not infer firmware or software challenges.
Source note: Kernelcon 2024 badge about page.
no-new-badge reuse caveat · participant workshop report · historical
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.
Source note: Virtualabs Nuit du Hack 2016 report.
non-electronic artifact boundary · public wiki pages · documented
The page keeps HaxoGreen 2016 visible in the European camp archive while preventing the catalogue from presenting simple identity artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: HaxoGreen 2016 FAQ, Infodesk, and Tickets wiki pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · public wiki and blog · documented
The page keeps HaxoGreen 2018 discoverable while preventing the catalogue from presenting a simple access artifact as PCB badgelife.
Source note: HaxoGreen 2018 FAQ and official ticket blog post.
non-electronic artifact boundary · public wiki pages · documented
The page keeps HaxoGreen visible in the European camp archive while preventing the catalogue from overstating simple identity artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: HaxoGreen 2022 FAQ and Infodesk wiki pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · public wiki and blog · documented
The page keeps HaxoGreen 2024 visible in the European camp archive while preventing the catalogue from presenting simple identity artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: HaxoGreen 2024 FAQ, Infodesk, Tickets, Main Page, and official announcement.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the H.A.C.K. camp origin visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: CampZer0 home, ticket, how-to, CfP, and ticket-prices pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: Camp++ 2015 home, ticket, how-to, and CfP pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: Camp++ 2016 home, ticket, how-to, and CfP pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: Camp++ 2017 home, ticket, how-to, and CfP pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: Camp++ 2018 home, ticket, how-to, and CfP pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: Camp++ 2019 home, ticket, how-to, and CfP pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: Camp++ 2020 home, ticket, how-to, and CfP pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: Camp++ 2021 home, ticket, how-to, and CfP pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: Camp++ 2022 home, ticket, how-to, and CfP pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: Camp++ 2023 home, ticket, how-to, and CfP pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event pages · documented
The page keeps the Hungarian outdoor camp lineage visible while preventing the catalogue from presenting access artifacts as PCB badgelife.
Source note: Camp++ 2024 home, ticket, how-to, and CfP pages.
non-electronic artifact boundary · primary wiki · scoped
The dossier keeps GPN20 in the European badge archive while avoiding unsupported electronics, firmware, app-store, or hardware claims.
Source note: Entropia GPN20 volunteer workflow page.
non-electronic artifact boundary · official event and attendee guidance · source-backed identity artifact
The dossier models a real disclosed identity artifact without upgrading it into an electronic badge or inventing attributes of a paper credential.
Source note: cackalackycon 2026 official event page and Cackalackycon 101.
non-electronic artifact specification gap · official event information · physical coin established; physical details unreleased
The catalogue records the real event-specific coin without inventing its construction, appearance, value, access function, or technical behavior.
Source note: What's New for BSides Nashville 2026 official event page.
non-electronic badge caveat · official timeline · historical
The compendium includes it because the official event history calls the disks badges; hardware/software fields remain conservative so readers do not infer electronics.
Source note: SteelCon badges and shirts timeline.
non-electronic scope · primary event wiki · documented
The dossier keeps GPN23 discoverable while preventing false firmware, microcontroller, app-store, or hardware claims.
Source note: GPN23 FAQ and badge how-to.
non-electronic scope · official registration, ticketing, and CFP sources · documented
The catalogue records the current participant credential as an identity/access artifact without inventing technical behavior or construction.
Source note: BSides Las Vegas 2026 official registration, ticketing, volunteer-guide, and CFP pages.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the first DEF CON credential artifacts without upgrading them into circuit-board badges.
Source note: DEF CON 1 official announcement, official media-server badge photo evidence, InfoconDB event metadata, official DEF CON archive page, and later DEF CON badgelife histories placing the first active electronic DEF CON badge at DEF CON 14.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
Source note: DEF CON 2 official media-server photo evidence, InfoconDB event metadata, official DEF CON archive page, and later DEF CON badgelife histories placing the first active electronic DEF CON badge at DEF CON 14.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
Source note: DEF CON 3 official media-server photo evidence, InfoconDB event metadata, official DEF CON archive page, and later DEF CON badgelife histories placing the first active electronic DEF CON badge at DEF CON 14.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
Source note: DEF CON 4 official media-server photo evidence, InfoconDB event metadata, official DEF CON archive page, and later DEF CON badgelife histories placing the first active electronic DEF CON badge at DEF CON 14.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
Source note: DEF CON 5 official media-server photo evidence, InfoconDB event metadata, official DEF CON archive page, and later DEF CON badgelife histories placing the first active electronic DEF CON badge at DEF CON 14.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
Source note: DEF CON 6 official media-server photos, InfoconDB event metadata, official DEF CON event page, and later DEF CON badgelife histories placing the first active electronic DEF CON badge at DEF CON 14.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
Source note: DEF CON 8 official media-server photos, InfoconDB event metadata, official DEF CON event page, and later DEF CON badgelife histories placing the first active electronic DEF CON badge at DEF CON 14.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the early conference credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
Source note: DEF CON 9 official media-server photos, InfoconDB event metadata, and later DEF CON badgelife histories placing the first active electronic DEF CON badge at DEF CON 14.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the early physical credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
Source note: DEF CON 10 official program, DEF CON 10 media-server badge images, and later DEF CON badgelife histories placing the first active electronic DEF CON badge at DEF CON 14.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the early physical credential without upgrading it into a circuit-board badge.
Source note: DEF CON 11 media-server badge photos, DEF CON 11 program PDF, and later DEF CON badgelife histories placing the first active electronic DEF CON badge at DEF CON 14.
non-electronic scope · source-backed classification · documented
The compendium preserves the pre-electronic artifact without inventing LEDs, firmware, microcontrollers, or a badge challenge for 2005.
Source note: Wikimedia Commons DC13 Badge photo, DEF CON 13 forum announcement, VICE/Motherboard badgelife history, and Grand Idea Studio DEF CON 14 materials.
non-electronic scope · primary program and forum sources · documented
The catalogue avoids MCU, firmware, LED, battery, and circuit claims for 2011 while still preserving the badge's physical fabrication and puzzle significance.
Source note: DEF CON 19 program and LosT's DEF CON forum repost.
non-electronic scope · source-backed · documented
The compendium models the badge as a PCB identity and puzzle artifact and avoids firmware, MCU, LED, or battery claims for the standard badge.
Source note: Hackaday DEF CON 21 report and WIRED badge reveal.
non-electronic scope · source-backed with forum evidence · documented
The compendium avoids adding imaginary hardware to a year whose badge significance is partly the contrast with unofficial electronic badgelife.
Source note: DEF CON forum feedback and Hackaday DEF CON 25 badgelife report.
non-electronic scope · official registration sources · documented
The catalogue preserves the major BSides Las Vegas badge lineage as an identity/access artifact without inventing electronics.
Source note: BSides Las Vegas 2019 Join Us and Registration FAQ pages.
non-electronic scope · source-backed but incomplete · documented
The catalogue records the badge challenge and physical identity artifact without inventing hardware.
Source note: BSides Tampa attendee FAQ and badge-challenge page.