Help Decipher The DEFCON Badge
Contemporary Hackaday source documenting the 7-inch vinyl record badge, non-electronic alternation context, collaborative badge-hacking effort, and early puzzle hunt.
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Official docs, app stores, wikis, talks, repositories, and issue pages across the badge catalogue.
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It's Alive! Badge for Hackaday Belgrade
Hackaday announcement and event context for the first European Hackaday conference badge.
Making the DEFCON 16 Badge
Joe Grand's Nuts & Volts article covering DEF CON 16 design goals, SD-card file transfer, IR, TV-B-Gone behavior, cost, and production.
Making the DEFCON 17 Badge
Nuts & Volts article source linked by Grand Idea Studio for a narrative badge-making account.
New SuperCon badge reveal
Hackaday reveal source for the 8x16 LED matrix, four user buttons, reset and wake controls, IR communications, accelerometer, PIC18LF25K50, two AAA cells, USB programming, and Voja Antonic design credit.
PCWorld DEF CON 18 badge gallery
Press source for lithographed aluminum, Kent Displays 128x32 low-power display, USB, role variants, and hackable styling.
Queercon 16 hardware badge hands-on
Hackaday source for the 2019 Q and C badge split, custom membrane keyboard, e-paper display, RGB LEDs, TI CC2640R2, Holtek LED driver, RJ12 connector, AA power, Handler badges, base station, and ARG flow.
Remoticon.2 badge article
Hackaday coverage describing the 2021 remote badge as a KiCad file set, prototyping board, builder canvas, and MicroMod carrier-board variant.
Supercon 2018 badge firmware article
Hackaday firmware source for Jaromir Sukuba's BASIC work, CP/M emulator context, Voja Antonic hardware design, Ziggurat29 tokenizer speedups, and Zork/retrocomputing lore.
Supercon 2018 badge hacking report
Hackaday field report documenting the badge-hacking area, LED sculptures, shift-register examples, wireless add-ons, and community projects during Supercon.
Supercon 2023 badge hacks
Post-event Hackaday roundup documenting the badge-hacking ceremony and categories.
Supercon 2024 badge add-on winners
Post-event source for Supercon Add-On Contest winners and the plan to produce selected add-ons for Hackaday Europe 2025 distribution.
Supercon 2024 badge add-on winners
Hackaday post-event source for winning and honorable-mention SAOs, production plan for Hackaday Europe 2025, and functional I2C/NFC/IR/LED add-on context.
Supercon 2025 customization article
Hackaday source for front-panel customization, two-PCB stack-up, front-board mechanical role, M3 hardware notes, and STEP/DXF/SVG model path.
The Cubic Cyphercon Badge
Hackaday source for the cube construction, more-than-400 hand-soldered run, LEDs, microprocessors, buses, USB terminal behavior, mesh network, text adventure, and time-sharing emulator lore.
The Supercon Badge Is A Freakin' Computer
Hackaday reveal source for 320x240 color display, full QWERTY keyboard, BASIC, CP/M, games, Easter eggs, GPIO/I2C/serial hacking, and Belgrade lineage.
Vectorscope badge introduction
Hackaday article introducing the 2023 badge hardware, analog signal path, MicroPython workflow, and design intent.
WIRED DEF CON 20 badge reveal
Contemporary article documenting Ryan Clarke's design goals, embedded game, cryptography, badge variants, IR interactions, free/open software, VGA expansion, and secret-society story.
WIRED DEF CON 21 badge reveal
Detailed contemporary source for role variants, PCB inner-layer continuity clues, poker-card artwork, famous-hacker face cards, Uber mechanical watch, Easter eggs, and Ryan Clarke design quotes.
Wired DEF CON 16 preview
Pre-event coverage documenting prototype caveats, SD-card advice, designer context, and public badge expectations.
Gothenburg Skyline Badge mirror
Readable mirror of the badge writeup, useful for text extraction and corroborating serial/CTF details.
50bee.png artwork asset
Repository artwork asset referenced by the README with an Ivycraft credit; retained as a source clue but not promoted as a public badge image because image-specific reuse provenance is incomplete.
wagonparty images directory
Repository sprite/image asset directory retained as source context only; no asset is promoted as a catalogue image because the repository has no visible license and the files are not documentary badge photos.
How to grow a flow3r
Camp talk covering assembly, operation, software writing, community, and extension paths.
BSides Perth 2025 assembly documentation
Commit-pinned documentation for the physical badge's listed components, optional header, Micro-USB power, and on-site BSides Perth assembly-station context.
DEFCON 15 badge assembly drawing
Assembly drawing source for board population and manufacturing reference.
DEFCON 17 badge assembly drawing
Assembly drawing source for board population and manufacturing reference.
2024 SAINTCON MiniBadge guide
Public build-guide PDF linked from the official trading page for submitted and official MiniBadges brought to SAINTCON 2024.
35C3 badge assembly instructions
Detailed assembly guide source for components, two-AA battery holder, reverse-mounted buttons and LEDs, power-only SAO footprint, and board-rework caveat.
44CON 2025 badge README
Badge setup guide documenting shield-only and ESP32 modes, OLED routing, boost configuration, buzzer, potentiometer, RF detector, and safety warnings.
CarolinaCon 12 badge instruction manual
Official PDF guide for the 555 timer, resistors, LED, capacitor, photoresistor, battery holder, wire, soldering steps, battery test, light-reactive blinking behavior, and lanyard/blank-board context.
MiniBadges of 2022 assembly guide
Archived official PDF source for the SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Assembly Guide, including official, sponsor, and personal MiniBadge categories, names, designers, acquisition notes, difficulty/rarity labels, and assembly instructions.
SAINTCON 2016 Badge Assembly
Badge assembly source for conference-bag contents, D1 Mini ESP8266, MAX7219 driver, LED displays, BOM, orientation notes, and HHV part exchange.
SAINTCON 2017 assembly guide
Manual source for the Pi Zero W, PiTFT, custom board, battery/PowerBoost wiring, screws, standoffs, lanyard, acrylic shield, and assembly process.
SAINTCON 2018 build sheet
Repository PDF assembly guide for building the badge.
ToorCamp 2022 Badge assembly guide
Linked PDF quick guide listing badge parts, assembly orientation, battery-holder checks, potentiometer adjustment, and optional buzzer/tripwire modification ideas.
ToorCon 13 kit assembly diagram
Great Scott Gadgets assembly PDF linked from the badge page for the ToorCon 13 badge hacking kit.
ToorCon 14 assembly PDF
Assembly PDF in the public hardware repository for the ToorCon 14 badge.
Critical Decentralization Cluster at 39C3
The cluster's own 39C3 page ties the CDC Badge repository to the completed December 27-30, 2025 Hamburg assembly context.
BSides Tampa 2026 FAQ
Current official FAQ source for the USF Marshall Student Center event context, participant badge and lanyard inclusion, check-in expectations, and admission package.
C1B3RTR4CKS 2026 attendee report
Contemporaneous Araintel report corroborating the completed May event, physical badge credential, RGB matrix, buttons, game collection, and limited badge availability; it is not a production ledger.
Security Fest 2026 attendee report
Contemporaneous attendee report corroborating the hardware-hacking context and crediting Carl Vargklint's badge work; it does not establish universal attendee allocation or assembly.
Linux.conf.au 2016 Geelong context
Attendee source corroborating the Geelong LCA2016 setting and Melbourne Open Hardware Hackers context after conference close.
Linux.conf.au 2018 Sydney context
Attendee event-context source for the January 2018 Sydney linux.conf.au setting and Open Hardware Miniconf highlight.
GPN20 feedback
Public feedback page preserving queue complaints around badge issuing.
Marc Merlin ESPlant code fork
Public fork preserving post-event ESPlant experimentation and blinky code linked from the attendee writeup; used for lifecycle context rather than official hardware provenance.
BSides Melbourne 2023 attendee communications
Official attendee-communications source documenting registration, lanyard-only check-in, badge/lanyard photo-consent colors, interaction-protocol badge stickers, and BSides badge use for networking-party access.
Nuit du Hack 2011 attendee report
Korben's NDH2k11 report with badge photos, electronic-badge context, and links to reverse-engineering/programming articles.
SPC Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics Club Attends BSides Tampa 2018
St. Petersburg College attendee report for BSides Tampa 2018, Tampa Bay Chapter of (ISC)2 hosting context, more-than-750-attendee note, and Electronic Badge Assembly activity evidence.
ShmooCon 2018 conference notes
First-hand attendee source for the battery-powered WiFi signal-strength badge, missing parts box, bright factory firmware, and just-before-conference reflash.