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Primary HiP schedule session describing the badge as a powerful lanyard device programmable from a laptop and USB cable.
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Official docs, app stores, wikis, talks, repositories, and issue pages across the badge catalogue.
Primary HiP schedule session describing the badge as a powerful lanyard device programmable from a laptop and USB cable.
Abhinav SP's project-owner writeup documenting the AVTOKYO 2019 cocktail-glass badge design, transparent PCB experiment, RGB flashing LEDs, and Christmas-tree lore.
Abhinav SP's project-owner writeup documenting CODE BLUE 2019's first soldering village, Halloween blinky badge design, component families, response, and workshop behavior.
Hardwear.io follow-up explaining what attendees can do with the e-paper badges received at the conference.
Abhinav SP's project-owner writeup documenting the first SINCON badge, hardware components, building design, SMD soldering village, serial CTF behavior, and credits.
Project-owner Hackster source for the 2024 badge concept, MS51FB9AE/CH340G hardware, LED layout, CTF behavior, and hardware village soldering.
Project-owner Hackster writeup for the 2025 badge hardware list, standalone CTF design, tactile buttons, challenge LEDs, hardware village, and hidden challenge.
Hackster project writeup with story, bill of materials, assembly notes, serial menu, CTF design, photos, and credits.
Hackster project writeup for the Security Fest 2023 UV-printed Gothenburg Skyline badge.
Badge Pirates' public update says the delayed prior-year badge received a Lunar Lander contest port for BSidesKC 2026, instructs owners to bring it, and expressly says there was no new hardware.
Badge Pirates production source documenting 250 fully assembled ESP32 electronic badges from PCBWay with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, customs scrutiny, and tariff impact.
Badge-maker organization context for the CactusCon 11 badge record.
Badge Pirates primary narrative source for the 2019 conference badge, Jr Hacker badge, badge quantities, ESP8266 hardware, reverse-mount LEDs, Wi-Fi beacon game, variants, contests, and production lessons.
Badge Pirates source for ESP32-S2 WROOM hardware, LEDs, buttons, optional OLED, GPIO, CH340N USB serial, wireless firmware behavior, production notes, and image-rights boundary.
Primary source for the conference-badge identity, BLE rock-paper-scissors game, high-level challenge context, 400-distributed claim, and earlier-conference-firmware boundary.
Primary source for the explicit BSides SP 2026 association, REV. 0 hardware scope, MicroPython demo framing, and experimental/non-production boundary.
GPL-3.0 repository published on October 3, 2026 by Nicolas Restbergs (Fábrica Marciana), describing itself as the firmware for the official Ekoparty 2026 badge. It holds the Meshtastic-derived source with an Ekoparty module, build scripts, the badge-hardware folder with the September 11, 2026 schematic PDF and PNG, a pin map, a top-side photo, and the user manual.
HackRVA overview describing the ongoing RVAsec electronic-badge programme, sponsorship model, games, surprises, and limited availability.
HackRVA overview for the annual RVAsec electronic-badge programme, games, surprises, sponsorship, and limited badge availability.
HackRVA overview of the RVAsec badge programme, limited badge availability, games, surprises, schedules, and sponsor model.
Public SemiTO-V profile identifying the Polytechnic of Turin RISC-V student team. It supplies team context rather than an organizer-published distribution record.
Primary Hackaday.io project source for the dual-badge concept, PSoC4/ESP8266/WS2812B blinky badge, VoCore/OpenWRT RT5350F network badge, and production timeline.
Primary project source for the PSoC4, ESP8266, WS2812B, mini prototyping area, exposed rails/I/O, team, and Wi-Fi working-before-event claims.
Primary badge-team project source for the LayerOne 2017 badge overview, car-hacking focus, gallery/media boundary, and project log trail.
Public source-publisher profile for Zack Nagaich, whose repository list includes 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025, and 2026 HTH badge-labelled archives. The profile is affiliation context, not an official 2026 organizer roster.
GitHub Pages guide published by the badge team from October 4, 2026, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese from October 7. It summarises the hardware (nRF52840, Ra-01SH SX1262, OLED, six decorative LEDs, piezo, 18650 battery slot, LoRa and Bluetooth antennas with an optional external antenna connector), the Meshtastic workflow, care warnings, and credits; on October 8, 2026 it added a warning that the badge was assembled with low-temperature solder.
TechMaker badge-team post documenting the Ukrainian NoNameCon hardware badge budget, ESP32 platform choice, prototypes, production batch, assembly workflow, firmware/CTF story, solved counts, and post-event reset update.
English TechMaker badge-team article documenting the NoNameBadge 2020 air-quality concept, custom board redesign, Basic/Creators editions, hardware details, CTF framing, and COVID/no-offline-conference caveat.
Original Ukrainian TechMaker article for the NoNameBadge 2020 source trail and image-rights rejection context; article photos are cited as evidence only.
Raw BOM source listing ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, Wio-SX1262-N, TCA8418, USB-C, LiPo charging, SAO connector, keyboard, LED, and related passive/connector components.
Repository BOM spreadsheet for component-level follow-up on the 2019 badge hardware.
Repository BOM source for ATTINY85-20SUR, 36 yellow 0603 LEDs, two 10 Mohm resistors, four 1206 resistors, and CR2032 battery-holder claims.
Repository BOM source for the BMD-300 module, 32.768 kHz crystal, CR2032 battery holder, switch, navigation switches, right-angle header, OLED screen, and lanyard item.
Repository BOM source for ATTiny861-class controller, 12 yellow LEDs, four RGB LEDs, USB Micro-B connector, two switches, CR2032 battery, battery retainer, and lanyard claims.
Grand Idea Studio BOM PDF for parts and sourcing context.
Grand Idea Studio BOM PDF for parts and sourcing context.
Repository BOM CSV for the 2024 badge manufacturing archive.
Repository BOM source for ATtiny85-20SUR, 24 blue side-view LEDs, CR2032 battery holder, slide switch, and resistor claims.
ODS bill-of-materials file linked by the technical archive for component and sourcing context.
Bill of materials with LCSC part numbers for the AW9523, FM8002A, TP4056, TPS61023, AP2112K, USB-C, microSD, headphone jack, U.FL connectors, and tactile switches.
BOM listing the 69x43 mm board's ATmega32U4, USB-A connector, four-position DIP switch, two tactile switches, red/green LEDs, crystal, passives, and ISP header.
Repository BOM PDF listing MSP430G2211, LEDs, resistors, CR2032 holder, and badge kit components.
Great Scott Gadgets parts-list PDF linked from the badge page for the ToorCon 13 badge hacking kit.
Commit-pinned BOM for documented part-level review, including the ESP32-C3-MINI-1-N4 and physical interface footprints.
KiCad PCB source used as evidence of a concrete hardware design; no board artwork or render is reused as a hero image.
Repository board-file source for the physical PCB archive; used as evidence of a real hardware design rather than as publishable artwork.
Eagle board-file source used as evidence of a concrete 2016 PCB design; no board artwork or render is reused as a hero image.
Eagle board-file source used as evidence of a concrete 2017 hardware design; no board artwork or render is reused as a hero image.
Eagle board source for the DC503 2018 Banglet hardware archive.
KiCad PCB source used as evidence of a concrete hardware design; no board artwork or render is reused as a hero image.