Series
UK technical security conference badge lineage, represented by source-backed HIDIOT USB HID hardware records and the 2025 Electronic Cats RF-detector badge.
UK technical security conference badge lineage, represented by source-backed HIDIOT USB HID hardware records and the 2025 Electronic Cats RF-detector badge.
Badges
Unreleased USB HID prototype board
The 44CON 2016 badge was the unreleased HIDIOT 0.7 board, a USB Human Interface Device Input/Output Toolkit prototype that attendees could build, program through the Arduino IDE as a Digispark-compatible device, and use for HID payload experiments.
Raw Hex USB HID hardware badge
The 44CON 2017 brochure documents the conference badge as a Raw Hex HIDIOT 1.0 44CON edition, a build-it-yourself USB HID board programmed through the Arduino IDE and supported by HIDIOT documentation, assembly help, and a Hackster project competition.
Electronic Cats OLED and RF-detector badge
The 44CON 2025 badge is a public Electronic Cats hardware and firmware project that can run with a CH32-style shield for an OLED mini-game or with an ESP32 Wemos D1 module plus optional buzzer, MT3608 boost converter, AD8317 RF detector, and add-on board.