Series
Kansas City Security BSides lineage, represented by the Badge Pirates source-backed 2019 ESP8266 conference badge, the 2025 fully assembled ESP32-S3 touchscreen badge production and customs trail, and a separately scoped 2026 admission-badge artifact. A maker-announced 2026 Lunar Lander continuation reuses the 2025 hardware; it is not modeled as new 2026 hardware.
Kansas City Security BSides lineage, represented by the Badge Pirates source-backed 2019 ESP8266 conference badge, the 2025 fully assembled ESP32-S3 touchscreen badge production and customs trail, and a separately scoped 2026 admission-badge artifact. A maker-announced 2026 Lunar Lander continuation reuses the 2025 hardware; it is not modeled as new 2026 hardware.
Badges
ESP8266 Badge Pirates badge with Wi-Fi beacon game
The BSidesKC 2019 conference badge was a Badge Pirates ESP8266 badge with Wi-Fi behavior, reverse-mount LEDs, participant/speaker/organizer/volunteer/sponsor/pirate variants, a related Jr Hacker badge, and a rights-cleared repository photo served locally as optimized WebP.
Badge Pirates ESP32-S3 touchscreen conference badge with a later firmware path
The BSidesKC 2025 badge was a Badge Pirates fully electronic conference badge documented through public production and fulfillment updates: 250 fully assembled ESP32 touchscreen badges from PCBWay with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, customs delays, tariff impact, and post-event pickup or shipping handling. A current maker-hosted flasher identifies its target as ESP32-S3, while a 2026 Badge Pirates announcement says the delayed 2025 hardware, not a new board, received a Lunar Lander contest continuation for BSidesKC's Ad Astra programme.
Source-conservative afterparty admission identity artifact
BSidesKC's current 2026 activities page says attendees had to present a BSidesKC badge for afterparty entry. Together with the official event page, that establishes a 2026 badge-linked admission artifact; it does not identify a material, design, QR/barcode, RFID/NFC, electronics, or whether it was the separately documented 2025 Badge Pirates hardware.