Hacker Con Badges

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Open Sauce

California creator and maker-festival lineage, beginning with the source-backed 2026 SauceBot / Arduino Sopracciglio electronic badge. A designer-published post-event KiCad and firmware archive plus an independent attendee firmware project establish a physical hackable event badge without turning the archive into an organizer-issued credential or complete distribution record.

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Open Sauce 2026 2026 · United States · 1 badge(s)

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California creator and maker-festival lineage, beginning with the source-backed 2026 SauceBot / Arduino Sopracciglio electronic badge. A designer-published post-event KiCad and firmware archive plus an independent attendee firmware project establish a physical hackable event badge without turning the archive into an organizer-issued credential or complete distribution record.

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Open Sauce 2026 · 2026

Open Sauce 2026 Badge

SauceBot / Arduino Sopracciglio electronic badge with a post-event KiCad archive

Open Sauce 2026's SauceBot badge is documented by Caleb Marting's post-event public archive as an Arduino MKR Zero-compatible electronic badge with native KiCad sources, firmware, a microphone, button, red LEDs, battery holder, and optional Simple Add-On headers. The archive says at least two attendees hacked badges Saturday night and brought four new games on Sunday; an independent attendee firmware archive also describes receiving an eyebrow module and replacing the original Bop It-style firmware. Together the sources establish a real festival artifact and hands-on hacking trail, not a universal attendee allocation or organizer-owned source release.