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Security Fest

Swedish IT-security conference badge lineage, represented by source-backed challenge, CTF, tram, and artistic PCB badge records.

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Swedish IT-security conference badge lineage, represented by source-backed challenge, CTF, tram, and artistic PCB badge records.

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Security Fest 2018 · 2018

Security Fest 2018 Challenge Badge

USB HID and serial puzzle badge

A simple Security Fest 2018 challenge badge with USB-A, two buttons, four DIP switches, red/green LEDs, HID text output, serial puzzle flow, and an open SecBadge hardware repository.

Security Fest 2022 · 2022

Security Fest 2022 Tram Badge

Blinky Gothenburg tram badge

A conservative first-pass record for Security Fest's 2022 tram-inspired badge, remembered in later badge writeups as a fun blinky object inspired by Gothenburg trams with a Rickroll reference.

Security Fest 2023 · 2023

Security Fest 2023 Gothenburg Skyline Badge

UV-printed cyberpunk skyline CTF badge

A full-colour UV-printed Security Fest badge inspired by Gothenburg's skyline with a cyberpunk treatment, backside-mounted components, Micro-USB CTF interface, cryptography puzzles, and soldering-village LED personalization.

Security Fest 2024 · 2024

Security Fest 2024 Feskekôrka Piano Badge

Music-and-airship CTF building badge

A Security Fest 2024 badge shaped around Gothenburg's Feskekôrka fish-market landmark, with piano/touch-key gameplay, an airship story CTF, LEDs, USB-C serial interaction, and documented attendee/speaker/crew variants.