BSides Knoxville 2025
Primary event-listing source for the May 9, 2025 date and the public conference context.
Evidence index
Primary docs, public wikis, repositories, talks, press writeups, and first-hand notes used to support badge pages.
Primary event-listing source for the May 9, 2025 date and the public conference context.
Primary organizer guide for the 2025 conference, its two Knoxville session venues, and the statement that Fox Pick made the badges that year.
Primary official ticket-listing source for the $250 In-Person Pass, asynchronous email ticket statement, and non-refundable/transferable terms. It does not specify the actual digital-ticket format or prove delivery, entry scanning, a physical artifact, electronics, or image reuse rights.
Primary post-event source saying all HiP attendees received an electronic badge and documenting RGB LEDs, USB, battery charging, NFC radio, TVOC sensor, free team hardware, and take-home reuse.
Primary source for assembly-created digital badges, event discovery/redeem workflow, and archived post-event state.
Primary source for assembly-created digital badges, categories, event discovery/redeem workflow, and archived post-event state.
Official assembly source that places the CDC Badge presentation in 39C3's cluster programme and describes the Critical Decentralization Cluster's event role.
Primary official Congress source identifying the CDC Badge as an electronic conference badge and devboard with TROPIC01, ESP32-S3, e-paper/frontlight, LiPo battery path, keypad, and expansion ports.
Primary official source for Hub digital badge collection, token redemption, profile management, assembly-created badges, categories, and backoffice workflow.
Primary source for the 2017 badge being a Raw Hex HIDIOT 1.0 44CON edition, its Arduino-like build-it-yourself framing, two buttons, arbitrary USB HID payload use, documentation, assembly area, parts-kit flow, and Hackster project competition.
Official post linking the event brochure.
Official event metadata source for the 18-19 September 2025 44CON ticket and Novotel London West venue.
Primary source for the 2016 44CON badge being a HIDIOT 0.7 board, the roughly 500-board / fewer-than-150-built context, Digispark compatibility, Arduino IDE workflow, Micronucleus bootloader, V-USB note, non-standard USB connector, and hardware-safety warning.
Source for 2019 badge existence, ESP32-WROOM-32U core, C# NanoFramework reuse, and contrast with the 2016 ESP8266 badge.
Venue listing source for the public HITB+CyberWeek event, November 21-25, 2021 dates, Hall & ICC Abu Dhabi location, hybrid event framing, and hardware/software challenge context.
Primary official source for the DC34 5N4CK3Y badge's limited philanthropy route, planned free-badge distribution through DEF CON activities, BENDER challenge timing, activation-instruction plan, sponsor acknowledgements, and shipping/no-pickup constraints. It does not provide technical design documentation or reusable image permission.
Contemporaneous attendee report corroborating the event's physical RGB-matrix badge credential, button/game surface, and limited-availability context; component and allocation claims remain source-scoped.
Primary source for the electrical attendee badge, AT-MEGA328P-PU, LEDs, push buttons, crystal, passive components, CR2023-spelled battery items, assembly caveats, PCB/program links, and project credits.
Official event-context source for AVTOKYO 2015 and the conference's Japanese community-security framing.
Primary event-context source for AVTOKYO 2019 and the conference's community-security framing.
Primary venue source for TK SHIBUYA, Chitose-Kaikan B1F, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.
Primary programme source for the Hackerware.io hardware soldering village and beginner badge-soldering activity.
Primary commit-pinned firmware documentation naming an ESP32-C3, 240×320 ST7789 IPS display, capacitive touch at I2C 0x15, and swipe/tap interaction without buttons. The documentation supports those narrow project-level claims only, not an exact board design, final physical unit, or completed event deployment.
Primary publisher-controlled source snapshot, reviewed 2026-08-04. The repository describes the project as a MidWestCoast Badge and associates its source with a MidWestCoast Party / IoT-hacking context. The snapshot has no identified LICENSE file or explicit code/image reuse permission; it does not establish party, DEF CON, or venue authorization; physical production; distribution; or final firmware deployment.
Secondary contemporary source for ESP32, dual OLED display, MicroPython readiness, limited electronic-badge production, and distribution to conference attendees.
Secondary field note that current firmware could fix bugs and add functions, with MSC mode making updates quick.
Primary organizer volunteer notice identifying Adversary Village badges as a benefit and explicitly saying they do not give access to the con. Its conditional, availability-dependent reference to DEF CON badges does not establish an Adversary Village badge as an admission credential, or prove that any other badge will be granted.
Primary organizer event page for the planned August 7-9, 2026 Las Vegas Adversary Village programme. It supports date, venue, and village context, not a volunteer badge's technical form, final benefit package, or fulfillment.
Official workshop source proving the SpiderOak Aranya hands-on session, max-20 free hardware limit, ESP32 badge-board wording, keep-the-hardware statement, distributed wireless messaging app workflow, tooling requirements, and schedule context.
Primary official source establishing Aerospace Village's planned DEF CON 34 event at the Las Vegas Convention Center on August 6-9, 2026. It supports host-event context only and does not identify or endorse the SR-71 badge.
Official source proving the DC33 Aerospace Village badge page, DC32 hardware returning for DC33, new software, the DC33 SAO, badge feature summary, ADS-B antenna kit, and supporter bundle including one ADS-B Badge.
Official organizer LinkedIn update stating that the three-day AfricaHackOn Cybersecurity Summit 2026 brought together speakers, attendees, partners, volunteers, and the community, and that the summit is over. It establishes event completion, not badge distribution, recipient allocation, or final credential form.
Primary official summit and schedule source for the completed August 27-29, 2026 Nairobi event and its Day 1 registration wording, ‘grab your badge & coffee.’ It establishes a registration badge reference, not a technical specification, allocation, or completed handoff.
Primary public-agency event listing that independently corroborates the June 26-28 event, Cité des sciences venue, ten 55-minute Badge Hackropole sessions, and the workshop's detailed assembly/firmware wording.
Event-listing source for the SINCON Reloaded Conference date range and Voco Orchard Singapore venue.
Primary MIT License source, copyright 2026 Alex Glow. It provides the public repository's source license but does not itself make a particular branded board render or event photo an unambiguously cleared local hero image.
Primary creator documentation calling this an Avnet FAEI 2026 Event Badge and linking both the public hardware files and creator project page.
Primary manufacturing-tree source with front/back copper, mask, silkscreen, paste, edge-cut, drill, and job files. It establishes a fabrication-source trail, not a completed run, final revision, test result, or event allocation.
Primary board-design source for the CR2032 holder, through-hole LED, one 6 mm button, SPDT slide switch, resistor, two SAO-labelled header footprints, mounting holes, and through-hole expansion surface. It does not prove component population, final BOM, electrical behavior, or fabricated-unit parity.
Primary commit-pinned public repository for the 2026 Avnet FAE Institute badge commission, KiCad project, footprint library, Gerbers, and repository media. The June 15 source snapshot predates the July event and is not treated as a released event-unit build.
Creator-linked project page named by the public README. Its project description calls the badge a cyber-gem and a platform for hardware experimentation; it is not an Avnet event-issuance announcement.
Public post-event talk transcript identifying the Fox Pick maker perspective and the ESP32-S3, display, touch, radio, USB, power, I/O, Arduino/C++, and QR-linked-source statements. It is used as maker testimony; no direct source repository URL was recovered from the mirror.
Contemporaneous secondary ticket listing naming USD 55 General Admission and USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge. It corroborates an advertised ticket-tier artifact after the official registration page stopped exposing tiers, but it does not establish materials, electronics, contents, production, collection, delivery, recipients, or final event outcome.
Primary license source declaring WTFPL v2 and copyright by Ames Evans, with the source-authored note that firmware was developed with Claude. It permits broad copying/modification on its own terms but does not map repository or marketplace media to an attributable, factual, rights-cleared hero image or prove deployed firmware provenance.
Primary post-event source for WiFi dependency, serial configuration, firmware modification, and challenge unlock behavior.
Primary author writeup for hardware design, game mechanics, screens, challenge unlocks, WiFi scan mode, and roles.
Primary author writeup mirror for design goals, free-conference constraints, RF behavior, pinouts, battery limitations, EEPROM effects, and attendee hacks.
Primary organizer source for the $100-or-greater youth STEM charity donation statement, may-receive wording, pickup/mail selection, U.S.-address restriction for mail, and donation-receipt upload requirement. It does not establish tax deductibility, legal charity status, organizer verification practice, personal-data retention/security, promised allocation, or completed fulfillment.
Primary source for the planned 40-brass-coin run, no-sale/gift framing, Sara and the Missing Artifacts terminal-game claim, one large touch pad, three NeoPixel groups, speaker, no battery, 46-gram brass, Micro-USB serial-device wording, CircuitPython/macropad statements, planned donation threshold, U.S. mail/DEF CON pickup, and student-brass statements. It does not prove final component parity, completed production, donation verification, delivery, official status, game-source license, or image reuse permission.
Arduino sketch source for the lightly modified Blendster scanner using seven LEDs on the TDI 2020 off-the-shelf project.