Car Hacking Village
Primary official source for the August 6-9, 2026 Las Vegas Convention Center Car Hacking Village presence at DEF CON 34.
Evidence index
Primary docs, public wikis, repositories, talks, press writeups, and first-hand notes used to support badge pages.
Primary official source for the August 6-9, 2026 Las Vegas Convention Center Car Hacking Village presence at DEF CON 34.
Official sponsorship terms state that the DEF CON 34 event concludes August 9, 2026. This supports the planned event end date, not badge fabrication, allocation, handoff, firmware release, or CTF results.
Current official event listing checked after the August 6-9 dates. It advertises a CTF and new badge, but does not independently report completed delivery, CTF operation, final unit details, or image rights.
Primary official village source for the 2024 CHV badge lineup, main badge, kids badge, Speedometer SAO, key-fob SAO, PRNDL SAO, and CTF framing.
Official announcement source for the RP2040, DB9 CAN 2.0/CAN FD support, interactive power management, and 12 V 1.5 A power-supply claims. The linked post image does not establish reusable image rights.
Official announcement source for the announced on-premise-only CTF, Ethernet/USB tools, optional main-badge purchase, and five CTF-participant badges.
Primary June 29, 2026 organizer announcement for the planned programmable badge, five LEDs, three buttons, small LED screen, Wi-Fi, embedded-Python claim, stated variants, partner, lanyard sponsor, and initial-order availability wording.
Primary organizer source for the August 14-15 Flywheel Coworking conference and DEF CON 864 CTF context.
Primary August 10 organizer event-week guide. It documents planned check-in badge handoff, USB programming, and the Circuit Board Medics partnership; its future-tense logistics are not a completed-delivery ledger.
Organizer-linked registration listing for the August 14-15 event at Flywheel Coworking in Greenville.
Primary event source for the March 4-6, 2016 Raleigh edition, admission-included electronic kit badge, Hardware Hacking Village assembly support, Arduino-compatible donation hardware, and official badge-guide links.
Primary assembly source for the CarolinaCon 12 badge; the PDF title uses '2012' while the hosting page, URL, and context identify it as the CarolinaCon 12 / 2016 badge guide.
Primary official source for the Conference PCB Badge merch bundle, pre-order and shipping language, and April 29-May 1, 2022 online event context.
Official FAQ source describing the merch bundle as including a shirt, electronic badge, and sticker.
Official schedule source for the Friday April 29 through Sunday May 1, 2022 event window.
Primary official source for the merch bundle with all parts needed to make the year's badge, later badge-supplies bulk-order update, online CTF context, and shipping note.
Official schedule source for April 23-25, 2021 timing used to anchor the event edition.
Official partial schematic evidence linked from the event page; cited for source traceability and not reused as a local image because no reusable media rights were found.
Official event source for 35C3 as the 2018 annual four-day CCC congress in Leipzig.
Official event source for 36C3 as the 2019 annual four-day CCC congress in Leipzig.
Official event source for 37C3 in Hamburg, December 27-30, 2023, and the Hub navigation surface.
Official event source for 38C3 in Hamburg, December 27-30, 2024, and the Hub navigation surface.
Primary official project page for the 39C3 Cyberwatch hardware concept and event context.
Official event source for 39C3 POWER CYCLES in Hamburg, December 27-30, 2025, and the Hub navigation surface.
Primary official source for the October 3, 2026 Cheltenham event, Early Bird ticket package, named limited-edition challenge coin, package inclusions, and sold-out Early Bird status, and since October 4 for the post-event wrap-up that marks the edition completed. The wrap-up does not mention the coin.
Primary slide-deck source for the badge-making talk, ESP8266-01 and OLED concept, WiFi and MQTT logic, Arduino/Mosquitto tooling, breadboard and paperboard prototyping, cost review, sourcing challenges, and future all-attendee badge plan.
Primary event source for CHCon 2019 dates, The Christchurch Arts Centre venue, and cyber/physical/electronic CTF challenge context.
Primary event and sponsorship source for CHCon 2018 dates, UCSA Events Centre venue, CTF/badge/locksport challenges, and identification tags/badges material evidence.
Primary event source for CHCon 2025 dates, venue, and Christchurch location.
Primary source for the 2016 badge goals, Arduino compatibility, inspirations, attendee scale, team, hackability framing, header image, and CC BY-SA 4.0 page-license footer.
Exact upstream image source for the Fri3d 2016 WebP hero image; used only after recording page URL, license, attribution, and processing notes.
Commit-pinned public MIT source and documentation archive from the organizer-named badge partner. It documents the ESP32-S3 board, CircuitPython 10.2.1, samples, hardware reference, and no-charge power constraint, but not final-unit parity, recipient allocation, or organizer-controlled release status.
Primary board-support source for ARAMCON Badge 2019 features and all-attendee distribution.
Primary official board-profile source for the ATSAMD21G1A, 4 MB flash, native USB-C, three RGB-NeoPixel groups, three capacitive touch pads, speaker, CircuitPython/Arduino, and USB serial/MIDI/HID/disk surface. It is linked by AoSC as the eChallengeCoin build but does not reconcile its USB-C/three-touch claims with the maker eChallengeCoin page's Micro-USB/one-touch wording or prove 2026 production parity.
Retrospective SAINTCON show-badge lineage context; not used to infer unrecovered 2014 component or firmware details beyond the existence of prior-year show-badge activity.
Primary badge evidence for the purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled show badge, LCD and buttons, attendee scale, Cisco CMX linkage, schedule, score, and zone-display behavior; cited without image reuse.
Primary official maker source for the explicit independent DEF CON 34 relationship; ESP32-S3 wrist-badge framing; Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, deauthentication detector, LED, theremin, collectible, and 3D-printed enclosure claims; passive-listen-only and optional-research-build wording; first-run/second-run state; delivery terms; creator/seller disclosure; and AI/tooling statement.
Primary current storefront data source for the $120 Standard / $130 Pro / $140 RAD first-run price points, 86/25/5 planned-and-sold totals, and zero available snapshot. It does not establish a final sales ledger, shipped-unit recipient list, physical delivery, refund state, or second-run commitment.
Primary repository source linked from project docs for CAD references, firmware, and supporting project assets.
Public project documentation describing the modular shard concept and software/firmware build notes.
Raw public README describing hardware layout, SD-card sharding design, and branch of modular watch extensions.
Public collaborative write-up source for the badge CTF areas, instruction-page link, leaderboard link, and post-event challenge reconstruction.
Public CTF write-up source listing John the Rooter, Fiasco TransPort, Absolutely ClueLess, Z3 1337, Meet Me, Take your Time, Obfuscated Mr BeanWalker, Unsolvable, and extra write-up areas.
Primary field report for Area41 2018 dates, Zürich location, DEFCON Switzerland organization, ESP8266/WiFi/display badge facts, web username configuration, LCD nickname app, schedule app, WiFi scanning, Easter eggs, source-code link, badge talk, and RX-audio hack.
Primary preview source for Area41 2018 as a Zürich IT security conference and for the 'Blame the badge' talk by Philipp Promeuschel and Carel van Rooyen.
Organizer-controlled public update surfaced from ComunidadDOJO's company page in this source pass. It says the 2026 DOJOConf badge will be useful in the CTF, establishing an intended event role without publishing the challenge, firmware, code, rules, participant data handling, results, or post-event outcome.
Primary maker/seller source identifying the SAO Many SAOs Badge as a DEFCON 33 product, its then-displayed $70 sale from $100, 25-design display framing, and SmartAO-dependent outer LEDs. It does not prove exact delivery, current 2026 price, final stock, engineering details, official DEF CON issuance, admission, or image reuse rights.
Primary public maker self-submission that calls SaO MANY SAOs an Update to Existing, lists $80 and a Venmo note, and gives 25 slots plus 360 by 360 mm. It establishes a current independent continuity statement, not a distinct 2026 board, official DEF CON status, sale/delivery result, or image reuse permission.
Public source for the GB Studio badge-game project, graphical assets, playable itch.io link, and ROM-hacking/remix context.
Winner walkthrough source for Council of 9 attribution, final badge-contest path, clue aggregation, and DEF CON 24 challenge solution context.