Badge Story (2025): Patches
Primary official badge page documenting Patches, the Learn to Solder tradition, customizable limbs/LEDs/personal flair, and Voodoo Heart badge-series continuity.
Evidence index
Sources
Primary docs, public wikis, repositories, talks, press writeups, and first-hand notes used to support badge pages.
1884 matching source(s)
NolaCon 2025 talks
Official schedule source for NolaCon 2025 conference context around the badge record.
NolaCon sponsor pack 2025
Official PDF source for the 2025 event context, venue/date corroboration, and sponsor-facing conference framing; not an image-rights source.
Nordcloudians at NodeConf EU 2019
Attendee report corroborating the Kilkenny event context and stating that an open-source smartwatch was handed to conference participants.
BSides Kristiansand Unites the Cybersecurity Community
Post-event source for the June 6, 2025 first BSides Kristiansand conference at Noroff, the custom SolaSec electronic duck badge, seven LED challenge indicators, CTF platform framing, and Kyle Shockley / Caleb Davis credit.
Competition's Write-ups
Official NorthSec write-up index source rechecked for 2022; it lists 2022 competition writeups but did not expose a badge-specific 2022 firmware, event-guide, or conference-badge writeup in this pass.
Competition's Write-ups
Official NorthSec index source for 2025 competition writeups, including the Conference badge and Soldering village challenge links by Jean Privat.
NorthSec 2021 Electronic Badge
Official badge page for ESP32 hardware, display, NeoPixels, buzzer, UART, badge flags, FLAGBOT submission, and post-event release framing.
NorthSec 2025
Official event source for dates, Bonsecours Market venue, Montreal location, and NorthSec 2025 context.
NorthSec 2026
Official event and registration source for dates, venue, ticket classes, and the new social electronic badge entitlement.
Past editions
Official lineage source for the 2015 Bonsecours CTF, 54-team scale, team-of-eight structure, and hardware badge statement.
Past editions
Official lineage source proving that NorthSec 2016 gave a hardware badge to every conference and competition attendee.
Past editions
Official lineage source for NorthSec 2017 event context and participant scale.
Past editions
Official lineage source for NorthSec 2018 event expansion context.
Past editions
Official lineage source for NorthSec 2019 venue and CTF context.
Past editions
Official event source for NorthSec 2022 as the return-to-in-person edition at Marche Bonsecours.
Past editions
Official lineage source for NorthSec 2023 anniversary and in-person CTF context.
Past editions
Official lineage source for NorthSec 2024 Marché Bonsecours and CTF scale context.
Team
Official source naming the NorthSec 2026 badge team members credited by the catalogue.
Villages
Official source for the soldering village, badge-enhancement workshop language, blinking electronic-parts framing, and NorthSec Badge Museum context.
Villages Schedule
Official schedule source for t-shirt and badge pickup using nSec order QR codes, badge enhancement sessions, and Badge Museum hours.
NorthSec 2016 badge README
Primary technical source for the nRF51822/STM32F072 badge, OLED, BLE, battery management, buttons, USB, SWD, DFU, and software dependency caveats.
NorthSec 2017 badge README
Primary technical source for the nRF51822/STM32F072 badge, OLED, BLE, battery management, USB, touch buttons, power, schematics, and firmware images.
NorthSec 2018 badge README
Primary technical source for the nRF52832/STM32F070 badge, OLED, BLE, NeoPixel LEDs, buttons, Li-ion power, USB charging, schematics, SDK, and DFU workflow.
NorthSec 2019 badge README
Primary technical source for the nRF52832/STM32F070 badge and its BLE/OLED/NeoPixel/battery/USB architecture.
NorthSec 2019 badge repository tag
Primary source tree for hardware, BOM, Gerbers, firmware applications, games, challenges, schedule, BLE control, and LED control.
NorthSec 2021 badge README
Primary technical source for the North Sectoria ESP32 badge hardware and ESP-IDF firmware workflow.
NorthSec 2022 badge V3j BOM
Primary component source for ESP32, CH340C, AP2112, MCP73831, WS2811/5050 LEDs, status LEDs, and connector material.
NorthSec 2022 hardware archive
Primary repository source for the 2022 badge hardware tree, SAO directories, BOM material, challenge assets, and production files.
NorthSec 2022 repository license
Repository MIT license source for code and documentation scope; image reuse remains separately blocked without a selected rights-cleared raster.
NorthSec 2023 Badge Controller Screen
Primary source for the challenge controller screen, ESP32-2432S028R board, ESP-IDF firmware, secure-boot competition boards, BLE mesh LED-control/admin commands, debug-mode helper, and time-broadcast script.
NorthSec 2023 Conference Badge Firmware
Primary source for the ATmega328PB firmware archive, sixteen NeoPixel LEDs, six buttons, pairing connectors, SAO connector, optional OLED, USB-C or AAA power, PlatformIO/MiniCore build, AVR fuses, upload workflow, and prebuilt firmware image.
NorthSec 2023 badge README
Official repository source for the 2023 badge hardware tree and firmware context.
NorthSec 2024 badge README
Primary technical source for ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-N8R8 hardware, LEDs, buttons, pairing connectors, four SAO connectors, power, PlatformIO/ESP-IDF firmware, and named credits.
NorthSec 2025 badge README
Primary technical source for ESP32-C3-WROOM-02-N4 hardware, RGB LEDs, buttons, IR pairing, SAO connectors, power, PlatformIO, conference/CTF firmware targets, serial monitoring, and team credits.
NorthSec 2025 schematic PDF
Repository schematic PDF source used to corroborate the public hardware-release scope.
PXL_20230106_192338607.jpg
MIT-licensed source image for the official repository photo of the NorthSec 2023 conference badge PCB; used only for image provenance, not as a standalone hardware-spec source.
badges.jpeg
MIT-licensed source image for the official repository photo of physical NorthSec 2021 badge variants; used only for image provenance, not as a standalone hardware-spec source.
badges_wired.png
MIT-licensed source image for the official repository photo embedded by the 2017 badge website as two badges connected together; used only for image provenance, not as a standalone hardware-spec source.
hw/2024/cell.gif
MIT-licensed official repository source GIF for the NorthSec 2024 badge image; the local WebP uses the first frame as an optimized static delivery image.
nsec-badge REUSE metadata
License metadata source for treating the hw/2025 badge render and hardware files as MIT-licensed NorthSec repository material.
nsec/nsec-badge hardware tree
Primary hardware-source tree for the 2025 KiCad design, BOM, schematic, panelization, add-on material, and official raster image.
Lieu - Nuit du Hack 2015
Official source for the 2015 edition location and event context.
Store - Nuit du Hack 2015
Primary source for the NDH2K15 electronic badge kit, hardware feature list, limited run, price, and Electrolab developer credit.
Amey & Umesh
Primary talk abstract and speaker-bio source for electronics, microcontrollers, LEDs, embedded hacking in India, badge design, badge use, idea evolution, and production-problem scope.
Amey Gat & Swapnil Wadwalkar
Primary later speaker-bio source naming Amey Gat as creator of Nullcon Hardware Badge 2014.
Nullcon Goa 2014
Official event archive source for Goa 2014 context.
Nullcon Goa 2014 Schedule
Primary schedule source for the Nullcon Hardware Badge 101 session and conference-program placement.
Nullcon Goa 2018
Official archive source for the Goa 2018 conference edition and Nullcon event-context trail.
Schedule Goa 2018
Official schedule source for conference registration, March 2-3, 2018 conference dates, and the surrounding February 27-March 1 training dates.