HOPE XV Schedule
Official schedule source for ongoing Electronic Badge Hacking, The Badge Clinic, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz, Badge Clinic Team, and the clinic's badge repair, assembly, museum, and advisory scope.
Evidence index
Primary docs, public wikis, repositories, talks, press writeups, and first-hand notes used to support badge pages.
Official schedule source for ongoing Electronic Badge Hacking, The Badge Clinic, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz, Badge Clinic Team, and the clinic's badge repair, assembly, museum, and advisory scope.
Primary event source for HOPE 26's seventeenth-event status, August 14-16, 2026 dates, New Yorker Hotel location, and completed status: the current page says HOPE 26 is history. It does not identify a ticket implementation, physical badge, electronic badge, or rights-cleared image.
Primary event-wiki source for current HOPE 26 timing and venue context. It remains under construction and the reviewed page does not identify a badge.
Primary badge source for attendee/pro variants, ESP32-C3, 16 WS2812-class LEDs, LiPo charge controller, IR blast behavior, vibration feedback, open hardware, BOM, user manuals, firmware, and MicroPython workflow.
Versioned wiki source preserving the page state used for the current catalogue facts and page edit date.
Image-provenance source showing a real badge photo and copyright metadata while also leaving the catalogue without a reusable license basis.
Official HTX page for the Public Safety Village, DEF CON Singapore dates and venue, HTX Capture The Flag, public-safety challenge framing, and limited-edition Public Safety Village swag language.
Official preview source for the Public Safety Village concept and the public-safety technologies in scope before DEF CON Singapore opened.
Primary HTX event report for DEF CON Singapore's launch, 11 villages and 19 communities, the Public Safety Village, and the Public Safety Village badge image metadata and photo credit. The article is used as evidence, not as reusable image permission.
Primary badge-source page for the soldering badge, enough badges for everyone attending, take-home badge activity, hidden hardware/firmware challenge, hardware talks, CTF context, and prize framing.
Primary designer writeup for the 2024 e-paper, IR, light-sensor configuration, STM32L431, firmware, open hardware, and OSHWA claims.
Primary designer writeup for the 2025 NFC quest, LED display, USB modes, production challenges, and Flipper Zero emulation lore.
Current official Hack Club retrospective identifying Overglade as a January 2026 Singapore game jam that took place. It corroborates the completed event but does not document badge allocation, hardware, firmware, or media rights.
Primary official event source for the January 29-February 2 Singapore physical high-school game-jam framing and Hack Club organizer context. It does not state that a badge was included or who received one.
Primary official 2026 event-detail source for the August 15 Glasgow conference. It corroborates event setting only and does not make the badge a ticket guarantee, access credential, electronic device, or completed distribution record.
Primary official organizer source for Hack Glasgow's annual community-led hacker-conference framing, August 15, 2026 Citizens Theatre date/location, and the FAQ statement that an attendee may write a handle or name on their badge. It does not document a specific badge material, technical feature, entitlement, or completed handoff.
Primary organizer-published post-event statistics source. Its August 16 update reports continuing 2026 ticket and check-in reporting after the August 15 conference, supporting completion of the event. It does not identify badge material, eligibility, allocation, technology, or individual handoff.
Primary artifact source for the specialized Raspberry Pi Pico fault-injection device, controlled embedded-system attack experiments, Arduino target framing, ShiQi Yu, Wei Lu, and China Telecom Cyber Security Technology / Waterdrop Laboratory affiliations.
Primary event source for April 9-13, 2018 dates, ninth annual Netherlands conference context, Amsterdam / NH Grand Krasnapolsky venue, and CommSec Village context.
Primary source for special-edition electronic badge, Badge Village, reprogramming, secret features, mini-games, dates, venue, and Middle East return context.
Primary source for the 10th-anniversary Amsterdam special-edition electronic badge, HITB Badge Village, reprogramming support, secret features, challenges, May 6-10, 2019 dates, venue summary, and Haxpo context.
Primary event source for August 26-30, 2024 dates, Intercontinental Hotel Bangkok venue, village lineup, Badge Village listing, and Bangkok conference context.
Primary event source for October 29-November 2, 2018 dates, first China edition context, Kempinski Hotel Beijing venue, and free CommSec track / village framing.
Primary event-page source for the HITB Bangkok SaikoCTF hardware badge, physio interface, cyber-challenge interface, programmable hardware component interfaces, and challenge context.
Primary badge source proving the HITBSecConf2018 Amsterdam badge, registered-attendee distribution, Qihoo360 Unicorn Team design credit, Badge Village hacking support, packet-decoding game, mini-games, hidden challenges, open-source statement, and hardware specs.
Primary badge source proving the special-edition HITB2018PEK badge, Badge Village hacking path, 'Are You Human Or Are You Hacker' activity, mini-games, hidden challenges, open-source statement, MTK-series hardware notes, and limited USD35 visitor purchase path.
HITB source for the Abu Dhabi / DisruptAD event setting, Nov. 21-25, 2021 timing, and broader challenge environment around the Packet Hack Badge record.
Primary current sold-out product listing describing the planned badge electronics, assembled and blank-PCB offer, future September 30 shipping statement, DEFCON Furs event-space requirement, and explicit no-DEF-CON-admission boundary. It does not prove completed assembly, shipment, collection, final-unit parity, or image rights.
Official event source for the September 18-20, 2026 dates, Engineering 5 / University of Waterloo venue, 1000+ students in 36 hours framing, ended status, QR-coded badge IDs, and the 2,500 USD Best Badge Hack sponsor prize.
Primary organizer attendee-facing source for AA battery power, the QR ID used for check-ins and meals, sticker scanning, badge bumping, sync stations, the Badge Help Desk, the no-replacement policy, and heat and battery safety instructions.
Primary organizer firmware source (GPL-3.0, ESP32-C3 target, ESP-IDF 5.5.3) for the launcher and app order, unlockable apps, NFC and BLE features, the statement that the badge has no Wi-Fi or HTTP stack, the BLE extended-advertising scavenger-hunt protocol and relays, and the Lua app runtime.
Primary organizer hardware source: KiCad schematic titled Hacker Badge, rev 0.0.2, dated March 22, 2026, listing the ESP32-C3-MINI-1-N4, MFRC522, SC7A20, 74HC165 button shift register, WS2812B-2020 LEDs with level shifter, FPC display connector, USB-C, LM66200 power mux, MT3608 boost, XC6220 regulator, and AA battery holder. It does not state a production count or a hardware licence.
README source for six-SAO-hub framing, MicroPython setup, memory-style I2C interactions, CH32V003 proto-petal workflow, and Super-8 badge framework mention.
Component source for ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, Wio-SX1262-N, TCA8418 keyboard controller, USB-C, LiPo charging, SAO, LED, and switch hardware.
Primary firmware source for MicroPython/LVGL architecture, LoRa network-stack behavior, RF channel rules, app APIs, and development workflows.
Primary firmware source for MicroPython/LVGL architecture, LoRa network-stack behavior, RF channel rules, app APIs, and development workflows.
MIT-licensed repository photo source for the physical front-side Communicator Badge image reused for the Hackaday Europe 2026 record.
MIT-licensed repository photo source for the physical front-side Communicator Badge image used in local image provenance.
Raw README source for Voja4 naming, official links, tutorial sections, software tools, manuals, and repository layout.
Source for Python assembler/disassembler behavior, pseudo-ops, serial save/load workflow, and Mike Szczys tooling/documentation credit.
Documentation source for user manual, instruction set, special-function-register, direct-mode, and hardware manual artifacts.
Image-provenance source for the MIT-licensed repository workbench photo of the physical Vectorscope badge.
WebUSB installer path referenced by Badge.Team-era install docs.
Official eBadge source for the badge showcase, Sub-GHz Friends handshake text, CC1101 learning-lab text, badge-role settings text, developer video, and source-code repository link.
Official event source for HackConRD as the Dominican Republic hacker conference, 2026 site context, RedTeamRD organizer framing, and EBADGE+ electronic-badge ticket inclusion.
Official source for HackGDL schedule context, registration, hardware village, village programming, and closing/party entries.
Primary event source for the March 14, 2026 completed edition and Electronic Cats sponsor context.
First-party public organizer feed promotion pairing 2025 and 2026 HackGDL badges; used only to corroborate event association and later sales, not attendee receipt or credential use.
Official sponsor-deck source for HackGDL's free community-event and cybersecurity-community positioning plus 600-attendee planning context.
Primary organizer deck for the March 14 HackGDL programme and Jardín Americana venue context.