Hackaday Europe 2025 Tickets On Sale, And CFP Extended Until Friday
Primary source for Berlin dates, MotionLab venue, badge-hacking, SAO showpiece badge framing, revamped firmware, included SAOs, and through-SAO flashing statement.
Evidence index
Primary docs, public wikis, repositories, talks, press writeups, and first-hand notes used to support badge pages.
Primary source for Berlin dates, MotionLab venue, badge-hacking, SAO showpiece badge framing, revamped firmware, included SAOs, and through-SAO flashing statement.
Source for official schedule, sold-out context, live stream note, and Saturday Badge Hacking Ceremony slot.
Source for the four Supercon Add-On Contest winning entries being included in the Hackaday Europe schwag bag.
Source for first Lecco event context, May 16-17 dates, and public badge-hacking continuity.
Primary official audio source. badge.gallery transcribed the first 15 minutes of the episode MP3 locally with WisprCLI large-v3; quotes are from that machine transcript. In it, Elliot Williams says the badge release will come as soon as the screens reach America, calls the screens superb, and describes the German export tax ID, customs export declaration, PHP2Shell-related customs-portal outage, and paid one-day express shipping. It proves that the badge has a display and that a parts shipment from Germany is pending. It does not give a display model, other hardware, or a reveal date.
Official event source for the October 31-November 2, 2025 Pasadena Supercon dates.
Technical and attribution source for the badge designer, firmware programmer, hardware list, tesserHack firmware, USB serial behavior, and bootloader-recovery context.
Secondary hands-on source for the hardware-hacking-tool framing, nRF52840/BMD-340 core, FT2232H dual-channel behavior, SWD/UART/JTAG/SPI/I2C/bit-bang workflows, USB-C, and lighting presentation.
Field report for late badge assembly, ECG pad kit, developer workshop, RTC/watch caveat, MicroPython and Hatchery notes.
Contemporary source for MK Factor creator attribution, RP2040 hardware, LCD, button layout, SAO headers, speaker, USB-C, debug pads, and HID macro-pad functionality.
Primary technical source for the Q badge hardware, C badge counterpart, badge-team credits, membrane keyboard, e-paper display, RGB LEDs, TI CC2640R2, RJ12 token exchange, Handler missions, and base-station progress behavior.
Contemporary source for the physical cassette badge, jewel case packaging, lanyard characters, liner-note clues, audio tones, number-station-like opening, and Hackaday.io collaboration context.
Technical and context source for the unofficial status, STM32F103, OLED, flash, RGB LEDs, RFM69W, coil antenna, three-AA power, USB serial terminal, GPIO breakouts, games, and sale plan.
Contemporary source for 7-inch vinyl record badge format, non-electronic badge-year framing, and collaborative badge-hacking context.
Secondary article source for Israel event context, production story, nRF52840/e-paper/audio design, and mesh-networking demo.
Secondary coverage preserving hardware overview and IHC 2018 context.
Conference announcement and badge overview.
Firmware source for Jaromir Sukuba, BASIC interpreter expansion, Ziggurat29 tokenizer work, CP/M emulator, and Zork/retrocomputer context.
Secondary pre-event media source corroborating the ATmega328P-P calculator badge and adding that it comes assembled or as a kit and is distributed as a bare PCB.
Contemporary Hackaday coverage corroborating that the LayerOne 2015 HHV had two badges and contrasting the OpenWRT networking path with the LED blinky path.
Hardware source for 8x16 LED matrix, controls, IR, accelerometer, PIC18LF25K50, two AAA cells, USB programming, and Voja Antonic attribution.
Secondary contemporary source corroborating the public release of the Ninja Networks DEF CON 17 party badge archive and media pointers.
Main public source for badge behavior, puzzle framing, LANyard hardware, capacitive touch, and hack pads.
Secondary coverage source corroborating Arduino-compatibility, FTDI header, bag-of-components distribution, HHV soldering, blinky board, and hidden challenge behavior.
Corroborating secondary source for the official badge, reclaimed shelf-label design, DB9 pogo-pin programming, QR customization, and field update fallback.
Post-event source for badge-hacking award presentations, winning hack categories, crypto challenge recognition, and community project evidence.
Event source for Pasadena and November 3-5, 2023 dates.
Post-event source for winners, honorable mentions, production plan, and functional add-on descriptions.
Firmware workflow source for MPLAB X, XC32, MicroSD bootloader use, PICkit fallback, app templates, timed execution model, and hardware API surfaces.
Primary official source for the bigger-badge teaser, the bigger venue with courtyard hacking space, and the two talk tracks, with the explicit statement that no further badge detail can be shared at this time.
Primary official source stating that admission includes a sweet hackable badge, alongside ticket prices, sales opening, and venue capacity context. Its author's comment reply that the badge must have an add-on is retained only as a teaser, not a specification.
Lineage source for the original down-to-the-metal retrocomputer badge framing and planned Gerber, emulator, and PIC code release context.
Primary reveal source for Pasadena return context, Voja4 concept, PIC24FJ256GA704, simulated 4-bit CPU, front-panel programming, LED memory/register view, SAO serial behavior, and save/load slots.
Upstream lineage source for Pico W hardware, six SAO slots, individually accessible GPIO, dual I2C buses, starter petals, MicroPython, CH32V003, and repository release.
Primary article source for Pico W hardware, six SAO slots, individually accessible GPIO, dual I2C buses, starter petals, MicroPython, CH32V003, and repository release.
Secondary technical source for the cube-PCB construction, mesh-network framing, more-than-400 badge run, USB terminal behavior, text adventure, relay-computer goal, and time-sharing emulator behavior.
Hackaday article source for the 2021 remote-badge production problem, KiCad-file distribution model, prototyping-board concept, builder customization, and MicroMod carrier-board variant.
Puzzle source for gravity simulation, moving-message display, Tetris clone, IR protocol, hidden challenge layers, and hacking award categories.
Secondary source by Tom Nardi corroborating the badge as a miniature Hayes SmartModem-style wearable, tying it to ESP8266 and RetroWiFiModem, and noting the two-day October 11-12 JawnCon 0x1 schedule.
Production source for late board arrival, firmware fixes, power caveat, flash-write behavior, and kitting schedule.
Field report on badge features, apps, power behavior, and event use.
Primary customization source for the front-PCB mechanical role, two-PCB stack-up, front-panel replacement path, spacing guidance, M3 hardware, and mechanical-model directory.
Reveal article source for 320x240 display, full keyboard, BASIC, CP/M, game/demo firmware, Belgrade reuse, and GPIO/I2C/serial hacking suggestions.
Secondary media source corroborating the 1,750-badge quantity, the class of manufacturing errors, and on-time delivery.
Secondary coverage of the battery-safety controversy and badge-team resignation context.
Secondary hands-on source for ESP32-WROVER WiFi/Bluetooth, wireless botnet framing, board size/power changes, GreenPAK button handling, IS31FL3736 lighting, CP2102N USB, and serial adventure behavior.
Workshop-report source for Russell Handorf and Mike Kershaw's official badge-guy attribution, low-part-count teaching-example framing, mixed through-hole and surface-mount construction, and Concept to Prototype workshop context.
Post-event source for badge-hacking winners, film festival, hardware/software experiments, and the scope of attendee projects.
Secondary article source for BSides Cape Town 2016 badge hardware and faction-game behavior.
Event source for fifth annual Superconference context, Supplyframe DesignLab, Los Angeles College of Music, dates, badge hacking, workshops, talks, and demos.