ROOTCON 12
Primary archive source for ROOTCON 12 dates, Tagaytay venue, official event context, and public media-download trail.
Evidence index
Primary docs, public wikis, repositories, talks, press writeups, and first-hand notes used to support badge pages.
Primary archive source for ROOTCON 12 dates, Tagaytay venue, official event context, and public media-download trail.
Official media archive source confirming the ROOTCON 12 document directory that hosts the quick guide and event materials.
Primary archive source for ROOTCON 13 dates, Tagaytay venue, official event context, and public media-download trail.
Official media archive source confirming the ROOTCON 13 document directory that hosts the quick guide and sponsor prospectus.
Official media archive source confirming the Recovery Mode document directory that hosts the public RC14 quick guide.
Primary archive source for ROOTCON 15 dates, Zoom Webinar and Discord delivery, official event context, and public media-download trail.
Primary artifact source listing rc15_badges.png in the official ROOTCON 15 artwork badge directory; used as evidence of badge artwork, not as a publishable image asset.
Primary artifact source listing lanyard_front.jpg and lanyard_back.jpg in the official ROOTCON 15 artwork directory.
Official media archive source confirming ROOTCON 15's public artwork and downloads directories.
Primary archive source for ROOTCON 17 dates, Taal Vista Hotel venue, official event context, and public media-download trail.
Primary artifact source listing lanyard_single.png in the official ROOTCON 17 art directory.
Official media archive source confirming ROOTCON 17's public art, downloads, press-kit, speaker, and talks directories.
Primary archive source for ROOTCON 18 dates, Taal Vista Hotel venue, official event context, and public media-download trail.
Primary badge-directory source showing ROOTCON 18's public Badge archive and STL subdirectory.
Primary artifact source listing Rootcon 2024 Buttons.stl and Rootcon 2024 Single Color.stl; used for 3D-printable badge evidence rather than electronic-hardware claims.
Official media archive source confirming the public ROOTCON 18 Badge directory alongside artwork, speaker, and talk material.
Primary RC19 source for electronic-badge distribution rules, Type-B fallback, Human+ and Blackcard guarantees, and collector framing.
Official event source for September 23-25, 2026 dates and Royce Hotel & Casino in Clark venue. September 26 through 30 rechecks after the elapsed dates still found the banner announcing the dates and no homepage wrap-up or archive entry for ROOTCON 20; post-event evidence comes from the official media server instead.
Official policy source for ROOTCON Black Badge contest and community-award context.
Primary FAQ source for electronic, non-electronic, black, and electi badge definitions.
Primary badge-taxonomy source for electronic, non-electronic, black, and electi badge definitions used to frame the RC20 record.
Primary official post-event source: Artwork, Badge, Speakers, and Talks folders dated September 28, 2026, including track slide archives and speaker bios, establish that the September 23-25 edition was held. The drop does not state electronic-badge counts, Type-B allocation, or who received which badge.
Official commemorative magazine whose ROOTCON 20 Badge / Before the Reveal page credits Mr. Blinky Bling with the twentieth-anniversary badge. The PDF was produced on August 15, 2026, before the event, so it is a credit source rather than a distribution record.
Primary technical source, inspected locally from the official binary: ESP32-S3 image header, rc20 app descriptor built September 6, 2026 with ESP-IDF 5.5.5 from PlatformIO environment rc20-human-fw, ROOTCON 20 Badge banner strings, Meshtastic mesh modules, SX1262 radio driver, SSD1315 128x64 display, 4x WS2812B GPIO37, ROOTCON 20 region lock forcing PH_433, NimBLE, libpax counting, and Tetris and Breakout high-score files. String evidence describes the compiled build only; it does not prove every feature was enabled on shipped boards.
Official source for 2013 RVAsec event context and the public HackRVA badge teaser.
Official source for public firmware-release provenance.
Official source for limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge package evidence.
Official event source for badge-hacking context.
Official source for the guaranteed hotel package and limited electronic-badge context.
Official source for 2025 event dates and limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge package language.
Official source for the limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge offer.
Official source for RVAsec 2026 date/venue context and electronic-badge package language.
Official source proving HackRVA badge distribution context for RVAsec 2017.
Official event source placing badge hacking and CTF material in the 2018 conference layout.
Official CTF source for badge-challenge context.
Official archive context for the RVAsec badge lineage.
Official archive context for the RVAsec/HackRVA badge lineage and 2017 badge sponsor trail.
Project-owner source for 2015 badge hardware, fabrication workflow, sponsor support, and credits.
Official source for 2016 badge hardware reuse, USB reflashing, CTF challenge focus, quality-check count, and credits.
Official source for retrospective 2013 badge behavior, feature goals, and hardware caveats.
Official source for 2014 hardware, software goals, and badge-team rationale.
Field-report source for Tobias Dorn credit, badge-kit framing, challenge-unlocked parts, and social/physical scavenger-hunt behavior.
Product-page source for the badge name, SKU RLTPP-BADGE, DEF CON 33 Rabbit-Labs vendor-booth debut, limited no-restock sales note, included battery/lanyard/accessories, firmware links, UART flashing notes, SDIO fix note, charger caveat, project credits, and legal disclaimer.
Commit-pinned public firmware source supporting the maker-published ATtiny85 implementation trail. It does not establish that every event unit ran the same build, expose a complete event challenge service/history, confirm a hardware revision, or supply an explicit repository/content license.
Primary project-owner source identifying the maker-declared Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge and Hardware Village association; it says more than 300 participants assembled it live and documents the ATtiny85, 74HC595, eight LEDs, UART, EEPROM progression, eight-stage CTF, source, schematic, and Gerber trail. It is not a Seasides/HW101 organizer statement, finalized recipient ledger, final-unit verification, or license grant.
Post-event article source for the Compute Module 5 core, local private edge-AI goal, SolaSec and PamirAI collaboration roles, physical enclosure and assembly responsibility, medical-chatbot behavior, and the report that recent Biohacking Village badges included three AI models.
Raspberry Pi launch-context source for RP2350 and DEF CON badge connection around Pico 2 availability.
Raspberry Pi source for RP2350-powered DEF CON 32 badge description, challenge context, and public credit trail around badge hardware and firmware work.
First-hand attendee source for CactusCon 2017 paid badge package, soldering/de-soldering troubleshooting, WemOS-board identity, Wi-Fi SSID/signal display, Bluetooth MAC-address scrolling, and image-rights boundary.
Primary badge documentation source for participant kit distribution, DIP/easy-mount component framing, BOM, assembly photos, soldering steps, and Arduino IDE programming workflow.