Recon Village Badge Life
Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 25 The Original badge, first-badge lineage, spy-silhouette design, die-cut shape, hardwear.io lanyard, and all-rights-reserved image boundary.
Evidence index
Primary docs, public wikis, repositories, talks, press writeups, and first-hand notes used to support badge pages.
Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 25 The Original badge, first-badge lineage, spy-silhouette design, die-cut shape, hardwear.io lanyard, and all-rights-reserved image boundary.
Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 26 The Dual Design badge, two variants, spy-silhouette design, skull artwork, and black-and-white aesthetic.
Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 27 The Skull Badge, steampunk-recon theme, skull-shaped PCB, LED eye, and CREW variant.
Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 30 The Radar Badge, global-surveillance theme, circular radar design, world-map overlay, and coordinate/compass markings.
Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 31 The Spy Silhouette badge, die-cut shape, LED illumination, speaker badge variant, and custom lanyard.
Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 32 The Recon Soldier badge, tactical-recon theme, multi-layer PCB construction, red and blue LED eyes, and 3D assembled design.
Primary official badge archive source for the DEF CON 33 The Cyber Owl badge, Cyber Vigilance theme, cyberpunk owl design, glowing pink LED eyes, detailed mechanical artwork, and metallic blue-gray finish.
Technical source for Raspberry Pi Pico-driven badge behavior, synthesizer, screen, speaker, BOOTSEL/picotool workflow, and OFRAK firmware modification.
Primary official historical source for the completed March 11-12, 2025 Redmond summit, its reported 194 attendees, 61 organizations, 108 CFP submissions, and the explicit first-electronic-badge milestone. It does not identify a badge form, hardware, software, creator, recipient scope, fulfilment, or reusable image.
Primary official village source for the August 6-9, 2026 DEF CON 34 setting, Las Vegas Convention Center Red Team Village area, and broad Village program context. It does not identify RTV D20 or establish a badge issue, sale, physical form, functionality, or image reuse rights.
Primary public self-submission source for a new badge named RTV D20, $80 price, and on-site DEF CON through-RTV sale statement. It establishes a planned artifact announcement, not completed manufacture, stock, sale, handoff, technical specification, admission purpose, or image reuse rights.
Public August 2 pre-event announcement tying the 2026 MK9 to DEF CON 34 and planned BadgeLife pickup. It corroborates the launch context and a planned add-on, but is not used as final fulfillment proof or as an image-reuse license.
Public late-July pre-event update corroborating that boards had arrived and final assembly and flashing were underway, plus announced pickup and LoRa/QR-score-sync context. It is used conservatively as a production-status update, not as a final fulfillment report or reusable-image license.
Commit-pinned primary documentation saying the repository contains source code and relevant files used in the badge. It supports the maker's physical-artifact, firmware-variant, serial-challenge, art, SAO, and UF2 claims, but not a final unit configuration, license, organizer approval, distribution, or handoff claim.
Commit-pinned board-support notes describing an RP2040-focused workflow and an rp2040:rp2040:rpipico example. This is configuration evidence for the public source surface, not a claim that each physical artifact used a Raspberry Pi Pico board or one specific final firmware.
Commit-pinned firmware source for the Raspberry Pi Pico SDK surface, serial menu, LED/OLED modules, pin-map includes, and the SINCON 2026 BADGE menu banner. It creates a direct event-identity conflict with the repository title rather than resolving the badge as a SINCON or DEF CON Singapore official artifact.
Primary maker-published repository whose title makes the DEF CON Singapore and Div0/Tingkat association. The root tree exposes art, code, SAO files, and a UF2, but GitHub reports no detected repository license and the source does not independently establish a final physical unit, official event role, organizer authorization, production, allocation, delivery, or media-reuse right.
Immutable primary Retia README for the 2024-labelled hardware design, including its high-level component and expansion summary. It does not prove a final manufactured revision, an event unit's installed software, allocation, recipient handoff, safety validation, or image licence.
Immutable first source-release commit, published July 8, 2026, whose title identifies the project as a 2024 DEF CON badge and whose tree adds the documentation, KiCad sources, and fabrication material. It is evidence of retrospective project provenance, not a 2024 contemporaneous distribution or organizer record.
Primary native KiCad and fabrication-source trail whose names include 2024_def_con_badge_v1. It supports the design's 2024 provenance label without proving production, field use, source license, or media rights.
Primary Retia repository whose current description calls the artifact a Retia 2024 DEF CON badge. The repository name is later and conflicts with that project label, so it is not used to recast the artifact as a 2026 badge or to infer DEF CON organizer affiliation.
Primary public maker self-submission naming MF Doom SAO v2 as an update to an existing SAO, listing a $20 price and Coming soon state, and identifying u/Truth-Miserable as the Reddit contact. It establishes a planned independent BadgeLife association, not official DEF CON issuance, completed manufacture, delivery, or image reuse rights.
Organizer-operated primary ticketing source for the General Admission w/Badge package and its included T-shirt, badge, and lunch wording.
First-hand technical source for the ESP32 badge design, LEDs, LED driver, buzzer, accelerometer, capacitive touch, Wi-Fi/IRC/serial behavior, GPIO0/DTR production fix, and schematic/board/driver development role.
First-hand badge-team source for the Contra theme, laser-tag function, enclosure and lens design, injection-molding decisions, Xometry production path, and physical-layout evidence.
Named post-event attendee account corroborating that the first NaClCON convention occurred. It does not confirm badge issuance or technical behavior.
Primary first-hand source for the CactusCon 2014 PCB badge, 300-board count, Erik Wilson design attribution, HeatSync Labs booth giveaway, LAN tap arms/legs, USB 3.0 breakout head, Teensy expansion space, acrylic, LED, resistor, battery, lanyard, and image-rights boundary.
Primary official post-event documentation for firmware v2.0.0, MIT licensing, STM32U073CBT6, e-paper, LEDs, infrared, UART, controls, CTF behavior, source/build/flashing guidance, and the link to the firmware repository.
Primary official source marking the experience experimental and subject to change, describing on-site team registration and physical-badge pickup, firmware-reversing activity, and controlled API-only digital-twin access.
Primary official source for the August 6-9, 2026 DEF CON 34 presence, AI-Connected badge, physical-badge CTF requirement, and its current statement that firmware is released. It does not establish recipient allocation or individual handoff.
Primary source for badge package, Cyber Saiyan authorship, hardware feature list, BLE behavior, schedule screens, WiFi functions, and snake game.
Primary official source for the October 2-4, 2026 RomHack Camp dates, Flaminio Village context, and announced badge/challenge claim. The September 28, 2026 recheck found the sold-out banner; the October 15, 2026 recheck found the post-event statement that RomHack Camp 2026 is over, with a Camp 2026 Badge link to badge.romhack.io, which is the basis for marking the edition completed.
Primary current source for the on-site CTF finals and challenge context.
Official FAQ source confirming that badge details are pre-event and expected closer to the camp, while preserving the hardware-badge and collectible-challenge language. The September 28, 2026 recheck additionally found the Cyber Saiyan stand listing The Camp electronic badge as a card-only on-site purchase item.
Primary official source for the March 5-7, 2026 sixteenth edition, Kinepolis Madrid venue, and Spanish cybersecurity-conference context.
First-hand badge-build guide source for the WOPR 0x00 2019 badge, soldering logistics, ATTINY841-SSU, resistors, RGB LEDs, colored LEDs, battery clips, color-mixing warning, and staff-loaded firmware.
Official schedule source for the Hardware Hacking Village event placement.
Official HHV source for host names, village scope, attendee hardware expectations, and the ESP8266/NodeMCU tutorial context.
Official schedule source for the October 21-22, 2017 programme and Hardware Hacking Village placement.
Official source for the Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge session and required assembled badge plus 3.3V USB-UART adapter.
Official source for Ruxcon 2015 dates, Melbourne/CQ Function Centre location, and hacker/security-conference framing.
Official source for Ruxcon 2016 dates, CQ Function Centre venue, Melbourne location, and security-conference framing.
Official source for Ruxcon 2017 security-conference and Melbourne/Aus-Pacific context.
Primary build-guide source for STM32 assembly, passives, CR2032 holder, programming header, I2C bodge, switch-footprint workaround, and blinky programming workflow.
SAINTCON-published video source for the badge talk and Michael Whiteley attribution.
Assembly source for the badge kit, Pi Zero W, PiTFT, PowerBoost, battery, cable routing, standoffs, lanyard, acrylic shield, and board mounting.
Registration source for Hacker Challenge server pairing, personalization, and Wi-Fi setup context.
Post-conference reuse source for RetroPie conversion and challenge-daemon cleanup.
Official MiniBadge list source for the 2017 add-on ecosystem.
Badge manual source for assembly, BOM, flashing, registration, MiniBadges, and post-conference reuse.