Tag dossier
Badge records tagged with Africa, across Kenya, Reunion, South Africa.
433 MHz mesh-networked South African conference badge
A South African free security-conference badge built around an ATmega328 with Arduino bootloader, Nokia 5110 LCD, 433 MHz AM/OOK transmit and receive modules, LEDs, buttons, and a mesh-style interaction graph.
ESP8266 IR faction-game badge
A BSides Cape Town 2016 badge built around ESP8266, 128x64 OLED display, eight UI buttons, rear reset and program buttons, IR transmit and receive, level LEDs, faction RGB LED, USB-charged 600 mAh LiPo, schedule UI, challenges, and an organic faction game.
Kenyan ESP8266 OLED MQTT conference badge
A limited-run AfricaHackOn 2017 electronic conference badge built around an ESP8266-01, 0.96-inch 128x64 I2C OLED display, LEDs, resistors, hand-built mounting-board construction, Arduino firmware, WiFi scanning, and MQTT schedule updates.
two-part ESP and CC1111 RF challenge badge
A BSides Cape Town 2017 badge system documented as two separate physical badges: a black flux-capacitor badge with an ESP chip and a red RF badge with a CC1111 RFCat-compatible radio, USB port, and button.
Kenyan electronic badge archive record
A conservative AfricaHackOn 2018 electronic-badge record anchored to the OPCDE Kenya agenda, which listed a dedicated making-of session for the badge during the Nairobi event.
ESP32 colour-screen game badge
BSides Cape Town 2019's badge was an ESP32 electronic badge with a 1.3-inch 240x240 IPS colour display, touch buttons, 18650 battery, custom PCB, 3D-printed case, Arduino/ESP32 firmware, local SDL debugging support, WiFi high-score sync, Bluetooth GamePad experiments, and a public GPL-3.0 firmware repository.
South African BSides badge-sponsor identity artifact record
BSides Cape Town's official 2025 sponsorship page lists a dedicated Badge Sponsor slot, while the official Quicket page anchors the December 6, 2025 Lagoon Beach Hotel & Spa event and swag-ticket context.
Completed Nairobi summit registration identity-artifact record
AfricaHackOn’s official Cybersecurity Summit 2026 schedule told attendees at the August 27 registration and welcome to ‘grab your badge & coffee,’ while the organizer’s post-event update confirms the August 27-29 summit concluded. Together, they support a completed-event registration identity-artifact reference, not a documented badge handoff, electronic badge, or specified physical credential.
ATtiny816 Light The Way attendee badge
A completed BSides Joburg 2026 electronic attendee badge documented through a first-hand August 13, 2026 reversing write-up and its MIT-licensed firmware archive: the badge shipped as an ATtiny816 in a VQFN-20 package with seven front LEDs, a 3.3V coin cell holder, and a switch, and the write-up reports lighthouse artwork for general attendees plus a distinct speaker image variant.
Indian Ocean BSides identity badge
A conservative BSides Reunion 2026 identity-artifact record for the participant badges and goodies distributed at the first documented Reunion Security BSides edition.