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Badge records tagged with Canada, across Canada.
Team hardware badge for the Bonsecours CTF
NorthSec's official past-editions page documents the 2015 Bonsecours CTF as a 54-team competition where participants, grouped in teams of eight, each had a hardware badge tied to network, IPv6 workstation, RF-monitoring, smartcard, and related challenge paths.
nRF51 and STM32 OLED/BLE badge
NorthSec's public 2016 badge repository documents an electronic attendee badge with nRF51822 and STM32F072CB microcontrollers, OLED display, BLE, battery management, touch buttons, red/green LEDs, USB, SWD programming, and STM32 USB DFU support.
nRF51 and STM32 badge with event firmware images
The NorthSec 2017 badge repository documents a dual-MCU electronic badge with nRF51822 BLE/OLED control, STM32F072 USB and touch-button handling, battery management, red/green LEDs, schematic files, website material, and multiple firmware images.
nRF52 OLED/BLE badge with NeoPixels
The NorthSec 2018 badge repository documents an electronic badge with an nRF52832 main controller, STM32F070 USB controller, OLED display, BLE, NeoPixel RGB LEDs, buttons, battery management, Li-ion/USB power, USB charging, and schematic release.
TwinkleTwinkie PCB-art badge
TwinkleTwinkie's DEF CON 27 Hardware Hacking Village bio lists the BSides Vancouver 2019 Badge among notable artistic PCB badges and indie badge add-ons produced by the independent PCB artist. The current official B|Sides Vancouver site keeps the Vancouver Security BSides lineage visible, while this pass keeps the badge record limited to the artifact name, maker trail, and PCB-art classification.
Official-history-backed CTF electronic badge
Hackfest's official history says the 2019 CTF innovated by introducing an electronic badge, and that the addition was an immediate hit with participants. The 2019 schedule documents badge pickup on October 31, November 1, and November 2, plus CTF registration and CTF room activity during the Plaza-era Quebec City event.
nRF52 OLED/BLE badge with games and challenges
The NorthSec 2019 badge repository documents an nRF52832 and STM32F070 electronic badge with OLED, BLE, NeoPixel RGB LEDs, buttons, USB, Li-ion or USB power, schematics, BOM material, Gerbers, firmware applications, games, challenges, schedule code, and BLE/LED control utilities.
ESP32 North Sectoria RPG badge
NorthSec's official 2021 badge page and repository document an ESP32 electronic badge with Wi-Fi, BLE, 240x240 color LCD, NeoPixel RGB LEDs, six buttons, buzzer, UART serial port, micro-USB or external battery power, ESP-IDF firmware, and ten badge flags tied to the North Sectoria game theme.
ESP32 return-to-hallway badge with SAO hardware archive
NorthSec 2022 now has a source-backed badge record from NorthSec's official past-editions page and the public nsec-badge archive: an ESP32 WROOM32 electronic badge with CH340C USB serial, MCP73831 LiPo charging, AP2112 3.3 V regulation, twenty-four WS2811/5050 RGB LEDs, 0805 status LEDs, production Gerbers, BOM files, challenge image assets, and multiple SAO hardware directories.
AVR badge-chain interaction badge
NorthSec 2023's public badge trail combines the official badge repositories with a first-hand technical writeup documenting an ATmega328PB attendee badge with CH340C USB serial, six push buttons, 16 WS2812B RGB LEDs, optional 128x32 OLED, AVR ISP, SAO connector, side-chain headers, BLE mesh controller-screen challenge behavior, and point-scoring badge-to-badge interaction.
ESP32-S3 badge with four SAO ports
The NorthSec 2024 badge repository documents an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-N8R8 electronic badge loosely based on ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1, with sixteen NeoPixel RGB LEDs, six buttons, two pairing connectors, four SAO v1.69bis connectors, USB-C or 3xAAA power, hardware files, and PlatformIO/ESP-IDF firmware targets.
ESP32-C3/NFC electronic badge with first-party binaries and later public source
BSides Vancouver's official 2025 badge page calls the artifact an electronic badge, links its first-party programming bundle, and directs firmware information to a public project archive. That archive documents a 2025 REV 2 board and a public firmware refactor committed in 2026, so this record separates the completed 2025 artifact from the later source-tree revision.
ESP32-C3 conference and CTF badge with SAO and IR pairing
NorthSec 2025's official badge repository documents an ESP32-C3-WROOM-02-N4 badge with eighteen NeoPixel RGB LEDs, five buttons, an IR pairing connector, two SAO v1.69bis connectors, USB-C or AAA battery power, and separate conference/CTF firmware builds.
Official ESP32-S3 NFC e-paper badge with post-event Apache-2.0 source release
NorthSec 2026's official registration page lists a new social electronic badge as an included item for conference, CTF, combo, and training ticket holders while supplies lasted. The official competition page's retained 2026 Solarpunk section says the hackable electronic badge was fully integrated into the CTF, with badge challenges worth points and on-site badge-firmware tampering among the physical tracks. Official villages pages document badge pickup through attendees' nSec order QR codes, soldering-village activity where attendees could enhance their badge with blinking electronic parts, and a badge museum. On August 3, after the May event, NorthSec published the separate Apache-2.0 `nsec/badge-2026` repository. Its commit-pinned hardware and source tree documents an ESP32-S3 badge design with an ST25R3916 NFC front end, six buttons, eighteen WS2812/NeoPixel LEDs, a 200×200 GDEH0154D67 / SSD1681 e-paper path, KiCad design files, production BOM/CPL/Gerbers, PlatformIO firmware, conference/CTF partitions, CTF assets, and dock/SAO directories.
Montreal CH32V203 and RP2040 badge by Electronic Cats with LoRa and NFC
A Canadian REcon 2026 official electronic badge by Electronic Cats, documented by the official sponsors page and the public badge-recon-2026 repository as a CH32V203 primary board with an RP2040 daughterboard, an SSD1306 OLED, a Semtech SX1262 915 MHz LoRa radio, an NFC PN7150 daughterboard, four buttons, USB-C, and a rich LoRa radar, chat, flag, NFC flag-hunt, magspoof, and Simon challenge surface.
Planned RP2350 developer-conference PCB badge for Tables Day
Software You Can Love's official 2026 update says attendees of the conference's Sunday Tables Day will receive a SYCL Badge V2. The planned October 3-6 Metro Vancouver event describes the activity as a PCB Badge and identifies selected V2 changes: an RP2350 instead of the earlier ATSAMD51J19 and three AAA batteries instead of LiPo power. A public project repository describes itself as the SYCL conference badge, but the official event material does not map a particular repository commit or design revision to the October handout.