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BSides Orlando 2026 · United States · 2026

BSides Orlando 2026 Electronic Badge

CH32V003 part-built solder-kit badge with the Lil Chompy text-adventure CTF

BSides Orlando 2026's attendee badge is a retro-futurist CH32V003 RISC-V board, a 1960s World's Fair vision of tomorrow with Lil Chompy the alligator at the wheel of a flying car, handed out as a part-built solder kit and programmed in the conference Soldering Village. Security BSides Orlando's official GitHub organization published the design from August 4, 2026; its 2026-badge repository was not publicly reachable from September 25 and reappeared on September 29-30 with the KiCad source, the EasyEDA full-colour-silkscreen Gerbers as ordered from JLCPCB, the badge firmware, a v1.0.0 release dated September 26, and a README stating that its programmer SAOs flashed all of the attendees' badges in the Soldering Village at BSides Orlando. Three SK6812MINI-E RGB LEDs form the flying car's headlights and a fingerprint-scanner indicator, four self-blinking LEDs light the tower spire and geodesic sphere, two capacitive touch pads sit under the fingerprint and Lil Chompy's head, one AAA cell feeds a TPS61021A boost converter, and the SAO header doubles as an SAOv3 host and a 115200-baud serial console running the Lil Chompy and the World's Fair text-adventure CTF.

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DEF CON 34 · United States · 2026

Firefly Jar SAO (DEF CON 34)

Sold-out pre-event Lepi Labs SAOv3-proposal lighting Simple Add-On for DEF CON 34

Lepi Labs' own Uberflux listing identifies the Firefly Jar as a DEF CON 34-drop Simple Add-On. Its August 4, 2026 marketplace state is out of stock, with 25 sold, zero remaining, and a $25 listed price. The maker describes seven orange reverse-mounted LEDs, an ATtiny824 controller, UPDI reprogramming, vendor commands, and compatibility with Rare Circuit's proposed SAOv3 I2C-based interface. It says the SAO can expose vendor/product IDs, port and command metadata, generic LED controls, and its own lighting modes; the listing also explicitly says it does not support SAOv3 ARP or hot-plugging features. Lepi Labs' first-hand DC34 announcement corroborates planned Friday and Saturday BadgeLife Village drops. This is a source-backed pre-event independent lighting SAO, not proof of final host interoperability, full SAOv3 implementation, firmware release, delivery, DEF CON organizer affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.

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