GHP1989 Identity Pass
Dutch hacker-camp origin artifact
A conservative identity-pass record for the Galactic Hacker Party, the 1989 Amsterdam event that WHY2025 history identifies as the start of the Dutch hacker camp lineage.
History
Badge timeline
A chronological pass through the catalogue, from early Dutch photo badges and active RFID tags to reusable app-store badge platforms.
1989
1993
DEF CON 1 Name Tag
Official announcement and archive-photo documented pre-electronic name tag
A DEF CON 1 pre-electronic name-tag and paper-badge artifact documented by the official 1993 announcement, the official DEF CON I archive page, and the official DEF CON media-server badge photo.
HEU1993 Identity Badge
Hitchhiker-era Dutch camp artifact
A historical identity-badge record for Hacking at the End of the Universe, the 1993 Dutch camp remembered as a formative outdoor hacker gathering.
1994
DEF CON 2 Human Badge
Official-photo documented pre-electronic chest credential
A DEF CON 2 physical access/identity credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON II archive page, and official DEF CON media-server event photos from the Sahara Hotel and Casino.
1995
DEF CON 3 Human Badge
Official-photo documented pre-electronic waist credential
A DEF CON 3 physical access/identity credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON III archive page, and official DEF CON media-server event photos from the Tropicana Resort & Casino.
1996
DEF CON 4 Human Badge
Official-photo documented pre-electronic chest credential
A DEF CON 4 physical access/identity credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON IV archive page, and official DEF CON media-server event photos from the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino.
1997
DEF CON 5 Human Badge
Official-photo documented pre-electronic hanging credential
A DEF CON 5 physical access/identity credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON 5 archive page, and official DEF CON media-server event photos from the Aladdin Hotel & Casino.
HIP97 Photo Badge
Dutch camp on-site printed photo ID badge
A personalized black-and-white photo badge produced on site at Hacking in Progress 1997 using then-rare digital photography and field printing.
1998
DEF CON 6 Human Badge
Official-photo documented pre-electronic conference credential
A DEF CON 6 physical access/identity credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON 6 event page, and official DEF CON media-server photos from the Plaza Hotel & Casino.
1999
CCCamp 1999 Pass
Early Chaos Communication Camp identity artifact
A conservative identity-pass record for the first Chaos Communication Camp, before public sources document an official electronic camp badge.
2000
DEF CON 8 Human Badge
Official-photo documented pre-electronic lanyard credential
A DEF CON 8 physical lanyard credential documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official DEF CON 8 event page, and official DEF CON media-server event photos from Alexis Park.
2001
DEF CON 9 Human Badge
Official-photo documented pre-electronic lanyard badge
A DEF CON 9 physical lanyard badge documented by InfoconDB event metadata and official DEF CON media-server event photos from the Alexis Park conference.
HAL2001 Simple Badge
Early Dutch camp identity artifact
A conservative historical record for the simple identity-badge era around Hackers At Large 2001, where public badge histories do not describe a hackable electronic PCB badge.
2002
DEF CON 10 Human Badge
Pre-electronic physical badge with corner-hole lore
A DEF CON 10 physical badge artifact documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official program's note about the badge form factor, and official DEF CON media-server badge images.
2003
CCCamp 2003 Pass
Pre-Sputnik Chaos Communication Camp identity artifact
A source-conservative record for CCCamp 2003 as a pre-electronic-badge identity/pass artifact in the camp lineage.
DEF CON 11 Human Badge
Official archive photographed pre-electronic identity badge
A DEF CON 11 human badge documented by InfoconDB event metadata, the official program PDF, and official DEF CON media-server photos explicitly filed as DEF CON 11 badge images.
2004
DEF CON 12 Forum Badge
Unofficial forum identity badge
A community DEF CON 12 forum badge documented by the official forum thread as a printable avatar/nickname template, intended as an extra badge for forum members rather than the official attendee credential.
2005
DEF CON 13 Human Badge
Public-domain photographed pre-electronic identity badge
A DEF CON 13 human badge documented by a public-domain Wikimedia Commons original photo and an official pre-conference DEF CON forum note that the 2005 badges were ready before registration.
What The Hack 2005 Badge
Simple pre-electronic Dutch camp badge
A record for What The Hack 2005's simple camp identity-badge era, before the Dutch camp badge became an expected open-hardware device.
2006
DEF CON 14 Badge
First official DEF CON electronic badge
A Joe Grand-designed skull-shaped PCB badge for DEF CON 14, built around active electronics, open hackable circuitry, two blue LEDs, one button, seven soldermask role variants, and an official badge-hacking contest.
2007
DEF CON 15 Badge
95-LED scrolling-text badge with capacitive controls
A Joe Grand / Grand Idea Studio electronic badge for DEF CON 15, built around a Freescale MC9S08QG8, a 5-by-19 matrix of 95 LEDs, capacitive touch controls, customizable vertically scrolling text, persistence-of-vision behavior, and another official badge-hacking contest.
Sputnik / OpenBeacon
CCCamp 2007 active RFID badge
A small active 2.4 GHz RFID badge/tag used with OpenBeacon base stations for real-time camp tracking and post-camp hardware experiments.
2008
DEF CON 16 Badge
SD-card infrared file-transfer and TV-B-Gone badge
A DEF CON 16 electronic badge built as a hackable Freescale-based platform with SD-card storage, infrared file transfer, TV-B-Gone behavior, role-color variants, one-button state control, and published source, schematics, and development resources.
2009
DEF CON 17 Badge
Sound-reactive RGB badge with MC56F8006 DSP
A Joe Grand / Grand Idea Studio electronic badge for DEF CON 17, built around a Freescale MC56F8006 16-bit digital signal controller, an amplified MEMS microphone, an RGB LED, wired multi-badge communication, and a static serial bootloader.
HAR2009 Identity Badge
Bridge-era Dutch camp badge record
A bridge-era Dutch camp badge record for Hacking at Random 2009, kept separate from later open-hardware badge entries until primary badge details are recovered.
Ninja Networks DC17 Party Badge
Electronic party-invitation badge with published docs and firmware
Ninja Networks' 2009 DEF CON party invitation was an electronic badge built for DEF CON 17, documented by a primary DEF CON forum post plus a technical archive with Creative Commons Attribution schematic/Gerber docs, public-domain badge code, and a BOM.
2010
DEF CON 18 Badge
Lithographed aluminum e-paper-style badge
A DEF CON 18 electronic badge built as polished hackable jewelry: lithographed aluminum, a low-power 128x32 Kent Displays cholesteric display, USB connectivity, role variants, and published badge-making materials.
Easterhegg 2010 eHaserl
ATmega88 USB-bootloader rabbit badge
A source-backed record for the eHaserl, the Easterhegg 2010 surprise badge from the Munich Chaos Computer Club, with official assembly notes, flashing instructions, errata, and a badge talk.
2011
DEF CON 19 Badge
Titanium non-electronic puzzle badge
A Ryan Clarke / 1o57 DEF CON 19 badge that intentionally stepped away from electronics and used a waterjet-cut commercially pure titanium physical artifact as the event credential, puzzle surface, role marker, and social-interaction prompt.
Nuit du Hack 2011 Badge
French electronic conference badge
A source-backed French electronic attendee badge from Nuit du Hack 2011, preserved through an attendee report, badge photos, and linked reverse-engineering/programming tutorials.
TROOPERS11 Nixie Badge
Nixie-tube hacker conference badge
A source-backed early TROOPERS electronic badge built around a glowing nixie-tube digit, a programming station for badge scores, a Cat-5 LANyard switch, and hidden capacitive-touch and pad-field hack surfaces.
ToorCon 13 Spectrum Analyzer Badge
2.4 GHz RF spectrum-analyzer badge
The ToorCon 13 badge was an open-source 2.4 GHz RF spectrum-analyzer badge from Great Scott Gadgets, with 13 LEDs representing the 13 Wi-Fi channels and public Project Ubertooth hardware and firmware archives under the `tc13badge` code name.
r0ket
CCCamp 2011 electronic badge
A shiny electronic nametag and full-featured microcontroller development board that established the long-lived CCC Camp badge tradition rad1o later built on.
2012
DEF CON 20 Badge
Propeller multicore IR puzzle and development badge
A Ryan Clarke-designed DEF CON 20 electronic badge manufactured by Parallax around the Propeller P8X32A multicore processor, infrared badge-to-badge communication, eight LEDs, USB programming, many physical variants, and a crypto/social badge challenge.
RVAsec 2012 Badge
HackRVA MSP430 badge with Nokia LCD and source archive
The RVAsec 2012 badge is documented by HackRVA's public `rvasec-badge-2012` repository, which preserves Eagle board and schematic files, Gerbers, graphics, component datasheets, and release firmware for a badge built around an MSP430-class controller and Nokia 5110 / PCD8544 LCD behavior.
TiLDA
EMF 2012 radio-enabled badge
The first EMF electronic badge, designed around wireless communication, Arduino-style hacking, and camp game mechanics.
ToorCon 14 RfCat Badge
USB-controlled sub-1 GHz RF badge
The ToorCon 14 badge was an open-source sub-1 GHz wireless-transceiver badge from Great Scott Gadgets, controlled over USB from a computer and shipped with atlas's RfCat firmware plus CC Bootloader.
2013
CampZer0 2013 Identity Artifacts
Ticket, checksum, and infrastructure-price camp record
A conservative non-electronic CampZer0 2013 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document the zeroth H.A.C.K. camp at Fort Monostor, ticket registration, no required personal data, pre-event data destruction promise, certificate checksum verification, instructions to bring the ticket either on a device or printed, optional CAcert-assurance photo-ID context, and ticket-price infrastructure lore.
DEF CON 21 Badge
Non-electronic PCB playing-card puzzle badge
A Ryan Clarke-designed DEF CON 21 badge series built as poker-card printed circuit boards: non-powered identity artifacts whose copper, soldermask, silkscreen, inner-layer metal, role variants, and encoded face-card relationships formed a cryptographic and physical badge challenge.
H2HC 2013 Badge
LPC1343 ARM development badge
An open-source H2HC 2013 badge for the 10th Hackers to Hackers Conference in Brazil, built as a USB-enabled ARM Cortex-M3 development board based on the LPC1343 and intended as an experimental next-generation GoodFET platform.
Hackover 2013 Badge
ARM, 2.4 GHz, LCD, USB, and button badge
A source-backed Hackover 2013 badge record: the event blog described an assembled and flashed badge PCB for every attendee, with ARM processor, 2.4 GHz radio, 6.5 Kpx LCD, USB, and buttons.
Kiwicon 7 Badge
Official pickup-era identity badge
Kiwicon 7's official site documented badge assembly during conference week and tied the event credential to Friday early pickup before the November 9-10, 2013 Wellington conference.
OHM2013 Patch / Hat Identity
Dutch camp non-PCB identity artifact
A non-electronic identity-artifact entry for OHM2013, modeled as the camp's patch/hat style rather than as a programmable PCB badge.
RVAsec 2013 Badge
HackRVA electronic badge with LEDs, IR, audio, and USB
The RVAsec 2013 badge was a HackRVA-built electronic conference badge documented by official RVAsec and HackRVA sources, with LEDs, infrared badge-to-badge play, a piezo speaker, USB support, and badge-game behavior tied to conference interaction.
SiNE
EMW2013 LED and IR badge
A small Electromagnetic Wave badge with ATTiny44A, 20 location LEDs, IR receiver/transmitter, unique-ID beacon behavior, coin-cell power, and a ship-wide treasure hunt.
WAHCKon 2013 Standard Badge
Ticket-included Perth hacker-con identity badge
WAHCKon's official 2013 ticket page says the standard ticket included a WAHCKon 2013 badge, placing the Perth conference in the early Australian hacker-con badge record.
ZACon V Badge
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.
2014
CactusCon 2014 PCB Badge
HeatSync Labs solderable PCB badge
The CactusCon 2014 PCB badge is preserved through Eric / Robot Ambassador's first-hand writeup, which describes 300 event badges designed by Erik Wilson, given away at the HeatSync Labs booth, and assembled by attendees with LEDs, resistors, batteries, and acrylic hardware.
DEF CON 22 Badge
Propeller 1 infrared puzzle and contest badge
A Parallax-built official DEF CON badge for DEF CON 22, based on the Propeller 1, infrared transmit/receive hardware, touch-pad buttons, LEDs, full USB programming, exposed I/O, and thirteen attendee-role styles.
HOPE X Badge
Issued physical badge for the tenth HOPE
The HOPE X Badge was the physical badge issued at the tenth Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York City, preserved here through a real CC0 Wikimedia Commons attendee/uploader photograph of the event badge.
Nuit du Hack 2014 Collector Badge
Assemble-and-hack Black Badge challenge
A limited collector badge and hardware-hacking challenge from Nuit du Hack 2014, with public challenge rules, writeups, and a Virtualabs repository.
Nullcon Goa 2014 Hardware Badge
Indian hardware-hacking conference badge
A conservative Nullcon Goa 2014 hardware-badge record tied to the official Nullcon Hardware Badge 101 (Desi Jugaad) talk, which covered electronics, microcontrollers, LEDs, the design of the 2014 hardware badge, what could be done with it, and production problems.
RVAs3c 2014 Badge
PIC32 badge with LCD, IR, capacitive sliders, and public firmware
The RVAs3c 2014 badge was a redesigned HackRVA electronic badge whose official preview and public firmware source document a PIC32-based platform with LCD, infrared, capacitive sliders, LEDs, speaker, micro USB, and game/application code.
SAINTCON 2014 Arduino-Compatible Badge
Arduino-clone badge with FTDI header, blinky expansion board, and hidden challenges
The SAINTCON 2014 badge was an Arduino-compatible conference badge designed for attendee soldering and badge hacking, with FTDI programming, LED blinky behavior, a companion blinky expansion board, and hidden Hacker Challenge secrets documented in first-hand and Hackaday coverage.
TiLDA MKe
EMF 2014 schedule and radio badge
An EMF badge built around camp schedules, radio base-station updates, online registration, alerts, torch mode, and practical utilities.
2015
AVTOKYO 2015 Electrical Badge
Japanese ATmega328P LED attendee badge
AVTOKYO's official 2015 badge page says the conference made an electrical badge for attendees, with an AT-MEGA328P-PU, eight 5mm LEDs, two push buttons, 16 MHz crystal, resistors, capacitors, IC socket, coin-cell holder and battery, public KiCad PCB design, and public Arduino program.
BSidesPDX 2015 Badger Badge
ESP8266 Badger hacking board
The BSidesPDX 2015 Badger badge is a conservative source-backed badge-hacking board record tied to the official Electronic Taxidermy: Badger Hacking workshop and the public PDX Badgers 2015 PCB and firmware repositories.
Camp++ 2015 Identity Artifacts
Ticket, certificate checksum, and CAcert ID context
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2015 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document the third annual outdoor geekery as the camp before the camp, with ticket registration, no required personal data, end-of-event data destruction, certificate checksum verification, bring-your-ticket arrival guidance, and state-issued photo ID only for optional CAcert assurance.
DEF CON 23 Badge
Playable vinyl-record noir puzzle badge
A Ryan Clarke / 1o57-designed DEF CON 23 badge issued as an actual playable 7-inch vinyl record, with role-colored editions, printed mystery alphabets, inner-groove markings, lanyard ciphers, record audio, and a noir-themed badge challenge.
Kiwicon 9 Badge and Lanyard
Cyberwar is Hell visible venue credential
Kiwicon 9's official site told attendees to wear their badge visibly while in the venue and documented early pickup before the December 10-11, 2015 Wellington conference.
LayerOne 2015 Dual Electronic Badges
PSoC4 blinky badge and VoCore OpenWRT network badge
LayerOne 2015's badge effort produced two electronic badge designs documented by the official Hardware Hacking Village archive and CharlieX's Hackaday.io project: a battery-powered PSoC4, ESP8266, and WS2812B blinky badge plus a VoCore/RT5350F OpenWRT network badge with Wi-Fi and dual Ethernet intent.
NorthSec 2015 Team Hardware Badge
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.
Nuit du Hack 2015 Electronic Badge
Electrolab Arduino Micro-compatible kit
A limited NDH2K15 electronic collector badge kit sold through the official Nuit du Hack store, described as Arduino Micro-compatible, USB-compatible, easy to program or hack, and developed by Electrolab.
RV4sec 2015 Badge
Hand-built HackRVA PCB badge with IR, LCD, audio, and USB
The RV4sec 2015 badge is documented by HackRVA's official build post as a hand-built electronic badge with custom PCB assembly, surface-mount components, IR, audio, micro USB, LCD, and an optional reset-header development path.
Ruxcon 2015 HHV Badge
STM32 Hardware Hacking Village badge
Ruxcon 2015's Hardware Hacking Village badge is preserved here as an Australian STM32 badge with public KiCad/Gerber files, schematic material, firmware examples, SMD assembly instructions, CR2032 power, and SWD/OpenOCD programming notes.
SAINTCON 2015 Wi-Fi Show Badge
Cisco CMX-linked attendee badge with LCD, buttons, schedule, and challenge score
The SAINTCON 2015 badge was a purpose-built Wi-Fi enabled attendee show badge described by Cisco as a conference-scale experiment: roughly 550 participants carried LCD-and-button badges that used Wi-Fi location data for zone awareness, schedule lookup, and live Hacker Challenge score display.
rad1o
CCCamp 2015 SDR badge
A HackRF-inspired software-defined radio badge that let campers receive, transmit, inspect spectrum, flash evolving firmware, solder RF add-ons, and keep hacking long after camp.
2016
44CON 2016 HIDIOT 0.7 Badge
Unreleased USB HID prototype board
The 44CON 2016 badge was the unreleased HIDIOT 0.7 board, a USB Human Interface Device Input/Output Toolkit prototype that attendees could build, program through the Arduino IDE as a Digispark-compatible device, and use for HID payload experiments.
AND!XOR DC24 Bender Badge
Unofficial DEF CON 24 STM32 and RFM69 badgelife badge
The AND!XOR DC24 Bender Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 24 badgelife badge with a Bender-shaped PCB, STM32F103 controller, OLED screen, RGB LEDs, RFM69W 433 MHz radio, USB serial terminal behavior, games, GPIO breakouts, and a public post-event hardware/software archive.
BSides Canberra 2016 Arduino Running-Order Badge
Home-made Arduino badge with conference schedule display
BSides Canberra 2016 is represented by official event context and a contemporary Register report saying delegates received a home-made Arduino badge that displayed the conference running order.
BSides Cape Town 2016 Badge
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.
BSidesPDX 2016 ATTiny85 Badge
ATTiny85 capacitive LED PCB badge
The BSidesPDX 2016 badge is a source-backed Portland Security BSides PCB badge record tied to Calagator's event listing, official BSidesPDX 2016 schedule and speaker pages, and the public PDX Badgers ATTiny85 Eagle board, schematic, BOM, and Arduino firmware archive.
BalCCon 2016 Badge
PIC badge with IR sync, TV-B-Gone, and password manager
BalCCon's first official badge combined synchronized LED patterns, IR badge-to-badge recognition, a TV-B-Gone mode, and a USB HID password manager.
BornHack 2016 Badge
Initial Commit soldering-kit badge
A hacker-friendly solder-it-yourself badge kit combining a nametag, flashlight, Joule Thief circuit, AA battery, and prototyping area.
Camp++ 2016 Identity Artifacts
Ticket, certificate checksum, and CAcert ID context
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2016 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document ticket registration, no required personal data, end-of-event ticketing-data destruction, certificate checksum verification, bring-your-ticket arrival guidance, and state-issued photo ID only for optional CAcert assurance.
CarolinaCon 12 Electronic Kit Badge
555-timer light-reactive soldering badge kit
CarolinaCon 12 included an easy-to-assemble electronic kit badge in the price of admission, with a 555 timer, LED, photoresistor, resistors, capacitor, AAA battery holder, wire, protoboard space, and Hardware Hacking Village support.
DEF CON 24 Badge
Electronic skull badge with Konami and serial puzzle paths
A Ryan Clarke / 1o57 DEF CON 24 electronic skull badge with a mini processor, buttons, LED eyes, printed codes, hidden-trace/silkscreen text, serial strings, lanyard data, conference-media files, and a badge challenge that used the Konami Code as an early visible hook.
Fri3d 2016 Badge
Arduino-compatible AVR camp badge with IR play
A custom Fri3d Camp badge derived from Arduino Micro-era hardware, designed for roughly 300 attendees as both a beginner-friendly badge and a reusable Arduino development board.
Hackaday Belgrade 2016 Badge
PIC badge with LED matrix, IR, and open firmware
A slim open-hardware conference badge designed around a red 8x16 LED matrix, PIC18LF25K50, IR send/receive, USB bootloader, tactile controls, and attendee-written demos.
Hackaday Supercon 2016 LED Matrix Badge
PIC18 LED-matrix badge with IR and accelerometer
The 2016 Hackaday Superconference badge, also documented as the Supercon II badge, was a Voja Antonic-designed open hardware badge with a red 8x16 LED matrix, PIC18LF25K50/PIC18F25K50-class MCU, integral LIS3 accelerometer, infrared communication, USB bootloader, five tactile controls, and expansion pads.
HaxoGreen 2016 Identity Artifacts
Wristband, ticket, hackerpassport stamp, and goodie-bag record
A conservative non-electronic HaxoGreen 2016 identity record: the public wiki documents required camp wristbands, infodesk pickup, hackerpassport stamps, tickets, and arrival goodie bags with T-shirts.
Kiwicon X Badge and Lanyard
Michael Fowler Centre visible identity credential
Kiwicon X's official site required attendees to wear a Kiwicon X badge and lanyard visibly in the venue and tied that credential to the Michael Fowler Centre pickup workflow.
LCA2016 ESPlant
ESP8266 environmental-sensor board for the linux.conf.au Open Hardware Miniconf
linux.conf.au 2016's Open Hardware / Arduino Miniconf produced ESPlant, an ESP8266 WiFi environmental-sensor board with solar-friendly power, onboard sensors, optional external sensors, Arduino firmware, and public hardware files.
LayerOne 2016 Conference Badge
PSoC4 and ESP8266 badge with 20 WS2812B LEDs
LayerOne 2016's electronic conference badge returned to the PSoC4, ESP8266, and WS2812B platform as a single LED badge with Wi-Fi working before the event, a mini prototyping area, exposed rails and I/O, and public build logs from CharlieX.
NorthSec 2016 Badge
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.
RVA5sec 2016 Badge
Hand-built badge with USB reflashing and CTF challenge hooks
The RVA5sec 2016 badge is documented by HackRVA's official interview as a hand-built custom-firmware electronic badge with reused/improved hardware, standard USB reflashing, low-frequency serial-transmission experimentation, and CTF challenge hooks.
Ruxcon 2016 HHV Badge
STM32F030 IR Hardware Hacking Village badge
Ruxcon 2016's Hardware Hacking Village badge is preserved as an Australian STM32F030K6T6 badge with IR receiver/emitter hardware, eight LEDs, dual CR2032 holders, assembly documentation, and a public firmware archive.
SAINTCON 2016 ESP8266 LED Badge
D1 Mini ESP8266 badge kit with MAX7219 LED display and Hackers Challenge registration
The SAINTCON 2016 badge was an electronic kit badge built around a D1 Mini ESP8266 development board, MAX7219 LED driver, and two 4-digit LED modules, with public assembly, flashing, and Hackers Challenge registration documentation.
TiLDA MK3
EMF 2016 MicroPython badge
An EMF badge with color LCD, WiFi, sensors, MicroPython, app library, and USB hacking workflow.
X-CTF 2016 Badge
Singapore ESP8266 CTF badge
NUS Greyhats' X-CTF 2016 finals used a custom ESP8266 electronic badge documented by the official event page, the badge designer's hardware and firmware writeups, and public hardware and firmware repositories.
2017
44CON 2017 HIDIOT 1.0 Badge
Raw Hex USB HID hardware badge
The 44CON 2017 brochure documents the conference badge as a Raw Hex HIDIOT 1.0 44CON edition, a build-it-yourself USB HID board programmed through the Arduino IDE and supported by HIDIOT documentation, assembly help, and a Hackster project competition.
AND!XOR DC25 Badge
Unofficial DEF CON 25 nRF52 BLE badge with BOTNET game
The AND!XOR DC25 Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 25 badgelife board built around a Rigado BMD-300 / Nordic nRF52 module, color TFT, WS2812B LEDs, sensors, microSD, BLE smartphone integration, TCLish scripting, BYOB bling, CHIP8/SCHIP games, and a badge-to-badge BOTNET game.
AfricaHackOn 2017 Badge
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.
BSides Cape Town 2017 RFCat Badge
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.
BSides Perth 2017 Wemos Badge
Wemos D1 Mini acrylic badge with OLED and RGB shields
BSides Perth's official 2017 badge blog records a Wemos D1 Mini conference badge with OLED shield, RGB shield, switched AA battery holder, laser-cut and etched acrylic base, Arduino IDE code, and a public GitHub repository.
BSidesPDX 2017 BMD-300 Badge
Nordic BLE badge and Ox-Vox add-on target
The BSidesPDX 2017 badge is a source-backed Portland Security BSides badge archive tied to the official schedule's badge context, Rob Rehrig's Ox-Vox add-on talk, and the public PDX Badgers Eagle board, schematic, and BOM repository for a BMD-300/OLED/CR2032 design.
BornHack 2017 Badge
Happy Gecko OLED programming badge
BornHack's first deeply programmable badge used a Silicon Labs Happy Gecko MCU, OLED display, buttons, USB, and an example-heavy firmware repository.
CactusCon 2017 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Scanner Badge
Soldered WemOS scanner badge
The CactusCon 2017 badge is preserved through a first-hand attendee writeup that describes paying for the badge package, soldering and troubleshooting the board at the Phoenix-area event, and using it as a tiny Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanner.
Camp++ 2017 Identity Artifacts
Ticket and certificate checksum camp record
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2017 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document ticket registration, no required personal data, end-of-event ticketing-data destruction, certificate checksum verification, and instructions to bring the ticket to Fort Monostor.
CrikeyCon 2017 Identity and Speaker Badge
Brisbane pre-registration credential with CFP speaker-badge evidence
CrikeyCon 2017 is represented by official archive evidence for Friday pre-registration badge collection plus CFP evidence that accepted presenters, trainers, and event holders received a special speaker badge.
CypherCon 2017 Cube Badge
TYMKRS cubic mesh-network puzzle badge
The CypherCon 2.0 Cube was a three-dimensional electronic badge by TYMKRS, assembled from cube-edge PCBs with LEDs, microprocessors, buses, USB, battery charging, mesh-network behavior, text-adventure firmware, and a badge-to-badge programming premise.
DC503 Wagon Party Badge
nRF52832 BLE OLED wagon-game badge
The DC503 Wagon Party badge is a source-backed party badge documented by the no-visible-license `pdxbadgers/wagonparty` repository, whose README calls the target a badge and whose firmware advertises a `503WAGON` BLE device with OLED game modes.
DEF CON 25 Badge
Rubber identity badge in a badgelife breakout year
A DEF CON 25 official admission badge recorded in DEF CON feedback as a rubber or plastic identity badge, not an electronic puzzle board, paired historically with an unusually large wave of unofficial DEF CON 25 hardware badges and badge-maker coordination.
DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge
Special lifetime-access electronic award badge
The DerbyCon 7.0 Legacy Black Badge was a special electronic black-badge award artifact made for DerbyCon 2017, using an Atmel XMEGA core, a large LED-heavy PCB, laser-cut acrylic, custom STL work, and first-hand published build notes.
GPN17 Badge
ESP8266 GulaschPushNotifier badge
An Entropia-produced Gulaschprogrammiernacht 17 badge built around ESP8266, a 128x128 LCD, 18650 power, sensors, WS2813 LEDs, IR, a ROM store, and Hack-the-Badge camp challenges.
H2HC 2017 Badge
ATTiny85 USB HID injector badge
A small H2HC 2017 badge built around an ATTiny85 USB-stick module for USB HID keyboard-injector experiments, Micronucleus bootloader flashing, and Arduino IDE workshop-style payload development.
HITCON CMT 2017 MediaTek Badge
MediaTek electronic badge with Wi-Fi, BLE, IR, joystick, and LED display
HITCON CMT 2017's official event page documents the HITCON Badge Challenges activity and an electronic badge powered by a MediaTek chipset, with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, game-controller/joystick, infrared, and LED display features. The official ticketing page ties the limited deluxe electronic badge to the Premium Pass, and the events page says additional badges would be released for conference-day purchase.
Hackaday Supercon 2017 Camera Badge
PIC32 camera badge with OLED and MicroSD
The 2017 Hackaday Superconference badge was an official Mike Harrison camera badge with a PIC32MX170F256D, OV9650 camera module, 128x128 color OLED, MicroSD storage, accelerometer, buttons, bootloader, white LED illuminator, prototyping area, and expansion header.
LCA2017 IoTuz ESP32 Board
linux.conf.au Open Hardware Miniconf ESP32 badge board
linux.conf.au 2017's Open Hardware Miniconf centered on IoTuz, an ESP32-based custom board documented by the official schedule, CCHS Melbourne hardware and firmware repositories, workshop setup notes, and attendee driver work.
LayerOne 2017 CAN Bus Badge
STM32F4 badge for CAN bus and vehicle-hacking experiments
LayerOne 2017's electronic badge was a CAN-bus-focused STM32F4 conference badge with a TFT display, storage, USB device and host behavior, external CAN headers, audio output, rechargeable battery planning, PC-side CAN tooling, and J2534-adjacent software work.
NodeConf EU 2017 Badge
JavaScript hackable BLE badge
An open-source hackable JavaScript badge for NodeConf EU 2017 in Kilkenny, built by NearForm around Gordon Williams' Espruino/Puck.js lineage with BLE, LCD, NFC, buttons, CR2032 power, attendee-name programming, code examples, and challenge behavior.
NorthSec 2017 Badge
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.
ROOTCON 11 Electronic Badge
Philippine official electronic badge sponsor-placement record
ROOTCON's official archive places ROOTCON 11 at Taal Vista Hotel in Tagaytay on September 21-22, 2017, and the official partnership kit sells logo placement on the official ROOTCON 11 electronic badge.
RVAsec 2017 Badge
HackRVA badge artifact with badge-intro and CTF-room context
The RVAsec 2017 badge record is intentionally conservative: official RVAsec sources place HackRVA badge distribution in the 2017 layout and sponsor trail, and InfoconDB preserves a Badge Intro item, but this pass did not recover final component, firmware, schematic, or complete attendee-guide evidence.
Recon Village DC25 The Original Badge
First Recon Village spy-silhouette badge
Recon Village's first Badge Life entry was The Original, a DEF CON 25 electronic badge with the village's spy-silhouette design, die-cut shape, hardwear.io lanyard, and foundation-of-tradition framing.
Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
ESP8266 NodeMCU Hardware Hacking Village challenge badge
Ruxcon 2017's Hardware Hacking Village badge is preserved as an Australian ESP8266/NodeMCU challenge badge with official HHV schedule evidence, public firmware source, and post-event flag walkthroughs.
SAINTCON 2017 Raspberry Pi Badge
Raspberry Pi Zero W badge with TFT, SNES-style buttons, MiniBadges, and Hacker Challenge registration
The SAINTCON 2017 badge was an electronic conference badge built around a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a custom SAINTCON board with a 2.8-inch TFT display, SNES-style buttons, battery power, MiniBadge expansion, Hacker Challenge registration, and a post-conference RetroPie conversion path.
SHA2017 Badge
Dutch camp Badge.Team milestone
A Badge.Team-supported Dutch camp badge with ESP32, e-paper, WiFi, Hatchery apps, WebUSB install paths, production lore, and a lasting role in European badge culture.
THOTCON 0x8 Badge
ATmega32u4 tesserHack maze badge
The THOTCON 0x8 badge was a Chicago electronic conference badge built around an ATmega32u4, four RGB NeoPixel LEDs, three potentiometers, micro USB, two CR2032 coin-cell holders, and tesserHack stock firmware for an 8x8x8 maze game.
ZeTeCo 2017 Badge
Swiss camp neck-worn PCB badge
A conservative record for the ZeTeCo 2017 camp badge, seeded from the dedicated media.ccc.de badge talk and the archived camp wiki.
r2con 2017 Friends Badge
Limited electronic badge for r2con speakers and friends
A limited electronic badge made for r2con 2017 speakers and friends in Barcelona, documented by the official badge-manufacturing talk and first-hand reporting that says it showed project-status information such as build state, last commit, and GitHub stars.
2018
35C3 Labitat Indie Badge
Unofficial SR-latch PCB badge for Labitat
An unofficial Labitat indie badge for 35C3 using the congress artwork theme, a simple flip-flop memory circuit, reverse-mount LEDs, a two-AA battery holder, and an optional power-only Shitty Add-On footprint.
AND!XOR DC26 Badge
Unofficial DEF CON 26 ESP32-WROVER Wild West of IoT badge
The AND!XOR DC26 Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 26 badgelife board themed as the Wild West of IoT, built around an ESP32-WROVER module with WiFi/Bluetooth, a color LCD, microSD, IS31FL3736-driven RGB lighting, CP2102N USB serial, LULZCODE scripting, the B.E.N.D.E.R. console challenge, and badge-to-badge networking ambitions.
AfricaHackOn 2018 Electronic Badge
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.
Area41 2018 Proteus Badge
ESP8266 WiFi badge running the Proteus firmware ecosystem
A Swiss Area41 2018 conference badge with an ESP8266 WiFi chip, display, web-based name configuration, LCD nickname display, Area41 schedule app, WiFi-scanning behavior, button-order Easter eggs, and public Proteus firmware.
BSides Canberra 2018 BUSSide Badge
NodeMCU-based electronic badge and hardware-interface tool
The BUSSide was the BSides Canberra 2018 electronic badge, issued to 2,000 delegates and documented through official BUSSide pages, CSides talk notes, GitHub Pages documentation, and a public source repository.
BSides Orlando 2018 Discrete Marquee Badge
Attendee kit badge by Jonathan Singer
The BSides Orlando 2018 badge is preserved as a simple discrete marquee badge given to attendees as a kit, documented by Jonathan Singer's Hackaday.io project record and anchored to the official Security B-Sides Orlando 2018 event site.
BSides Perth 2018 NodeMCU Badge
Handmade NodeMCU ESP8266 WiFi badge with badge-hack contest context
Contemporary Australian Cyber Security Magazine coverage documents BSides Perth 2018 attendees receiving a cool, unique handmade conference badge using a NodeMCU ESP8266 WiFi SoC, with a badge-hack prize promoted before the event.
BSides Tampa 2018 Badge
Tampa Bay BSides badge/lanyard artifact with electronic assembly context
BSides Tampa 2018 is represented here by a visible event badge/lanyard artifact in a CC BY-SA documentary photo, paired with an attendee report that says more than 750 attendees participated in Electronic Badge Assembly among the event activities.
BSidesPDX 2018 ATTiny861 Badge
ATTiny861 LED and SAO badge archive
The BSidesPDX 2018 badge is a source-backed Portland Security BSides badge archive tied to the official BSidesPDX 101 badge panel and the public PDX Badgers KiCad, BOM, LED mapping, and ATTiny861 firmware archive.
BornHack 2018 Badge
Happy Gecko plus Bluetooth badge
A Happy Gecko-based BornHack badge that added a Nordic nRF51 Bluetooth-capable microcontroller and a breakout-board branch for hardware add-ons.
BruCON 0x0A Badge
10th-edition electronic badge
BruCON's 10th-edition electronic badge, documented as a schedule, venue-map, reminder, alcohol-sensor, and public ESP-IDF/KiCad badge project.
CHCon 2018 Identity Badge and Badge Challenge
Christchurch identity tag with source-backed badge-challenge context
CHCon 2018's official site documents identification tags/badges as part of the event materials and says CTF, badge, and locksport challenges would run throughout the main event.
CactusCon 2018 Paid Badge
Ticketed paid-badge registration artifact
CactusCon 2018 is seeded as a conservative paid-badge record because contemporaneous Arizona LoCo Team meeting notes say the September 28-29 Mesa Convention Center event required tickets, offered free admission, and let attendees pay to get a badge.
Camp++ 2018 Identity Artifacts
Ticket and certificate checksum camp record
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2018 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document ticket registration, no required personal data, end-of-event ticketing-data destruction, certificate checksum verification, and instructions to bring the ticket to Fort Monostor.
CrikeyCon V 2018 Identity and Speaker Badge
Brisbane pre-registration credential with special speaker-badge evidence
CrikeyCon V is represented by official archive evidence for Friday pre-registration badge collection plus call-for-participation benefits that promised special speaker badges to presenters, trainers, and event or workshop holders.
DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet
Bluetooth LE wrist party badge
The DC503 DEF CON 26 VIP Banglet is a source-backed wrist-worn party badge documented by the Apache-2.0 `pdxbadgers/2018-banglet` repository and by BSidesPDX 2018's public Making of the Banglet talk listing.
DEF CON 26 Badge
Tymkrs electronic text-adventure badge
A Tymkrs / Toymakers official DEF CON 26 electronic badge with a PIC32MM0256GPM controller, reverse-mounted LEDs, capacitive controls, four-AA battery stack, USB serial interface, badge-to-badge connector, add-on header, and a retro text-adventure badge challenge.
Fri3d 2018 Ph0xx
ESP32 fox badge with jewels and robot paths
A fox-shaped ESP32 badge with 5x7 LED eye matrices, touch pads, buzzer, 18650 power, Lego Technic mounting holes, and jewel add-ons.
H2HC 2018 Badge
Bottle-shaped ESP32 BLE and OLED badge
A small-batch H2HC 2018 bottle-shaped PCB badge with an ESP32 WROOM, I2C OLED display, six controllable LEDs, BLE behavior, AAA or USB power, and Arduino IDE source-code notes.
HITBSecConf2018 Amsterdam Badge
Qihoo360 Unicorn Team electronic badge with Badge Village games
An official HITB Amsterdam electronic badge record for registered conference attendees, with public CommSec Village evidence for Qihoo360 Unicorn Team design, Badge Village hacking support, packet-decoding play, mini-games, hidden challenges, and hardware specs.
HITBSecConf2018 Dubai Badge
Special-edition electronic badge with Badge Village hacking path
A conservative record for the special-edition electronic badge given to HITBSecConf2018 Dubai attendees, documented by the official event archive as a hackable badge with Badge Village support.
HITCON CMT 2018 HITCON Wallet Badge
Blockchain wallet badge with secure element, e-paper, Wi-Fi, and BLE
HITCON CMT 2018's official events page documents HITCON Wallet as a limited blockchain electronic badge for Royal VIP and Premium Pass holders, with secure-element cold-wallet functionality, electronic paper, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Low Energy. The same official page says holders could join a secret activity during the conference and later use the device as an offline physical wallet for Bitcoin or Ethereum.
Hackaday Belgrade 2018 Badge
Retro-computing BASIC and CP/M badge
A battery-powered retro-computing badge with 55-key keyboard, 320x240 RGB TFT LCD, PIC32MX370F512H, external flash, speaker, BASIC interpreter, CP/M/Z80 emulation, and expansion-header hacking.
Hackaday Supercon 2018 Retrocomputer Badge
BASIC and CP/M handheld computer badge
The 2018 Hackaday Superconference badge was a battery-powered handheld retrocomputer with a 320x240 color display, mini QWERTY keyboard, speaker, flash storage, expansion header, BASIC interpreter, and Z80 CP/M emulator.
Hacktivity 2018 Badge
USB-serial hardware-hacking CTF badge
A Hacktivity conference badge with USB mini connectivity, FT232R/FT232RL USB UART discovery, a cross-platform 9600 baud serial workflow, boot-time CTF app, UART jumper path to a root shell, and optional RF-module soldering notes.
HaxoGreen 2018 Wristband and Pass
Non-electronic camp wristband identity record
A conservative non-electronic HaxoGreen 2018 identity record: the official FAQ documents required camp wristbands and infodesk pickup, while the event blog anchors the 2018 camp edition and ticket sale.
IHC 2018 1337 3310 WiFi
Nokia-3310-inspired ESP32 badge
An Italian Hacker Camp badge built around recycled Nokia 3310 shells, ESP32 WiFi hardware, an LCD, keypad, accelerometer, compass, buzzer, NeoPixels, and MicroPython.
JD-HITBSecConf2018 Beijing Badge
Special-edition HITB2018PEK badge with MTK-series hardware notes
A conservative official-archive record for the special-edition HITB2018PEK badge at JD-HITBSecConf2018 Beijing, with Badge Village evidence for secret features, mini-games, hidden challenges, open-source intent, and MTK-series hardware notes.
Kiwicon 2038 Badge and Lanyard
Official identity badge and afterparty credential
Kiwicon 2038's official site required attendees to wear a Kiwicon2038 badge and lanyard visibly during the conference and to bring the badge to the afterparty.
Kiwicon 2038 Intro to Badge Hacking Training Badge
One-day soldering and Arduino conference-badge workshop artifact
Kiwicon 2038's official Intro to Badge Hacking training page documents a one-day workshop where attendees built and hacked their own conference badge from supplied electrical components and tools.
LCA2018 LoliBot
ESP32 soccer-robot kit for the linux.conf.au Open Hardware Miniconf
linux.conf.au 2018's Open Hardware Miniconf used LoliBot, an ESP32 two-wheel robot kit with MicroPython workshop material, public example software, USB serial setup, WiFi/MQTT configuration, sensors, motors, neopixels, and a front kicker servo.
LayerOne 2018 ESP32 Alexa Badge
ESP32-WROOM-32 audio badge with Alexa experiment path
LayerOne 2018's electronic badge was an ESP32-WROOM-32-based audio and network badge documented by the official HHV archive, Hackaday's event report, the linked CharlieX ESP32_Alexa repository, and mmca's public hardware notes.
NodeConf EU 2018 Badge
Pixl.js JavaScript badge with RGB, sensors, and expansion headers
An Apache-2.0 archived NearForm badge for NodeConf EU 2018 in Kilkenny, based on Pixl.js and Espruino with LCD, Bluetooth programming, RGB lighting, vibration motors, light, accelerometer and magnetometer APIs, extension headers, apps, patterns, and attendee name tooling.
NorthSec 2018 Badge
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.
Nullcon Goa 2018 Conference Badge
Indian conference identity badge with official sponsor and lanyard trail
A conservative Nullcon Goa 2018 badge record from official archive pages documenting March 2-3, 2018 conference registration, Holiday Inn Resort Goa venue context, a dedicated Badge Sponsor, a Lanyard Sponsor, and volunteer instructions requiring the badge to be clearly visible.
OzSecCon 2018 Speaker Badge
Australian physical-security conference speaker credential
A first-hand MOS & BOO wrap-up documents special speaker badges for OzSecCon 2018 and shows one as a green PCB-form speaker credential, so the record is seeded as a source-backed speaker badge without broader attendee or electronics claims.
Purplecon 2018 Glow Star Badge
Official lanyard and glow-in-the-dark star identity badge
Purplecon's official 2018 diary says attendees received a lanyard with the official purplecon badge, a glow-in-the-dark star, when entering the Kiwicon-adjacent Wellington event.
ROOTCON 12 Electronic Badge
Philippine official badge and maker-post electronic-badge record
ROOTCON's official archive places ROOTCON 12 at Taal Vista Hotel in Tagaytay on September 27-28, 2018, the official quick guide says registration included an official ROOTCON badge, and Jay Turla / @shipcod3 preserves a public maker post titled ROOTCON 12 Electronic Badge.
RVAsec 2018 Badge
HackRVA electronic badge with games, puzzles, and two-channel audio
HackRVA's 2018 recap and badge wiki document more than 300 RVAsec electronic hardware badges with badge games, puzzles, two-channel audio behavior, challenge content, and badge-hacking competition context.
Recon Village DC26 The Dual Design Badge
Spy and skull Recon Village badge variants
Recon Village's DEF CON 26 badge entry, The Dual Design, used two official visual variants: a classic spy silhouette and a detailed skull design in a black-and-white aesthetic.
SAINTCON 2018 ESP32 Badge
ESP32 MicroPython badge with 8x32 LED matrix and twelve minibadge spots
The SAINTCON 2018 ESP32 Badge was an electronic conference badge built around a LOLIN D32 / ESP32 module running MicroPython, an 8x32 LED matrix, three buttons, a rechargeable battery, Wi-Fi configuration behavior, Hacker Challenge score display, and twelve minibadge spots.
Security Fest 2018 Challenge Badge
USB HID and serial puzzle badge
A simple Security Fest 2018 challenge badge with USB-A, two buttons, four DIP switches, red/green LEDs, HID text output, serial puzzle flow, and an open SecBadge hardware repository.
ShmooCon 2018 WiFi Rocket Badge
Battery-powered WiFi signal-strength badge
The ShmooCon XIV badge is preserved here as a battery-powered WiFi signal-strength meter from the 2018 Washington, DC conference, with corroborating public notes for an ESP8266 core, serially addressable LEDs, and an injection-molded rocket enclosure.
SteelCon 2018 Floppy Disk Badge
Retro-gaming attendee object badge
A non-electronic SteelCon attendee badge where floppy disks were used as the badge object for a year with a retro gaming area and orange shirts.
TiLDA MK4
EMF 2018 phone-like MicroPython badge
An EMF badge with MicroPython, WiFi, GSM/SMS/calling, screen, sensors, keypad, Grove connectors, and a badge store.
ToorCamp 2018 Badge
MSP430 electronic jar-of-fireflies camp badge
ToorCamp 2018's badge is preserved as a Great Scott Gadgets and OSH Park sponsored electronic jar of fireflies: a soldering-station badge kit built around an MSP430G2211, six green through-hole LEDs, CR2032 power, and open design/firmware files.
ToorCon 20 Official Badge
SMD Challenge and 8-bit art badge
The ToorCon San Diego 20 badge is preserved here as a 400-kit official-badge request that folded MakersBox's SMD Challenge into a larger 8-bit-art conference badge with hidden codes, eight SMD LEDs, and an ATtiny84.
2019
AND!XOR DC27 Badge
Unofficial DEF CON 27 nRF52840 hardware-hacking badge
The AND!XOR DC27 Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 27 badgelife board built around a Rigado BMD-340 / Nordic nRF52840 core with an IS31FL3741 LED matrix, light pipes, glow-in-the-dark capacitive touch, USB-C, FT2232H hardware-hacking bridge, SWD/Tag-Connect programming paths, SAO 1.69bis support, BOTNET mesh behavior, and B.E.N.D.E.R. v2.0 challenges.
ARAMCON 2019 Badge
nRF52840 e-paper smart badge with audio, NeoPixels, and SAO
A source-backed ARAMCON 2019 smart badge record for an nRF52840 conference badge with a 2.9-inch e-paper display, accelerometer, flash, MP3/WMA audio codec, Cherry MX keys, NeoPixels, SAO connector, CircuitPython support, and public KiCad hardware files.
AVTOKYO 2019 Cocktail Blinky Badge
Japanese cocktail-glass soldering-village PCB badge
AVTOKYO 2019's hardware soldering village used a cocktail-glass-shaped blinky PCB badge designed around AVTOKYO's no drink, no hack motto, transparent non-masked PCB areas, RGB flashing LEDs, reverse-mounted LED experimentation, CR2032 coin-cell power, and beginner soldering participation.
BSides Canberra 2019 Nopia 1337 Badge
Australian electronic badge firmware and Hardware Hacking Village record
BSides Canberra 2019 is preserved as a source-backed electronic-badge record because the official ticketing page included an electronic badge, the Hardware Hacking Village page offered badge firmware reflashing and direct discussion with hardware badge makers, and the later official speaker export names the 2019 firmware line as Nopia 1337.
BSides Cape Town 2019 Badge
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.
BSides Las Vegas 2019 Participant Badge
Capacity-managed admission badge for BSidesLV
BSides Las Vegas 2019 is represented here by its official participant/admission badge system: badges were required for entry, walk-in badges were no longer available, and attendees secured badges through room-block, donor, sponsor, volunteer, speaker, student, local, or related conference paths.
BSides Puerto Rico 2019 DIY Badge
ATtiny13A solder-and-program participant badge
BSides Puerto Rico 2019's badge is preserved as a DIY participant kit: an easy-through-hole electronic badge built around an ATtiny13A, two red/blue LEDs, two 680 ohm resistors, a slide switch, CR2032 power, public Gerbers, KiCad files, Arduino sample code, and real assembled-badge photos.
BSides Vancouver 2019 Badge
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.
BSidesKC 2019 Conference Badge
ESP8266 Badge Pirates badge with Wi-Fi beacon game
The BSidesKC 2019 conference badge was a Badge Pirates ESP8266 badge with Wi-Fi behavior, reverse-mount LEDs, participant/speaker/organizer/volunteer/sponsor/pirate variants, a related Jr Hacker badge, and a rights-cleared repository photo served locally as optimized WebP.
BSidesPDX 2019 Multnomah Badge
ATtiny85 LED badge archive
The BSidesPDX 2019 Multnomah badge is a source-backed Portland Security BSides badge archive tied to the official schedule's badges-and-contests context and the public PDX Badgers KiCad, BOM, and firmware repository.
BSidesROC 2019 Electronic Badge
Reprogrammable ATTINY85 badge with dual SAO ports
The BSidesROC 2019 badge is preserved through the official event archive and badge page, which describe a fully working reprogrammable electronic badge, about 200 assembled units, PCB fallback for attendees without the assembled option, and a best-hacked-badge contest.
BornHack 2019 Badge
Color screen, MicroSD, and IR badge
A Happy Gecko badge with 240x240 color display, MicroSD card reader, basic infrared communication, and a C firmware codebase split into modules.
CHCon 2019 Identity Tags and Badges
Arts Centre identity-badge materials with electronic challenge context
CHCon 2019's official sponsorship page documents identification tags/badges and printed materials, while the official about page documents a two-day CTF with cyber, physical, and electronic challenges.
CODE BLUE 2019 Blinky Badge
Japanese Halloween soldering-village PCB badge
CODE BLUE 2019's first hardware soldering village used a simple Halloween-themed blinky PCB badge, built around a custom PCB, RGB and 1206 LEDs, CR2032 coin-cell holder, CR2032 battery, transparent unmasked PCB smile, and normal or reverse LED soldering options.
CactusCon 8 Electronic Badge
Printed or electronic ticket-type conference badge
CactusCon 8 is seeded as a conservative ticket-type badge record because official registration pages for the December 2019 Mesa event say CactusCon attendees received either a printed badge or an electronic badge depending on ticket type.
Camp++ 2019 Identity Artifacts
Ticket and certificate checksum camp record
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2019 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document the seventh H.A.C.K. camp at Fort Monostor, ticket registration, no required personal data, end-of-event ticketing-data destruction, certificate checksum verification, and instructions to bring the ticket either on a device or printed.
CampZone 2019 Badge
Badge.Team Hatchery and RGB matrix badge
A Badge.Team firmware badge with a documented app-development workflow, Hatchery submission path, hardware-mod instructions, OTA setup, and post-event behavior notes.
CrikeyCon VI 2019 Identity and Support Badge
Brisbane attendee, staff, Friendly Bear, and speaker badge markers
CrikeyCon VI is represented by official archive evidence for attendee badge pickup plus badge-mediated event roles: event staff identified by badge, Friendly Bear volunteers visible by name badge, and accepted speakers/trainers/event holders receiving special speaker badges.
DC503 5ohBEE Pager
SMART Response XE RF party pager
The 5ohBEE is a source-backed 2019 503 Party pager and game artifact documented by the Apache-2.0 `pdxbadgers/5ohBEE-2019` repository as a SMART Response XE-based pager project.
DEF CON 27 Badge
Crystal NFMI badge-game platform
A Grand Idea Studio DEF CON 27 badge built around NXP hardware with a KL27 ARM Cortex-M0+ controller, NFMI communication, quartz or crystal face details, role-specific badge identity, public firmware and schematics, and a conference-wide interaction game.
DEFCON China 1.0 Badge
Flexible-PCB tree-game badge
A Grand Idea Studio badge for the first official international DEFCON edition, built as an artistic flexible-substrate PCB with 32 LEDs, USB connectivity, accelerometer input, role-color artwork variants, and a task-completion tree-lighting game.
Disobey 2019 Badge
ESP32 MicroPython and puzzle badge
A Finnish Disobey badge with ESP32 MicroPython, Hatchery apps, puzzle pointers, screen, buzzer, IR, buttons, and RGB LEDs around the PCB outline.
ETH0 2019 Protoboard Badge
DIY circuit-building badge
A small DIY protoboard badge intended for attendees to build their own circuits.
HITBSecConf2019 Amsterdam Badge
10th-anniversary special-edition electronic badge
A conservative official-archive record for HITB's 10th-anniversary Amsterdam electronic badge, documented on the 2019 event page as a special-edition badge with HITB Badge Village reprogramming, secret features, and challenges.
HITCON CMT 2019 Badge
Taiwan-shaped ARM TrustZone challenge badge
An official HITCON CMT electronic board badge shaped around Taiwan, combining collectable conference identity, 24 LED unlock states, sponsor booth challenges, a snake warm-up, and ARM TrustZone exploitation stages.
Hackaday Supercon 2019 FPGA Badge
ECP5 RISC-V badge in a Game Boy form factor
The 2019 Hackaday Superconference badge put a Lattice ECP5 FPGA, RISC-V soft-core SoC, color LCD, eight buttons, cartridge slot, HDMI, SAO headers, PMOD footprint, and mass-storage app workflow into a Game Boy-like handheld.
HackerHotel 2019 Badge
SHA2017-derived Badge.Team badge
A HackerHotel badge made mostly from leftover SHA2017 parts, adding PSRAM, IR, stereo audio, Grove I2C, and SAO expansion.
Hackfest 2019 Electronic Badge
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.
Kernelcon 2019 K Badge
ATtiny85 and APA102 blinky CTF badge
Kernelcon's 2019 K-shaped badge was an electronic badge controlled by an ATtiny85, powered by three CR2032 cells, and fitted with five APA102 addressable RGB LEDs plus a button-driven mode system and CTF clues.
LCA2019 Donkey Car
Raspberry Pi and TensorFlow self-driving car kit for the Open Hardware Miniconf
linux.conf.au 2019's Open Hardware Miniconf included a Donkey Car self-driving car kit designed by the Open Hardware Miniconf team, assembled by participants, and used for TensorFlow-based driving experiments.
LCA2019 E-ALE Floral Bonnet
Raspberry Pi Zero sensor-bonnet hardware kit for Apprentice Linux Engineer labs
linux.conf.au 2019 hosted the Apprentice Linux Engineer tutorial track in Christchurch, where lab participation required a purchased Floral Bonnet board for Raspberry Pi Zero hands-on embedded-Linux exercises.
LayerOne 2019 Voight-Kampff Badge
ATtiny2313 Blade Runner badge with ESP32CAM add-on path
LayerOne 2019's electronic badge used a Blade Runner / Voight-Kampff theme around a small ATtiny2313 LED-and-button badge, with Hackaday documenting optional add-on boards including an ESP32CAM eye/face-recognition module for the badge's test-of-humanity behavior.
NoNameCon 2019 NoNameBadge
Ukrainian ESP32 badge and CTF platform
A Ukrainian NoNameCon 2019 electronic badge built by TechMaker around an ESP32 platform with Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, OLED display, LEDs, capacitive input, OTA firmware, SpyNet backend interaction, and a six-flag badge CTF.
NodeConf EU 2019 NodeWatch
Bangle.js JavaScript and TensorFlow smartwatch badge
A NodeConf EU 2019 attendee smartwatch badge built around the NodeWatch/Bangle.js open-source JavaScript watch platform, with Espruino programming, nRF52832 BLE hardware, colour LCD, sensors, GPS/Glonass, app loading, and TensorFlow Lite gesture experiments.
NorthSec 2019 Badge
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.
NotPinkCon 2019 Speaker VIP Badge
Buenos Aires speaker VIP identity badge
A conservative NotPinkCon 2019 record for the VIP badge listed as a speaker benefit in the conference CFP, tied to the Buenos Aires women-led information-security conference rather than an electronic badge lineage.
Pixels Camp 2019 PCB Badge
ESP32 39x9 LED-matrix badge for Pixels Camp
A Portugal source-backed ESP32 PCB badge for Pixels Camp 2019 with a 39x9 RGB LED matrix, IS31FL3741 LED driver, CH340G USB serial, USB/LiPo power, and public schematic/PCB design files.
Queercon 16 Q Badge
Membrane-keyboard ARG badge
The Queercon 16 Q Badge was an electronic DEF CON-adjacent social badge with a custom membrane keyboard, 2.9-inch e-paper display, RGB lighting, Bluetooth-capable TI CC2640R2 controller, Holtek LED driver, AA battery power, RJ12 6P6C badge-to-badge connector, and ARG mechanics across Q, C, and Handler badge roles.
ROOTCON 13 Programmable Badge
Philippine custom programmable conference badge sponsor-placement record
ROOTCON's official archive and quick guide place ROOTCON 13 at Taal Vista Hotel in Tagaytay on September 25-27, 2019, while the official sponsor prospectus sells an RC13 Badge add-on and describes ROOTCON as the first Philippine conference with a custom programmable conference badge.
RVAsec 2019 Badge
Arduino-compatible badge with games, base-station laser tag, and C interpreter
HackRVA's RVAsec 8 badge post documents the 2019 conference badge as a custom Arduino-compatible layout with games, Badge Monsters, Maze, base-station Laser Tag, a scoreboard plan, and a public Dustin Firebaugh C-interpreter repository.
Recon Village DC27 The Skull Badge
Steampunk Recon LED-eye badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 27 badge entry, The Skull Badge, was a steampunk-recon skull-shaped PCB design with mechanical artwork, LED eye illumination, and a CREW staff variant.
SAINTCON 2019 Enigma Badge
STM32 and iCE40 Enigma-machine badge with linked-ring challenge
The SAINTCON 2019 Enigma Badge was a two-board electronic conference badge shaped as a segment of an Enigma rotor, combining a curved RGB LED matrix, lampboard LEDs, 26 buttons, plugboard wiring, minibadge-holder support, and badge-to-badge connectors for a cooperative ring challenge.
THOTCON 0xA / Infinity Badge
DePaul IRL ESP32 badge with capacitive pads, LEDs, speaker, and microphone
The THOTCON 0xA / Infinity badge was a Chicago electronic conference badge produced with DePaul's Idea Realization Lab for the May 3-4, 2019 event. DePaul Newsline reported a six-month, 1,700-unit custom circuit-board badge build; the public Poplicola repository documents a SparkFun ESP32 Thing Dev base, five capacitive touch pads, six LEDs, speaker output, microphone input, stock-firmware restore commands, and Arduino examples.
TROOPERS19 Badge
ESP32 e-paper keyboard badge
A WiFi-connected MicroPython badge for TROOPERS19 with ESP32-WROVER, 2.9 inch e-paper display, full QWERTY keyboard, joystick, USB-C charging/flashing, LEDs, accelerometer, and Shitty Addon support.
Unofficial 36C3 Badge
Bring-your-own-controller WS2812B LED badge
An unofficial 36C3 badge kit made as a bring-your-own-controller blinky platform with a PCB, eight WS2812B addressable LEDs, eight 100 nF capacitors, lanyard, prototyping area, and controller examples using an Adafruit Feather M4 Express with CircuitPython.
WOPR Summit 0x00 Badge
ATtiny841 soldering badge with colored and RGB LEDs
The WOPR Summit 0x00 badge was an attendee-assembled electronic badge for the inaugural Atlantic City conference. Hackaday documents a WarGames/WOPR-inspired board with a dozen colored LEDs, eight RGB LEDs, through-hole LEDs and resistors, battery holders, and an ATtiny841 controller, while Russell Handorf's build guide preserves the soldering and staff-flashing workflow.
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CCCamp 2019 wearable sensor badge
A wrist-worn CCC Camp badge focused on sensing, health-style signals, BLE, and a Python-friendly app ecosystem.
2020
AND!XOR DC28 Badge
Unofficial DEF CON 28 STM32F412 badge with BlackBerry keyboard CTF
The AND!XOR DC28 Badge was an unofficial DEF CON 28 Safe Mode badgelife board shipped through pandemic-era proxy drops, with an STM32F412RET6 MCU, 0.96 inch OLED, ST7735 128x160 TFT, APA-102C LEDs, BlackBerry Q10 keyboard, USB-C, Keystone 1020 battery holder, MyBASIC hardware scripting, and an embedded BENDERPISS CTF text adventure.
BSides Melbourne 2020 Lanyard and Registration Artifact
Docklands registration flow with sponsored lanyard evidence
BSides Melbourne 2020 is represented by official schedule evidence for early conference registrations plus the official sponsor page naming CyberSec People as sponsor of the BSides Melbourne 2020 lanyards.
BSidesPDX 2020 Presenter LED Mask
Talking LED presenter wearable
A source-backed BSidesPDX 2020 presenter wearable artifact documented by the public PDX Badgers `2020-mask` repository, built as a voice-reactive LED face-mask project for the all-digital conference year rather than a conventional attendee badge.
BornHack 2020 Badge
CircuitPython LED-matrix IR badge
A SAMD21 CircuitPython badge with a charlieplexed LED matrix, IR badge-to-badge communication, navigation buttons, SAO header, and exposed pads.
Camp++ 2020 Identity Artifacts
Ticket and certificate checksum camp record
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2020 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document the eighth H.A.C.K. camp at Fort Monostor, ticket registration, no required personal data, end-of-event ticketing-data destruction, certificate checksum verification, and instructions to bring the ticket either on a device or printed.
CampZone 2020 Badge
Badge.Team Python API badge
A CampZone badge documented primarily through its Badge.Team Python API surface: keypad, display, audio, WiFi, HID, MIDI, touchpads, speech, app config, MQTT, and mixer modules.
DEF CON 28 Safe Mode Badge
Cassette-tape puzzle badge
A LosT / 1o57-designed DEF CON 28 Safe Mode support badge built as an audio cassette in a jewel case, with puzzle material spread across the A/B tape audio, lanyard characters, printed liner notes, media-server contents, and DEF CON forum solving space.
Disobey 2020 Badge
Touch-button Hatchery badge
A Disobey badge operated by artwork-hidden Game Boy inspired touch buttons, serial shell, Hatchery apps, nickname settings, and WiFi configuration.
Hackaday Remoticon 2020 Unofficial Badge
Community KiCad/OSH Park badge template for the virtual event
Thomas Flummer's 2020 Remoticon badge was an unofficial CC BY-SA 4.0 KiCad PCB template released for the virtual Hackaday Remoticon, combining decorative Remoticon artwork, prototyping area, a MakersBox SMD challenge circuit, Feather-mounting pads, Gerbers, and an OSH Park shared-project path.
HackerHotel 2020 Badge
Mixed-reality escape-room challenge badge
A story-first challenge badge where the badge, hotel, terminal session, puzzles, and lore formed a mixed-reality escape room.
Kernelcon 2020 Hack-Master Badge
ATmega328P dual-PCB image-reel badge
The Kernelcon 2020 Hack-Master badge was a dual-PCB electronic badge with an ATmega328P-AU, three-AAA power, nine APA102 RGB LEDs, a backlit custom image reel, serial-port game plans, EEPROM mode storage, and ICSP pogo-pin programming.
LCA2020 DingoCar
Small self-driving car kit for the linux.conf.au Open Hardware Miniconf
linux.conf.au 2020's Open Hardware Miniconf in Gold Coast included DingoCar, a small self-driving car hardware kit and machine-learning platform assembled, driven, trained, and tested by participants.
NoNameCon 2020 Air Quality Badge
Ukrainian ESP32 air-quality badge and CTF platform
A Ukrainian NoNameCon 2020 electronic badge by TechMaker, redesigned as a custom ESP32-WROOM-32D board with optional BME680 air-quality sensing, dual OLED displays, joysticks, touchpads, WS2812 LEDs, USB-C programming, and embedded-systems CTF tasks.
ROOTCON 14 Survival Kit Badge
Philippine Recovery Mode conference badge and lanyard kit
ROOTCON's official Recovery Mode quick guide places ROOTCON 14 on October 9-10, 2020 as a virtual event and lists a paid-attendee ROOTCON Survival Kit containing a conference badge, lanyard, and sticker set.
RVAsec 2020 Badge
Pandemic-era HackRVA firmware archive with LCD, IR, audio, USB, and apps
The RVAsec 2020 badge is seeded from HackRVA's public firmware repository. The source tree documents a real badge software target with LCD display code, buttons, IR packet handling, menus, badge apps, audio/image asset playback, LED control, USB bootloader tooling, and a small C-like interpreter.
SAINTCON 2020 Badge and MiniBadge Kit
Virtual-edition shipped badge package with MiniBadge and Hackers Challenge context
SAINTCON 2020 is represented here by its virtual-edition shipped badge package. The official archive identifies 2020 as a virtual SAINTCON year, InfoconDB supplies the October 27-30 dates, and first-hand DC540 coverage documents a physical badge package with the badge itself, an included MiniBadge, a coupon for a custom MiniBadge, and Hackers Challenge CTF badge context.
The Diana Initiative 2020 Off-the-Shelf Virtual Badge
Arduino Nano breadboard badge for the virtual Badge Village
The Diana Initiative 2020 off-the-shelf virtual badge was a self-built Arduino Nano and breadboard-badge workshop artifact for the online conference. Sched documents the August 22, 2020 `Basic Arduino coding using virtual Badge` Village Workshop, while TechGirlMN's archive preserves the Tinkercad virtual badge, hardware BOM, wiring notes, and Arduino Create firmware examples.
2021
BSides Canberra 2021 SAMD/ESP32 E-paper Badge
Hybrid-year badge with SAMD21, ESP32, e-paper, LEDs, and firmware restoration flow
BSides Canberra 2021 is source-backed by the official event page, an attendee production note, public firmware repository, schematic mirror, and Mos & Boo badge-hacking writeups documenting a shipped electronic badge with SAMD21, ESP32-PICO-D4, e-paper display, LEDs, capacitive touch, and firmware reflashing workflow.
BornHack 2021 DIY Badge
Electronics-side DIY expansion badge
A deliberately minimal DIY badge focused on simple electronics, SAO, Qwiic/STEMMA QT, and component-level exploration rather than preloaded compute.
Camp++ 2021 Identity Artifacts
Ticket and certificate checksum camp record
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2021 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document the ninth H.A.C.K. camp at Fort Monostor, ticket registration, no required personal data, end-of-event ticketing-data destruction, certificate checksum verification, and instructions to bring the ticket either on a device or printed.
CarolinaCon Online 2021 Badge Kit
Merch-bundle electronic badge kit for the online con
CarolinaCon Online 2021 offered a merch bundle with a CarolinaCon Online T-shirt, sticker, and a kit containing all parts needed to make that year's badge; after orders closed, the organizers began bulk-ordering shirts and badge supplies for shipment.
CrikeyCon VII 2021 Identity and Connect Badge
Brisbane conference badge pickup and Connect-corner helper marker
CrikeyCon VII is represented by official archive, schedule, and event-page evidence for attendee badge pickup plus a CrikeyCon Connect badge that identified people available for informal information-security career conversations.
DEF CON 29 Badge
RP2040 New Normal macro-pad badge
An MK Factor official DEF CON 29 electronic badge built around Raspberry Pi's RP2040, a 1.8-inch LCD, six-button D-pad surface, SAO connectors, USB-C, speaker, coin-cell plus USB power behavior, UF2 firmware updates, HID macro-pad mode, and a New Normal challenge path.
Ekoparty 2021 Badge Artwork Set
Official role and competition badge-art variants
A conservative Ekoparty 2021 record for the official badge-artwork set preserved on Ekoparty's own site, covering attendee, speaker, workshop, ACFT first/second/third-place, ICFT player, and Lado B variants.
HITB+CyberWeek 2021 Packet Hack Badge
AVR/OLED Packet Hack Village badge with CTF binary-input mode
A source-backed Packet Hack Badge record for HITB+CyberWeek 2021 Abu Dhabi, documented by a first-hand Hackster project page and a public firmware repository.
Hackaday Remoticon.2 DIY Badge
KiCad badge canvas with MicroMod carrier variant
Thomas Flummer's Remoticon.2 badge project published a KiCad badge canvas for the 2021 virtual Remoticon, giving builders a Remoticon.2-shaped PCB with open prototyping space plus uploaded KiCad, artwork, Gerber, and MicroMod carrier-board files.
Kernelcon 2021 Hacker HotKey
Hack Live customizable hotkey badge
Kernelcon 2021's Hacker HotKey was a customizable hotkey stream-deck badge configured for Hack Live voting, challenge sabotage, hint, and website-launch behavior, with public Arduino Leonardo firmware examples.
Kākācon 2021 Sticker Badge Challenge
First sticker-backed Kākācon puzzle trail
The organizer walkthrough for Kākācon 2021 documents the first Kākācon badge challenge, with the entry point printed on the backing paper of a Pepper Raccoon-designed sticker.
LCA2021 SwagBadge
Online linux.conf.au ESP32-era SwagBadge and DagBadge hardware programme
linux.conf.au 2021's Open Hardware Miniconf is represented by a source-backed SwagBadge and DagBadge programme: badges were built and mailed to delegates, then covered by official software, hardware, SAO, test-jig, firmware, and show-and-tell sessions.
NorthSec 2021 Badge
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.
ROOTCON 15 Virtual Human Badge
Philippine reboot-edition virtual badge and artwork archive record
ROOTCON's official archive places ROOTCON 15 on October 13-15, 2021 via Zoom Webinar and Discord, while the official sponsorship overview lists Human Badge benefits as virtual-only and the media server preserves ROOTCON 15 badge and lanyard artwork directories.
RVAsec 2021 Badge
Source-limited Badge Intro artifact in the continuing HackRVA electronic-badge lineage
The RVAsec 2021 badge record is intentionally narrow: InfoconDB preserves a Badge Intro session at the November 4-5, 2021 Omni Richmond event, and HackRVA's current badge page describes an annual electronic badge lineage with schedules, games, surprises, sponsorship, and limited badge availability.
SAINTCON 2021 MiniBadge Collection
Official and unofficial MiniBadges documented by the archived 2021 SAINTCON page
SAINTCON 2021 is represented here by its archived MiniBadge collection page, which documents in-person registration/status MiniBadges, community and challenge MiniBadges, soldering and puzzle badges, sponsor or booth-distributed badges, and a separate unofficial badge section.
THOTCON 0xB Badge
ESP32 retro-controller badge with LEDs, buzzer, accelerometer, and Wi-Fi
The THOTCON 0xB badge was a rescheduled-2021 Chicago electronic conference badge in a retro controller / circus-ticket form factor. Rob Rehrig's first-hand writeup documents an ESP32 main controller, reverse-mount RGB and single-color LEDs driven by an IS32FL3731 LED driver, capacitive touch buttons, piezo buzzer, accelerometer, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi node behavior, IRC remote connectivity, and serial interface.
2022
BSides Tallinn 2022 DIY Soldering Badge
Estonian Security BSides participant badge and soldering project
A source-backed Estonian Security BSides badge record: the official BSides Tallinn 2022 page says each participant received a special legacy-theme badge that was also a DIY soldering project with custom configurations.
BSidesSF 2022 Hardware Village Badge
Arduino-programmable rubber-ducky badge
The BSidesSF 2022 Hardware Village badge is a source-backed pre-assembled badge distributed in limited quantities to village participants for Arduino-programmable rubber-ducky experiments.
BornHack 2022 Game On
RP2040 CircuitPython gaming badge
A game-controller-shaped BornHack badge built around RP2040, CircuitPython, a color LCD, and expansion connectors.
BugCON 2022 Badge
RP2040 audio, microphone, LEDs, and EdgeImpulse badge
BugCON 2022's Electronic Cats badge repository documents an RP2040 electronic badge for BugCON 2022 CDMX with USB serial access, LEDs, microphone, buzzer or speaker, a small machine-learning trail through EdgeImpulse, Arduino Mbed programming notes, KiCad hardware files, and Blink/AudioWAV firmware examples.
Camp++ 2022 Identity Artifacts
Ticket ID and campsite check-in record
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2022 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document the tenth H.A.C.K. camp at Fényes Camping in Tata, ticket registration, random ticket IDs checked by campsite reception, certificate checksum verification, and government-issued identification for arrival at the campsite.
CarolinaCon Online 2 Conference PCB Badge
Pre-order merch-bundle Conference PCB Badge
CarolinaCon Online 2's official pages advertised a merch bundle containing a CarolinaCon T-shirt, shot glass, sticker, and Conference PCB Badge, with pre-orders closing on the last day of the April 29-May 1, 2022 online conference.
CrikeyCon 8 Badge
Simple LED and SAO-header soldering badge
A CrikeyCon 8 conference badge with a documented simple LED circuit, soldering workflow, three blue 1206 LEDs, current-limiting resistors, optional coin-cell holder, and 2x3 Simple Add-On header power path.
DEF CON 30 Badge
MK Factor musical keyboard badge
An MK Factor official DEF CON 30 musical badge with Raspberry Pi Pico/RP2040-class hardware, a playable keyboard, display, speaker, audio input/output behavior, boot-mode and mass-storage update paths, and a music-and-pop-culture badge challenge spread across nine badge variants.
Fri3d 2022 Badge
ESP32-WROVER badge with GameOn and Time Blaster
A Fri3d badge with ESP32-WROVER, 240x240 color display, IR receiver, accelerometer, buttons, and a documented add-on ecosystem.
GPN20 Laminated Identity Badge
On-site printed and laminated attendee badge
A source-backed non-electronic GPN20 attendee-badge record anchored by the Entropia wiki workflow for printing and laminating badges at the infodesk.
H2HC 2022 Badge
Wooden-PCB NE555 wrapped-wire badge
A deliberately old-school H2HC 2022 badge built as a wooden PCB with large components, wrapped wire, an NE555 clock signal, and blinking LEDs.
Hackaday Supercon 2022 Voja4 Badge
Front-panel 4-bit computer badge with 272 LEDs
The 2022 Hackaday Supercon 6 badge, also documented as Voja4, was a front-panel-style 4-bit computer badge designed by Voja Antonic and implemented on a PIC24FJ256GA704 with 272 LEDs, direct button programming, serial save/load, internal flash storage, SAO serial expansion, and a public assembler/emulator/tooling archive.
HaxoGreen 2022 Identity Artifacts
Wristband, hackerpassport stamp, and goodie-bag record
A conservative non-electronic HaxoGreen 2022 record for attendee identity and camp artifacts: the wiki documents required wristbands, infodesk pickup, hackerpassport stamps, and goodie bags.
HiP Berlin 2022 Badge
ESP32-C3 electronic badge for Hacking in Parallel
The Hacking in Parallel Berlin attendee badge was an ESP32-C3 electronic badge with RGB LEDs, USB-C Serial/JTAG, battery charging, NFC/I2C storage, SAO/I2C expansion, buttons, and RIOT OS board support.
Kernelcon 2022 Watch Badge
ESP8266 watch-badge firmware archive
Kernelcon's 2022 Watch Badge is preserved through its public firmware repository, which documents the kernelcon_watch_v4 firmware, generic ESP8266 core targeting, Arduino IDE build path, hard-coded Wi-Fi configuration, and deauther-software lineage.
Kākācon 2022 Sticker Badge Challenge
Second sticker-backed Kākācon puzzle trail
The organizer walkthrough for Kākācon 2022 documents the second Kākācon badge challenge, again using the back of the event sticker as the puzzle entry point.
LCA2022 SwagBadge and Rockling SAO Kit
Updated SwagBadge, FPGA SAOs, and Rockling hardware-kit trail
linux.conf.au 2022's Open Hardware Miniconf publicly documented hardware kits, an updated LCA2022 SwagBadge, two SAOs, a Rockling FPGA audio processor, Theremin and Party Button SAOs, and a hardware-design session for the OHMC2022 Rockling and Swag Badge.
MCH2022 Badge
ESP32, RP2040, FPGA game-console badge
A game-console-shaped badge with ESP32, RP2040 board management, iCE40 FPGA graphics, Bosch sensors, BadgePython, Hatchery apps, SAO/Qwiic/PMOD expansion, and WebUSB FPGA workflows.
NorthSec 2022 Badge
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.
RVAsec 2022 Badge
Pico-era firmware with LCD, IR, D-pad, rotary encoder, and simulator
HackRVA's public RVAsec 2022 repository documents badge firmware for hardware and simulator targets, with RP2040/Pico SDK build flow, LCD display, three-color LED, D-pad, IR transmit/receive, rotary encoder, UF2 flashing, CLI startup path, and app/game framework.
Recon Village DC30 The Radar Badge
Circular global-surveillance badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 30 badge entry, The Radar Badge, was a circular radar-themed badge with a world-map overlay, teal and emerald styling, compass markings, and coordinate markings.
RomHack Camp 2022 Badge
ESP32-C3 dragon-sphere camp badge
A Cyber Saiyan-designed ESP32-C3 badge for RomHack Camp 2022, with seven RGB LEDs, BLE badge discovery, schedule screens, WiFi/AP functions, snake, a 2.4 inch TFT, two rear buttons, and AA battery power.
SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Collection
Official, sponsor, community, and personal MiniBadge assembly-guide set
The SAINTCON 2022 MiniBadge Assembly Guide preserves a broad MiniBadge ecosystem: official community and status badges, sponsor badges, personal/trading badges, acquisition notes, rarity/difficulty labels, and assembly instructions for through-hole, SMD, RFID, motorized, and programmed badge variants.
Security Fest 2022 Tram Badge
Blinky Gothenburg tram badge
A conservative first-pass record for Security Fest's 2022 tram-inspired badge, remembered in later badge writeups as a fun blinky object inspired by Gothenburg trams with a Rickroll reference.
TROOPERS22 Badge
Badge.Team-powered conference badge record
A conservative TROOPERS22 badge record anchored by Badge.Team's public PID/code entry for Troopers 2022 badges and the official TROOPERS22 event context.
TiDAL
EMF 2022 badge
The EMF 2022 badge, renamed TiDAL, with MicroPython app development and a software repository for badge apps and API proxy services.
ToorCamp 2022 Spider Badge
OlyMEGA light-sensing LED spider badge
ToorCamp 2022's badge is documented by an official badge-talk session and assembly PDF as an OlyMEGA-built soldering badge: four LEDs forming spider eyes, a photocell, potentiometer, MOSFET, slide switch, resistors, and a battery holder whose circuit lights the eyes in darkness.
2023
37C3 Hub Digital Badges
Assembly-created digital achievement badges
The 37C3 Hub archived a digital badge system where assemblies could create badges that visitors might find, redeem, and display during the Hamburg Congress.
BSides Canberra 2023 bPod
ESP32-S2 colour-screen badge with touch controls, games, and hardware tools
The 2023 BSides Canberra bPod badge is source-backed by the official BSides archive, schedule material, and public GitLab repository containing KiCad hardware, firmware, updater, and server code.
BSides Cheltenham 2023 Delorean Badge
ATtiny402 DeLorean PCB-art conference badge
An electronic PCB-art conference badge documented by its maker and badge sponsor, Punk Security, for BSides Cheltenham 2023. Punk Security's own dated event listing identifies its June 3 Cheltenham appearance as that year's badge-sponsor engagement, names a talk on building the BSides Delorean badges, and describes them as functional conference badges. The public `bsides-cheltenham-2023-badge` repository calls the artifact the Delorean badge, reports that parts sold for badge completion on the day raised more than £300 for Mind, and preserves EAGLE, Gerber, library, and Arduino firmware material. Its parts list names an ATtiny402, button, CR2032 clip, NeoPixel, and 3528 blue LED. The reviewed sources do not establish organizer-side 2023 confirmation, venue, production quantity, attendee allocation, individual handoff, final unit-by-unit configuration, completed assembly count, safety validation, or reusable image provenance.
BSides Greenville 2023 Wi-Fi Analyzer Badge
Documented conference-badge-to-Wi-Fi-analyzer soldering activity
A public BSides Greenville 2023 event listing says the Circuit Board Medics Soldering Village would help participants solder and transform a conference badge. A contemporaneous BSidesGVL announcement says the conference badges could become Wi-Fi analyzers and identifies Circuit Board Medics as the team that designed the badges. A public attendee report after the event says that its author made a Wi-Fi analyzer at BSidesGVL. Together, these sources establish a real event-linked badge-conversion activity without identifying the original board or the resulting analyzer's components.
BSides Melbourne 2023 Identity Badge
Melbourne badge and lanyard credential with photo-consent and interaction-protocol markers
BSides Melbourne 2023 is represented by an official attendee-communications record proving badge and lanyard use for identity, access, photo-consent signalling, and personal interaction-protocol stickers.
BalCCon Cyberdeck 0o27
BCD-0o27 ESP32-S3 cyberdeck badge
The official BalCCon2k23 BCD-0o27 badge turned badgelife into a small ESP32-S3 cyberdeck with screen, buttons, RGB LEDs, serial console, SAO-ish I2C, firmware framework, and printable case files.
BornHack 2023 NFC Badges
NFC reader and tag badge pair
A two-badge NFC year: one tag badge using NXP NTAG I2C Plus and one RP2040 reader badge using NXP PN7150 with card-emulation capability.
BugCON 2023 Badge
Resistance-themed ESP32-S3 and RP2040 official badge
BugCON 2023's Electronic Cats repository documents the official resistance-themed BugCON 2023 badge with an ESP32S3 or RP2040 platform statement, UART, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on ESP32S3, AA battery support, public Arduino firmware, GPL-3.0 software licensing, CERN-OHL v1.2 hardware licensing, and KiCad hardware source.
CactusCon 11 Badge
Badge Pirates ESP32-S2 home-automation badge
The CactusCon 11 badge was an ESP32-S2 WROOM electronic conference badge by Badge Pirates and the CactusCon team, built around the event's Nightmare House theme, IoT interaction, LEDs, buttons, optional OLED support, GPIO expansion, and USB serial access.
Camp++ 2023 Identity Artifacts
Ticket ID and wristband camp record
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2023 record for attendee identity: the public camp pages document ticket registration, random ticket IDs checked at the campsite entrance, government-ID reception check-in for overnight stay, and wristband pickup at camp registration.
DEF CON 31 Badge
Mar Williams physical badge with SAO chamber
A Mar Williams / spuxo official DEF CON 31 physical badge produced for a deliberately non-electronic year, with the public pre-con badge news centered on a customization-friendly SAO slot and media-server add-on design assets.
Ekoparty 2023 Electronic Badge
First limited electronic EKO badge offer
A conservative Ekoparty 2023 record for the first limited electronic badge offer, capped at 500 units and used as a paid support option for a free Buenos Aires hacker conference.
H2HC 2023 Game Boy Badge
Custom Game Boy conference game artifact
A custom H2HC 2023 Game Boy game badge/artifact distributed as a conference-themed game cartridge experience rather than a PCB electronics badge.
HITCON CMT 2023 NFC Badge
Taiwanese badge mini-games and card-reader conference pass
HITCON CMT 2023's official events page says the badge was more than an identification badge: card readers and mini-games were placed at booths and around the venue, attendees used their badges to activate and interact with them, and the Activity Team booth provided NFC card readers for hands-on inspection.
Hackaday Berlin 2023 Voja4 Badge
Berlin-reskinned down-to-the-metal computer trainer
Hackaday Berlin 2023 gave European attendees a Berlin-reskinned Voja Antonic Voja4 badge: a compatible revision of the 2022 Supercon down-to-the-metal computer trainer and retrocomputer, with public event sources tying it to the March 25-26 MotionLab.Berlin gathering and Saturday badge-hacking ceremony.
Hackaday Supercon 2023 Vectorscope Badge
RP2040 analog vectorscope and waveform badge
An analog-inspired Hackaday Supercon badge that combined a fake-phosphor vectorscope display, programmable waveform generator, AK4619 ADC/DAC path, Raspberry Pi Pico/RP2040 control, MicroPython, joystick and buttons, and a through-hole prototyping area.
HackerHotel 2023 Badge
Badge.Team challenge and artwork badge
A Badge.Team-documented HackerHotel badge whose public record currently centers on team roles, challenge ownership, and artwork.
Hardwear.io Netherlands 2023 E-paper Badge
Reused retail e-paper price-tag badge
A Hardwear.io Netherlands badge built from reused e-paper price tags, with attendee-facing firmware behavior documented after the conference.
Kernelcon 2023 1337 kHz Radio Badge
Analog TA7642 AM radio badge
Kernelcon's 2023 1337 kHz badge was an old-school analog AM radio badge based on the TA7642 radio IC, a 1.5 V design, small transistor amplifier, headphone output, RF gain knob, and hacker-playground prototyping area.
LayerOne 2023 PIC HID Badge
PIC16F1455 USB keyboard badge with addressable LEDs
LayerOne 2023's electronic badge was a PIC16F1455 USB HID and keyboard badge with WS2812B/SK6812-style addressable LEDs, DFU update workflow, writable flash-backed macro behavior, and a badge-competition path around a partial RubberDucky 2.0 script interpreter.
MuHack Badge
RP2040 MicroPython badge with NFC and sensors
An Italian MuHack badge built around an RP2040, MicroPython, addressable LEDs, NFC, sensors, optional ESP32 connectivity, and a public MuHackademy workshop/talk trail.
NorthSec 2023 Badge
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.
OSHCamp 2023 Badge
WiFi room-sensor name badge
A WiFi badge for Open Source Hardware Camp 2023, designed as a name badge, solder-paste workshop board, USB-UART adapter, qwiic/STEMMA QT sensor host, and post-event Tasmota room sensor.
ROOTCON 17 Badge and Lanyard
Philippine physical identity badge and lanyard inclusion record
ROOTCON's official archive places ROOTCON 17 at Taal Vista Hotel in Tagaytay on September 27-29, 2023, the official conference overview lists Badge, Lanyard + other swags for Human and Human+ tickets, and the official media server preserves lanyard_single.png in the ROOTCON 17 art directory.
RVAsec 2023 Badge
HackRVA electronic badge with UF2 flashing, audio output, IR, and games
The RVAsec 2023 badge is backed by official RVAsec package language for limited HackRVA electronic badges and HackRVA's public firmware repository. The repository documents LCD display, three-color LED, D-pad, IR Tx/Rx, rotary encoder, audio output, micro-USB UF2 flashing, SDL simulator support, and a broad app/game tree.
Recon Village DC31 The Spy Silhouette Badge
Classic spy badge with speaker variant
Recon Village's DEF CON 31 badge entry, The Spy Silhouette, returned to the fedora silhouette with die-cut shape, LED illumination, a speaker-badge variant, and custom Recon Village lanyard.
SAINTCON 2023 MiniBadge Collection
Community, event, contest, and personal MiniBadges documented by the 2023 data export
SAINTCON 2023 is represented here by its public MiniBadge ecosystem: the official 2023 FAQ documents MiniBadge popularity and attendee trading, while the community MiniBadge Wiki export preserves year-specific personal, event, community, and contest badge records.
SEC Youth Challenge 2023 Flux Decoder Badge
DEF CON 31 youth-challenge ATtiny1614 LED badge
The Flux Decoder was a Social Engineering Community Youth Challenge badge for DEF CON 31, preserved through a public repository with KiCad board files, schematic material, and Arduino-style firmware for an ATtiny1614-powered flux-capacitor LED badge.
SINCON 2023 Khong Guan Building CTF Badge
Singapore building-shaped serial CTF badge
SINCON 2023's first badge was a Khong Guan Building-inspired interactive CTF badge with a custom single-sided PCB, ABOV A96S174 MCU, CH340G USB-serial bridge, micro-USB, CR2032 holder, 12 MHz crystal, SMD passives, and 1206 LEDs.
Security Fest 2023 Gothenburg Skyline Badge
UV-printed cyberpunk skyline CTF badge
A full-colour UV-printed Security Fest badge inspired by Gothenburg's skyline with a cyberpunk treatment, backside-mounted components, Micro-USB CTF interface, cryptography puzzles, and soldering-village LED personalization.
THOTCON 0xC Badge
Contra-themed laser-tag badge with custom clear-PC housing
The THOTCON 0xC badge was a Chicago electronic conference badge built around a Contra-inspired, conference-wide laser-tag game and a custom injection-molded clear polycarbonate housing. Rob Rehrig's first-hand writeup documents the badge theme, enclosure work, IR receiver/emitter layout, TIR lens work, Xometry manufacturing path, and roughly 2,000-badge production scale.
TROOPERS23 Badge
Badge.Team retro-adventure conference badge
A Badge.Team-powered TROOPERS23 electronic badge with a public retrospective PDF, open hardware repository, firmware repository, and companion SAO hardware repository.
flow3r
CCCamp 2023 music and light badge
A petal-shaped electronic instrument where touch and gestures become sound and light.
2024
38C3 Hub Digital Badges
Expanded assembly-created Hub badge system
The 38C3 Hub archived an expanded digital badge system where assemblies created discoverable event badges for visitors, grouped into categories such as General, Exploration, and Help.
8.8 Reloaded 2024 VIP Special Badge
Chilean VIP special badge artifact
A conservative Chilean 8.8 Reloaded 2024 record for the special badge included in the conference's first VIP sector package.
AvengerCon VIII 8-8-8 Badge
First AvengerCon electronic scavenger-hunt badge
The AvengerCon VIII 8-8-8 badge was the conference's first electronic badge, documented by U.S. Army public-affairs coverage as a scavenger-hunt badge where attendees collected codes to light LEDs or hacked the badge to bypass the contest.
BSides Adelaide 2024 Wombat Badge
First Adelaide Wombat CTF badge with MS51FB9AE, LEDs, micro-USB, and soldering village
BSides Adelaide 2024's first Wombat badge is preserved through creator-published Hackerware and Hackster sources as a full-colour UV-printed CTF hardware badge with Nuvoton MS51FB9AE controller, CH340G USB serial, RGB LED, six challenge LEDs, CR2032 power, and attendee LED soldering.
BSides Athens 2024 Electronic Circuit Badge
Greek Security BSides electronic circuit badge and soldering challenge
A source-backed Greek Security BSides electronic circuit badge record: the recovered official wrap-up says participants received an electronic circuit badge, soldered it until it lit up, could reuse it as a breadboard, and found that it contained secrets.
BSides Canberra 2024 Orc Blinky Badge
Middle-earth themed 555-timer LED soldering badge
BSides Canberra 2024's public ticketing page promised an electronic badge, and an attendee writeup describes the shipped badge as an orc-shaped soldering badge built around a 555 timer, LEDs, diode, resistor, capacitor, and 9V battery power.
BSides Cheltenham 2024 UFO Badge
ATtiny402 UFO PCB badge with source-described activity material
An electronic PCB badge identified by Punk Security's public source archive as the UFO badge for BSides Cheltenham 2024. Its repository preserves EAGLE, Gerber, Arduino firmware, vector-art, 3D-case, and activity-booklet material, and names an ATtiny402, button, CR2032 clip, and 5050 NeoPixel. The archive says the activity booklet was given out on the day. Punk Security's historical event timeline separately says it was the badge sponsor and had UFO badges, but currently renders that entry with an inconsistent early-2023 timestamp; the record therefore uses the repository's explicit 2024 badge identity without inventing an exact date or venue. The reviewed sources do not establish organizer-side 2024 confirmation, production quantity, attendee allocation, individual handoff, final unit-by-unit configuration, activity participation or outcome, safety validation, or reusable image provenance.
BSides Goa 2024 SecOps Hackable Badge
Vendor-booth BCPen/CPen challenge badge
A conservative BSides Goa 2024 vendor-booth badge record for SecOps Group's Hackable BCPen and CPen badges, documented on the SecOps Hack the Badge page and tied to the BSides Goa 2024 booth/free-exam challenge trail.
BSides Melbourne 2024 Identity Badge
Cremorne badge and lanyard credential with pronoun, photo, and interaction preference signals
BSides Melbourne 2024 is represented by the official sponsorship prospectus documenting conference badges with preferred pronouns, photo permissions, and interaction preferences plus a sold lanyard sponsorship item.
BSides Newcastle 2024 Plant Badge
Little Shop of Horrors ATtiny402 soil-sensor PCB badge
An electronic PCB badge documented by its maker and badge sponsor, Punk Security, for BSides Newcastle 2024. Punk Security's own dated event listing identifies its October 5 Newcastle appearance as that year's badge-sponsor engagement and says Simon Gurney presented the making of the conference badge. The public `bsides-newcastle-2024-badge` archive calls the artifact the Little Shop of Horrors Plant Badge, says it was given out at BSides Newcastle, and describes it as a working soil sensor. It preserves EAGLE, EasyEDA, Gerber, firmware, board-image, and schematic material, and names an ATtiny402, button, CR2032 clip, 5050 NeoPixel, and 6.8 kΩ resistor. The reviewed sources do not establish organizer-side 2024 confirmation, venue, production quantity, attendee allocation, individual handoff, final unit-by-unit configuration, measurement performance, safety validation, or reusable image provenance.
BSides San Diego 2024 ESP32-C3 Badge
ESP32-C3 BLE rock-paper-scissors conference badge
Somerset Recon's post-event source archive says 400 badges were distributed at BSides San Diego 2024. It documents a custom ESP32-C3 conference board with a Bluetooth LE rock-paper-scissors game, high-level Wargames-themed UART and SAO CTF context, and KiCad, Gerber, BOM, and Arduino-style source material. The README also distinguishes the conference units' earlier firmware from later archived source behavior.
BSidesPDX 2024 OpenTaxus Badge
CircuitPython IR trading badge
The BSidesPDX 2024 badge is a source-backed OpenTaxus badge customized for Portland's Security BSides event, documented by the official Badge Talk page and the PDX Badgers public repository with RP2040-class hardware, OLED display, five-way d-pad, infrared trading, NeoPixels, AA or USB-C power, CircuitPython, and event-game code.
BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
Specially designed HCV badge CTF artifact
The BSidesSF 2024 Hardware Challenge Village badge is a source-backed village badge used for electronics tinkering and a competitive badge CTF contest at City View at Metreon, with attendee-report evidence for a screen, joystick, battery or USB-C power, and badge-to-badge clue exchange.
BalCCon Mini Cyberdeck 0o00
MC-0o00 CH32V003 mini cyberdeck badge
The BalCCon2k24 MC-0o00 badge scaled the cyberdeck idea down to a CH32V003 RISC-V board with LCD, six buttons, buzzer, GPIO/power interface, and the ability to connect to BCD-0o27.
BornHack 2024 Badge
ESP32-C3 POV badge
An ESP32-C3-oriented BornHack badge with public firmware links, POV hardware files, Rust examples, workshop firmware, and a 3D-printable case branch.
BugCON 2024 Badge
Official Electronic Cats ESP32-C6 community and VIP badge
BugCON 2024's official Electronic Cats badge was an open-hardware ESP32-C6 badge line with community and VIP variants, USB serial workflow, displays, LEDs, battery power, firmware directories, KiCad hardware trees, and CERN-OHL hardware licensing.
CactusCon 12 Badge
Project NeoRogue ESP32-S3 badge archive
The CactusCon 12 badge is preserved through Badge Pirates' public CactusCon-12 repository, which includes KiCad CAD files, Gerbers, BOM exports, QA code, art assets, reference documents, and ProjectNeoRogue front/back raster outputs for the 2024 CactusCon badge.
Camp++ 2024 Identity Artifacts
Ticket ID and wristband camp record
A conservative non-electronic Camp++ 2024 record for attendee identity: the official camp pages document August 8-11 2024 dates, Fényes Camping in Tata, required ticket registration, random ticket IDs checked by the campsite, government-ID reception check-in for overnight stay, and wristband pickup at camp registration.
Car Hacking Village DC32 Main Badge
RP2040 CAN-bus badge with CHV SAO ecosystem
Car Hacking Village's DEF CON 32 badge ecosystem centered on a main RP2040 badge with CAN-network surfaces, four CHV SAO connectors, public board and firmware repositories, public CTF challenge notes, and IOActive's separately documented key-fob badge / SAO build.
CrikeyCon IX 2024 Identity and Accessibility Badge
Brisbane badge-pickup credential with custom accessibility pins
CrikeyCon IX is represented by official schedule and ticketing evidence for early conference badge pickup plus an accessibility-badge station where TinkerInk helped attendees make custom pins that signalled approach preferences.
CyberThreat 2024 Hackable Badge
Secure Impact nine-challenge AVR badge
CyberThreat 2024 featured brand-new hackable badges from Secure Impact with nine challenges, documented by the official CyberThreat site and final-challenge walkthrough PDFs by badge challenge author Nathan Taylor.
DEF CON 32 Badge
RP2350 handheld-game badge
An official DEF CON 32 electronic badge built around Raspberry Pi RP2350 silicon, a handheld-game-style interface, LEDs, firmware archives, and a DEF CON 32 badge game whose GB Studio project files were published after the event.
DORS/CLUC 2024 Badge
E-paper IR social-quest badge
The first electronic DORS/CLUC conference badge, with a 2.66 inch monochrome e-paper display, badge-to-badge IR discovery, twelve special-badge unlocks, light-sensor web configuration, blue LED patterns, open KiCad and firmware files, and OSHWA certification.
Dante's Inferno Badge (DEF CON 32)
Independent three-board LED badge with a later DEF CON 33 vendor-list trail
redactd's Tindie listing introduces Dante's Inferno as an electronic badge just in time for DefCon 32, inspired by the Dante's Inferno Room. It describes three connected circuit boards, special two-color solder mask on the top two boards, sixty LEDs, an included CR123A battery, a populated SAO v1.69bis port, custom-printed box, laser-cut foam insert, and lanyard. The same maker's public repository documents a USB/UF2 firmware-update procedure and a July 2024 v1.1 release for pre-sale 1.0/1.01 units. A Hacker Couture DEFCON 33 product list later repeats the $100 product and core three-board, sixty-LED, CR123A, and SAO claims. Together, these sources establish one source-backed independent 2024 DEF CON 32 artifact with a later 2025 vendor-list recurrence, not an official DEF CON credential, a second DC33 badge, confirmed distribution at either event, a complete electrical design, a licensed source-code archive, or reusable-image rights.
Easterhegg 2024 RCA Badge
Rabbit Chaos Adventure badge
A source-backed Easterhegg 2024 badge record for the Rabbit Chaos Adventure: the event wiki points to challenges on campus, laptop, and badge, while the public repository preserves RCA badge files, schematics, Gerbers, parts exports, media, and printable add-ons.
Ekoparty 2024 Official Badge
ESP32-C6 LoRa badge
The official Ekoparty 2024 electronic badge documented by Electronic Cats with ESP32-C6 control, RFM95 LoRa radio, OLED display, NeoPixels, USB, buzzer, KiCad hardware files, firmware sources, Badge Connect behavior, and a community Meshtastic variant trail.
Fri3d 2024 Badge
ESP32-S3 badge with blaster and communicator add-ons
A Fri3d ESP32-S3 badge with LCD, joystick/buttons, SD card, USB-C, LiPo power, MicroPython/Arduino docs, and blaster/communicator add-ons.
GrrCON 2024 BadgeBuddy
Unofficial ESP8266 proximity-animation badge
BadgeBuddy was an unofficial GrrCON 2024 electronic badge built for roughly thirty friends, using an ESP8266 WiFi module, an 8x8 LED matrix, battery power, proximity scanning for other BadgeBuddy SSIDs, and a public code/wiring archive.
H2HC 2024 Hacker ID Card
Custom CR80 Hacker ID identity artifact
The first-edition H2HC 2024 Hacker ID Card, a custom CR80-size identity-card badge/artifact produced with a dedicated card-printing workflow.
HITBSecConf2024 Bangkok Badge Village Device
Raspberry Pi Pico fault-injection village device
A conservative Badge Village artifact record for HITBSecConf2024 Bangkok, where the official village page documented a specialized Raspberry Pi Pico-based device for controlled fault-injection experiments against embedded systems.
HITBSecConf2024 Bangkok SaikoCTF Badge
Electronic badge for SaikoCTF research participants
A conservative record for the electronic SaikoCTF badge promised to HITBSecConf2024 Bangkok research-study participants in the official recruitment statement.
HITCON CMT 2024 PCB Badge
Taiwanese PCB badge with games, BadUSB, and docking
HITCON CMT 2024's official activity page and PCB Badge guide frame every attendee ID as a PCB badge, with score accrual across activities, badge games, BadUSB play, docking between badges, game battle behavior, and on-site programmer or FTDI support at the activity desk.
HOPE XV Electronic Badge
ESP32-C3 badge with Badge Clinic and MicroPython workflow
The HOPE XV Electronic Badge was issued to in-person attendees as an ESP32-C3 badge with purple attendee boards, black pro boards, case variants, 16 WS2812-class RGB LEDs, buttons, IR blast behavior, vibration feedback, open hardware files, and MicroPython hacking notes.
HackConRD 2024 ATTiny85 Badge
First official Dominican Republic badgelife badge
HackConRD 2024's first official badge was an ATTiny85-based electronic conference badge documented by a public repository and workshop writeup, with lanyard wear, challenge/hidden-feature firmware, serial reprogramming, aRGB LED expansion, buzzer output, and KiCad manufacturing-file evidence.
Hackaday Europe 2024 Vectorscope Badge
Berlin reuse of the RP2040 analog vectorscope badge
Hackaday Europe 2024 in Berlin reused the 2023 Hackaday Supercon Vectorscope badge: an RP2040/MicroPython analog playground with a round IPS display, ADC/DAC signal path, front controls, joystick, prototyping space, and badge-hack ceremony.
Hackaday Supercon 2024 SAO Badge
Six-port Pico W SAO hub
The Supercon 8 official badge used a Raspberry Pi Pico W and six SAO ports as an I2C playground, bundling touchwheel, LED petal matrix, blank protoboard, and CH32V003 I2C proto-petal add-ons with MicroPython examples.
Hackbat DEF CON 32 Badge
Unofficial ESP32-C3 handheld-style DEF CON 32 badge
The Hackbat Badge is an unofficial DEF CON 32 badgelife board documented by the Hackbat project page and GPL-3.0 GitHub repository, with ESP32-C3 Wi-Fi/BLE, OLED display, WS2812 LEDs, six buttons, AA-cell case support, and production files.
HackerHotel 2024 Telegraph Badge
ESP32-C6 e-paper telegraph puzzle badge
An interactive Victorian-telegraph-themed puzzle badge inspired by the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph.
HaxoGreen 2024 Identity Artifacts
Wristband, hackerpassport stamp, and goodie-bag record
A conservative non-electronic HaxoGreen 2024 record for attendee identity and camp artifacts: the public wiki documents required wristbands, infodesk registration, hackerpassport stamps, goodie-bag pickup, and ticket/merch context.
JawnCon 0x1 Modem Badge
Hayes SmartModem-inspired Wi-Fi modem badge
The JawnCon 0x1 modem badge was a wearable miniature Hayes SmartModem homage for the October 2024 Philadelphia-area hacker con. JawnCon's official write-up says it used RetroWiFiModem to simulate the AT command set and drive the LEDs, with a PCB carrying an ESP radio, level shifter, and vintage red LED front; Hackaday covered it as an ESP8266-powered Wi-Fi modem badge for early-Internet services.
Kernelcon 2024 [a]nalyze [i]nternet Badge
Analog 555 and 4017 LAN cable tester
Kernelcon's 2024 [a]nalyze [i]nternet badge was an analog LAN cable-tester badge built without a microcontroller, using a 555 timer, 4017 decade counter, RJ45 path, diode network, head LEDs, and a detachable remote.
LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner Badge
ATTiny4313 POV fidget-spinner badge
The LayerOne 2024 POV Spinner Badge was an electronic fidget-spinner conference badge that displayed words and patterns through a 12-LED persistence-of-vision strip while spinning.
NorthSec 2024 Badge
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.
Off-By-One 2024 Hardware Badge
Singapore dual-screen Octopus badge
Off-By-One Conference 2024 used an Octopus-themed hardware badge with ESP32-S3 and ATmega328P controllers, dual 128x128 GC9A01 round LCDs, IR, WS2812 LEDs, buttons, a user-flashable MicroPython challenge surface, and six published challenge flags.
ROOTCON 18 3D-Printable Badge
Philippine official STL badge artifact record
ROOTCON's official archive places ROOTCON 18 at Taal Vista Hotel in Tagaytay on September 25-27, 2024, and the official media server preserves a Badge/STL directory with Rootcon 2024 Buttons and Rootcon 2024 Single Color STL files.
RVAsec 2024 Badge
HackRVA firmware and emulator badge with IR, audio, games, and badge-hacking context
The RVAsec 2024 badge record combines official RVAsec package/layout evidence for limited HackRVA electronic badges and badge-hacking context with HackRVA's public firmware and emulator repository. The source tree documents LCD, three-color LED, D-pad, IR, rotary encoder, audio output, SDL simulator, and expanded games/apps.
Recon Village DC32 The Recon Soldier Badge
Multi-layer tactical recon badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 32 badge entry, The Recon Soldier, was a tactical-recon multi-layer PCB badge with red and blue LED eyes, 3D assembled design, and military helmet artwork.
Retia DEF CON 32 Badge
Retrospectively documented independent ESP32-S3 electronic badge
Retia, LLC's public repository is currently named `DefconBadge2026`, but its immutable first source-release commit calls the project `DEF CON badge (2024)` and its README is titled `DEF CON Badge (2024) — ESP32-S3`. That source snapshot includes KiCad and fabrication material named `2024_def_con_badge_v1`, a badge photograph, and high-level hardware documentation. The official DEF CON archive identifies the 2024 event as DEF CON 32, so the record is attached to that existing edition as a retrospectively documented independent artifact; neither Retia nor DEF CON source reviewed here calls it an official Human badge, an attendee entitlement, or a confirmed event handoff.
SAINTCON 2024 MiniBadge Trading Collection
Official and submitted MiniBadges documented by the 2024 trading build-guide trail
SAINTCON's 2024 MiniBadge Trading page documents an official trading area and a public build-guide link covering submitted MiniBadges that attendees designed and brought to the conference, including official MiniBadges.
Security Fest 2024 Feskekôrka Piano Badge
Music-and-airship CTF building badge
A Security Fest 2024 badge shaped around Gothenburg's Feskekôrka fish-market landmark, with piano/touch-key gameplay, an airship story CTF, LEDs, USB-C serial interaction, and documented attendee/speaker/crew variants.
Tildagon
EMF 2024+ reusable hexpansion platform
A reusable hexagonal badge platform with six expansion slots, MicroPython apps, and community hexpansions.
ToorCamp 2024 Shadybucks Wristband
Camp identity, Shadybucks payment, and Euphoria CTF artifact
ToorCamp 2024's source-backed badge artifact is modeled here as the Shadybucks wristband / Shady Tag flow: each attendee received a wristband at registration, activated Shadybucks at Shadytel, registered a Shady Tag handle, and used the badge or wristband trail as an entry point into the Euphoria CTF.
Zer0Con 2024 Entry Badge
South Korean closed-conference entry badge availability record
Zer0Con's official archive places the closed vulnerability-research conference at Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul on April 4-5, 2024, and POC Security's official update trail described an Entry badge with 120 available seats before the archive marked the edition sold out.
2025
39C3 Critical Decentralization Cluster Badge
Open-hardware ESP32-S3 / TROPIC01 assembly badge and devboard
The Critical Decentralization Cluster's CDC Badge was presented as an electronic conference badge and development board at the completed 39th Chaos Communication Congress. The source-backed open-hardware platform combines an ESP32-S3, TROPIC01 secure element, front-lit e-paper display, twelve-button keypad, LiPo power path, and expansion ports, while public sources do not establish a conference-wide or admission-badge allocation.
39C3 Cyberwatch Badge
Modular cyberpunk watch-style badge
An electronic badge created for 39C3 as a modular, solderable watch-style device. The project was designed to be reconfigurable with interchangeable daughter boards (called shards) for different use cases.
39C3 Hub Digital Badges
Assembly-created Hub achievement badges
The 39C3 info pages documented a Hub badge system where participants could collect assembly-created digital badges via redeem tokens, profile assignment, QR codes, and challenge or visit workflows.
44CON 2025 RF Detector Badge
Electronic Cats OLED and RF-detector badge
The 44CON 2025 badge is a public Electronic Cats hardware and firmware project that can run with a CH32-style shield for an OLED mini-game or with an ESP32 Wemos D1 module plus optional buzzer, MT3608 boost converter, AD8317 RF detector, and add-on board.
Aerospace Village DC33 ADS-B Badge
Linux ADS-B badge with Winglet OS 2.0
Aerospace Village's DEF CON 33 badge record documents the DC32 ADS-B badge hardware returning for DC33 with new software, Winglet OS 2.0 release artifacts, DC33 SAO support, and an ADS-B accessory ecosystem.
Aerospace Village DC33 Aranya ESP32 Badge Board
SpiderOak workshop ESP32-S3 messaging board
Aerospace Village's DEF CON 33 workshop schedule documented a SpiderOak Aranya hands-on workshop where up to 20 attendees received free ESP32 badge-board hardware, flashed a distributed wireless messaging application, and kept the board afterward.
AvengerCon IX Electronic Badge
Four-challenge serial CTF badge
The AvengerCon IX electronic badge carried a built-in four-challenge CTF, coin-cell blink behavior, BAT CON battery jumper, micro-USB connection, CP2102 USB-to-UART serial path, and post-event unlock codes published by the official badge page.
BIC Village DC33 BIC Pick Badge
Afro-pick commemorative village badge
Blacks In Cybersecurity's official BIC Pick page documents a DEF CON 33 village badge designed as a red, green, and gold Afro pick celebrating the five-year anniversary of the BIC Village.
BSides Adelaide 2025 Wombat-2 CTF Badge
Standalone binary-entry CTF badge with tactile buttons, LEDs, and hidden hardware challenge
BSides Adelaide 2025's second Wombat badge is source-backed by Hackerware, Hackster, and attendee challenge analysis: it kept the MS51FB9AE/CR2032 LED badge line but added onboard CTF controls, seven official challenge LEDs, binary flag entry, and an unannounced hardware challenge.
BSides Agra 2025 IOTSRG Badge
Indian Security BSides badge-sponsor and soldering-village record
A conservative source-backed BSides Agra 2025 badge record from the archived official site and official social trail, documenting an IOTSRG Badge Sponsor role, all-attendee collectible-badge framing, and a hands-on soldering village without asserting an unrecovered final circuit.
BSides Bournemouth 2025 Skull Badge
ATtiny402 skull PCB badge
A completed BSides Bournemouth 2025 electronic PCB badge created by the event's badge sponsor, Punk Security. BSides Bournemouth's official 2025 page establishes its Bournemouth 2600-led community cybersecurity conference and reports 200+ attendees; the Security BSides schedule records the August 16 date. Punk Security's own event page identifies it as badge sponsor and calls the artifact a Punk BSides skull badge, while its post-event repository identifies the Skull Badge and preserves EAGLE, Gerber, Arduino firmware, vector, and printed-art material. The archive names an ATtiny402, button, two CR2032 clips, and 5050 NeoPixel. The sources do not establish a production quantity, attendee allocation, individual handoff, final unit-by-unit configuration, safety validation, or reusable image provenance.
BSides Brisbane 2025 Cool Badge
Queensland ticket-included badge with electronic-badge prospectus evidence
BSides Brisbane 2025 ticketing documented a cool badge for Standard and VIP attendees, while the sponsorship prospectus offered electronic badge design and build for 500 delegates as a separate supporter item.
BSides CDMX 2025 Badge
PY32F030 OLED and NeoPixel badge with role variants and Metro add-on
BSides CDMX 2025's Electronic Cats repository documents a Security BSides CDMX badge built around a Puya PY32F030F28U6TR, NeoPixels, OLED display, two AAA battery holder, Shitty Addon connector, role-specific KiCad hardware variants, a Metro add-on, public firmware, release HEX files, and BOM assets.
BSides Cape Town 2025 Badge Sponsor Slot
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.
BSides Exeter 2025 Pirate Ship Badge
ATtiny402 pirate-ship badge with venue treasure-chest interaction
A completed BSides Exeter 2025 electronic PCB badge created by the event's badge sponsor, Punk Security. Organizer ticketing and Security BSides sources establish the April 26 conference at The Forum, University of Exeter; Punk Security's own event listing identifies it as badge sponsor. Its post-event public repository identifies the pirate-ship badge, says it was given out at BSides Exeter, preserves EAGLE, EasyEDA, Gerber, badge/chest firmware, and chest-model material, and describes a venue treasure-chest interaction for unlocking additional LED modes. The archive names an ATtiny402, button, CR2032 clip, and 5050 NeoPixel for the badge. The sources do not establish a production quantity, attendee allocation, individual handoff, final unit-by-unit configuration, chest count or deployment, safety validation, player outcome, or reusable image provenance.
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 Badge
ESP32-WROVER MicroPython conference e-badge
BSides Fort Wayne 2025 had an electronic conference badge documented by a first-hand badge-team writeup and a public organization repository, with ESP32-WROVER hardware, dual SPI display headers, seven WS2812B LEDs, accelerometer, buzzer, LiPo charging, MicroPython firmware, and badge CTF challenge apps.
BSides Knoxville 2025 Fox Pick ESP32-S3 Badge
Maker-documented ESP32-S3 electronic conference badge
BSides Knoxville's 2025 official guide says Fox Pick made the event badges. In a public post-event talk, a Fox Pick representative describes the resulting electronic badge as ESP32-S3 based, with Bluetooth Low Energy and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, an SSD1309 display, capacitive touch controls, USB-C, a CH340 USB-UART bridge, battery voltage monitoring and charging/protection circuitry, a NeoPixel status light, and exposed I/O pads. The talk says source code was made available through a QR-linked GitHub page, but this pass did not recover a direct repository URL.
BSides Kristiansand 2025 Sykt Badge
Norwegian Security BSides SolaSec duck-shaped CTF badge
A source-backed Norwegian Security BSides electronic badge record: Noroff's post-event report documents a custom SolaSec electronic duck badge with seven LED challenge indicators, the official recordings page preserves Caleb Davis's Sykt Badge talk, and Cryptax's CTF write-up documents RP2040/MicroPython behavior, USB serial access, Wi-Fi AP setup, and on-badge web challenges.
BSides Lisbon 2025 Electronic Badge
Portuguese Security BSides electronic badge with badge-sponsor trail
A source-backed Portuguese Security BSides electronic-badge record: the official BSidesLisbon 2025 about page says the edition would have an electronic badge, the sponsors page lists a Badge Sponsor section for BitSight, and Eventbrite anchors the November 13-14, 2025 Auditorio FMD-UL conference.
BSides Newcastle 2025 Space Badge
ATtiny412, NeoPixel, and Morse-code game PCB badge
A completed BSides Newcastle 2025 electronic PCB badge created by the event's badge sponsor, Punk Security. Punk Security's public repository identifies it as the Space Badge, preserves board, schematic, EasyEDA, Gerber, artwork, firmware, and venue-sign material, and describes a Morse-code game using signs placed around the venue. Its README names an ATtiny412, one button, CR2032 holder, and 5050 NeoPixel. The sources do not establish a production quantity, attendee allocation, individual handoff, final unit-by-unit configuration, safety validation, or reusable image provenance.
BSides Peoria 2025 HackTheBadge Challenge Badge
Maker-published one-off ESP32 badge-challenge device
A source-bounded independent BSides Peoria 2025 challenge-badge dossier. Technet8394's event-period public HackTheBadge README calls the work "My ESP32 code for the BSides Peoria Badge Challenge 2025." Its later source release documents an ESP32, a 240×320 ILI9341 TFT panel, two batteries, and wiring. BSides Peoria's official 2025 announcement establishes the October 25 Bradley University event, and its 2026 organizer retrospective says the prior edition drew nearly 350 people and had electronic badges. No reviewed organizer source links this specific maker project to a main attendee badge, official issuance, or completed handoff, so the catalogue keeps it as an independent event-associated challenge device.
BSides Perth 2025 ESP32 TFT Badge
Attendee-assembled ESP32 DevKit / 1.8-inch TFT challenge badge
The public BSides Perth 2025 badge archive and its assembly documentation identify a physical, attendee-assembled custom-PCB artifact built around an ESP32 DOIT DevKit v1, 1.8-inch LCD TFT, four tactile buttons, headers, and Micro-USB power. The archive also documents a virtual companion and challenge context, but it was published in September-October 2025 and does not prove that every event attendee received the same physical configuration.
BSides Prague 2025 Electronic Badge
Czech Security BSides PCB badge with attendee chip challenges
A source-backed Czech Security BSides electronic badge record: the official BSides Prague 2025 schedule page announced a PCB badge powered by multiple processors, and a first-hand organizer retrospective documents the first generation of electronic badges, attendee chips, challenge XP, interactive panels, and nickname display.
BSides Vancouver 2025 Electronic Badge
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.
BSidesKC 2025 Badge
Badge Pirates ESP32-S3 touchscreen conference badge with a later firmware path
The BSidesKC 2025 badge was a Badge Pirates fully electronic conference badge documented through public production and fulfillment updates: 250 fully assembled ESP32 touchscreen badges from PCBWay with 3.2 inch touch screens, Wi-Fi, SD card slots, customs delays, tariff impact, and post-event pickup or shipping handling. A current maker-hosted flasher identifies its target as ESP32-S3, while a 2026 Badge Pirates announcement says the delayed 2025 hardware, not a new board, received a Lunar Lander contest continuation for BSidesKC's Ad Astra programme.
BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village Badge
Pacific Hackers and Hackerwares HCV badge
The BSidesSF 2025 Hardware Challenge Village badge is a source-backed badge designed specifically for the village's electronic tinkering, programming, and competitive CTF challenge.
BSidesSLC 2025 E-Badge
custom ESP32-S3 / LoRa Meshtastic badge
The BSidesSLC 2025 E-Badge is a source-backed custom electronic badge that BSidesSLC describes with an ESP32-S3-WROOM, LoRa, 25 addressable LEDs, TFT display, Micro-USB or three-AA power, mini-badge slots, and custom Meshtastic firmware.
BSidesTLV 2025 Infinity Glove Electronic Badge
Israeli limited hardware CTF badge
BSidesTLV's official 2025 badge page documents The Infinity Glove, a limited pre-order electronic badge sold with BSidesTLV 2025 entry, picked up on site, and framed as a custom-designed hardware CTF with hidden puzzles and badge-holder-only stages.
BadgESC{21} Badge
Transparent PET flex-PCB cube conference badge
A completed Italian End Summer Camp {21} electronic badge whose organizer-owned badge-2025 repository explicitly calls it a flex-PCB badge distributed at ESC{21}. The public archive includes KiCad hardware, Gerbers, a BOM, placement data, folding material, a case directory, and firmware material; an author retrospective and first-person maker project document a transparent PET board folded into a cube. Public sources do not establish a recipient total, final unit-by-unit configuration, safety certification, a unified final firmware release, or reusable image provenance.
Biohacking Village DC33 Distiller BHV Badge
Compute Module 5 medical-AI badge
Biohacking Village's DEF CON 33 Distiller BHV badge was a CM5-based medical-AI badge built with SolaSec and PamirAI, combining local voice/chat interaction, e-ink UI, physical buttons, colored LEDs, battery power, and public BHV software branches.
BornHack 2025 Circle Badge
LoRa and Meshtastic badge
A circular ESP32-C3 badge focused on LoRa, Meshtastic, WiFi, BLE, RGB LEDs, external antenna use, and expansion connectors.
Bug Bounty Village DC33 BBV Badge
Four-button, four-LED challenge badge
Bug Bounty Village's BBV Badge 2025 was a DEF CON 33 village challenge badge with four buttons, four corresponding LEDs, and a reward path for attendees who lit all four LEDs.
BugCON 2025 Linux Badge
RV1106 Linux badge with add-on and embedded-Linux hacking path
BugCON 2025's Electronic Cats badge repository documents an open-hardware RV1106G3 Linux badge with ARM Cortex-A7, RISC-V MCU, NPU, ISP, GPIO, MIPI CSI, UART, SPI, I2C, USB hub, Ethernet path, WS2812E NeoPixels, 18650 battery support, Python scripting, and a PY32F002 add-on board.
CHCon 2025 Badge
ESP32-C3 pukeko badge with OLED, RGB LEDs, Rust VM, and Minecraft server
CHCon 2025's attendee badge was a custom circuit-board badge with an ESP32-C3, SSD1306 128x64 OLED, 24 WS2812 RGB LEDs, USB Serial JTAG shell access, bare-metal Rust firmware, a stack-based pattern VM, and a Minecraft 1.21.4 challenge server.
CSIDES 2025 Crab Badge
ATtiny1614 infrared-capable electronic crab badge
A completed CSIDES 2025 electronic PCB badge created by the event's badge sponsor, Punk Security. The organizer's sources and Eventbrite listing establish the October 3 Grand Pier community cybersecurity conference in Weston-super-Mare; Punk Security's own event page calls it the custom badge sponsor and identifies an infrared-capable badge. Its post-event public repository identifies the crab badge, preserves board, schematic, Gerber, firmware, and artwork material, and names an ATtiny1614, buttons, two CR2032 clips, 5050 NeoPixel, trimmer, capacitor, transistor, and 940 nm infrared LEDs. The sources do not establish a production quantity, attendee allocation, individual handoff, final unit-by-unit configuration, electrical-safety result, device-interaction outcome, or reusable image provenance.
CactusCon 13 Badge
Badge Pirates CC13 ESP32-S3 badge archive
The CactusCon 13 badge is preserved through Badge Pirates' public CactusCon13 repository, which publishes KiCad CAD files, Gerber output, outer-board variants, 3D-print assets, ESP32-S3 reference material, and a MIT-licensed source archive for the 2025 CactusCon badge.
CrikeyCon X 2025 Identity Badge
Tenth-anniversary Brisbane conference credential
CrikeyCon X is represented as an Australian identity-badge record because the official schedule told attendees they could pick up their badge early before Saturday entry, while the Humanitix and archive pages establish the March 22, 2025 Brisbane event context.
CyberNorth CyberFest 2025 Compass Badge
ATtiny412 and LIS2MDLTR electronic compass badge
A completed CyberNorth CyberFest 2025 electronic PCB badge documented by its maker, Punk Security, as a compass badge distributed at the Community Conference. CyberNorth's official 2025 materials place that conference on October 7 at Newcastle Civic Centre within its month-long northeast England cybersecurity festival. The public maker archive names an ATtiny412, button, CR2032 clip, 5050 NeoPixel, and LIS2MDLTR three-axis magnetometer, and preserves EAGLE, EasyEDA, Gerber, firmware, and board-art material. The sources do not establish a production count, recipient ledger, final unit-by-unit configuration, calibrated field performance, electrical-safety result, or reusable image provenance.
DEF CON 33 Badge
Layered-lens physical badge
An official DEF CON 33 non-electronic physical badge by Mar Williams, built around layered art, 3D image interactions, lenses, clue spotting around the con, and an Arts & Entertainment booth badge challenge.
DORS/CLUC 2025 Badge
NFC treasure-hunt and LED badge
The second electronic DORS/CLUC badge, built around NFC tag hunting, badge-to-badge interaction counters, LED-display modes, USB configuration and passthrough behavior, a simple game, open source files, and a public production all-nighter writeup.
DragonJARCON 2025 NFC Hardware Badge
Limited Colombian NFC hardware-hacking badge
A conservative Colombian DragonJARCON 2025 record for an optional electronic hardware badge and a separate DragonJARCON 2025 NFC hacking badge raffle limited to 100 units.
Ekoparty 2025 Badge
Artistic sonic RP2040 badge
An official Ekoparty 2025 electronic badge record for a customizable artistic and sonic badge with RP2040 control, I2S DAC audio, headphone and speaker amplification, rechargeable USB-C power, NeoPixel backlight LEDs, resistive touch sensors, sequencer, sample playback, synth behavior, and effects.
FightDystopia 2025 Badge (DEF CON 33)
Independent ESP32-S3 party badge with a scheduled DC33 BadgeLife drop
BigTaro's Tindie listing calls FightDystopia 2025 an electronic party badge, prices it at $150, and displays an out-of-stock state that says it has been sold out since August 11, 2025. The maker says it detects a user-defined list of BLE MAC addresses to give a heads-up about what is around the user; includes a CTF with Windows Vista-era throwbacks, hardware and software puzzles, unlockable bling and GIFs, two custom PCBs sandwiching a screen for a retro-TV aesthetic, an ESP32-S3-based fully-programmable claim, twelve RGB LEDs, a custom lanyard, and stickers. The DEF CON 33 Creator Events List independently schedules a Friday BadgeLife Community drop naming FightDystopia alongside Submarine and FrogStar. This establishes a source-backed independent 2025 electronic artifact and scheduled event association, not an official DEF CON credential, universal or completed handout, BLE detection mechanism, security or privacy assurance, firmware source release, party-benefit accounting, or reusable-image rights.
Flutter & Friends 2025 E-Paper Conference Badge
NFC-updatable passive four-color e-paper developer-conference badge
Flutter & Friends' organizer-published conference-app source added a Friends Badge editor on August 30, 2025: users could select an image, preview it with dithering, and write it to the conference badge through NFC. The companion `friends_badge` package explicitly describes control of the Flutter & Friends e-paper conference badge, and its implemented target profile is a passive four-color e-paper device. The source-backed record establishes a real event-linked electronic artifact at the completed Stockholm conference, but does not establish that every attendee received one, that it served as admission, or what final physical units contained.
FrogStar Badge (DEF CON 33)
Unofficial electronic badge with a documented DEF CON 33 BadgeLife drop schedule
BigTaro's FrogStar 2025 project page calls FrogStar an unofficial DEFCON badge, and the DEF CON 33 Creator Events List schedules a BadgeLife Community Table 1 drop that explicitly names the FrogStar Badge alongside two other BigTaro artifacts. The maker page identifies a Raspberry Pi RP2350, 1.28 inch GC9A01 240 by 240 round LCD, two SAO V1.69bis ports, addressable WS2812B RGB LEDs, an infrared receiver, six buttons, frog-themed CTF and game framing, and a Firmware v1.0 UF2 download with a copy-to-flash instruction. A Tindie listing separately calls it an electronic badge and says it was a Defcon pickup preorder; a later Uberflux listing shows an $80 / seven-sold / 23-remaining snapshot, a DEF CON 34 drop label, and $11 USPS Flat Rate shipping. These sources establish a real independent electronic artifact and a scheduled 2025 event association, not a confirmed completed handout, official DEF CON issuance, admission, exact production count, completed later fulfillment, firmware source release, or reusable-image rights.
GPN23 Identity Badge
Printed attendee badge, lanyard, and safeR badge workflow
A source-backed non-electronic GPN23 badge record for the printed attendee badges and lanyard workflow documented by Entropia's FAQ and badge how-to.
GigaGeiger Badge (DEF CON 33)
Independent ESP32-S3 Wi-Fi monitoring and foxhunt badge sold for DEF CON 33
HackMy*'s maker storefront labels GigaGeiger a Wi-Fi badge for DEF CON 33 and shows a USD 120 price with a sold-out-since-August 6, 2025 state. The same listing describes a retro Geiger-counter-inspired device with a single rotary dial for 2.4 GHz channel monitoring, MAC-address foxhunting, and browser-based firmware flashing; it says the product shipped with a lanyard and batteries. Its linked public Penzz-HM repository publishes an MIT-licensed Arduino/C++ implementation for an ESP32-S3-WROOM, GC9A01 display, rotary input, Wi-Fi scanning, promiscuous-mode packet counting, RSSI tracking, and a local web updater, plus firmware binaries, Gerbers, and enclosure STL files. A separately published GigaGeiger PCB project on PCBWay is dated June 25, 2025, names Matt Wagner, provides Gerbers, and is marked CC BY-SA. These sources establish a real independent 2025 BadgeLife artifact and a public design trail, not official DEF CON issuance, admission, a completed event handoff, a complete electrical specification, universal radio/OTA safety, or a rights-cleared hero image.
GreyCTF Summit 2025 GreyBadge
Singapore RP2350 and ECP5 FPGA challenge badge
NUS Greyhats' public GreyBadge archive identifies the 2025 GreyCTF badge as GreyMecha/Army, with RP2350-side CircuitPython firmware, KiCad hardware files, an ECP5U_25 FPGA schematic, GC9A01 SPI display, Li-ion power-path circuitry, summit UF2/filesystem releases, and named challenge apps.
Gunslinger-B-Gone Badge and Sheriff SAO Combo (DEF CON 33)
Independent IR game/TV-control badge and Sheriff SAO combo listed for DEF CON 33
BigTaro's Tindie page calls Gunslinger-B-Gone an electronic badge with laser tag, a TV-B-Gone, a CTF, and an included Sheriff SAO; the page shows $100 and says it has been sold out since September 13, 2025. A separate Hacker Couture DEFCON 33 Product List independently lists a Gunslinger-B-Gone Badge by BigTaro at $140 and describes laser-tag play with the Sheriff SAO, making friends' badges light up, pointing an IR blast at a TV to power it down, CTF challenges, bling modes, Drinking Roulette, and a fully-programmable claim. BigTaro's Sheriff guide identifies the Sheriff companion as an RP2040-chip board, documents a CR2032 or LIR2032 battery holder with magnet and sticky pad, an independent battery switch, a standalone/wearable configuration, and an optional soldered SAO connection to the Gunslinger with the notch side up. These sources establish a real independent electronic-badge combo and a 2025 DEF CON vendor-list association, not a BadgeLife drop, official DEF CON issue, admission credential, complete IR or electrical specification, confirmed vendor handoff, firmware source release, or reusable-image rights.
HITCON 2025 PCB Badge
Taiwanese hacker-pet PCB badge with Red-vs-Blue tower play
HITCON 2025's official PCB Badge guide and public technical repository document an attendee PCB badge with a hacker-pet mode, built-in games, pedometer scoring, cross-board interaction, BadUSB behavior, Red-vs-Blue tower-capture play, and released STM32CubeIDE-oriented firmware/PCB project materials.
HackGDL 2025 Minino Badge
ESP32-S3 Minino badge for BLE, Wi-Fi, OLED, and badge apps
HackGDL 2025's official Electronic Cats event badge was an ESP32-S3 Minino-platform badge with BLE, Wi-Fi, USB-C, four buttons, three NeoPixels, an OLED screen, buzzer, three-AAA battery holder, SAO connector, case, and ready-to-use badge apps.
Hackaday Europe 2025 SAO Badge
Berlin reuse of the Supercon 8 SAO badge with revamped firmware
Hackaday Europe 2025 reused the Supercon 8 Simple Add-On badge concept in Berlin: an SAO-focused badge with I2C/GPIO exposure, MicroPython lineage, revamped Europe firmware, Supercon contest-winner add-ons, and badge-hacking ceremony context.
Hackaday Supercon 2025 Communicator Badge
ESP32-S3 LoRa mesh communicator badge
The 2025 Hackaday Supercon Communicator Badge is a handheld mesh-chat badge with ESP32-S3, 8 MB PSRAM, 16 MB flash, a wide LCD, custom Solder Party keyboard, SX1262 LoRa radio, SMA antenna path, LiPo charging, SAO v2 connector, LVGL MicroPython firmware, public hardware files, and user-app examples.
HackerHotel 2025 Badge
Badge-team workflow and challenge badge record
A HackerHotel 2025 badge record anchored by the public badge talk, preserving badge-team workflow, challenge integration, production handoff, and lessons learned rather than unsupported component-level details.
ICS Village DC33 FREE-WILi Badge
RP2350A ICS security badge tool
The ICS Village Badge for DEF CON 33 was a FREE-WILi and Intrepid Control Systems sponsored hands-on industrial-control-security badge tool with RP2350A control, ESP32-C6 Wi-Fi, sensors, GUI support, USB API, WASM scripting, and Build-A-Badge customization software.
Kawaiicon 2025 Seed-Paper Badge
Laser-etched recycled paper badge with wildflower seed mixture
Kawaiicon 2025's official badge page documents the Kawaiicon 3 badge as a laser-etched and cut recycled-paper identity artifact made with a wildflower seed mixture and handmade by the Papermill in Whangarei.
Kernelcon 2025 Race Condition Badge
Raspberry Pi Pico racing badge
Kernelcon's 2025 Race Condition badge was a Raspberry Pi Pico electronic badge with a TM1637-driven seven-segment display, three-AAA power, seven addressable RGB LEDs, buzzer, track-racing modes, reaction test, synthesizer, achievements, and CTF flag unlocks.
La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge
Electronic Cats OLED and nRF24L01 village badge
Electronic Cats' public La Villa Hacker 2025 Badge repository documents a village badge with OLED display, nRF24L01 radio, two-AAA power, Shitty Addon connector, KiCad hardware files, firmware sources, and a released VillaHacker.hex binary.
LayerOne 2025 GLiTCh BadgE
RP2040 and iCE40 glitching badge for hardware hacking
LayerOne 2025's GLiTCh BadgE was a conference electronic badge and hardware-hacking platform centered on an RP2040, iCE40 FPGA, voltage glitching, crowbar control, SWD, AVRISP, analog monitoring, multiple USB modes, and CLI-driven experiments.
Lonely Hackers Club DC33 Meshtastic Badge
Limited LoRa mesh badge for DEF CON 33 pickup
Lonely Hackers Club's Meshtastic Badge 2025 was a limited 50-unit community badge offered for DEF CON 33 pickup, built around a Heltec Wireless Tracker V1.1 LoRa radio board, preconfigured LHC channel behavior, and attendee pairing workflows.
MNSEC 2025 Electronic Badge Collection
Completed 418-unit, three-variant MNCERT/CC electronic-badge collection
A completed MNSEC 2025 electronic-badge collection commissioned by MNCERT/CC and documented by Beelog Technologies. Beelog's public project page states that it designed, manufactured, and developed 418 electronic badges for MNCERT/CC; the public MNSEC2025BADGE archive identifies the order with the September cybersecurity conference, says three badge types were completed, and preserves Gerber, schematic, firmware, example-code, and supporting-material directories. The sources do not establish attendee allocation, a per-unit delivery record, final unit-by-unit configuration, safety validation, or reusable image provenance.
Maritime Hacking Village DC33 Differential Destroyer
Pico 2 maritime bus and voltage-glitching badge
The Differential Destroyer was Maritime Hacking Village's official DEF CON 33 badge, published as an OSHWA-certified open hardware platform for maritime bus work, scripting, signal interaction, and experimental voltage glitching.
Masonic33 Indie Puzzle Badge (DEF CON 33)
Independent ATtiny1616 analog-input puzzle badge with a scheduled DC33 drop and current DC34 continuity
Hak4Kidz Lab's Tindie listing calls Masonic33 a cryptic, interactive badge for puzzle lovers, hackers, and DEF CON attendees. It says two 10 kΩ potentiometers control an ATtiny1616-based board with eleven independently controlled LEDs; players tune analog inputs to unlock a hidden LED sequence and solve four puzzles. The listing also names a UPDI-compatible one-wire programming interface, 4.5 V AAA-battery input with batteries included, a 4.25-inch black-solder-mask/white-silkscreen PCB, custom VHS-style box, patches, lanyard, and stickers. A recovered public DEF CON 33 schedule records a 10:30-10:59 PDT BadgeLife Community Masonic33 Badge drop credited to Heal-Hak4Kidz, while the Hacker Couture DEFCON 33 product list separately shows the Masonic33 Badge at $125. Badge.Life's live DC34 Village Schedule additionally lists Masonic33 Badge — heal at 10:30 AM on Friday August 7 and 11:00 AM on Saturday August 8, 2026, without naming a changed board or revision. These sources establish a real independent 2025 puzzle badge with planned 2026 continuity, not official DEF CON issuance, admission, a confirmed completed drop, a separate DC34 artifact, a complete circuit/firmware archive, a connection to any fraternal organization, or reusable-image rights.
NilbinSec DC33 Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots
Unofficial badgelife robot-fighting badge set
NilbinSec's Hack 'Em Crack 'Em Robots was a DEF CON 33 badgelife release announced in the DEF CON #Badge Life forum, sold as a limited full-size badge set through RENXCHANGE, and listed in the DC33 community schedule as a badge drop.
NolaCon 2025 Patches Badge
Voodoo Heart electronic badge and Learn to Solder artifact
NolaCon 2025's Patches badge continued the conference's Learn to Solder badge tradition, with the official badge page presenting Patches as a customizable Voodoo Heart-series character whose limbs, LEDs, and personal flair could make each build unique.
NorthSec 2025 Badge
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.
OzSec 2025 CRASHANDBURN Badge
Work-in-progress MicroPython game-badge archive
A source-conservative OzSec 2025 badge record: the organizer-linked repository calls itself the code and supporting-document archive for the CRASHANDBURN badge, while retaining work-in-progress hardware alternatives and MicroPython game source.
PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge
Hackable electronic CTF badge with a source-depth caveat
A conservative PWNEDCR 0x08 record: a named post-event account says the October 18-19, 2025 San José conference used a hackable electronic badge as part of its CTF, with hidden Easter eggs and challenges. It supports the reality of a physical electronic badge but publishes no component, firmware, maker, production, or reusable-image documentation.
Payment Village DC33 Vulnerable ATM Badge
Large physical ATM attack-surface simulation artifact
A preserved DEF CON 33 programme describes Payment Village's Vulnerable ATM Badge as the conference's largest badge that year: a physical form factor attendees could carry with two hands, built to simulate ATM attack surfaces. Payment Village's own DEF CON 33 page confirms the village/event context, while its 2026 schedule still lists an Introduction to the Vulnerable ATM Badge. The recovered sources establish the named physical educational artifact, not its electronics, a reusable current build, or a 2026 reissue.
PhreakNIC 26 Electronic Shelf Label Badge
Battery-less ZBD shelf-label badge with per-attendee firmware images
PhreakNIC 26's official electronic badge reused dead-battery ZBD 55c-RB electronic shelf labels as 3D-printed pager-styled badges with static 240x96 one-bit displays, QR-code-backed attendee customization, and on-site reflashing.
ROOTCON 19 Badge
Philippine electronic badge and Type-B fallback record
A ROOTCON 19 badge-distribution record documenting electronic badges distributed first-come at on-site check-in, guaranteed electronic badges for Human+ and Blackcard attendees, and a simpler non-electronic Type-B badge fallback.
RVAsec 2025 Badge
Official limited Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge package record
The RVAsec 2025 badge is seeded from the official RVAsec 14 registration page, which listed a guaranteed hotel package with a custom RVAsec challenge coin and a Custom Hack.RVA Electronic badge while supplies lasted. No public 2025 hardware repository, firmware tree, schematic, BOM, or final badge photo provenance was recovered in this pass.
Rabbit-Labs The Pirates' Plunder Badge
DEF CON 33 RF badgelife badge with dual CC1101 radios
Rabbit-Labs and The Pirates' Plunder Badge was an independent DEF CON 33 collaboration badge that debuted at the Rabbit-Labs vendor booth, with public firmware options, an ESP32-S3-N16R8, two CC1101 433 MHz radios, an OLED, joystick controls, SDIO storage, and 32 WS2812B / NeoPixel LEDs.
Recon Village DC33 The Cyber Owl Badge
Cyber Vigilance owl badge
Recon Village's DEF CON 33 badge entry, The Cyber Owl, was a cyberpunk owl electronic badge with intricate mechanical detail, metallic blue-gray finish, and glowing pink LED eyes.
Red Team Summit 2025 Electronic Badge
First electronic badge in summit history
Red Team Summit's official history identifies the March 11-12, 2025 Redmond event as the first Red Team Summit with an electronic badge. The same historical record gives 194 attendees, 61 organizations, and 108 CFP submissions, but does not describe the badge's physical form, technology, maker, or recipient scope.
SAO Many SAOs Badge (DEF CON 33)
Independent 25-slot Simple Add-On host badge; later DEF CON 34 roster continuity
Coruscant Ventures' official SAO Many SAOs Badge page identifies the object as a DEFCON 33 product, presents it as a 25-design Simple Add-On display platform, and says its outer LEDs require the separate SmartAO SAO. The maker's public technical README says the badge has two pre-installed 18650 batteries, USB and barrel-connector power/charging paths, up to 25 SAO slots, and an approximately 300 mA at 3.3 V total SAO budget when using charged batteries. A July 2026 public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response marks SaO MANY SAOs as Update to Existing, gives an $80 price and Venmo acquisition note, and repeats 25 SAO slots plus a 360 by 360 mm size. The current roster does not identify a changed board or new revision, so this is one independently documented DEF CON 33 host badge with a later availability/continuity record, not a duplicate DEF CON 34 artifact, official credential, completed sale, confirmed delivery, or rights-cleared image.
Submarine Badge & Pirate SAO (DEF CON 33)
Independent electronic badge and Pirate Flag SAO bundle with a scheduled DC33 BadgeLife drop
BigTaro's Tindie listing calls this the Submarine Badge & Pirate SAO and describes a $150 Defcon-pickup preorder. It frames the electronic artifact as an interactive underwater world with CTF package deliveries in DEF-SEA, pirate battles, underwater cults, Atlantis, hardware/software puzzles, and soldering challenges. The source says it has a super-bright round display, more than six buttons, one SAO port, exposed extra GPIO, a fully-programmable claim, an exclusive Pirate Flag SAO bundle, stickers, and an interaction with Gunslinger-B-Gone. BigTaro's own Submarine page supplies a live dashboard-like maker surface, and the DEF CON 33 Creator Events List independently schedules a Friday BadgeLife Community Table 1 drop naming Submarine alongside FrogStar and FightDystopia. These sources establish a real independent electronic-badge bundle and a scheduled 2025 event activity, not an official DEF CON credential, confirmed attendance or handout outcome, production count, electrical design, firmware source release, or reusable-image rights.
THOTCON 0xD Badge
ESP32 touch-wheel badge with TFT, audio, LEDs, and games
The THOTCON 0xD badge was a Fourfold-built electronic conference badge for the May 30-31, 2025 Chicago event, documented as a 2,000-unit ESP32 touch-wheel badge with ST7789 TFT display, buzzer, six LEDs, LiPo power, add-on header, games, visual effects, and challenge hooks.
VULNCON 2025 Solder & Spark Badge
Indian hands-on electronic badge village kit
A conservative VULNCON 2025 Solder & Spark Badge Village record for the official IoTSRG-hosted activity where participants built an electronic badge from a kit with PCB, components, soldering tools, battery, switch, and testing time.
Vibe Coder Dog SAO (DEF CON 33)
Maker-stated DEF CON 33 multicolor-LED Simple Add-On; 2026 leftover pickup only
coryallegory's live Uberflux listing calls this the Vibe Coder Dog SAO, says Science Dog is now Coder Dog, and says the artifact was created for DEFCON 33. The same current listing says a few leftover units are available as a 2026 pre-order for pickup at DEF CON 34 or BSidesLV in Las Vegas. Its August 4, 2026 snapshot lists $15, five sold, and zero remaining, with a free Saturday August 8 BadgeLife Village pickup label. The maker says the unit is fully assembled, has a standard 2 by 3 SAO header, and uses cycling multicolor LEDs to light its keyboard with AI magic. This is source-backed evidence for an independent DEF CON 33-associated LED Simple Add-On, not proof of the original 2025 distribution, a specific controller or actual AI behavior, final 2026 pickup, DEF CON organizer affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
WHY2025 Badge
Capable hardware, difficult camp history
The Dutch 2025 camp badge mixed ambitious hardware with late distribution, LoRa caveats, battery-safety controversy, and a documented pre-event team conflict.
Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 E-Badge
Antisyphon-sponsored ESP32-S3 badge CTF
The Wild West Hackin' Fest Deadwood 2025 e-badge was the conference's electronic badge and badge CTF artifact. The official WWHF e-badge page identifies Antisyphon Training as the badge sponsor, Meta CTF as the scoreboard/challenge partner, multiple challenges solvable from badge behavior or firmware, and Ray Feltch, David Fletcher, and Rick Wisser as badge-team contacts.
Zer0Con 2025 Entry Badge
South Korean closed-conference entry badge availability record
Zer0Con's official 2025 page places the closed vulnerability-research conference at Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul on April 10-11, 2025, and POC Security's official update trail described a Zer0Con2025 Entry badge with 100 available seats.
seeess DC33 Tipsy Badge
RP2040 galvanic-vestibular badgelife badge
The Tipsy Badge was an independent DEF CON 33 electronic badge by seeess, sold at the Hacker Warehouse vendor booth, with public CC BY-NC 4.0 repository documentation, firmware, a badge photo, 2xAAA power, RP2040 control, TFT display, buttons, LEDs, SAO port, custom photo storage, and galvanic vestibular stimulation modes.
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#NOICE SAO (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event 16-red-LED Simple Add-On with a maker-stated fundraiser context
caelyb's live Uberflux listing describes the #NOICE Simple Add-On as designed for DEF CON 34. Its August 4, 2026 marketplace snapshot lists $20, eight sold, and 92 remaining, with BadgeLife Village, LineCon, and Queercon Mixer drop labels plus post-DEF-CON CONUS shipping. The listing names sixteen side-emitting XL-1606SURC red LEDs, a tactile effect button, persistent last-effect memory, and a stated 2.7–3.7 V input range. It says the board has several fast and slow flashing, heartbeat, and breathing/fade effects, includes a lobster-clasp lanyard, and frames the project around the maker's stated concerns about U.S. immigration enforcement. The maker also says a portion of proceeds goes to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. This is a source-backed pre-event independent lighting SAO record, not verification of the listing's policy statements or donation outcome, final manufacture, electrical safety, host compatibility, delivery, DEF CON organizer affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
2026 eChallengeCoin (DEF CON 34)
Independent brass Coin M0 text-adventure and CircuitPython eChallengeCoin planned for DEF CON 34
AoSC's 2026 eChallengeCoin page describes a planned limited run of 40 brass electronic coins, framed as gifts for participants in its Choose Your Own Charity initiative rather than items for sale. It describes a Sara and the Missing Artifacts terminal text adventure, three groups of NeoPixels, a small speaker, one large touch pad for CircuitPython, no battery, 46-gram brass construction, and a Micro-USB serial connection; its form says a $100-or-greater youth-STEM-charity donation may receive a 2026 coin by U.S. mail or DEF CON pickup. The same page links the official CircuitPython Bradán Lane STUDIO Coin M0 profile as the build specifically for the eChallengeCoin. That profile identifies an ATSAMD21G1A, 4 MB flash, three RGB-NeoPixel groups, three capacitive touch pads, a speaker, and native USB-C. The linked primary sources therefore document a real planned independent DEF CON 34 electronic artifact while also disagreeing about USB connector type and touch-pad count; this record preserves the conflict rather than resolving it. They do not establish final manufactured-unit parity, confirmed donations or delivery, charity/tax treatment, official DEF CON issuance or admission, game-source licensing, or reusable-image rights.
AND!XOR DC34 5N4CK3Y Badge
Pre-event independent BENDER contest badge with activation pending
AND!XOR's source-backed DC34 5N4CK3Y project is an independent DEF CON BadgeLife contest badge with limited philanthropy units and a stated free-badge distribution route through challenges, contests, events, and other convention activity. Its official product page says BENDER hacking challenges and same-day activation instructions are scheduled for the event, but does not yet disclose the board or firmware implementation. It is a pre-event independent record, not the official DEF CON 34 Human badge.
Adversary Village DEF CON 34 Volunteer Badge
Officially announced pre-event volunteer identity artifact
Adversary Village's official DEF CON 34 volunteer notice lists Adversary Village badges among the benefits for selected volunteers and explicitly says those badges do not give access to the con. The organizer's main event page confirms the August 7-9 Las Vegas Convention Center programme. This source-backed record models a planned volunteer identity artifact only; it does not identify a physical form, electronics, access-control mechanism, issued quantity, or handoff.
Aerospace Village DC34 SR-71 CTF Badge
Planned winnable CTF badge with an NFC game claim
The public DEF CON 34 BadgeLife roster contains a new listing submitted as Lockheed Martin - Aeronautics Cyber Range (ACR) for a badge titled SR-71. The named team says the badge is only winnable through a CTF it plans to host at its Aerospace Village booth and on its Discord, and describes a TCG-type card-collection game using NFC peer-to-peer and reader modes. That is concrete first-hand pre-event artifact evidence, while Aerospace Village's official page independently establishes the DEF CON 34 context; neither source publishes the badge's physical construction, NFC-hardware placement, or final distribution.
AfricaHackOn 2026 Attendee Badge
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.
Agency SAO Badge V2 (DEF CON 34)
Independent RP2040-Zero firmware project; physical build and event handoff unverified
MadmanTimmy3241's public repository describes itself as DEF CON 34 'Agency' SAO badge firmware for a Waveshare RP2040-Zero, and its commit-pinned source header calls the sketch DEF CON 34 "Agency" badge - V2. The public Arduino/C++ tree contains current display, scrolling, button, switch, buzzer, and infrared source paths, while dated first-person commit messages report staged local hardware smoke, display, input, and buzzer testing. The source header simultaneously says handshake, infrared, and logging logic is not wired up yet. This is sufficient to retain a distinct, independent pre-event event-labelled firmware-project record, not proof of a completed board, an event badge run, a compatible SAO, a delivered unit, DEF CON authorization, admission use, or a reusable image.
Agency Wand (DEF CON 34)
Current $60 ATtiny1616 BadgeLife wand; DC34 handoff and final-unit parity unverified
Brooke's Bytes' live Uberflux listing identifies Agency Wand as an independently offered DEF CON 34 iteration of a wand-shaped badge first made for HackSpaceCon 2025. The current listing shows a $60 price, 19 remaining, 11 sold, PRE/DROP labels, and a DEF CON 34 BadgeLife Village drop listed for August 7 at 4 PM. It names an ATtiny1616, five reverse-mounted addressable LEDs, ambient/setup LEDs, two buttons, a CR2032, and exposed UART pins, while explicitly saying specifications and functionality may vary as fabrication and development continue. TrueControl's public documentation describes this as the second Wand iteration and publishes more DC34 hardware/firmware context, including a clearly labelled REV1 hardware-issue section. The sources support a distinct pre-event electronic badge record, not completed manufacture or handoff, DEF CON issuance or admission function, final stock/payment status, a universally safe device, final firmware parity, or reusable marketplace/repository images.
Area41 2026 ESP-Based Electronic Badge
Swiss ESP blinking attendee badge with SAO invitation
A source-backed Area41 2026 attendee electronic-badge record. The official event page said each attendee would receive an ESP-based blinking electronic badge and invited badge owners to bring Shitty Add-Ons (SAOs). The organizer's post-event recap identifies Technische Fachschule Bern as the badge designer and assembler, while the school's own update says it developed and manufactured the hardware; the recap also reports attendees soldered more than 300 SAO badge extensions.
Avnet FAE Institute 2026 PCB Badge
Alex Glow's MIT-licensed hardware-experimentation event PCB badge
Alex Glow's public repository describes this as an official PCB-badge commission for Avnet's FAE Institute 2026, and its linked Hackster project calls it a cyber-gem and platform for hardware experimentation. The commit-pinned source archive contains KiCad 9 board files, Gerber outputs, custom footprint libraries, and front/back repository rasters. Public vendor updates identify the July Phoenix FAE Institute's hands-on technical-training context. Together these sources establish a real event-specific hardware design, but not participant-wide issuance, a final manufactured configuration, a source-to-unit mapping, or a delivery ledger.
BSides Adelaide 2026 Identity Lanyard Badge
Post-event South Australian attendee badge and lanyard support record
BSides Adelaide 2026 is represented here as a post-event identity/lanyard badge record: the CFP, current sponsorship page, and Humanitix ticketing establish the July 27-28, 2026 Amora Hotel Adelaide edition, while the sponsor brief lists printing, lanyards, and badges as supporter-fundable event costs.
BSides Ballarat 2026 Underground Badge
Interactive ESP32 conference badge with screen, controls, badge-to-badge comms, and SAO support
BSides Ballarat 2026's public event page documents an Underground interactive conference badge designed and produced by Firnsy at Ballarat Hackerspace, with ESP32 processing, a screen, controls, badge-to-badge communication, SAO support, and a limited BSides SAO add-on; a public maker writeup also documents a third-party WS2812B Simple Add-On for the badge. In a March 2026 post-event update, an organizer reported that the conference badge contained 20 puzzles and that its full source code had been released.
BSides Brisbane 2026 Clock Module Badge
Post-event 555/74LS clock-generator badge with MIT source release
BSides Brisbane 2026's official prospectus offered electronic badge design/build for 500 delegates, Humanitix marked the July 4 event passed while listing conference-badge and VIP special-badge pickup, and public event updates named BLARGE as the electronic-badge supporter. Six days after the event, the `bsidesbrisbane/badge-2026` repository publicly documented the actual 2026 Clock Module: a photographed purple BSides Brisbane board in a 3D-printed case, a simple manually controllable clock generator made from 555 timers and 74LS-series logic, with committed Gerbers, BOM/CPL production data, an STL case file, and an MIT license.
BSides Canberra 2026 Planned Electronic Badge
Pre-event Canberra electronic-badge and speaker-credential record
BSides Canberra 2026 is represented as a planned/pre-event record because its public Humanitix ticketing page says general and student entry include a t-shirt and electronic badge, while the official CFP says accepted talks or events receive a speaker/event-host badge.
BSides Cheltenham 2026 Challenge Coin
Planned Early Bird ticket-tier conference token
A conservative United Kingdom BSides Cheltenham 2026 conference-token record from the organizer's Early Bird ticket package, which promises an exclusive Limited Edition BSides Cheltenham 2026 Challenge Coin alongside entry, afterparty access, a t-shirt, and a swag bag. The Early Bird tier is shown as sold out before the October event.
BSides Chennai 2026 Event Badge
Ticket-included Indian conference identity artifact
A conservative Indian BSides Chennai 2026 identity-artifact record from the organizer's ticket page, which listed an Event Badge among the Last Bird ticket inclusions. The official schedule places the event on May 30 at Turyaa Hotel OMR in Chennai; its current ticket page remains a pre-event sales snapshot rather than proof of handoff.
BSides Des Moines 2026 Badge
Iowa CH585 RISC-V NFC badge with village-collection CTF
An official BSides Des Moines 2026 badge documented by the iot-pwn bsidesdsm26 repository as a WCH CH585 RISC-V board with an integrated ISO 14443A NFC reader, four SK6812 RGBW LEDs, a main control button, audio, and a three-layer CTF with two static flags, an eight-tag village-collection challenge, and a hash-based unlock, for the June 13, 2026 edition in Ankeny, Iowa.
BSides Dublin 2026 Harp Badge
Irish STM32 touch-and-sound electronic conference badge
A source-backed BSides Dublin 2026 Harp Badge: the organizer-owned public repository preserves firmware, a hardware reference, production files, and a post-event update path for the May 23 Trinity College conference.
BSides Fort Wayne 2026 Optional E-Badge
Optional organizer e-badge ticket add-on paired with a distinct 2026 source archive
BSides Fort Wayne's organizer ticket page offered a $30 optional e-badge add-on for the June 6, 2026 conference. The public BSidesFW2026Badge repository has distinct June 2026 activity, including a dedicated STLs/2026 enclosure set and default badge data changed to 2026, together with MicroPython source and inherited V4 technical documentation. The evidence links a real optional e-badge offer to a 2026 source archive without claiming a confirmed sale, physical receipt, firmware deployment, or exact final hardware configuration.
BSides Kraków 2026 Exclusive Badge
Planned general-admission conference identity artifact
BSides Kraków's official 2026 ticket page lists an Exclusive badge with its free General Admission and AGH Student passes. The agenda says attendees check in and get a badge, bag, and available gadgets, but neither source identifies material, artwork, barcode/QR/RFID/NFC, electronic form, technical behavior, production, or actual pickup/delivery.
BSides Kraków 2026 Exclusive Donator Badge
Planned donation-pass conference identity artifact
BSides Kraków's official 2026 ticket page lists an Exclusive donator badge with its 1 zł Donation pass, unlike the Exclusive badge listed for free General Admission and AGH Student passes. The source establishes a separately named planned tier artifact only; it does not establish whether its physical or technical form differs from the general badge, nor its material, artwork, electronics, allocation, or actual pickup/delivery.
BSides Kristiansand 2026 Shield Badge
SolaSec hackable electronic Kristiansand shield badge
BSides Kristiansand 2026 issued a custom hackable electronic badge shaped as the Kristiansand city shield. The official BSides Kristiansand article identifies SolaSec as its creator, and a published post-event account says every attendee received a hardware badge designed specifically for this event by Caleb Davis. The official ticket listing marks the June 5 Noroff conference as ended.
BSides Las Vegas 2026 Participant Badge
Current capacity-managed conference admission badge
BSides Las Vegas's official 2026 registration and ticketing sources call this a Participant Badge required for general conference access. The official registration page documents on-site pickup and separate queues for different badge types, while the ticketing page says a participant badge is required separately for Training Ground classes. It is recorded as a current identity/access artifact, not an electronic badge.
BSides Leeds 2026 Artie the Owl Badge
UK ATtiny814 LED owl with EEPROM-gated game unlocks
An official UK BSides Leeds 2026 badge documented by the punk-security repository as an ATtiny814 Artie the Owl board with eighteen SK6812 addressable RGB side-emitting LEDs, six capacitive touch pads, two CR2032 coin cells, and three single-player games whose one-byte EEPROM unlock gates hidden bonus LED animations, for the June 13, 2026 seventh edition at Cloth Hall Court in Leeds.
BSides Lisbon 2026 Electronic Badge
Planned Portuguese Security BSides electronic badge; technical details pending
BSides Lisbon's current official 2026 About page says the October 29-30 conference will have talks, networking, an electronic badge, and a CTF. The official home and location page place the planned event at Auditório Prof. Simões dos Santos in Lisbon, and the current team page lists Pedro Umbelino under Badge. This is a source-backed planned electronic-badge programme, not evidence of a completed board, technical implementation, or badge-linked CTF.
BSides Maine 2026 Electronic Lighthouse Badge
Interactive hackable lighthouse attendee badge with a pulsing beacon
BSides Maine's official Bluesky account called its 2026 badge electronic, described it as a puzzle, and revealed the main attendee badge as a hackable lighthouse with a pulsing beacon. The official agenda says attendees collected conference badges and materials at registration, and its closing description refers to whether anyone solved the badge. This completed-event record therefore documents a real electronic attendee badge and its stated puzzle role without supplying unannounced technical details.
BSides Melbourne 2026 Lanyard Badge
Cremorne participant badge and lanyard credential
BSides Melbourne 2026 is represented by the official 2026 event page and sponsorship package, which document the May 15-17 Seek HQ event and a lanyard sponsorship item whose lanyards hang participant badges and include the badge for about 600 items.
BSides Mumbai 2026 Badge Pickup
Planned Indian Security BSides identity artifact
A conservative planned Indian BSides Mumbai 2026 identity-artifact record from the organizer's provisional October 3 programme, which schedules badge pickup during morning registration and breakfast. The organizer's pass page identifies admissions and goodies but does not describe a badge entitlement or the credential's form.
BSides NOLA 2026 Rougarou Circuit Board Badge
Custom PCB badge with pre-sale allocation; electronics undocumented
BSides NOLA's 2026 event listing advertised a custom PCB badge from Fox Pick and a pre-sale package with a guaranteed PCB badge. A post-event attendee account describes leaving with a Rougarou circuit-board badge, confirming a physical board artifact while leaving the badge's components, behavior, and final allocation unresolved.
BSides Nashville 2026 Challenge Coin
Attendee badge-package non-electronic challenge coin
Official BSides Nashville 2026 event information says each attendee badge included a BSides Nashville 2026 challenge coin. The organizer's public feed later re-shared an attendee note about receiving coins. This record models the source-backed coin as a physical, non-electronic badge-package companion artifact; it does not use an Electronic Badge Sponsor line as proof that a 2026 electronic board existed.
BSides Orlando 2026 Planned LED Badge
Organizer-published four-LED KiCad badge design for the upcoming September conference
BSides Orlando's official GitHub organization published 2026-badge, a public KiCad 10 schematic and PCB project, as the conference's current 2026 badge-design trail. The schematic identifies four 3 mm blink-labeled LEDs, a Keystone 3002 1x2032 cell-holder footprint, an MST22D18G2 125 power-switch component, and a 2x3 2.54 mm socket. The official event site sets the conference for September 26 at Full Sail Live in Winter Park, Florida. This supports a planned organizer-published discrete LED badge design, not a released or allocated physical badge, attendee credential, finished BOM, final board revision, firmware, or image license.
BSides Peoria 2026 Planned Conference Badge
Planned Illinois Security BSides badge with sponsor-logo surface
A conservative planned Illinois Security BSides conference-badge record from organizer sponsorship material. The BSides Peoria 2026 call for sponsors says organizers are locking in badge runs, and the official 2026 prospectus includes a Logo on Badge sponsorship benefit. The official home places the October 24 event at Bradley University, but these pre-event sources do not establish a final credential form, electronics, ticket inclusion, allocation, or delivery.
BSides Perth 2026 Participant Badge
Planned Western Australian conference swag badge
BSides Perth 2026 is represented as a planned participant-badge record because the official event page says the weekend participant ticket includes conference swag: t-shirt, badge, and stickers.
BSides Porto 2026 Electronic Badge Experience
Portuguese BSides electronic badge experience
A conservative post-event record for BSides Porto 2026's advertised electronic badge experience, anchored to the official site, agenda, ticketing page, and organizer completion recap rather than component-level badge documentation.
BSides Reunion 2026 Participant Badge
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.
BSides Reykjavik 2026 Conference Badge
Icelandic Security BSides printed badge and merchandise sponsorship trail
A conservative Icelandic Security BSides identity-artifact record: the official BSides Reykjavik 2026 event page anchors the March 18, 2026 Valur FC Club House conference, and the official sponsorship package lists Platinum sponsor logo placement on badges and merchandise.
BSides Roanoke 2026 Participant Badge Challenge
Admission badge with a web-puzzle companion; electronics undocumented
BSides Roanoke 2026's organizer-operated General Admission listing explicitly included a badge. A separate ShenLabs website declares itself a work of fiction created for the BSides Roanoke 2026 badge challenge. Together they support an admission-badge and web-puzzle record, but do not identify a physical link, electronics, or an embedded challenge mechanism.
BSides SP 2026 Garoa Badge REV. 0
Garoa ESP8266/OLED community electronic badge
Garoa Hacker Clube's own event-period demo repository identifies its REV. 0 board as a badge distributed at BSides SP 2026. The Garoa and official V21 event sources establish the completed São Paulo conference, while the public source trail documents an ESP8266 badge with a 128×64 OLED, buttons, sound/IR path, microSD socket, FTDI programming header, and public KiCad/Gerber/BOM material. It does not prove one final firmware or hardware revision for every conference unit.
BSides San Diego 2026 Cyberpunk Bunny Badge
ESP32 portable CTF badge
BSides San Diego 2026 handed attendees a Cyberpunk Bunny electronic badge: an ESP32-powered portable CTF with cryptography challenges, wireless hacking, hidden secrets, an accelerometer-driven oracle, BLE co-op behavior, and an ultimate hidden flag path.
BSides Seattle 2026 Patron Special Badge
Patron-benefit conference identity artifact; handoff unverified
BSides Seattle's official 2026 ticket page lists a Special badge at the event among the additional benefits of being a 2026 patron. The organizer's conference page places the event at Building 92 in Redmond on February 27-28, but the source does not identify the artifact's material, artwork, barcode/QR/RFID/NFC/electronic form, exact patron-tier allocation, or actual pickup/delivery.
BSides Tampa 2026 Badge Challenge
Official Tampa badge/lanyard challenge and Uber Badge award trail
BSides Tampa 2026 is represented here by official attendee-badge and badge-challenge sources: the current FAQ says every participant gets a badge and lanyard, the badge-challenge page tells attendees that their badge is part of the puzzle, and the Uber Badge page records the lifetime-admission award path for badge-challenge winners.
BSides Vilnius 2026 Badge
Lithuanian STM32H5 electronic badge with SAO and sensor
An official Lithuanian Security BSides 2026 electronic badge documented by the BSides-Vilnius badge2026 repository as an STM32H563RIT6 board with an SAO connector, an environmental temperature/humidity sensor, an LCD, and USB DFU, built for the June 3-4, 2026 event at Kablys in Vilnius.
BSidesKC 2026 Admission Badge
Source-conservative afterparty admission identity artifact
BSidesKC's current 2026 activities page says attendees had to present a BSidesKC badge for afterparty entry. Together with the official event page, that establishes a 2026 badge-linked admission artifact; it does not identify a material, design, QR/barcode, RFID/NFC, electronics, or whether it was the separately documented 2025 Badge Pirates hardware.
BSidesTLV 2026 Electronic Badge
Planned Israeli hardware CTF badge
A planned BSidesTLV 2026 electronic badge record from the current official Hardware Village page: the November 11, 2026 Alice in AI Land conference advertises a Badge CTF Challenge for uncovering secrets hidden in the event's electronic badge.
BTV Camera Badge (DEF CON 34 Fundraiser)
Pre-event BTV fundraiser for a DC32-origin ESP32 camera badge
Blue Team Village at DEF CON's Eventbrite offer schedules the BTV Camera Badge as a DEF CON 34 fundraiser for August 7-9, 2026 at the Las Vegas Convention Center West Hall, with in-person village pickup only. It offers an assembled badge and lanyard for $120 or an intermediate-to-advanced soldering kit for $60. The listing says the badge does not take photos; instead, in an appropriate mode, its camera-lens display shows when deauthentication packets are being sent or Flipper Zeros are nearby, and says its brain is an ESP32 board capable of custom software. BTV's public MIT `btv_dc32_badge` archive explicitly describes the artifact as a DEF CON 32 indie badge and preserves its Arduino source, KiCad project, Gerbers, CAD/fabrication files, parts list, and assembly guide. This is a current source-backed fundraiser for a documented DC32-origin design, not evidence of a newly engineered DEF CON 34 hardware revision, completed pickup, final 2026 firmware, radio-detection performance, electrical safety, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
Badge Crown SAO (DEF CON 34)
Current $10 three-flashing-red-LED SAO; handoff and host compatibility unverified
Brooke's Bytes' live Uberflux listing calls Badge Crown SAO a Crown Shitty Add-On for a conference badge. The current page shows a $10 price, 10 remaining, 20 sold, PRE/DROP labels, and a DEF CON 34 BadgeLife Village drop listed for August 7 at 4 PM. It describes a fully assembled SAO with one SAO connector, three flashing red LEDs, and three resistors; its own listing says no soldering, programming, or separate battery is required and tells users only to connect it to a compatible badge. Badge.Life separately schedules Brookes Bytes Badge and SAOs in the same Friday 4 PM village slot. These sources establish a distinct pre-event electronic add-on record, not a documented pinout, voltage/current budget, universal host fit, completed sale or handoff, DEF CON issuance or credential role, or image reuse.
BadgeLife Village Badge (DEF CON 34)
Published pre-event RP2354 BadgeLife village badge; allocation and handoff unverified
Badge.Life's public archive documents Badgey Bodgerton as the Badgelife Village Badge for DC34 / 2026. Its published guide names an RP2354 microcontroller with integrated flash, eight addressable RGB NeoPixel LEDs, three user buttons, one user-installed 3 mm challenge LED and polarized buzzer, USB-C power, USB CDC serial CLI, UF2 firmware flashing, a single-cell 18650 battery with charging and protection circuitry, two Simple Add-On v2 headers, and an infrared receiver. It also documents a supplied bodge-wire challenge and supplied LED/resistor/buzzer challenge parts. This establishes a distinct, technically documented pre-event BadgeLife village electronic badge, not proof that DEF CON designed, issued, or will distribute it; that it is a Human admission credential; that every participant receives one; that a final badge run, pickup, or delivery occurred; or that any displayed image is cleared for reuse.
Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress 2026 Digital Access Badge
Planned app-issued venue-access identity artifact
Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress 2026's official app page tells visitors to download the official app and secure a digital badge, calling it the essential key for venue access. The same page says the app will be available in September 2026, before the November 3-5 Barcelona event. This record models a planned app-issued access identity artifact only; it does not infer a physical badge, a PCB, a ticket entitlement, an account or credential format, or a final access workflow.
Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress 2026 Networking Badge
Planned printable networking identity artifact
Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress 2026's official app page says that, with the event digital badge, visitors can print a Networking Badge to facilitate connections with fellow attendees. It names the registration desk and the Hall 2.1 info point as print locations. This record captures that planned printable networking artifact without assuming its physical medium, design, personal-data fields, access rights, or relationship to the separate digital venue-access badge.
Beelzebub Minibadge Holder (DEF CON 34)
Independent ATtiny814 24-NeoPixel minibadge holder offered for DEF CON 34
Cabinet of Distinctm1nd's live Beelzebub Minibadge Holder listing is a $45 offer that displayed sold out in this August 4, 2026 source pass and says DEF CON pickup is only for August 6-8 pickup attendees. The maker describes 24 NeoPixel LEDs, an ATtiny 814, USB-or-battery power, custom or pre-programmed themes, and an assembled board whose minibadge headers and optional battery holder still require soldering; it also says shown minibadges are not included. The public `distinctm1nd/beelzebub_minibadge_holder` repository corroborates a holder for five minibadges, a 24-LED source layout, button-selected theme code, and KiCad/BOM material. Its hardware archive includes a filename with `saintcon_2025`, so it is a useful implementation and lineage source, not proof of a completed SAINTCON distribution, an unchanged final 2026 build, final fulfillment, official DEF CON issuance, a complete source-license grant, or reusable-image rights.
Black Hat Europe 2026 Student Pass Badge
Planned student-pass conference identity artifact
Black Hat Europe's official 2026 registration and pass-comparison pages say Student Pass badge pickup is Thursday, December 10 only. The official event site places the cybersecurity conference at ExCeL London on December 7-10, but the public sources do not identify the badge's material, artwork, barcode/QR/RFID/NFC/electronic form, technical function, broader pass eligibility, or completed pickup/delivery.
Black Hat USA 2026 Black Hat Badge with DEF CON Symbol
Completed DEF CON ticket-verification conference identity artifact; handoff details remain unverified
Black Hat's official 2026 DEF CON-registration and attendee-resource pages say that a registrant who bought a DEF CON ticket through an eligible Black Hat pass receives a DEF CON symbol printed on their Black Hat badge. The person presents that marked badge during the August 6 pickup workflow, where staff hole-punch it as proof of pickup, but the sources do not identify the badge's material, artwork, barcode/QR/RFID/NFC/electronic form, broader access behavior, or completed handoff.
BornHack 2026 Badge
Cyber Ægg LoRa mesh badge
BornHack 2026 is documented by Badge.Team as the Cyber Ægg egg-shaped badge: nRF52840/NFC, SX1262 LoRa, 1.54-inch black/red/white e-paper, tri-colour visuals, QWIIC, USB-C, and BornPets, with open Codeberg hardware and firmware links.
Breadbadge (DEF CON 34)
Current $80 RP2354 breadboard-prototyping badge; fulfillment unverified
Tw0nkus's live Uberflux listing calls Breadbadge a badge by day and a breadboard-prototyping tool by night. It identifies an RP2354A main MCU, INA3221 I2C voltage/current/power monitor, ST7789 SPI display, six WS2812 RGB LEDs, navigation joystick/back button, UART/UPDI/I2C/5 V/3.3 V/debug breakouts, and a Defcon34 drop. The same current listing displayed $80, five remaining, and four sold. Badge.Life's current DC34 Village schedule independently lists Bread Badge by Tw0nkus in its Friday 1:30 PM badge-drop slot. This is enough evidence for a distinct, independently offered pre-event electronic badge associated with DEF CON 34, not proof that DEF CON issued it, that it is an admission credential, that inventory/payment/fulfillment figures are final, that a drop or handoff occurred, or that marketplace images are cleared for reuse.
C1B3RTR4CKS 2026 CH32V003 Badge
Source-backed RGB LED-matrix event badge
SEIF-UAM's public C1B3RTR4CKS 2026 badge repository documents an event badge with a CH32V003 RISC-V microcontroller, 8×16 RGB LED matrix, five-button control surface, public C firmware, games, and a personal-name marquee. The official event site and a contemporaneous attendee report place the physical artifact at the completed May 29 Madrid event; final allocation and production details are not public.
CONFidence 2026 ConfiBadge
ESP32-C6 hackable badge and Badge Hub for CONFidence
An official electronic badge for CONFidence 2026 in Krakow, documented as a hackable ESP32-C6 platform with OLED display, I2S audio amplifier, six navigation buttons, rechargeable LiPo power, firmware challenges, an 8-pin expansion port, and a live Badge Hub for MicroPython packages and community mods.
CPEC DC34 MechBattle Badge
Independent planned ESP32-S3 battle-game badge project for DEF CON 34
Cyber Professionals Enthusiast Club's public `DC34-Mech-Badge` repository calls the work the DC 34 MechBattle Badge, describes it as the second iteration of menu and game logic for a CPEC DC34 badge offering, and says it is not final; its GitHub description explicitly calls it a DEFCON 34 Mech Badge by CPEC. A second CPEC repository publishes an in-progress PlatformIO/Arduino game codebase targeted at an Adafruit Feather ESP32-S3 no-PSRAM board, with source-level display, Bluetooth Low Energy, QR, and sound surfaces. A third CPEC repository says it contains design files for SAO plug-in modules for the CPEC DC 34 badge; its commit-pinned source tree includes native KiCad project, PCB, and schematic paths with fist, gatling, laser, missile, panel, and sword filenames, an Arduino source file, and BOM/placement artifacts. The linked game-mechanics document is also a draft. These primary sources establish a real independent planned badge and companion-add-on design trail, not final physical hardware, manufactured units, electrical compatibility, availability, event authorization, DEF CON organizer affiliation, admission, deployed radio behavior, or reusable-image rights.
CactusCon 14 Badge
Badge Pirates ESP32-S3 hardware archive
The CactusCon 14 badge is preserved through Badge Pirates' public CC14 repository, which publishes KiCad design files, schematic PDF, interactive BOM, Gerbers, STEP exports, 3D-printable enclosure parts, and art assets for the 2026 CactusCon conference badge.
Camp++ 2026 Identity Artifacts
Past-date ticket-code and wristband camp record; completion unconfirmed
A conservative past-date Camp++ 2026 identity record: the official pages document August 6-9 2026 dates, Fényes Camping in Tata, ticket-code presentation at the gate, legally required reception check-in, wristband pickup at camp registration, and a Pretalx CfP path still marked coming soon. Rechecked August 25, the official pages retain that pre-event language and do not independently confirm that the camp occurred or that any artifact was issued.
Car Hacking Village DEF CON 34 CAN-FD CTF Badge
RP2040 CAN/CAN FD vehicle-network CTF badge, with post-event fulfillment unverified
Car Hacking Village publicly announced its DEF CON 34 CTF badge. Official Village posts identify an RP2040, DB9 CAN 2.0/CAN FD support, interactive power management, and a 12 V 1.5 A power supply; the public `chv_badgetools` repository identifies itself as host-side CAN utilities for the DEF CON 34 badge. The scheduled August 6-9 Las Vegas event window has elapsed, but reviewed post-date sources still do not prove final badge manufacture, allocation, handoff, CTF operation, or a released final firmware.
Carolina Code Conference 2026 Circuit Board Badge
Completed ESP32-S3 CircuitPython conference badge with public source
Carolina Code Conference's organizer documented Circuit Board Badge pickup for its August 14-15 event, and its named badge partner published a source archive for an ESP32-S3 CircuitPython board. The archive identifies five WS2812 LEDs, three buttons, a 1.77-inch ST7735S display, Micro-USB, and CR123A or USB power. It supports a released badge software and hardware reference, not a recipient ledger, an independently audited final production configuration, or a rights-cleared physical-badge image.
Celestial Wayfinder Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event ESP32-S3 LoRa mesh BadgeLife communicator
WyrdWyrks' live Uberflux listing identifies the $150 Celestial Wayfinder Badge as a DEF CON 34 pre-sale. At this August 3, 2026 source pass, the listing shows 5 sold and 95 remaining, with four pickup labels: DC34 Reddit Meetup Wednesday, DC34 Reddit Meetup Thursday, and DEF CON 34 BadgeLife 1 and 2. The maker describes an ESP32-S3, custom four-layer PCB, 128×128 OLED, SX1276 LoRa, GPS, magnetometer/IMU, five Cherry MX-compatible switches, a rotary encoder, 61 WS2812B LEDs, a buzzer, 3D-printed parts, a Li-ion battery, USB-C updating/charging, a LoRa mesh, Wi-Fi geolocation fallback, and a PWA. The public MIT-licensed firmware repository documents v1/v2/v3 platform variants, a 915 MHz SX127x-class LoRa mesh, GPS/status PingMessage data, PlatformIO build paths, RPC, and remote USB/BLE/web configuration; v4.0.0 publishes v3 and v2 binaries. A separate Fusion360/STL CAD repository and web-companion repository are public but have no detected license. This is a source-backed pre-event independent BadgeLife record, not proof of final fulfillment, a final production BOM, radio/regulatory performance, safety certification, universal update compatibility, official DEF CON admission status, or reusable-image rights.
Clip-Boy: The Unofficial DEF CON 34 Electronic Badge
Sold-out independent ESP32-S3 wrist badge with a second-run interest list
Bryce's official Clip-Boy shop explicitly presents Clip-Boy as an unofficial DEF CON 34 electronic badge: a wrist-mounted ESP32-S3 artifact with maker-described Wi-Fi/Bluetooth analysis tools, deauthentication detection, customizable LEDs, a theremin, collectibles, and a 3D-printed enclosure. Its live public inventory endpoint currently shows the complete first run at zero availability: 86 $120 Standard, 25 $130 Pro, and five $140 RAD badges, while the storefront says all 152 first-run units shipped and is only gauging interest for a possible second run. The seller states units ship in a passive listen-only mode and that a user may load an optional research build with additional capabilities for authorized testing. This is a current source-backed independent badge record, not a claim of official DEF CON affiliation, DEF CON admission, final hardware/BOM, delivered-unit receipt, a universally available research build, safe/legal use in every jurisdiction, or reusable-image rights.
Cult of Cthulhu Indie DEF CON 34 Badge
Pre-event ESP32 ritual-game BadgeLife badge
Pfarrside Creations' badge-only listing describes the Cult of Cthulhu Indie DEF CON 34 Badge as an ESP32-powered interactive BadgeLife project that turns a DEF CON setting into a Cthulhu summoning ritual. The seller's page names ESP32, USB-C, rechargeable Li-Po power, ten LEDs, a screen, one-button input, badge types, a 13-chapter Ritual, six side-quest challenges, badge-to-badge Séance behavior, and unlockable games. It also states a second-week-of-July US-only shipping schedule with no DEF CON pickup. This is a maker-published independent badge listing, not verified final delivery or an official DEF CON admission credential.
Cyb3rBytes404 Cyber-Cat Badge (DEF CON 34)
Small-batch pre-event RP2040 youth-coding giveaway badge for DEF CON 34
A late-July public r/Defcon post by u/ProfessionalPea2218 says its author has been designing and hand-soldering a small batch of badge PCBs to help launch Cyb3rBytes404, a self-described San Diego nonprofit for free hands-on youth coding and electronics projects. The author says the badges are not for sale and are intended for random giveaway throughout ‘the con.’ Separately, the public Cyb3rBytes404 GitHub repository calls itself the official repository for the cyber coding camp and documents a custom RP2040 cyber-cat badge, MicroPython starter material and challenges, an MPU-6050 motion module, and thirty WS2812 RGB LEDs. Its visible commit history places the reviewed README update on July 28, 2026. The shared project name supports a source-backed pre-event DEF CON 34 association, but it does not establish that the Reddit author controls the GitHub namespace, that every physical PCB matches the repository snapshot, final hardware, the run size, a completed giveaway, or a DEF CON-issued credential.
CyberThreat 2026 Planned Hackable Badge Challenge
Planned interactive hackable-badge competition for London
CyberThreat's official 2026 site and SANS registration page advertise an interactive hackable-badge challenge and a Hackable Badge Competition for the November London event. They establish a planned 2026 badge activity, not a released physical or electronic badge specification, attendee-wide issue, or completed handoff.
CypherCon 2026 Analog / Plastic Entry Pass
Official lanyard-and-plastic attendee identity artifact
CypherCon 9's official 2026 registration listing describes its Analog / Plastic Entry Pass as a lanyard and physical plastic entry pass supplied with a digital program. The official FAQ separately distinguishes analog tickets that redeem a plastic badge from the general electronic and limited premium badge forms, so this record remains an explicitly non-electronic identity artifact rather than an inferred PCB badge.
CypherCon 2026 Digital / Circuit Badge
Official interactive PCB ticket-tier artifact; final build remains unarchived
CypherCon 9's official 2026 registration listing describes its Digital / Circuit Badge ticket tier as an interactive circuit-board PCB badge. The official FAQ distinguishes that general digital/PCB/electronic tier from limited Extreme/Ultimate and Analog ticket forms, while a public organizer-account timeline mirror records the April event opening and wrap. Those sources establish a real completed-event ticket artifact, not a component-level board specification or an individual fulfillment record.
CypherCon 2026 Extreme Badge
Official premium electronic and upgraded-PCB ticket-tier artifact
CypherCon 9's official 2026 registration page separately advertised an Extreme Badge ticket tier with unique collectible electronic-badge wording and an exclusive upgraded-PCB feature. The official FAQ calls the limited VIP form an Extreme/Ultimate badge, but the recovered sources do not say whether it was a distinct physical board, an upgrade of the Digital / Circuit Badge, multiple artifacts, or a final fulfilled configuration.
DC-34 Countdown to Singularity Badge
Public KiCad/Arduino DEF CON 34 project; production and distribution unverified
eggsactly's public `DC-34-Countdown-To-Singularity` repository explicitly calls itself KiCad 6 design files for a DEF CON badge that lets users display an estimate for when the AI singularity will occur. Its README names eight seven-segment displays, a real-time clock, front buttons for changing the estimate, a KiCad board tree, an Arduino firmware tree, and a BOM that includes an ATmega328P-PU, PCF8523T, seven 2×3 SAO connectors, three buttons, 9 V input/battery parts, and display/power components. This is a real, independently documented pre-event source project, not proof of an assembled run, a specific final unit, DEF CON authorization, allocation, sale, delivery, credential function, or a rights-cleared image.
DC34 CompuNet Badge — Malware Scan Tool 3000
Documented independent pre-event ESP32 RFID-kit badge; distribution unverified
The public `slash128v6/DC34_Cnet_Badge` repository documents a DC34-named electronic kit titled “DC34 CompuNet Badge - Malware Scan Tool 3000.” Its README has a banner reading “Join CompuNet & Critical Start at Defcon!” and lists a PCB, ESP32 Dev Module, round LCD, RFID reader, microSD reader/card, RGB LED, six-pin female SAO header, four-AAA battery holder, 3D-printed stand and slides, RFID sticker tags, plus a separate RGB-LED SAO. The public project tree includes hardware, software, SD-card assets, and a root MIT license. It is therefore a real, independently documented pre-event DEF CON 34-associated kit record, not evidence that DEF CON, CompuNet, or Critical Start authorized, made, issued, sold, or distributed it.
DCZia MK9 Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event RP2040 mechanical macropad BadgeLife project
DCZia's MK9 is a public-source 3×3 mechanical macropad intended as a neck-wearable DEF CON 34 BadgeLife project. Project documentation specifies nine MX switches, RGB per-key and edge lighting, an accelerometer, two 6-pin SAO connectors, USB-C or three-AAA power, CircuitPython firmware, and QMK-compatible hardware. A public August 2 announcement says the project plans BadgeLife pickup, but this remains a pre-event independent badge rather than an official DEF CON admission credential.
DEF CON 34 Badge
Completed electronic Human badge with Baochip, QR interaction, and post-event token conversion
DEF CON's official news confirms DEF CON 34 wrapped on August 10, 2026. Its official badge-help page now documents the issued electronic Human badge's post-conference conversion to a hardware security token, current firmware-update path, public source-code links, and the in-conference encrypted-QR light-pattern exchange. The official July 31 reveal names Bunnie Huang as creator and Baochip as the inspectable silicon platform, while the public core-module KiCad archive and `dc34-vault` source provide a specific hardware and software trail. This establishes a completed official badge record without treating later public source as a production ledger or a reusable-image grant.
DEF CON 34 Shitty Add-On (narengogi)
Independent LED/2×3-header SAO source project; physical build and host compatibility unverified
The public narengogi/defcon-34-shitty-add-on repository describes itself only as an SAO for DEF CON 34. Its single commit contains a native KiCad project, board, schematic, Gerber outputs, an archive, and vector artwork; the board source includes DC 34 and narengogi silkscreen text, a 2×3 generic connector, and LED/resistor-labelled source entries. That is enough to preserve an independent, source-only pre-event add-on project whose formal product name is not published. It is not evidence of a fabricated board, a specific SAO version or pinout, working electronics, a compatible host, a DEF CON or BadgeLife relationship, a sale or giveaway, attendee delivery, a credential function, or a reusable image.
DEF CON 34 Silent Disco Badge
Maker-published physical silent-disco badge; organizer role and handoff unverified
LastZactionHero's public repository is titled DEF CON Silent Disco Badge and documents a wearable electronic badge that plays local DJ mixes, drives a music-linked light show, and syncs badge-to-badge over infrared. Its August 4 maintainer update says the boards were fabricated, assembled, and playing music, and that every badge's QR silkscreen points to the repository. The public archive contains KiCad design and fabrication material, firmware, and a MIT license, sufficient to record a distinct maker-published physical DEF CON 34-associated artifact. No reviewed DEF CON, venue, silent-disco organizer, sales, or handoff source establishes official issuance, a run size, recipient allocation, or completed event distribution.
DEF CON Singapore 2026 DC-SG-1 Official Badge
ESP32-C6 attendee badge with Laser* Tag and hardware-hacking workflow
The inaugural DEF CON Singapore attendee badge, DC-SG-1, is an official electronic badge issued to ticket holders. Public event workshop and game documentation identifies an ESP32-C6 platform with eight megabytes of flash, an interactive hardware-hacking workflow, USB-C access, and a conference-wide infrared Laser* Tag game.
DEF CON Singapore 2026 HFSDR Badge
Unofficial CH32V305 SDR badge preorder
A community HFSDR badge preorder for DEF CON Singapore 2026, documented through Hackin7's r/Defcon preorder post and the linked public rhgndf/hfsdr hardware, firmware, host-software, and WebUSB archive.
DEF CON Singapore 2026 Public Safety Village Badge
HTX village badge with illuminated public-safety icons
HTX's official DEF CON Singapore coverage documents Public Safety Village badges, including a badge image described as featuring illuminated icons of emergency vehicles, alongside the first DEF CON Public Safety Village.
DEF CON Singapore 2026 TISC ESP32 Trinket
CSIT C517 finalist BLE mesh challenge hardware
A source-backed TISC@DEF CON SG finals challenge artifact: CSIT's official C517 page documents the on-site TISC finals, and a finalist writeup says each of the top-50 finalists received an ESP32 hardware trinket running a customized BLE mesh chat protocol to reverse engineer.
DEFCON Furs 2026 Badge
Sold-out RP2040, LoRa, NFC, and LED community-event badge preorder
DEFCON Furs' official 2026 site and Hack Your Lives donation-store listing identify a distinct 2026 #badgelife badge for the DEF CON 34 period. The currently sold-out listing describes an assembled badge plus a blank PCB, an RP2040, LoRa radio, NFC, 48 RGB LEDs, MicroPython, touch points, and an SAO 1.69bis interface. It says paid orders will be assembled and shipped by September 30, while blanks were offered for in-person DEF CON pickup. Those are organizer-published preorder and planned-fulfillment statements, not proof that every order shipped, that each unit has the described final configuration, or that a specific recipient collected one.
DFIU SAO (DEF CON 34)
Independent CH32V003 touch-and-audio SAO announced for DEF CON 34
BigFuckingBadge's live DEF CON 34 page presents a $20 OffensiveSAO around touching Lintile's face to play a "Don't Fuck It Up" cheer track. The public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response identifies that item as the DFIU SAO from BigFuckingBadge / Hexum064 and links public CH32V003 hardware and firmware repositories. The firmware's PlatformIO target is `genericCH32V003F4U6`; its `main.c` initializes touch ADC support, reads a touch input on PD2, starts sampled audio when the threshold is crossed, and configures a PWM audio path plus D/F/I/U and display LED outputs. The public hardware tree contains a KiCad PCB/schematic, BOM/position files, and Gerbers. Together these sources establish a real planned independent electronic SAO associated with DEF CON 34—not an official DEF CON issue, admission credential, confirmed handoff, final production revision, safety-tested product, open-source license grant, or rights-cleared image.
DOJOConf Panamá 2026 Electronic Badge
Limited ticket-holder CH573F badge with a public hardware archive
DOJOConf Panamá's official page advertises a limited, separately purchased electronic badge available only to ticket holders, with an integrated OLED, four physical buttons, and a rechargeable USB-C battery. An organizer-controlled update says the 2026 badge will be useful in the CTF, and an Electronic Cats post names that organization as the edition's designer and maker. Electronic Cats' public `badge-dojocon-2026` repository separately identifies itself as the official Badge DojoCon Panamá 2026 archive and has a pre-event v1.0 release. Its commit-pinned documentation records a CH573F RISC-V/BLE design with an OLED, directional buttons, a WS2812B LED, USB-C, and a battery connection. These sources establish a real event artifact and public design trail, not completed delivery or a source-to-recipient configuration mapping.
Darknet-NG SMAO (DEF CON 34)
Open-source pre-event 125-unit Meshtastic Simple Add-On for DEF CON 34
Darknet-NG's own current badge page identifies the Darknet-NG SMAO as its Level 3 build: a full Meshtastic node in an SAO form factor. The maker's live Uberflux product payload describes a $55 125-unit presale and currently reports 125 sold with zero remaining, no shipping options, and DEF CON 34 contest-booth pickup only; that is a time-specific availability snapshot, not proof of completed manufacture, collection, or delivery. A matching maker-owned, commit-pinned `dcbokonon/darknet-smao` release now publishes the v1.4 KiCad project, fabrication outputs, BOM/placement data, firmware build material, and RF-tuning source, alongside an MIT-licensed official upstream board render. This is a source-backed independent pre-event mesh-radio add-on record, not independent RF/compliance validation, a DEF CON organizer-issued product, conference credential, admission right, or completed fulfillment record.
Day of the Dead Turkey v1 (DEF CON 34)
Independent blue/yellow LED Day of the Dead Turkey v1 soldering kit offered for DEF CON 34
Cabinet of Distinctm1nd's live Day of the Dead Turkey v1 product page listed a currently available $12 kit in this August 4, 2026 source pass. It calls the artifact either an oversize minibadge or a standalone badge that can be pinned to a lanyard; in standalone form it uses a CR2032 battery and has blue-or-yellow LED colors. The maker says it requires soldering and that all components are 1206 or larger, then limits DEF CON pickup to buyers planning collection on August 6-8, 2026. The public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response separately lists Day of the Dead Turkey v1, v2 as a new $12 badge and calls it a standalone small badge or a Saintcon minibadge. These sources establish a real planned independent light-up kit and current event association—not the exact distinction between v1 and v2, final circuitry or components, completed fulfillment, SAINTCON distribution, official DEF CON issuance or admission, firmware/source/license terms, or a rights-cleared image.
Day of the Dead Turkey v2 (DEF CON 34)
Independent blue/yellow LED Day of the Dead Turkey v2 soldering kit offered for DEF CON 34
Cabinet of Distinctm1nd's live Day of the Dead Turkey v2 product page listed a currently available $12 kit in this August 4, 2026 source pass. It calls the artifact either an oversize minibadge or a standalone badge that can be pinned to a lanyard; in standalone form it uses a CR2032 battery and has blue-or-yellow LED colors. The maker says it requires soldering and that all components are 1206 or larger, then limits DEF CON pickup to buyers planning collection on August 6-8, 2026. The public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response separately lists Day of the Dead Turkey v1, v2 as a new $12 badge and calls it a standalone small badge or a Saintcon minibadge. These sources establish a real planned independent light-up kit and current event association—not the exact distinction between v1 and v2, final circuitry or components, completed fulfillment, SAINTCON distribution, official DEF CON issuance or admission, firmware/source/license terms, or a rights-cleared image.
DefCamp 2026 Attendee Badge
Planned visible attendee access credential
DefCamp's official 2026 terms require people attending DefCamp to have a badge visibly on their person and permit access denial without one. The current ticket page advertises VIP priority badge claiming for the November 19-20 in-person Bucharest event, but neither source identifies the badge's material, artwork, barcode/QR/RFID/NFC/electronic form, recipient allocation, or completed issuance/delivery.
Disobey 2026 Badge
ESP32-S3 MicroPython game badge
A Finnish Disobey badge built around ESP32-S3, a 1.9-inch TFT display, SK6812MINI RGB LEDs, joystick/buttons, MicroPython game firmware, OTA setup, web flashing, badge competitions, and a public hardware/firmware repository.
Div0 Tingkat eBadge (DEF CON Singapore 2026)
Maker-documented RP2040 community eBadge with firmware, art, and SAO sources
RestiaAshdoll8's public DEFCON-SG-2026-Div0-Tingkat-eBadge repository says it contains source code and relevant files used in a physical Div0 Tingkak eBadge. It preserves a UF2, RP2040/Pico-focused source, artwork, and SAO project files. Its sources conflict on event identity: the repository title names DEF CON Singapore while its firmware menu banner says SINCON 2026 BADGE. This record keeps the DEF CON Singapore association maker-declared rather than resolving that conflict into official event status.
DragonJARCON 2026 Diploma-Track Electronic Badge
Planned exclusive electronic badge in five-day offensive-security diploma package
DragonJARCON's current official 2026 page advertises an exclusive electronic badge only as a benefit of its five-day in-person Offensive Security Diploma, scheduled in Medellín for September 14-18 and including entry to the September 10-11 DragonJAR Security Conference. This source-backed record preserves that planned, package-scoped electronic-badge claim. It does not turn the standard conference kit or the prior 2025 badge into evidence that general 2026 conference attendees receive the same artifact.
EFF "Electric Fist" BadgeLife (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event independently organized EFF-affiliated BadgeLife fundraiser
Eventbrite lists EFF "Electric Fist" BadgeLife (DEF CON 34) under H4r0ld & V3rbaal's House Of Hacker Horrors. The listing says its BadgeLife proceeds support Electronic Frontier Foundation's mission to defend digital privacy and online freedom; its FAQ says the project is officially affiliated with EFF but independently organized by H4r0ld and V3rbaal. It calls Electric Fist the pair's third EFF BadgeLife design, offers reruns of two prior designs at checkout, and announces online orders with Demo Labs pickup from 10 AM to noon on Friday and Saturday. This is a source-backed pre-event BadgeLife fundraising offering, not a delivery report, hardware specification, official DEF CON admission credential, or an EFF-designed or EFF-sold product claim.
EMF 2026 Spaceagon Badge
Released Tildagon frontboard revision with reusable base and new input surface
Spaceagon is the released 2026 update to EMF's reusable Tildagon badge platform. The official completed-event, order, assembly, and API pages document a complete kit or a 2024 upgrade path, the new Spaceagon frontboard, and a distinct input surface while retaining the Tildagon base and hexpansion ecosystem.
Ekoparty 2026 Champion Electronic Badge
Planned Champion-tier electronic badge
A pre-event Ekoparty 2026 record limited to the current organizer-linked ticket offer: the Champion tier includes an electronic badge for the planned Buenos Aires conference.
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.
FirstBuild / GE Appliances Washer/Dryer Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event FirstBuild / GE Appliances 100-free-badge washer/dryer motion giveaway project
FirstBuild's official DefCon34-Badge repository describes an Arduino-compatible FirstBuild / GE Appliances washer/dryer badge for DEF CON 34. Its README names a current production target of an STM32G031F8P6 with an MXC6655XA three-axis accelerometer and eight SK6805 side-emitting RGB LEDs, driving an infinity-mirror water effect that follows gravity. The repository publishes firmware, a schematic PDF, an MIT license for software and associated documentation, and a distribution guide that says the project is intended to be distributed as firmware installed on physical badges. A first-person r/Defcon post reviewed on 2026-08-05 says its public-account author is returning with the GE Appliances booth in IoT Village, has another 100 free badges to give away, and plans an unspecified number per day; it calls the item a cartoon UltraFast Washer/Dryer Combo with a motion-responsive infinity mirror. In a comment, the author says the artwork, PCB design, and software were done in-house at FirstBuild. That account statement does not independently establish the author's employment, formal FirstBuild or GE Appliances authority, official booth authorization, final stock, or completed handoff. GitHub still shows no release or tag, and the record remains a separate event-associated pre-event project, not the official DEF CON attendee credential or an image-reuse grant.
FloridaMan 2026 Badge
Pre-event FloridaMan Party access-and-challenge artifact
FloridaMan Party's official 2026 storefront offers a FloridaMan 2026 Badge for $90, currently marks it out of stock, and tells prospective attendees that it is no longer shipping and to come to DEF CON. The same official storefront calls FloridaMan 2026 the biggest Florida-themed party at DEF CON, says entry is badge-only for venue access, and says each badge unlocks a live hacking challenge with stages and a scoreboard. The official party page schedules the event for Thursday, August 6, 2026, 9:00 PM–1:00 AM PT in Las Vegas, with the location provided upon purchase. This is a source-backed pre-event party-access and challenge artifact, not evidence of an electronic badge, DEF CON's official Human badge, conference registration, completed shipment or handoff, final venue admission rules, released challenge software, or a rights-cleared badge image.
Fri3d Camp 2026 Badge
Completed-camp ESP32-S3 maker badge with open Revision 02 hardware
A source-backed record for Fri3d Camp 2026's main badge. The organizer's public Revision 02 hardware, firmware, and documentation repositories describe an open ESP32-S3 platform with extensions, apps, and repair paths; the organizer's event index now lists the August camp among past events. Neither source establishes individual handout, production, or final deployed-image outcomes.
Friend or Foe Badge (DEF CON 34 Packet Hacking Village)
Completed independent three-radio ESP32-S3 RF-awareness badge
The public Friend or Foe project archive documents a three-board ESP32-S3 badge shown at DEF CON 34 Packet Hacking Village. Its hardware documentation records a 45-badge DEF CON run and the project root describes a wearable, passive RF-awareness platform with an uplink/display controller and dedicated BLE and Wi-Fi scanner boards. Packet Hacking Village's official DEF CON 34 programme independently establishes the completed village setting and the Friend or Foe presentation. These sources establish a completed independent electronic project, not an official DEF CON Human badge, conference-wide handout, admission credential, or recipient ledger.
Gothcon 2026 Blinky Badge
Pre-event ESP32-C3 bat-shaped LED party-fundraiser badge
Gothcon's official badge store describes a custom bat-shaped PCB LED badge for the free Gothcon dance party at DEF CON 34. The $80 fundraiser package names 44 independently controlled RGB LEDs, a 2,000 mAh Li-Po battery, USB-C recharging with overcharge protection, a removable laser-etched acrylic shield, a custom lanyard, and an ESP32-C3 with 4 MB flash. The public `claviger/gothcon-firmware` repository adds MicroPython firmware, KiCad schematic/PCB/Gerber material, GPIO mapping, pattern/palette controls, and ESP-NOW badge-to-badge contagion. The store explicitly says its SAO connectors are mirrored and not functional with a standard SAO. Pre-orders are closed and the store says badges will be sold at DEF CON; this remains a pre-event party-fundraiser record, not proof of final sales, delivery, party outcome, or official DEF CON credential status.
Greycademy 2026 Hackbadge
Source-backed CH32V003 student-bootcamp electronic badge
Hackin7's public project page identifies a deployed electronic PCB Hackbadge created for Greycademy 2026. NUS Greyhats' official announcement says program participants could take home electronic badges, while the primary maker record identifies a CH32V003 coin-cell design and reports an event-day power-reliability repair across more than 200 programmed units. The public trail does not define every recipient, final firmware image, or all-unit configuration.
GrrCON 2026 Staff Badge
Planned volunteer staff identity credential for Grand Rapids conference
A conservative planned GrrCON 2026 volunteer identity-artifact record from the organizer's official volunteer terms. The terms say selected volunteers will be given a GrrCON staff badge and say dismissal revokes that badge. The official home places the September 24-25 conference at DeVos Place in Grand Rapids, but neither source establishes the badge's material, electronic form, technical function, completed issuance, or use by general attendees.
H4irl1n3 M0gg3r5 Zombie Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event independent two-object ESP32-S3 interaction badge project for DEF CON 34
Two contemporaneous project posts authored by the public Reddit account u/zer0patient and signed H4irl1n3 M0gg3r5 describe an independent planned DEF CON 34 Zombie Badge project. The later source explicitly describes two objects using ESP32-S3, IR, NFC, BLE, a buzzer, and a source-described transmission/counter relationship; it also announces a firmware-based, multi-stage CTF and an unreleased backend. It further describes crew-operated live transmission zones, fixed Cure Stations, hidden 3D-printed medkit props, and a separate brain-in-a-jar SAO. The earlier post calls the work the team's first year making badge or badges, says a second variant is part of the experience, and announces intended drop-based distribution. These are source-backed pre-event maker statements about a real planned artifact system, not proof of final manufactured variants, component selection, wireless behavior, game implementation, inventory, drops, event authorization, DEF CON organizer affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
HITCON 2026 NTAG215 NFC Attendee Badge
Planned NFC attendee identity badge with a collectible-card exchange
HITCON's official 2026 ticket and events pages state that published ticket packages include an attendee badge and that every attendee badge is embedded with an NTAG215 NFC chip. The planned NFC Battle asks attendees to tap phones against each other's badges to exchange and unlock collectible cards. That establishes a source-backed future NFC identity artifact and social event game, but not a PCB, display, controller, firmware, reader/writer configuration, physical material, or final allocation record.
HOPE 26 Digital In-Person Admission Ticket
Official completed-event digital admission-ticket identity artifact; no 2026 badge publicly identified
HOPE On Planet Earth's official 2600 store listing sold a $250 HOPE 26 In-Person Pass and said digital admission tickets would be generated asynchronously and emailed before the event; it also says they are non-refundable but transferable. The official HOPE home now says the August 14-16 New Yorker Hotel conference is history, but the reviewed event, wiki, schedule, and ticket pages do not identify a 2026 physical or electronic conference badge. This record therefore models the known digital admission-ticket identity artifact only, not a recurrence of the 2024 HOPE XV electronic badge, an issued event badge, a final attendee credential implementation, or a rights-cleared image.
HRV SSTV Badge (DEF CON 34)
Maker-published planned SSTV badge project for HRV/DEF CON 34; physical unit unverified
The public `livitup/hrv-sstv-badge` repository describes itself as building an SSTV #badgelife badge for HRV at DEFCON 34. Its commit-pinned source contains a project README, native KiCad board files, and a status document dated March 22, 2026 that still records design and prototype milestones rather than a shipped unit. Ham Radio Village's own page independently confirms its DEF CON 34 event in Las Vegas on August 6-9, 2026, but does not identify or endorse this project. The sources therefore support a publicly documented planned independent electronic-badge project associated with HRV/DEF CON 34, not an HRV- or DEF CON-issued artifact, ticket benefit, access credential, completed unit, allocation, delivery, or rights-cleared image.
Hack Glasgow 2026 Attendee Name Badge
Completed write-in Scottish conference identity badge
A conservative completed Scottish attendee-identity artifact. Hack Glasgow's official statistics page, updated August 16, reports continuing 2026 ticket and check-in reporting after the August 15 conference; its FAQ says attendees could write any handle or name on their badge on the day. The sources do not establish the badge's material, ticket inclusion, allocation, electronics, access role, or individual delivery.
Hack&Roll 2026 Quack & Roll Badge
Singapore custom PCB hackathon badge
NUS Hackers' Hack&Roll 2026 introduced the event's first custom PCB badge, documented by the organizer recap, a Friday Hacks making-of talk, and a public MIT-licensed ESP-IDF firmware and component archive.
HackConRD 2026 eBadge
ESP32-C3, CC1101, TFT, games, and RF badge
HackConRD 2026's eBadge was documented by the official HackConRD site, the EBADGE+ ticket tier, the interactive eBadge page, and a public firmware repository that describes an ESP32-C3 badge with ST7789 TFT, CC1101 433 MHz radio, WS2812B LEDs, buzzer, four-button navigation, games, RF friend exchange, fox hunting, learning modules, and persistent profile settings.
HackGDL 2026 Camera Badge
Source-backed RV1106G3 Linux camera badge artifact
Electronic Cats publicly listed and sourced a Camera Badge HackGDL 2026: an RV1106G3 Linux camera badge with a 3 MP camera and public hardware files. HackGDL's official site records its completed March 14, 2026 edition and names Electronic Cats among sponsors; the organizer's public feed later promoted the 2026 badge alongside 2025 stock. These sources establish a named event-associated artifact, not ticket inclusion, attendee receipt, access-control use, recipient count, production run, or final deployed firmware.
HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge
Ticket-listed badge offering; specifications undisclosed
HackNWA's official 2026 conference page and organizer-linked Eventbrite registration establish the completed April 17 Bentonville event and its CTF / ASMb1337 hardware-hacking context. The current registration page marks sales ended. A contemporaneous ticket-listing capture records a separate USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge category alongside USD 55 General Admission. Together these sources support a real time-specific badge offering, but do not establish whether the item was an electronic device, a PCB kit, a conventional physical credential, or another kind of assembled artifact, nor whether it was produced, collected, or delivered.
HackThePlanet SAO (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event 555-timer analog Simple Add-On for DEF CON 34
HogFillet's live Uberflux listing calls this the HackThePlanet SAO for DEF CON 34. Its August 4, 2026 marketplace snapshot lists $24 and a seller state of 19 sold from a listed total of 23. A public DEF CON 34 maker self-submission by FakeBobby / HogFillet calls the same linked product HTP Graffiti and gives the same $24 price; the catalogue treats that exact product-URL match as a source-backed alternate listing name, not a second board. The maker describes a 555 timer clocking a ten-bit ripple counter whose outputs drive eight LEDs through the board's graffiti art, with an onboard trimmer controlling the flash rate. It explicitly says the board has no firmware and no I2C handshake, and says a separate button can be connected to the odd or even GPIO line of the DEF CON badge's SAO header. The listing announces Friday and Saturday Badge Life Booth pickup slots, with mailing or refund offered if a stated drop is missed. This is source-backed evidence for a pre-event independent analog SAO, not proof of final delivery, exact components or circuit values, host behavior, electrical safety, optical safety, conference authorization, admission, or reusable-image rights.
Hackaday Europe 2026 Communicator Badge
Lecco reuse of the Supercon 2025 LoRa mesh badge
Hackaday Europe 2026 brought the 2025 Hackaday Supercon Communicator Badge to Lecco: a retro-styled keyboard badge with LoRa mesh experimentation, MicroPython/LVGL app support, and post-event Meshtastic reflash framing.
Hacker Boba Badge Kit (DEF CON 34)
Current $10 no-MCU CR2032 flashing-LED soldering kit; handoff and assembly outcome unverified
Brooke's Bytes' live Uberflux listing calls Hacker Boba a beginner-friendly Hacker Boba PCB Badge Kit. The current page shows a $10 price, 17 remaining, 33 sold, PRE/DROP labels, and a DEF CON 34 BadgeLife Village drop listed for August 7 at 4 PM. It lists a Hacker Boba PCB badge, keychain, power switch, CR2032 holder and included CR2032, three flashing RGB LEDs, and three resistors; it says the DIY kit arrives unsoldered, needs basic soldering supplies, has no microcontroller or firmware, and includes a QR code that opens a Google Maps Boba Shop search. Badge.Life separately schedules Brookes Bytes Badge and SAOs in the same Friday 4 PM slot. This supports a distinct pre-event electronic kit record, not a completed sale or assembly, DEF CON issuance or admission role, electrical-safety validation, a hardware-design release, or reusable listing images.
Hacker Pager (DEF CON 34 Revision)
Maker-announced independent Hacker Pager revision for DEF CON 34; handoff outcome unverified
A first-hand Exploitee.rs announcement says the team is bringing a new Hacker Pager revision to DEF CON 34, with planned online availability and BadgeLife Village pickup. Its official project site documents an ESP32-S3, Semtech SX1262 LoRa radio, monochrome LCD, microSD, USB-C, rechargeable LiPo power, buttons, speaker, vibration motor, LEDs, and open design sources; its current update page labels firmware 2.7.26.pager as DEF CON 34. Public electronics and case repositories publish KiCad/BOM and mechanical source material under CERN-OHL-S-2.0. This is sufficient evidence for a distinct, independently sold pre-event BadgeLife artifact associated with DEF CON 34, not evidence of DEF CON issuance, authorization, admission, a completed sale, pickup, delivery, final production configuration, or rights-cleared image.
HackerOne BUG HUNT 2026 Access Pro Badge
Sold-out ticket-tier #BadgeLife access identity artifact
BUG HUNT 2026's official event site listed a BDT 1,000 Access Pro ticket with a Unique access Badge embracing #BadgeLife, then marked the package sold out. An IEEE club-partner page corroborates the January 10, 2026 Dhaka on-site final and Information Security Conference. This source-backed record models a ticket-tier access identity artifact only; it does not identify a physical form, electronics, access-control mechanism, issued quantity, or completed handoff.
Hackers Teaching Hackers 2026 Eagle 5 Badge
nRF52840/SX1262 electronic conference badge with a public post-event GPL firmware archive
Hackers Teaching Hackers' official materials establish the June 3-5, 2026 Columbus-area practitioner conference with villages and a CTF. Zack Nagaich's public Eagle 5 repository labels itself the 2026 HTH conference-badge firmware and documents an nRF52840 plus SX1262 electronic badge with LEDs, USB roles, RNode/Reticulum-oriented firmware, on-badge CLI, and CTF source context. An attendee account independently says their light-up badge was part of the conference CTF, while the organizer has not directly published this 2026 repository or a distribution record.
Hak4Kidz Chicago 2026 Fun Badge
Youth-attendee conference identity artifact; handoff unverified
Hak4Kidz's official 2026 flyer says youth attendees receive a fun badge, with lunch, snacks, a T-shirt, and prizes, for its June 6 Chicago event. The official home calls the event Time Travel: Capture the Flag, but the sources do not identify the item's material, artwork, barcode/QR/RFID/NFC/electronic form, linkage to the CTF, allocation, or actual pickup/delivery.
Helgatchi Badge (DEF CON 34)
Independent ESP32-S3 BLE and Wi-Fi scanner badge offered for DEF CON 34
DC801's live Helgatchi product page identifies a $120 portable, rechargeable BLE-beacon and Wi-Fi-access-point scanner/hunter with configurable alerts. It names a XIAO ESP32-S3, 8 MB flash, a 400 mAh 3.7 V LiPo, 1.69-inch 240 by 280 Waveshare LCD, six RGB LEDs, vibration motor, and external SMA-RP 2.4 GHz antenna path. Pips801's public repository contains separate hardware and firmware/UI trees, while the public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response identifies DC801 + 801 Labs' Helgatchi as a new badge associated with the August event. The listing remains an independent seller artifact with planned July pickup/shipping terms—not official DEF CON issuance, a Human badge, admission, confirmed recipient delivery, a fully audited detection device, an open-source license, or a rights-cleared image.
ICS Village DEF CON 34 Badge
Pre-event RP2350B multi-protocol OT and automotive research badge
The ICS Village DEF CON 34 Badge is an official FREE-WILi page-documented, on-site / Vendor Village, while-supplies-last hardware badge for DEF CON 34. Its technical page specifies an RP2350B-A4 platform with RS485/Modbus RTU, CAN/CAN FD, 10BASE-T1S and 10BASE-T1L, a DB15 connector, OLED, encoder and RGB UI, storage, USB serial, FreeWili Porpoise Purpose Firmware, OneWili API support, and a stated 3.7 V / 1000 mA internal battery. As of this pre-event source pass, it is not a delivered-run or official DEF CON admission credential.
IEEE RFID 2026 Active BLE Badge
Minew MTB11 ambient-light-harvesting BLE conference tag
IEEE RFID 2026's official conference page advertised a complimentary twentieth-anniversary Bluetooth Low Energy badge, with 100 badges available. Its dedicated badge page identifies the active artifact as a custom-printed Minew MTB11 ambient-light-harvesting BLE tag. The source says that, when sufficiently charged from ambient light, it transmits a unique 48-bit identifier, battery voltage, and temperature in Bluetooth Low Energy advertisement packets. The technical-programme chairs' welcome confirms the June 16-18 Santa Fe conference occurred, but the sources do not establish individual receipt or final device state.
IEEE RFID 2026 Passive RAIN RFID Badge
Custom-printed passive UHF/QR conference tag
IEEE RFID 2026's dedicated badge page identifies a second conference artifact: a custom-printed passive RAIN RFID/UHF tag that can also be optically associated with its conference identifier through a QR code. The page says each tag uses a unique 96-bit, sequential conference/demo identifier rather than a GS1-compliant retail EPC, and that the identifier contains no personal attendee information. The technical-programme chairs' welcome confirms the June 16-18 Santa Fe event, while the published sources do not establish recipient assignment, completed handoff, physical tag construction, or detailed QR behavior.
IEEE Rising Stars 2026 Conference Badge Project
Bare-PCB attendee badge and five advanced prototypes
IEEE Rising Stars' official post-event Badge Project page says every 2026 attendee received a bare PCB with no components, while only about five manually assembled advanced badges were prototyped. A separate pre-event SEAL-Embedded source snapshot documents a Raspberry Pi Pico W BLE networking-badge development track, but neither source identifies it as one of those five units. The record therefore keeps the all-attendee bare-PCB and limited-prototype claims separate and does not treat a public development branch as a universal working badge.
IFLFU SAO (DEF CON 34)
Independent PFC161 two-LED message SAO update announced for DEF CON 34
BigFuckingBadge's public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response calls IFLFU SAO an update to an existing SAO, lists it at $20, and says it illuminates the words "I FUCKING LOVE FUCKING YOU" with the two "FUCKING" illuminations randomized. The same maker's live DEF CON 34 page has an unlabeled $20 OffensiveSAO card about a simple rectangle that sends a message at random; the roster supplies the direct IFLFU name/repository mapping. Hexum064's public `iflfu-v2-pfc161` C source includes PFC161 headers and drives two active-low LED outputs, each with an LFSR-based timing state, while the public hardware repository carries KiCad front/back boards and schematics, BOM/position files, Gerbers, and SAO-spacer models. These sources establish a real planned independent electronic SAO update associated with DEF CON 34—not official conference issuance, admission, a fully recovered earlier lineage, completed fulfillment, final production parity, safe/electrically characterized hardware, a source-license grant, or a rights-cleared image.
INSPECTRON 34 SAO (DEF CON 34)
Completed independent RP2040 CRT-TV Simple Add-On
INSPECTRON 34 is an independent retro-CRT television-shaped Simple Add-On documented by its maker's post-conference public repository. The project records an RP2040, 16 MB flash, 1.14-inch ST7789V display, CircuitPython, USB-drive GIF loading, a DC34 right-port SAO design, and a completed DEF CON 34 run of about 20 sold boards. The post-conference handoff identifies V5 as the current released firmware. It is not an official DEF CON Human badge or admission credential.
Kernelcon 2026 Off Grid Badge
ESP32 weather and crank-powered quest badge
Kernelcon's 2026 Off Grid badge is an ESP32 weather-prediction and quest badge with BME280 temperature, humidity, and pressure sensing, twenty addressable RGB LEDs, AAA and hand-crank power modes, BLE/proximity scanning, and MicroPython firmware.
Konsool
Badge.Team-compatible handheld platform
An ongoing Badge.Team-compatible handheld badge platform, commercially related to Tanmatsu, with public hardware specs, SoftwareHub app installation, LoRa tooling, and expansion-board documentation.
Krampus Minibadge Holder (DEF CON 34)
Independent ATtiny814 five-NeoPixel minibadge holder offered for DEF CON 34
Cabinet of Distinctm1nd's live Krampus Minibadge Holder listing is a $45 offer that displayed sold out in this August 4, 2026 source pass and limits DEF CON pickup to August 6-8 pickup attendees. The maker describes five NeoPixel LEDs, an ATtiny 814, microcontroller development-pin access, USB-or-battery power, and custom or pre-programmed themes; it says minibadge headers and the optional battery holder require soldering and shown minibadges are not included. The public `distinctm1nd/krampus_minibadge_holder` repository corroborates an ATtiny814 holder described as holding six minibadges, a five-LED firmware layout, button-selected theme code, and KiCad/BOM material. Its hardware archive includes a `saintcon_2025` filename, so the tree is an implementation and lineage source—not proof of completed SAINTCON distribution, final 2026 production parity, fulfillment, official DEF CON issuance, a complete source-license grant, or reusable-image rights.
Laser* Tag Badge DS (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event RP2350 infrared game badge with conditional LoRa score sync
Laser* Tag Badge DS is an independent BadgeLife project planned for DEF CON 34. Its maker page describes an RP2350-based infrared tag game with a 915 MHz LoRa score-sync option and QR fallback, while a public late-July update says the boards have arrived and final assembly and flashing are in progress. The record is pre-event and independent; it is not an official DEF CON admission badge.
LayerOne 2026 Three-Button Keyboard Badge
Assembled electronic keyboard badge with blinkies and UV-resin art
LayerOne 2026's electronic attendee and speaker badge was a three-button keyboard with blinkies and a self-printed UV-resin artwork layer. The official Hardware Hacking Village material says attendees assembled the electronic badge in the village, and the official wrap-up confirms the completed event badge and its hand-repair response.
Luna SAO (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event yellow-LED art Simple Add-On for DEF CON 34
delphi's live Uberflux listing calls Luna a simple PCB add-on for DEF CON 34. Its August 4, 2026 marketplace snapshot lists $10, six sold, and 44 remaining, with on-site-only DEF CON 34 pickup and tentative Friday/Saturday BadgeLife Village times. The product says each approximately 57 by 50 mm unit is fully assembled and tested, has a standard 2 by 3 SAO header, and lights a yellow LED in Luna's forehead when connected to the DC34 badge; it explicitly says no adapter is needed. The source supports a real planned light-up art SAO and an independent event-acquisition claim, but not its exact LED part, circuitry, power/current behavior, broad host compatibility, final inventory, completed pickup, DEF CON organizer status, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
METROPOLIS AI SAO (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event red-eye art Simple Add-On with no described AI software
coryallegory's live Uberflux listing calls this METROPOLIS AI SAO and says it is inspired by Maria, the art-deco automaton from Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis. Its August 4, 2026 marketplace snapshot lists $20, 20 sold, and ten remaining, with a free Saturday BadgeLife Village pickup label and a pre-order statement for DEF CON 34 or BSidesLV pickup. The maker says each fully assembled unit uses a standard 2 by 3 SAO header and has a red eye that glows when powered through that header. The listing supplies no description of a model, application, controller, firmware, or other artificial-intelligence capability. This is a source-backed pre-event independent LED art SAO record, not evidence of AI software, final manufacture, completed pickup, universal electrical compatibility, use rights in the film inspiration, DEF CON organizer affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
MF Doom SAO v2 (DEF CON 34)
Planned $20 independent Simple Add-On with a maker-stated surface-mount update
Rex's public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response labels MF Doom SAO v2 as an update to an existing SAO, marks it Coming soon, and gives a $20 price. The source-named Reddit account u/Truth-Miserable independently posted MF Doom SAO v2, said a limited original run existed the previous year, and said its parts will be surface mounted this time. Later maker comments describe direct-message preorders and planned local handoff near the Las Vegas Convention Center. These public maker statements establish a real planned independent 2026 v2 artifact, not an official DEF CON issue, admission credential, completed manufacture or delivery, a documented electrical implementation, firmware/source release, a rights-cleared image, or affiliation with MF DOOM or a rights holder.
MalO SAO (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event RP2350B interactive Simple Add-On planned for DEF CON 34
ParallelLogic's Uberflux listing, public MalO_SAO source/design repository, and first-hand Hackaday.io project diary document a planned DEF CON 34 Simple Add-On based on the SCP-1471-A MalO setting. The marketplace's August 4, 2026 snapshot lists $50, 43 sold, and 57 remaining. The repository says the units are intended for online sale and DEF CON 34 handout in August 2026, identifies an RP2350B, 16 MB external flash, 1.5-inch 128 by 128 grayscale OLED, standard six-pin SAO header, USB-C, capacitive touch, potentiometer, buzzer, microphone, hall sensor, IMU, ambient-light sensor, IR transmit/receive, NFC/RFID, and LED banks. Its project diary confirms the work is ongoing and documents early prototype testing. The repository declares the work CC BY-SA 3.0. This is a source-backed pre-event independent badge record, not proof that a final revision has shipped, that all promoted functions are complete, that every radio/sensor interaction is safe or private, that a named third-party lore asset grants image rights, that the project is DEF CON-issued, or that it grants admission.
MidWestCoast Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event independent ESP32-C3 touchscreen badge project for DEF CON 34
Aask42's public MidWestCoastBadge repository identifies an independent MidWestCoast Badge project, labels its firmware as DEF CON 34 badge firmware, and frames it around a MidWestCoast Party / IoT-hacking context. Its commit-pinned firmware README names an ESP32-C3 driving a 240×320 ST7789 IPS panel plus a capacitive touch controller at I2C address 0x15, with swipe-and-tap controls and no buttons. A project MVP note identifies the Arduino/C++ tree as the current implementation. DEF CON's own registration page independently establishes the August 6-9, 2026 Las Vegas conference context. These sources support a real pre-event independent electronic-badge project associated by its publisher with DEF CON 34, not proof of final physical units, party or event authorization, DEF CON issuance or endorsement, allocation, price, delivery, attendance, admission, deployed firmware, or reusable-image rights.
Monorail Con Badge (DEF CON 34)
Sold-out independent three-SAO monorail badge for DEF CON 34
Zach's Hacks' live Shopify listing calls the Monorail Con Badge sold out and says preorder customers will receive pickup details by email, while noting there may be a few extras to trade in person. Its current public product payload marks all three purchase options unavailable: a $65 badge-and-SAOs option, a $150 bundle option that adds Dani.pink's separately made Laser* Tag Badge DS, and an $80 voluntary extra-payment option. The listing describes a small monorail on a track, a clip for a paper ticket not included, three SAOs, a speaker/mini-SD sound surface, blinky lights, and a regulated 3.3 V supply from two AAA batteries. The maker explicitly says final versions may vary and that it has no affiliation with the Las Vegas Monorail. This is a source-backed independent pre-event badge record, not evidence of final manufactured specification, fulfilled pickup/trade, included transit fare, common hardware/firmware ownership with the bundled Laser* Tag badge, DEF CON organizer affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
NYC Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event ATMEGA328 multi-layer BadgeLife soldering kit
NYC Badge is an independent, pre-event BadgeLife soldering kit offered through Uberflux's Def Con 34 Badge Pickup. The storefront lists a $60 Original option and, at this August 3 source pass, shows the 20-kit listing as OUT with zero remaining and 20 sold. Its published kit list names a layered PCB build, pre-soldered lights, a pre-flashed ATMEGA328, crystal, passive parts, switches, an AAA holder, and included SAO material. This records a real upcoming small-run hardware listing, not final pickup, completed attendee delivery, or an official DEF CON admission credential.
NaClCON 2026 3D-Printed NFC Conference Badge
Founder-announced 3D-printed/NFC badge for Pirate Pieces of Eight
NaClCON's official registration included a NaClCON Badge and access to the Pirate Pieces of Eight CTF, while the official schedule listed a CTF and Badge Intro. A public pre-event announcement by founder Luke McOmie (Pyr0) describes a 3D-printed/NFC conference badge for the Pieces of Eight CTF and Pirate Scavenger Hunt. The event later occurred, but no reviewed post-event source directly establishes final badge fabrication, attendee handoff, or the announced NFC implementation, so this is retained as a source-backed pre-event artifact announcement rather than a shipped-hardware claim.
NilbinSec DC34 Main Badge Fuzzer SAO
Independent ATtiny1614 DEF CON 34 badge-challenge fuzzer SAO
NilbinSec's public DC34 Main Badge Fuzzer SAO repository documents a standalone SAO designed to exercise interfaces on the official DEF CON 34 Human badge using information published before the conference. Its README describes three initial modes: GPIO1/GPIO2 stimulation on the left SAO port, an open-drain CPU wake assertion on GPIO4 of the right port, and an I²C-address listening sweep. The repository provides a KiCad schematic, BOM CSV, PCB archive, C firmware, and compiled hex/ELF files. The README explicitly warns that Mode 1 may harm the main badge and says a convention reflash might follow. This is source-backed pre-event independent challenge hardware, not proof of a finished run, sale, giveaway, pickup, compatibility with a final main-badge revision, authorization to probe another badge, official DEF CON issuance or admission, a reusable-image grant, or an explicit software/hardware licence.
NilbinSec PAC-MAN Ghost SAO (DEF CON 34)
Independent planned free PAC-MAN Ghost SAO giveaway for DEF CON 34
NilbinSec's public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response names a new PAC MAN Ghost SAO, calls it free, says 1,000 will be given away, and promises social-media and village drops plus a Day-1 GitHub post. A first-party NilbinSec Bluesky reply in its Spectre Sniffer launch thread separately says a purchase includes a PAC-MAN Ghost SAO and helps fund more than 1,500 free SAOs for Vegas. The live Spectre Sniffer listing says it includes one Pac-Man Ghost SAO in one of four colors. Those sources establish a real planned companion SAO and current event association, but they do not establish whether the 1,000 giveaway, purchase-included, and four-color statements describe the same physical revision/variant; an electronic design, connector specification, final artwork, actual drop, GitHub release, official DEF CON issuance/admission, reusable-image permission, or third-party intellectual-property authorization.
NilbinSec Power Glove Re-release SAO (DEF CON 34)
Independent planned 500-unit Power Glove SAO re-release for DEF CON 34
NilbinSec's public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response identifies a Power Glove Re-release SAO as a free giveaway: 500 units, with drop announcements on social media and at the Badgelife Village, and a stated plan to post it to NilbinSec GitHub on DEF CON Day 1. The maker's existing DC32 Power Glove SAO repository preserves a historical fabrication/assembly trail—Gerbers plus a bill of materials with two 470-ohm resistors, three flashing RGB LEDs, one cloudy red LED, and a 2×3 shrouded SAO header. It does not publish a 2026-specific repository, firmware, change log, or production record. This is a source-backed planned independent re-release, not proof that the 500 units were made, dropped, received, electrically identical to the DC32 design, officially issued by DEF CON, usable for admission, licensed for reuse, or represented by a rights-cleared image.
NorthSec 2026 Badge
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.
Not Just a Crosswalk SAO (DEF CON 34)
Planned open-hardware CH32V003 light-up Simple Add-On for DEF CON 34
The maker-owned public `keeloi79/not-a-crosswalk-sao` repository explicitly calls Not Just a Crosswalk a Simple Add-On (SAO) project for DEF CON 34. Its README documents a CH32V003 F4P6 RISC-V controller, eighteen side-emitting addressable LEDs, persistent palette/effect settings, two controls, 3.3 V host-badge power stepped to 5 V or a USB-C 5 V input path, and claimed SAO V1.69bis/V2.0 compatibility. The source tree includes documentation, schematics, firmware, build instructions, and a three-part license declaration: CERN-OHL-S v2 hardware, GPLv3 firmware, and CC BY-SA 4.0 documentation/creative works. This is a source-backed planned independent DEF CON 34 add-on, not evidence of a final manufactured run, price, sales channel, quantity, pickup, recipient, host-badge test matrix, electrical-safety validation, official DEF CON affiliation, admission right, or rights-cleared badge image.
OWASP SAO (DEF CON 34)
Source-published 15-pixel touch SAO firmware project; physical artifact and handoff unverified
Punk Security's public repository calls its Arduino sketch "the firmware for the OWASP DefCon 34 SAO." Its final public source snapshot provides an actual `main.ino` rather than an event-labelled name alone: it defines 15 addressable RGB pixel positions, three PTC capacitive-touch nodes, and a README that says the SAO header exposes UPDI for reprogramming. This clears the catalogue threshold for a named, source-published pre-event electronic add-on project. It does not establish a final PCB, microcontroller, power path, exact SAO specification, fabricated unit, approved OWASP or DEF CON relationship, price, allocation, pickup, delivered handoff, credential function, or reusable image rights.
Onion DAO 2026 Hardware Badge
Open ESP32-S3 Chicago builder-festival hardware badge
Onion DAO's official 2026 Chicago festival page says every accepted attendee gets a hardware badge at registration, with most components already on the board and a final soldering step. The same official site links to OnionDAO's public oniondao-badge repository, which documents a hacker-conference-style ESP32-S3 design, optional RF/audio modules, a display socket, secure element, expansion ports, and source trees for hardware and software. The public record supports a real organizer-published artifact and design, while exact recipient allocation, completed assembly, and final attendee population remain unverified.
Open Sauce 2026 Badge
SauceBot / Arduino Sopracciglio electronic badge with a post-event KiCad archive
Open Sauce 2026's SauceBot badge is documented by Caleb Marting's post-event public archive as an Arduino MKR Zero-compatible electronic badge with native KiCad sources, firmware, a microphone, button, red LEDs, battery holder, and optional Simple Add-On headers. The archive says at least two attendees hacked badges Saturday night and brought four new games on Sunday; an independent attendee firmware archive also describes receiving an eyebrow module and replacing the original Bop It-style firmware. Together the sources establish a real festival artifact and hands-on hacking trail, not a universal attendee allocation or organizer-owned source release.
Original Series Tricorder Badge (DEF CON 34)
Independent planned sensor-described Original Series Tricorder badge sale at DEF CON 34
MakeItHackin's public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response lists a new Original Series Tricorder badge, says it will be available on-site at DEF CON through Hacker Warehouse for approximately $125, and describes it as celebrating 60 years of Star Trek with various sensors. The source field for the current badge is still marked TBD. The same maker's public Tricorder SAO repository, tutorial, and live $30 Tindie listing document a differently named 2025 Tricorder SAO with separate badge-powered and rechargeable-battery forms. Those historical sources establish a related public maker lineage, but they do not map their electronics, LEDs, battery/USB-C details, form factor, price, or distribution to the current $125 Original Series Tricorder badge. This is a source-backed planned independent sensor-described event artifact, not proof of a completed sale, disclosed sensor suite, electronic design, final hardware/firmware, historical-SAO parity, official DEF CON issuance or admission, reusable-image permission, or Star Trek rights-holder authorization.
Ouroboros Badge (DEF CON 34)
Independent CH32V003 bare-metal UART crypto-puzzle badge offered toward DEF CON 34
K Badges' maker-controlled Tindie listing identifies Ouroboros as a $29.99 bare-metal RISC-V-assembly electronic badge on a CH32V003, with a custom UART cryptographic puzzle, a 12-LED Charlieplexed matrix, a circular single-layer PCB with exposed traces, and a hand-soldered two-AA configuration. Its August 4, 2026 storefront snapshot is out of stock; the seller says a new order is coming and hopes to bring some to DEF CON, rather than confirming units, arrival, pickup, or delivery. In a first-person r/Defcon announcement, the maker says they created the project and links the Tindie page and a GitHub technical explainer, while separately offering to arrange a DEF CON pickup by email for Tindie buyers. The product also makes 115200-baud puzzle, cryptographic-framework, low-power, and performance statements, but neither the product nor the maker-linked generic AVR framework establishes a released matching CH32V003 firmware or hardware package. This is a source-backed independent pre-event maker offering, not an official DEF CON badge, registration credential, confirmed fulfillment, verified cryptographic implementation, hardware-safety record, or reusable-image source.
Overglade 2026 Zero-Power NFC E-Ink Badge
Maker-documented RP2040 e-ink/NFC game-jam badge
Kai Pereira's public archive identifies these as Overglade hackathon badges designed for the completed Singapore game jam. The device has an RP2040, passive NFC, an onboard e-ink driver, and an exposed ticket-shaped PCB with public KiCad and MicroPython source trees. Official Hack Club pages establish the event, but not a badge entitlement or all-recipient allocation.
Payment Village DEF CON 34 Volunteer Village Badge
Officially announced pre-event volunteer access credential
Payment Village's official DEF CON 34 volunteer notice says volunteers will receive access to the conference through a village badge, alongside a village T-shirt and learning opportunities. The village's official event page confirms the August 6-9 Las Vegas programme. This source-backed record models the stated pre-event volunteer identity/access artifact only; it does not identify a physical form, electronics, access-control mechanism, issued quantity, or a connection to the separate 2025 Vulnerable ATM Badge.
PhreakNIC 27 Planned MK.II ESL Badge
Pre-event planned electronic shelf-label follow-up
A conservative pre-event record for Tyler Crumpton's public plan to bring an even cooler MK.II electronic shelf-label badge to PhreakNIC 27, currently scheduled for November 6-7, 2026.
Portal Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event CH32V303 Portal puzzle badge from a public DC34 source tree
BigFuckingBadge's live DEF CON 34 page calls this year's Portal Badge a 14×14-inch Companion-Cube-shaped, touch-activated badge, marks presale open with limited quantities, and advertises $120 before DEF CON 34 or $150 through hackerwarehouse during the con. A public GitLab hierarchy at `hexum-public-share/bfb/dc34/public/badge/portal-badge` contains separate software, hardware, and sound projects for the same Portal-themed badge. The source names a `ch32fun-portal-badge` firmware project and a `ch32v303-48lqfp-portal-badge` board project; its current software configuration targets a CH32V303CBT6 with PlatformIO and ch32v003fun. The committed firmware defines 85 LED pixels, fourteen active-low inputs, SD-card-backed audio with DAC playback, flash-persisted unlock state, a serial Portal Gun SAO/badge-to-badge protocol, and diode-solder-on detection. Its design document describes standby, Nyan, and a four-level Portal puzzle game built around spheres, portals, fire, and unlockable features. Public commits show software “final code checks” and hardware acrylic SVG work on August 2, 2026. This is a source-backed pre-event independent record, not proof of a completed sale, physical run, event allocation, pickup, official DEF CON credential, final binary, safety validation, third-party-IP permission, or reusable-image rights.
Portal Gun SAO (DEF CON 34)
Independent PFC161 touch-and-four-LED companion SAO announced for DEF CON 34
BigFuckingBadge's public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response lists a new $20 PORTAL gun SAO and says touching its end changes animated colors and interacts with the PORTAL Badge. The maker's live DEF CON 34 page independently describes a $20 Portal-gun companion with blue, orange/red, and off modes plus interaction with that year's Portal Badge. Hexum064's public `portal-gun-sao-dc33-code` source targets PFC161, defines a four-pixel LED buffer, blue/orange color states, a capacitive-touch threshold, and a touch-triggered state update; the public hardware tree holds KiCad, BOM/position, Gerber, and acrylic files. The source repositories retain `dc33` in their names, so they are an implementation/reuse trail rather than proof of a newly designed or unchanged 2026 production revision. Together the sources establish a real planned independent electronic SAO associated with DEF CON 34—not official DEF CON issuance, admission, confirmed fulfillment, a finalized host-compatibility claim, final hardware/firmware parity, third-party-IP permission, a source-license grant, or a rights-cleared image.
Puzzled Hackers LED Badge (DEF CON 34)
Sold-out independent Puzzled Hackers LED meetup badge for DEF CON 34
Puzzled Hackers' own CTF checkout page calls this a limited-edition LED badge for DEF CON 34 and, in the August 4, 2026 source pass, lists $20 including tax, in-person pickup at the Linq 3535 / Circle Bar on Wednesday August 5 and Thursday August 6 from 7–10 PM PT, no shipping, and exhausted online allocations. A contemporaneous Puzzled Hackers Team announcement says the top 50 CTF participants received free-badge redemption on their accounts, remaining sales were capped to break even, further badges would move to random giveaways after the cap, and collection requires a meetup or arranged DEF CON handoff using an offline QR claim code. It also explicitly says the meetup is free and that an actual DEF CON badge is not required for the first Wednesday gathering. The sources support a real, independently distributed LED badge and a community CTF/meetup context, but not its physical construction, components, firmware, final quantity, free-claim count beyond the stated top 50, delivery, event authorization, DEF CON organizer affiliation, admission, or reusable-image rights.
Pwnterrey 2026 Official ESP32-C5 Badge
Official open-hardware headless ESP32-C5 wireless-security badge with public KiCad and C5 firmware sources
Electronic Cats' public badge-pwnterrey-2026 repository describes itself as the official Pwnterrey 2026 badge and publishes a native KiCad hardware project plus a CERN Open Hardware Licence v1.2 file. Pwnterrey's official site places the free cybersecurity conference in Monterrey on May 29, 2026; Bishop Fox separately corroborates the date and Rincón Tostitos By Jardín 85 venue. The source documents a portable headless ESP32-C5 RISC-V badge with USB-C serial context, NFC tag-emulation circuitry, and GPS material. Electronic Cats' companion repository calls itself official Pwnterrey 2026 firmware and preserves an ESP32-C5 Marauder-derived source and build trail. These sources establish a real official event badge and public design and firmware references, but not a production quantity, registration-tier allocation, final assembled configuration, completed recipient handoff, final signed release, safe operational use, or reusable badge-image right.
REcon 2026 Badge
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.
RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 FPGA Badge
SemiTO-V Developer Zone RP2350/GW1N-9 electronic badge project
SemiTO-V's RISC-V FPGA Badge was a limited Developer Zone electronic PCB badge project for RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna. Primary team sources name an RP2350 MCU, a GOWIN GW1N-9 FPGA, custom firmware, and a default RV32I core; they say NextPCB produced the boards and planned to bring 25 to the developer workshop. A logistics update then delayed intended June 8 distribution. The source record supports real physical boards and a 2026 event association, not a final unit count, completed recipient delivery, or the precise current post-event design revision.
ROOTCON 20 Planned Badge
Philippine planned electronic badge and Type-B fallback
The ROOTCON 20 con-goers guide documents a planned September 2026 badge distribution model: electronic badges distributed first-come during on-site check-in while supplies last, with a simpler Type-B non-electronic badge fallback.
RTV D20 Badge (DEF CON 34)
Planned $80 Red Team Village badge with an on-site sale statement
Red Team Village's own public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response lists a new badge named RTV D20, says it will be available on site at DEF CON through the village, and gives an $80 price. The Village's official events page places Red Team Village at the Las Vegas Convention Center on August 6-9, 2026. These primary event and self-submission sources are sufficient to seed a planned village-associated artifact, but they do not identify whether the badge is electronic or non-electronic, its physical design, any components, functions, firmware, game, CTF role, quantity, final sale outcome, registration relationship, or reusable-image rights.
RVAsec 2026 Badge
HackRVA firmware and simulator badge archive
RVAsec 2026 is now source-backed beyond the earlier package listing: the public HackRVA `badge2026` repository preserves Badge 2026 firmware, simulator/build instructions, UF2 flashing workflow, app source, image assets, and June 10, 2026 release binaries after the June 9-10 conference.
Robotic Hacking Community DEF CON 34 AI-Connected Badge
Post-event STM32U073 badge with MIT firmware, AI control, and CTF surface
A post-event official RHC firmware release documents the AI-Connected DEF CON 34 badge as an STM32U073 device with a 1.54-inch 200×200 e-paper display, two WS2812 eyes, arm LED, buzzer, vibration motor, NEC infrared, CH340 USB serial, four buttons, on-badge CTF challenges, and AI Interactive Mode. The MIT-licensed source and binary were published August 18-20 after the scheduled August 6-9 Las Vegas programme. This establishes a released badge platform, not a recipient count, individual pickup, or a complete production ledger.
RomHack Camp 2026 Badge
Pre-event unique hardware badge challenge
A current pre-event record for the October 2-4, 2026 RomHack Camp at Flaminio Village, whose public event site and participant FAQ advertise a unique hardware badge and collectible challenge rather than final shipped hardware details.
Root Access SAO (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event ATtiny1616 cedar interactive Simple Add-On for DEF CON 34
MakeItHackin's live Uberflux listing describes Root Access as a home-milled Tennessee-cedar add-on built for the DEF CON 34 badge and says it also works with a standard six-pin SAO header. Its August 4, 2026 marketplace snapshot lists $50 and a seller state of 15 sold from a listed total of 100, with BSides Las Vegas and Linq Circle Bar drop labels. The maker's public RootAccess guide independently identifies an ATtiny1616, ten addressable RGB pixels, eleven discrete LEDs, fifty built-in animations, a physical button, I2C address 0x50, and non-volatile USERROW state. It documents standalone operation and host-controlled lighting over I2C, plus separate GPIO 1 and GPIO 2 circuits that can be used as LED outputs or button inputs. This is a source-backed pre-event independent SAO record, not proof of final manufacture, actual drop handoff, every listed compatibility claim, safe electrical integration, DEF CON organizer affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
RootedCON 2026 Pacman Badge
Spanish ESP32 PACMAN CTF badge with project-builder and community-reversal evidence
RootedCON 2026's PACMAN-themed attendee CTF badge is documented by both community reversals and a first-hand TechFrontiers project-builder write-up. David Melendez Cano reports original colored Ghost boards that attendees could choose, an ESP32-WROOM-32 platform, ESP-NOW game-server interaction, per-badge NVS identity/key material, and digitally signed questions and answers. Community reversals independently identify an ESP32-D0WD-V3, 1.77-inch ST7735 128x160 display, directional controls, and native quiz-server CTF protocol for the March 5-7 sixteenth edition at Kinepolis Madrid.
SAINTCON 2026 Planned Electronic Badge
Pre-event main badge with 2.54 mm MiniBadge sockets
SAINTCON 2026 is represented by a conservative planned electronic-badge record: official pages state that the 2026 conference badge will have MiniBadge sockets on the standard 2.54 mm grid, while the sponsor prospectus distinguishes Electronic Badge and Non-Electronic sponsor-ticket types. The October event has not happened yet, so this record does not present the artifact as shipped.
SECCON 2026 PCB Badge
limited first-180 ticket PCB badge
SECCON 2026 is represented by an official pre-event ticket source that says eligible passes include a PCB badge with CTFs and features, limited to the first 180 registrants.
Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge
Maker-documented ATtiny85 Hardware Village CTF badge soldered in Goa
The official Seasides and HW101 pages establish a Goa Hardware Hacking Village where people soldered take-home badges and worked on a hidden hardware/firmware challenge. A public project-owner archive calls a concrete board the Seasides 2026 Roulette Badge, says that more than 300 participants assembled it live, and publishes its C firmware, schematic, and Gerbers. The archive makes this a source-backed maker-documented instance of the village badge, but the official event pages do not independently name the Roulette design or confirm that every village or conference badge used that exact final configuration.
SecretCon 2026 Digital / Circuit Badge
Official interactive PCB ticket-tier badge; post-event delivery remains unverified
An official SecretCon 2026 Digital / Circuit Badge ticket-tier artifact advertised as an interactive circuit-board PCB badge for the June 4-5 St. Paul, Minnesota conference. The registration listing says the tier included a printed physical program and admission to talks, hands-on hubs, exhibitors, contests, and the official party; it separately describes a higher Extreme Badge tier with collectible electronic and upgraded-PCB wording, without establishing whether the physical boards were different.
Security Fest 2026 RP2040 Badge
Source-backed RP2040 LED-matrix conference badge
Security Fest 2026's public firmware repository identifies this as the official conference badge: a small, hackable RP2040 device with a 9×9 LED matrix, six buttons, USB surface, and public firmware. The official event site confirms the completed May 28-29 Gothenburg conference, while a contemporaneous attendee report credits Carl Vargklint's badge work. Allocation and delivery are not documented.
Shitty Kitty V2 (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event sold-out RP2040 dual-SAO BadgeLife restock
Uberflux lists Shitty Kitty V2 under the `lipo` maker handle and Uberfoo Heavy Industries, with DEF CON 34 as its only listed drop. At this August 3 source pass, the $75 listing is marked OUT with zero remaining and 15 sold, and says new stock is available for DEF CON 34 pickup. Its maker-published description names dual 0.96-inch color IPS screens, an RP2040 platform, two fully connected 1.69bis SAO ports, USB-C, LiPo power/charging components, five user buttons, a boot button, and SkittyOS features. It also announces new firmware with graphics and puzzles, but provides no release link. This is a documented pre-event restock listing, not proof of final pickup, a completed firmware release, a reproduced engineering archive, or an official DEF CON admission credential.
Sneakreaper Limited-Edition Badge (DEF CON 34)
Publicly announced 100-unit ESP32-S3 badge offering planned for DEF CON 34
A contemporaneous public r/Defcon post calls this a Sneakreaper limited-edition DEF CON badge and says only 100 would be available at a Sneakreaper Industries booth; the post author later replies with Hall W4 and $150. The same post names an ESP32-S3-MINI-1-N8, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 13.56 MHz NFC, and programmable LEDs. Crucially, it says that most listed capabilities will not be ready out of the box: only LED colour/brightness changes, a hidden software CTF or scavenger hunt, and NFC read/write are marked as available on DEF CON day 1. The official DEF CON forum fixes the related conference at the Las Vegas Convention Center on August 6-9, 2026. These sources support a real independently announced pre-event hardware offering with a bounded day-one feature claim, not verified seller identity or Sneakreaper Industries relationship, official booth authorization, completed manufacture, final inventory, sale, handoff, electrical design, firmware release, future functionality, lawful-use assurance, DEF CON organizer affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
Software You Can Love 2026 SYCL Badge V2
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.
Spectre Sniffer Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event sold-out XIAO ESP32S3 EMF BadgeLife release
NilbinSec's live Uberflux listing identifies the Spectre Sniffer Badge as a limited DEF CON 34 release. At this August 3, 2026 source pass, the $80 listing shows 80 sold and no units remaining. Its maker-published description names a XIAO ESP32S3, a live EMF detector with a real-time spike graph, a randomized-word Spirit Box whose output rate follows the stated EMF signal, a SAO v1.69bis connector with I2C, one included Pac-Man Ghost SAO in one of four colors, a protected 18650 battery and lanyard, and one- and two-player arcade games. The seller says release is pickup only at the BadgeLife Village and announced LVCC locations, with missed drops donated at closing ceremonies. This is a source-backed pre-event independent BadgeLife record, not proof of final handoff, finished firmware, component-level engineering, instrument accuracy, electrical safety, official DEF CON admission status, or reusable-image rights.
Star Trek SAO Phaser v2.2 (DEF CON 34)
Independent planned Hak4Kidz Lab Phaser v2.2 SAO sale at DEF CON 34
Hak4Kidz Lab's public DEF CON 34 Badgelife response lists Star Trek SAO Phaser v2.2 as a new SAO, links a maker video with that exact title, says it can be purchased from Hacker Warehouse at DEF CON, and gives an approximately $35 price. The maker's live Tindie product page also identifies Star Trek SAO Phaser v2.2 as a Hak4Kidz Lab electronic badge wearable and a fun blinky add-on. That page says it can attach to a Badgelife-supported SAO 1.69bis connector, describes side-view and shine-down LEDs illuminating the PCB, barrel, and top tracer, and calls the SAO connector a DIY soldering part. It also says the named v2.2 listing was made for DC31 and is a follow-up to a 2019 v1; its coin-cell pin-wear path was still in works. These sources establish a real planned independent current-event sale and a historical same-name product lineage—not completed DEF CON sales, confirmed Hacker Warehouse stock, a final 2026 production/revision mapping, a supplied coin-cell wearable configuration, a complete circuit/firmware archive, official DEF CON issuance or admission, reusable-image permission, or Star Trek rights-holder authorization.
Station 562 Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event independent BLE number-station puzzle badge for DEF CON 34
Station 562 is a source-conservative independent DEF CON 34 badge record from its public maker announcement. The project owner describes a proximity-controlled badge with a BLE number-station puzzle, red-versus-blue proximity game, autonomous social/dance mode, expressive BLE MIDI instrument, tamper-evident mode, Setup menu, and optional hardware CTF. In follow-up comments, the maker reports about 55 units made so far, signed firmware with a distinct key pair per badge, a constrained giveaway/sale plan, and RGB blank boards that omit the OLED, LiPo, and ESP32 module. No public repository, schematic, firmware release, final availability ledger, or reusable-image permission was recovered.
THcon 2026 Badge
French ESP32-C6 B.A.D.G.E. with OLED, SAO, and BLE color propagation
The official THcon 2026 B.A.D.G.E. page documents an ESP32-C6 electronic badge with the Badge3000 WiFi access point, an I2C OLED at address 0x3C, and BLE padlock and one-time-password challenges for the May 5-6 tenth edition in Toulouse. A May 13 first-hand attendee teardown identifies the distributed board as an ESP32-C6-WROOM-1 build with an SSD1306 OLED, WS2812 RGB LED, ATC24C04 EEPROM, SAO connector, single-cell battery/TP4056 charging path, and USB-C CH340C serial bridge; it also documents the delivered firmware's BLE color-command propagation behavior.
TROPICON 2026 Electronic Badge
Electronic Cats ESP32-C6 badge source with public KiCad hardware and firmware archives
Electronic Cats' public Badge_Tropicon-2026 repository describes its project as the official TROPICON 2026 badge and publishes native KiCad design material. Its commit-pinned hardware README identifies an ESP32-C6, a 2.79-inch 142×428 colour IPS display using an NV3007, LoRa hardware, and an AHT30 sensor. A companion Electronic Cats firmware archive documents software for the TROPICON badge and is marked GPL-3.0 by GitHub. The official TROPICON site establishes the completed April 17-18 Cozumel event, but does not itself link or independently confirm the technical archives, allocation, credential role, final production configuration, recipient handoff, or reusable-image rights.
Telecom Village DEF CON 34 Badge
Organizer-revealed pre-event badge and lanyard
Telecom Village's official organizer account has introduced an all-new Telecom Village badge and lanyard for DEF CON 34. The same account previously said its badge package had been received and badges secured, while the official village site identifies PCBWay as Badge Sponsor. Those primary sources establish a real pre-event village artifact and accompanying lanyard, but do not establish its construction, electronics, final recipient scope, credential role, or completed handoff.
Temporal Replay 2026 Badge
MIT-licensed ESP32-S3 badge with Doom, MicroPython, and IR boop
An official Temporal Replay 2026 developer-conference badge documented by the MIT-licensed temporal-community/badge.temporal.io repository as an ESP32-S3 app platform with an OLED and LED matrix, a Doom port, MicroPython, and infrared boop badge-to-badge networking, for the May 5-7, 2026 event in San Francisco.
The Beer SAO / BCCC Temperature Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event RP2350 temperature-measuring Simple Add-On for DEF CON 34's BCCC
The live maker listing for The Beer SAO, the public `aerospace-venoms/BCCC_Temperature_SAO` source tree, and BCCC's own DEF CON 34 page document an independent temperature-measuring Simple Add-On associated with the Beer Chilling Contraption Contest. The marketplace's August 4, 2026 payload shows a $45, 150-unit presale with 28 sold and 122 remaining, two BadgeLife Village pickup slots, and no shipping. It describes a roughly 100 mm beer-cup SAO with a waterproof temperature probe, triple seven-segment display, RP2350 with 2 MB flash, USB-C, and a supplied 180-degree adapter for the upside-down DC34 host ports. The source tree identifies an RP2350A, W25Q16 flash, DS18B20 temperature sensor, RGB-independent brightness control, Pico-SDK firmware, KiCad design files, a versioned UF2, and batch programming/soak-test tooling; it says BCCC winners receive copies while stock lasts. This is a source-backed pre-event independent badge record, not proof of final manufacture, pickup, contest results, host compatibility, temperature accuracy, safety, final firmware, DEF CON organizer endorsement, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
The Shattered Shard (DEF CON 34)
Public player-guide electronic challenge badge; allocation unverified
BigDawgDave's public GitHub repository describes itself as the public repository for a DEF CON 34 RM-Cyber challenge badge called The Shattered Shard. Its Player Guide tells participants to use an assigned badge with a charged battery, a local Wi-Fi/browser interaction, a data-capable USB cable, a serial terminal, and one labelled-jumper task. It is enough evidence to preserve a separately named, independently documented pre-event electronic challenge badge, but it does not prove the RM-Cyber relationship, organizer authorization, hardware provenance, sale or giveaway, run size, allocation, physical handoff, completed on-site use, admission function, or a rights-cleared image.
UPDeeDeeI SAO (DEF CON 34)
Sold-out pre-event Lepi Labs UPDI-programmer moth Simple Add-On for DEF CON 34
Lepi Labs' own Uberflux listing identifies UPDeeDeeI as a DEF CON 34-drop moth Simple Add-On. Its August 4, 2026 marketplace state is out of stock, with seven sold, zero remaining, and a $35 listed price. The maker says a CH340E USB-to-serial converter supports UPDI programming of compatible ATtiny devices, names an onboard ATtiny814 with two RGB LED eyes, and describes USB-C plus a flexible FPC tongue used as a functional USB cable. It also claims configurable 3.3 V or 5 V UPDI voltage, SAO or included CR2032 power, and v1.1 pre-event corrections including an FPC power fuse. Lepi Labs' first-hand DC34 announcement corroborates planned Friday and Saturday BadgeLife Village drops. This is a source-backed pre-event independent programming-tool SAO, not proof of final board revision, safe programming configuration, USB/FPC durability, compatible target coverage, delivery, host compatibility, DEF CON organizer affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
Unknown Security Conference 2026 Pwn Llama Badge
CH573F BLE virtual-pet and CTF electronic badge
A source-backed Peruvian Unknown Security Conference 2026 electronic-badge record that joins the official pass's lanyard-and-badge inclusion with Electronic Cats' self-described official Pwn Llama badge repository. Its public history shows hardware work before the June 4-6 Lima event and a July documentation update.
Volatile Organic Canary SAO (DEF CON 34)
Sold-out pre-event Lepi Labs novelty VOC-indicator Simple Add-On for DEF CON 34
Lepi Labs' own Uberflux listing identifies the Volatile Organic Canary as a DEF CON 34-drop Simple Add-On. Its August 4, 2026 marketplace state is out of stock, with 11 sold, zero remaining, and a $45 listed price. The product describes an SGP40 VOC sensor plus SHT4x temperature/humidity sensor, a two-character fourteen-segment display, RGB LED, ATtiny1616-S controller, UPDI reprogramming, SAO or included CR2032 power, and a lanyard clip. Its maker explicitly says the device is novelty-only and must not be relied on for accurate air-quality measurements; it also records a ten-minute VOC-index warmup and a v1.0 board-order/remediation plan. Lepi Labs' first-hand DC34 announcement corroborates planned Friday and Saturday BadgeLife Village drops. This is a source-backed pre-event independent sensor SAO, not proof of final manufactured hardware, sold orders, safe or accurate air-quality measurement, delivery, host compatibility, DEF CON organizer affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
Whose Slide Is It Anyway? 10 Year Anniversary Badge
Pre-event ESP32-C3 commemorative badge for Whose Slide's tenth DEF CON year
Whose Slide Is It Anyway?'s maker storefront offers a $75 10 Year Anniversary Badge and says it is limited to 100 units. The listing describes an ESP32-C3, 24 RGB LEDs, three pre-programmed sound effects with corresponding light shows, and a silkscreen replication of its Whose Slide gong artwork. Its public Shopify product payload currently marks the only variant unavailable; that is an availability snapshot, not evidence that all 100 were made, sold, shipped, or collected. The maker says buyers may arrange DEF CON pickup this year or shipment by early August. The current public DC34 contest listing describes 2026 as the contest's tenth year, and the public DC34 BadgeLife index separately lists this artifact. This is a source-backed independent pre-event commemorative badge record, not proof of final production, final firmware/board revision, completed charity distribution, official DEF CON affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
Women's International Cybersecurity Challenge 2026 CTF Badge
Maker-documented ESP CTF challenge badge
A public maker archive explicitly titled Women's International Cybersecurity Challenge Badge 2026 links itself to WICC and documents a hackable serial-CLI CTF badge with ESP8266 and ESP32 target trees, challenge activities, a two-part protective case, and a repository photo of a physical cased device. WICC's official site and Cyber Ireland's post-event recap confirm the completed July 9-10 Dublin competition, but neither organizer source names this exact project. TOG separately reports building 15 ESP8266 hardware flags for the same CTF without identifying them as this archive, so this is a maker-documented event-linked electronic badge—not an organizer-issued credential, general attendee badge, or claim of equivalence to the flags.
WomenCon 2026 Digital Morpher Badge
Included interactive Electronic Cats badge with AAA-powered screens
WomenCon's public ticket posts describe the Digital Morpher as an interactive, collectible electronic badge designed and developed by Electronic Cats and included with admission. An IQSEC-host-linked public update told attendees to bring their own AAA batteries to power its screens and announced registration kit handoff; a post-event WomenCon source statement says Electronic Cats badges functioned during live hardware hacking. No component, firmware, or reusable-image archive is published.
Wordweaving Badge (DEF CON 34)
Pre-event RP2350 CTF-adventure BadgeLife badge for DEF CON 34
BigTaro's own Wordweaving Badge project page and live Uberflux listing describe an independent DEF CON 34 top-down adventure / CTF badge. The current maker payload shows a $120 100-unit presale with 41 sold, DC34 pickup, and post-con shipping; it also says the badge would be $140 at the maker-described Hacker Warehouse booth during the conference. The maker describes an RP2350 with 4 MB flash, 16 RGB addressable LEDs, a 128×128 grayscale display, rechargeable LiPo via USB-C, and a fully addressable SAO port. It publishes game, CTF, multiplayer, word-building, and optional-component claims, but says hardware documentation and a stub firmware will only be provided after the conference. The project page says 30-plus CTF puzzles while the live listing says 35-plus, so the record preserves a broad maker-described challenge surface rather than resolving the discrepancy. This is a source-backed pre-event independent badge, not proof of final hardware/firmware, shipment or pickup, game availability, CTF completion, venue authorization, DEF CON affiliation, conference admission, or reusable-image rights.
Workday DevCon 2026 Blinky 2350 Badge
Post-event Pimoroni Blinky 2350 developer-conference badge; organizer allocation unverified
A public post-event app archive by Mainak Sarkar identifies a Pimoroni Blinky 2350 badge as handed out at Workday DevCon 2026 and says it ran the badgeware MicroPython operating system and app launcher. Workday's official pages establish the completed June 1-4 Las Vegas developer conference, but do not directly document badge issuance, recipient allocation, custom hardware, event firmware, or image rights. This is therefore a source-backed event badge record with intentionally limited organizer attribution.
Zer0Con 2026 Entry Badge
South Korean closed-conference entry badge availability record
Zer0Con's official 2026 page places the closed vulnerability-research conference at Fairmont Ambassador Hotel Seoul on April 2-3, 2026, and POC Security's official update trail described Zer0Con2026 registration as limited to 120 seats.
cackalackycon 2026 Speaker Electronic Badge
Speaker-colored electronic admission badge; allocation evidence is limited
Cackalackycon 2026's organizer-provided Call for Papers promises every selected speaker a speaker-colored electronic badge and free admission. It separately gives the speaker one paper-badge guest admission, noting that a guest who wants an electronic badge must purchase a ticket. The organizer-linked ticket page also markets a 2026 electronic badge, and post-event organizer and badge-team reports corroborate that badges were made and handed out. This record therefore captures a source-backed speaker electronic-badge allocation, not a universal attendee or technical claim.
cackalackycon 2026 Student Paper Badge
Student-admission paper identity artifact; explicitly not electronic
Cackalackycon 2026's official event and Cackalackycon 101 pages say students with a valid student ID can attend for free with a paper badge, no electronic badge, and no preregistration. This record models that explicitly disclosed student identity artifact only; related speaker electronic-badge evidence is kept in a separate, scoped record rather than becoming a student hardware claim.
h-c0n 2026 CTF BADge
Madrid Hackplayers electronic development-board CTF badge
A source-backed Spanish hacker-conference electronic badge record: the official h-c0n post says Hackplayers finally produced an electronic badge for the sixth 2026 edition, describes it as a fully functional development board, and ties pickup to the February 6 conference registration and CTF start; the public `therealdreg/hcon2026hwctf` repository and Hackplayers post-event write-up document RP2350/RISC-V firmware, tooling, named co-creators, and winner write-ups.
iFixit SAO (DEF CON 34)
Maker-documented ATtiny1604 soldering-challenge Simple Add-On
NerdFlare's public repository describes a 2026 iFixit Shitty Add On (SAO), while its repository description labels the project an iFixit DEFCON 2026 SAO. The commit-pinned README documents a physical PCB art badge with multiple LED animations, an interactive surface-mount soldering challenge, user-programmable firmware, an ATtiny1604-SS target, PlatformIO/Arduino code, and KiCad design files. A dated July 18 source commit says "Version 0.1 - FINAL: art, code, and PCB. 1000 made for DEFCON34." Those are direct project-publisher statements sufficient to retain a distinct pre-event DEF CON 34 artifact, but not proof of organizer issuance, iFixit corporate publication, event authorization, attendee allocation, actual handoff, admission function, a final unit-by-unit configuration, or reusable-image rights.
leHACK 2026 Badge Hackropole
Open ESP32-S3 capacitive light-up workshop badge
leHACK's official 2026 workshop schedule and the French National Cybersecurity Agency's leHACK listing present Badge Hackropole as a novice-accessible workshop in which participants assemble a capacitive light-up badge, solder a microcontroller and eight SMD LEDs, and program preconfigured WLED firmware. FCSC-FR's public hackropole-badge repository supplies the PCB source, assembly instructions, firmware binaries/configuration, and per-file licensing. The programme lists ten 55-minute workshop sessions across June 26-27, but the source trail does not prove final attendance, completed builds, or a conference-wide handout.
x33fcon 2026 Conference Badge
Polish conference-floor identity badge
A conservative x33fcon 2026 identity-artifact record: the official conference page documents the June 11-12, 2026 Gdynia edition and currently says registration is closed at full capacity, while the terms require all people on the conference floor to have a visible badge at all times. The official afterparty instructions separately tell attendees to bring a physical x33fcon ID or ticket to enter either venue.
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HackerHotel 2027 Badge
Planned Badge.Team LoRa keyboard badge
A pre-event HackerHotel badge record based on Badge.Team's public plan for LoRa, a keyboard, a big screen, and an ESP32-P4-class processor.