Year
Hacker conference badges documented for 2016, sorted by country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
EMF 2016 MicroPython badge
An EMF badge with color LCD, WiFi, sensors, MicroPython, app library, and USB hacking workflow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.