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2017 badges

Hacker conference badges documented for 2017, sorted by country.

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BornHack 2017 Badge: Happy Gecko OLED programming badge

BornHack 2017 · Denmark · 2017

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.

AfricaHackOn 2017 · Kenya · 2017

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.

HITCON CMT 2017 · Taiwan · 2017

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.

DEF CON 25 · United States · 2017

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.

LayerOne 2017 · United States · 2017

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.

RVAsec 2017 · United States · 2017

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.

SAINTCON 2017 · United States · 2017

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.