Year
Hacker conference badges documented for 2019, sorted by country.
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.
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.
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.
TwinkleTwinkie PCB-art badge
TwinkleTwinkie's DEF CON 27 Hardware Hacking Village bio lists the BSides Vancouver 2019 Badge among notable artistic PCB badges and indie badge add-ons produced by the independent PCB artist. The current official B|Sides Vancouver site keeps the Vancouver Security BSides lineage visible, while this pass keeps the badge record limited to the artifact name, maker trail, and PCB-art classification.
Official-history-backed CTF electronic badge
Hackfest's official history says the 2019 CTF innovated by introducing an electronic badge, and that the addition was an immediate hit with participants. The 2019 schedule documents badge pickup on October 31, November 1, and November 2, plus CTF registration and CTF room activity during the Plaza-era Quebec City event.
nRF52 OLED/BLE badge with games and challenges
The NorthSec 2019 badge repository documents an nRF52832 and STM32F070 electronic badge with OLED, BLE, NeoPixel RGB LEDs, buttons, USB, Li-ion or USB power, schematics, BOM material, Gerbers, firmware applications, games, challenges, schedule code, and BLE/LED control utilities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CCCamp 2019 wearable sensor badge
A wrist-worn CCC Camp badge focused on sensing, health-style signals, BLE, and a Python-friendly app ecosystem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DIY circuit-building badge
A small DIY protoboard badge intended for attendees to build their own circuits.
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.
SHA2017-derived Badge.Team badge
A HackerHotel badge made mostly from leftover SHA2017 parts, adding PSRAM, IR, stereo audio, Grove I2C, and SAO expansion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.