Year
Hacker conference badges documented for 2026, sorted by country.
Pre-event South Australian attendee badge and lanyard support record
BSides Adelaide 2026 is represented here as a conservative pre-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.
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.
Post-event electronic badge record for the Time Travel edition
BSides Brisbane 2026 is represented by a post-event electronic-badge record: the 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 BSides Brisbane's public LinkedIn updates named BLARGE as the electronic-badge supporter.
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.
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.
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.
Official social electronic badge with soldering-village enhancement trail
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 villages and community-schedule pages document badge pickup through attendees' nSec order QR codes, soldering-village activity where attendees could enhance their badge with blinking electronic parts, plus a badge museum showing NorthSec's electronic-badge history.
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.
Pre-event Cyber Ægg LoRa mesh badge
A future BornHack badge entry now documented by Badge.Team as Cyber Ægg: an egg-shaped low-power nRF52840/SX1262 LoRa mesh badge with tri-colour e-paper, NFC, QWIIC, USB-C, BornPets, and public Codeberg hardware/firmware links.
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.
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.
French ESP32-C6 B.A.D.G.E. with WiFi AP and BLE challenges
A French THcon 2026 official electronic badge documented by the official B.A.D.G.E. page as an ESP32-C6 board with a WiFi access point, an I2C OLED at address 0x3C, and two badge challenges built around a BLE padlock and a one-time-password flow, for the May 5-6, 2026 tenth edition in Toulouse.
Pre-event ticket-code and wristband camp record
A conservative pre-event Camp++ 2026 record for attendee identity: the current official camp 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.
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.
Goa soldering-village badge with hidden challenge
A conservative Seasides 2026 Hardware Hacking Village badge record from official Seasides and HW101 pages documenting a drop-in soldering village where attendees could build a custom badge and pursue a hidden hardware/firmware challenge.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Peruvian official identity artifact
A conservative Peruvian UnknownCon 2026 identity-artifact record for the official lanyard and badge included with the free conference pass; the public site still keeps several programme details sparse even though the June 4-6 dates have passed.
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.
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.
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 the terms page says all people on the conference floor must have a visible badge at all times.
Portuguese BSides electronic badge experience
A conservative post-date record for BSides Porto 2026's advertised electronic badge experience, anchored to the official site, agenda, and ticketing page rather than component-level badge documentation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spanish ESP32 Pacman badge reconstructed from community reversals
A Spanish RootedCON 2026 official Pacman Badge reconstructed from multiple community reversing repositories as an ESP32-D0WD-V3 board with a 1.77-inch ST7735 128x160 display, a directional pad, buttons, and a native quiz-server CTF protocol, distributed at the March 5-7, 2026 sixteenth edition at Kinepolis Madrid.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Planned electronic Human badge with SAO specs
DEF CON's official preregistration copy guarantees an onsite DEF CON 34 Human badge, an official badge-alert post says DEF CON 34 is an electronic badge year, and the official media server publishes DC34 SAO electrical and mechanical specifications that make the 2026 badge a source-backed planned electronic-badge record.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.