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Hacker conference badges documented for 2026, sorted by country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.