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Over the years, many hacker, software, and electronics conferences have produced special electronic badges for attendees. This Wiki will collect information on the various badges, including dates, events, pictures, capabilities, and links to any documentation and software related to the badges.
- 2015 (Supercon 1)
- 2016 (Supercon Belgrade) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NOicUTIh-k
- 2016 (Supercon 2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ErQc-u9wA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ojx8zSe9Y, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkd5RuY84p8
- 2017 (Supercon 3) - Camera - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnbylR_kWzM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOc79ERzj0s
- 2018 (Supercon 4) - Retrocomputer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCLlz_taeQk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WxPGLsdbB8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y-iwzITT8g
- 2018 Belgrade - https://youtu.be/LQJ6CCXEXs4
- 2019 (Supercon 5) - FPGA badge
- 2020 (Remoticon) - no badge
- 2021 (Remoticon 2) - https://hackaday.io/project/182027-remoticon-2-badge
- 2022 (Supercon 6) - Voja4 computer
- 2023 (Supercon 7) - Vectorscope
- 2024 (Supercon 8) - SAO Host
- 2020 - Smart Watch
- 2024 - PCB Art - https://github.com/oshwa/OHS2024Badge
- 2025 - Fabric Arts - https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJZl2vqgi0a/
- 2010 (The Next Hope) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZlTjAnLtsk
- 2012 (HOPE Number Nine)
- 2014 (HOPE X)
- 2016 (The Eleventh HOPE)
- 2018 (The Circle of HOPE)
- 2020 (2020)
- 2022 (A New HOPE)
- 2023 (HOPE XIV) - Spider Badge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Smj5GZ6w4
- 2024 (HOPE XV) -
- 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilpC7E69jOU
- 2024 - Badger - https://github.com/badger/home
- 1999 VIP Badge - reused modem PCB with silkscreen, no active electronics
- 2015 - DEFCON 23 - vinyl record - https://stewilliams.com/is-this-the-most-puzzling-def-con-attendee-badge-yet-on-record/
- 2024 - DEFCON 32 - DRP2350 "GameBoy" badge - https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/13/defcon_badge_disagreement_gets_physical/, https://marwilliams.art/blogs/projects/def-con-32-badges
- 2013 SXSW Create: Sparkfun Badger https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/badgerhack/, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAIXJasd54c
- Super 2022 - https://swadge.com/super2022/
- Super 2023 - https://swadge.com/super2023/
- Super 2024 - https://swadge.com/super2024/
- Super 2025 - https://swadge.com/super2025/
- 2023 - IoT Workshop Demo badge https://www.seeedstudio.com/AWS-IoT-Connected-Product-p-5844.html
- 2019 - Card10
- 2023 - flow3r Badge - https://events.ccc.de/en/2023/06/05/camp23-the-flow3r-badge/
- 2013 - Electric Imp-based badge
- 2015 - eight-by-eight blinky - https://shop.blinkinlabs.com/collections/wearables/products/eightbyeight-blinky, https://github.com/blinkinlabs/eightbyeight
- 2016 - WiFi Pagers! - https://trmm.net/Hushcon/#hushcon-2016-pagers
- 2017 - eInk badge - https://trmm.net/Gamebadge/
- 2018 - Twilio Hackpack v.4 Challenger Edition - https://hackpack.cc/, https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/open-source-hardware-badge-hackpack-v4
- Adafruit PyBadge - https://www.adafruit.com/product/4200, https://www.adafruit.com/product/3939 (low cost)
- Adafruit EdgeBadge - https://www.adafruit.com/product/4400
- Adafruit Clue - https://www.adafruit.com/product/4500
- Pimoroni Badger2040 and Badger 2040W https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/badger-2040, https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/badger-2040-w
- Pimoroni Tufty2040 https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/tufty-2040
- Hackaday.io: Simple Add-ons (SAO)
- Hackaday: An Ode To The SAO
- Hackaday: Introducing The Shitty Add-On V1.69bis Standard
- Hackaday.io: Shitty Add-Ons - original specification
- YouTube: Hackaday Supercon - Kerry Scharfglass : The Economics of Conference Badges at Medium Scale
- badge.team - open source event badges for hacker events
- Badge Life - DEFCon focused information source on electronic badges
- Badges Badges Badges.com - service run by Cyber City Circuits to design and produce event badges
- A Quick History of Active Badges