SAINTCON is a cybersecurity conference in Utah.

The minibadge is a daughter board that plugs into the conference badge. It is traditional to have a complicated/hackable MCU-based badge for these cons, I believe it started at DEFCON.

Minibadges are collected by attendees and provided by "communities" (special interest groups), vendors, or anyone that wants to hand them out. It is part of the con culture and would be hard to understand outside of it. It is a solidarity building mechanism and helps add legitimacy to a group as well as make connections.

The value is real but very contextual. The desire to make and distribute one indicates an interest in being taken seriously as part of the overall group.

The community and technical information is below, the Github repo has everything technical.

The BadgeLife community is here.
The Minibadge community is here.
The Minibadge Build Guide is here.
The Github repo for the minibadge standard is here.

 

SAINTCON is a cybersecurity conference in Utah.

The minibadge is a daughter board that plugs into the conference badge. It is traditional to have a complicated/hackable MCU-based badge for these cons, I believe it started at DEFCON.

Minibadges are collected by attendees and provided by "communities" (special interest groups), vendors, or anyone that wants to hand them out. It is part of the con culture and would be hard to understand outside of it. It is a solidarity building mechanism and helps add legitimacy to a group as well as make connections.

The value is real but very contextual. The desire to make and distribute one indicates an interest in being taken seriously as part of the overall group.

The community and technical information is below, the Github repo has everything technical.

The BadgeLife community is here.
The Minibadge community is here.
The Minibadge Build Guide is here.
The Github repo for the minibadge standard is here.

Which further begs the question of what the purpose of the tasking is. It still sounds like someone saw some shiny bauble, probably completely misunderstands what it is or what it's purpose is, but just has to have it for some unexplained reason, and so gives the TS some vague marching orders.

 

Which further begs the question of what the purpose of the tasking is. It still sounds like someone saw some shiny bauble, probably completely misunderstands what it is or what it's purpose is, but just has to have it for some unexplained reason, and so gives the TS some vague marching orders.

It's for the next SAINTCON, to participate.

 

It's for the next SAINTCON, to participate.

Perhaps, but I sure didn't get that impression. The TS said that she (the supervisor) wanted "pretty" chips for everyone in her office.

But, even assuming that's the case, I'm still completely unclear as to what the TS is trying to do or what assistance from us they are actually requesting.

 

Perhaps, but I sure didn't get that impression. The TS said that she (the supervisor) wanted "pretty" chips for everyone in her office.

But, even assuming that's the case, I'm still completely unclear as to what the TS is trying to do or what assistance from us they are actually requesting.

I think @sghioto gave the needed answer. It certainly appears that way to me.