For anyone who’s joined us for previous years, you’ll know that badge hacking and modification are core to the Hackaday Supercon experience. While you’re of course free to leave the badge completely stock, we encourage attendees to tear it apart, learn how it works, and (hopefully) rebuild it into something unique. There are even prizes for the best hacks.

As such, every decision about the badge’s hardware and software is made with hackability in mind. It’s why we always try to add an expansion port to the badge and, in recent years, have leaned into MicroPython to make it easier for attendees to modify the code.

But one thing that’s been largely missing in previous badges is aesthetic customization. Sure, you could strip out the firmware and write something entirely new, or hang some oddball peripheral off the side of the thing, but ultimately it still looked like the badge we gave you at the door. That’s because, at the end of the day, the badges are just PCBs. Short of designing your own enclosure (which has certainly been done), every badge looks the same. That is, until now.

This year’s badge is unique among Supercon badges because it isn’t just a PCB. It’s actually a stack-up of two PCBs! That might not sound like much of a distinction, but in this case, the front board has no electrical function — its only purpose is to hold the keyboard membrane against the dome switches on the rear PCB. The only reason we made it out of a PCB in the first place is that it was convenient and cheap at the scale we needed. But if those weren’t concerns, it could just as easily have been 3D-printed or cut out with a laser or a CNC router.

While the necessities of running two hacker cons on opposite sides of the planet within a couple of months of each other meant we needed to think at scale, attendees are free to do whatever they want between now and when they get their badges on Friday. Want to carve a front panel out of aluminum on your CNC? Awesome. Perhaps laser-cut some thin plywood and give it a nice stain for that old-school look? We love it. Want to see what that fancy multi-material 3D printer you’ve got is capable of? So do we.
Hailing frequencies open, Captain.

Some Assembly Required

Want to make the 2025 Hackaday Supercon badge your own? Just head over to the “hardware/mechanicals_and_models” directory in the badge’s GitHub repository and you’ll find STEP, DXF, and SVG versions of the front panel. We’re eager to see some wild and wonderful front panels, but there are a few things to keep in mind:

• Spacing between the rear and front boards should be approximately 2 mm.
• The area around the keyboard should be roughly PCB thickness (~1.7 mm) for optimal typing.
• You’ll need to provide hardware (M3 nuts/bolts work well) to attach the front panel to the badge.

If you’ve got other questions or need some assistance, leave a comment below or check in on the #badge-hacking channel in the Hackaday Discord server. See you at Supercon!

hackaday.com/2025/10/27/the-su…

an article by Gideon Levy:
haaretz.com/israel-news/twilig…

see also:
mizanonline.ir/en/news/2933/on…

AI "abstract":

A 9-year-old Palestinian boy named Mohammad al-Hallaq was killed on October 16, 2025, in the village of al-Rihiya in the occupied West Bank, according to a report by Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy.
The incident occurred during an Israeli military raid when soldiers fired shots into the air, causing panic among children playing in a schoolyard. Mohammad, who stood still by a wall believing the situation was safe, was shot in the right thigh by an Israeli soldier; the bullet exited through his left side, destroying major blood vessels and internal organs.
He collapsed and died shortly after being rushed to the hospital, despite medical efforts to save him.
Eyewitnesses reported that the soldier who shot Mohammad raised his hands in celebration, with fellow soldiers joining in cheers, and that Israeli forces fired tear gas at local residents attempting to assist the child before leaving the scene.
The Israeli military stated that the incident was "clear" and that the Military Prosecutor’s Unit was reviewing it, but Haaretz reported that no formal investigation had been conducted.
The Israeli internal security service, Shin Bet, reportedly warned the family against holding demonstrations during the funeral.
Gideon Levy, who reported on the case, questioned the lack of accountability and highlighted the broader pattern of violence against Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank.
The article also references a separate incident in February 2025 where Palestinian detainees released from Israeli prisons were forced to wear white T-shirts with a blue Star of David and the message "we will not forget nor forgive," which Levy criticized as a form of forced political messaging.

A 9-year-old Palestinian boy stood at a distance. An Israeli soldier knelt and shot him dead

Eyewitnesses say Muhammad al-Halaq stood with his arms folded, posing no threat, when a single, deadly shot was fired. The soldiers later appeared to celebrate. The IDF said the incident is under review

^{Gideon Levy (Haaretz)}

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