Cactuscon 12 Badge Reverse Engineering
Hello and welcome to the reverse engineering guide of the CactusCon 12 (2024) badge.
The badge uses an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 chip.
The data sheet can be found here: espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/esp32-s3-wroom-1_wroom-1u_datasheet_en.pdf
The chip is programmable through either ESP-IDF or PlatformIO in Visual Studio Code.
Presented here are the steps in the order they were revealed/figured out.
Note: These are the steps that I executed on a Mac. Some adjustment may be necessary for *nix and Windows.
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