Posted in cons Tagged badge, DEF CON, def con badge, shift register See our DEF CON 2015 badge summary for a bunch of badges that we encountered at in Vegas. We publish a lot of posts about con badges. He used a shift register timed by a 555 to trigger each letter in turn, with the display scrolling the resulting message. Each letter is powered by a transistor, with specific pins blocked out to selectively power the segments. The display is from an old cell phone, and it uses a matrix of diodes to spell out DEFCON without the help of a microcontroller. He designed the badge on the plane, downloading datasheets over in-flight WiFi and sketching out circuits in his notebook. delayed working on the badge until his flight, throwing the parts in a box, and staggering to the airport in the midst of a “three-alarm hangover”. Of the whole project just the resistors and 555 were modern parts, and that’s only because ran out of time. The badge was mostly built out of actual parts from the ’80s and ’90s, including the perfboard from Radio Shack-even the wire and solder. ![]() If you’ve ever wanted to be an engineer that ships a product instead of a lowly maker that ships a product, this is the greatest classroom in the world.Ĭontinue reading “Badgelife, The Hardware Demoscene Documentary” → Posted in cons, Featured, hardware, Slider Tagged badgelife, DEF CON, def con badge, hardwareĭEF CON 25’s theme was retro-tech, and wasn’t kidding around in the retro badge he built for the convention. Right here is a lesson on electronic design, manufacturing, and logistics. We were lucky enough to sit down with a few of the creators behind the badges of this year’s DEF CON and the interviews were fantastic. It’s only going to get bigger from here on out. This is badgelife, a demoscene of hardware, and this is just the beginning. This was the year independent badges took over, thanks to a small community of people dedicated to creating small-run hardware, puzzles, and PCB art for thousands of conference-goers. This was a great year for DEF CON, especially when it comes to hardware. Last week, tens of thousands of people headed home from Vegas, fresh out of this year’s DEF CON. Let’s take a closer look at this socially distanced badge and the tech that went into it.Ĭontinue reading “Hands On: DEF CON 29 Badge Embraces The New Normal” → Posted in cons, Current Events, Featured, hardware, Reviews, Slider Tagged badgelife, DEF CON, def con badge, defcon 29, hardware badge, macro pad, mechanical keyboard, usb hid Badgelife, The Hardware Demoscene Documentary Following the theme, the DC29 badge is not only a practical tool for virtual attendees, but an electronic puzzle for those who are able to bring a few of them together physically. If not, you can follow along through chat rooms and video streams from the comfort of your own home. With this in mind, this year’s DEF CON is being presented in both physical and virtual forms simultaneously. ![]() As eager as we all are to get back to the epic hackfests of old, nobody wants to close the door on all those who would be unable to attend physically now that they’ve gotten to peek behind the curtain. If nothing else, the virtual hacker meetups of 2020 saw a far larger and more diverse array of attendees and presenters than ever before.Īs we begin seeing the first rays of light at the end of the long, dark, tunnel we’ve been stuck in, it’s clear that some of the changes that COVID-19 forced on our community are here to stay. ![]() While few would argue that a virtual hacker convention can ever truly replace a physical one, we learned there are undeniable benefits to embracing the advantages offered by cyberspace. Our community had to rethink how we congregated, and major events like HOPE, DEF CON, and even our own Hackaday Supercon, had to be quickly converted into virtual events that tried with varying degrees of success to capture the experience of hundreds or thousands of hackers meeting up in real life. Despite all those jokes about how much time people spend on their devices rather than interacting face-to-face with other humans, it turns out that when you can’t get more than a few people together in the same room, it throws our entire society into disarray. The COVID-19 pandemic completely changed the way we worked, learned, and lived. To say that 2020 was a transformative year would be something of an understatement.
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