The ISSI IS31F元731 is a LED driver that takes I2C commands in on one end, and spits out a charlieplexed 16×9 LED array on the other end. The electronic design for this badge began when I stumbled upon a very interesting LED driver. I guess an electronic badge needs electronics, right? In a moment, I knew this badge could be built, and the only thing left was an unbelievable amount of work. Robot at last year’s Def Con, and the idea of two silkscreens.
#2017 DEFCON BADGES SKIN#
Three ideas came together: a skin tone soldermask, the marketing for Mr. Somewhere in my brain, a few neurons linked. For this, though, I have to concede sudden flashes of inspiration indeed exist. I believe ascribing the creative process to a muse, chemical influence, or other totem leads people to disregard exactly how much actual work goes into doing anything creative. I’m not one to believe in divine inspiration. Clean matte copper, as it turns out, is an excellent stand-in for skin tone. This squid/cuttlefish badge used black fiberglass, white silk, and a clear soldermask. The idea of a skin tone soldermask was actually borrowed from last year’s Queercon badge. Robot iconography affords me a relatively simple design: it only uses two colors of silk screen (white and black, which every board house can do) and a skin tone soldermask. Basically, the only place to go from here is with custom color solder masks and multiple colors of silkscreen. If you’d like an overview of PCB art, I would highly recommend checking out ’s talk from last year’s Hackaday Superconference. I can’t even wrap my head around what Boldport is doing. is making masterpieces in copper and gold. I have literally been turned into art using the standard solder mask and silkscreen colors from OSH Park. The killer feature of this badge is the multicolor PCB, and the inspiration for this comes from the incredible advances in PCB art I’ve seen over the past few months.
#2017 DEFCON BADGES FULL#
Everyone had a fist full of twenties, and everyone wanted a Bender Badge. Minutes later, I was on the 9th floor of Paris, in a queue one hundred people deep. During last year’s Defcon, on Friday night, a few people I was hanging out with looked down at their phones and noticed a Tweet from the AND!XOR crew. There’s only one way to describe how popular last year’s Bender Badge was. This was an extremely popular badge, despite having absolutely nothing to do with official Defcon puzzles, parties, or challenges. The inspiration for this idea came from last year’s Defcon, and AND!XOR’s incredible Bender Badge.
This was simply an experiment in gonzo trade journalism an investigation into the inner workings of what it takes to build custom hardware on a very tight timeline. Was it to use conference badges as an attack vector and make WiFi completely unusable on the Vegas strip? That was the initial plan, but no. Was this project sponsored in any way? No everything here - including my trip to Vegas, ostensibly as a Hackaday journo - was done on my own dime. The question I’m sure is on everyone’s minds right now is why I spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to create a custom, unofficial badge for Defcon. It’s just that I can’t think of a better phrase to describe how I injected myself into a subculture built around electronic conference badges simply to write about electronic conference badges. That’s not because this entire endeavor involved a trip to Vegas and electronic debauchery.
Right off the bat, I’m going to call this ‘gonzo trade journalism’. If you’re reading this now, it means it’s finally time to end the MrRobotBadge ARG. Yes, I’m the guy behind the MrRobotBadge. I released this project this weekend at Defcon. There are dozens of groups designing, building, and deploying completely custom electronic badges this year at Def Con.įor the last few months, I’ve been working on a very special project.
This year is the biggest year yet for Badgelife. This is Badgelife, a lifestyle that revolves around developing custom hardware for an entire year and having a lot of fun for one weekend. The official Def Con badges have been electronic works of art for more than a decade now, but only in the past few years have independent hives of hackers built their own electronic badges. I'm going to use this project log entry as a single wrap-up post, and also go over the issues that cropped up in the final days. All badges were deployed, I'm not getting sued by the creators of Mr. I'm writing this on August 1st, right after getting home from Def Con.
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