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A Word from DEFCON 15 Badge Creator Joe Grand!
Joe Decided to drop us a line and clue send us some info on whats going on with the badges AFTER the con. We loved the badges this year and apparently we arent the only ones who found them awesome.
>From Joe Grand
"You've probably noticed that people are still going *nuts* over the badges. That's a really awesome feeling and hopefully there will be some of the 40 people who took components and development kits coming back next year with some radical hacks.
Here are some pictures I took of the Black Hat and DEFCON conferences (and badge hacking):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joesmooth/sets/72157601295119952/
and here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joesmooth/sets/72157601302838516/
The badges have been selling like hot cakes on eBay:
http://search.ebay.com/defcon-15
Take a look at the completed listings, too, to see the high bidders!
Also, there were TONS of blog and news reports about the badge. You've probably read most of them, but here are the ones I liked the best:
* Hack-a-Day, August 2, 2007, http://www.hackaday.com/2007/08/02/the-defcon-badge
* The Register, The romance and mystery of a good hack, August 6, 2007, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/06/defcon_final/
* The Inquirer, Defcon ID badge comes with its own technical manual, August 3, 2007 http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41436
* boingboing, Defcon's hackable badges, August 3, 2007, http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/03/defcons_hackable_bad.html
* Wired, Threat Level, Badge Hack at DefCon, August 3, 2007 http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/badge-hack-at-d.html
* Makezine.com: Defcon 15 round up, August 5, 2007, http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/defcon_15_round_up.html
* Makezine.com: Hackers on a Plane - Defcon, August 7, 2007, Http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/08/hackers_on_a_plane_defcon_1.html
* Gizmodo, DefCon Badge Hacked in 10 Minutes, August 3, 2007, http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/defcon/defcon-badge-hacked-in-10-minutes-285998.php
I'll be putting up a webpage with complete badge development info, badge hacking contest results/hacks/source, etc. in the next week or so. It will be directly accessible from the main www.grandideastudio.com site for a while.
Details on the winning badge hacking contest entry from Team Osogato can
be found here: http://www.osogato.com/hacks This was the only entry out
of seven that combined hardware and firmware modifications - they hacked
the badge into a line-level meter for under $10 that used the LED matrix
to display the peak audio levels of an audio signal fed into one channel
of the A/D. The two capacitive touch buttons are used to adjust the
input levels of the signal and there are even three shades of
"greyscale" for a fading effect on the LEDs. For the icing on the cake,
the team worked with The Brothers Grimm from Michigan
(http://www.myspace.com/CompleteError) to create a rap song based on my
poem that I wrote for the DC15 program (on page 3). What an honor! The
song is freely available at the Team Osogato link above and step-by-step
hack details are forthcoming.
Hope you guys are recovering!
Joe"
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