Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Making the DEFCON 16 Badge

Joe highlights his design process and the problems he encountered during the creation of his most recent DEFCON badge.
Nuts & Volts Magazine (March 2009)
By Joe Grand

Links
http://www.grandideastudio.com/portfolio/defcon-16-badge
http://www.defcon.org/
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=S08JM
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=DEMOJM
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=CW-MICROCONTROLLERS
http://www.tv-b-gone.com/
http://www.ladyada.net/make/tvbgone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_Data_Association
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
http://www.freescale.com/files/microcontrollers/doc/app_note/AN3561.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datamatrix
http://www.discovery.com/prototypethis
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DEFCON 16 Badge

The DEFCON 16 Badge was created for the 2008 edition of DEFCON, the largest and oldest continuously running hacker and computer security convention in the world. The badge uses active electronics, an artistically-designed circuit board, and provides intentionally “open” circuitry to allow attendees to experiment with and modify the badge [...]