Comments on: Defcon 17: early badge details

By: rcopley

rcopley — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:53:20 +0000

can someone say tag or a convention wide game of infection…

By: ericwertz

ericwertz — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:52:54 +0000

I wanna be g! someday.

By: Dr. Volts

Dr. Volts — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:34:02 +0000

My reply to the DC17 badge is … another badge to hack it. This is “HackTheBadge”

http://www.igotu.com/images/HackTheBadge.png

By: Chris Lockfort

Chris Lockfort — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:15:09 +0000

googfan: They do sell them, just come to DEFCON with the rest of us! (Costs $120 cash + your own transportation)

By: revaaron

revaaron — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:40:33 +0000

@threepointone: Uhn? Doesn’t look like anything too fancy. More of a midrange Atmega or PIC- doesn’t look too far off from an Atmega168.

Per mot, it’s targeted toward low-power “motor control, appliance, lighting and power conversion applications.” which makes it perfect for a badge doing simple control and blinkenlights while running on battery.

By: threepointone

threepointone — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:26:45 +0000

shit, they’re using a DSP (part number sounds like one of the motorola 56k series cores)? unless they’re just being random, this probably means those guys can do some pretty hefty signal processing–maybe something like speech recognition, or image analysis or something. Can’t think of any other reason why they’d use a DSP–it’s usually more awkward to design normal things like UIs with those guys, and only really worth it if you’ve got a need for complex signal processing.

By: googfan

googfan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:47:40 +0000

They should sell these

By: RoboGuy

RoboGuy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:40:06 +0000

“Welcome to Defcon 17, here’s your borg implant.”