a badge… naturally :)

saying someone has “too much free time” after they did something cool just reeks of jealousy. i’ll bet the creators have just as much free time as you do. what do you do with your free time?

No one in Ninja party is a kid.
I feel next year they will be handing out full on laptops. Their party is up there next to FailBlog’s party. Many lulz.

i want one ^^ very nice indeed.
i hat a hard laught after seeing RTFM at the bottom of the “quick guide” :P

@techrat

They were sponsored by Facebook and Lookout Mobile Security. I’m pretty sure they didn’t spend to much of their own money. ;-)

Also, there were two teams of multiple people, with each person working on specific areas of the badge. So I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an issue of “too much free time” as much as it was a wonderful team effort.

Supposedly they’re going to update their site after Defcon with a build log. I’m hoping the parts aren’t TOO hard to find, because I would LOVE to make a clone. :-)

What about the rest of us lowly mortals ?

Maybe my age is showing, but reminds me of the
old “Studio 54″ in NYC. Where hordes of desperate
folks would line up outside a door hoping to be
judged ‘worthy’ of being allowed admittance.

This “invite only” thing reeks of “elite”-ism.
(or is that 3l33t) ?

Some of us anti-social types never played well
with others and did our own thing. Wouldn’t be
surprised if someone showed up with a wide area
RF jammer rendering the “wireless” aspect of
this toy useless.

I notice the LCDs come from Adafruit: http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/07/28/defcon-ninja-party-badge-sneak-peek/ — That’s also an amazing price for even 1 unit of a serial LCD display.

@Brennan: I’d totally hit it, too. Here’s hoping for schematics/BOM/whatnot after the con!

@Roman Dulgarov: The MC13224V is what is providing the Zigbee. Check out Redbee’s Econotag for fun :)

@RedNeckJoe

Sure most “outsiders” are jealous when they see this type of events with free goodies and high-tech toys. But in the end the people being invited to these events are on our side when it comes to developing new ideas into real life “toys”.

Let them have their parties so we can get our toys.

@RedneckJoe

There are plenty of official defcon events which all can obtain. Maybe if we were back at Tropicana or Monte Carlo with 200-400 attendees then everyone could have a badge/invite to the private parties. But that is not possible at the Defcon of today. Who is going to sponsor a party of the same caliber for 15,000-20,000 people?