Arduino, The Gateway Drug To #BadgeLife

Podcast Notes

• AND!XOR
  • Check out the previous MEP EP#69 Incognito Mode for the last time the AND!XOR group was on the podcast
• Bitstr3m
  • Did the Android mobile application for the DEFCON 25 badge
• Zapp
  • Does the hardware design
• HyR0n
  • Embedded software, puzzles, etc
• DEFCON 25 RECAP
  • Last year’s badge details
    • Hunter S. Thompson as Bender
    • Bender on a bender
    • Botnet
    • Changing voltage regulators mid-manufacturing run
    • QFN design on PCB
    • Iterative prototyping
  • HotFix to patch BLE exploit
  • Hacking IoT Vodka
  • Badge Sales
• DEFCON 26 new Badge details
  • Hardware or Software secrets?
    • Double down on Botnet
  • Lessons learned to apply to the new badge?
    • WS2812Bs do not reflow well
    • QFN design on PCB is critical
    • Implement OTA updates
    • Iterative prototyping
    • I2C
• Looking forward to this year?
  • Not flashing badges three times
  • Going to hacker jeopardy
  • Want to see more people hacking badges

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Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!