{"id":9669,"date":"2007-08-04T18:33:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T18:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9669"},"modified":"2007-08-04T18:33:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T18:33:15","slug":"hacking-the-defcon-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9669","title":{"rendered":"Hacking the Defcon Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" border=1 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/defcon15badge.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> Being more of a hardware guy, I&#8217;m always excited to see what hardware hacks are on display at Defcon (the annual hacking convention), starting with my MAKE colleague Joe Grand&#8217;s Defcon badges. This year&#8217;s is a swanky, modern number with a matrix of 95 surface-mounted LEDs and two touch-sensitive buttons. The badge uses a Freescale MC9S08QG8 MCU and has provisions on the PCB for a serial connector, an accelerometer, and a ZigBee wireless chip (all of which are available at the con). <\/p>\n<p> Programmer and photographer Dave Bullock has <a href=\"http:\/\/eecue.com\/log_archive\/eecue-log-732-Hacking_the_Defcon_Badge.html\" target=\"new\">some details<\/a> on his blog about soldering on a connector and hooking his badge up to a laptop to mod the display code. He also has links to the Wired coverage of Defcon (Dave&#8217;s doing the photogs), including images of Joe Grand&#8217;s blinged-out &#8220;Uber&#8221; badge. Show off \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p> <center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" border=1 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/defconBadge1.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being more of a hardware guy, I&#8217;m always excited to see what hardware hacks are on display at Defcon (the annual hacking convention), starting with my MAKE colleague Joe Grand&#8217;s Defcon badges. This year&#8217;s is a swanky, modern number with a matrix of 95 surface-mounted LEDs and two touch-sensitive buttons. The badge uses a Freescale &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hacking the Defcon Badge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}