Welcome and Making the DEF CON 18 Badge

Presented at DEF CON 18 (2010), July 30, 2010, 10 a.m. (110 minutes).

For the fifth year in a row, the DEFCON Badge makes its appearance as a full-fledged, active electronic system. Pushing fabrication techniques to the limit and using some components that are so new they barely exist, the design of this year's badge took some serious risks. Did they pay off? If you're in this talk and not standing in a long line to get your badge, then the answer is "Yes!" Join Kingpin as he guides you through the entire process of the badge, from initial concept to prototype electronics to firmware design to manufacturing, and all of the problems and challenges he faced along the way.

Presenters:

• Jeff Moss / The Dark Tangent   as Dark Tangent
• Joe Grand / Kingpin   as Joe "Kingpin" Grand
  Joe Grand, also known as Kingpin, is an electrical engineer and hardware hacker. He has had the honor of designing the DEFCON badge for the past five years. Back in the day, he was a member of L0pht Heavy Industries and was a co-host of Discovery Channel's Prototype This.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-18/dc-18-speakers.html#Grand
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 18/DEF CON 18 video and slides/DEF CON 18 - Dark Tangent and Joe Grand - Welcome and Making the Badge - Video and Slides.mp4 (Video and Slides)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDwC5nBTrs

Similar Presentations:

• DEF CON 17 (2009) / Welcome to Defcon 17 with Dark Tangent and the Making of & Hacking the DC17 Badge
• DEF CON 16 (2008) / Making the DEFCON 16 Badge
• CackalackyCon 2 (2023) / Badge Talk