![]() But mostly, it's a labor of love with the creations referencing pop- and hacker-culture and the conference theme of "community, discovery and the unintended uses of technology" with a "retro-futurist" vibe. The DC801 badge is helping to fund its hackerspace, 801 Labs. Others are using the money to raise cash for a good cause. Some creators are just hoping to break even, at least when it comes to hardware costs. That's the answer you're going to hear from absolutely everybody that's building a badge." That crew alone lost three weeks because of shipping components between team members in other states. When asked about the biggest obstacle to building a badge, one of the team members of the Mr. Between design, testing and final assembly, even with the PCBs being created at factories, the actual work done by the individuals numbers in the hundreds of hours. With prices ranging from free up to a few hundred dollars, the badges are far from money-making projects. This year, the community outdid itself with features like botnets, games, RPGs, challenges, amazing art work and so many blinking lights. What's on display around the necks of those willing to part with cash are the fruit of many hours, burnt fingers from soldering and frustratingly mundane nights of flashing (adding the base software). Others were thought up at last year's conference and are the result of 12 months of hard work. Some of the design concepts were thought up years ago and only recently came to fruition. It's a nice throwback, but people have come to expect more.īut while the conference proper was trying to how to go forward without using the company that has been designing the badge for years, a community of badge makers toiled away for months well ahead the opening day in Vegas trying to get their creations ready. The main "human" badge looks like the Def Con 1 badge. Instead, the official event badges (the badge that actually gets you into the conference) are homages to yesteryear. A huge blow to the attendees that have come to expect the conference would give them a unique keepsake filled with puzzles, tech or even radiation. A few weeks ahead of the conference, the organizers dropped the news that there would be no special badges and no challenges. ![]() This year's official Def Con badge is, well. To the builders, it's participating in a community that grows every year. Waiting patiently for a tweet that'll reveal the location of a sale of a blinking PCB (Printed Circuit Board) that we'll wear around our necks like futuristic Mr. For myself and other attendees, it's a bit like a treasure hunt. ![]()
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