Add-on dossier
A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
Human, Goon, Press, Speaker, Vendor, Contest Organizer, and Uber badge shapes could be placed together as a puzzle, and Smitty & The Minions / Team Halibut earned honorable mention for combining all seven badges with modified firmware animations.
Badge context
Nuts & Volts article source linked by Grand Idea Studio for a narrative badge-making account.
Assembly drawing source for board population and manufacturing reference.
Grand Idea Studio BOM PDF for parts and sourcing context.
Contest archive linked from the project page for Mark Renouf and Jason Scott's incomplete Badge Bulletin Board System port.
Contest archive linked from the project page for Simap's 32-bin FFT LED-display entry.
Contest archive linked from the project page for 501d3r Guy's Blue Box / DTMF Dialer / Voice Amplifier entry.
Contest archive linked from the project page for Team Hack the Badge's sound-fearing blimp entry.
InfoconDB source for July 30-August 2, 2009 dates and Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas venue context.
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license page for the Flickr image license recorded on the HUMAN photo page.
Nate Grigg / nateOne Flickr photo whose description identifies the anonymous Human attendee badge at DEF CON 17; Flickr structured metadata reports CC BY 2.0.
Poem/lore artifact linked from the primary project page.
Official DEF CON source for 32 badge-hacking contest entries, judging notes, top places, honorable mention, and media links.
Primary designer page with MC56F8006, MEMS microphone, RGB LED, operating states, production quantity, role-shape puzzle, documentation, source-code, and contest details.
Grand Idea Studio schematic PDF for the DEF CON 17 badge hardware.
Slide deck source for badge design, signal-processing behavior, production, and hack contest context.
Released CodeWarrior source archive for the Freescale MC56F8006 firmware.
Production test procedure source for functional verification workflow.
Source trail
Official contest-results source for 32 entries, Zoz's winning anti-surveillance system, Team Hack the Badge's second-place blimp, 501d3r Guy's third-place dialer/amplifier, and the combined seven-badge honorable mention.
Licensed documentary photo source for the DEF CON 17 Human attendee badge; Flickr structured metadata identifies CC BY 2.0, Nate Grigg / nateOne attribution, and the image description as the anonymous badge for human attendees at DEFCON 17 in Las Vegas.
Primary source for MC56F8006 hardware, MEMS microphone, RGB LED, operating states, wired communication, serial bootloader, 6,694-badge production, role shapes, and contest summary.
Primary schematic source for component-level hardware evidence.
Primary released source-code archive for CodeWarrior / MC56F8006 firmware evidence.
Primary slide source for badge design, production, and badge-hacking context.
Event-context source for DEF CON 17 dates, schedule archive, and Riviera Hotel & Casino venue metadata.