Add-on dossier
A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
The badge used a persistent low-power 128x32 display and role-colored variants for human, vendor, speaker, contest, goon, press, and uber-style identities.
Badge context
Press source for lithographed aluminum, Kent Displays 128x32 low-power display, USB, role variants, and hackable styling.
Wikimedia Commons source for Samsonswiki's CC BY-SA 4.0 original photograph identified as DEF CON 18.
Grand Idea Studio retrospective source for DEF CON 18 badge design and production context.
Grand Idea Studio production-test procedure source for manufacturing and functional-check context.
Source trail
Production-test source for functional and manufacturing-check context.
Primary slide source for DEF CON 18 design and production context.
Secondary source for lithographed aluminum, Kent Displays 128x32 display, USB, role variants, and Joe Grand design context.
Image source for the CC BY-SA 4.0 original photo by Samsonswiki, described on Commons as DEF CON 18.