DEF CON 33 · United States · 2025
Independent IR game/TV-control badge and Sheriff SAO combo listed for DEF CON 33
BigTaro's Tindie page calls Gunslinger-B-Gone an electronic badge with laser tag, a TV-B-Gone, a CTF, and an included Sheriff SAO; the page shows $100 and says it has been sold out since September 13, 2025. A separate Hacker Couture DEFCON 33 Product List independently lists a Gunslinger-B-Gone Badge by BigTaro at $140 and describes laser-tag play with the Sheriff SAO, making friends' badges light up, pointing an IR blast at a TV to power it down, CTF challenges, bling modes, Drinking Roulette, and a fully-programmable claim. BigTaro's Sheriff guide identifies the Sheriff companion as an RP2040-chip board, documents a CR2032 or LIR2032 battery holder with magnet and sticky pad, an independent battery switch, a standalone/wearable configuration, and an optional soldered SAO connection to the Gunslinger with the notch side up. These sources establish a real independent electronic-badge combo and a 2025 DEF CON vendor-list association, not a BadgeLife drop, official DEF CON issue, admission credential, complete IR or electrical specification, confirmed vendor handoff, firmware source release, or reusable-image rights.
People
The Sheriff SAO guide is signed by Jeff “BigTaro,” and the public store profile identifies Jeff as BigTaro. This credit records only the named maker/guide-author association, not sole authorship, manufacture, vendor role, organizer status, or image-reuse authority.
SourceThe Gunslinger-B-Gone Tindie listing says the electronic badge is designed by BigTaro's Badges. This records the source-named design/seller identity without inferring individual contributor roles, manufacturing, DEF CON issuance, or image-reuse permission.
SourceThis is a useful example of a multi-artifact badge product: Gunslinger-B-Gone and the Sheriff SAO are sold as a combo, while the Sheriff also has a documented standalone, wearable build. The record separates source-backed assembly and interaction claims from the missing electrical, firmware, safety, legal, inventory, and final-distribution evidence.
The maker's Sheriff guide identifies an RP2040 chip on the Sheriff board, a CR2032 or LIR2032 battery, battery holder with magnet, sticky pad, battery holes, an independent battery-holder switch, a Sheriff batt power mode, a Sheriff SAO power mode, and an optional SAO connector soldered to the Gunslinger. It does not identify the Gunslinger controller, IR emitter/receiver, display/LED components, Sheriff circuit, regulator, battery chemistry limits, charging circuit, current draw, input protection, SAO pinout, connector electrical limits, magnetic-field strength, schematic, BOM, PCB/Gerbers, dimensions, test records, safety guidance, or compliance evidence.
The vendor list calls the combo fully programmable and claims laser tag, a TV-B-Gone-style IR blast, CTF challenges, bling modes, and Drinking Roulette. No reviewed source provides firmware source or binary, repository, license, build toolchain, flash/recovery method, game rules, CTF inventory, score service, interaction protocol, configuration interface, IR code set, update policy, security model, or test results.
The product pairs an Old West-styled Gunslinger-B-Gone with a Sheriff SAO. Maker/vendor prose frames its social features as badge-lighting laser tag and Drinking Roulette, while the Sheriff guide says its standalone form can be magnet-mounted through clothing and its battery does not charge. The Hacker Couture DEFCON 33 list supplies a vendor-list association at that event; it does not show a scheduled BadgeLife drop, organizer issue, attendance entitlement, completed sale, or a guaranteed compatibility/safety result for interactions with other people's badges or televisions.
Lifecycle
The Hacker Couture DEFCON 33 Product List names a Gunslinger-B-Gone Badge by BigTaro at $140. This establishes a published 2025 DEF CON vendor-list association, not a BadgeLife drop, organizer-issued item, attendance entitlement, confirmed stock, completed purchase, handoff, or attendee allocation.
SourceThe vendor list says CTF challenges unlock extra features and bling modes, names Drinking Roulette, and calls the product fully programmable. No source publishes game rules, age/access policy, challenge/solution path, reset path, player scope, score service, firmware, configuration, content rights, data handling, or security review.
SourceThe vendor PDF says the Sheriff SAO supports laser-tag play that makes friends' badges light up and that an IR blast can power down TVs. It does not identify transmitter/receiver parts, carrier/protocol/code set, range, target compatibility, consent/safety boundaries, power, regulatory context, tests, or a guarantee that any third-party badge or television will respond.
SourceThe Sheriff guide lists the Sheriff SAO, CR2032 or LIR2032 battery, magnet battery holder, sticky pad, soldering iron, and flush cutter; it describes soldering battery wires, using the holder's independent switch, selecting Sheriff batt mode, and magnet-mounting it through clothing. It says an LIR2032 may last longer but the badge does not charge it. The source does not replace battery-safety, charging, thermal, medical-device, magnetic-interference, or assembly-risk guidance.
SourceThe maker says the Gunslinger combo includes an SAO connector, directs the user to solder it to the Gunslinger with the notch side up, then to set the Sheriff power to SAO mode. The source does not publish the connector pinout, electrical limits, orientation drawing beyond prose, hot-plug guidance, strain relief, compatibility with other SAOs, verification steps, or troubleshooting.
SourceThe seller page shows $100, an out-of-stock notice, and wording that the product has been sold out since September 13, 2025. This seller state does not establish shared inventory with the $140 Hacker Couture list, production quantity, buyers, payment, pickup, shipping, refunds, replacements, support, or completed delivery.
SourceOperational history
The record preserves its documented event-vendor association without equating a product list or sold-out state with a confirmed attendee handoff or completed distribution.
The catalogue does not present the product as a safe, legal, reliable, universally compatible, or acceptable means of controlling another person's badge or television.
The catalogue records a source-backed build path without treating it as a complete safety procedure or an endorsement of every battery, body placement, or modification.
Readers can understand the advertised feature set without assuming it is open source, reproducible, supported, safe, or available in every unit/configuration.
The record retains a traceable physical assembly surface without representing it as a complete electrical design or general interoperability guarantee.
The catalogue classifies the combo as an independent badge with a DEF CON 33 vendor-list association, not as an organizer-issued conference credential, admission item, or scheduled BadgeLife drop.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying vendor PDF, maker-guide, storefront, social-media, screenshot, placeholder, or generated imagery.
The catalogue keeps distinct source snapshots instead of merging them into a single asserted price, inventory, or distribution history.