ToorCon
The October 7-9, 2011 ToorCon San Diego 13 edition whose public conference metadata and Great Scott Gadgets badge page document an RF spectrum-analyzer badge tied to Project Ubertooth.
San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California · United States · 2011
The ToorCon 13 badge was an open-source 2.4 GHz RF spectrum-analyzer badge from Great Scott Gadgets, with 13 LEDs representing the 13 Wi-Fi channels and public Project Ubertooth hardware and firmware archives under the `tc13badge` code name.
Lifecycle
The badge used 13 LEDs to represent the 13 evenly spaced Wi-Fi channels in the 2.4 GHz band, while also detecting Bluetooth, ZigBee, microwave ovens, and other in-band emitters.
The project page documents CR2032 power, power-on LED self-test, button wake/sleep behavior, automatic sleep after several minutes, and a low-battery reset symptom.
Great Scott Gadgets documents compiling R8C code with a GCC cross-compiler and flashing through a 3.3 V FTDI serial interface plus DJ Delorie's flash tool.
The large badge-hacking kit supplied the components needed to turn the ToorCon 13 badge into an Ubertooth-capable passive Bluetooth monitoring device.
Operational history
The catalogue separates shipped badge behavior from optional kit upgrades and does not imply that every attendee badge was fully populated as an Ubertooth.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying project-page media or rendering KiCad files into approximate badge art.