MEP EP#69

Published: May 26, 2017, 4:04 a.m.

Incognito Mode

  • HyR0n
    • Mathematician, Computer Scientist, & Systems Engineer making the world a better place with homebrew booze and electronic bling.
  • Zapp
    • Has been writing software since age 8. Eventually making a career in developing for Java systems. He has since been promoted away from they keyboard and his life is now MS Office and meetings.
    • Didn’t know how to solder before DC23 .
    • Arduino was his gateway drug - all 15 projects of the starter kit in a few days.
  • Defcon Badges
    • Official badge has a deep puzzle - other badges filled with goo and mechanical.
    • Becomes part of the culture.
    • And!xor - is unique - most people are hacking badges. Way more to their badges. Ways to hack between badges. 
  • Taco Town
  • Defcon Event
    • Hack everything from cryptography, cars, voting machines, bluetooth, lock picking villages, people will teach you if you’re willing to learn. Social engineering is a big village
    • Villages - way bigger than booths 2k sf each, have their own badges, demos, hands on events, IoT village
    • 20K - 30K
    • Defcon for newbies - don’t bring a phone, no wireless, bluetooth, no photos. Just go, have fun and learn. Cash only.
  • New Defcon Badge
    • HackADay.io Page
    • KickStarter Page
    • Specs
      • Rigado BMD-300 SoC
        • Based on the Nordic NRF52 BLE SoC
        • ARM Cortex M4F
        • 512kb flash
        • 64kb rom
      • 15 x WS2812B LEDs
      • 5 buttons
      • Tilt switch
      • LED used for ambient light sensing
      • Standard SWD 10-pin mini header
      • Exposed GPIO
      • MicroSD w/ 2GB card included
      • 128x128 16-bit color display (ST7735)
    • SECRET COMPONENT
    • Has a Chip-8 emulator
    • Can run Tclish scripting code
    • Has built in games like Ski Free where Man Bear Pig chases you
    • BOM and Gerbers might be open after Defcon.
  • Bender has a 6502 as a brain/cpu
  • Hack defcon with beer - bring your own bottled corona, so you don’t have to spend $9 / bottle
    • Hacking aka counterfeiting?

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!

Tags: 6502, AND!XOR, Bender, BMD-300, Defcon 25, HyR0n, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, NRF52, Podcast, Rigado, Taco Town, WS2812B, Zapp