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It means more surface space for artwork, and less annoying thru-holes. Mounting the Pico as SMD using the castellated edges was something I wanted to do from the getgo. You’re buying this for the blinkyshit, or your a dirty occultist who’s up to no good, in which case you can use your magickal wizard powers to make it work (or just cut traces and fix it if it’s wrong in prod). They work fine on the breadboard, though, so we’ll continuing developing and testing with the aim of it working. We haven’t even nailed down exactly what we expect it to do, and I think I ran a trace too close to a pad, causing a short.
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Expectations for the wireless transceiver (NRF24L01+) are a bit lower. That screwed up my testing capabilities for the OLED. I fubar’d the prototype by orientating the 1×8 headers backwards on the top board. I got the 1×8 headers lined up right, yay! The M3 screwholes are sufficient, when populated with a long enough M3 screw, to keep the side-to-side wobble in check. This is our first badge, and by far the most complicated thing I’ve ever designed for fabrication.
DEFCON BLACK BADGE UPDATE
Update : What you’ll get: You’ll get a fully assembled badge, a battery holder and two AA batteries, and a custom lanyard.Įxpectations: I 100% expect the LEDs to be fully functional, they were successful on prototype #2. We expect to have them in hand prior to Defcon, and we will bring some out for those who want to buy them in person, but if you’re NOT going this year, and you’d like it shipped to you, that means we have less to carry to Vegas with us. We’re going to go ahead and offer preorders through Shopify. Because black is the most magickal color. The final badge will use black solder mask instead of green. The two PCBs are connected by a pair of 1×8 connectors, and a pair of M3 screws for stability. The bottom PCB houses the Pico ( surface-mounted, thanks to its castellated edges! sorry, we’re not worthy of surface-mounting picos, holy crap!), 32 RGB LEDs and a wireless transceiver. The badge consists of two PCBs - the surface PCB has solder mask cutouts to allow the light to shine through from below, and also houses an OLED, six tactile switches (buttons) and a Shitty Add-On (SAO) connector. The version we chose to implement is the version used by Aleister Crowley. Modern Kabbalah can be seen as a framework for interpretation of physical and spiritual reality. Kabbalah, as Jewish mysticism, dates back at least to the late 1100s in Europe. Very briefly, I’ll summarize what it is and isn’t. If you’re not aware, the origin of Kabbalah is beyond the scope of this description. If Kabbalah is your thing, then you’re probably well aware of what I’m talking about. Perhaps something to reinforce the correspondences between Kaballah, Tarot, astrology, I Ching, colors, hebrew letters, gematria, etc.
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I realized that our challenge, which involved unlocking different “levels,” seemed to overlap nicely with the tree of life (Kabbalah) concept, and the Kabbalah provides a rich visual canvas on which to project our gameplay progress.Īdditionally, for those who study Kaballah, because we based our badge on the Raspberry Pi Pico, the badge provides a platform for writing your own application. Go big or go home, right? And after a few iterations, and a planning meeting or three, an epiphany came. But ambition got the best of us, and honestly, we needed something to set our badge apart from every other badge out there. We had started with the idea of a simple door-based badge design with an embedded game/challenge for our first badge. But a bunch of us are #badgelife addicts. The most any of us had done was design a very simple minibadge with just one LED and one resistor. So this year DC540 decided to go through the exercise of creating a badge for Def Con 29.