DEFCON 33
Post-DefCon Recap
Things That Were Repaired
Day 1: Setup Day
- Prusa LCD USB Type-A Trace Repair
- Hand-built via for a challenge coin
Day 2: Start of DefCon
- Power supply port and cord for a router
- SAO on DC32 Human badge
- SAO for Maker’s Community ×8
- “Next Gen” badge fix
- Aerospace Village badge antenna fix
- Aerospace SAO fix
- Rock SAO accelerometer ×8
- 4 non-electronic human badges glued back together (faceplate)
- Loaded dice (don’t ask)
- Red Team Village “The Dude” badge battery connector
- Flipper (liquid damage, corrosion everywhere) → earned an ultra-rare Bob the Builder pin: “Can we fix it? No, it’s fucked.”
Day 3: Saturday Shenanigans
- A lot of challenge coins (~35)
- Roboto badges
- Hacker Box NFC badges
Day 4: Closing Day
- Glasses with glue
- BCD wristwatch
- Remaining challenge coins (~50)
- How do you get started with a lighting series for cosplay? — Brent
- Boundary Scan & JTAGs? What are those? — Richard
- What is Zig? Zig tooling?
- Home automation exploration — Matt Virus
- Tigard tooling information — thanks to the kind stranger who gifted us one! (Us weirdos love taking candy from strangers!)
Post-Con Thank You
For all those that contributed your time, efforts, help, patience, questions, or any amount of energy to our cause, thank you so much.
Right after the con, I lost my dearest uncle Richard Cheese. He left me an inheritance of about $1400. While that’s no fortune, it helped us recoup the materials cost for this year and then some. Funny how life works out.
We’re already hard at work on:
- Revision 3 of the challenge coin
- More complex and interesting SAO wall panels
- New additions to the Workshop Resources page
- A few other goodies for next year
DefCon 34 will be here before we know it. In the meantime:
stay safe, enjoy the company of your friends and family, and never forget…
Hack the Planet!
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