get going Sam someone must be okay with
this door Pfeifer con 2017 electronic on
long-standing relationship and crafted
in our studio each badge incorporates
sixth circuit boards 103 components 392
solder connections for this year's event
we assembled 400 badges that's 2400
circuit boards 40 1200 hand placed
component and 150 6,800 sovereign
electronic conference better you know at
the slaughter math to expose metal we
cut back metal so essentially with the
badges you tap into USB rather than some
LEDs on the outside cube we decided to
take advantage of having an enclosed
space 16 of the lights peek through tiny
pinhole let's start over
eat from the secret laboratories at
toymakers we presented for your
enjoyment the flavor con 2017 electronic
conference badge in three delicious
dimensions Anna crafted in our studio
each badge incorporate 6th circuit
boards 103 components 392 solder
connections for this year's events we
assembled 400 badges that's 2,400
circuit boards 40 1200 hands placed
components and 150 6,800 solder joints
and electronic conference badge has to
be tough we used woodworking inspired
joinery to make sure our cubes were
super strong circuit boards are a really
fun artistic medium and we wanted to
take this as far as we could be cut back
the solder mask to expose metal we cut
back metal to expose fiberglass and we
cut out fiberglass to give windows to
the inside of the tube rather than stick
some LEDs on the outside of the few we
decided to take advantage of having an
enclosed space 16 of the lights Peter
tiny pinhole designed to defuse their
red glow into the surrounding substrate
the wash lights shine across the empty
space inside the veg lighting up the
other face peeking through the cutout
casting dancing shadows around the cube
while also working together to back like
the metallic cipher car logo and for
those cyberpunks lucky enough to have
the coveted black or red badges 16 side
firing RGB LEDs illuminate the edges and
corners of the tube I wasn't enough are
designed to just look good hidden inside
the cube is a whole secret world but USB
port on the badge isn't only for
recharging the battery to gain access
the user installs a terminal emulator on
their laptop or phone and connects the
microUSB to USB a cable between the cube
and a device if the device is a phone a
USB on-the-go cable may be helpful
hang on how user-friendly the device is
after the user sent any character to the
cube it wakes up and they find
themselves in a text adventure game
under the earth and a hardened missile
silo the player has been building a real
a computer from part scrounged around
the complex if they are clever they can
complete and boot up the computer if
they don't starve kosecki fall into a
vat of acid or get eaten by a grue once
the real a computer is functional the
user has access to a vintage
time-sharing operating system with a
couple dozen executable utilities
including a simulator of last year's
cypher combadge a programming
environment ability to set up the
animation of the LEDs on the badge
network tool and many others a telnet
program allows the user to optically
connect to other badges over the irda
port peeking out the mouse holes along
the bottom of the badge when a remote
user connects to their badge from the
outside the active connection is
indicated on the animated ring allowing
them to easily see which direction the
connection is coming from all users
connected to the same badge can talk
with each other to the relay chat
program and when a user is connected to
a remote bed they can use that cube
infrared port to connect out two nodes
even farther away it is easy to worm
your way deep into the moving and
changing mesh network of light users can
choose to use this functionality for a
good clean fun but did the cipher con so
we left in security holes for the users
to find hey why is my badge rickrolling
me in Morse code the cypher con cube is
riddled with backdoors secret rooms and
hidden functionality and for the
hardware hackers there are exposed buses
multiple processors and
on unpopulated mysteries to explore we
hope everyone who gets one has a
wonderful flavor con and that our little
cubes entertain they're literally the
best hacker badges I've ever seen so
make sure you go down and talk with the
toy makers it just blows me away that's
a piece of art so enjoy hack the game
hack the badge hack all the things thank
you