DEFCON Badge
Timothy Goltser
Posts: 8
My question is, what is a DEFCON badge, and how can it be used in a practical manner? I have heard all of this talk about DEFCON badges, and want to know what it is .
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Welcome to the forums!
A DEFCON badge is the admission to the www.defcon.org conference in Las Vegas, last month. Anonymity is important at this particular event, so the badge contains no name of the person wearing it. This would be a good start:
http://forums.parallax.com/content.php?79-Parallax-Propeller-on-DEF-CON-20-Badge-Start-Here!
The badge was used in a hacking competition. But since the conference is over, the primary use of the badge is as a Propeller Multicore programming platform. Add on the VGA and PS2 ports and it's a small terminal system. You can also access the spare I/Os at the top of the badge. For practical purposes, I think you could do many things with this badge: turn it into a controller for your project, use it to learn the Propeller Multicore, or just load and run the code we provided.
I'm sure others will jump in with more ideas here, too.
Ken Gracey
I plan to use it for all kinds of things, (basically, a spare propeller, already got two quickstarts, one is my son's fm radio, the other is mine, but I can't keep the radio together, because I keep wanting to try something else with it, so it keeps coming down off the shelf, and being disassembled. Now, I can leave the radio alone, and build my test projects on something else.
And, of course, it never hurts to show it off, to let folks know what can be done with the propeller. I'm planning to take it with me the next time I go to Colonial heights to the radio shack that sells paralax stuff, to show the employees there how much fun a propeller board can be.
Perhaps we'll take the radios too, just for the heck of it.
On that note, I have another question I need to post in the propeller forum, see ya over there.