[hamster] and the DC Zia crew offered up a throwback 30-in-ONE Learn Electronics indie badge for DEF CON 30. The badge is inspired by the Radio Shack “100-in-1” style project kits that so many of us ...

Mike Szczys and Kerry Scharfglass recorded this week’s podcast live from DEF CON. Among the many topics of discussion, we explore some of the more interesting ways to move a robot. From BB-8 to ...

It’s one of the best things about the Defcon hacking conference, and one of its most closely guarded secrets: the programmable badge that’s handed out to show attendees every year. Designed by ...

Annual hacker outing Defcon has become so popular, attendees have been – predictably – scamming their way in for years by creating fake badges. But not this year, as organizers created a souped-up, ...

Todays Video of the Day features someone demonstrating the badge from Defcon 2007. I'm not sure how someone could take something as cool as this badge and make a video so boring from it. The money ...

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