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It’s our great pleasure to announce that Joe [Kingpin] Grand is going to be our keynote speaker at the 2022 Supercon! If you don’t know Joe, he’s a hacker’s hacker. …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Supercon: Joe [Kingpin] Grand Keynote and Workshops Galore
In Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Jack Sparrow has an enchanted compass that points to what the holder wants most in life. The Pizza Compass created by [Joe Grand] is …read more Continue reading Open Source Pizza Compass Will Show You the Way
Yesterday we published a first look at the hardware found on the DEF CON 27 badge. Sporting a magnetically coupled wireless communications scheme rather than an RF-based one, and an interesting way to attach the lanyard both caught my attention right away. But the gemstone faceplate and LED diffuser has …read more
Continue reading DEF CON 27: The Badge Talk; or That One Time Joe Grand Sourced 30,000 Gemstones
The first big surprise Vegas had in store for everyone is that the DEF CON badge is an electronic badge this year. It’s traditionally been the DC practice to alternate years between electronic and non-electronic badges. Last year we had a fantastic electronic badge designed by the ToyMakers, so I …read more
Continue reading First Look at DEF CON 27 Official Badge; Kingpin Is Back!
Inside the obsessive circuit board culture at the heart of the world’s largest hacker conference. Continue reading A History of Badgelife, Def Con’s Unlikely Obsession with Artistic Circuit Boards
Thursday night was a real treat. I got to see both Joe Grand and Kitty Yeung at the HDDG meetup, each speaking about their recent work.
Joe walked us through the OpticSpy, his newest hardware product that had its genesis in some of the earliest days of data leakage. Remember those lights on old modems that would blink when data is being transmitted or received? The easiest way to design this circuit is to tie the status LEDs directly to the RX and TX lines of a serial port, but it turns out that’s broadcasting your data out to anyone …read more
Continue reading Joe Grand is Hiding Data in Plain Sight: LEDs that Look Solid but Send a Message
It’s not too exciting that [Joe Grand] has a toothbrush that plays music inside your head. That’s actually a trick that the manufacturer pulled off. It’s that [Joe] gave his toothbrush an SD card slot for music that doesn’t suck.
The victim donor hardware for this project is a toothbrush meant for kids called Tooth Tunes. They’ve been around for years, but unless you’re a kid (or a parent of one) you’ve never heard of them. That’s because they generally play the saccharine sounds of Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers which make adults choose cavities over dental health. However, …read more
Continue reading [Joe Grand’s] Toothbrush Plays Music That Doesn’t Suck