Miscellany
DEFCON 16 Badge
The DEFCON 16 Badge was created for the 2008 edition of DEFCON, the largest and oldest continuously running hacker and computer security convention in the world. The badge uses active electronics, an artistically-designed circuit board, and provides intentionally “open” circuitry to allow attendees to experiment with and modify the badge to their liking. [ continue ]
Kingpin Circuit Board Marquee
The Kingpin Circuit Board Marquee is created from vintage video game circuit boards and a recycled promotional light box. [ continue ]
Hard Drive Coffee Table
The Hard Drive Coffee Table is built from an original 26 inch diameter hard drive platter from an early storage device, the Control Data Corporation 6603 Disk File Controller manufactured by Bryant-Excello circa 1967. The Reference Manual for this vintage piece of computing history has been preserved here. [ continue ]
DEFCON 15 Badge
The DEFCON 15 Badge was created for the 2007 edition of DEFCON, the largest and oldest continuously running hacker and computer security convention in the world. The badge uses active electronics and an artistically-designed circuit board, as opposed to the more common conference badge approach of plastic or paper, and provides intentionally “open” circuitry to allow attendees to experiment with and modify the badge to their liking. [ continue ]
RoboFlush
RoboFlush: The Automatic Toilet Flusher is a quick-and-dirty hack to solve a nagging problem with a toilet that requires its handle to be held down for the entire flush cycle. Although this common issue could have been repaired with standard plumbing techniques, an electronic solution was more interesting. [ continue ]