This mini-badge is a perfect reflection of us. It's a cool idea of a project, it was fun to design and make, and it didn't work. So we applied a hack to make it work. Also designed in a white area of silkscreen so you can sharpie your hacker handle onto it. Great identifier for your online friends, and great conversation starter.

It was supposed to use an NFC TSSOP-8 chip to store data and light up my eye when scanned by NFC, but I screwed up the antenna design and effectively blocked the antenna (on the back side) with copper fill (on the front side). So your scanner can't power the antenna, which powers the chip and the LED.

So I held back on installing the NFC chip on this batch, and just added an anti-metal NFC sticker tag on the back, and it still scans through the opening in the TV set (the antenna and blocking copper fill are both in the area of the frame of the TV) and took them with me to DefCon 30 anyway. Great way to give out your contact info.

Defcon delivery only. I'll be at BSidesLV Tuesday and Wednesday, and at Defcon Thursday through Sunday. I'm fairly easy to find.

Comes with an adhesive pinback, though if you're planning to spend significant time in the heat, I recommend pulling that off and using superglue, some say the heat weakens the adhesive.

It's standard US business card size (3.5" x 2") and also has holes to hang it with a lanyard or sew it to a shirt/hat/backpack if you so choose.

We look at it a nice piece of tchotchke, more durable than stickers, symbolic of badgelife culture, a cute commemoration of what promises to be another event for the history books.