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Tilda, the Arduino-compatible wireless conference badge
- Eduardo3rd 14y agoI've seen people use IR to re-program Arduino boards before, and I think it would be pretty cool if someone wrote a self-replicating program that could be passed on just by standing in front of another attendee for the length of a normal short conversation. I'm guessing someone could come up with a pretty interesting/artistic use for a botnet of a few hundred Arduino badges in one location.
- ms7821c 14y agoGood plan - we'll be putting up some framework code on the TiLDA repo at https://github.com/emfcamp/TiLDA https://github.com/emfcamp/TiLDA, so feel free to submit pull requests before the event.
- stinos 14y agowhat if someone writes a virus and passes it via IR?
- K2h 14y ago... and at 12:00 noon every ones red light on the badge turns on.... that would be pretty funny.
- Eduardo3rd 14y agoI guess you could always disable the IR receiver via a pretty quick hardware or software hack once you got your badge if that was a concern.
- mattstreet 14y agoQuick hardware hack == piece of dark/thick tape.
- ms7821c 14y agoReset button. Or you can reprogram it from your laptop...
- wgx 14y agoIf they had these badges at DEFCON that would happen for sure. :)
- K2h 14y agoI want to see a simple mesh network running across the badges, or maybe some stationary base stations that use signal strength to real time track each badge at the conf - and a big map overhead showing you where everyone is. Page a badge and it shows up on the map for approx location. That is going to be a fun conf.
- ms7821c 14y agoWe'd love to do something like this - we're placing "beacons" around the site to provide uplinks for this kind of thing. We'd also like people to be able to see who they met up with or spent time with. But time's pretty tight, as the badges only arrive a week before the event, so submissions will be welcome.
- conradr 14y agoBrilliant that it's being manufactured in Scotland, ( live in Edinburgh ) Can you reveal who the manufacturer is?
- russss 14y agoIt's European Circuits: http://www.european-circuits.co.uk/ http://www.european-circuits.co.uk/ We really should have mentioned them in the blog post as they're sponsoring us. It's obviously a big plus to have these being fabricated in the UK instead of China due to our really tight lead times.
- JL2010 14y agoCool... reminds me of DEFCON's ninja badge which used 2.4 GHz zigbee to talk to other ninja badges at the conference. http://ninjas.org/badges/defcon18.html http://ninjas.org/badges/defcon18.html
- pyoung 14y agoCurious as to how much these cost to produce? I have been playing around with some Arduinos and it seems like getting something set up with wireless and a rechargeable battery is a lot more expensive than it should be. Would be cool to have an all-in-one solution for this.