Category Archives: conferences

Flying on Emirates Airbus A380, business class

It’s a giant, two-deck plane. Passengers take pictures and marvel at it while waiting to board. And wait you will, because boarding 500 passengers is an art no airline has yet to master. On the way to India and Singapore we scored the cheapest tickets on Emirates through Dubai. By total coincidence the Singapore flight […]

ToorCon 14 badge

Attendees at the recent ToorCon 14 conference in San Diego were provided this RF-enabled badge. Containing the same CC1110 radio circuit as the popular IM-Me, it’s a sub-1 GHz wireless transceiver controlled directly from your computer. The badge was designed by hardware maker Michael Ossmann, a Colorado-based engineer whose freelance embedded work has stretched across […]

Electromagnetic Field Camp UK update

An update from the organizers of EMF Camp: We’ve got a lot more information about the festival up now on the site and wiki – there’s a rapidly-expanding and fascinating list of talks and workshops, and we’ve revealed our lovely camp badge which all campers will get for free. As well as being Arduino-compatible (including […]

Euro Electromagnetic Field conference/camp

David Croft writes: “Wanted to let you know about a festival that may interest some of your European readers – Electromagnetic Field taking place at the end of August for hackers and makers.” According to the emfcamp website, the event is a festival for anyone interested in “3D printing, DIYBio, knitting, electronics, Internet culture, space, […]

Notacon 9: Pwn the Drones

In this video from the recent Notacon 9 conference, EFF activists Trevor Timm and Parker Higgins present on the widespread and increasing use of drones by government. Aspects of recent drone hacks are highlighted, security flaws noted, as well as the growing popularity of DIY civilian drones. For more information on the use of drones […]

DEFCON 20 badge features Parallax Propeller

DEFCON 20 is currently underway in Las Vegas and this year the electronic hackable badge is back! This year the badge is based on the Parallax Propeller P8X32A 32-bit multicore processor. “The badge features an infrared LED and receiver for badge-to-badge communication, a bank of eight LEDs for visual feedback and a USB circuit for […]

Black Hat hacker gains access to 4 million hotel rooms with Arduino microcontroller

This hack was demonstrated by Cody Brocious, a Mozilla software developer, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. At risk are four million hotel rooms secured by Onity programmable key card locks. According to Brocious, who should be scolded for not disclosing the hack to Onity before going public, there is no easy […]